Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots performs on stage in 2024.
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Rock and roll is alive and properly atop the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, as Twenty One Pilots‘ Breach racks up humongous gross sales en path to a No. 1 debut. Elsewhere on the charts, HUNTR/X’s “Golden” retains on topping the Sizzling 100 singles chart, whereas a Rihanna deep minimize crashes the charts 18 years into its existence, due to TikTok.
TOP ALBUMS
Final week, the summer time’s nice left-field pop-culture juggernaut — that’d be the Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters — lastly landed its soundtrack atop the Billboard 200 after an extended, regular climb up the charts. This week, it falls again to No. 2 due to a style that is impressed many untimely obituaries: rock and roll.
Your new No. 1 album, the proggy and hip-hop-inflected Breach, is by Twenty One Pilots, who final topped the albums chart greater than a decade in the past, with 2015’s Blurryface. Although rock data by Ghost and Sleep Token have already hit No. 1 this yr, Breach scores the largest rock debut since Instrument‘s long-awaited Inoculum six years in the past.
Of Breach‘s 200,000 “equal album models” — that is the cocktail of gross sales and streaming that informs the Billboard 200 rankings — 169,000 got here from gross sales, with 72,000 of these on vinyl. These are terrific numbers in 2025, however Breach additionally had Twenty One Pilots’ best-ever streaming week and debuts at No. 8 on the streaming chart. All it is lacking is a success single: Solely one among its songs, “Metropolis Partitions,” hits this week’s Sizzling 100, debuting at No. 83.
The highest 10’s different debut, Ed Sheeran‘s Play, has skilled a softer launch: The album debuts at No. 5 with 71,000 equal album models, 51,000 of which come from gross sales. And, as we regularly be aware round these elements, gross sales are vastly tougher to maintain than streaming, which means that each debuts could also be set for brief runs within the high 10.
As for those who wanted one other knowledge level to display the significance of streaming, contemplate sombr‘s I Barely Know Her. The rising Gen Z star is not producing a lot in the way in which of gross sales 4 weeks into his debut album’s run, particularly on condition that bodily copies will not be obtainable till November. However with strong streaming numbers, I Barely Know Her holds at No. 10.
TOP SONGS
As soon as once more, there is not a ton of motion close to the highest of the Sizzling 100 singles chart. The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack continues to lock down 4 songs within the high 10, led by “Golden” at No. 1 for a sixth nonconsecutive week. Alex Warren‘s “Atypical” is, but once more, hovering helplessly at No. 2. And so forth. Other than an anticipated drop for Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Tears” — the streaming numbers for her new album Man’s Greatest Pal are dipping in its third week on the chart, whereas Carpenter’s airplay numbers are largely going to “Manchild,” which holds at No. 3 — this week’s chart is not a lot totally different from final week’s.
There’s nonetheless a handful of milestones value noting, although. “Golden” has now posted the longest run at No. 1 for a soundtrack hit since Wiz Khalifa‘s “See You Once more (feat. Charlie Puth)” in 2015. That tune, from Livid 7, topped the Sizzling 100 for 12 weeks, although Taylor Swift most likely thinks its run ought to have been even longer.
It’s going to be arduous for “Golden” to hit that 12-week benchmark, given the method of Swift’s “The Destiny of Ophelia” — the primary single from The Lifetime of a Showgirl, which, just like the album itself, drops Oct. 3 — and the same old flurry of vacation perennials. However the airplay numbers for “Golden” go up, up, up one other 16% this week, and the tune has formally surpassed Encanto‘s “We Do not Speak About Bruno” (which spent 5 weeks at No. 1), to not point out a decade’s value of soundtrack smashes.
Oh, and it is with a heavy coronary heart that we should report the return of Teddy Swims‘ “Lose Management” to the highest 10. The tune’s run now spans 78 weeks, out of a record-shrapnelizing 109 weeks on the Sizzling 100. It is nonetheless a success on the streaming charts, nonetheless gobbling up a great deal of radio airplay, nonetheless clogging our collective cultural bloodstream like so many microplastics. At this level, it is protected to imagine that “Lose Management” will not biodegrade from the charts till our youngsters’s youngsters’s youngsters’s youngsters have perished from the earth. Solely then can one other tune be heard, offered anybody is left to listen to it.
WORTH NOTING
It is change into moderately frequent for outdated songs to seek out new chart life by way of TikTok virality. In January, Imogen Heap scored her first-ever Sizzling 100 hit — extremely, “Conceal and Search” by no means cracked that chart — with “Headlock,” 20 years after its launch. Radiohead‘s “Let Down,” from 1997’s OK Laptop, presently sits at No. 100 due to a TikTok development. And, although it did not crack the Sizzling 100, Connie Francis skilled a late-in-life profession surge earlier this yr due to TikTok customers’ embrace of “Fairly Little Child.”
The most recent oldie to make its Sizzling 100 debut belongs to Rihanna, whose 2007 tune “Breakin’ Dishes” debuts at No. 86 this week, thanks largely to its reputation on TikTok. The tune spent months on Billboard‘s Dance Membership Songs chart in 2008 and 2009, but it did not crack the Sizzling 100 till this week. It is within the midst of a world resurgence, because it charts in additional than a dozen nations.
Rihanna’s most up-to-date full-length album, Anti, got here out in 2016, and he or she’s launched singles solely sporadically — “Carry Me Up,” from Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly, was nominated for an Oscar in 2023 — within the years since.
This yr, she dropped a tune known as “Pal of Mine” as a part of her involvement on this summer time’s Smurfs film and soundtrack, however it didn’t chart. Nonetheless, the success of “Breakin’ Dishes” suggests an ongoing starvation for non-Smurf-adjacent Rihanna music. Here is hoping this wills some into the universe.
