Yo Gotti Debuts at No. 3 | Scanning the Charts 📉

Scanning the Charts (2/16/22): Encanto spends a fifth week atop the Billboard 200 while Memphis rapper Yo Gotti debuts at no. 3.

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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 8 observations from the Billboard 200 📉,  and 7 observations from the Billboard Hot 100 📉, with 🎙 Yo Gotti earning the highest debut on the Billboard 200.

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Billboard 200 📉

💭 💿 Encanto spends a fifth week atop the Billboard 200. That is all. NEXT!

💭 Memphis rapper 🎙 Yo Gotti debuts at no. 3 with 💿 CM10: Free Game. 

💭 🎙 Mitski earns her highest debut on the Billboard 200. 💿 Laurel Hell debuts at no. 5, becoming a historic bow for record label 🏷 Dead Oceans.

💭 🎙 Korn debuts modestly on the Billboard 200.  💿 Requiem launches at no. 14.

💭 🎙 2 Chainz earns a top-25 debut with 💿 Dope Don’t Sell Itself (no. 23).

💭 🎙 Upchurch debuts at no. 101 on the Billboard 200 with 💿 People’s Champ.

💭 If you thought 🎙 Korn and 🎙 2 Chainz debuted modestly, you should see how 🎙 Bastille underperformed.  💿 Give Me the Future has little future on the Billboard 200, judging by the tepid no. 110 debut. Yikes!

💭 🎙 Animal Collective debuts at no. 152 with 💿 Time Skiffs.

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Billboard Hot 100 📉 

💭 🎵 “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” spends a third week at no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

💭 🎙 Nicki Minaj and 🎙 Lil Baby debut at no. 2 on the Hot 100 with 🎵 “Do We Have a Problem?”.

💭 🎙 Justin Bieber hits the top-10 with 🎵 “Ghost” which ascends from no. 12 to no. 9.

💭 A pair of posthumous singles debut on the Hot 100. 🎵 “Don’t Play That” by 🎙 King Von (& 🎙 21 Savage) debuts at no. 40 while 🎵 “Cigarettes” by 🎙 Juice WRLD bows at no. 43.

💭 Teenage pop singer 🎙 Tate McRae launches at no. 52 with 🎵 “She’s All I Wanna Be”. 

💭 🎙 Machine Gun Kelly and 🎙 WILLOW debut at no. 77 with the sketchy single, 🎵 “Emo Girl”.

💭 The 🎙 Red Hot Chili Peppers comeback single, 🎵 “Black Summer” debuts at no. 78.

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 Yo Gotti Debuts at No. 3: Scanning the Charts 📉 No. 7 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, CMG, Danny Santamaria Osorio, Disney, Inevitable II, Mediamodifier, The Musical Hype, pinkzebra, Pixabay]

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