USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
Drake's 'Iceman' remains a third week at no.1
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Drake's Iceman spends a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 13), earning 171,000 equivalent album units in the (down United States in the week ending June

424%), according to Luminate. Of Drake’s 15 No. 1 albums, Iceman is now one of five to spend at least three weeks at No. 1, and his first with three weeks at No. 1 since Certified Lover Boy spent five weeks in the lead in 2021. The Drake album with the most weeks at No. 1 is Views, with 13 weeks in 2016. Of Iceman’s 171,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 170,000 (down 24%, equaling 174.42 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it spends a third week at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise nearly 1,000 (down 50%) and TEA units comprise the remainder (down 29%). A trio of former No. 1s follow Iceman, as... Ella Langley’s Dandelion is a non-mover at No. 2 (93,000 equivalent album units earned, up 1%), Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem rises 4-3 (83,000, up 4%) and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide falls 3-4 (78,000, down 7%). Paul McCartney’s The Boys of Dungeon

Lane debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, with 63,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 59,500 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise nearly 3,500 (equaling 3.33 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise the remainder. First-week sales were bolstered by the album’s availability across 18 physical variants, including more than 10 vinyl editions. The Boys of Dungeon Lane marks the 22nd top 10 for McCartney, inclusive of his solo top 10s and his albums with Wings. The new set was led by the single “Days We Left Behind,” which peaked at No. 22 on the Adult Contemporary airplay chart in April. Michael Jackson’s former No. 1 Thriller is next on the Billboard 200, falling one spot to No. 6 with 61,000 equivalent album units (down 5%), while Michael Jackson’s greatest hits collection Number Ones slips 6-7 (56,000, down 7%). Morgan Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time climbs 11-8 with 42,000 (up 3%). Pop group Aespa notches its third top 10 as Lemonade arrives at No. 9 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 34,500 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 6,500 (equaling 6.73 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise the remainder. First-week sales of the album were aided by its availability across more than 20 CD variants, including signed editions, with many containing collectible items such as photocards, stickers and posters, with some items randomized. Closing out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 is Drake’s Habibti, which falls 7-10 with nearly 41,000 equivalent album units (down 24%). Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” bounds in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the pop superstar’s milestone 10th career leader on the chart. She ties for the 10th-most No. 1s over the survey’s history. The song previews Grande’s eighth studio album, Petal, due July 31. “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” on Republic Records, totaled 23.6 million official streams, 18.9 million radio airplay audience impressions and 70,000 sold in the U.S. from its May 29 release through June 4; its official video premiered June 1. The single debuts at No. 3 on the Streaming Songs chart; No. 25 on Radio Songs; and No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, with 55,000 of its overall sales from downloads. The song was available for digital purchase via seven options: its original version and its “Ari lyric draft from bed,” “bad news montage,” “live from rehearsal,” “melody pass,” a cappella and instrumental mixes. Its physical versions up for purchase encompassed “dandelion white” and “fluffy tail gray” cassettes and 7” vinyls and a cappella and instrumental CDs. Plus, its original and “bunny hop montage” versions were posted to streaming services. In addition to being Grande’s 10th Hot 100 No. 1, “Hate That I Made You Love Me” is her 24th top 10. She last added to her total in December 2024 with “Santa Tell Me”; her 2014 carol hit a No. 5 best this past holiday season. Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100 following 10 weeks at No. 1, beginning in February. Plus, Langley’s “Be Her” dips 3-4 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 2, and her “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” with Morgan Wallen, jumps 13-9 after it debuted at its No. 7 high. Drake claims two songs in the Hot 100’s top 10: “Janice STFU” falls to No. 3 after spending its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1, and “Shabang” slides to No. 8 after logging its first two weeks at No. 4. “Janice STFU” adds a third week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (26.7 million, down 15%). Olivia Dean also charts two songs in the Hot 100’s top 10: “Man I Need” (10-6, after peaking at No. 2) and “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” (steady at No. 7, after reaching No. 5). Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” pushes 8-5 on the Hot 100 after three weeks at No. 1 between January and March. It tops Radio Songs for a 16th week (70.5 million, up 2%). Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Tame Impala and Jennie’s “Dracula” returns to its No. 10 high, from No. 14.

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Music Week Report (excerpt)
'Rein Me In' is relegated to no.2
Monday, June 8, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Ariana Grande scores her first No.1 single for more than five years, and her eighth in all as Hate That I Made You Love Me – the introductory single from her upcoming eighth album Petal - debuts in pole position on consumption of 50,048 units (927 CDs, 2,672 7-inch vinyl, 5,199 digital downloads and 41,250

sales-equivalent streams). All of Grande’s No.1s – five solo and three collaborations - have debuted at the summit. The only other female artist in chart history to have five solo No.1s do likewise is Madonna. Grande’s overall tally of No.1s is bettered by six women, with Madonna (13), Rihanna (nine) and four of the five Spice Girls having landed at the summit more often. Geri Halliwell has had 12, Mel C 11, Mel B and Emma Bunton nine, leaving Victoria Beckham – whose only No.1s are as a Spice Girl – tied with Grande on eight. The fourth single to debut at No.1 in 2026 – Harry Styles’ Aperture and American Girls, and Olivia Rodrigo’s Drop Dead are the others – Hate That I Made You Love Me was co-written by Grande, Max Martin and Ilya. It is the 24th No.1 written wholly or partly by Swedish hit machine Martin, 27 years after his first – …Baby One More Time by Britney Spears, and 16 weeks after his 23rd, Taylor Swift hit Opalite. Although Rein Me In

is relegated to No.2 with consumption falling 19.12% week-on-week to a 15-week low of 45,399 units, Fender & Dean still have reason to celebrate. That is because the track - which has to-date consumption of 1,781,592 units – racks up its 50th consecutive week in the Top 40, a tally exceeded by only one song in chart history – Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud (54 weeks). Rein Me In sits in joint seventh place in the list of songs with most weeks in the Top 10, its tally of 33 putting it in a tie with Lush Life (7-10, 24,439 sales) by Zara Larsson, with the latter’s viral second life continuing to see it compete with Larsson’s latest hit, Midnight Sun (8-8, 26,632 sales). The rest of the Top 10: The Cure (2-3, 35,675 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Janice STFU (6-4, 29,984 sales) by Drake, Billie Jean (3-5, 29,863 sales) by Michael Jackson, Dracula (5-6, 27,799 sales) by Tame Impala, Go (4-7, 27,304 sales) by The Chemical Brothers and Beat It (10-9, 24,547 sales) by Michael Jackson. Boosted to a 2026 high the previous week, thanks to hot weather and a bank holiday, overall singles consumption is down 7.12% week-on-week to an eight-week low of 31,657,592 units, 2.23% above same week 2025 sales of 30,967,447 units. Paid-for sales are up 5.61% week-on-week at 281,463, 1.09% below same week 2025 sales of 278,433. Underlining the week-on-week decline, 183 of the Top 200 Combined Tracks – where ACR does not apply – suffered a dip in consumption. Sir Paul McCartney scores an unprecedented 24th No.1 album with his poignant, semi-autobiographical new solo set, The Boys Of Dungeon Lane. Five years in the making, and comprising 14 new McCartney songs – five of them co-written with the album’s producer Andrew Watt – The Boys Of Dungeon Lane racked up first week consumption of 33,642 units (14,110 CDs, 16,296 vinyl albums, 346 cassettes, 1,298 digital downloads and 1,592 sales-equivalent streams), slightly more than its immediate predecessor McCartney III, which opened atop the list on consumption of 33,079 units at the end of 2020. It gives him consecutive No.1 albums for the first time since in over 40 years. Twenty when he topped the chart for the first time, as a member of The Beatles in 1963, McCartney thus extends his tenure as a No.1 act to more than 63 years, breaking the record set by the late Elvis Presley, with just short of 60 years elapsing between The King’s first No.1, Rock N’ Roll, in 1956, and his last, The Wonder Of You in 2016. Turning 84 a week on Thursday (June 18), McCartney is now the oldest solo artist ever to have a No.1 album with new material, eclipsing fellow knight Tom Jones, who was 80 when he topped with Surrounded By Time in 2021. The oldest living person to have a No.1 was Vera Lynn, whose compilation We'll Meet Again: The Very Best Of, which topped the chart in 2009, when she was 92, but all the recordings on that were more than 60 years old at that point. McCartney has had 15 No.1s with The Beatles – Please Please Me (1963), With The Beatles (1963), A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Beatles For Sale (1964), Help! (1965), Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles aka The White Album (1968), Abbey Road (1969), Let It Be (1970), The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl (1977), Live At The BBC (1994), Anthology 2 (1996) and 1 (2000). The Boys Of Dungeon Lane is his sixth listed as a solo act, following McCartney II (1980), Tug Of War (1982) – his last consecutive studio No.1s – Give My Regards To Broad Street (1984), Flowers In The Dirt (1989) and McCartney III (2020). Finally, Ram (1971) credits Paul & Linda McCartney, Band On The Run (1973) is attributed to Paul McCartney & Wings, and Venus And Mars (1975) to Wings. His closest rival in terms of career No.1s is Robbie Williams, who snared his 16th solo with Britpop in January, and – depending on how strictly you interpret his presence on Take That hits sets –has had 19, 20 or even 21 number one albums. Always brothers but only sporadically a recording act, 54-year-old Mike Sandison and his 53-year-old sibling Marcus Eoin, from the Scottish village of Cullen, form the ambient, psychedelically-inspired electronic duo Boards Of Canada, whose eagerly-awaited first album in 13 years, Inferno, is a collection of collages and soundscapes exploring death and the occult, and their highest-charting set to date, debuting at No.3 (17,612 sales). It is their fifth album, following Music Has The Right To Children (No.193, 1998), Geogadd (No.21, 2002), The Campfire Headphase (No.41, 2005) and Tomorrow’s Harvest (No.7, 2013). Their biggest-seller remains Music Has The Right To Children, which has accumulated consumption of 105,980 units, despite its lowly chart peak. Floridian hard rock quartet Shinedown score their third Top 10 and fifth Top 75 entry, with Ei8ht (No.8, 8,529 sales), which, as its title suggests, is their eighth studio album. A recording act since 2003, their 2008 third album is their only gold album in the UK, with to-date consumption of 129,250 units, despite a No.143 peak. The rest of the Top 10: The Essential (2-2, 25,197 sales) by Michael Jackson, Iceman (3-4, 13,148 sales) by Drake, The Art Of Loving (4-5, 10,619 sales) by Olivia Dean, Thriller (5-6, 9,280 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Great Divide (7-7, 8.,889 sales) by Noah Kahan, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-9, 7,914 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and Bad (8-10, 7,200 sales) by Michael Jackson. Overall album sales are down 4.33% week-on-week to 2,546,356 units, 2.60% above same week 2025 sales of 2,481,764. Physical product accounts for 310,754 sales, 12.20% of the total.