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Kendrick Lamar is now the first hip-hop artist ever to land three top 10 albums in the same week. Gregory Shamus/Getty Images hide caption
Three of Kendrick Lamar's albums are getting a Super Bowl bump
Travis Scott, seen here performing in the Netherlands in 2024, scored his fifth No. 1 pop hit this week with "4X4." Of those five hits, four topped Billboard's Hot 100 in their first week after being released. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images hide caption
Travis Scott's latest song joins the hottest new club in popular music
Imogen Heap, seen here performing during the 62nd annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 26, 2020, in Los Angeles, scored her first song on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart this month, 30 years into her career. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images hide caption
Imogen Heap's song 'Headlock' hits Billboard charts 20 years after it was released
Bad Bunny on stage in Miami in May 2024. The Puerto Rican singer's latest album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, topped Billboard's album chart this week. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images hide caption
Bad Bunny blessed with Billboard’s biggest boosts (and Bruno bolsters his bona fides)
Lil Baby and his team pulled out all the stops to make sure the artist's WHAM rap would make it to the edge of heaven on this week's Billboard charts. Astrida Valigorsky/WireImage hide caption
The duet by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars spent four weeks at No. 2 on the Hot 100 in November before being swept out of the top 10 by the annual rush of holiday songs. This week, it finally rises to the top of the chart. John Esparza/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
With the holidays over, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and more stars flood the pop charts
SZA accepts a Grammy Award for best R&B song for "Snooze" on Feb. 4, 2024. At that point, the album on which "Snooze" appears, SOS, was already 14 months old. This week, nearly 11 months after the Grammys, SOS has returned to the top of the Billboard album chart thanks to the release of a deluxe version. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption
Mariah Carey (shown performing in New York City in 2014) released "All I Want For Christmas Is You" in 1994, but it took 25 years for the song to reach the top of Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart. Since 2019, it has topped the chart each December for a total of 16 weeks at No. 1 — so far. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images hide caption
The season of Christmas songs is here. Will the classics make room for anything new?
A single Black Friday title — Taylor Swift's Target-exclusive physical editions of The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology — has sent TTPD soaring back to the top of the Billboard 200. Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management hide caption
Kendrick Lamar released his sixth album, GNX, without warning on Nov. 22. On this week's Billboard pop charts, its songs landed him the Top 5 spots on the Hot 100 and the No. 1 album. Courtesy of pgLang hide caption
When Kendrick Lamar claimed the top-5 spots, it sent Shaboozey down to No. 6
Members of the group ATEEZ pose in Los Angeles in April. In a little over two years, the K-pop group has released six new EPs that have reached the Top 10 of Billboard's album chart. The group's latest, GOLDEN HOUR: Part.2, debuted at No. 1 this week. Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images hide caption
Gracie Abrams performs in Los Angeles earlier this month. Abrams, who released her album The Secret of Us in June, has been opening for Taylor Swift on the most recent leg of Swift's Eras Tour. "That's So True," a single included on the deluxe version of The Secret of Us last month, becomes her first Top 10 hit this week. John Sciulli/Getty Images hide caption
Shaboozey, seen here performing in Las Vegas on Sept. 20, now holds the record for the longest-running No. 1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in the 2020s. His "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" has held the top spot on the singles chart for 17 weeks this year. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images hide caption
Christmas albums are already hitting the Billboard charts
Tyler, The Creator, performing during the Coachella Festival in Indio, Calif., on April 13, announced his eighth album, Chromakopia, just a little more than a week before releasing it on Monday, Oct. 28. Valerie Macon/Getty Images hide caption
Shaboozey performs during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on September 20. Since July, his song "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" has held onto the top spot on Billboard's singles chart, but this week it falls to brand new song. Bryan Steffy/Getty Images hide caption
After nearly 4 months, Shaboozey's 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' drops from No. 1
Jelly Roll, seen here performing in Central Park in New York on Sept. 28, collects his first No. 1 album with his new Beautifully Broken. Noam Galai/Getty Images hide caption
4 albums debut in the Top 10. Jelly Roll leads the pack with his first No. 1
Coldplay performs during the Glastonbury Festival 2024 on June 29, 2024. This week, the band's 10th album, Moon Music, became its fifth to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Joe Maher/Getty Images hide caption
Sabrina Carpenter, shown here performing during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 11, 2024, in Elmont, N.Y., has three hits in the Top 10 of the singles chart this week. Her album Short n' Sweet spends a fourth week at No. 1 on the albums chart. Mike Coppola/Getty Images hide caption
Future (seen here in 2022) has released three mixtapes since April of this year that have all debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart. Only two other acts have put as many albums at the top of the chart in a six month span before. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images hide caption
Shaboozey, seen here at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York, has spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the pop chart with his first hit, the smash "A Bar Song (Tipsy)." Noam Galai/Getty Images hide caption
Shaboozey's hit 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' just logged its 10th week at No. 1
Sabrina Carpenter, seen here performing at the 2024 Governors Ball held at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on June 8, 2024, in Queens, N.Y., had multiple hits in contention for the song of the summer — but neither "Espresso" nor "Please Please Please" was the season's champion. Nina Westervelt/Getty Images hide caption
Summers may come and go, but the songs of the summer last forever
Post Malone, who has spent the year shifting his focus from hip-hop and pop toward country music (scoring a No. 1 single in the process) performs on July 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. His first all-country album, F-1 Trillion, topped this week's Billboard album chart. Jason Kempin/Getty Images hide caption
Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium in London on June 21, as part of her Eras Tour. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images hide caption