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:Β 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:Β Closer |
| 6 | Ariana Grande | 14 | 1 | 13:Β Into You |
| 7 | Shawn Mendes | 84 | 1 | 12: Treat You Better |
| 8 | Justin Bieber | 27 | 3 | 3:Β Cold Water |
| 9 | Justin Moore | 4 | 2 | 79:Β You Look Like I Need A Drink |
| 10 | Meghan Trainor | 16 | 1 | 25:Β Me Too |
As we enter the final stretchΒ of summer ’16,Β DrakeΒ remains at #1 on theΒ Artist 100. It is his 15th week on top in 2016 and we do not need anΒ algorithm to crown him #1 on the Scoreboard for the summer. Nonetheless @champagnepapiΒ will need to performΒ through the competitive fall season to finish asΒ the #1 artist of the year.
This week’s biggest debut is by country singerΒ Justin Moore who comes in at #9 on the heels of his fourth albumΒ Kinda Don’t Care.Β With songs like “You Look Like I Need A Drink” and “More Middle Fingers”Β @justincolemoore don’t care about what people think of him and his songs, except when he kinda does, likeΒ when he lands in the Artist Top 10Β on the Scoreboard.
The biggest event of the week is on the Billboard Hot 100 where there is a new #1.Β SiaΒ andΒ Sean Paul led the chart for the past four weeks with “Cheap Thrills,” but that run has been finished asΒ theΒ Chainsmokers ft.Β HalseyΒ take #1 withΒ “Closer,” which only came ontoΒ the ScoreboardΒ two weeks ago. The achievement is especially impressiveΒ because the NYC DJs defended againstΒ two major EDM releases by Major Lazer andΒ 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 highlightedΒ Ariana Grande‘s strong performance on the Scoreboard all summer and this week we go from the Arianators to the Megatronz.Β 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 albumΒ Thank You, which came out in May.
While @arianagrandeΒ was awarded the Breakthrough Artist of the Year award for 2013, @meghan_trainor receivedΒ it for 2014, andΒ both have been living up to high expectations in summer ’16. However, while AriΒ has been all about that voice, Trainor continues to be all about that bass. Well, kinda. Musically,Β Thank YouΒ took Trainor’s pop in a contemporary direction, mostly abandoningΒ the 1950’s and 1960’s nostalgia tunes of her first album that all sound like “Runaround Sue.”Β What we get from the new Meghan is a mix of goofy pop (see: βMe Tooβ), toe dipping into hip-hop (see: βNoβ), and maudlin tributes to her mom and her fans. The Megatronz are not only fans of Trainorβs music, but also fans of her message of female empowerment, which embraces all body types and shapes. Last year, she told The Daily News βIβm not trying to bash skinny peopleβ¦Iβm just promoting loving your curves and being confident in your own skin,β and this year she pulled the original version of the βMe Tooβ music video after discovering that the video editors digitally slimmed her waist.
Hate it or love it, the message of βall about that bassβ has become Trainorβs theme song for her career. The Scoreboard will keep track of @meghan_trainorΒ stats into the fall –Β Thank You third single βBetterβ ft. Yo Gotti drops this coming week, look for it!
Get readyΒ 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 familyβs soca band. However, since her breakthrough in 2014, Meghan has gained legions of Megatronz globally. βAll About That Bassβ 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 β the John Legend collaboration βLike Iβm Gonna Lose Youβ topped the charts in both Australia and New Zealand, while the playful βMarvin Gayeβ with Charlie Puth also went to the top in New Zealand, as well as in Britain, France, and Ireland. Letβs Marvin Gaye then with Meghanβs second biggest hit of her career:
