After it received the Grammy Award for music of the 12 months Feb. 5, Bonnie Raitt’s “Simply Like That” reaches Billboard’s charts for the primary time, debuting on a number of lists dated Feb. 18.
The music even reaches No. 1 on one of many surveys, bowing atop Rock Digital Track Gross sales with 9,000 downloads offered within the Feb. 3-9 monitoring week, a 9,947% enhance over a negligible quantity the earlier interval, in response to Luminate.
It’s Raitt’s first No. 1 on the chart, which started in 2010. Beforehand, she reached a No. 3 finest in 2020 by way of her co-bill with John Prine, “Angel From Montgomery,” following Prine’s loss of life.
“That” additionally debuts at No. 6 on the all-format Digital Track Gross sales rating, her first prime 10.
Elsewhere, the monitor is No. 26 on the multi-metric Scorching Rock & Different Songs chart. Along with its gross sales, “That” earned 1.4 million official U.S. streams, a 2,955% enhance from 45,000 the earlier week.
Raitt’s album of the identical identify, launched in 2022, returns to the High Rock & Different Albums chart at No. 46 with 7,000 equal album items earned, up 1,121%. It premiered at No. 6 in Could 2022.
The set additionally re-appears on Americana/Folks Albums at No. 9, after debuting at No. 1 in Could 2022.
In all, Raitt’s music catalog jumped 109% in streams, to five.8 million Feb. 3-9 vs. 2.8 million the earlier week. Eradicating “That” from the equation, it’s nonetheless a 62% leap to 4.4 million from 2.7 million.
In the meantime, one in every of her basic returns to a Billboard chart: “One thing to Speak About,” which debuts at No. 18 on Rock Digital Track Gross sales (1,000 offered, up 679%). It turned a No. 5 hit in 1991 on the Billboard Scorching 100, thus far her top-performing music on the survey.
The self-written “That” received music of the 12 months honors on the sixty fifth Grammy Awards, marking Raitt’s second big-four class victory, after Nick of Time took album of the 12 months honors in 1990. “That” can be now being promoted to grownup various radio as the brand new single from her newest set, after “Made Up Thoughts” hit No. 17 on Grownup Different Airplay final April.
