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%).

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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.