Global Chart Report
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'Die With A
Smile' keeps the crown
Sunday, September 29, 2024
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
'Die With
A Smile' by Lady GaGa and Bruno Mars remains
atop the Global Track
Chart for a straight third week with
massive 458,000 points. That's another
2%
increase compared to the previous
week.
Broken
down by segments it generated
359,000 points by streaming (up
2%), 38,000 points by sales (up 2%), and
61,000 points by airplay
(up 5%). It's Lady GaGa's 19th
global Top 10 smash and her eighth
number one. Furthermore it's the highest
position for Lady GaGa here since more than four
years, when 'Rain On Me', a collab
with Ariana Grande, topped the
hitlist in the calendar week 23,
2020. Bruno Mars celebrates his
12th global Top 10 hit and the sixth
number one. Nearly eight years ago
he was the last time at the pole
position when '24k Magic' ruled the
tally two times in the calendar
weeks one and two of 2017. The
current collaboration was a
result of Mars inviting GaGa to his
studio where he had been working on
new music.
He presented the
track in progress to
her and the duo finished writing and
recording the song the same day.
At the moment it's a very stable
situation in the Top 10, hardly any
change of places: Billie Eilish's former number one
smash 'Birds Of A Feather' follows
still at the runner-up slot
with 319,000 points, an 1% decrease
with 232,000 points by streaming,
36,000 points by sales, and 51,000
points by airplay. Sabrina
Carpenter's 'Espresso' rounds out
the top three again with 300,000
points, an 1,5% decline with 195,000
points by streaming, 33,000 points
by sales, and 72,000 points by
airplay. Hinatazaka 46, one of these
numerous girl groups from Japan,
starting with this week's highest
debut, their new single smash
'Zettaiteki Dairokkan' bows at no.16
with 130,000 points. The act's
biggest success was 'Do Re Mi Sol La
Si Do' five years ago, which peaked
at no.8 globally with 174,000 points
in the calendar week 31, 2019. At
the bottom of our current Top 40
lands the second and final new
entry, 'Sailor Song' by American
singer / songwriter Gigi Perez with
89,000 points. Outside
our current Top 40 waiting among
other
'Yellow' by Coldplay at no.41, 'I Love
You, I'm Sorry' by Gracie Abrams at
no.53, and 'The Door' by
Teddy Swims at no.59 for their first appearance on the
hitlist. Back to the roots: Over 20
years ago Media Traffic started the
weekly Global Album Chart. At that
time this hitlist was based
exclusively on sales figures and -
like the Track Chart - included 40
positions. But the global album
sales fell dramatically over the
years, and that's why we shortened
the Top 40 to a Top 10 list in June
2016. Later we included streaming
data and now with the further
increase in the streaming share we
can finally offer an expanded
hitlist again.
Newcomer Chappell Roan surprisingly
reaches the summit of the Global
Album Chart with her debut effort
'The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest
Princess'. One year after its
release, it has now been
supplemented by various deluxe vinyl
anniversary editions. With this new
sales power the album jumps at no.1
for the first time with 142,000
consumption units (56,000 points by
streaming + 86,000 points by sales).
In total it generated nearly 1,4
million equivalent sales so far.
'Mixtape Pluto', the seventeenth
mixtape by American rapper Future
and his first solo release in two
years, rockets to runner-up slot as
the highest debut of the week with
133,000 equivalent sales (117,000
points by streaming + 16,000 points
by sales). Sabrina Carpenter's
'Short n' Sweet' holds tight at no.3
with 127,000 consumption units
(98,000 points by streaming + 29,000
points by sales). And now, as every
week, additional stats from outside
the current Global Album Top 20 in
alphabetic order, the first figure
means last week's sales, the second
figure the total sales: '1989' by
Taylor Swift 9,000 / 16,434,000,
'1989 (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 26,000 / 5,931,000, '21' by Adele
24,000 / 33,176,000,
'25' by Adele 15,000 / 25,209,000,
'30' by Adele 9,000 / 6,535,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 28,000 /
9,978,000, 'Cowboy
Carter' by Beyoncé 9,000 /
1,470,000,
'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 16,000 /
21,188,000, 'Emails I Can't Send' by
Sabrina Carpenter 33,000 /
1,478,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
6,000 / 6,098,000, 'Eternal
Sunshine' by Ariana Grande 34,000 /
2,010,000, 'Evermore' by
Taylor Swift 11,000 / 6,141,000,
'Folklore' by Taylor Swift 35,000 /
10,642,000,
'For All The Dogs' by
Drake 10,000 / 3,210,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 16,000 / 9,085,000, Génesis' by
Peso Pluma 19,000 / 2,320,000,
'Golden' by Jung Kook 32,000 /
2,932,000, 'Guts' by Olivia Rodrigo
29,000 / 3,717,000,
'Harry's House'
by Harry Styles 12,000 / 7,121,000,
'Heroes &
Villains' by Metro Boomin 18,000 /
4,293,000, 'Lover' by Taylor Swift
38,000 / 10.779.000, 'Midnights' by Taylor
Swift 27,000 /
11,470,000, 'One Moment At A Time'
by Morgan Wallen 34,000 / 7,896,000, 'Radical Optimism' by
Dua Lipa 14,000 / 809,000, 'Red (Taylor's
Version)' by Taylor Swift 14,000 /
6,083,000, '17 Is Right Here' by
Seventeen 14,000 / 1,392,000, 'Sour'
by Olivia Rodrigo 39,000 /
10,774,000,
'Speak
Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 10,000 / 3,456,000, 'Starboy'
by The Weeknd 41,000 / 7,914,000,
'Stick Season' by Noah Kahan 40,000
/ 3,441,000,
'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
38,000 / 8,562,000, 'Un Verano Sin
Ti' by Bad Bunny 37,000 / 7,719,000, 'Utopia'
by Travis Scott 37,000 / 4,437,000,
and 'When We All Fall Asleep,
Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
12,000 / 12,023,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 10 YEARS
AGO
... "Shake It Off" is the lead
single from Taylor Swift's fifth
studio album, 1989 (2014) and was
released on 18 August 2014. It's an
uptempo pop track and features a
departure from Swift's earlier
country pop musical style. "Shake It
Off" debuted atop the US Billboard
Hot 100 chart, becoming the 22nd
song to do so. It produced
first-week digital sales of 544,000
units for the chart issue dated
September 6, 2014, the largest debut
sales week for a single of 2014 in
the USA. The song topped also the
charts in Canada, Australia and New
Zealand. The music video, directed
by Mark Romanek, was shot in June
2014, over three days in Los
Angeles. The video features Swift
"embracing her inner dorky dancer by
submerging herself with some of the
world's best dancers in the styles
of hip hop, lyrical, ballet, jazz
and even cheerleader."
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Shaboozey scores 12th week
at No.1
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
The hit boasts twice as many
weeks at No. 1 than any
other leader this year.
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song
(Tipsy)” tallies a twelfth
week at No. 1 on the
Billboard Hot 100, extending
2024’s
longest command. Notably, it
has now reigned for twice as
long as any other No. 1 this
year, doubling up on Post
Malone six-week leader “I
Had Some Help,” featuring
Morgan Wallen. “A Bar Song
(Tipsy),” on American
Dogwood / Empire, totaled
78.2 million radio airplay
audience impressions (up
4%), 27.8 million official
streams (down 3%) and 8,000
sold (down 8%) in the United
States Sept. 20-26. The
track holds for a ninth week
at No. 1 on the Radio Songs
chart and a seventh week at
No. 1 on Streaming Songs and
rebounds 3-2 following 13
weeks at No. 1 on Digital
Song Sales. Meanwhile,
Sabrina Carpenter boasts
three songs in the Hot 100’s
top 10 for a fifth
consecutive week – becoming
the first woman in the
chart’s 66-year history to
establish such a run. The
singer-songwriter’s
“Espresso” holds at its No.
3 high, having become her
first top 10; “Please Please
Please” rises 9-8, after it
became her first No. 1 in
June; and “Taste” slips 8-9,
after
it debuted at its No. 2
best. Post Malone’s “I Had
Some Help,” featuring Morgan
Wallen, is steady at No. 2
on the Hot 100, following
six weeks at No. 1 beginning
upon its debut in May.
Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck,
Babe!” repeats at its No. 4
Hot 100 high and Lady Gaga
and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a
Smile” keeps at No. 5, after
reaching No. 3. Billie
Eilish’s “Birds of a
Feather” maintains its No. 6
Hot 100 altitude, after
hitting No. 5. Teddy Swims’
“Lose Control,” which led
the Hot 100 for a week in
March, is stationary at No.
7. Rounding out the Hot
100’s top 10, Kendrick
Lamar’s “Not Like Us” is a
non-mover at No. 10,
following two weeks at No.
1 in May and July. Future
notches his 11th No. 1 album
on the Billboard 200 chart —
and third in 2024 — as
Mixtape Pluto debuts atop
the list dated Oct. 5. The
long-teased set’s Sept. 20
release date was announced
on Sept. 11. Mixtape Pluto
earned 129,000 equivalent
album units in the U.S. in
the week ending Sept. 26,
according to Luminate,
largely driven by streaming
activity. Future scored two
No. 1s earlier in 2024 with
his two co-billed sets with
Metro Boomin: We Don’t Trust
You (a debut atop the April
6 chart) and We Still Don’t
Trust You (also debuting at
No. 1, April 27). The last
act to notch three new No. 1
albums faster than Future —
who has earned his three
latest in a span of just six
months — was the Glee Cast,
which notched three
chart-topping soundtracks in
less than two months in
2010. Of Mixtape Pluto’s
first-week equivalent album
units of 129,000, SEA units
comprise 118,500 (equaling
156.62 million on-demand
official streams of the 17
songs on the streaming
edition of the album; it
debuts at No. 1 on Top
Streaming Albums), album
sales comprise 10,000 and
TEA units comprise 500. The
album was available to
purchase either as a
standard 11-song album (via
download, CD and vinyl) or
as an expanded 17-song album
(download). Chappell Roan’s
The Rise and Fall of a
Midwest Princess rises 3-2
on the Billboard 200 for a
third nonconsecutive week at
its peak position. The set
earned 105,000 equivalent
album units in the tracking
week (up 64%) — it’s biggest
week yet by units earned. Of
that sum, album sales
comprise a career
weekly-best 56,000 (up 328%;
it’s also the top-selling
album of the week, reaching
No. 1 on Top Album Sales for
the first time). The
week-over-week growth is
owed to the release of four
new vinyl variants and a
cassette tape in celebration
of the album’s first
anniversary on Sept. 22. Of
the album’s sales, vinyl
comprises 50,000 — easily
Roan’s best week on vinyl
and the sixth-largest week
for any vinyl album in 2024.
Sabrina Carpenter’s former
No. 1 Short n’ Sweet slips
2-3 on the Billboard 200
with 100,000 equivalent
album units earned (down
7%); Post Malone’s
chart-topping F-1 Trillion
is a non-mover at No. 4
(53,000; down 12%), and
Morgan Wallen’s former
leader One Thing at a Time
is steady at No. 5 (53,000;
up 2%). Katy Perry lands her
sixth top 10-charting effort
on the Billboard 200 as her
new studio album 143 debuts
at No. 6. The set earned
48,000 equivalent album
units in the tracking week
ending Sept. 26. Of that
sum, album sales comprise
37,500 (her best sales week
since 2017), SEA units
comprise 10,000 (equaling
13.11 million streams of the
album’s songs) and TEA units
comprise 500. The album’s
first-week sales were
bolstered by its
availability across eight
vinyl variants (including a
signed edition), four CD
variants (including a signed
edition), a cassette tape
and multiple digital
download variants (including
two exclusive to her
webstore, each with bonus
tracks). Taylor Swift’s
chart-topping The Tortured
Poets Department falls 6-7
on the latest Billboard 200
(47,000 equivalent album
units; down 9%), while
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard
and Soft is steady at No. 8
(45,000; up 2%). Lil
Tecca captures his fourth
top 10-charting set on the
Billboard 200 as Plan A
arrives at No. 9 with 42,000
equivalent album units
earned — his biggest week by
units since 2019. Of that
sum, SEA units comprise
28,500 (equaling 40.45
million on-demand official
streams of the set’s songs),
album sales comprise 13,500
(his best sales week ever)
and TEA units comprise a
negligible sum. The set’s
sales were aided by its
availability in two CD
variants (including a signed
edition) and multiple
digital download variants
(including three exclusive
to the artist’s webstore,
two of which included bonus
tracks). Closing out the top
10 of the new Billboard 200
is Noah Kahan’s Stick
Season, falling 9-10 with
38,000 equivalent album
units earned (down 1%).
Record Of The Month
'The Emptiness Machine' is
Linkin Park's lead single
from their upcoming eighth
studio album 'From Zero' and
the first time to feature
Emily Armstrong on vocals
and Colin Brittain on drums.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Sabrina Carpenter's 'Taste'
tops a fifth week
Monday, September 30, 2024
by Alan Jones, London
Already No.1 for more weeks
in a calendar year than any
female soloist in the
70-year history of the
singles chart, Sabrina
Carpenter tops the chart for
the 17th time this year -
actually, in the last 22
weeks – with Taste securing
its fifth straight week at
the summit on consumption of
53,149 units
(635 digital
downloads and 52,514 sales-equivalent streams). It thus matches the five weeks
that Please Please Please spent at No.1 but still trails the seven weeks that
her first chart-topper, Espresso, spent at the summit earlier this year.
Last week we mentioned that Carpenter was only the third act in chart history to
spend a minimum of four weeks at No.1 with their first three chart-toppers,
emulating The Beatles and Wet Wet Wet. Upping that to five, only The Beatles
have previously achieved it.
We also mentioned last week that “Carpenter has now eclipsed Ariana Grande (15
weeks) to move second behind Ed Sheeran (23 weeks) for most weeks at No.1 in the
2020s”. We meant Olivia Rodrigo not Ariana Grande, so apologies for that. Of
Sheeran’s 23 weeks, incidentally, only 16 were solo, the others being from
collaborations, so Carpenter has now had more weeks at No.1 solo than any other
act in a year in the 2020s. The last act to spend more
weeks at No.1 solo in a
year was still Sheeran, however. He spent 18 weeks at No.1 in 2017, 14 with
Shape Of You and four with Perfect.
Carpenter continues to have three songs in the top five, with the aforementioned
Espresso remaining at No.3 (40,124 sales) and Please Please Please dipping 4-5
(36,197 sales).
Chappell Roan remains Carpenter’s greatest threat, with introductory hit Good
Luck, Babe! at No.2 (43,909 sales) for the second week in a row, and fourth time
in total; while there are new peaks for her other concurrent hits, Hot To Go!
(9-7, 28,986 sales) and Pink Pony Club (21-15, 18,798 sales).
Die With A Smile continues to grow for Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, with a 4.33%
expansion in consumption to 37,564 units hoisting it 5-4.
After pausing at No.10 last week, Somedays also reaches a new peak, climbing to
No.9 (26,892 sales) for Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D.
The rest of the Top 10: Backbone (6-6, 30,075 sales) by Chase & Status and
Stormzy, Kisses (7-8, 28,720 sales) by Bl3ss, CamrinWatsin and Bbyclose and,
climbing into the Top 10 for the third time, Guess (11-10, 24,993 sales) by
Charli XCX & Billie Eilish.
Overall singles consumption is down 0.51% week-on-week to 29,072,774 units,
10.28% above same week 2023 consumption of 26,363,022 units. Paid-for sales are
up 2.62% week-on-week at 298,070, 12.46% above same week 2023 sales of 265,057.
Leadership of the album chart changes for the eighth week in a row, with melodic
Manchester/Stockport indie quintet Blossoms’ fifth studio album, Gary,
delivering their sixth Top 5 entry and fourth No.1 on first week consumption of
21,884 units (10,605 CDs, 7,890 vinyl albums, 344 cassettes, 1,423 digital
downloads and 1,622 sales-equivalent streams).
A succinct return to form, with 10 tracks and a playing time of just 30 minutes,
every track on Gary was co-penned by the band – 31-year-old guitarist/lead
vocalist Tom Ogden, 33-year-old bassist Charlie Salt, 27-year-old lead guitarist
Josh Dewhurst, 30-year-old keyboards player Myles Kellock and 31-year-old
drummer Joe Donovan. Gary, incidentally, is titled after and has lyrics about an
eight-foot-tall fibreglass statue of Gary The Gorilla, which was stolen from a
Lanarkshire garden centre in 2023, and sawn in half. All previous Blossoms
releases were on EMI but Gary is their first release on their own independent
Odd SK label, whose name seems to comprise of the initial letters of Blossoms
members’ surnames.
To secure their latest No.1, Blossoms had to see off two other acts who have had
previous No.1s, namely Tom Walker, whose I Am debuts at No.4 (10,720 sales); and
Katy Perry, whose 143 debuts at No.6 (9,250 sales).
I Am is the second album by 32-year-old Scottish singer/songwriter Walker, whose
debut, What A Time To Be Alive, sold 36,679 copies debuting at No.1 in 2019; 143
is the sixth studio album by American singer / songwriter Perry and its failure to
compete for honours follows the disappointing showing of its singles Woman’s
World (No.47) and Lifetimes (No.89).
Perry debuted at No.1 with 2010 second album Teenage Dream (54,176 sales) and
2013 third album Prism (53,827 sales), while her last album, Smile, debuted and
peaked at No.5 (8,579 sales) in 2020. Although only No.1 for one week, perennial
favourite Teenage Dream has spent 247 weeks in the Top 75 – the last 91
consecutively – and moves 45-51 (2,817 sales) this week, raising its lifetime
consumption to 1,859,922 units, over a million more than its nearest challenger.
That would be her 2008 debut One Of The Boys, which has to-date consumption of
742,572 units despite being Perry’s only album to fall short of the Top 10,
reaching No.11. Across all its editions, Teenage Dream spun-off eight Top 20
singles, although her most-consumed singles title, Roar (2,818,721 units) – No.1
exactly 11 years ago - is from Prism.
Jamie xx's second solo album, In Waves, debuts at No.5 (10,092 sales), nine
years after his debut solo set, In Colour, debuted and peaked at No.3 (19,255
sales). He has been No.1 twice as a member of The xx.
Chappell Roan’s UK dates are over but her album, The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest
Princess – No.1 seven weeks ago – climbs for the third straight week, jumping
4-3 with consumption growing a further 61.24% to 17,059 units, thanks primarily
to the release of a trio of deluxe vinyl anniversary editions.
The rest of the Top 10: Short n’ Sweet (2-2, 18,343 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter,
Time Flies: 1994-2009 (6-7, 8,457 sales) by Oasis, The Highlights (9-8, 7,470
sales) by The Weeknd, Brat (8-9, 6,974 sales) by Charli XCX and The Tortured
Poets Department (10-10, 6,815 sales) by Taylor Swift.
Overall album sales are up 0.39% week-on-week at 2,383,649 units, 10.20% above
same week 2023 sales of 2,162,951. Physical product accounts for 293,974 sales,
12.33% of the total.