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 July 30, 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 | 1 | 8 | 1: One Dance |
| 2 | Twenty One Pilots | 4 | 3 | 6: Ride |
| 3 | Rihanna | 6 | 4 | 4: This Is What You Came For |
| 4 | Adele | 9 | 4 | 10: Send My Love (To Your New Lover) |
| 5 | ScHoolboy Q | 2 | 2 | 43:Β THat Part |
| 6 | Justin Bieber | 18 | 2 | 30:Β Love Yourself |
| 7 | BeyoncΓ© | 7 | 1 | 28: Sorry |
| 8 | Meghan Trainor | 13 | 2 | 15: Me Too |
| 9 | Justin Timberlake | β | 1 | 2: Canβt Stop The Feeling |
| 10 | Sia | 12 | 1 | 3:Β Cheap Thrills |
After last week’s big debut byΒ Blink-182, which momentarily brought back ’90s nostalgia, order on the Scoreboard is restored again asΒ DrakeΒ is back at #1 on the Billboard 200 and the Artist 100. The stats continue favoring @champagnepapi for artist of the year as he has now achieved 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 withΒ Views, 10 weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 with “One Dance,” 10 weeks at #1 on the Artist 100, and 15 weeks at #1 on the British charts, where he is approaching the modern-day singles record at #1Β currently held by Bryan Adams.
Elsewhere on the Artist 100,Β SiaΒ enters the Top 10 for the first time since February when her albumΒ This Is ActingΒ came out. Sia’s return is a result of the success of “Cheap Thrills,” which climbs to #3 on the Hot 100 on the heels of theΒ Sean Paul remix. This is the highest-charting single for Sia on the Hot 100 (previously her best was #5 withΒ Flo RidaΒ on “Wild Ones“) and a return to relevance for Sean Paul Henriques, who had three #1s in the 2000sΒ but has not been in the Top 10 since his guest appearance on Jay Sean‘sΒ “Do You Remember” in early 2010. Will @siathisisacting and @duttypaul make a move up on the Billboard Top 3 and get past Drake andΒ Justin Timberlake? Check the scoreboard next timeΒ to find out!
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Artist Spotlight: ScHoolboy Q
The major move of theΒ week on the Scoreboard comes fromΒ South Central Los Angeles nativeΒ ScHoolboy Q and his fourth albumΒ The Blank Face LP, which lands at #2 on the Billboard 200 and puts him at #5 on the Artist 100. The rapper, born Quincy Matthew Hanley,Β told NPR that although there once livedΒ a pimp in his Los Angeles neighborhoodΒ named Schoolboy, he got the name ScHoolboy Q for his academic and athletic achievements at Crenshaw High School. @groovyq also capitalizes the H in his name, in his songs, and in all his tweets for a few reasons, one of which is forΒ Black Hippy, the squad of West CoastΒ rappers that he belongs to, along withΒ Kendrick Lamar.
wHy my H always capitalized???? HIIIPOWER X HIPPY X HOOVER X HEAVEN & HELL AKA MY LIFE
— ScHoolboy Q (@ScHoolboyQ) September 30, 2011
THis is wHy tHe H is always capitalized
ScHoolboy Q’s biggest Billboard Hot 100 hits have been as a guest rapper: first on “White Walls” withΒ Macklemore & Ryan LewisΒ (#15) and then on “2 On” withΒ Tinashe (#24). As a lead artist he achieved a peak at #38 with his slow jam “Studio” in 2014, but this week @groovyq is nearing that career peak with the help ofΒ Kanye WestΒ on “THat Part,” which moves up the Hot 100 toΒ #43. On the track, Yeezy and @groovyq stunt over a menacing beat, with Pablo telling the listeners that he is a living legend likeΒ Kobe [Bryant] six times.Β Besides the bragging, Q’s album is full of modern gangsta tales, alluding to the “blank face” of a maskedΒ criminal on multiple songs, multipleΒ album covers, and multipleΒ musicΒ videos. Besides the Kanye get-together otherΒ Blank FaceΒ highlightsΒ include the old school memories ofΒ “John Muir” and the exasperatedΒ social commentaryΒ of “Neva Change,” which serves a reminder that @groovyq is not only aΒ gangsta storyteller, but also an active participant in theΒ tense conversation on race and police relations.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHr0-UfDqB8/?taken-by=groovyq&hl=en
EnougH people bought the Blank Face LP to get it on the Scoreboard
International Scoreboard: The Veronicas
You may remember the Veronicas as the Australian twin-sister duo who had a top 20Β hit on the Hot 100 with the steamy “Untouched” in the winter of 2008-09. SinceΒ 2009, Lisa and Jessica Origliasso have not made the American charts, but this summer they have already notched two weeks at #1 back homeΒ with “In My Blood,” which knocked out Drake’s “One Dance” from #1 in the land down under.
Check out the video for “In My Blood” below, which is the first single off of their forthcoming fourth album. The videoΒ is very red and violent, you know, like blood, and the song is pure modern eletropop, inspired by fellow Aussie pop queenΒ Kylie Minogue.Β The Scoreboard will keep you posted if the sisters break their U.S. drought with this new single, let us know what you think of it in the comments!
