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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