GLOBAL NO.1 - 30 YEARS AGO... "Another Day In Paradise" was released on October 23, 1989 as the first single from Collins' fourth solo studio album But Seriously. The power ballad has as its subject the problem of homelessness. Collins sings the song from a third-person perspective, as he observes a man crossing the street to ignore a homeless woman, and he implores listeners not to turn a blind eye to homelessness because, by drawing a religious allusion: 'it's just another day for you and me in paradise'. Collins also appeals directly to God by singing: 'Oh Lord, is there nothing more anybody can do? Oh Lord, there must be something you can say'. "Another Day In Paradise" won a Grammy Award for the Record Of The Year at the 1991 awards ceremony and topped the hitlists in the United States, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

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Billboard Report (excerpt)
Roddy Ricch returns to no.1 on Billboard Top 200
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

In a quiet week on the Billboard 200 albums chart -- where no albums debut within the top 100 -- Roddy Ricch​’s Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial returns to the No. 1 slot for

a second week in charge. The set, which premiered atop the tally dated Dec. 21, 2019, rises 2-1 in its fifth week on the list (dated Jan. 18). The Jan. 18-dated Billboard 200 chart marks the first week the tally includes on-demand video and audio streams from YouTube, as well as officially licensed video content plays from Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal and Vevo. The inclusion of video data into the chart comes five years after on-demand audio streams were added to the tally, when the chart shifted from a pure album sales ranking to a consumption model (Dec. 13, 2014-dated chart). The addition of YouTube and video streams will also impact all of Billboard’s other genre album consumption charts, including Top Country Albums, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Latin Albums and so forth. Please Excuse Me rises 2-1 on the new tally with 97,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 9, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

That’s a 31% increase in total units earned compared to the previous week’s haul of 74,000. (Note, week-over-week comparisons reflect the new week’s inclusion of video streams versus the previous week without video streams.) Please Excuse Me continues to profit from the surging popularity of its single “The Box.” On the most recently published Billboard Hot 100 and Streaming Songs charts (dated Jan. 11), the track vaulted 13-3 and 6-1, respectively. Of Please Excuse Me’s overall 97,000 equivalent album units for the week, nearly all were generated by on-demand audio streaming activity. Album sales comprised just 1,000 units of the set’s sum, while TEA equaled a little under 2,000 units. However, SEA activity totaled a whopping 94,000 units. And, of that 94,000 sum, on-demand audio activity nearly 91,000 units while on-demand video streams generated a little under 4,000 units. Please Excuse Me is joined by a bevy of former No. 1s in the new top 10, as Nos. 2-8 have all previously resided in the top slot. Trailing at No. 2 on the new chart is Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding. The set climbs one spot with 65,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%). Harry Styles’ Fine Line rises 4-3 with 49,000 units (down 9%) and the self-titled Jackboys set falls 1-4 in its second week with 47,000 units (down 70%). The Frozen II soundtrack is steady at No. 5 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (down 10%), DaBaby​’s Kirk climbs 8-6 with 41,000 units (up 13%), Billie Eilish​’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? dips 6-7 with 38,000 units (down 17%) and Young Thug’s So Much Fun falls 7-8 with 35,000 units (down 8%). Rounding out the new top 10 are Summer Walker’s No. 2-peaking Over It, stepping 10-9 with 30,000 equivalent album units (up 7%), and Rod Wave’s Ghetto Gospel, flying 17-10 with 27,000 units (up 19%). Ghetto Gospel returns to its No. 10 peak, achieved in its second week on the tally, back on the Nov. 23, 2019-dated list. Roddy Ricch's "The Box" tops the Billboard Hot 100, rising from No. 3 to become the rapper's first No. 1 on the ranking. "The Box," released on Bird Vision/Atlantic Records, is the 1,096th No. 1 in the Hot 100's 61-year history. Roddy Ricch (real name: Rodrick Wayne Moore, Jr.) wrote the song with Samuel "30Roc" Gloade, who solely produced it. The track by the 21-year-old Compton, California, native hits the Hot 100's summit in its fifth week on the chart, as it tallies a second week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs survey, surging by 60% to 68.2 million U.S. streams in the week ending Jan. 9, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Notably, the song does not yet have a proper official video; Its official audio clip was released on Dec. 6, while a new lyric video arrived on Jan. 9. The streaming sum is the second-highest for any song, after Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" drew 72.2 million (Jan. 4), since Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, hauled in 72.5 million (Aug. 3, 2019); "Road" set the record with 143 million on April 20, 2019. "The Box" roars 31-8 on Digital Song Sales, up 79% to 11,000 sold in the week ending Jan. 9 (as it claims the Hot 100's top Streaming Gainer and Sales Gainer awards), and hikes by 196% to 10.9 million all-format radio airplay audience impressions. "The Box" is from the rapper's debut studio album, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial, which began as his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200, dated Dec. 21 and this week (Jan. 18) rebounds for a second week on top. Roddy Ricch is the first artist to top the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 simultaneously since Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's "Shallow" and their soundtrack to A Star Is Born led the respective rankings dated March 9, 2019; As with Roddy Ricch, those titles brought actor/singer Cooper his first No. 1 on each chart. Justin Bieber's "Yummy" arrives at No. 2 on the Hot 100 as it starts at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (71,000 sold in the week ending Jan. 9) and No. 2 on Streaming Songs (29.3 million in the same span), while soaring 38-10 on the Radio Songs chart (50.9 million in its first full week, ending Jan. 12). As for the song's sales total, 71,000 marks the best since Taylor Swift's "You Need to Calm Down" launched with 79,000 (June 29, 2019). "Yummy" was released at midnight ET on Jan. 3, while its official video premiered the following day. Its sales sum in the tracking week was boosted by a bevy of vinyl and cassette single offers in his official webstore (with certain pieces to be autographed by Bieber), and consumers received a digital copy of the song upon each purchase; Its airplay total includes hourly plays on participating Entercom Communications-owned radio stations on Jan. 11. Post Malone's "Circles" drops to No. 3 on the Hot 100 after three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, as it tallies a fourth week atop Radio Songs, up by 1% to 101.3 million in audience. Maroon 5's "Memories" descends to No. 4 on the Hot 100 from its No. 2 high, while Dan + Shay and Bieber's No. 4-peaking "10,000 Hours" climbs 9-5, as it tops Hot Country Songs for a 14th week. Thanks to "Yummy" and "Hours," Bieber is the first artist with two concurrent top five Hot 100 hits since Post Malone, whose "Goodbyes," featuring Young Thug, and "Circles" ranked at Nos. 3 and 4, respectively, on Sept. 21. Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Lewis Capaldi's "Someone You Loved" backtracks 4-6, following its three-week command; Tones and I's "Dance Monkey" keeps at its No. 7 best; Lizzo's No. 3-peaking "Good as Hell" drops 6-8; Arizona Zervas' "Roxanne" retreats 5-9, after reaching No. 4, while boasting top Airplay Gainer honors (49.5 million, up 21%); and Selena Gomez's "Lose You to Love Me" holds at No. 10, after it led the Nov. 9 chart.