Global Chart Report
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'As It Was'
is on record course
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
'As It Was' leads
the Global Track Chart for an
unbelievable 19th week, a historical
value! The song equalized the
alltime record for the longest stay
at number one, set up by Pharrell
Williams' 'Happy' from 2014 and
Bryan Adams' '(Everything I Do) I Do
It For You' from 1991. The chances
are very good that 'As It Was' will
remain at the first place next week.
Currently the song placed with
308,000 points, down 4,5% compared
to the previous week. The closest
rival, 'Bzrp Music Sessions Vol.52'
by Argentine record producer and DJ
Bizarrap and Spanish singer and
rapper Quevedo, holds tight at the
runner-up slot with 269,000 points
(down 3,5%). Broken down by segments
'As I Was' generated 176,000 points
by streaming last week (down 4%),
35,000 points by sales (down 2%),
and 97,000 points by airplay (down
6%). Two new songs reaching the Top
10 for the first time: 'I Ain't
Worried' from the 'Top Gun:
Maverick' movie, performed by
OneRepublic,
climbs one slot from
no.11 with 141,000 points (up 10%).
It's the fifth Global Top 10 success
and the first since eight years for
the American pop / rock band.
Spanish singer / songwriter Rosalía
lands her first Global Top 10 smash,
'Despechá' makes a big jump from
no.17 to no.9 with 143,000 points
(up 23%).
Outside our
weekly Top 40 waiting among other 'Until I
Found You' by Stephen Sanchez at
no.48, 'Vegas' by Doja Cat
at no.51, and 'Ferrari' by James
Hype & Miggy Dela Rosa at no.54
for their first appearance on the big list.
From January 2022 on there's a change in the
composition of the Global Album Chart. The reason
is the different approach to merging sales figures
and streaming (equivalent sales) in various
countries. This leads to distortions. That's
why we decided, that the national equivalent
sales are additionally weighted to the market
size of the countries (according to the latest
IFPI informations). This will also ensure a
little more stability in our Top 10. Let's take
a look on our current tally: Beyoncé is the
clear winner this week, her seventh
studio solo album 'Renaissance'
rules with 415,000 equivalent sales.
Her former studio set 'Lemonade' was
released more than six years ago in
April 2016 and started with 703,000
sales in the calendar week 18. Last
week's number one, Seventeen's 'Face
The Sun (incl. Sector 17)', placed
now at the runner-up slot with
another 281,000 sales, a total of
2,44 million so far. It reaches no.3
on the year-to-date chart, behind
Disney's 'Encanto' soundtrack (2,70
million) and 'Proof' by the Bangtan
Boys (2,75 million). 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 24,000 / 13,261,000, '21' by Adele
11,000 / 31,594,000, '25' by Adele
9,000 /
24,029,000, '30' by Adele 19,000 / 5,306,000,
the 'A Star Is Born' soundtrack 4,000 / 7,042,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 37,000 / 6,568,000,
'An Evening With Silk Sonic' by Silk Sonic
8,000
/ 1,173,000, 'Astroworld' by Travis Scott 17,000
/ 7,075,000, 'Beerbongs & Bentleys' by Post
Malone 15,000 / 8,881,000, 'Certified Lover
Boy' by Drake 37,000 / 4,381,000, 'Dangerous:
The Double Album' by Morgan Wallen 57,000 /
5,279,000, 'Dawn FM' by The Weeknd
37,000 /
1,882,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 23,000 / 19,038,000,
'Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent' by
Lewis Capaldi 14,000 / 5,643,000, 'Donda' by
Kanye West 14,000 / 2,292,000, 'DS4Ever' by
Gunna 12,000 / 1,387,000, the 'Encanto' soundtrack
29,000 / 2,820,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
46,000
/ 3,691,000, 'Evermore' by Taylor Swift 11,000
/ 3,443,000, 'Fighting Demons' by Juice WRLD
13,000 / 1,230,000, 'Fine Line' by Harry Styles
37,000 / 7,685,000, 'Folklore' by Taylor Swift
34,000 / 5,603,000, 'F*ck Love' by The Kid Laroi
28,000 / 4,142,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 39,000 / 6,605,000, 'Glitch Mode' by
NCT Dream 6,000 / 1,585,000, 'Goodbye & Good Riddance'
by Juice WRLD 22,000 / 6,236,000, 'Happier
Than Ever' by Billie Eilish 33,000 / 3,272,000,
'Hollywood's Bleeding' by Post Malone
28,000
/ 8,308,000, 'Justice' by Justin Bieber 29,000
/ 3,886,000, 'Legends Never Die' by Juice WRLD
22,000 / 5,336,000, 'Map Of The Soul: 7' by
BTS (Bangtan Boys) 10,000 / 8,125,000, 'Montero'
by Lil Nas X 18,000 / 2,100,000, 'My
Turn' by Lil Baby 20,000 / 4,611,000, 'No.6
Collaborations' by Ed Sheeran 4,000 / 4,613,000,
'Oddinary' by Stray Kids 5,000 / 903,000, 'Planet
Her' by Doja Cat 42,000 / 4,056,000, 'Positions'
Ariana Grande 11,000 / 3,381,000, 'Proof' by
BTS (Bangtan Boys) 101,000 /
2,848,000, 'Question
Mark' by XXXTentacion 17,000 / 6,750,000, 'Red
(Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift
25,000 /
2,858,000, 'Scorpion' by Drake 14,000 / 8,360,000,
'7220' by Lil Durk 28,000 / 1,094,000, 'Shoot
For The Stars, Aim For The Moon' by Pop Smoke
27,000 / 7,025,000, 'Sour' by Olivia
Rodrigo 58,000 / 6,388,000, 'Stoney' by Post Malone
10,000 / 7,135,000, 'The Greatest Showman' soundtrack
4,000 / 9,290,000, 'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
34,000 / 3,355,000, 'Twelve Carat Toothache'
by Post Malone 47,000 / 775,000, 'Unlimited Love' by Red
Hot Chili Peppers 7,000 / 586,000, 'Voyage'
by Abba 4,000 / 2,002,000, 'When We All Fall
Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish 21,000
/ 10,196,000, and 'X' by Ed Sheeran
6,000 / 13,269,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 30 YEARS
AGO
... "Rhythm Is A Dancer" was
released on March 30, 1992 as the
second single from their second
studio album, The Madman's Return
(1992). Originally it was not
planned to be released as a single.
Good club reactions to the track,
however, made Snap's German label,
Logic, change their minds. The song
was written and produced by Benito
Benites and John 'Virgo' Garrett
III, aliases for German producers
Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti,
the founders of the German Eurodance
act Snap. "Rhythm Is A Dancer"
contains the hook / riff sample from
the 1984 song "Automan" by Newcleus.
The accompanying music video,
directed by British director Howard
Greenhalgh, was filmed at the
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
in Florida. "Rhythm Is A Dancer" is
the most successful song of 1992,
led the Year-End Chart with
11,615,000 points and topped the
charts in many countries around the
world.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Beyoncé 'Break My Soul'
scores second week
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Beyoncé‘s
“Break My Soul”
banks a second week at No. 1
on the Billboard
Hot 100 songs
chart, a week after the song
became her eighth
leader on
the list. Released on
Parkwood /
Columbia Records,
drew 65.2 million radio
airplay audience impressions
(up 7%) and 14.5 million
streams (down 23%) and sold
36,000 downloads (up 174% –
as the song wins the Hot
100’s top Sales Gainer award
for a second week) in the
Aug. 5-11 tracking week,
according to Luminate.
The track pushes 5-2 on
Digital Song Sales, which it
led for a week in July, and
4-3 for a new high on Radio
Songs,
while falling from its No. 3
best to No. 7 on Streaming
Songs.
Sparking the song’s sales
gain, its “The Queens Remix”
— which features Madonna
and shouts
out a
host of influential Black
female entertainers — dropped
Aug. 5.
(Madonna is not listed on
“Soul” on the Hot 100, as
the remix did not account
for the majority of the
song’s overall consumption
Aug. 5-11.) In addition to
its original version and
“The Queens Remix,” “Soul”
was available for purchase
in six alternate forms
during the tracking week:
its Honey Dijon, Terry
Hunter and will.i.am
remixes; its Nita
Aviance
club mix; and a cappella and
instrumental versions.
Harry Styles’ former 10-week
Hot 100 No. 1 “As
It Was” rebounds 3-2. It
also adds an 11th week atop
the Songs
of the Summerchart,
as it has led the seasonal
survey, which tracks the
biggest hits between
Memorial Day and Labor Day,
each week this summer.
Lizzo’s “About Damn Time”
dips 2-3 after two weeks
atop the Hot 100 beginning
on the July 30-dated chart.
It claims a sixth week at
No. 1 on Radio Songs (88.5
million, down 4%).
Kate Bush’s “Running Up That
Hill (A Deal With God)”
keeps at No. 4 after
reaching No. 3 on the Hot
100. Its revival spurred by
its sync in
the fourth season of
Netflix’s Stranger
Things,
the song, originally
released in 1985 (when it
reached No. 30).
DJ Khaled’s “Staying Alive,”
featuring Drake and Lil
Baby, bounds onto the Hot
100 at No. 5, with 23.5
million streams, 10.1
million in radio airplay
audience and 5,000 sold in
its first week, following
its Aug.
5 release.
The track opens atop the
Streaming Songs chart –
marking Drake’s
record-extending 14th No. 1,
Lil Baby’s fourth and DJ
Khaled’s second – and at No.
6 on Digital Song Sales.
Steve Lacy’s first Hot 100
top 10, “Bad Habit,” rises
7-6 for a new high; Future’s
“Wait for U,” featuring
Drake and Tems, drops 5-7,
following a week at No. 1
beginning in its debut frame
in May; Nicky Youre and
dazy’s “Sunroof” cruises 9-8
for a new best, as each
act’s first top 10 scores
top Airplay Gainer honors
for a second week (62.3
million, up 13%); and Jack
Harlow’s “First Class”
descends 6-9, after three
weeks at No. 1 starting upon
its debut in April.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s
top 10, benny blanco, BTS
and Snoop Dogg’s “Bad
Decisions” roars in at No.
10, with 10.1 million
streams, 3.1 million in
radio reach and 66,000 sold
(45,000 digital downloads;
16,000 sold on CD; and 5,000
sold on cassette) in its
first week, following its Aug.
5 arrival.
The track begins atop the
Digital Song Sales chart –
marking BTS’ 11th No. 1, the
most among duos or groups;
Snoop Dogg’s fifth; and
benny blanco’s first – and
No. 28 on Streaming Songs.
Bad Bunny’s Un
Verano Sin Ti bounces
back to No. 1 on the Billboard
200 chart
(dated Aug. 20) for an
eighth nonconsecutive week
on top, as the set rises
from No. 2 with 108,800
equivalent album units
earned (up 4%) in the U.S.
in the week ending Aug. 11,
according to Luminate.
Of Un
Verano Sin Ti’s
108,800 equivalent album
units earned, SEA units
comprise 102,300 (down less
than 1%; equaling 143.44
million on-demand official
streams of the set’s
tracks), album sales
comprise 6,000 (up 435%
following its wide CD
release on Aug. 5) and TEA
units comprise 500 (down
6%).
Un Verano Sin Ti has
spent its first 14 weeks on
the Billboard 200 chart
lodged in the top two. The
last album to start off as
strong was Drake’s Views,
which spent its first 17
weeks in the top two (May
21-Sept. 10, 2016-dated
charts).
At No. 2 on the new
Billboard 200, YoungBoy
Never Broke Again collects
his 10th top 10-charting
effort, as The
Last Slimeto debuts
with 108,400 equivalent
album units earned. Of that
sum, SEA units comprise
103,500 (equaling 161.92
million on-demand official
streams of the album’s 30
tracks), album sales
comprise 4,600 and TEA units
comprise 300. The
Last Slimeto
was
announced on April 5 and 11
of the album’s tracks had
been available to stream in
the weeks and months leading
up to the album’s release on
Aug. 5.
Beyoncé’s Renaissance falls
1-3 in its second week on
the Billboard 200 with
89,000 equivalent album
units earned (down 73%). Morgan
Wallen’s
former leader Dangerous:
The Double Album is
a non-mover at No. 4 with
49,000 (down 1%) and Harry
Styles’
chart-topping Harry’s
House is
stationary at No. 5 with
slightly more than 43,000
(down 5%).
Eminem’s second greatest
hits compilation, Curtain
Call 2,
debuts at No. 6 on the
Billboard 200 with 43,000
equivalent album units
earned. Of that sum, SEA
units comprise 25,000
(equaling 35.19 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s tracks), album
sales comprise 18,000 and
TEA units comprise under
1,000. Eminem’s first hits
set, Curtain
Call: The Hits,
spent two weeks at No. 1
following its release in
late 2005. In total, Curtain
Call 2 is
Eminem’s 12th top 10 effort
on the Billboard 200 – the
entirety of his charting
releases – dating back to
the arrival of the No.
2-peaking The
Slim Shady LP in
1999.
The standard edition of Curtain
Call 2 contains
34 songs, spanning
2009-onwards, including
three new tracks. Among the
selections are nine top
10-charting hits on the
Billboard Hot 100 songs
chart, including four No. 1s
(“Love the Way You Lie” and
“The Monster,” both
featuring Rihanna; “Not
Afraid;” and “Crack a
Bottle,” with Dr. Dre and 50
Cent).
Rounding out the new top 10
on the Billboard 200 are
four former No. 1s: Future’s I
Never Liked You (rising
9-7 with 29,000 equivalent
album units; down 7%),
Drake’s Honestly,
Nevermind (10-8
with 26,000 units; down 9%),
Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (14-9
with 25,000 units; down 2%)
and Lil
Durk’s 7220 (13-10
with 24,000; down 7%).
Record Of The Month
'Until I Found
You' is a fantastic, old-fashioned
tune with a lovely voice and
an acoustic-guitar, performed
by the 19 year-old American
newcomer Stephen Sanchez.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
LF
System remain at number one
Monday, August 15, 2022
by Alan Jones, London
Previously looking
susceptible to a challenge,
LF System’s Afraid To Feel
achieves an unexpected 6.60%
increase in consumption to
49,320 units (2,501 digital
downloads, the rest from
streams), after two weeks of
decline, to secure a sixth
straight week at No.1, thus
equalling the all-time
record for an
act from
Edinburgh set by the Bay
City Rollers with Bye Bye
Baby in 1975.
Beyoncé, who had looked most
likely to take their crown,
remains at No.2 with Break
My Soul, which reverses
consumption 5.42%
week-on-week to 40,626
units, despite the release
of The Queens Remix version
of the track, which features
Madonna, and leans heavily
on her 1990 No.1, Vogue.
Both LF System and Beyoncé
were swept aside on early
sales flashes, which were
led by KSI’s new single, Not
Over Yet. Also featuring Tom
Grennan, the track couldn’t
maintain its blistering
start but is still the
highest of the Top 75’s new
intake, debuting at No.4, on
consumption of 34,959 units.
KSI’s eighth Top 10 hit and
22nd Top 75 hit, Grennan’s
fourth Top 10 hit and ninth
Top 75 hit, it is
emphatically No.1 on CD
sales and download sales,
with 7,459 of the former and
5,603 of the latter.
CDs also helped Harry
Styles’ new single, Late
Night Talking, to return to
the Top 10 after
a five-week
absence, jumping 13-8
(25,930 sales, including
3,597 CDs) 11 weeks after
debuting and peaking at No.2
as an album track. Its
return is simultaneous with
the 3-16 slide (18,992
sales) of Styles’ As It Was,
which has fallen victim to
ACR. No.1 for 10 weeks, it
has spent all of its 18
previous weeks in the chart
in the Top 3. Music For A
Sushi Restaurant – which
completed an all-Styles top
three with the two titles
above 11 weeks ago – also
hits ACR, forcing its DUS
below those of Matilda,
which becomes the fourth hit
from Styles’ Harry’s House
album, debuting at No.63
(7,293 sales). Music For A
Sushi Restaurant is
‘starred-out’ between No.75
and No.76.
The biggest in-chart gainer
is B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them
All) which jumped 93-45 last
week London DJ and singer
Eliza Rose and Manchester DJ
Interplanetary Criminal, and
now gallops to No.10, with
consumption soaring 135.14%
week-on-week to 23,104
units.
I Ain’t Worried reaches a
new peak for OneRepublic,
climbing 10-9 (25,911
sales).
The rest of the Top 10:
Green Green Grass (5-3,
35,472 sales) by George
Ezra, Doja (4-5, 31,205
sales) by Central Cee, Last
Last (6-6, 29,885 sales) by
Burna Boy and Crazy What
Love Can Do (7-7, 29,132
sales) by David Guetta,
Becky Hill & Ella Henderson.
Last Last is the only track
in the Top 10 set to go to
ACR next week.
Singles consumption is up
2.80% week-on-week at
24,048,600 units, 10.81%
above same week 2021
consumption of 21,702,005
units. Paid-for sales are up
4.61% week-on-week at
340,030 – 11.65% below same
week 2021 sales of 384,868.
Its consumption declining a
hefty 62.59% week-on-week to
11,621 units – the lowest
for a No.1 for 16 weeks -
Renaissance is nevertheless
the first album to spend its
first two weeks at No.1 so
far this year, and the first
Beyoncé album to spend more
than a week at No.1 since 4
in 2011.
Beyoncé’s seventh solo
studio album, Renaissance
retained pole position this
week primarily due to
sales-equivalent streams
which, at 10,147 units,
accounted for 87.32% of its
overall consumption,
alongside sales of 984 CDs
and 490 digital downloads.
When his last studio album,
Music To Be Murdered By,
dropped unexpectedly in
January 2020, it became
Eminem’s 10th consecutive
No.1 (nine studio sets, one
compilation), furthering his
lead over previous joint
record-holders Led Zeppelin
(1969-1979) and ABBA
(1976-1982), who each
achieved eight consecutive
No.1s.
More than five years after
his last album, Funk Wav
Bounces Volume 1, debuted at
No.2 on sales of 19,913
copies on its way to to-date
sales of 141,940, Calvin
Harris’ follow-up, Funk Wav
Bounces Volume 2 debuts at
No.5 (6,023 sales). It is
the sixth album by the
38-year-old Scot. All have
made the Top 10, with his
third album and second No.1,
2012’s 18 Months, selling
almost as many copies as the
rest combined – 1,140,656
copies. Harris has been
spectacularly more
successful as a singles
artist, with no fewer than
13 of his tracks selling
more than a million copies.
Following her high-profile
TV appearances on Love
Island and the Women’s Euro
finale, interest in Becky
Hill continues to grow. Her
latest album, Only Honest On
The Weekend, is the main
focal point, and surges 26-7
(4,773 sales) this week, to
equal the position in which
it debuted 49 weeks ago. Her
2019 debut album, Get To
Know, is enjoying a revival
too and moves 51-43 (1,970
sales) this week while her
new Joel Corry collaboration
History – on neither album –
debuts at No.20 on the
singles chart.
The rest of the Top 10:
Harry’s House (2-2, 9,546
sales) by Harry Styles, =
(3-4, 7,169 sales) by Ed
Sheeran, The Highlights
(4-6, 5,017 sales) by The
Weeknd, Greatest Hits (7-8,
4,276 sales) by Queen, Sour
(5-9, 4,209 sales) by Olivia
Rodrigo and Gold: Greatest
Hits (9-10, 4,196 sales) by
ABBA.
Overall album sales are up
0.56% week-on-week at
1,970,156, 13.94% above same
week 2021 sales of
1,729,065. Physical product
accounts for 258,121 sales,
13.10% of the total.