Morgan Wallen Continues Dominance | Scanning the Charts 📉

Scanning the Charts – Billboard 200 & Hot 100 (3/6/21): Morgan Wallen and Olivia Rodrigo continue their chart dominance.

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 (📉 The Weeknd Settles for No. 2: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 7), 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 THREE observations 🔎 from the Billboard Hot 100 📉, with 🎙 Morgan Wallen spending a sixth week atop the Billboard 200 with 💿 Dangerous: The Double Album, while 🎙 Olivia Rodrigo spends her sixth week atop the Billboard Hot 100 with “Drivers License”.

Billboard 200 📉 

💭 🎙 Morgan Wallen was cancelled, but that hasn’t slowed 💿 Dangerous: The Double Album, which spends its sixth consecutive week atop the Billboard 200.

💭 Though 🎙 The Weeknd sees 💿 The Highlights slide from no. 2 to no. 8, his ‘ace in the hole’, 💿 After Hours, ascends from no. 37 to no. 2 in its 48^th week on the chart.  

💭 With no new albums bowing in the top 10, 💿 Judas and the Black Messiah: The Inspired Album (soundtrack) debuts at no. 12 as the highest debut.

💭 It seems that the 🎙 Florida Georgia Line train has slowed quite a bit.  The ‘bro country’ duo debuts tepidly by their standards.  💿 Life Rolls On launches at no. 21 – yikes!

💭 🎙 The Pretty Reckless impact the Billboard 200 as well, with 💿 Death By Rock and Roll launching at no. 28.

💭 The big takeaway should be that there are a number of underperforming new albums by big-named artists.  Pentatonix is among them as 💿 The Lucky Ones bombs with its no. 123 start.  Awful start for the Grammy-winning a cappella darlings.

Billboard Hot 100 📉 

💭 🎙 Olivia Rodrigo spends a sixth consecutive week at no. 1 on the Hot 100 with 🎵 “Drivers License”. 

💭 🎙 Lil Tjay and 🎙 6LACK earn the highest debut on the Hot 100 with 🎵 “Calling My Phone” which launches at no. 3.

💭 🎙 Taylor Swift continues to do her thing. 🎵 “Love Story (Taylor’s Version)” debuts at no. 11.

Morgan Wallen & Olivia Rodrigo Continue Dominance: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 8 [📷: Brent Faulkner, Geffen, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, Republic]