USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
Shaboozey scores 14th week at No.1
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” orders a 14th round at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song, which became the singer-songwriter’s first leader in July, extends 2024’s longest reign

and moves to within two weeks of tying the longest command this decade; Morgan Wallen’s fellow country/pop crossover smash “Last Night” led for 16 weeks in 2023. “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” on American Dogwood / Empire, totaled 75.6 million radio airplay audience impressions, 26.4 million official streams (down 1% week-over-week in each metric) and 6,000 sold (down 22%) in the United States Oct. 4-10. The track posts an 11th week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart; rebounds 2-1 for an eighth frame atop Streaming Songs; and holds at No. 2 following 13 weeks at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales. “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is now one of only 14 No. 1s in the Hot 100’s history to amass 14 or more weeks on top – an honor that a mere 1.2% of all No. 1s have achieved. All 14 hits have led since the chart adopted electronically-monitored Luminate data in November 1991, at which point longer reigns than before subsequently became more common;

since then, 3.4% of all No. 1s have led for 14 or more weeks. Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” flies in place at its No. 2 Hot 100 high. Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, climbs 4-3 on the Hot 100, following six weeks at No. 1 beginning upon its debut in May. Sabrina Carpenter boasts three songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 for a seventh consecutive week: “Espresso” buzzes 5-4, after becoming her first top 10, reaching No. 3; “Taste” rises 9-7, after it debuted at its No. 2 best; and “Please Please Please” ascends 10-9, after it became her first Mo. 1 in June. Thanks to the trio of hits, all from her album Short n’ Sweet, she has become one of just six acts that have tripled up in the top 10 for seven consecutive weeks or more. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” pushes 6-5 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 3, and Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” lifts 7-6, after reaching No. 4. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led the Hot 100 for a week in March, holds at No. 8, as it ties for the fifth-most weeks spent in the top 10 over the chart’s history. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Benson Boone’s No. 2-peaking “Beautiful Things” returns to the region, rising 12-10. (Although it last ranked in the tier in early August, it has placed in the top 15 each week dating to its February debut.) Following the 39 weeks in the top 10 for “Lose Control” (starting on the Jan. 20-dated chart), “Espresso” and “Beautiful Things” rank second with 25 top 10 weeks each this year; “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” follows with 24. Coldplay captures its fifth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, and first in over a decade, as Moon Music debuts atop the list (dated Oct. 19). The set launches with 120,000 equivalent album units earned, of which 106,000 are in traditional album sales. Both figures represent the biggest week, by units and album sales, for the group since 2015. Overall, Moon Music marks the 10th top 10-charting effort for the band. The act previously led the list with Ghost Stories (2014), Mylo Xyloto (2011), Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008) and X&Y (2005). Of Moon Music’s first-week units of 120,000, album sales comprise 106,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 13,000 (equaling 16.71 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000. The group last garnered a larger week, in either overall units or album sales, with the debut frame of 2015’s A Head Full of Dreams, which bowed with 210,000 units, of which 195,000 were in traditional album sales. The album’s vinyl sales total 29,000 for the week — Coldplay’s best sales week on vinyl ever. Sabrina Carpenter's Short n’ Sweet falls a spot to No. 2 (with 93,000 equivalent album units; down 8%) after four nonconsecutive weeks atop the list. It’s No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart for a sixth nonconsecutive week. Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess dips 2-3 on the Billboard 200 (56,000; down 12%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time is a non-mover at No. 4 (50,000; down less than 1%), and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft is stationary at No. 5 (50,000; up 1%). Three former leaders are up next: Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department rising one spot to No. 6 (45,000 equivalent album units; up 1%), Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion dips 6-7 (43,000; down 8%) and Future’s Mixtape Pluto falls 3-8 (40,000; down 28%). Rounding out the top 10 are: Noah Kahan’s Stick Season, descending 8-9 (37,000 equivalent album units; down 2%), and Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album, holding steady at No. 10 (32,000; down 2%).

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Sabrina Carpenter's 'Taste' tops a seventh week
Monday, October 14, 2024
by Alan Jones, London
 
Its consumption slipping 2.20% week-on-week to its lowest level yet, Taste nevertheless racks up a seventh straight week at No.1 for Sabrina Carpenter on consumption of 51,717 units (490 digital downloads and 51,227 sales-equivalent streams). Thus equalling the amount of time her first chart-topper

(Espresso) spent at the summit in two runs and – when Please Please Please’s five weeks at the apex are added in – raising Carpenter’s occupation of the No.1 spot to 19 weeks out of the last 24. That’s the second most by a solo artist in a single calendar year, surpassing the 18 weeks that Elvis Presley spent at No.1 in 1961, and Ed Sheeran spent at No.1 in 2017 but falling short of the 27 weeks that Frankie Laine spent at No.1 in 1953. With the aforementioned Espresso dipping 3-4 (36,528 sales) and Please Please Please holding at No.5 (32,388 sales), Carpenter extends her record run of having three titles in the top five to an unprecedented seven weeks. Good Luck, Babe! is No.2 for the sixth week in total and fourth week in a row for Chappell Roan on consumption of 38,549 units, and the top five is completed by Die With A Smile, which rises 4-3 (36,660 sales), reaching a new peak for Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars. Sailor Song by Gigi Perez has

been becalmed three times so far on its 12-week chart voyage, with two week turns at No.35, No.13 and No.11 but it has never gone down, and moves off the latter mark to make the Top 10 for the first time this week, breezing to No.6 (29,228 sales). Somedays returns to growth, climbing 10-8 (28,120 sales) to surpass its previous peak of No.9 for Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D. The rest of the Top 10: Backbone (6-7, 28,799 sales) by Chase & Status and Stormzy; Kisses (8-9, 27,209 sales) by Bl3ss, CamrinWatsin and Bbyclose; and Hot To Go! (9-10, 26,353 sales) by Chappell Roan. Overall singles consumption is up 2.06% week-on-week to 29,672,017 units, 10.52% above same week 2023 consumption of 26,848,732 units. Paid-for sales are down 2.04% week-on-week at 282,878, 11.53% above same week 2023 sales of 253,628. Eclipsing the first week sales of any album by a group since One Direction’s third album, Midnight Memories, launched on sales of 237,338 units in November 2013, Coldplay’s latest studio album, Moon Music, goes into orbit high above the chasing pack on this week’s album chart, racking up stellar first week consumption of 236,796 units (182,166 CDs, 27,248 vinyl albums, 20,737 digital downloads and 6,645 sales-equivalent streams). Effecting the 10th change of leadership of the chart in as many weeks it also maintains their perfect 10 – being their 10th consecutive studio album (their entire output) to reach No.1 in a career spanning more than 24 years. Preceded by the hits Feelslikeimfallinginlove and We Pray, the core version of Moon Music consists of 10 tracks with a playing time of 43 minutes, with all tracks being co-penned by the band – Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion – and crediting outsiders, including late poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, Brian Eno, Jay-Z, Nile Rodgers, Chris Martin’s (adult) children Apple and Moses and the unrelated Swedish songwriting legend Max Martin, who also co-produced the set. It is only the fifth album to achieve consumption in excess of 200,000 sales in a week in the 249 that have thus far elapsed in the 2020s, behind Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, which opened with 270,091 sales in May, Adele’s 30 (261,856 in December 2021) and ahead of Swift’s Midnights (204,501 in October 2022) and ABBA’s Voyage (203,909 in November 2021). At the same stage in the 2010s, sales in excess of 200,000 were achieved 14 times, and in the 2000s, 39 times. In the 21st century as a whole – a period of 1,293 weeks – it is the 117th instance of a sale in excess of 200,000 units. Surpassing by 134.12% the 101,145 start made by Coldplay’s last album, Music Of The Spheres, three years ago next week, Moon Music is the sixth album by the band to achieve a first week sale in excess of 200,000, though it is far below their personal best, the 464,471 launch of X&Y in 2005. They have achieved 200k plus a total of seven times, putting them behind Robbie Williams (15), Take That (12) and Adele (eight) and equal with Westlife (seven) on the 21st century leaderboard. They have spent 21 weeks at No.1 – all since 2000 - the seventh highest tally of any act this century, with the only group to spend longer at No.1 in that period being Take That (23 weeks). Moon Music’s sales on CD last week were the highest for any album in that format since Ed Sheeran’s Divide in 2017, when its first week consumption of 671,542 units included 405,351 CDs, and its second week consumption of 303,520 units included 186,577 CDs. It instantly moves into fourth place on the 2020s best-selling CDs list, behind 30 by Adele (465,458), Voyage by ABBA (373,089) and = (Equals) by Ed Sheeran (321,761) and ahead of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department (173,534). It also debuts at No.8 in the 2020s physical sales chart, its total of 209,415 placing it behind 30 by Adele (523,536), Voyage by Abba (424,677), (Equals) by Ed Sheeran (368,357), Taylor Swift albums Midnights (283,912), The Tortured Poets Department (265,514) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (222,993) and Rumours by Fleetwood Mac (214,338). It has already surpassed to-date physical sales of its predecessor, Music Of The Spheres (170,059). Moon Music achieved an 8.90% slice of the overall album market in the week – 39.21% of the physical market – achieving greater consumption than the rest of the Top 40 combined and outselling its nearest challenger – Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n Sweet which bounces 3-2 (17,992 sales) to achieve runners-up slot for the fifth time in its seven-week chart tenure – by a margin of greater than 13 to one. Although massively overshadowed by Coldplay’s grand entrance, four more albums debut inside the Top 10 this week: The Last Flight (No.3, 10,468 sales), the seventh chart album (third Top 10) for London-based art rockers Public Service Broadcasting, whose last studio set, Bright Magic, reached No.2 in 2021; Changes All The Time (No.4, 9,447 sales), the fourth Top 5 album (his entire output) for 34-year-old Hertfordshire singer/songwriter James Bay, whose 2015 debut, Chaos And The Calm, reached No.1 and has to-date consumption of 954,796 units; Cutouts (No.7, 8,795 sales), the third album in short order for Radiohead spin-off act The Smile – comprising band members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and drummer Tom Skinner from jazz band Sons Of Kemet, arriving eight months after their second album, Wall Of Eyes, opened at No.3 and two years after debut, A Light For Attracting Attention reached No.5; and Key (No.8, 7,684 sales), erstwhile Yazoo singer Alison Moyet’s tenth solo set, reworking her catalogue and extending her unbroken run of Top 30 albums, 40 years after her debut solo album, Alf, reached No.1. The rest of the Top 10: The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (6-5, 9,412 sales) by Chappell Roan; +--=÷× Tour Collection (5-6, 9,340 sales) by Ed Sheeran; The Highlights (8-9, 7,355 sales) by The Weeknd; and The Tortured Poets Department (11-10, 6,944 sales) by Taylor Swift. Overall album sales are up 8.62% week-on-week at 2,661,465 units, their highest level for 24 weeks and 22.09% above same week 2023 sales of 2,179,863. Physical product accounts for 534,140 sales, also their highest level for 24 weeks, and 20.07% of the total.