Summer Walker Earns First No. 1 | Scanning the Charts 📉

Scanning the Charts (11/17/21):  Summer Walker earns her first no. 1 album while Adele holds down no. 1 on the Hot 100.

Well, 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. This column isn’t extensive, but rather short and sweet.  This week, I picked out 7 notable observations from the Billboard 200 📉,  and 5 observations from the Billboard Hot 100 📉, with 🎙 Summer Walker earning her first no. 1 album on the Billboard 200, and 🎙 Adele holding down the no. 1 spot on the Hot 100 with 🎵 “Easy on Me”.

Billboard 200 📉 

💭 🎙 Summer Walker makes a robust debut at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 (166,000 units) with her sophomore album, 💿 Still Over It.  Worth noting, Still Over It marks the first no. 1 R&B album by a woman in over five years.

💭 After releasing their first album in 40 years (💿 The Visitors, 1981), 🎙 ABBA debuts at no. 2 with 💿 Voyage. The iconic Swedish collective couldn’t beat Summer Walker, but performed respectably.

💭 After debuting last week at no. 1, 🏆 Grammy-winning pop singer/songwriter 🎙 Ed Sheeran slips to no. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 💿 =.

💭 Though overshadowed by new projects from Walker and ABBA, 🎙 Key Glock also earns a top-10 debut as 💿 Yellow Tape 2 bows at no. 7. 

💭 Way down the Billboard 200, 🎙 Amine debuts at no. 98 with 💿 TwoPointFive.

💭 Welsh rock/metal band 🎙 Bullet For My Valentine debuts modestly at no. 153 with their 💿 self-titled album.

💭 🎙 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats launches at no. 165 with 💿 The Future.  Unfortunately, the immediate ‘future’ of The Future doesn’t look too bright given the tepid start.

Billboard Hot 100 📉 

💭 🎙 Adele spends a fourth consecutive week at no. 1 spot on the Hot 100 with 🎵 “Easy on Me”.

💭 🎙 Post Malone and 🎙 The Weeknd launch at no. 6 with 🎵 “One Right Now”.

💭 The final single from 🎙 Silk Sonic (🎙 Bruno Mars and 🎙 Anderson  .Paak) in advance of 💿 An Evening with Silk Sonic, 🎵 “Smokin Out the Window”, launches at no. 8 on the Hot 100.

💭 Nobody is talking about the music of 🎙 Travis Scott.  That is because of the disaster that was his ASTROWORLD Tour.  Regardless, 🎵 “Escape Plan”, one of two new singles from the embattled rapper, debuts at no. 11 on the Hot 100.  Further down the chart, 🎵 “Mafia” launches at no. 26.

💭 After putting up fine numbers for her sophomore album 💿 Still Over It, it’s not surprising that 🎙 Summer Walker scores numerous entries on the Hot 100.  Her highest debut arrives courtesy of 🎵 “No Love” alongside 🎙 SZA at no. 13.  Other spots occupied by Walker: No. 25, No. 33 (Notably a re-entry of 🎵 “Ex For a Reason” with JT), No. 41, Nos. 44-45, Nos. 48-50… It doesn’t stop there either!

Summer Walker Earns First No. 1: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 46 [📷: Brent Faulkner, Columbia, Interscope, LVRN, Melted Stone, The Musical Hype]