Sabrina Carpenter went to No. 1 last week, but Post Malone’s song “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, has reclaimed its throne for a sixth week atop the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. Over on the Billboard 200 albums chart, while no other artist has still seriously challenged Taylor Swift’s supremacy, five other female artists have joined her within the top 10.
TOP SONGS: We seem to be settling into a summer groove on the Billboard 100, with the same four artists rotating through the top five spots from week to week. Post Malone's "I Had Some Help," featuring Morgan Wallen, had only a momentary falloff from its No. 1 perch.
After briefly ceding to Sabrina Carpenter's "Please Please Please" with a week in the No. 2 spot, "I Had Some Help" is back on top, making it the longest-running No. 1 of 2024 so far.
Behind it: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” at No. 2, Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" at No. 3 and Sabrina Carpenter occupying both the No.
4 and No. 5 positions with her double-shot duo of "Espresso" and the aforementioned "Please Please Please," which fell rather precipitously from first to fifth place in its second week. TOP ALBUMS: File under "not really news": Taylor Swift's album The Tortured Poets Department continues its reign at No.
1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a tenth consecutive week. (Boring, I know, sorry.) File under "this is, indeed, actually kinda news": For the first time this decade, as Billboard notes , female artists compris.
