USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'I'm The Problem' rules Billboard 200 for sixth week
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Morgan Wallen's I’m the Problem spends a sixth week in a row at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated July 5), earning 177,000 equivalent album units in the United States in

the week ending June 26 (down 5%), according to Luminate. The album debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 31 and has yet to cede the top slot. With 177,000 units earned, Problem nets the largest total for an album in its sixth week on the chart since Adele’s 25 earned 363,000 in its sixth week (Jan. 16, 2016-dated chart). Of I’m the Problem’s 177,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 19, SEA units comprise 168,500 (down 4%, equaling 220.51 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for a sixth week), album sales comprise 7,500 (down 19% — it holds at No. 7 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 3%). Benson Boone bounds in at No. 2 with his sophomore full-length studio album, American Heart, earning 61,000 equivalent album units in its first week. It’s the singer-songwriter’s second top 10, highest-charting set and biggest week ever by units earned. His

previous biggest week, in both metrics, came when his last album, Fireworks & Rollerblades, skated in at No. 6 with 58,000 units earned (April 20, 2024-dated chart). Of the 61,000 equivalent album units earned by American Heart, SEA units comprise just over 30,000 (equaling 40.29 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise nearly 30,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales; it’s Boone’s largest sales week) and TEA units comprise 1,000. Karol G notches her third top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 as Tropicoqueta debuts at No. 3 with 57,000 equivalent album units earned. It follows her two top 10s achieved in 2023: MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO (BICHOTA SEASON) (No. 3 that August) and MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO (No. 1 for one week, March). Of the new release’s 57,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 54,500 (equaling 74.64 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 20 songs — it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 2,000 and TEA units comprise about 500. Four former No. 1s are next up on the latest Billboard 200, as SZA’s SOS holds at No. 4 (47,000 equivalent album units earned; down 1%), Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is steady at No. 5 (37,000; down 7%), Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet is a non-mover at No. 6 (35,000; down 12%) and Kendrick Lamar’s GNX rises 8-7 (31,000; down 8%). The soundtrack to the Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters debuts at No. 8 with 31,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the highest-debuting soundtrack of 2025 and the first to bow in the top 10 this year. Of the set’s starting sum, SEA units comprise 27,000 (equaling 37.48 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks — it debuts at No. 10 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 3,000 (it debuts at No. 18 on Top Album Sales; it was only available to purchase as a standard download album) and TEA units comprise 1,000. Closing out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album is steady at No. 9 (30,000 equivalent album units earned; down 5%) and PartyNextDoor and Drake’s former leader $ome $exy $ongs 4 U is stationary at No. 10 (29,000; down 6%). Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” continues atop the Billboard Hot 100, as his first leader on the list adds a fourth week at No. 1. Released on Atlantic Records it tallied 19.8 million official streams (down 3% week-over-week), 64.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 4%) and 6,000 sold (down 6%) in the United States June 20-26. The single spends a second week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart; rebounds 4-2 on Streaming Songs, following four weeks at the summit; and holds at No. 2 after seven weeks atop Digital Song Sales. Cardi B’s “Outside” soars onto the Hot 100 at No. 10, with 15.6 million streams, 6 million in airplay audience and 14,000 sold from its June 20 release through June 26. It’s her 13th top 10 and first since “Enough (Miami)” debuted at its No. 9 peak in March 2024. She boasts five No. 1s — the most among women rappers — from her debut hit, “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves),” in 2017, through “Up,” in 2021. “Outside” opens at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, marking Cardi B’s eighth leader. Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, rises 3-2 on the Hot 100, after it debuted in May as Wallen’s fourth No. 1 and McRae’s first. It adds a fifth week atop Streaming Songs (22.3 million, up 3%). Wallen follows on the Hot 100 with the No. 2-peaking “Just in Case,” which keeps at No. 4, and “I’m the Problem,” which lifts 6-5 — as Wallen runs up his sixth week with at least three simultaneous top 10s this year, one-upping Kendrick Lamar for the most in 2025. Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild” dips 2-3 on the Hot 100, after it debuted as her second No. 1, and first chart-topping debut, two weeks earlier. Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” descends 5-6 after 13 weeks atop the Hot 100 beginning in March. Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” stays at No. 7 on the Hot 100, following its record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1 beginning last July, and Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” is stationary at No. 8 after five weeks at No. 1 beginning in January. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led the Hot 100 for a week in March 2024, and became the year’s No. 1 song, remains at No. 9. It posts a record-padding 67th week in the top 10 and a record-extending 97th week on the chart overall.

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24 year-old Johannes Pietsch, better known by his stage name JJ, from Austria
won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with 436 points.
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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Sabrina Carpenter's 'Manchild' returns to No. 1
Monday, June 30, 2025
by Alan Jones, London
 
The country’s favourite track for the 14th time in 15 weeks, Ordinary nevertheless falls 1-9 for Alex Warren, after finally falling into ACR, with notional consumption of 28,702 units and unadjusted consumption of 56,289 units. Its relegation allows Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild – which  legitimately toppled it a

fortnight ago – to return to No.1, albeit somewhat weakly, with consumption falling 15.11% week-on-week to 45,756 units. Comprising 54 7-inch singles, 362 digital downloads and 45,340 sales-equivalent streams, that’s the lowest tally for a No.1 for 15 weeks. Carpenter has now spent 23 weeks at No.1 in the 2020s – all in the last 61 weeks – equalling the 2020s record set by Ed Sheeran. Manchild is the third of her four number ones to have a second spell at No.1, and the one with the shortest (one week) gap between residencies. Previously, Espresso returned after five weeks off the top, and Please Please Please after two weeks off the top. Taste didn’t return to No.1. Manchild is being chased hard by Dior, which surges 5-2 on its third frame for MK feat. Chrystal, with consumption growing 25.01% week-on-week to 41,862 units. Already the highest charting single in the 30-year chart career of MK – 52-year-old DJ, producer and recording artist

Mark Kinchen from Detroit – it is also now the highest-charting hit for British singer/songwriter Chrystal, surpassing the No.4 peak her debut hit, The Days, achieved in January. Fred Again.. lands a hit for the sixth year in a row as Victory Lap – a collaboration with rappers Skepta and PlaqueBoyMax – is the highest of 10 Top 75 debuts this week, opening its account at No.4 (32,615 sales). Sampling Doechii’s Swamp B*tches, it is Fred Again..’s second Top 10 hit, following 2023’s Adore U, and the highest-debuting of his 17 chart singles. It is also only the second Top 10 hit of 38 chart entries for Skepta, some 13 years after his first, and the very first hit for 22-year-old PlaqueBoyMax, from New Jersey. No.86 last week as a solo track by Sam Fender, Rein Me In makes its Top 75 debut at No.6 (31,352 sales). Much of its impetus is due to the release of a duet version with Olivia Dean and, in line with standard OCC practice which allows alterations to credits on tracks which haven’t previously made the Top 40, it is now credited jointly to the pair. Fender’s 15th Top 75 and fourth Top 10 entry, it is Dean’s fifth Top 75 and first Top 10 hit. The rest of the Top 10: Love Me Not (3-3, 38,782 sales) by Ravyn Lenae, Pink Pony Club (4-5, 31,604 sales) by Chappell Roan, Undressed (7-7, 28,801 sales) by Sombr, Blessings (8-8, 28,770 sales) by Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas and Family Matters (6-10, 28,417 sales) by Skye Newman. Overall singles consumption is down 1.84% week-on-week to 30,902,628 units, 3.74% above same week 2024 consumption of 29,787,608 units. Paid-for sales are up 4.96% week-on-week at 290,343, 3.17% above same week 2024 sales of 281,427. After triumphantly curating and headlining the second annual staging of his own Bludfest festival last weekend, Yungblud ends a perfect week by debuting at No.1 with new album, Idols. Released the day before the Milton Keynes event, Idols is the fourth full-length album by the 25-year-old from Doncaster – real name Dominic Harrison - and third No.1. Sales of the set are heavily skewed towards physical formats, which account for 89.84% of its first week tally of 25,947 units. Selling 15,991 copies on 9 CD variants, 6,519 on eight vinyl variants and 800 on cassette, its remaining consumption comes from 621 digital downloads and 2,016 sales-equivalent streams. As usual with Yungblud, it’s an eclectic, genre-defying release on which he co-wrote every track. Its first week sales are 13.68% higher than the 22,825 copies his self-titled last album sold when it opened atop the chart in 2022, but 33.06% down on the 38,759 copies his second album and breakthrough set, Weird!, sold as it shot to No.1 in 2020. That eponymous 2022 set went silver earlier this month, and has to-date consumption of 60,818 units, while Weird!’s cumulative tally is 138,228 units. His 2018 full-length debut, 21st Century Liability didn’t chart at all for 59 weeks, and took a further 13 to reach its ultimate peak of No.141 but has accumulated consumption of 112,778 units. A six track, 18-minute EP, The Underrated Youth, reached No.6 in 2019 and has sold 52,562 copies, while Yungblud (Live In Atlanta), from the same year, reached No.182 and has to-date consumption of 25,578 units. The only acts to have more No.1 albums in the 2020s than Yungblud are Drake, Liam Gallagher and Ed Sheeran, with four apiece, and Taylor Swift, with nine. That Youngblud would achieve his third straight No.1 was never in doubt, but the battle to serve as his runner-up saw early leaders Haim eventually ceding to 30-year-old London hip-hop artist Loyle Carner, whose fourth studio album, Hopefully! (No.2, 17,245 sales), thus becomes his highest-charting set, eclipsing the No.3 peaks ascended by his last two albums, 2019’s Not Waving But Drowning and 2022’s Hugo. Previously No.1 with 2013 debut Days Are Gone, No.2 with 2017’s Something To Tell You and No.1 again with 2020 with Women In Music Part III, sororal female Los Angeles pop/rock trio Haim - 33-year-old Alana, 36-year-old Danielle and big sister, Este, 39 - have to settle for their lowest placing yet, with I Quit debuting at No.3 (13,961 sales). All have fared better here than in their native USA, where none reached the Top 5, with I Quit expected to fall short of the Top 20. A mere 63 weeks after his debut full-length album, Fireworks & Rollerblades, debuted and peaked at No.16, American singer/songwriter Benson Boone’s follow-up, American Heart, earns the 23-year-old singer/songwriter his introductory Top 10 appearance, debuting at No.4 (12,899 sales). Despite its more modest peak, Fireworks & Rollerblades - home to six hits, including No.1 smash Beautiful Things – has been in the Top 75 continuously since its release and dips 29-31 (3,594 sales) this week, while raising its cumulative consumption to 211,930 units. 4 (No.7, 8,004 sales) is the second full-length studio album and fourth Top 10 entry for Mancunian rapper, Aitch. Although a quartet of new arrivals leapfrog it, Short N’ Sweet’s introductory sojourn in the Top 5 continues for Sabrina Carpenter. On its 44th straight week, the album dips 3-5 (8,326 sales). It thus equals the all-time record for most consecutive weeks in the Top 5 for a solo album – set by Elvis Presley’s soundtrack set GI Blues in 1960/1961. Among artist albums, only Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water (84 weeks, 1970/1971) and The Beatles’ Please Please Me (55 weeks, 1963/1964) have spent more weeks in a row in the Top 5. The rest of the Top 10: +-=÷× Tour Collection (4-6, 8,055 sales) by Ed Sheeran, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-8, 6,775 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, Time Flies 1994-2009 (2-9, 6,136 sales) by Oasis and Brat (7-10, 5,973 sales) by Charli XCX. Overall album sales are down 2.19% week-on-week at 2,454,906 units, 4.05% above same week 2024 sales of 2,359,401. Physical product accounts for 255,610 sales, 10.41% of the total.