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]