Tinashe Scores First Top 10 Album as 'Melatonin' Becomes the Breakout Hit of 'Popstar'

Tinashe has officially landed her first Billboard 200 top 10 album.‘Popstar’hit the top 10 on the chart dated Oct. 10, a massive milestone for an artist who has been releasing forward-thinking pop and R&B for more than a decade. The album’s standout track,‘Melatonin,’is doing serious numbers: it surged 255% in streaming activity after release, racked up 1.44 million official U.S. on-demand streams during release week, and debuted at No. 10 on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart, another career first.

The momentum is not slowing down. During the album’s second week,‘Melatonin’grew another 40%, reaching over 980,000 streams between Oct. 2 and 5. That kind of sustained rise usually points to a song that’s finding a real audience rather than a one-week spike. Add in an opening slot for Harry Styles on the Arizona stop of his Together, Together tour, and Tinashe is set up for her biggest era yet.

There’s a seasonal story in the mix too. Girl in Red’s‘We Fell in Love in October’is up 7.5% over last year’s early-October pace, proving once again that some songs simply belong to a month. Between Tinashe’s long-awaited breakthrough and the return of fall’s favorite track, this is a good week for pop. Which song do you replay every October, no matter what?