“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” Tops Hot 100 | Scanning the Charts 📉

Scanning the Charts (2/2/22): Encanto tops the Billboard 200 while “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” tops the Hot 100. 

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usic chart analysis, here we come! Scanning the Charts 📉 is exactly what it says it is.  We peruse – scan – through the Billboard Charts and pick out eye-catching happenings. Scanning the Charts 📉 isn’t extensive, but rather short and sweet.  This week, we list 9 observations from the Billboard 200 📉,  and 7 observations from the Billboard Hot 100 📉, with Encanto dominating both charts as 🎵 “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” ascends to no. 1 on the Hot 100.

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Billboard 200 📉 

💭 The 💿 Encanto soundtrack spends a second consecutive week at no. 1 no the Billboard 200.

💭 Rapper 🎙 YoungBoy Never Broke Again debuts at no. 2 with his latest album, 💿 Colors.

💭 Middle-aged country standout 🎙 Walker Hayes earns his first top-10 album with 💿 Country Stuff: The Album, which launches at no. 9. 

💭 The late, great 🎙 Meat Loaf sees 💿 Bat Out of Hell re-enter the Billboard 200 at a brand-new peak position: no. 13.

💭 🎙 iann dior debuts at no. 28 with 💿 On to Better Things.

💭 💿 LLD (Long Live Young Dolph), a compilation by various artists commemorating the late Memphis rapper, launches at no. 44.

💭 After debuting at no. 6 last week, 🎙 The Lumineers free fall this week.  💿 Brightside slides from no. 6 to no. 90! Down 84 spots!

💭 🎙 John Mellencamp sneaks onto the Billboard 200.  💿 Strictly a One-Eyed Jack bows at no. 196.

💭 Also sneaking onto the Billboard 200 is 🎙 Teddy Swims who sees his latest EP, 💿 Tough Love, debut at no. 200.

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Billboard Hot 100 📉

💭 As foretold last week, The ubiquitous Encanto record, 🎵 “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” tops the Hot 100 this week, ascending from no. 2 to no. 1.

💭 “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” knocks 🎙 Adele’s 🎵 “Easy on Me” off its perch after

Ten non-consecutive weeks at no. 1.  It doesn’t fall too far, of course – no. 2.  You could say, the chart gods “took it easy” on Adele!

💭 🎙 Charlie Puth earns the top debut on the Hot 100 as 🎵 “Light Switch” launches at no. 42.

💭 Beginning at no. 58, 🎙 YoungBoy Never Broke Again impacts the Hot 100 with many songs from his 💿 Colors including 🎵 “No Switch” and 🎵 “Bring It On” (no. 60).

💭 🎙 Key Glock has surefire pride on the Hot 100! His single, 🎵 “Proud” bows at no. 73.  

💭 🎙 Yung Bleu and 🎙 Kehlani debut at no. 91 with 🎵 “Beautiful Lies.”

💭 So far, 🎙 Chris Brown is off to an ‘iffy’ start with  🎵 “Iffy”, which tumbles from no. 71 to no. 100 in its second week on the charts.

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“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” Tops Hot 100: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 5 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, Danny Santamaria Osorio, Disney, Mediamodifier, The Musical Hype, pinkzebra, Pixabay]

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