Tuesday is new Billboard chart day each week! As all charts update each Tuesday morning, here’s a look at highlights of the latest rankings, dated July 18 and reflecting the July 3-9 measurement week, according to data tracker Luminate (or otherwise noted).
Among this week’s chart stars are Madonna, Ella Langley, late legend Toby Keith, Sienna Spiro and Zara Larsson.
Most notably, Madonna achieves her 10th Billboard 200 No. 1 with the arrival of Confessions II. Among other feats, she joins only The Beatles, Drake and Taylor Swift in having earned 10 or more No. 1s on both the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Hot 100. The album is the Queen of Pop’s first Billboard 200 leader since her last LP, Madame X, in 2019. She first reigned with Like a Virgin in 1985.
How best to describe the new set? One best person is best qualified to answer. “Killer,” Madonna recently told Interview, especially of the set’s potential as a workout soundtrack. “In fact, I curated the record based on how much it made me move.”
As for what has surely helped forge her legacy of topping Billboard charts over a span of more than 40 years? “Time’s precious,” she mused further. “What can I get done? What can I do?”
Check out more key highlights from this week’s Billboard charts below.
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Ella Langley
“Choosin’ Texas” tops the Hot 100 for a 13th week. Among songs by women with no male-billed acts, it’s one of just five to have reached that milestone, and the only one by an act known for primarily recording country music.
Browse every hit that has commanded the Hot 100 for 10 or more weeks here.
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Toby Keith
Following a festive Fourth of July and continued buzz surrounding the FIFA World Cup 2026, nine classics reenter the Hot 100. Keith leads the holiday haul, which also includes the returns of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Journey and John Denver.
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Shakira & Burna Boy
Image Credit: Tom Weller/picture alliance via Getty Images The pair’s “Dai Dai (FIFA World Cup Official Song 2026)” is the biggest song in the world, bounding two spots for its first week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200. It also holds for a third week atop the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart.
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Beyoncé
“Morning Dew (Donk),” Beyoncé’s first release since her 2024 album Cowboy Carter, debuts at No. 4 on Hot R&B Songs, No. 7 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs — where it’s her 33rd top 10 — and No. 26 on the Hot 100. Its official release July 4 follows a years-old leaked demo. The track, which drew 8.5 million U.S. streams through July 9, according to Luminate, introduces the 20th anniversary edition of the superstar’s LP B’Day, due Sept. 4.
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Ken Carson
The rapper earns his second Billboard 200 top 10 as xperiment enters at No. 7.
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Sienna Spiro
Image Credit: Mathias Apap/Courtesy Capitol The British singer-songwriter scores her first Billboard 200 top 10 as Visitor debuts at No. 9. The set includes soaring ballad “Die on This Hill,” which hit No. 19 on the Hot 100 in February. Her current promoted radio single has also gone top 10 on the Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay charts.
“It’s a song about being stubborn and caring, which I don’t think is spoken about too much,” Spiro told Billboard earlier this year. “There’s been this really big wave of nonchalance, of it being really cool to not care. I think a lot of people aren’t like that.”
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Zara Larsson
“Midnight Sun” rises to No. 1 on Hot Dance/Pop Songs, becoming Larsson’s second leader. It dethrones her “Stateside,” with PinkPantheress, after 19 weeks at the summit.
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Drake
Belying its title, “2 Hard 4 the Radio” becomes his record-extending 45th No. 1 on Rhythmic Airplay.
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Noah Kahan
Image Credit: Griffin Lotz/Rolling Stone Kahan is No. 1 for the fifth time overall, and in a row, on the Adult Alternative Airplay chart with “Doors.” His streak dates to 2023 via “Dial Drunk.” “Doors” is his second leader of 2026, after an 11-week command for “The Great Divide”; both are from The Great Divide, his fourth LP, which topped the Billboard 200 for three weeks in May and has spent its first 11 weeks in the top 10. Only two acts have linked more consecutive No. 1s — six each — at the rock radio format: Hozier (likewise an active run since 2023) and U2 (2001-05).
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David Benoit & Jeff Lorber
“Boarding Pass” flies to No. 1 on Smooth Jazz Airplay, becoming the genre stars’ fourth and sixth leaders, respectively.
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