Every week, Scoreboard brings The Knockturnal readers the 411 on who is moving up and down the charts in the U.S., with an artist feature and a check-in on the international Scoreboard.
Billboard Artist Top 10
For the magazine dated September 3, 2016
See the full chart at http://www.billboard.com/charts/artist-100
| Billboard Artist Top 10 | Name | Billboard 200 Album Rank | Billboard Hot 100 Singles | Highest Charting Single |
| 1 | Drake | 2 | 9 | 7: One Dance |
| 2 | Twenty One Pilots | 5 | 3 | 4:ย Heathens |
| 3 | Rihanna | 9 | 5 | 5: This Is What You Came For |
| 4 | Adele | 8 | 1 | 10: Send My Love (To Your New Lover) |
| 5 | Chainsmokers | 145 | 2 | 1:ย Closer |
| 6 | Ariana Grande | 14 | 1 | 13:ย Into You |
| 7 | Shawn Mendes | 84 | 1 | 12: Treat You Better |
| 8 | Justin Bieber | 27 | 3 | 3:ย Cold Water |
| 9 | Justin Moore | 4 | 2 | 79:ย You Look Like I Need A Drink |
| 10 | Meghan Trainor | 16 | 1 | 25:ย Me Too |
As we enter the final stretchย of summer ’16,ย Drakeย remains at #1 on theย Artist 100. It is his 15th week on top in 2016 and we do not need anย algorithm to crown him #1 on the Scoreboard for the summer. Nonetheless @champagnepapiย will need to performย through the competitive fall season to finish asย the #1 artist of the year.
This week’s biggest debut is by country singerย Justin Moore who comes in at #9 on the heels of his fourth albumย Kinda Don’t Care.ย With songs like “You Look Like I Need A Drink” and “More Middle Fingers”ย @justincolemoore don’t care about what people think of him and his songs, except when he kinda does, likeย when he lands in the Artist Top 10ย on the Scoreboard.
The biggest event of the week is on the Billboard Hot 100 where there is a new #1.ย Siaย andย Sean Paul led the chart for the past four weeks with “Cheap Thrills,” but that run has been finished asย theย Chainsmokers ft.ย Halseyย take #1 withย “Closer,” which only came ontoย the Scoreboardย two weeks ago. The achievement is especially impressiveย because the NYC DJs defended againstย two major EDM releases by Major Lazer andย DJ Snake, both featuring Justin Bieber, to take the #1 spot in America.
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This week, @thechainsmokers and @iamhalsey get their first Billboard #1s
Artist Spotlight: Meghan Trainor
Last week we highlightedย Ariana Grande‘s strong performance on the Scoreboard all summer and this week we go from the Arianators to the Megatronz.ย Meghan Trainor has been in the Artist Top 10 for 21 of the last 24 weeks on the heels of the success of her second albumย Thank You, which came out in May.
While @arianagrandeย was awarded the Breakthrough Artist of the Year award for 2013, @meghan_trainor receivedย it for 2014, andย both have been living up to high expectations in summer ’16. However, while Ariย has been all about that voice, Trainor continues to be all about that bass. Well, kinda. Musically,ย Thank Youย took Trainor’s pop in a contemporary direction, mostly abandoningย the 1950’s and 1960’s nostalgia tunes of her first album that all sound like “Runaround Sue.”ย What we get from the new Meghan is a mix of goofy pop (see: โMe Tooโ), toe dipping into hip-hop (see: โNoโ), and maudlin tributes to her mom and her fans. The Megatronz are not only fans of Trainorโs music, but also fans of her message of female empowerment, which embraces all body types and shapes. Last year, she told The Daily News โIโm not trying to bash skinny peopleโฆIโm just promoting loving your curves and being confident in your own skin,โ and this year she pulled the original version of the โMe Tooโ music video after discovering that the video editors digitally slimmed her waist.
Hate it or love it, the message of โall about that bassโ has become Trainorโs theme song for her career. The Scoreboard will keep track of @meghan_trainorย stats into the fall –ย Thank You third single โBetterโ ft. Yo Gotti drops this coming week, look for it!
Get readyย NYC, meghan_trainor is coming September 8th
International Scoreboard: Meghan Trainor
Meghan Trainor is not international, she is from Massachusetts and spent her pre-teen and teen years singing and performing in her familyโs soca band. However, since her breakthrough in 2014, Meghan has gained legions of Megatronz globally. โAll About That Bassโ went to #1 in 13 countries tracked by ACharts, and beyond that, Trainor picked up two additional #1s outside the U.S. Both were soulful duets from 2015 โ the John Legend collaboration โLike Iโm Gonna Lose Youโ topped the charts in both Australia and New Zealand, while the playful โMarvin Gayeโ with Charlie Puth also went to the top in New Zealand, as well as in Britain, France, and Ireland. Letโs Marvin Gaye then with Meghanโs second biggest hit of her career:
