Harry Types’ ‘As It Was’ Launches at No. 1 on Billboard Scorching 100

Harry Types‘ “As It Was” soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 songs chart.

The observe opens as Types’ second Scorching 100 chief, and his first to debut at No. 1, after “Watermelon Sugar” rose to the highest for every week in August 2020.

“As It Was” can also be the primary track to debut at No. 1 on the Scorching 100 by any act in 2022, and bows with the largest streaming week tallied this 12 months.

The Scorching 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and gross sales information. All charts (dated April 16, 2022) will replace on Billboard.com Tuesday (April 12). For all chart information, you possibly can comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.

“As It Was” was launched Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m. ET on Erskine/Columbia Information. It’s the primary single from Types’ third album, Harry’s Home, due Could 20. His eponymous first LP debuted atop the Billboard 200 albums chart in June 2017 and Positive Line likewise launched at No. 1 in December 2019 and led for 2 weeks.

“As It Was” turns into the 1,one hundred and thirty fifth No. 1 within the Scorching 100’s 63-year historical past, and the 59th to enter on prime.

Streams, airplay, & gross sales: “As It Was” debuts with 43.8 million streams, 27.2 million radio airplay viewers impressions and 10,300 downloads bought within the April 1-7 monitoring week, in accordance with Luminate, previously MRC Knowledge. (On its March 31 launch day, the track drew 3 million streams and 1.4 million in radio attain and bought 3,500.)

The observe opens at No. 1 on Streaming Songs, the place it’s Types’ first chief (and first prime 10), with the most effective streaming week tallied in 2022. It lands the largest body since Brenda Lee’s chestnut “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree” topped the Jan. 1 tally (encompassing the Dec. 17-23, 2021, monitoring week) with 47.5 million streams. “As It Was” boasts probably the most streams for a track in its first full week since Adele’s “Simple on Me” drew 53.9 million in its first full body, as mirrored on the Oct. 30, 2021, chart.

“As It Was” posts the largest streaming week for a track by a male since Drake’s “Approach 2 Horny,” that includes Future and Younger Thug, roared in with 67.3 million (atop the Sept. 18, 2021, rating).

“As It Was” leaps 16-2 on Digital Track Gross sales, marking Types’ fifth prime 10, and debuts at No. 19 on Radio Songs. On the latter listing, the bow is the most effective since “Simple on Me” made a report arrival at No. 4. It’s the best for a male in a lead function since Eminem’s “Simply Lose It” charged in at No. 17 on the Oct. 9, 2004, chart.

Types’ second No. 1: “As It Was” follows “Watermelon Sugar” as Types’ second Scorching 100 No. 1. The latter accomplished a 20-week journey to the highest on the Aug. 15, 2020, chart.

Types provides his fourth Scorching 100 prime 10. “Signal of the Occasions” bounded in at No. 4 (his earlier finest place to begin), its peak, in April 2017 and “Adore You” climbed to No. 6 in April 2020.

1D solo No. 1s: Due to “As It Was” and “Watermelon Sugar,” Types is the primary member of One Path to tally a number of Scorching 100 No. 1s. He one-ups Zayn, whose “Pillowtalk” dominated in its debut week (Feb. 20, 2016).

Sparking historical past, Types and Zayn make One Path the primary group with two members which have debuted at No. 1 on the Scorching 100 with solo songs.

One Path, which Zayn departed in 2015 and is on an indefinite break, has charted six Scorching 100 prime 10s, reaching a No. 2 excessive with “Greatest Track Ever” in August 2013. The group has scored 4 No. 1s on the Billboard 200.

Glass Animals’ “Warmth Waves” descends to No. 2 after 5 weeks atop the Scorching 100. The observe provides a fifth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (63.3 million, down 2%); dips from its No. 3 excessive to No. 4 on Streaming Songs (15 million, up 1%); and jumps 24-13, returning to its finest rank, on Digital Track Gross sales (4,100, up 45%, good for the Scorching 100’s prime Gross sales Gainer award), after the band was nominated for finest new artist on the Grammy Awards, held April 3.

Again-to-back British No. 1s: Notably, Types — born in Redditch, Worcestershire, England — and Glass Animals, who fashioned in Oxford, England, mix for the primary set of back-to-back Scorching 100 No. 1s by British acts in lead roles in over 30 years. They comply with George Michael and Elton John, whose “Don’t Let the Solar Go Down Me” topped the Feb. 1, 1992, chart and was supplanted by Proper Mentioned Fred’s “I’m Too Horny,” which started a three-week reign on the Feb. 8 survey.

British acts at Nos. 1 and a pair of: In the meantime, British acts add extra highlights, holding the highest two spots on the Scorching 100 concurrently for the primary time in over 5 years, with the final such incidence additionally invoking a One Path member gone solo. On the March 4, 2017, chart, Ed Sheeran’s “Form of You” notched its fourth of 12 weeks at No. 1 and Zayn’s “I Don’t Wanna Dwell Eternally (Fifty Shades Darker),” with Taylor Swift, rose to its No. 2 peak.

“Warmth Waves” concurrently guidelines the Scorching Rock & Different Songs and Scorching Different Songs charts, each of which use the identical multi-metric methodology because the Scorching 100, for a twenty ninth week every.

Latto’s “Massive Power” holds at its No. 3 Scorching 100 excessive. It turns into her first No. 1 on Digital Track Gross sales (12,600, down 2%) and surges 6-3 on Radio Songs (58.3 million, up 12%) and 14-6 on Streaming Songs (11 million, up 16%), because it wins the Scorching 100’s prime Airplay and Streaming Gainer ribbons for a second straight week. The April 1-7 monitoring week displays the primary full body following the March 28 arrival of the track’s remix with Mariah Carey and that includes DJ Khaled. (Carey and DJ Khaled stay not listed on “Massive Power” on the Scorching 100, because the remix didn’t account for almost all of the track’s total consumption throughout the monitoring week.) Carey sings a portion of her 1995 eight-week No. 1 “Fantasy” within the remix; each songs interpolate Tom Tom Membership’s basic “Genius of Love,” which hit No. 31 on the Scorching 100 in April 1982.

“Massive Power” additionally crowns the multi-metric Scorching R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Scorching Rap Songs charts for a second week every.

The Child LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Keep” slips 2-4 on the Scorching 100, after seven weeks at No. 1. Because the observe has spent all 39 of its weeks on the Scorching 100 within the prime 10, courting to its entrance at No. 3 on the July 24, 2021, chart, it passes Submit Malone’s “Circles” for the longest consecutive run within the prime 10 from a debut; “Circles” logged its first 38 weeks on the listing within the tier in 2019-20.

Think about Dragons and JID’s “Enemy” retains at its No. 5 Scorching 100 excessive; Kodak Black’s “Tremendous Gremlin” drops 4-6 after reaching No. 3; and Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” retreats 6-7 after hitting No. 5.

Doja Cat’s “Girl” rises 10-8 for a brand new Scorching 100 finest. It leads the multi-metric Scorching R&B Songs chart for a sixth week.

Rounding out the Scorching 100’s prime 10, GAYLE’s “abcdefu” falls 7-9, after reaching No. 3, and Lil Nas X’s “Thats What I Need” backtracks 9-10, after hitting No. 8.

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