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BTS getting a second week was surprising. I expected WAP to regain #1, but it looks like Dynamite got another big second week in sales: "With 182,000 downloads sold in its second week after opening with 265,000 downloads sold in its first frame, "Dynamite" is the first song to have sold over 180,000 downloads in consecutive weeks in nearly four years, since The Chainsmokers' "Closer," featuring Halsey (208,000, Sept. 17, 2016; 199,000, Sept. 24, 2016)." I believe that is Blackpink's highest charting song. Not bad.

Wow, that's pretty cool of a Korean boyband hitting #1. I know they've been building up their North American fanbase for a couple of years and now they go to #1 with their first english song. I wonder how Blackpink ft. Selena Gomez will do next week.

Wow!! RIP Chadwick. 😥 2020 can screw off. And today is Jackie Robinson day in MLB.

Sometimes you just can't think of the easiest answer. Thank you!

I want to change the name of the thread, but I'm not sure what it should be. I was thinking of "African Americans Being Killed By Cops".........if anyone has a better title idea, please let me know. Unfortunately, the latest incident that's getting national/international headlines is white a cop shooting Jacob Blake in the back SEVEN times and he's now paralyzed.

Katie Porter, one of my favourites! "As a professor, I've always told my students that one of the most important rules in life is to read the instructions." 😂

I pay some attention to American media and the majority of the time, they're taking down Trump. The. NYT is always putting out negative stories about Trump. Sure there might be the occasional pro Trump stuff. I just don't believe the media is actively trying to reelect Trump. Don't see it.

I haven't seen the interview yet, but to be fair, Kamala shouldn't be grilled? She shouldn't be given tough questions? Maybe I'm just not as pessimistic as you are but I highly doubt the majority of the media and journalists are rooting for Trump to win. That just doesn't make any sense.

It's going to be 4 hours long (4 one hour episodes)! Sweet! Anything's gotta be better than Whedon's JL movie.

Hell yes! The teaser looks like it could be in the same world as Joaquin's Joker. According to Matt Reeves, it's Batman in year two. “It’s not an origins tale, but you’re meeting him in the early days. A lot of the other (cinema) stories showed he had to master his fear and himself, to become Batman........we met in the middle of this criminological experiment and watch him make mistakes.” “He’s not having any of the effect that he want to have, that’s when the murders begin to happen."

I don't believe there's an official movie title yet but they are doing Flashpoint.

Biden’s speech!! 🙌👏

From what I’ve seen of AOC, I like her. I can see why Republicans are afraid of her/obsessed with her: She’s smart, tough, pretty, young. OAC and Katie Porter are two of the newer congresswomen that I always like seeing.

Both Affleck and Keaton's Batman will be in The Flash! 😃

I like how he's giving out examples.

The actress is Charlotte Kirk! She was also the woman who had an affair with Kevin Tsujihara (who was CEO of Warner Bros. at the time of their affair), and she was involved with director Neil Marshall (who apparently left production for a couple of weeks during the Hellboy shoot to be with her, and broke up with his longtime girlfriend). And she had an affair with James Packer, who was a partner at RatPack Entertainment. And she pressured people like director Brett Ratner and producer Avi Lerner try to get her roles. So now we have two instances (Tsujihara and Meyer), that we know of, where she tried to blackmail top execs to advance her acting career. Wow. A movie should be made out of her story. It's quite fascinating how one woman was involved with so many powerful people in the movie business.

Awesome news! Having a Jamaican-Indian-American woman as VP would be really cool.

Has there been any other instances where someone replaced their ex at #1? LOL I respect Watermelon Sugar's slow burn rise to #1. 👏

This one surprised me......but I can't think of (a big artist) debuting a song and album at the same time. Are there any other examples of this? And does the debut song have to be the first single or it can be the second or third single (etc) just as long as it debuts at the same time as the album?

Awesome for Taylor. And congrats to Aaron Dessner. It's always cool getting your first #1. So I wanted to compare the numbers with Taylor's "ME!" and "You Need To Calm Down" to "Cardigan" because those two songs hit #2 and were blocked from the #1 spot by one of the biggest songs of the decade, "Old Town Road." "Cardigan" had less numbers than "ME!" and "YNTCD" but it was able to get #1. U.S. Streams Cardigan: 1) 34 million | Rockstar: 3) 32.9 million ME!: 2) 50.7 million | Old Town Road: 1) 104 million YNTCD: 3) 39 million | Old Town Road: 1) 91.6 million Downloads Sold Cardigan: 1) 71,000 | Rockstar: 7) 10,000 ME!: 1) 193,000 | Old Town Road: 2) 78,000 YNTCD: 1) 79,000 | Old Town Road: 2) 59,000 Radio Airplay Cardigan: 12.7 million | Rockstar: 2) 67.9 million ME!: 13) 54.1 million | Old Town Road: 6) 67.7 million YNTCD: 50) 24.2 million | Old Town Road: 3) 95.8 million The streaming numbers for "Cardigan" and "Rockstar" were pretty close, so it looks like the number of downloads was how "Cardigan" got #1. To think if Taylor started the Lover Era, like her previous eras, in the summer, I think "ME!" would've gone to #1. And then "YNTCD" also would've gone to #1 in late fall. To go even further, if she didn't release "Ready For It" two weeks after "Look What You Made Me Do," I think "Ready For It" would've hit #1 when the video was released in October - I believe the song peaked at #4. To me, those three were Taylor's missed opportunities at getting #1 songs. But hindsight is 20/20. LOL

So close to beating Lover (21,000 in units and 64,000 in pure sales)! I wonder not having the album in stores affected the numbers one way or the other. Either way, these numbers are impressive! So proud of her. She consistently creates fantastic albums and her fans are willing to buy it - gotta keep the collection going. I bought the album off iTunes and I'm also going to buy the CD and maybe the vinyl. LOL Billboard: Taylor Swift Achieves Seventh No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart & Biggest Week of 2020 With 'Folklore' Seventh No. 1 Album: Folklore marks Swift’s seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, tying her with Janet Jackson for the third-most leaders among women in the history of the chart. Ahead of them on the leading ladies list are Barbra Streisand, with 11 No. 1s, and Madonna, with nine. Among all acts, The Beatles have the most No. 1 albums, with 19. Most No. 1 Debuts Among Women: All seven of Swift’s No. 1 albums have debuted at No. 1 -- a record among female artists. Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Madonna and Britney Spears are tied with the second-most debuts at No. 1 among women, with six each. (Beyoncé, Gaga and Spears each have a total of six No. 1 albums -- and all of them also debuted at No. 1. Meanwhile, six of Madonna's nine total No. 1s debuted atop the list.) Among all acts, Jay-Z has the most debuts at No. 1, with 14. All 14 of his No. 1 albums have debuted at No. 1. ‘Folklore’ Is Already 2020’s Top Selling Album: With 615,000 copies sold of Folklore in its first week, the album has already become 2020’s top selling album. It surpasses the previous top-seller, BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7, which has sold 574,000 since its release on Feb. 21.

Rolling Stone: Taylor Swift’s Cinematographer: How We Shot ‘Folklore’ Video During a Pandemic Vanity Fair: How Taylor Swift Directed a Music Video During the Coronavirus Pandemic So here are my rankings after one week, compared to listening to the album once: 1. exile (same) 2. august (same) 3. this is me trying (+1) 4. my tears ricochet (-1) 5. illicit affairs (same) 6. cardigan (+1) 7. mirrorball (+2) 8. epiphany (+3) 9. the 1 (+1) 10. betty (-4) 11. invisible string (+4) 12. the last great american dynasty (-4) 13. Seven (-1) 14. Peace (-1) 15. Mad woman (-1) 16. Hoax (same)

Trump just said he's banning TikTok. Let's see if/when this affects the charts.......until the next TikTok like app is created.

Yeah, stan culture is terrible and now it's so much worse thanks to social media. You can just look at any tweet from Chart Data and all the replies are basically fanbases trying to one-up each other with "look at how my favourite artist is better than yours" or "[artist] [song] [album] flopped" - it's so annoying. The latest thing I've noticed from stans is the altering of people's faces into these outrageous expressions - it's so creepy.