Kodak Black in the Runner-Up Slot | Scanning the Charts 📉

Scanning the Charts (3/9/22): Encanto remains the LP to beat, Kodak Black debuts at no. 2, while Glass Animals earn their first no. 1 on the 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 9 observations from the Billboard 200 📉,  and 8 observations from the Billboard Hot 100 📉, with 🎙 Kodak Black debuting at no. 2 behind the unstoppable 💿 Encanto soundtrack

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Billboard 200 📉

💭 The 💿 Encanto soundtrack spends the 8^th week at no. 1 on the Billboard 200. Can you say dominant?

 

💭 🎙 Kodak Black makes his impact known on the Billboard 200 with 💿 Back for Everything which debuts at no. 2.

💭 🎙 Morgan Wallen continues to dominate the charts as 💿 Dangerous: The Double Album spends its 60^th week on the Billboard 200.  Notably, most of those weeks have been spent in the top 10.

💭 🎙 Tears for Fears earn the second-highest debut on the charts as 💿 The Tipping Point debuts at a respectable no. 8.  Worth noting, the collective had the highest-selling album of the week. 

💭 🎙 Avril Lavigne reclaims some of her mojo as 💿 Love Sux debuts at no. 9.

💭 After debuting at no. 6, 🎙 Yeat takes a tumble. 💿 2 Alive slides to no. 32 in its second charting week.

💭 🎙 Scorpions earn a top 60 album with 💿 Rock Believer which debuts at no. 59.

💭 Colorful rap collective 🎙 EARTHGANG enters the Billboard 200 fray at no. 114 with 💿 Ghetto Gods.

💭 🎙 Conway the Machine bows modestly at no. 175 with 💿 God Don’t Make Mistakes.

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Billboard Hot 100 📉 

💭 Amazingly, 59 weeks in on the Billboard Hot 100, 🎙 Glass Animals ascends to no. 1 with 🎵 “Heat Waves” knocking 💿 Encanto’s 🎵 “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” to no. 2.

💭 🎙 Imagine Dragons and 🎙 JID are on the up-and-up with 🎵 “Enemy” which ascends seven spots from no. 20 to no. 13 in its 15^th charting week.

💭 One has to wait until no. 43 to see the highest-charting new single.  That honor belongs to 🎙 Tyga and 🎙 Doja Cat with 🎵 “Freaky Deaky”.

💭 🎙 Labrinth and 🎙 Zendaya make some modest chart noise as 🎵 “I’m Tired” debuts at no. 76.

💭 🎙 YoungBoy Never Broke Again earns another charting track with 🎵 “I Hate YoungBoy” at no. 79.

💭 Besides the success of 🎵 “Super Gremlin” and his no. 2 bowing album, 🎙 Kodak Black charts another song, 🎵 “Usain Boo”, at no. 81.  9 spots later, he also bows with 🎵 “I Wish” (no. 90).

💭 🎙 JNR CHOI and 🎙 Sam Tompkins earn some Hot 100 love with 🎵 “To the Moon!” at no. 95.

💭 Finally, at no. 100, 🎙 Lil Shordie Scott makes his presence known with 🎵 “Rocking a Cardigan in Atlanta”. WOO!!!

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Kodak Black in the Runner-Up Slot: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 10 (2022) [📷: Atlantic, Brent Faulkner, Danny Santamaria Osorio, Mediamodifier, The Musical Hype, pink zebra, Pixabay, Wolf Tone]

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