Dance Moves: Beyoncé's ‘Renaissance' Surges After Tour Kickoff, Gryffin & PinkPantheress Debut Songs
This week (on charts dated May 10), Beyoncé, Gryffin, PinkPantheress and others achieve new feats. Check out key movers below.
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Beyoncé's 2022 LP Renaissance rises 8-5 on the Top Dance Albums chart, earning 6,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the April 25-May 1 tracking week (up 26%), according to Luminate, as the superstar kicked off her Cowboy Carter Tour April 28 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. While the setlist primarily highlights her 2024 country album Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé included several Renaissance tracks during the tour's first three shows (all at SoFi), including 'America Has a Problem,' 'My House,' 'Cuff It' and 'Alien Superstar.'
The album wasn't Beyoncé's only beneficiary: Her entire solo catalog sports gains following the tour's launch. Her catalog raked in 57 million official U.S. streams during the tracking week, up 18% from the 48.3 million streams the week before. Cowboy Carter had the largest gains and surges 193-64 on the Billboard 200 with a 73% increase in units.
Gryffin, Excision and Julia Michaels' new collaboration, 'Air,' debuts at No. 25 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, fueled entirely by its 620,000 first-week streams. The track arrived April 25 via 10K Projects.
'Air' earns Gryffin his 38th career entry on the chart, and his second of 2025, after 'In My Head,' with Kaskade and Nu-La, peaked at No. 15 in February. It also becomes Excision's 10th entry and Michaels' fifth.
PinkPantheress lands her second entry on the Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart with 'Stateside.' Released April 25 on Parlophone/Elektra/Atlantic Records, the track debuts at No. 11 and joins her previous single, 'Tonight,' which ranks at No. 13 after debuting at No. 5 in April. Both songs are set to appear on her second mixtape, Fancy That, a nine-track project due out Friday (May 9).
PinkPantheress previously charted two tracks on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs: 'Way Back' with Skrillex and Trippie Redd (No. 13 in January 2023), and Kaytranada's 'Snap My Finger,' on which she's featured (No. 40 last June). Her breakthrough collaboration with Ice Spice, 'Boy's a Liar, Pt. 2,' climbed to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2023.
MEDUZA, Innellea and GENESI's 'Edge of the World,' featuring Nu-La, debuts at No. 33 on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, marking the highest new entry of the week. It gained by 33% in plays among 24/7 dance reporters and pop stations' mix show hours.
The release marks a milestone for Italian house group MEDUZA, which scores its 10th career entry and first since 'Another World,' with HAYLA, hit No. 1 in December, becoming the act's third leader. It's also the first entry for both Innellea and GENESI and the second for Nu-La, whose 'In My Head,' with Gryffin and Kaskade, rises to a new No. 14 high.
In a fun twist, the chart's second-highest debut is the similarly titled 'End of the World' — Miley Cyrus' latest single. It enters at No. 35 with a 30% gain in plays, becoming her 12th career hit on the chart.
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