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So it might not be obvious, but I've had a fucking miserable night trying to get all of this put together. Jesus Fucking CHRIST, YouT...

So regardless of any scattered tidbits of information we might get the next week or two, I'm at least confident that this week is...

Well, this was... actually pretty enjoyable to assemble, not a bad week and I expecting WAY worse. Next up, clipping - stay tuned!

You know, it's probably good that I didn't predict this, it would have made the past week all the more dispiriting going into the ...

I did not expect this week to be that tumultuous. Granted, a major part of this comes from the minor album bomb courtesy of Summer Walker ...

Yeah, long and tough episode, messy situation. Anyway, next up is Alex Cameron, so stay tuned!

So I'll be honest: when I created my album bomb rules, there inevitably were going to be projects that just skirt around them - it has...

I really need to be better at posting these things on a timely basis...  Anyway, going to be deviating from my schedule a bit, I think ...

...well, okay, I can't say I didn't predict this would happen. I knew that eventually the drought on mainstream album releases wou...

And here we are, Billboard BREAKDOWN back on regular schedule - enjoy!

...you couldn't have saved the cooldown week for when I was on vacation? Seriously? Not that i'm complaining much - there wasn...

So I've said a number of times that the most interesting weeks on the Hot 100 are not those of the album bombs, but the week right aft...

So I thought I was going to be ahead of schedule getting this up last night... and then goddamn WMG claimed a clip and blocked it in all ...

And now we have round two, the second record-breaking album bomb in as many weeks and one from an arguably worse record... and yet somehow...

So yeah, crazy busy episode, but it seems like it's going down well, so enjoy!

There are a lot of narratives that need to be considered going into this week, most of which I predicted and those that I didn't I...

My God, this was a weird week... honestly not a terrible week, but overall, I'm going to cherish what I have here before XXXTENTACION...

You know, there's a part of me that's really getting sick of the streaming album bombs, mostly because it feels like it makes cove...

My god, this was a messy week... and honestly, I think the thumbnail kind of captures that, admittedly not one of my best.  Next up... ...

It feels weird when, for once, my predictions are actually mostly right on the money. Granted, they were pretty obvious predictions in who...