Stephen Thompson
Appearances
NPR News Now
NPR News: 11-12-2024 9PM EST
Last year, Morgan Wallen's song, Last Night, posted 16 weeks at number one, the longest run of any song this decade. Last week, Shabuzy pulled into a tie.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 11-12-2024 9PM EST
Now, a bar song has the decade's longest run so far, and it's two weeks from tying the all-time chart record set by Lil Nas X's Old Town Road featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.
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NPR News: 11-12-2024 9PM EST
But holiday competition's coming. If Shibuzi can fend off Mariah Carey and Brenda Lee in the weeks to come, he'll have earned the all-time record with bragging rights to spare. Stephen Thompson, NPR News.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 01-29-2025 7PM EST
While he was alive, Mac Miller released a string of top ten albums, six in all. In the years following his death in 2018, Miller hasn't lost his impact on the Billboard charts. His first posthumous album, Circles, hit the top five back in 2020. Five years later, Miller's estate released a follow-up album. It's a project the late rapper worked on more than a decade ago, but shelved for years.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 01-29-2025 7PM EST
Fans' appetite for Mac Miller's music hasn't waned. Balloonerism enters this week's Billboard album chart at number three, behind only Bad Bunny and SZA. Stephen Thompson, NPR News.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-19-2025 7PM EST
Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us is the number one song in the country after more than six months away from the top spot.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-19-2025 7PM EST
Zooming from number 15 to number 1 on the strength of the rapper's recent Super Bowl halftime show. The chart surge extends well beyond that one Grammy-winning hit. Lamar has the week's top three songs as well as number five.
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NPR News: 02-19-2025 7PM EST
Over on the albums chart, Kendrick Lamar's album GNX returns to number one, while two of his older albums, Damn and Good Kid, Mad City, return to the top ten for the first time in years. Stephen Thompson, NPR News.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-19-2025 7PM EST
He's a very bad person, needs to be stopped. He's going to metastasize across Europe if we don't.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-05-2025 7PM EST
Last week, Drake and Kendrick Lamar's rivalry played out one more time, this time in the race to claim the number one album in the country. Drake won that battle. A week later, they're both looking up at a new number one album, So Close to What, by the Canadian pop singer and dancer Tate McRae. It debuts at the top of this week's albums chart.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-05-2025 7PM EST
Tate McRae also landed 11 songs on this week's Hot 100 singles chart, but there Kendrick Lamar is still on top. Luther, featuring SZA, is the number one song in the country for a second straight week. Stephen Thompson, NPR News.