Chris Willman Music Writer“Encanto” seems to be the new Adele, as far as the Billboard charts are concerned. The Disney film’s soundtrack and lead single have a lock on the top of the album and song charts for a second straight joint week, enjoying the kind of multi-week domination of both that only Adele’s “30” and “Easy on Me” had seen recently.And while “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” made it to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with close to no radio play whatsoever, it now appears that more stations are starting to take a chance on the ensemble song, as it makes its debut this week on two airplay charts.The “Encanto” soundtrack is on top for its fourth non-successive and third straight week, with 113,000 album-equivalent units.
This marks the first time since December that the album has not seen a rise in numbers, but with only a 2% decline from the previous week, there’s not much deceleration happening with it.
Billboard notes that the last time a soundtrack spent four weeks at No. 1 was when “A Star Is Born” did it in 2018-19. If “Encanto” is back on top for a fifth time next week, as expected, then it will be the first soundtrack to last that long on top since “Frozen II” in 2014. (That streak may be harder to beat, as “Frozen II” was No.
1 for 13 weeks.)“Bruno,” meanwhile, has set a record for the longest run for a Disney song at the top of the charts, even by just holding that position for a second week.
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