Global Chart Report
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'Apt.' reigns a
sixth week
Sunday, December 1, 2024
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
'Apt.' by South Korean singer,
songwriter Rosé in collaboration
with Bruno Mars rules the Global
Track Chart easily for a sixth
consecutive week. Inspired by a
popular South Korean drinking game
named Apartment, from which the
title of the song is also derived,
the tune employs the game's rhythmic
chant of apateu (Korean: 아파트) to
create a playful and addictive
chorus. 'Apt.' remains at the summit
with another massive 549,000 points.
That's a 14% increase compared to
last week and the third-highest
weekly point-frame for that song
after it debuted in the calendar
week 44 with 557,000 points and
peaked the following week with
591,000 points.
Broken
down by segments, 'Apt.' generated
453,000 points by streaming this
week (up 13,5%), 37,000 points by sales (up
10%), and
59,000 points by airplay (up 28%).
By the way,
'Apt.' interpolates Toni Basil's
1982 hit 'Mickey', which peaked at
no.5 globally in December of that
year. The top
three is unchanged since
six weeks,
behind 'Apt.' follows still the
former number one smash 'Die With A
Smile' by Lady GaGa & Bruno Mars
with 434,000 points, an 1% growth,
with 330,000 points
by streaming, 39,000
points by sales, and 65,000 points
by airplay.
Billie Eilish's 'Birds Of A Feather'
(also a former no.1 hit) holds tight
at no.3 with 307,000
points, an 1% decline, with 207,000
points by streaming, 38,000 points
by sales, and 62,000 points by
airplay.
The song ranks at no.4 on the
year-to-date list with a total of
8,587,000 points, behind Teddy
Swims' 'Lose Control' (8,943,000
points), Sabrina Carpenter's
'Espresso' (10,220,000 points), and
Benson Boone's 'Beautiful Things'
(10,697,000 points). Kendrick
Lamar's new album 'GNX' generated
six new-entries on our current
tally, led by 'Squabble Up', which
bows at no.4 with 234,000 points.
Close behind starts 'Luther', a
collab with SZA, at no.5 with
233,000 points. According to our
chart rules, only the three most
successful songs from an album can
placed on the hitlist with the full
points. The fourth track gets a 10%
point deduction, the 5th 20%, etc. Our two legendary Xmas classics are
celebrating a round anniversary:
Wham!'s 'Last Christmas' was
released 40 years ago in December
1984 and Mariah Carey's 'All I Want
For Christmas Is You' started 30
years ago in October 1994. The
latter jumps back at no.11
globally with 170.000 points. It's
the 99th week for this carol inside
our tally, an all time record! 'Last
Christmas' climbs at no.20 with
147,000 points. With a total of
11,640,000 points it reaches no.37
on the
ALL TIME CHART,
'All I Want For Christmas Is You'
ranks at no.6 there with 17,935,000
points.
Outside
our current Top 40 waiting among
other 'Man At The Garden' by
Kendrick Lamar at no.46 and
'Yellow' by Coldplay at no.57 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. Kendrick Lamar's
sixth studio album 'GNX' explodes
atop the Global Album Chart with
391,000 equivalent sales (345,000
points by streaming + 46,000 points
by sales). It's his first album
after his departure from longtime
labels Top Dawg Entertainment and
Aftermath Entertainment. Kendrick
Lamar's big smash of the year, 'Not
Like Us' (a diss track against
Drake) isn't available on the album
and it's remarkable, that no tracks
from his feud with Drake are
included on his new effort. The
soundtrack to the musical fantasy
film Wicked is the second highest
debut of the week and lands shy
behind 'GNX' at the runner-up slot
with 169,000 consumption units
(63,000 points by streaming +
106,000 points by sales). Along with
the film cast, the soundtrack is
billed to Cynthia Erivo and Ariana
Grande, the film's two main stars,
who each appear on seven tracks out
of eleven on the standard release.
Rounds out the top three for a
second week is Ateez' 'Golden Hour:
Part 2' with 121,000 equivalent sales
(only 5,000 points by streaming +
116,000 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 8,000 / 16,509,000,
'1989 (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 33,000 / 6,172,000, '21' by Adele
19,000 / 33,356,000,
'25' by Adele 12,000 / 25,325,000,
'30' by Adele 8,000 / 6,608,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 26,000 /
10,242,000, 'Cowboy
Carter' by Beyoncé 7,000 /
1,535,000,
'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 19,000 /
21,370,000, 'Emails I Can't Send' by
Sabrina Carpenter 27,000 /
1,768,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
11,000 / 6,169,000, 'Eternal
Sunshine' by Ariana Grande 30,000 /
2,325,000, 'Evermore' by
Taylor Swift 18,000 / 6,271,000,
'Fireworks & Rollerblades' by Benson
Boone 43,000 / 1,791,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 15,000 / 9,212,000, Génesis' by
Peso Pluma 16,000 / 2,482,000, 'Guts' by Olivia Rodrigo
32,000 / 4,006,000,
'Harry's House'
by Harry Styles 12,000 / 7,226,000,
'Heroes &
Villains' by Metro Boomin 16,000 /
4,451,000, 'Lover' by Taylor Swift
42,000 / 11,127,000, 'Midnights' by Taylor
Swift 37,000 /
11,752,000, 'Muse' by Jimin 39,000 /
1,303,000, 'One Thing At A Time' by
Morgan Wallen 41,000 / 8,237,000, 'Radical Optimism' by
Dua Lipa 11,000 / 904,000, 'Red (Taylor's
Version)' by Taylor Swift 14,000 /
6,208,000, '17 Is Right Here' by
Seventeen 8,000 / 1,488,000,
'Speak
Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 9,000 / 3,537,000, 'Starboy'
by The Weeknd 33,000 / 8,265,000,
'Stick Season' by Noah Kahan 46,000
/ 3,803,000, 'The Death Of Slim Shady
(Coup De Grâce)' by Eminem 21,000 /
1,299,000,
'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
38,000 / 8,891,000, 'Un Verano Sin
Ti' by Bad Bunny 27,000 / 8,018,000, 'Utopia'
by Travis Scott 33,000 / 4,760,000,
and 'When We All Fall Asleep,
Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
17,000 / 12,174,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 20 YEARS
AGO
... "Lose My Breath" was taken
from the group's fourth studio album
Destiny Fulfilled as the first
single, released on September 21,
2004. It's a furious R&B / dance
song, driven by a marching, military
percussion-led instrumentation with
different sound effects in its
backing track. The single's music
video directed by Marc Klasfeld and
filmed in Los Angeles, California,
featured Destiny's Child performing
dance choreographies portraying
three different characters. "Lose My
Breath" reached only no.1 in
Belgium, Switzerland and Ireland,
but a top five position in almost
all other countries, inter alia,
no.2 in United Kingdom, Norway,
Spain, and Portugal, no.3 in the
United States, Germany, Italy, and
Australia.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Shaboozey tops Hot
100 for record-tying 19th week
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
The smash matches the reign
of Lil Nas X's "Old Town
Road," featuring Billy Ray
Cyrus, in 2019. Shaboozey’s
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” claims
a record-equaling 19th week
at No. 1 on the
Billboard Hot 100.
Over the chart’s 66-year
history, the song is now
tied for the longest reign
with Lil Nas X’s “Old Town
Road” (featuring Billy Ray
Cyrus), which dominated for
19 weeks in 2019. “A Bar
Song (Tipsy),” on American
Dogwood / Empire, totaled
69.5 million radio airplay
audience impressions
(essentially even
week-over-week), 19.6
million official streams
(down 2%) and 8,000 sold (up
40%) in the United States
Nov. 15-21. Boosting its
profile during the tracking
week, Shaboozey performed the
song, in a medley with his
newer single “Highway,” on
the 58th Annual Country
Music Association (CMA)
Awards Nov. 20. (The
ceremony aired live on ABC
and was made available for
streaming on Hulu the
following day.) “A Bar Song
(Tipsy)” was also discounted
to 69 cents in the iTunes
Store during the week. The
track holds for a 17th week
at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart;
slips 2-4 after 14 weeks
atop Digital Song Sales;
and holds at No. 5 following
nine weeks ruling Streaming
Songs. Lady Gaga and Bruno
Mars’ “Die With a Smile”
holds for a fourth week at
its No. 2 Hot 100 high.
During the tracking week,
instrumental acoustic and
sped-up versions were
released (Nov. 20), with all
versions discounted to 69
cents in the iTunes Store.
Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a
Feather” holds at No. 3 on
the Hot 100, after reaching
No. 2. Teddy Swims’ “Lose
Control,” which topped the
Hot 100 for a week in March,
rises 5-4. It one-ups The
Kid LAROI and Justin
Bieber’s 2021 hit “Stay” for
the second-most weeks (45)
logged in the top 10
all-time; only The Weeknd’s
“Blinding Lights” (57 weeks,
2020-21) has spent more time
in the tier. Sabrina
Carpenter’s “Espresso”
retreats 4-5 on the Hot 100,
after hitting No. 3, while
her “Taste” keeps at No. 8,
after it debuted at its No.
2 high. Gracie Abrams’
“That’s So True” holds at
its No. 6 Hot 100 high, as
it leads Streaming Songs for
a second week (22.8 million
streams, down 3%). Post
Malone’s “I Had Some Help,”
featuring Morgan Wallen, is
steady at No. 7 on the Hot
100, following six weeks at
no. 1 beginning upon its
debut in May. Rounding out
the Hot 100’s top 10, Benson
Boone’s No. 2-peaking
“Beautiful Things” is a
non-mover at No. 9, as is
Wallen’s “Love Somebody” at
No. 10, after it debuted at
No. 1 earlier in November.
Ateez add their second No. 1
album on the Billboard 200
chart as Golden Hour: Part.2
debuts atop the list (dated
Nov. 30) with 184,000
equivalent album units
earned in the U.S. in the
week ending Nov. 21,
according to Luminate. With
an opening frame driven
largely by album sales —
179,000 copies sold — the
set marks the best week yet
for the pop ensemble by both
units earned or traditional
album sales. Of Golden Hour:
Part.2’s 184,000 equivalent
album units earned, album
sales comprise 179,000 (it’s
the top-selling album of the
week and debuts at No. 1 on
Top Album Sales; it’s also
the sixth-largest sales
debut week of 2024 for any
title), SEA units comprise
5,000 (equaling 6.43 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s songs) and TEA
units comprise a negligible
sum. The album’s first-week
sales were bolstered by its
availability across 29
physical format variants (23
CDs and six vinyl editions;
all containing collectible
branded paper ephemera, some
randomized) and three
digital download variants (a
standard edition and two
versions containing voice
notes from the acts as bonus
tracks). Linkin Park returns
to the Billboard 200 with
its first new studio album
in seven years, as From Zero
enters at No. 2 with 97,000
equivalent album units
earned. Of that sum, album
sales comprise 72,000 (it
debuts at No. 2 on Top Album
Sales), SEA units comprise
24,000 (equaling 32.18
million on-demand official
streams of the set’s songs;
it bows at No. 17 on Top
Streaming Albums) and TEA
units comprise 1,000. From
Zero is the band’s 12th top
10-charting set and the
first to feature new members
Emily Armstrong (co-lead
vocals) and Colin Brittain
(drums). The album is the
first without vocalist
Chester Bennington (who died
in 2017) and drummer Rob
Bourdon (who departed the
group in 2018). From Zero’s
first-week sales were aided
by its availability across
11 vinyl editions (multiple
color variants, two picture
discs and four alternative
cover versions), four CD
variants (including a deluxe
boxed set containing branded
merch and a CD, and a
Zine/CD package), two
cassette editions and two
digital download editions.
All versions of the album
contain the same 11 songs,
except for one download
album, which boasts three
bonus live tracks. Tyler,
The Creator’s chart-topping
CHROMAKOPIA falls 1-3 in its
fourth week on the chart,
after spending its first
three weeks atop the list.
It earned 81,000 equivalent
album units in its fourth
charting frame (down 22%).
BTS’ Jin sees his solo debut
project, Happy, bow at No. 4
on the Billboard 200 with
77,000 equivalent album
units earned. Of that sum,
album sales comprise 66,000
(it debuts at No. 3 on Top
Album Sales), SEA units
comprise 8,000 (equaling
10.53 million on-demand
official streams of the
set’s songs) and TEA units
comprise 3,000. Happy’s
first-week sales were
enhanced by its availability
across 13 CD variants
(containing branded paper
ephemera, some editions
include randomized items)
and seven digital variants
(a standard version, two
with alternate cover art,
and four with assorted bonus
tracks ranging from a voice
memo to remixes). Sabrina
Carpenter’s former leader
Short n’ Sweet dips 3-5 with
72,000 units (up 6%). Rauw
Alejandro lands his first
top 10-charting effort on
the Billboard 200 as Cosa
Nuestra debuts at No. 6 with
67,000 equivalent album
units earned — the artist’s
biggest week by units
earned. The album’s opening
week was overwhelming driven
by streaming activity, as
SEA units comprise 66,000 of
the album’s first week
(equaling 87.66 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s songs; it
debuts at No. 2 on Top
Streaming Albums). Album
sales comprise 1,000 (from
just one digital download
edition of the album) and
TEA units comprise a
negligible sum. Cosa Nuestra
boasts guests including Bad
Bunny, Laura Pausini, Romeo
Santos and Pharrell
Williams. Enhypen’s Romance:
Untold re-enters the
Billboard 200 at No. 7 with
54,000 equivalent album
units earned in the latest
tracking week (up 960%),
following it Nov. 15
repackage and reissue with
two bonus tracks. The new
iteration of the album is
dubbed Romance: Untold
-daydream-. All versions of
the album, old and new, are
combined for tracking and
charting purposes. The
initial release of the
project debuted and peaked
at No. 2 in July. Of the
album’s 54,000 units earned
in the week ending Nov. 21,
album sales comprise 51,000
(up 1,473%, it jumps 26-4 on
Top Album Sales), SEA units
comprise 3,000 (equaling
4.45 million on-demand
official streams of the
album’s songs) and TEA units
comprise a negligible sum.
The set’s album sales were
bolstered by its
availability across 12 new
CD variants and three new
download editions, joining
its previously available 17
CD editions, two vinyl
variants and a standard
download album. All physical
editions of the album
contain branded paper
ephemera, some randomized.
Rounding out the top 10 of
the latest Billboard 200:
Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of
Us (4-8 with 50,000
equivalent album units; down
5%), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me
Hard and Soft (5-9 with
49,000; up 2%) and Chappell
Roan’s The Rise and Fall of
a Midwest Princess (6-10
with 43,000; down 8%).
Record Of The Month
'Tu Boda' is
the second collab between
Mexican musician Óscar
Maydon and American
regional Mexican band Fuerza
Regida and it's a massive
success in Latin America.
It was met with criticism
for its lyrics, specifically
the lyric reading, "Quiero
manchar el vestido
blanco de rojo" ("I want to
stain the white dress red"),
which were suspected to
promote femicide.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Gracie Abrams' 'That's So
True' is still at No.1
Monday, December 2, 2024
by Alan Jones, London
Just 2.98% ahead of its
nearest opponent last week,
Gracie Abrams’ first No.1
single, That’s So True,
opens that gap to a more
comfortable 31.82% as it
secures its second week at
the apex on consumption of
54,549 units (597 digital
downloads and 53,952
sales-equivalent streams).
That’s a 33.71%
Gracie Abrams remains
comfortable atop the singles
chart, with That’s So True
racking up consumption of a
further 49,848 units (323
digital downloads and 49,525
sales-equivalent streams) on
its fourth week at No.1. It
extends to 30 weeks (out of
47) in 2024, and 14 weeks in
a row that the No.1 song has
been by a female soloist –
both records.
Remaining in convoy in an
unchanged top three are
Sailor Song (2-2, 39,905
sales) by Gigi Perez and Apt
(3-3, 39,058 sales) by Rosé
& Bruno Mars. Abrams and
Perez’s songs suffer small
falls in consumption but Apt
– actually No.3 for the
fourth straight week -
enjoys a 16.03% uplift
week-on-week
A surprise release when it
dropped last Friday
(November 22), rapper
Kendrick Lamar’s sixth
studio album, GNX, debuts
atop the chart and spawns
three new Top 10 singles –
Squabble Up (No.4, 29,712
sales), Luther (feat. SZA.
No.5, 28,938 sales) and TV
Off (feat. Lefty Gunplay,
No.6, 28,535 sales). Lamar
has now had
45 Top 75 hits
with 12 of them reaching the
Top 10. SZA’s involvement
with Luther increases her
tally of hits to 21, while
TV Off is Californian rapper
Lefty Gunplay’s first. All
of the other nine tracks on
GNX are ‘starred-out’
between positions No.7 and
No.34.
No.1 on the compilation
chart, the Wicked soundtrack
also spawns a trio of new
hits, although only Defying
Gravity by Cynthia Erivo
feat. Ariana Grande makes
the Top 10, debuting at No.7
(27,489 sales). Further down
the chart, there are debuts
for Popular (No.13, 19,051
sales) by Ariana Grande and
What Is This Feeling?
(No.17, 18,058) by Ariana
Grande and Cynthia Erivo.
Already No.2 and No.3 on the
Top 200 Combined Tracks
chart with unadjusted sales
of 46,169 and 40,759
respectively, Last Christmas
(16-8, 23,280 sales) by
Wham! and All I Want For
Christmas Is You (17-10,
20,561 sales) by Mariah
Carey return to the Top 10
despite being under the yoke
of ACR. It is the eleventh
festive season and the ninth
year in a row for both in
the Top 10.
Rounding out the Top 10 is
The Door (5-9, 20,676 sales)
by Teddy Swims.
Overall singles consumption
is up 0.99% week-on-week to
30,124,352 units, their
highest level for 27 weeks,
and 7.55% above same week
2023 consumption of
28,008,768 units. Paid-for
sales are down 2.87%
week-on-week at 267,869,
0.30% above same week 2023
sales of 267,064.
More than nine years after
Kendrick Lamar’s only
previous No.1 album, To Pimp
A Butterfly, the 37-year-old
Californian rapper returns
to pole position with sixth
studio release GNX on
consumption of 25,771 units
(994 digital downloads and
24,777 sales-equivalent
streams). A surprise
release, it will doubtless
achieve a second wind when
it is released physically
next year.
Lamar’s uncharted 2011
debut, Section 80, achieved
154 first week sales and has
to-date consumption of
70,501 units. His 2012
breakthrough, Good Kid,
M.A.A.D. City, debuted and
peaked at No.16 on
consumption of 7,141 units,
and is his biggest seller
with to-date consumption of
530,828 units. To Pimp A
Butterfly sold 29,695 units
debuting at No.1 in 2015,
and has to-date consumption
of 359,151 units; Damn
debuted and peaked at No.2
on sales of 31,543 units –
his highest - in 2017, and
has to-date consumption of
507,804 units; and Mr.
Morale & The Big Steppers
opened at No.2 on sales of
28,206 units in 2022, and
has to-date consumption of
202,590 units.
Michael Kiwanuka’s fourth
album in total and first in
over five years, Small
Changes extends his record
of making the Top 5 with
every release. Debuting at
No.2 (18,985 sales), it
follows Home Again (No.4,
2012), Love & Hate (No.1,
2016) and Kiwanuka (No.2,
2019). Proving that timing
is everything, his lowest
charting album, Home Again,
secured his highest first
week sales (30,163) while
his No.1, Love & Hate,
secured his lowest first
week sales (11,639).
The rest of the Top 10:
Short n’ Sweet (2-3, 13,557
sales) by Sabrina Carpenter,
From Zero (1-4, 8,615 sales)
by Linkin Park, Brat (9-5,
7,531 sales) by Charli XCX,
The Rise And Fall Of A
Midwest Princess (5-6, 7,431
sales) by Chappell Roan,
+--=÷× Tour Collection (6-7,
7,368 sales) by Ed Sheeran,
The Highlights (7-8, 7,010
sales) by The Weeknd,
Diamonds (8-9, 6,886 sales)
by Elton John and Hit Me
Hard And Soft (11-10, 6,536
sales) by Billie Eilish.
Overall album sales are up
3.59% week-on-week at
2,649,822 units, 0.34% below
same week 2023 sales of
2,658,737. Physical product
accounts for 456,097 sales,
17.21% of the total.