Global Chart
Report
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Drake replaced himself at no.1
Thursday, April 19, 2018
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
Seven debuts this
week inside the Top 10 of the Global Album Chart, like four weeks ago.
Highest comes from American rap newcomer Cardi B. Her first studio
album 'Invasion Of Privacy' bows at no.1 with 301,000 equivalent
sales. Here some national sales-figures: United States 255,000, Canada
12,000, United Kingdom 11,400, Australia 2,900. The album is driven by
the big single smash 'Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)', which went to no.9
globally, even to no.1 in the United States last year in September /
October. 'Face Yourself', the third Japanese studio album by South
Korean boy band BTS (also known as the Bangtan Boys) starts at no.2
with 294,000 sales. The album features 12 tracks, including the
Japanese versions of songs previously released on their 2016 set
'Wings' and 2017 EP 'Love Yourself 承 Her', as well as three original
Japanese-language tracks: 'Don't Leave Me', 'Let Go', and 'Crystal
Snow'. New at no.3 this week is another South
Korean boy group,
Exo-CBX, a subunit of the famous band Exo. Their second EP 'Blooming
Days' got 245,000 sales in its initial week, according to Hanteo. And
now, as every week, additional stats from outside the current Top 10
in alphabetic order, the first figure means last week's sales, the
second figure the
total sales: '1989' by Taylor Swift 9,000 / 10,486,000, '21' by Adele
9,000 / 29,090,000, '24k Magic' by Bruno Mars 25,000 / 4,406,000, '25' by Adele 13,000 / 21,392,000, 'American Teen' by Khalid
24,000 /
1,912,000, 'Anti' by Rihanna 9,000 / 2,487,000, 'Beautiful Trauma' by
Pink 22,000 / 2,468,000, 'Beauty Behind The
Madness' by The Weeknd 12,000 / 3,124,000, the 'Black Panther'
soundtrack 54,000 / 985,000, 'Blurryface' by Twenty One
Pilots 9,000 / 3,617,000, 'Camila' by Camila Cabello 40,000 / 930,000,
'Culture II' by Migos 51,000 / 1,005,000, 'Damn.' by Kendrick Lamar
27,000 / 4,292,000, 'Dangerous Woman' by Ariana Grande
5,000 / 1,997,000, 'Evolve' by Imagine Dragons 51,000 / 2,739,000, the
'Fifty Shades Freed' soundtrack 22,000 / 459,000, 'Finally' by Namie Amuro
5,000 / 2,186,000, 'Flicker' by Niall Horan
8,000 / 770,000, 'Grateful' by DJ Khaled 6,000 /
1,142,000, the 'Guardians Of The Galaxy': Awesome Mix Vol.2'
soundtrack 5,000 / 1,298,000, 'Helene Fischer' by Helene Fischer 8,000 / 1,204,000,
'Human' by Rag'n'Bone Man 6,000 / 2,273,000, 'I Promise You' by Wanna
One 22,000 / 753,000, 'Illuminate' by Shawn
Mendes 13,000 / 2,181,000, 'In The Lonely Hour' by Sam Smith 13,000 /
7,510,000, 'Man Of The Woods' by Justin Timberlake 25,000 / 907,000, 'Mania' by
Fall Out Boy 5,000 / 352,000, 'Melodrama' by Lorde 21,000 / 847,000, 'Memories...Do Not Open' by the Chainsmokers
7,000
/ 1,642,000, the 'Moana' soundtrack 17,000 / 2,684,000, 'More Life' by
Drake 22,000 / 3,460,000, 'Purpose' by Justin
Bieber 9,000 / 6,385,000, 'Question Mark' by XXXTentacion 71,000 /
477,000, 'Red
Pill Blues' by Maroon 5 14,000 / 818,000, 'Reputation' by Taylor Swift
30,000 / 3,651,000, 'Revival' by Eminem 24,000 / 1,675,000, 'Songs Of Experience' by U2
9,000 / 1,177,000, 'Starboy' by The Weeknd
19,000 / 3,526,000, 'Staying At Tamara's' by George Ezra 36,000 /
177,000, 'Stoney' by Post Malone 46,000 / 2,846,000, 'Tell Me You Love Me'
by Demi Lovato 17,000 / 931,000, 'The Damned & Beautiful' by G-Eazy
15,000 / 686,000, 'The Thrill Of It All' by Sam Smith 25,000 /
2,162,000, the 'Trolls' soundtrack 10,000 /
1,985,000, 'Views' by Drake 18,000 / 4,172,000, and 'X' by Ed Sheeran 25,000 / 10,715,000. COMPLETE
GLOBAL ALBUM CHART
Canadian rapper and R&B superstar Drake replaced himself at the summit
of the Global Track Chart. His new smash 'Nice For What' - lift-off
from Drake's fifth studio album 'Scorpion', with a planned released
date of June 2018 - shoots at the hot spot this week with 286,000
points. 'God's Plan', which was eight non-consecutive weeks at no.1,
sails to the runner-up spot with 271,000 points. It's the first time
since January 2017, that an act rules with two songs the tally. In
those days, Ed Sheeran topped with 'Shape of You' and 'Castle On The
Hill'. Back to this week's hitlist, there's another big debut at
no.11: 'One Kiss', a collaboration of Scottish DJ, singer, songwriter,
and producer Calvin Harris and British musician and model Dua Lipa,
opens with 147,000 points. Back to 'Shape Of You' ... Ed Sheeran's
supersmash is now the track with the most weeks inside the Top 40,
since the start in January 1999. It ranks at no.28 currently with
another 86,000 points, a total of 18,225,000 after 66 weeks on the
tally! Former record-holder was Adele's 'Rolling In The Deep' from
2010 with 65 weeks. Outside
the Top 40 waiting among other 'Love Lies' by Khalid & Normani at
no.41, 'A Kind Of Love' by Chotokkyu at no.44, 'Leave A Light
On' by Tom Walker at no.49, 'Zombie' by Bad Wolves at no.53,
and 'Wait'
by Maroon 5 at no.56 for their first
appearance on the big list.
COMPLETE GLOBAL TRACK CHART
The first quarter of the current year is over, time to look back: Ed
Sheeran's wonderful ballad 'Perfect' rules the list with
massive 4,564,000 points, followed by the Latin-flavored 'Havana' from
Camila Cabello & Young Thug with 3,883,000 points and Drake's 'God's
Plan' with 3,763,000 points. On the album tally the soundtrack to the
blockbuster 'The Greatest Showman' reigns with 2,104,000 equivalent
sales, Ed Sheeran's 'Divide' ranks shy behind with 1,633,000 sales
(after massive 9,636,000 last year) and 'Culture II' by rap duo Migos
follows at no.3 with 895,000 consumption units. The complete Top 20
lists are available at the Media Traffic
FACEBOOK ACCOUNT.
20 YEARS AGO
... 'Titanic'
began its triumphant advance at the cinemas. For director James Cameron and the
film studio 20th Century Fox, it was a risky undertaking, because the originally
estimated US $ 150 million production costs and the time limits were far
exceeded. To complete the film at all, a second major production company was
brought aboard - Paramount Pictures. But the gigantic effort should pay off,
'Titanic' became the most suceessful film in history (till that date), showered
with prizes, including 11 Oscar Awards. Embedded in the technically complex and
brilliant story of the sinking of the RMS Titanic 1912 in the North Atlantic
Ocean is the love story of Jack and Rose. Since the film plays on two time
levels, the transience of human being forms to a central issue here, reinforced
by the ship disaster. The many impressions and emotions bundle up in the
phenomenal music of James Horner. He used largely orchestral elements and merged
them with Celtic folklore, for which one originally wanted to commit Enya. Also
this soundtrack broke records, with 27 million copies sold, it's the
best-selling classic album of all time. And the only real song on this album,
'My Heart Will Go On', performed by Celine Dion, pulled along. Also released in
January 1998, it became Celine's biggest hit, 15 weeks at number one on the
Global Chart and the biggest smash in that year worldwide, decorated with three
Grammy Awards.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Cardi B's 'Invasion Of Privacy' debuts at no.1
Thuesday, April 17, 2018
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles
Cardi B blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with her debut
studio album, Invasion of Privacy. The set, which was released on April 6
through The KSR Group /
Atlantic Records, earned
255,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 12, according to Nielsen
Music. That’s the second-biggest week of 2018, trailing only the arrival of
Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods, which bowed with 293,000 units on the Feb.
17-dated chart. Of Invasion’s total unit bow, 103,000 were in traditional album
sales -- the biggest sales week for an R&B or hip-hop album in 2018. Invasion of
Privacy bows with the largest on-demand audio streaming week ever for an album
by a woman. Invasion launches with 255,000 equivalent album units overall, and
of that sum, 135,000 were in SEA units. That translates to 202.6 million streams
of the tracks on the album during its debut frame. Invasion easily bests the
previous record-holder, Beyoncé’s Lemonade, which launched with 77,000 SEA units
(115.2 million streams) on the May 14, 2016-dated chart. Invasion was only
available to purchase as a digital album. It’s the fifth album
to hit No. 1 on the Billboard
200 in 2018 that was initially only available as a digital download and via
streaming services (following The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy, XXXTENTACION’s ?,
Logic’s Bobby Tarantino II and Migos’ Culture II).
At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars scores its
second top 10, and highest-charting album ever, as America debuts with 62,000
units. It surpasses the band’s previous high, logged when Love Lust Faith +
Dreams debuted and peaked at No. 6 in 2013.
Of America’s starting unit total, 54,000 were in traditional album sales -- the
act’s second-largest sales week ever. Its only bigger week was logged by the
69,000 start of This Is War in 2009. (America’s sales bow was enhanced by sales
generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with the band’s
upcoming tour, which starts on June 6.)
The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy slips from No. 1 to No. 3 in its second week,
earning 52,000 units (down 69 percent). The soundtrack to The Greatest Showman
climbs one rung to No. 4 with 51,000 units (up 10 percent), following the film’s
DVD and Blu-ray release on April 10. XXXTENTACION’s ? dips 3-5 with 46,000 units
(down 20 percent), Migos’ Culture II is up a spot to No. 6 with 37,000 units
(down 9 percent) and Black Panther: The Album falls a slot to No. 7 with nearly
37,000 units (down 15 percent).
Rich The Kid’s The World Is Yours tumbles 2-8 in its second week, earning 36,000
units (down 38 percent), while Post Malone’s Stoney shifts 8-9 with 29,000 units
(down less than 1 percent).
Closing out the top 10 is rapper Lil Xan, as he bows at No. 10 with his debut
album, Total Xanarchy. The set tallied 28,000 units in its opening frame, of
which 14,000 were in traditional album sales.
Drake's domination atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart continues, but
with a different song this week, as new single "Nice for What" debuts at No. 1,
stopping the command of his own "God's Plan" after 11 weeks on top.
"Nice," released on Young Money / Cash Money / Republic Records, arrives as Drake's
fifth No. 1, as well as the 1,072nd leader in the Hot 100's history, which dates
to the chart's Aug. 4, 1958, inception.
First-week totals: "Nice," which arrived late on April 6, soars in at No. 1 on
the Streaming Songs chart with 60.4 million U.S. streams in the week ending
April 12, according to Nielsen Music. It also opens at No. 1 on Digital Song
Sales with 88,000 downloads sold in the week ending April 12. On the Radio Songs
chart, "Nice" enters (as the week's top debut) at No. 34, drawing 31 million in
all-format airplay audience in the week ending April 15. It's Drake's fifth Hot 100 No. 1 follows "God's Plan"
(11 weeks on top), "One Dance," featuring WizKid and Kyla (10 weeks, 2016), and
two by Rihanna on which he's featured: "Work" (nine weeks, 2016) and "What's My
Name?" (one week, 2010).
Back-to-back No. 1s: Drake becomes the 13th act to have replaced itself at No. 1
on the Hot 100 and the first since Bieber, as "Despacito" dethroned DJ Khaled's
"I'm the One," featuring Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper and Lil Wayne. Drake
is additionally the first artist to have replaced himself at No. 1 as a lead
artist since Bieber, whose "Love Yourself" supplanted "Sorry" on Feb. 13, 2016.
(Before Bieber's two such takeovers, The Weeknd had last managed the feat in
2015; thus, three Canadian solo males are the last three acts to have replaced
themselves at No. 1.) Drake's "God's Plan" dips to No. 2 after spending its first 11 weeks
atop the Hot 100, marking his longest reign (by a week over "One Dance") and one
of just 24 hits to lead for at least that long. Drake is the 18th act to rank at
Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously and the first since Bieber, who did so with
"Despacito" and "I'm the One," respectively, on July 22, 2017. The Beatles first
doubled up at Nos. 1 and 2 at the same time, with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and
"She Loves You," respectively, on Feb. 22, 1964.
As it slips to No. 2 on the Hot 100, "Plan" does the same on Streaming Songs
(47.5 million, down 9 percent), where it likewise logged its first 11 weeks at
No. 1. The track drops to No. 3 after eight weeks atop Digital Song Sales
(35,000, down 26 percent) and rebounds from No. 4 to its No. 3 high on Radio
Songs (108 million, up 1 percent).
Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line's "Meant to Be" backtracks to No. 3 after
three weeks at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. It tops the Radio Songs chart for a
second week (136 million, up 4 percent) and rules Hot Country Songs for a 20th
frame. COMPLETE
CHARTS
'Lemon' by musician, singer-songwriter,
record producer and illustrator Kenshi Yonezu is currently the most successful
track in Japan, according to singles-sales, paid-download and airplay.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Kylie Minogue lands her 6th no.1 album
Monday, April 16, 2018
by Alan Jones, London
In the week it
finally spawns a Top 40 single, Kylie Minogue’s 14th studio album, Golden, is
the diminutive Australian’s sixth No.1, debuting in pole position on sales of
48,032 copies (including 1,870 from sales-equivalent streams). Although it isn’t
too long since we had a No.1 album by a female solo artist (Paloma Faith
last
November), an Australian act (5 Seconds Of Summer in October
2015) or even an older solo chart-topper than Kylie, who turns 50 next month
(52-year-old Shania Twain last October) you have to admire her tenacity.
Golden is her 26th chart album since she made her debut in July 1988 and she is
the only female solo star ever to have number one albums in four different
decades – scoring in the 1980s with Kylie: The Album (1988) and Enjoy Yourself
(1989), in the 1990s with Greatest Hits (1992), in the 2000s with Fever (2001)
and in the 2010s with Aphrodite (2010) and Golden. Her span of No.1 albums, at
just short of 30 years, is the second longest for a female soloist, trailing
only Barbra Streisand, who scored the last of her seven number ones in 2016, 39
years after her first.
Five other albums debut inside the Top 10 this week: California rock band 30
Seconds To Mars’ fifth studio album America (No.4, 15,088 sales) is their fourth
chart entry, and second Top 10
success surpassing immediate predecessor Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams’ No.5
arrival in 2013 on sales of 17,955 copies; St. Jude Re:Wired (No.5, 12,154
sales), is an acoustic re-interpretation of Manchester indie band The
Courteeners’ 2008 debut album, St. Jude, which brings them their sixth straight
Top 10 entry on the 10th anniversary of the original album’s No.4 debut and
peak; Invasion Of Privacy (No.6, 11,446 sales), the debut album by 25-year-old
Cardi B, America’s hottest new rapper; Geography (No.8. 6,602 sales) the first
album by musically eclectic London multi-instrumentalist, Tom Misch; and The
Deconstruction (No.10, 5,715 sales), the first album studio album from Eels
since 2014’s The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver (No.7, 6,365 sales). The
Deconstruction is their fourth Top 10 album in total, and their 15th to make the
Top 75 in a chart career spanning a little more than 21 years since their fourth
album, Beautiful Freak, debuted and peaked at No.5 in March 1997. The Greatest
Showman loses leadership of the chart for the second time, slipping to No.2
(35,372 sales), while George Ezra’s Staying At Tamara’s is also relegated a
notch by the arrival of Kylie, slipping 2-3 (20,660 sales). Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (5-7,
9,365 sales) slips to the lowest position of its 58-week chart career, while
selling fewer than 10,000 copies in a week for the first time. The Weeknd’s EP,
My Dear Melancholy, is the last of four Top 10 remainers, sliding 3-9 (6,574
sales). Overall album sales are down 0.20% week-on-week at 1,746,434, 4.91%
below same week 2017 sales of 1,836,593. Streaming accounted for 934,027 sales –
53.48% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are down 1.93% week-on-week at
812,407, 28.96% below same week 2017 sales of 1,143,614.
New releases
from Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa, Ruti and the incumbent Lil Dicky all took a turn
at the top of the singles chart in sales flashes but in the end none was strong
enough to prevent Drake from securing a No.1 debut with his latest single, Nice
For What.
Drake’s 69th hit in total – a record for a rapper – Nice For What didn’t drop
until Saturday (April 7) but racked up sales of 51,187 copies (including 41,778
from sales-equivalent streams) in less than six days to become his fourth No.1
single a fortnight after his previous blockbuster, God’s Plan, ended a nine-week
residency at the summit. With overall consumption of 51,187, Nice For What ranks
fifth on paid-for sales of 9,409 but tops the streaming list with the OCC
estimating it was played 6,266,682 times, which translated into a further 41,778
sales.
Friday 13th was thus unlucky for Lil Dicky’s Freaky Friday (feat. Chris Brown),
which was pushed back to No.2 despite its overall consumption increasing 22.11%
week-on-week to 50,133 units, including 36,976 from sales-equivalent streams.
Last single Nuh Ready Nuh Ready (feat. PartyNextDoor) was a bit of a damp squib
for Calvin Harris peaking at No.48, but he’s back on form with Dua Lipa
collaboration One Kiss, which opens at No.3 (49,091 sales). Harris’ 35th Top 75
entry, it raises his tally of Top 10 entries to 24. It is also Dua Lipa’s eighth
hit, and her fifth to make the Top 10. One Kiss has the highest sale for a No.3
since Eminem & Ed Sheeran’s River sold 50,351 copies in that position 15 weeks
ago.
With this week’s No.1 selling just 4.27% more than the No.3, it is the closest
race for the medal positions for more than 11 years. In chart week 2 of 2007 –
the chart for Music Week issue dated 20 January, some 587 weeks ago – there was
just 2.02% between the top three, with Leona Lewis’ A Moment Like This selling
20,665 copies to spend a fourth week at No.1 ahead of Proper Education (2-2,
20,573 sales) by Eric Prydz Vs. Floyd, with Grace Kelly by Mika debuting at No.3
on sales of 20,256 copies.
The rest of this week’s Top 10: These Days (2-4, 36,712 sales) by Rudimental
feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen, Paradise (4-5, 32,823 sales) by
George Ezra, Friends (6-6, 30,119 sales) by Marshmello & Anne-Marie, This Is Me
(3-7, 28,644 sales) by Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble, Feel It
Still (5-8, 28,152 sales) by Portugal The Man, Lullaby (9-9, 27,891 sales) by
Sigala & Paloma Faith and Psycho (8-10, 23,707 sales) by Post Malone feat. Ty
Dolla $ign.
Overall singles sales are up 2.96% week-on-week at 16,106,086, 26.08% above same
week 2017 sales of 12,774,610. Streams accounted for 15,087,234 sales, 93.67% of
the total. Paid-for sales are down 2.86% week-on-week at 1,018,852 and are
26.42% below same week 2017 sales of 1,384,778. They are below same-week,
previous-year sales for the 245th week in a row.COMPLETE
CHARTS