Missing in action: This week's BILLBOARD albums chart. Normally the magazine would have reported on Sunday whether LANA DEL REY, MEEK MILL or TYLER, THE CREATOR had bounced JAY-Z from the top slot, but instead, Billboard reported on Tuesday that a "top-tier data provider" hadn't reported its numbers for the week because of technical issues, leaving the three-way race for #1 too close to call. Del Rey had been tipped by other outlets as this week's winner with LUST FOR LIFE, but that may have been based on early, incomplete returns. What will downloaders in late-reporting precincts have to say? And who's the missing data provider? "First time I've ever seen this," the NEW YORK TIMES' BEN SISARIO tweeted... Over on the HOT 100, it's August and "DESPACITO" has been #1 since MEMORIAL DAY. If you didn't pick it as your official song of the summer, feel free to tear up your betting slip. (I love KENDRICK's "HUMBLE," too, but come on, the world has chosen.) Giving credit where credit is due, singer-songwriter LUIS FONSI tells NPR MUSIC the Spanish-language reggaeton smash "exploded through" a door that had been propped open by the likes of RICKY MARTIN, ENRIQUE IGLESIAS and SHAKIRA. But he also says this might have been perfect timing, politically speaking, for a Spanish song to break through in the US. An anti-wall song, so to speak. Another theory for the song's irrestibility: The dragged-out lead-in to the first chorus, which pulls the song off the PRO TOOLS grid that rules most pop songs, makes it feel less repetitive and more surprising than the typical pop hit. Or maybe it's just ridiculously catchy... TREVOR WILSON, who played the troubled teen in PEARL JAM's "JEREMY" video, hated video fame as much as the band did. And like the band, he had the emotional wherewithal to walk away from it. My friend GIL KAUFMAN marks the video's 25th anniversary by telling the beautiful but heartbreaking life story of a one-time child actor who followed his own code... They write and produce the songs that make the whole world sing. Some of 'em, you know. Some of 'em would prefer you don't. Either way, the pop charts literally start here. MusicSET: Captains of Hooks: The Creators Behind Pop's Creators... R. KELLY facing consequences... This gives new meaning to guitar finger-tapping... RIP CHUCK LOEB.