Billie Eilish Fends Off Lil Wayne For No. 1 on Artist 100 Chart
Billie Eilish tallies her ninth total week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated Feb. 15), holding as the top musical act in the U.S., as she logs a pair of songs on the Billboard Hot 100…
Billie Eilish tallies her ninth total week at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated Feb. 15), holding as the top musical act in the U.S., as she logs a pair of songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and a pair of titles on the Billboard 200.
On the Hot 100, “Everything I Wanted” holds at No. 10 (after debuting at its No. 8 high in November) and Eilish’s former No. 1 “Bad Guy” ranks at No. 25. “Wanted” also pushes from No. 6 to No. 2 on the Alternative Songs radio airplay chart, as the singer-songwriter seeks her third leader on the list, after “Bad Guy” and “Bury a Friend.”
Eilish’s LP When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? places at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 (after spending three weeks at No. 1), with 52,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, while her 2017 release Don’t Smile at Me ranks at No. 26 (22,000 units).
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Among other Artist 100 chart moves, Lil Wayne re-enters at No. 2, as his new album Funeral debuts atop the Billboard 200 with 139,000 units. He previously spent a week at No. 1 on the Artist 100 dated Oct. 13, 2018, concurrent with the chart start of his last LP, Tha Carter V.
The Artist 100, which launched in 2014, measures artist activity across key metrics of music consumption, blending album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.
Check out this week’s full Artist 100 chart here.