Paul McCartney’s latest studio album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, debuts in the top five on six Billboard charts (dated June 13), including a No. 1 arrival on Top Album Sales, Vinyl Albums and Indie Store Album Sales. The set also launches at No. 2 on Top Rock Albums, No. 2 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums and No. 5 on the overall Billboard 200.

The Boys of Dungeon Lane marks the 22nd top 10 for McCartney on the Billboard 200, inclusive of his solo top 10s and his albums with Wings. The Beatles, of which McCartney is a member, has 32 top 10s. The Fab Four scored its first top 10 on Feb. 8, 1964 with Meet the Beatles!

McCartney landed his first solo Billboard 200 top 10 more than 56 years ago, with his McCartney album on the May 16, 1970-dated chart. A living soloist last logged a longer top 10 span on the Oct. 16, 2021-dated survey, when Tony Bennett’s Love for Sale, with Lady Gaga, debuted at No. 8. It gave the then-95-year-old Bennett a 59-year top 10 stretch, dating to I Left My Heart in San Francisco in October 1962.

The Boys of Dungeon Lane earned 63,000 equivalent album units in the United States in its debut frame (week ending June 4), according to Luminate. The album’s sales (59,500) were bolstered by its availability across 18 physical variants, including more than 10 vinyl editions. Vinyl purchases accounted for 32,000 of the album’s opening-week sales.

All Billboard charts dated June 13 will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on June 9.

McCartney earned his first solo Billboard 200 top 10 a little over 56 years ago, when McCartney rose 14-3 on the May 16, 1970-dated chart; it peaked at No. 1 a week later (May 23, 1970).

Breaking down McCartney’s 22 top 10s by decade: 10 in the 1970s, two in the 1980s, one in the ‘90s, four in the 2000s, three in the ‘10s and two in the 2020s.

McCartney is among a handful of acts with at least 20 top 10-charting albums on the Billboard 200, from March 24, 1956, when the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis, through the new, June 13, 2026-dated chart.

Here’s an updated leaderboard of acts with at least 20 top 10s on the Billboard 200:

Most Billboard 200 Top 10s:
38, The Rolling Stones
34, Barbra Streisand
33, Frank Sinatra
32, The Beatles
27, Elvis Presley
23, Bob Dylan
23, Madonna
22, Elton John
22, Bruce Springsteen
22, Paul McCartney/Wings
21, George Strait
20, Drake
20, Prince

Notably, the Kidz Bop Kids music brand has collected 24 top 10s, in 2005-16, with its series of kid-friendly covers of hit singles. The franchise’s early albums were performed mostly by anonymous studio singers, although later releases focused on branding named talent.

Beastie Boys co-founder Mike D has announced the details for his upcoming debut solo album, Thank You. The 13-track LP is due out on Aug. 28 on Capitol Records and is preceded by the Lee “Scratch” Perry-inspired single “True Colors.” The album is the first from a charter B-Boys member since the original group’s swan song, 2011’s Hot Sauce Committee Part 2.

“It’s been so much fun making this music with people I love and I have grown to really appreciate in our collaboration,” Mike said in a statement about the album that traces its origins to low-key experimental recording sessions at his home studio. “And I just hope it’s fun for others and not overly serious, because let’s be real, I’m releasing this music into a very strange and dark and power-fixated world that really devalues art and feelings and compassion and empathy and equality.”

The sessions kicked off with Mike collaborating with his sons, Skyler and Davis, before expanding to include producer/songwriters Carter Lang (SZA), Jared Solomon (Remi Wolf, BROCKHAMPTON), Ging (Lorde, Post Malone), Jason Lader (Furslide), Eddie Ruscha and Tyran Donaldson (Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar). The album was mixed by Derek “MixedByAli” Ali and mastered by Nicolas de Porcel.

Mike has not released any new music since the death of Beastie Boys co-founder Adam “MCA” Yauch, 47, in 2012 following a long battle with cancer. The group, which also features Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz), 59, went on indefinite hiatus following Yauch’s death.

A trippy visualizer for the percussion-forward single “True Colors” was released on Monday (June 8). The percussion-heavy song has Mike singing, “True colors/ Shining through” on the hypnotic chorus of the tune that prioritizes martial drums and atmospheric keyboards. D, 60, released his debut solo single, “Switch Up,” last month, along with “What We Got,” and he’s been on the road in Europe playing a run of intimate venues with his Mike D 5D band, with the next gig slated for Wednesday night (June 10) at Saalchen in Berlin, Germany.

The track list for Thank You features the songs: “Switch Up,” “What We Got,” “True Colors,” “That’s Right,” “Secrets Pt. 1,” “Secrets Pt. 2,” “I Don’t Care,” “Make It Stop,” “Crypto,” “Here We Are,” “Back To Start,” “It’s Time” and “Thank You.”

Watch the “True Colors” visualizer below.

While catalog music has traditionally referred to songs released anywhere from three years to decades ago, music investment company Duetti said on Tuesday (June 9) it is acquiring songs released as recently as six months ago, and it is launching a new in-house remixing program with indie artists to work those new songs.

Duetti says it is hiring independent artists to remix, cover and create new derivative works from the more than 30,000 tracks in its catalog. Artists will earn a share in the future royalties of the new songs, and Duetti will cover distribution and marketing costs.

As competition for investing in masters and publishing royalties has increased in the years since streaming introduced stable cash flows and reams of consumption data to music, Duetti’s strategy since 2022 has been to buy songs released as recently as two years ago. While major music companies and catalog acquisition funds have considered these to be riskier assets, Duetti CEO Lior Tibon says they’ve invested in the data and forecasting tech to confidently underwrite investments and project future cash flow for much newer songs.

“It’s just another step in the innovation in what we’re trying to bring to the market,” Tibon tells Billboard. “What we do best is predict future performance and value music, simplify business processes that are notoriously difficult to automate and make easy, and find new audiences and improve revenue potential [through] marketing. [What] we are developing will allow us to offer more options and products.”

The initial two-year parameter was somewhat “arbitrary,” Tibon says, and the company’s investments in data engineering, forecasting and “proprietary AI-driven predictive models [enable it] to materially lower the master acquisition age threshold from two years to six months following the initial commercial release.”

The company has already worked with more than 200 artists, including RxPapi, Jesse Barrera, and Ingrid Contreras, to acquire stakes in tracks that were released less than two years ago. Financing for acquisitions of these songs will come specifically from an existing $75-million credit facility Duetti has with Viola Credit. (In January, Duetti said it raised $200 million through equity investment and debt financing, bringing the total amount it has raised to $635 million.)

“We underwrite data and track record, and we’ve had a long relationship with Duetti that… has never been a creative one; it has been grounded in alignment on underwriting and risk management,” Viola Credit partner Michael Chen. “The beauty of what Lior has built is a technology platform that gets to the bottom of [consumption data] to provide meaning in the data.”

The remixing program adds a key pillar to Duetti’s marketing strategy, Tibon says. To date, Duetti has released 200 remixes and derivative works from over 100 artists across genres, including rap, baile funk, and house music, across North America, Europe, and Latin America. The company says collaborators include Satin Jackets, Kowloon, MC Leleto and rising hip-hop performer zai1k.

The collaboration with zai1k started with Duetti reaching out and pitching him songs from its catalog they hoped he would remix. After zai1k selected “Dangerous” by David Hugo, Duetti connected the two, booked a studio for them to track new vocals and tweak production of the original record. Later, Duetti helped finance a music video for the track, paid zai1k a fee for co-creating the song, which he and David own stakes in, and the company began promoting the song across its owned playlists, through influencer campaigns and other means.

“By using AI insights and analytics, we’re able to identify the right remixing artist and pair them with a globally rich catalog built for reinterpretation – all while ensuring collaborations are fully authorized and artist-approved,” Elliot Baumohl, Duetti’s head of music growth, said in a statement. “We’re creating the fastest, simplest remix process in the industry.”

The company says it plans to expand the remixing program to songs in its catalog from genres like phonk, dancehall, and reggaeton, which it hopes will deepen its footprint in key markets outside the US, including Germany, France and Latin America.