30 YEARS AGO ... 'A Groovy Kind Of Love' by Phil Collins topped the Global Charts for nine non-consecutive weeks and was the biggest success of the year 1988. It was released for the soundtrack to the British romantic crime comedy 'Buster', starring Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb and Sheila Hancock. The song heavily based on the Rondo movement of Sonatina in G major, op.36 no.5, by Muzio Clementi. Firstly recorded as an upbeat guitar-based pop song by Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders, it was a no.8 success in May 1966. Collin's version was a slow ballad with a prominent keyboard and strings.

USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Girls Like You' by Maroon 5 remains at no.1
Thuesday, October 16, 2018
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, giving Gaga her fifth chart-topper and Cooper his first. The set, which was

released via Interscope Records on Oct. 5, starts with 231,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 11, according to Nielsen Music -- the biggest week for a soundtrack in more than three-and-a-half years. Of A Star Is Born’s 231,000 units, most come from album sales: 162,000. The rest of the units are comprised of SEA units totaling 37,000, and TEA units equaling 32,000. A Star Is Born -- the soundtrack to the film of the same name starring Gaga and Cooper -- gives Lady Gaga her fifth No. 1 on the Billboard 200. She previously led the list with Joanne (in 2016), Cheek to Cheek, her collaboration with Tony Bennett (2014), ARTPOP (2013) and Born This Way (2011). A Star Is Born lands the biggest overall week for a soundtrack in more than three-and-a-half years. The last soundtrack to score a larger week in total units was the Fifty Shades of Grey album, which debuted at No. 2 on the list dated Feb. 28, 2015 with 258,000 units earned. A Star Is

Born also claims the biggest sales week for a soundtrack since Fifty Shades of Grey’s arrival, as the latter sold 210,000 copies in its first frame. Notably, 2018 is the first year since 2009 in which least three theatrical film soundtracks have led the tally. In 2009, there were four No. 1 soundtracks in total, but only three were tied to a theatrically released movie: Michael Jackson’s This Is It, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Hannah Montana: The Movie. (The fourth No. 1 soundtrack that year was Fabolous’ Loso’s Way, which was a home video release.) The film A Star Is Born earned $94.2 million in its first 10 days of release in the U.S. and Canada. The movie premiered in theaters on Oct. 5. At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, twenty one pilots fly in with their new studio album, Trench. The set starts with 175,000 units, of which 135,000 are in album sales -- the act’s biggest sales week ever (stepping past its previous high, logged when Blurryface sold 134,000 in its first week back in 2015). Trench, the act’s second top 10 set, logs the second-biggest week (both in terms of overall units and album sales) for an alternative album in 2018, following Panic! at the Disco’s debut frame with Pray for the Wicked (179,000 units, of which 151,000 were in album sales, July 7-dated chart). Trench is twenty one pilots’ follow-up to the blockbuster Blurryface, which bowed at No. 1 on the June 6, 2015-dated list and has yet to depart the chart (after 178 consecutive weeks). The album has earned 3.74 million equivalent album units, of which 1.7 million are in traditional album sales. Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V slips from No. 1 to No. 3 on the new Billboard 200 in the title’s second chart week. It earned 135,000 units (down 72 percent). Rappers Lil Baby and Gunna’s collaborative album Drip Harder starts at No. 4 with 130,000 units, overwhelmingly powered by streaming activity -- 121,000 SEA units. That SEA unit sum translates to 164.63 million on-demand audio streams for the album’s tracks, making it the most-streamed album of the week. Drip Harder is Lil Baby’s second top 10, and the first for Gunna. Eric Church’s Desperate Man bows at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, clocking the country star his fifth top 10 effort. Desperate Man enters with 116,000 units, of which 103,000 were in album sales. The album yields the fourth-largest overall week for a country album in 2018, in both overall units and album sales. Steve Perry earns his first top 10 album on the Billboard 200, as his third solo studio effort, Traces, debuts at No. 6 with 73,000 units (72,000 in album sales). The former Journey frontman visited the chart twice previously as a soloist, with his two earlier studio albums: For the Love of Strange Medicine (No. 15, Aug. 6, 1994) and Street Talk (No. 12, June 9, 1984). (While Perry was with Journey, the band notched seven top 10s, from 1980’s Departure through 1996’s Trial by Fire.) The sixth and final debut in the new Billboard 200 top 10 belongs to for KING & COUNTRY’s Burn the Ships, which sails in at No. 7 with 62,000 units (57,000 in album sales). It’s the best sales week, highest charting album, and first top 10 for the Christian music act, which previously topped out at No. 13 in 2014 with Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong. With six debuts in the top 10, it’s the first time in nearly a year that many titles have bowed in the region. It last happened on the Nov. 18, 2017-dated tally. Rounding out the new top 10 are Drake’s Scorpion falling 5-8 (54,000 units; down 5 percent), Travis Scott’s Astroworld slipping 7-9 (49,000 units; down 1 percent) and Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys down 8-10 (44,000 units; up 5 percent). Maroon 5's "Girls Like You," featuring Cardi B, logs a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Oct. 20). "Girls" tops the Radio Songs chart for a 12th week, with 125.4 million in audience, down 1 percent, in the week ending Oct. 14, according to Nielsen Music. The track passes The Chainsmokers' "Closer," featuring Halsey, in 2016, as the longest-leading Radio Songs No. 1 by a duo or group this century; it boasts the longest reign by a duo or group since TLC's "No Scrubs" led for 13 weeks in 1999. (Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" holds the longevity record atop Radio Songs among all acts, with 18 weeks at No. 1 in 1998.) "Girls" has also logged the longest run atop Radio Songs by any act since Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You," which spent 12 weeks at No. 1 in 2017. "Girls" dips 8-9 on Digital Song Sales, but with a 22 percent gain to 22,000 downloads sold, in the week ending Oct. 11, after leading the list for six weeks, and rebounds 19-16 on Streaming Songs (22.9 million U.S. streams, down 2 percent, in the week ending Oct. 11), where it reached No. 5. Juice WRLD's "Lucid Dreams" returns to its No. 2 Hot 100 peak from No. 3, as it rebounds 6-2 on Streaming Songs (35.8 million, essentially even week-over-week); holds at No. 6 on Radio Songs (71 million, also on par with last week's sum); and slips 18-20 on Digital Song Sales (11,000, down 7 percent). Post Malone's "Better Now" revisits its Hot 100 highpoint (4-3), as it holds at No. 2 on Radio Songs (100 million, down 1 percent) and jumps 15-10 on Digital Song Sales (19,000, up 44 percent) and 28-17 on Streaming Songs (21.4 million, up 7 percent). The track's official video arrived at last Oct. 5 and Post Malone performed the song as part of a medley with his prior hit "Psycho" (with Ty Dolla $ign) during the American Music Awards on Oct. 9.  COMPLETE CHARTS