Encanto Continues its Dominance | Scanning the Charts 📉

Scanning the Charts (2/9/22): Encanto continues to dominate 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 8 observations from the Billboard 200 📉,  and 10- observations from the Billboard Hot 100 📉, with Encanto continuing its dominance.

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Billboard 200 📉

💭 💿 Encanto spends a fourth week atop the Billboard 200. Not surprising, to be honest.

💭 🎙 The Weeknd rebounds this week! 💿 Dawn FM ascends to its peak position, no. 2.  Notably, this marks the first time he’s outperformed the album that beat him for the no. 1 spot, 💿 DS4EVER by 🎙 Gunna.  DS4EVER is ‘level pegging’ this week at no. 3.

💭 The highest debut on the Billboard 200 arrives courtesy of 🎙 Grateful Dead – surprising, right? 💿 Dave’s Picks, Volume 41: Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD – 5/26/77 bows at no. 13.

💭 The second-highest debut on the Billboard 200 arrives courtesy of 🎙 NLE Choppa. 💿 Me Vs. Me launches at no. 14.

💭 🎙 Babyface Ray earns a top-40 debut with 💿 Face, which bows at no. 31.

💭 🎙 Aaron Lewis is 💿 Frayed at Both Ends at no. 39.

💭 🎙 Rick Ross returns to the Billboard 200.  Richer Than I Ever Been re-enters at no. 153.  Debuting modestly at no. 22, this reentry marks only the third week the album has charted!

💭 After debuting at no. 28, 🎙 iann dior sees 💿 On to Better Things slide to no. 166 in its second week.

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Billboard Hot 100 📉

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

💭 A second gem from 💿 Encanto, 🎵 “Surface Pressure” performed by 🎙 Jessica Darrow, ascends from no. 9 to no. 8 in its sixth week on the charts.  

💭 🎙 Gucci Mane earns the highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100 this week. 🎵 “Rumors” featuring 🎙 Lil Durk debuts at no. 51.

💭 We get new music from 🎙 The Chainsmokers! 🎵 “High” bows at no. 57.

💭 🎙 Benny the Butcher and 🎙 J. Cole impact the Hot 100 at no. 72 with 🎵 “Johnny P’s Caddy”.  

💭 🎙 Fireboy DML and 🎙 Ed Sheeran arrive at no. 79 with 🎵 “Peru.”

💭 Ah, there’s new 🎙 Miranda Lambert at no. 82 (🎵 “If I Was a Cowboy”).

💭 🎙 NLE Choppa brings 🎵 “Shotta Flow 6” at no 86.  

💭 🎙 XXXTENTACION debuts posthumously on the Hot 100 with 🎵 “Vice City” at no. 89.

💭 🎙 Megan Thee Stallion earns another entry on the Hot 100 as 🎵 “Megan’s Piano” launches at no. 97.

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Encanto Continues its Dominance: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 6 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, Danny Santamaria Osorio, Mediamodifier, The Musical Hype, pinkzebra, Pixabay, Walt Disney]

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