USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
Drake still leads both major charts
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Drake's “Janice STFU” spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, a week after it debuted in the top spot. Drake’s 14th career Hot 100 No. 1 is his first to reign for

multiple weeks this decade. He last earned the honor with “In My Feelings,” which dominated for 10 weeks in July-September 2018. “Janice STFU,” on OVO Sound/Republic, totaled 31.5 million official streams (down 22%), 7.3 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 240%) and 2,000 sold (down 39%) in the U.S. May 22-28. The single leads the Streaming Songs chart for a second week and falls 6-15 on Digital Song Sales. Drake charts three other songs, also from Iceman, in the latest Hot 100’s top 10, and each likewise in its second week on the survey. “Shabang” holds at No. 4; “Ran to Atlanta,” featuring Future and Molly Santana, dips 2-6; and “Whisper My Name” falls 3-9. (Still, “Shabang” is up 56% to 1.8 million in radio audience.) A week earlier, Drake extended his career count to a record 90 Hot 100 top 10s. Olivia Rodrigo’s “The Cure” debuts at No. 5 on the Hot 100 with 19.7 million streams, 292,000 in radio reach and 9,000 sold in its first week,

following its May 22 release. It’s her eighth career top 10 and the second from her album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, due June 12. In May, lead single “Drop Dead” debuted as her fourth No. 1. Meanwhile, both “The Cure” and “Drop Dead” represent odes to The Cure, the Robert Smith-led Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band. Rodrigo indirectly cites "personal hero" Smith in “Drop Dead,” singing, “You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven’/ And I know why he wrote them, now that you’re standing right here.” The group sent “Just Like Heaven” to No. 40 on the Hot 100 in 1988, and reached the top 10 the next year with the No. 2-peaking “Love Song.” As five Drake songs depart the Hot 100’s top 10, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” rebounds 5-2, following 10 weeks at No. 1 beginning in February. It continues for a ninth week atop Digital Song Sales. Plus, Langley’s “Be Her” jumps 14-3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2. Olivia Dean also charts two songs in the Hot 100’s top 10: “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” (20-7, after rising to No. 5) and “Man I Need” (17-10, after peaking at No. 2). Additionally in the Hot 100’s top 10, Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” climbs 16-8 after three weeks at No. 1 between January and March. It tops Radio Songs for a 15th week (69.2 million, down 3%). Drake’s Iceman holds atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 6) for a second week, earning 225,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending May 28 (down 52%), according to Luminate. The set bowed at No. 1 a week ago, alongside two more Drake projects, Habibti and Maid Of Honour, as he became the first artist ever to rank at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 simultaneously in the chart’s 70-year history. Drake's Habibti falls 2-7 (53,000 units, down 53%) and Maid Of Honour 3-8 (42,000, down 62%), in their second week. Of Iceman’s 225,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 223,000 (down 50%, equaling 228.45 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it spends a second week at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 1,000 (down 90%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 59%). Of Drake’s 15 Billboard 200 No. 1s — tied for the most among soloists with Taylor Swift — Iceman is his sixth to lead for multiple weeks. The rest of the top five on the new Billboard 200 are all former No. 1s.: Ella Langley’s Dandelion rises 5-2 (93,000 equivalent album units, down 5%); Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide climbs 4-3 (85,000, down 16%); Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem ascends 6-4 (80,000, down 6%); and Michael Jackson’s Thriller is up 7-5 (64,000, up 3%). Michael Jackson’s Number Ones bumps 8-6 (60,000 equivalent album units earned, down less than 1%), while BTS’ former No. 1 Arirang steps 10-9 with just more than 41,000 (down 1%). Le Sserafim rounds out the top 10, notching its fifth top 10-charted project as Pureflow debuts at No. 10 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 34,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 7,000 (equaling 7.1 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise the remainder. The album’s first-week sales were boosted by its availability across more than 30 CD variants, many containing collectible items such as photocards, stickers and posters, with some items randomized.

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
'Rein Me In' rules a 13th week
Monday, June 1, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Sunshine And Rein: Although it was not among the songs Olivia Dean performed in her sublime, televised 17-song finale performance at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Sunderland on Sunday (May 24), her Sam Fender collaboration, Rein Me In, undoubtedly benefited not just from this, but also from the

hottest May weather in history and a scorching bank holiday, which helped increase sedentary streaming across the board. Claiming pole position for the fifth week in a row, and 13th week in total, while securing its 32nd week in the Top 10 and 49th consecutive week in the Top 40 for the pair, its consumption surged 17.87% week-on-week to 56,132 units (663 digital downloads and 55,469 sales-equivalent streams), guaranteeing it will not fall into ACR for at least another four weeks. It has now spent longer at No.1 than any duet in chart history, and matches Alex Warren’s Ordinary as the track with most weeks at No.1 in the 2020s. The last of only six songs ever to spend longer at No.1 was Shape Of You, which spent 14 weeks at the apex in 2017 for Ed Sheeran. The only song to deny Rein Me In the No.1 slot in the last 11 weeks is Drop Dead, the first single from Olivia Rodrigo’s upcoming third album, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In

Love, which topped the list on debut on consumption of 65,435 units five weeks ago. Follow-up The Cure looked like it might do likewise this week, with an early lead helped by its release in physical formats, but it ultimately falls somewhat short, debuting at No.2 for Rodrigo on consumption of 43,228 units (1,951 7-inch vinyl, 371 cassettes, 447 digital downloads and 40,459 sales-equivalent streams), becoming her 10th Top 10 and 17th Top 75 hit. Drop Dead bounces 10-9 (30,584 sales). The only other song in the Top 10 to reach a new peak is Go, which paused at No.7 last week for The Chemical Brothers, but now climbs to No.4 (34,849 sales). A No.46 single in 2015, its inclusion in Netflix streaming hit Apex has pushed it to new heights, its latest fillip making it their fifth Top 5 hit, and their first since 2005. Drake racked up three new Top 10 hits last week from his new album Iceman but now all are in steep decline with Janice STFU (2-6, 33,253 sales) holding up best. National Treasures trips 3-19 (18,650 sales), while Make Them Cry, his second-ranked song last week, when it debuted at No.6, now his eighth most popular track and disappearing into ‘starred-out’ territory. Taking up the slack – just because its decline is lesser than the rest – Shabang debuts at No.25 (15,275 sales). In so doing, it becomes Drake’s 101st Top 40 and record 156th Top 75 entry. Zara Larsson was another well-received star of Radio 1’s Big Weekend, with resultant dividends and rebounds below peak for both her viral 2016 song Lush Life (12-7, 32,882 sales) and the title track of her latest album, Midnight Sun (15-8, 31,760 sales). The rest of the Top 10: Billie Jean (4-3, 35,619 sales) by Michael Jackson, Dracula (5-5, 33,546 sales) by Tame Impala and Beat It (9-10, 28,102 sales) by Michael Jackson. Overall singles consumption is up 5.06% week-on-week to 34,082,596 units, their highest level of the year and 12.30% above same week 2025 sales of 30,349,023 units. Paid-for sales are down 4.16% week-on-week at 266,513, 5.59% below same week 2025 sales of 282,302. One of the stars of Radio 1’s Big Weekend – at which she performed an entrancing 43-minute set, which was also televised – Maisie Peters is rewarded by the biggest weekly sale of her career and her second No.1, the day after she turned 26, with Florescence dashing to pole position on consumption of 29,826 units (15,564 CDs, 8,935 vinyl albums, 618 cassettes, 1,851 digital downloads and 2,858 sales-equivalent streams). Comprising entirely of new pop/folk/country confections co-penned by the Sussex singer-songwriter, it surpasses the June 2023 tally of 20,760 that hoisted her second album, The Good Witch, to a No.1 debut immediately after her acclaimed set on Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage – and it leaves far behind the 9,575 units her introductory album, You Signed Up For This, shifted when it debuted and peaked at No.2 in 2021. The Good Witch has to-date consumption of 83,847 units, with You Signed Up For This on 57,430. Despite her album chart success, Peters has yet to have a Top 40 single. Although early sales flashes showed Florescence with a substantial lead, its streaming weakness and the strength of Michael Jackson’s The Essential in the same metric meant that the gap between the two had shrunk to just 262 units by the end of the week, with Jackson’s album remaining at No.2 on consumption of 29,564 units. That’s the smallest gap in absolute terms between the top two since 17 January 2025 (71 weeks ago) when Chappell Roan’s The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess finished 101 sales ahead of Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet. In percentage terms, the 0.89% lead that Florescence has over The Essential is the smallest for a No.1 since Michael Ball & Alfie Boe’s Together Again trumped Stereophonics’ Scream Above The Sounds 43,795 to 43,760 (just 0.08%) in the 6 November 2017 chart, 447 weeks ago. The current resurgence in interest in Jackson, also sees Thriller (4-5, 10,739 sales) and Bad (8-8, 8,546 sales) continue in the Top 10. Thirty-four years to the week since his eponymous debut album opened at No.1, 62-year-old Michael Ball racks up his 15th Top 10 and 29th Top 75 album chart entry with Glow (No.9, 7,324 sales). Ball has six collaborative albums with Alfie Bioe, four of which reached No..1 in the last decade, and Glow – on which he co-wrote most of the songs – is his first solo album of new material since 2021, when he reached No.2 with We Are More Than One. After becoming his seventh No.1 album last week, Iceman slips to No.3 (18,324 sales) for Drake, while the other new albums that completed his unprecedented Top 10 triple whammy last week make much bigger falls, Maid Of Honour sliding 6-20 (4,874 sales) and Habibti 7-36 (3,594 sales). The rest of the Top 10: The Art Of Loving (3-4, 11,928 sales) by Olivia Dean, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (9-6, 9,095 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Great Divide (5-7, 8,712 sales) by Noah Kahan and +-=÷× Tour Collection (11-10, 7,210 sales) by Ed Sheeran. Overall album sales are up 3.83% week-on-week to 2,661,685 units, 8.07% above same week 2025 sales of 2,462,821. Physical product accounts for 271,885 sales, 10.21% of the total.