Machine Gun Kelly & Travis Scott Top | Scanning the Charts

Scanning the Charts – Billboard 200 & Billboard Hot 100 (10/10/20) – Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Scott top the charts respectively.

SCANNING THE CHARTS is just what it says it is.  I, the quirky founder and do-it-all at The Musical Hype scans through the Billboard Charts and picks out things that catch my eye.  To reiterate what I said last week (Alicia Keys Debuts at No. 4), this column won’t be extensive, but rather short and sweet, keeping that moving.  This week, I picked out SIX notable observations from the Billboard 200, and four observations from the Billboard Hot 100, with Machine Gun Kelly debuting at no. 1 on the Billboard 200, and Travis Scott launching at no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Billboard 200 

Machine Gun Kelly earns his first no. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with Tickets to My Downfall.  Worth noting, Tickets to My Downfall is an ‘uncharacteristic’ album by the artist, who switches from rap to pop-punk. 

At No. 2, there’s finally a shift on the Billboard 200. SuperM debut with their first full-length album, Super One: The 1^st Album.

The debuts keep on rolling in as Joji sees Nectar launch at no. 3.

Deftones also earns top-five love as Ohms, the band’s first album since 2016, launches at no. 5. Rock on!

Debuts, debuts, and more debuts, with two more in the top 10 alone! Carrie Underwood unleashes My Gift at no. 8 while Tory Lanez controversially closes things out with Daystar.

Beyond Underwood and Lanez, we get more new entries from the likes of Natalie Grant (No Stranger, no. 13), Melanie Martinez (After School EP, no. 74), A$AP Ferg (Floor Seats II, no. 143), and Sufjan Stevens (The Ascension, no. 153), among others.

Billboard Hot 100

Travis Scott knocks BTS out of the top spot on the Hot 100. “Franchise,” featuring Young Thug and M.I.A., launches at no. 1. Honestly, it’s the big story of the Hot 100…

Expectedly, Machine Gun Kelly sees a number of songs from his album, Tickets to My Downfall debut on the Hot 100 including “Forget Me Too” (featuring Halsey) and “Bloody Valentine” (nos. 44 and 50 respectively).

Polo G debuts at no. 47 with his latest single, “Epidemic.”

ZAYN could’ve certainly done “Better” than his no. 89 start, right?

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