Encanto Appears to be Unstoppable | Scanning the Charts

Scanning the Charts (02/24/2022):  Encanto continues to be unstoppable on both the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Hot 100.

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usic chart analysis, here we come! Scanning the Charts is exactly what it says it is.  We peruse – scan – through the Billboard Charts and pick out eye-catching happenings. Scanning the Charts isn’t extensive, but rather short and sweet.  This week, we list 12 observations from the Billboard 200 ,  and 11 observations from the Billboard Hot 100 , with Encanto continuing to be totally unstoppable on both charts.

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Billboard 200

Encanto spends a sixth week atop the Billboard 200. Surprising? Nope, not at all!

The Weeknd sees his most recent album, Dawn FM, slip outside the top 10.  It falls from no. 6 to no. 11 in its sixth week on the charts.  

Despite “kicking ass and taking names” during the Super Bowl Halftime Show, Mary J. Blige, The Queen of hip-hop soul, still musters up a modest debut for Good Morning Gorgeous, her first new album in five years.  Good Morning Gorgeous earns the highest debut on this week’s Billboard 200, launching at no. 14.

The second-highest bowing album on this week’s edition of the Billboard 200 barely cracks the top 30.  Eddie Vedder launches at no. 29 with Earthling.

Debuting just outside the top-30 is Big Thief.  Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You starts at no. 31.

Veteran alternative rock collective Spoon gets in on the top-40 debut action as Lucifer on the Sofa launches at no. 38.

With the release of the deluxe edition of her Grammy-nominated album, Heaux Tales, Jazmine Sullivan re-enters the Billboard 200 at no. 46.

Rapper $NOT debuts at no. 66 with Ethereal.

Another key part of the Super Bowl halftime show, unfortunately, Snoop Dogg doesn’t reap the benefits on the Billboard 200.   BODR debuts tepidly at no. 104.  That’s not very ‘Dogg’ like!

alt-J debuts modestly too.  The Dream certainly has no dream launch at an unimpressive no. 110.  Dream deferred!

Unfortunately, hunky country artist Dustin Lynch didn’t have the sale odds in his favor.  He can rock a mean cowboy hat, but he sure left us hanging with his ugly no. 125 start with Blue in the Sky.  So, a dashing guy gets an ugly debut? Makes no sense!

Talk about a free fall! Mitski impressed us with her no. 5 bow last week but Laurel Hell slides to no. 126 in week two! Day-um!

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Billboard Hot 100

“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” spends a fourth week at no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Glass Animals reach a new peak on the Hot 100.  57 weeks in, “Heat Waves” ascends from no. 4 to no. 2.

Glass Animals aren’t the only high risers on the Hot 100.  GAYLE is on the up-and-up with her ‘polarizing’ “abcdefu” which ascends from no. 7 to no. 4 13 weeks in.

Becky G and Karol G earn the highest debut on the Hot 100 with “MAMIII” which launches at no. 15.

Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby earn another top 20 entry with “Bussin” which launches at no. 20.  Last week’s “Do We Have a Problem?” debuted more robustly at no. 2.  That said, “Do We Have a Problem?” slides to no. 32 this week.

Ed Sheeran, assisted by Taylor Swift, just misses the top 20 with “The Joker and the Queen” (no. 21)

Future debuts at no. 34 with “Worst Day”.  Hmm, maybe earning a respectable start on the Hot 100 will cheer up the rapper!  

Fivio Foreign, Kanye West, and Alicia Keys earn a top-50 launch with “City of Gods.”  

Dove Cameron debuts at no. 73 with “Boyfriend.”

Some good news for Mary J. Blige as she sees “Good Morning Gorgeous”, the title track from her 2022 album, debut at no. 83 on the Hot 100.

Saweetie with an assist from H.E.R., debuts at no. 89 with “Closer”.

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Encanto Appears to be Unstoppable: Scanning the Charts No. 8 (2022) [: Brent Faulkner, Danny Santamaria Osorio, Mediamodifier, The Musical Hype, pinkzebra, Pixabay, Walt Disney]

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