Billboard Chart Highlights — Selected Weekly Summary

This week’s selected Billboard highlights feature several strong performances across multiple charts. Kelly Clarkson leads the pack with her album Piece by Piece claiming the top position on five separate charts. Carly Rae Jepsen scores a major social-media-driven milestone, while Lindsey Stirling and Carrie Underwood continue long-running runs on genre-specific charts. The items below summarize notable placements for artists connected to reality-TV competitions and other mainstream acts for the published chart date.

Top story: Kelly Clarkson’s Piece by Piece dominates five charts simultaneously, topping the BB200, Album Sales, Top Current Album, Digital Album and Internet Album charts. That multi-chart sweep marks a powerful entry week for her release.

Social traction: Canadian Idol alum Carly Rae Jepsen reaches No. 1 on the Billboard Twitter Top Tracks chart with “I Really Like You.” That chart ranks the most shared and mentioned songs on Twitter, reflecting strong social and viral engagement for the single.

Genre leaders: Lindsey Stirling’s Shatter Me continues to perform exceptionally in the classical crossover space, holding the No. 1 position on the Classical Crossover chart for its 30th week while the single “Shatter Me” returns to No. 1 on the Classical Digital chart for a 38th week. Carrie Underwood’s “Something in the Water” remains a dominant force on the Hot Christian Songs chart for a 23rd week and has returned to the top of both the Christian Digital Songs and Christian/Gospel Digital Song charts for a 21st week.

Context: Billboard tracks an enormous number of charts—approximately 51,198 across all genres and formats—so this summary highlights only a selection of those lists and how a range of reality-show alumni and contemporary artists performed this week. Feel free to share rankings from your favorite Billboard charts or other figures you follow; this is the daily numbers thread for the published chart date.

Artist snapshots:

Bea Miller
“Young Blood” — Dance Club Songs: No. 4 (previously No. 5)

Canaan Smith
“Love You Like That” — Country Airplay: No. 27 (previously No. 26); Country Songs: No. 28 (previously No. 27)

Carly Rae Jepsen
“I Really Like You” — Hot 100: No. 48 (NEW); Digital Songs: No. 31 (NEW); Streaming Songs: No. 33 (NEW)
Artist chart: No. 69 (NEW)

Carrie Underwood
Greatest Hits: Decade #1 — BB200: No. 40 (previously No. 39); Top Album Sales: No. 49 (previously No. 47); Country Albums: No. 5 (unchanged)
“Little Toy Guns” — Country Songs: No. 26 (previously No. 31); Country Airplay: No. 23 (previously No. 27)
“Something in the Water” — Country Songs: No. 23 (previously No. 22); Hot Christian Songs: No. 1 (unchanged); Christian Airplay/Christian AC (CAC): No. 28 (previously No. 29)
“How Great Thou Art” (with Vince Gill) — Hot Christian Songs: No. 39 (previously No. 44)
Artist chart: No. 59 (previously No. 61)
Social chart: No. 47 (NEW)

Chase Rice
“Ignite the Night” — BB200: No. 61 (previously No. 59); Top Album Sales: No. 60 (previously No. 55); Independent Albums: No. 11 (previously No. 10); Country Albums: No. 7 (previously No. 6)
“Gonna Wanna Tonight” — Country Airplay: No. 40 (unchanged); Country Songs: No. 48 (re-entry)
“Ride” — Country Songs: No. 40 (previously No. 45)

Danny Gokey
Hope In Front of Me — Christian Albums: No. 48 (previously No. 44)
“More Than You Think I Am” — Hot Christian Songs: No. 21 (previously No. 25); CAC: No. 26 (previously No. 27)

Ella Henderson
Chapter One — BB200: No. 74 (previously No. 63)
“Ghost” — Hot 100: No. 34 (previously No. 29); Digital Songs: No. 29 (previously No. 27); Radio Songs: No. 22 (previously No. 17); HAC: No. 5 (previously No. 7); Pop Songs: No. 17 (previously No. 13); AC: No. 19 (previously No. 22)
Artist chart: No. 54 (previously No. 49)

Fifth Harmony
Reflection — BB200: No. 42 (previously No. 43); Top Album Sales: No. 73 (previously No. 78)
“Sledgehammer” — Hot 100: No. 98 (previously No. 91)
“Worth It” (ft. Kid Ink) — Hot 100: No. 92 (re-entry); Pop Songs: No. 39 (NEW)
Artist chart: No. 70 (previously No. 71)

Jackie Evancho
Awakening — Classical Crossover: No. 6 (previously No. 5)

Jennifer Hudson
Featured on Gorgon City’s “Go All Night” — Dance Club Songs: No. 47 (previously No. 38)

Kelly Clarkson
Piece by Piece — BB200: No. 1 (NEW); Top Album Sales: No. 1 (NEW); Digital Albums: No. 1 (NEW); Internet Albums: No. 1 (NEW)
Greatest Hits: Chapter 1 — BB200: No. 122 (re-entry)
“Heartbeat Song” — Hot 100: No. 21 (previously No. 37); Radio Songs: No. 27 (previously No. 31); Digital Songs: No. 21 (previously No. 32); Pop Songs: No. 21 (previously No. 22); HAC: No. 10 (unchanged); AC: No. 9 (unchanged); Dance Club Songs: No. 42 (NEW); On-Demand streaming: No. 37 (NEW)
Artist chart: No. 5 (previously No. 48)

Lindsey Stirling
Shatter Me (album) — Independent Albums: No. 29 (previously No. 35); Classical Crossover: No. 1 (unchanged)

Lucy Hale
Social chart: No. 20 (previously No. 21)

Olly Murs
“Wrapped Up” (ft. Travie McCoy) — Pop Songs: No. 40 (NEW)

One Direction
Four — BB200: No. 41 (previously No. 38); Top Album Sales: No. 64 (previously No. 54)
Midnight Memories — BB200: No. 198 (previously No. 180)
“Night Changes” — Hot 100: No. 54 (previously No. 52); Radio Songs: No. 42 (previously No. 48); Pop Songs: No. 15 (previously No. 16); HAC: No. 24 (unchanged); AC: No. 29 (previously No. 30)
Social chart: No. 23 (previously No. 25)
Artist chart: No. 29 (previously No. 33)

The Swon Brothers
The Swon Brothers — Country Albums: No. 38 (re-entry)
“Pray for You” — Country Airplay: No. 44 (previously No. 43)

Tori Kelly
“Nobody Love” — Hot 100: No. 79 (previously No. 89); Pop Songs: No. 24 (previously No. 25)

Notes: HAC refers to the Adult Top 40 (also known as Hot Adult Contemporary). “Digital” references Digital Songs. Positions shown include current rank followed by the previous week’s rank in parentheses when available. This summary focuses on selected charts and updates; it is not an exhaustive list of all Billboard chart activity for the date of publication.