Dermot Kennedy has made history on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart dated April 10 with his new album, The Weight of the Woods.

By landing the top spot, Kennedy is the first Irish solo artist to have each of his first three studio albums score the No. 1 placement. This week’s achievement follows the 2019 debut Without Fear and 2023’s Sonder to rule the U.K. charts.

In its second week, RAYE’s This Music May Contain Hope slips just one place to No. 2. The epic 17-track LP gave the British star her first U.K. No. 1 album. The set landed at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 in its opening week.

Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is at No. 3, while her song “Rein Me In” with Sam Fender is at No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart. 

Harry Styles’ Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally rises two places to No. 4. On Friday (April 10), the LP was named the U.K.’s biggest album of 2026 so far, amassing 226,000 combined chart units since its release in March.

Fresh from the opening night of its global tour, BTS’ recent chart-topper ARIRANG is at No. 5. The group kicked off its upcoming 85-date tour in Goyang, South Korea, on Thursday (April 9) before hitting North America on April 25.

Arlo Parks has earned her third top 40 record with Ambiguous Desire at No. 11. The Londoner won the Mercury Prize in 2021 with Collapsed in Sunbeams (No. 3) and released its follow-up My Soft Machine in 2023 (No. 9).

Kehlani and Missy Elliott aren’t afraid to indulge in a little “Back and Forth” on the “Folded” singer’s sensual new single. The track from Kehlani’s upcoming self-titled album due out on April 24 is the latest preview of the two-time Grammy winner’s fifth album, the follow-up to 2024’s Crash.

It finds Kehlani in their signature lights-low R&B groove, with Elliott kicking thing off with some bold bars, boasting, “You know it’s some hot s–t/ Let me say what I’m gon’ say, let me stay on the topic/ Girl, woman, I do what I wanna do/ Why you trippin’ when I come right home to you?” over the song’s languorous beat before Kehlani steps in on the whispery first verse.

“Why you so quiet?/ The silence hit like sirens/ If looks could kill, well then, tonight might get violent/ When the fit too fire, you always get too firin’,” Kehlani sings as Elliott interjects some of her signature excitable “woo”‘s to punctuate the affair.

The pre-chorus amps up the heat, with Kehlani singing, “And by-y-y-y-y/ By doing this later, I do us a favor / And by-y-y-y-y/ Don’t ruin my makeup, be there when you wake up,” before dipping into the singsongy chorus that pays homage to Elliott’s legendary late friend and collaborator Aaliyah’s 1994 debut hit single “Back & Forth.”

“I ain’t goin’ back and forth tonight, I’m goin’ out/ I ain’t goin’ back and forth tonight, I’m goin’ out/ It’s last call, you the last thing on my mind,” Kehlani croons on the refrain. By the time Elliott gets to her verse, she’s heated when a man tries to tell her how to present herself in a sassy back-and-forth that ends with an explicit shoutout to Aaliyah.

“Ayo, where you goin’?/ I’m going out, what you mean?/ Oh, yeah, with who?/ I’m going out, I’m ’bout to leave/ And you wearing that?/ Yeah, I’m grown, not a teen/ Who you riding with?/ I’m ’bout to drop my Lamborghini,” Elliott raps. “N–ga, I ain’t doing this tonight/ I’m ’bout to drive off, oh, you mad? Yeah, aight/ You know I be home, I’ma see ya when I see ya/ All that back, back and forth got me feeling like Aaliyah.”

The new song comes after an epic run for Kehlani in 2025, which included the crossover anthem “Folded,” which landed the singer several chart milestones, with the track peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking her first top 10 on that singles chart. The song also hit No. 1 on three other Billboard charts: Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and Rhythmic Airplay. Another single released last year, “Out the Window,” reached the top 10 of the Rhythmic Airplay and Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop Songs charts.

Kehlani will be receive the Impact Award at Billboard Women in Music 2026, which will take place on April 29 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. They will also do a special performance at the event hosted by Keke Palmer.

Listen to “Back and Forth” below.

British singer-songwriter-producer Raye has walked a winding road through the music industry over the past decade. Signed to a major label a decade ago as an artist, she subsequently had a string of successes as a songwriter for artists like Beyoncé and John Legend and as a collaborator with the likes of David Guetta and Charli xcx before going independent, signing with distribution company Human Re Sources and releasing her debut indie project My 21st Century Blues in 2023. 

Since then, her trajectory has been on a big upswing: the success of Blues led to a Grammy nomination for best new artist in 2025, where she stole the show at the ceremony with a rendition of “Oscar Winning Tears,” and the subsequent release of her second album, THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE, and its breakout single “Where Is My Husband?” This week, HOPE debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 and “Husband” reached No. 11 on the Hot 100, both career-high marks for Raye — feats which earn Human Re Sources founder/CEO J Erving the title of Billboard’s Executive of the Week.

Here, Erving talks about Raye’s success as an independent artist, how he’s built Human Re Sources over the past seven years and how he navigates the indie music world. “My goal isn’t to compete, my goal is to move culture,” he says. “And I feel like if we continue to move culture in a space that’s becoming more crowded by the day, we can continue to have success.”

This week, Raye’s new album THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE debuted in the top 10 on four different Billboard charts, and hit No. 11 on the Billboard 200, a career high for her. What key decision did you make to help make that happen?

Raye is the decision maker. Our role and responsibility is to support her decisions and help bring them to life. She knew exactly what she wanted when making “Where Is My Husband” and delivered a classic album.

At the same time, this week her single “Where Is My Husband?” reached No. 11 on the Hot 100, her first top 20 single and the highest mark of her career to date. How have you guys helped push that single ahead of the album, and after the album’s release?

Raye had the vision for “Where Is My Husband.” She introduced the record on her socials, explained what it meant to her and showed fans how to connect with it. We followed her lead and helped amplify what she set in motion.

With this album, as well as her best new artist nomination at the Grammy Awards last year, Raye has truly made the transition from hit songwriter to hit artist — a crossover that many have tried, but that is notoriously difficult to achieve. How did you help her make that shift and really succeed?

Raye’s first big record from “My 21st Century Blues” came almost three years ago, and that really set the foundation for this next chapter. The hard work, the live performances, the authenticity, everything she brings, it’s always been bigger than one song. Again, Raye is an independent artist, and she’s driving this.

You’ve had Human Re Sources for seven years now. How has the company grown and evolved over that time period?

We try to stay close to the artist. As we’ve grown, the team has grown with it. We’re learning every day, figuring out how to move within the new music business model and staying connected to artists that mean something to us, from Brent [Faiyaz] to Pink Sweat$ to Raye to Jill Scott and more to come. 

What does the future hold for both Raye and Human Re Sources?

There’s no ceiling to what Raye is capable of as she continues to grow and evolve, we grow alongside her at Human Re-Sources.

Josiah Queen earns his first No. 1 on the Top Gabb Music Songs chart, topping the March 2026-dated ranking with “Demons.”

Billboard has partnered with Gabb Wireless, a phone company for kids and teens, to present a monthly chart, which launched in October 2024, tracking on-demand streams via its Gabb Music platform. Gabb Music offers a vast catalog of songs, all of which are selected by the Gabb team to include only kid- and teen-appropriate content. Gabb Music streams are not currently factored into any other Billboard charts.

“Demons” has experienced quite the rise on Top Gabb Music Songs since its debut. It bowed at No. 4 in January despite being released halfway through the month (Jan. 16) and zoomed to No. 2 for February.

The track becomes the second religious song to reign on Top Gabb Music Songs, following the three-month rule of Forrest Frank’s “Your Way’s Better” from April through June last year.

“Demons” is Queen’s top-performing entry on Billboard’s weekly Top Christian Songs chart to date, achieving a No. 2 best on the March 7-dated survey and remaining in the top five since.

Queen appears three times on March’s Top Gabb Music Songs, tying NF for the most entries for the month. “Dusty Bibles” (No. 7) joins “Demons” in the top 10, while “Judas” is the list’s lone debut, bowing at No. 17 following its March 20 release.

“Demons” takes over No. 1 from Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” which led Top Gabb Music Songs for four months (November-February), the most for any song yet. “Ordinary” drops to No. 2, followed by Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” at a new No. 3 high, up from No. 16 in February; the latter has spent five weeks at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 as well as 19 weeks atop Hot Country Songs.

“Choosin’ Texas” is one of two songs that hit Top Gabb Music Songs’ top 10 for the first time. The other is Vance Joy’s “Riptide,” which zooms nine positions to No. 8. Released in 2013, “Riptide” hit No. 30 on the Hot 100 in January 2015.

See the full chart below.

Top Gabb Music Songs

DROPS: “Golden Boy,” Freya Skye; “Butterfly Effect,” Travis Scott.