Wallen & Rodrigo are Unstoppable | Scanning the Charts 📉

Scanning the Charts – Billboard 200 & Hot 100 (2/20/21): 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 (📉 Morgan Wallen Continues Dominance: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 8), this column won’t be extensive, but rather short and sweet, keeping that 💩 moving.  This week, I picked out SEVEN  notable observations 🔎 from the Billboard 200 📉,  and THREE observations 🔎 from the Billboard Hot 100 📉, with 🎙 Morgan Wallen spending a seventh week atop the Billboard 200 with 💿 Dangerous: The Double Album, while 🎙 Olivia Rodrigo spends her seventh week atop the Billboard Hot 100 with “Drivers License”.

Billboard 200 📉

💭 🎙 Morgan Wallen spends his seventh consecutive week atop the Billboard 200 with 💿 Dangerous: The Double Album.

💭 🎙 Kevin Gates debuts at no. 18 with his latest project, 💿Only the Generals, Part II.  Only the Generals marks the top debut on this week’s Billboard 200.  Yikes! 

💭 With the release of the deluxe version of his album, 💿Pegasus (💿Pegasus: Neon Shark vs Pegasus Presented by Travis Barker), 🎙 Trippie Redd reenters the Billboard 200 at no. 20.

💭 🎙 CJ debuts modestly at no. 56 with 💿 Loyalty Over Royalty.  Not sure that those numbers are equivalent to a – wait for it – 🎵 “BOP”!

💭 🎙 Kali Uchis secures a top-100 debut with 💿 Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios), which debuts at no. 77.

💭 A couple of 🎙 Daft Punk albums reenter the chart given the end of the legendary electronic duo.  Discovery reenters the mix at no. 121 while their Grammy-winning 💿 Random Access Memories reenters at no. 146.

💭 🎙 Carly Pearce does manage to debut on the Billboard 200.  That’s the good news.  The bad news? 💿 29 didn’t exactly light up the charts with its tepid no. 172 start.

Billboard Hot 100 📉

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

💭 🎙 NF debuts at no. 53 on a relatively quiet Hot 100 with 🎵 “Clouds” which appears on his forthcoming mixtape.  “Clouds” marks the top debuting single on this week’s edition of the chart.

💭 So, what’s the next highest newbie on the Hot 100? That would be 🎵 “Telepatia”, courtesy of 🎙 Kali Uchis, which bows at no 54.

Wallen & Rodrigo are Unstoppable: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 9 [📷: Brent Faulkner, Geffen, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, Republic]