Global Chart Report
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These Flowers
don't wither
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
Miley Cyrus' indestructible
'Flowers' remains atop the Global
Track Chart for an incredible 19th
week with another 391,000 points, a
4,5% decline compared to the
previous week. Broken down by
segments the song generated 154,000
points by streaming in the current
week (down 3,5%), 31,000 points by
sales (down 9%), and 106,000 points
by airplay (down 4,5%). With a total of
8,343,000 points 'Flowers' is still the biggest hit
of the year 2023 (far away from the
competition) and climbs to
position
no.174 on the
ALL TIME CHART.
Furthermore 'Flowers' ranks together
with Bryan Adams' '(Everything I Do)
I Do It For You' from 1991 and
Pharrell Williams' 'Happy' from
2014 at no.2 on the
tally with the longest lasting
number one smashes in history.
Undisputed leader on that list is
'As It Was' by Harry Styles, which
held the top position for 22 weeks
last year. Back to our current
hitlist, there are very little
movement in the upper region: behind
Myles Cyrus' 'Flowers'
remains
'Cupid' by the South Korean girl
group Fifty Fifty at the runner-up slot with
268,000 points (down 10%). Rounds out the top three is
still 'Ella Baila Sola' by Eslabon
Armado & Peso Pluma with 239,000
points (down 11%). Last year around
this time (calendar week 22) Puerto
Rican singer, songwriter, rapper,
and producer Bad Bunny ranks with
even three songs from his five
million-seller album 'Un Verano Sin
Ti' inside the Global Top 10. Now
he's back with the new smash 'Where
She Goes' and bows at no.5 globally
with 210,000 points. Shakira lands
her third Top 10 success this year,
after 'Bzrp Music Sessions Vol.53'
(feat. Bizarrap) and 'TQG' (feat.
Karol G) peaked both at no.2 some
time ago. 'Acróstico' climbs at
no.10 currently with 153,000 points
(up 21%). Outside our
weekly Top 40 waiting among other
'Angels Like You' by Miley Cyrus at
no.46, 'I Wanna
Be Yours' by Arctic Monkeys at no.53,
and 'Moonlight' by Kali Uchis at
no.59 for their
first appearance on the big list.
Two albums from Japan, one each from
South Korea, United Kingdom, and
Sweden debuting on this week's
Global Album Top 10. New number one
comes from Japanese nine-member boy
group Snow Man. Their third studio
album 'I Do Me' bows with massive
1,061,000 equivalent sales. Shy
behind follows 'I Feel', the eighth
extended play by South Korean girl
group (G)I-dle, with 617,000 sales.
Rounds out the top three is Lewis
Capaldi's second album 'Broken By
Desire To Be Heavenly Sent'. It
arrives with 178,000 sales.
Capaldi's debut album 'Divinely
Uninspired To A Hellish Extent'
started exactly four years ago in
the calendar week 22, 2019 at no.4
globally with 129,000 sales and
generated a total of 6,31 million
sales so far. And
now, as every week, additional stats from outside
the current Global Album Top 10 in alphabetic
order, the first figure means last week's sales,
the second figure the total sales: '1989' by
Taylor Swift 47,000 / 14,439,000, '21' by Adele
13,000 / 32,044,000, '25' by Adele
10,000 /
24,406,000, '30' by Adele 12,000 / 5,917,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 30,000 /
7,927,000,
'Astroworld' by Travis Scott
16,000
/ 7,645,000, 'Beerbongs & Bentleys' by Post
Malone 16,000 / 9,353,000, 'Certified Lover
Boy' by Drake 25,000 / 5,531,000, 'Dangerous:
The Double Album' by Morgan Wallen 54,000 /
7,389,000, 'D-Day' by Agust D 25,000
/ 1,134,000, 'Dawn FM' by The Weeknd
7,000 /
2,727,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran
22.000 / 19,832,000,
'Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent' by
Lewis Capaldi 21,000 / 6,313,000, the 'Encanto' soundtrack
8,000 / 3,382,000, 'Endless Summer
Vacation' by Miley Cyrus 38,000 /
741,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
25,000
/ 5,073,000, 'Evermore' by Taylor Swift
25,000
/ 4,242,000, 'Face' by Jimin 14,000 /
1,624,000, 'Fine Line' by Harry Styles
22,000 / 8,720,000, 'Folklore' by Taylor Swift
43,000 / 7,148,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 20,000 / 7,698,000, 'Goodbye & Good Riddance'
by Juice WRLD 29,000 / 7,073,000, 'Happier
Than Ever' by Billie Eilish 12,000 / 4,098,000,
'Harry's House' by Harry Styles
51,000 / 4,971,000, 'Her Loss' by
Drake & 21 Savage 36,000 /
2,471,000, 'Hereos & Villains' by
Metro Boomin 53,000 / 2,001,000,
'Hollywood's Bleeding' by Post Malone
26,000
/ 9,236,000, 'Legends Never Die' by Juice WRLD
11,000 / 5,966,000,
'My
Turn' by Lil Baby 23,000 / 5,414,000,
'Planet
Her' by Doja Cat 14,000 / 5,019,000,
'Ready To Be' by Twice 16,000 /
1,392,000, 'Red
(Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift
33,000 /
3,921,000, 'Renaissance' by Beyoncé
39,000 / 2,489,000, 'Scorpion' by Drake 17,000 / 8,928,000,
'Shoot
For The Stars, Aim For The Moon' by Pop Smoke
22,000 / 7,932,000, 'Sour' by Olivia
Rodrigo 31,000 / 7,978,000, 'Stoney' by Post Malone
10,000 / 7,474,000, 'The Greatest Showman' soundtrack
6,000 / 9,499,000, 'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
45,000 / 5,344,000, 'The Name
Chapter: Temptation' by Tomorrow X
Together 13,000 / 1,757,000,
'Trustfall' by Pink 14,000 /
564,000,
'Un Verano Sin Ti' by Bad Bunny
45,000 / 5,082,000, 'When We All Fall
Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
14,000
/ 10,931,000, and 'X' by Ed Sheeran
6,000 / 13,485,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 10 YEARS
AGO
... "Get Lucky" is the lead
single from Daft Punk's fourth
studio album, Random Access Memories
(2013). "Get Lucky" is an ingenious
disco and funk song with lyrics
that, according to Williams, are
about the fortune of connecting with
someone, as well as sexual
chemistry. The song was completed
over the course of approximately 18
months. After it leaked in
mid-April, the single was released
as a digital download on 19 April
2013. It was a huge success and
topped the hitlists in almost all
countries around the world. On the
Global Chart "Get Lucky" achieved
the vice-position of the Year-End
Chart 2013 and after 46 weeks on the
tally it had a total of 10.042.000
points. The song won awards for
Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo
/ Group Performance at the 56th
Annual Grammy Awards, during which
Stevie Wonder joined Daft Punk,
Williams and Rodgers onstage to
perform the song.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Morgan Wallen leads both
major hitlists again
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Morgan
Wallen’s
“Last Night”
adds an eighth week at No. 1
on the Billboard Hot 100
songs chart. Released on Big
Loud / Mercury / Republic
Records, drew 65.4 million
radio airplay
audience impressions (up 3%)
and 32.7 million streams
(down 1%) and sold 9,000
downloads (up 1%) in the May
19-25 tracking week,
according to Luminate. The
song, which first led the
Hot 100 in March, becoming
Wallen’s initial leader on
the list, notches a 10th
week at No. 1 on the
Streaming Songs chart; drops
2-5 on Digital Song Sales,
following a week on top; and
keeps at its No. 5 best on
Radio Songs.
Miley Cyrus’
“Flowers” rebounds 3-2 on
the Hot 100, after eight
weeks at No. 1 beginning
upon its debut in January.
It posts a 15th week atop
Radio Songs (89.7 million in
audience, down 2%).
SZA’s
“Kill Bill” lifts 4-3 on the
Hot 100, after it became her
first No. 1, for a week in
April.
Rema and Selena Gomez’s
“Calm Down” reaches a new
Hot 100 high, rising 6-4.
Toosii’s
“Favorite Song” pushes 8-5
to hit the Hot 100’s top
five for the first time.
Aided by a new remix with
Future, released May 19, to
go along with a
previously-available version
with Khalid and
sped-up and instrumental
options, plus a “Midnight
Session” mix, the track
surges 17-1 on Digital Song
Sales (17,000 sold, up
471%), as Toosii reigns in
his initial appearance on
the chart. The track also
climbs 8-5 on Streaming
Songs (22.4 million, up 12%)
– as it wins the Hot 100’s
top Sales and Streaming
Gainer awards – and 17-14 on
Radio Airplay (36.4 million,
up 15%).
Eslabon Armado and Peso
Pluma’s
“Ella Baila Sola” recedes
5-6 on the Hot 100, after
hitting No. 4 – the best
rank ever for a regional
Mexican song. The
collaboration claims an
eighth week at No. 1 on the
multi-metric Hot Latin Songs
chart.
Lil Durk’s
“All My Life,” featuring J.
Cole, falls to No. 7 on the
Hot 100, a week after it
soared in at No. 2.
Bad Bunny’s
“Where She Goes” bounds onto
the Hot 100 at No. 8, with
23.4 million streams, 2.9
million in radio reach and
2,000 sold in its first full
week (May 19-25), following
its May 18 release. The
Spanish-language song
arrives as the star’s 10th
top 10, and second this
year, after “Un x100to,”
with Grupo Frontera, hit No.
5 earlier in May. “Where She
Goes” marks Bad Bunny’s
first Hot 100 entry with no
accompanying artists since
he released his LP Un Verano
Sin Ti, which controlled the
Billboard 200 for 13 weeks
in May-October 2022 and
generated four Hot 100 top
10s. Rounding out the Hot
100’s top 10:
Metro Boomin,
The Weeknd and 21 Savage’s
“Creepin’ ” slides 7-9,
after hitting No. 3, and
Luke Combs’
cover of Tracy Chapman’s
“Fast Car” backs up from No.
9 to No. 10 a week after it
reached the region, although
it takes top Airplay Gainer
honors (19.8 million, up
52%).
Morgan Wallen’s
One Thing at a Time spends a
12th week in a row, and in
total, atop the Billboard
200 albums chart (dated June
3) – the most weeks at No. 1
for a country album in over
30 years. As the album
surpasses the 11-week reign
of Taylor Swift’s Fearless
in 2008-09, Wallen’s set has
the most weeks at No. 1 for
a country album since Billy
Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All,
which notched 17 weeks, all
consecutively, atop the list
(June 13-Oct. 3, 1992-dated
charts). One Thing at a Time
earned 129,000 equivalent
album units in the United
States in the week ending
May 25 (down 4%), according
to Luminate. One Thing at a
Time continues to have the
most weeks in a row at No. 1
since the Titanic soundtrack
ruled at No. 1 for 16
consecutive weeks in 1998
(its entire run at No. 1,
Jan. 24-May 9 of that year).
The last album to spend at
least 12 weeks in total at
No. 1 was Bad Bunny’s Un
Verano Sin Ti, which notched
13 nonconsecutive weeks atop
the list in May-October
2022. Of One Thing at a
Time’s 129,000 equivalent
album units earned in the
week ending May 25, SEA
units comprise 121,000 (down
3%, equaling 162.52 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s 36 songs),
album sales comprise 6,000
(down 30%) and TEA units
comprise 2,000 (up less than
1%).
SZA’s
chart-topping SOS jumps 5-2
with 77,000 equivalent album
units earned (up 52%)
following the album’s
release on CD and vinyl on
May 19. The set sold 29,000
copies across all formats
(physical and digital) – up
22,963% from a negligible
sum the previous week. SOS
was released on Dec. 9,
2022, via streaming services
and to purchase as a digital
download album.
Taylor Swift’s
Midnights falls 2-3 with
58,000 equivalent album
units (down 4%), while
Morgan Wallen’s
Dangerous climbs 6-4 with
47,000 units (down 2%).
Dave Matthews Band achieves
its 14th top 10-charting
album on the Billboard 200
as its new studio effort
Walk Around the Moon debuts
at No. 5. It’s the act’s
first new studio set since
2018. The new album earned
44,000 equivalent album
units in its first week. Of
that sum, album sales
comprise 40,000 (making it
the top-selling album of the
week), SEA units comprise
4,000 (equaling 5.45 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s songs) and TEA
units comprise a negligible
sum. The album’s first-week
sales were supported by
multiple vinyl editions,
including exclusive color
variants for the band’s fan
club and webstore, Barnes &
Noble, independent record
stores and Target.
Taylor Swift’s
former No. 1 Lover jumps
10-6 with 38,000 equivalent
album units earned (up 1%).
That’s the highest rank for
the 2019 set since that
December, sparked by Swift
performing songs from it
live for the first time on
her ongoing juggernaut The
Eras Tour.
Ghost’s
five-song covers project
Phantomime debuts at No. 7
on the Billboard 200 with
36,000 equivalent album
units earned. It’s the
fourth top 10 for the band,
and second in a little over
a year, following Impera,
which debuted and peaked at
No. 2 (March 26, 2022-dated
chart). Of Phantomime’s
36,000 units earned, album
sales comprise 34,000, SEA
units comprise 2,000
(equaling 2.67 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s songs) and TEA
units comprise a negligible
sum. The set’s first-week
sales were bolstered by its
availability across a
variety of physical formats,
including multiple vinyl LPs
(including exclusives color
variants for independent
record stores, Target and
Urban Outfitters) and even a
cassette tape.
Luke Combs’
Gettin’ Old rises 12-8 on
the Billboard 200 with
34,000 equivalent album
units earned (down 3%),
Bad Bunny’s
former No. 1, Un Verano Sin
Ti, ascends 11-9 with nearly
34,000 (down 4%) and
Zach Bryan’s
American Heartbreak bumps
15-10 with 32,000 (up 5%).
Record Of The Month
Never before
in history a regional
Mexican song was such a
great success globally:
'Ella Baila Sola' by Eslabon
Armado with guest vocalist
Peso Pluma
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Lewis Capaldi storms atop
the album list
Monday, May 29, 2023
by Alan Jones, London
With memories of Eurovision
fading, only one of the four
songs that gate-crashed the
Top 10 last week remains in
the top tier, and it poses
no challenge to Miracle,
which secures a comfortable
fifth week in a row (seventh
in total) at No.1 for Calvin
Harris & Ellie Goulding, on
consumption of 44,291 units
(1,359 digital downloads,
42,932 sales-equivalent
streams) – an increase of
4.51%.
The sole survivor of those
Eurovision songs is Tattoo –
but a 22.83% dip in
consumption of the Loreen
track see it fall 2-4
(29,992 sales).
Nevertheless, it is the
first Eurovision entry to
have two consecutive weeks
in the Top 5 since Gina G’s
Ooh Ahh…Just A Little Bit in
1996.
Taking advantage of the
situation, David Kushner’s
debut Top 10 hit, Daylight,
returns to runners-up spot,
despite itself suffering a
2.22% dip in consumption to
35,153 units. Moving
3-2-2-2-3-2 since release,
it has seen its overall
consumption fall four weeks
in a row.
The highest of eight Top 75
debuts is Say Yes To Heaven,
a brand new Lana Del Rey
song that opens at No.9
(22,828 sales), becoming her
26th hit in all, and sixth
Top 10 entry. It is her
first Top 10 entry in a solo
capacity since 2012.
Remaining at No.1 in
Ireland, Dublin
singer/songwriter Jazzy
scores her second UK Top 10
hit, with Giving Me
jumping
14-8 (23,975 sales), having
previously fronted Belters
Only’s 2022 No.4 hit, Make
Me Feel Good.
After slipping 7-8 last
week, React recovers for
Switch Disco & Ella
Henderson, climbing to a new
peak at No.6 (27,056 sales).
No.1 on debut for Lewis
Capaldi five weeks ago, Wish
You The Best rallies 5-3
(30,026 sales) following the
release of his runaway No.1
album, Broken By Desire To
Be Heavenly Sent. The album
also generates its fifth hit
(Capaldi’s 10th) in the form
of Haven’t You Ever Been In
Love Before? (No.28, 13,063
sales), while his maximum of
three tracks as primary
artist is completed by How
I’m Feeling Now, which
reached No.24 in April, and
is now a re-entry at No.48
(10,273 sales). A further
seven tracks by Capaldi are
‘starred-out’ of the Top 75.
The rest of the Top 10: Calm
Down (7-5, 27,778 sales) by
Rema, Eyes Closed (4-7,
26,145 sales) by Ed Sheeran
and As It Was (12-10, 22,808
sales) by Harry Styles. In
the Top 75 for the 58th
straight week since debuting
at No.1, As It Was is one of
three Styles songs climbing
the chart as his UK tour
continues, the others being
former No.2 hit Late Night
Talking, a re-entry at No.37
(11,808 sales), and latest
single, Satellite (71-49,
10,030 sales).
Only three weeks after it
first surpassed 27 million
in a week, singles
consumption breaches the 28
million mark. Overall
singles sales are up 1.73%
week-on-week to 28,312,109
units – 13.13% above same
week 2022 consumption of
25,026,460 units. Paid-for
sales are down 4.20%
week-on-week at 290,202 –
14.14% below same week 2022
sales of 339,196.
Four years to the week since
his first album, Divinely
Uninspired To A Hellish
Extent, debuted at No.1,
Lewis Capaldi repeats the
feat with second release,
Broken By Desire To Be
Heavenly Sent.
Home to three No.1 singles –
Forget Me, Pointless and
Wish You The Best and How
I’m Feeling Now, which
reached No.24 – Broken By
Desire To Be Heavenly Sent’s
first week consumption of
95,882 units is the highest
weekly tally for any album
thus far in 2023 and 7.12%
above the first week tally
of 89,506 that Divinely
Uninspired To A Hellish
Extent achieved in 2019.
Surpassing the previous 2023
best 76,263 copies that Ed
Sheeran’s Subtract sold
opening at No.1 a fortnight
ago, Broken By Desire…
achieves the best first
frame since Taylor Swift’s
Midnights bowed at No.1 on
consumption of 204,501
copies 30 weeks ago.
Consumed more than eight
times as much as any other
album, and the rest of the
Top 10 combined, Broken By
Desire… sold 58,421 CDs,
18,308 vinyl albums, 2,418
cassettes, 4,834 digital
downloads and 11,901
sales-equivalent streams (to
be pedantic, it actually
sold more than the rest of
the Top 14).
Twenty-six year-old
Glaswegian Capaldi co-wrote
every track on Broken By
Desire…, which racks up the
highest weekly sale by a
Scottish act since Paolo
Nutini’s Caustic Love topped
the chart in April 2014, on
first week sales of 109,011.
Masked chart marauders: Not
one but two acts who try to
preserve their anonymity by
wearing masks are in the Top
10 this week. The first of
these, Sleep Token, are
becoming big business, and
the last of their conceptual
trilogy of albums, Take Me
Back To Eden, makes a big
splash this week, debuting
at No.3 (11,611 sales), with
a single CD, seven vinyl
double albums and 12
cassette variants helping to
bulk up its physical sales
to 7,789. Their 2019 debut
album, Sundowning, failed to
chart but has racked up
to-date consumption of
13,494 units, just shy of
2021 follow-up, This Place
Will Become Your Tomb, which
reached No.39 and has
to-date consumption of
14,045 units. There’s much
speculation about Sleep
Token’s line-up but the only
ones I can nail down for
sure are 31-year-old drummer
Adam Pedder from Swindon,
and Bristolian singer Leo
Faulkner, whose band IDs are
Vessel and II, respectively,
and who write all their
songs.
Also possessing a penchant
for masks to conceal their
identities, Swedish band
Ghost’s Phantomime EP debuts
at No.8 (6,133 sales).
Ghost’s fourth Top 75
success and third Top 10
entry, it has five tracks –
covers of songs by
Television, The Stranglers,
Genesis, Iron Maiden and
Tina Turner – and a playing
time of less than 24
minutes. Their last
full-length album, Impera,
debuted and peaked at No.2
(14,021 sales) a mere 61
weeks ago. With to-date
consumption of 43,709
copies, it is on track to
become their biggest seller
ahead of current leader,
Prequelle, which reached
No.10 in 2018, and has
to-date consumption of
47,570 units.
Depending on how you regard
it, Drastic Symphonies
(No.4, 10,183 sales) is
either Def Leppard’s
highest-charting studio
album since Adrenalize
became their second and last
No.1 in 1992 or their
highest-ranked compilation
since Vault: Greatest Hits
(1980-1995) reached No.3 in
1995. In either scenario,
Drastic Symphonies is their
9th Top 10, their 19th Top
75 album in a chart career
spanning more than 43 years
and their highest-charting
set for a very long time.
The band’s website notes
that the album features some
of their well-known tracks
alongside “hidden gems”
which, “by and large” have
intertwined original audio
with “symphonic
arrangements” by the
co-credited Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra,
along with “new vocals and
guitars” some of which
feature lead singer Joe
Elliott, “dueting with his
younger self”. It is new
ground for Def Leppard to
have orchestral augmentation
but a familiar chore for the
RPO, who have previously
sprinkled symphonic
sweetening to provide new
chart life to old recordings
by Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison,
The Carpenters, Rod Stewart,
The Beach Boys and Elvis
Presley, among others.
Although they were fully
credited on those albums,
not all record companies
opted to give them a credit
on the OCC chart.
As the Renaissance tour
continues, Beyonce’s album
of the same name registers
strong growth for the fourth
week in a row, and climbs
13-7 (6,841 sales),
breaching the Top 10 for the
first time in 32 weeks.
Let’s get physical: 23 weeks
after it debuted at No.2 on
digital sales and streaming
alone, SZA’s third album,
SOS, has finally dropped on
CD and vinyl, helping to
propel it from its lowest
position yet (No.19) all the
way up to No.9, with overall
consumption of 6,061 units
in the week (including 462
CDs and 1,335 vinyl sets)
and to-date consumption of
168,112 units, of which
digital downloads account
for 1,034.
The first 2023 album to
spend two weeks at No.1, Ed
Sheeran’s – Subtract now
dips to No.2 (11,653 sales).
The rest of the Top 10:
Harry’s House (9-5, 8,644
sales) by Harry Styles, The
Highlights (4-6, 7,439
sales) by The Weeknd and
Midnights (7-10, 6,053
sales) by Taylor Swift.
Styles’ album is being
helped by his current UK
tour, which also triggers a
29-16 jump (4,611 sales) for
his last album, 2019’s Fine
Line.
Overall album sales are up
5.19% week-on-week at
2,382,921, 11.69% above same
week 2022 sales of
2,133,592, and their highest
level since they hit
2,422,995 the week before
Christmas in 2020, some 128
weeks ago. Physical product
accounts for 337,063 sales,
14.14% of the total.