Global Chart Report
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'Flowers' rules
a third week
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
Miley
Cyrus' monster smash 'Flowers'
scores the Global Track Chart for a
third week in a row with another
massive 644,000 points, down 9%
compared to the previous week and a
total of 1,960,000 so far. It's also
the third week that "Flowers" placed
with more than 600,000 points, last
week it peaked with 713,000 points.
I know it's only February, but it
seems that the song will be the
biggest hit of the year 2023.
Broken down by segments it generated
515,000 points by streaming (down 11%),
74,000 points by sales (down
21%), and 55,000 points by airplay
(up 41%).
The
disco and funk influenced tune
awakens certain reminiscences to
Gloria Gaynor's smash 'I Will
Survive', also a global no.1 hit in
April 1979. A little fun fact: this
and the last two weeks top three
consists of songs by women about
their ex-boyfriends. In the case of
Miley Cyrus, the song refers to her
ex-husband Liam Hemsworth.
'Bzrp Music Sessions Vol.53', a
reckoning with Shakira's ex-lover
and
professional footballer Piqué,
holds tight at the runner-up slot
with 343,000 points (down 8,5%)
and
'Kill Bill' by SZA, a fantasy to
kill her ex-boyfriend and his new
girlfriend out of jealousy, follows
still at no.3 with 265,000 points
(down 9%). Overall there was very
little movement this week on our
tally. Highest debut comes from the
South Korean girl group La Sserafim.
Their song "Fearless" was originally
released in May 2022, but only now
after the release of a Japanese
version, the song has enough power
for a jump in the Top 40 at no.25
with 106,000 points.
Outside our
weekly Top 40 waiting among other
'Feliz Cumpleanos Ferxxo' by
Feid at no.47, 'AMG' by Natanael
Cano | Peso Pluma | Gabito
Ballesteros at no.48, 'Sugar Rush
Ride' by Tomorrow & Together at
no.49, 'I Wanna Be Yours' by Arctic
Monkeys at no.54, 'I'm Not Here To
Make Friends' by Sam Smith at no.56,
'Leao' by Marilia Mendonca at no.57,
and 'Love Again' by Kid Laroi at
no.59 for their
first appearance on the big list.
A sixth
week in a row debuts an album from
Asia atop the Global Album Chart.
Currently Japanese rock power trio
Back Number holding scepter and
crown in the hands. Their ninth
studio effort 'Humor' triumphs with
155,000 equivalent sales. No change
at no.2 and no.3: SZA's 'SOS'
remains at the runner-up slot with
another 148,000 sales (down 6,5%).
The album climbs atop the
year-to-date list with 628,000 sales
in 2023. Last year's winner, Taylor
Swift's 'Midnight', ranks still at
no.3 on our weekly chart with
107,000 sales (down 8,5%). And
now, as every week, additional stats from outside
the current Global Album Top 10 in alphabetic
order, the first figure means last week's sales,
the second figure the total sales: '1989' by
Taylor Swift 25,000 / 13,889,000, '21' by Adele
12,000 / 31,832,000, '25' by Adele
10,000 /
24,231,000, '30' by Adele 17,000 / 5,704,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 34,000 /
7,340,000,
'Astroworld' by Travis Scott
13,000
/ 7,391,000, 'Beerbongs & Bentleys' by Post
Malone 9,000 / 9,157,000, 'Born Pink' by
Blackpink 24,000 / 1,577,000, 'Certified Lover
Boy' by Drake 24,000 / 5,117,000, 'Dangerous:
The Double Album' by Morgan Wallen 46,000 /
6,517,000, 'Dawn FM' by The Weeknd
19,000 /
2,500,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran
20.000 / 19,500,000,
'Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent' by
Lewis Capaldi 17,000 / 5,989,000, the 'Encanto' soundtrack
10,000 / 3,237,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
28,000
/ 4,640,000, 'Evermore' by Taylor Swift
14,000
/ 3,912,000, 'Fighting Demons' by Juice WRLD
8,000 / 1,470,000, 'Fine Line' by Harry Styles
22,000 / 8,364,000, 'Folklore' by Taylor Swift
27,000 / 6,447,000, 'F*ck Love' by The Kid Laroi
10,000 / 4,556,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 28,000 / 7,307,000, 'Goodbye & Good Riddance'
by Juice WRLD 20,000 / 6,754,000, 'Happier
Than Ever' by Billie Eilish 17,000 / 3,873,000,
'Harry's House' by Harry Styles
50,000 / 4,108,000,
'Hollywood's Bleeding' by Post Malone
19,000
/ 8,865,000, 'Honestly, Nevermind' by Drake
12,000 / 1,524,000, 'Justice' by Justin Bieber
11,000
/ 4,337,000, 'Legends Never Die' by Juice WRLD
16,000 / 5,739,000,
'My
Turn' by Lil Baby 18,000 / 5,044,000,
'Planet
Her' by Doja Cat 20,000 / 4,740,000, 'Proof' by
BTS (Bangtan Boys) 14,000 /
3,623,000, 'Question
Mark' by XXXTentacion 10,000 / 7,068,000, 'Red
(Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift
19.000 /
3,506,000, 'Renaissance' by Beyoncé
25,000 / 1,959,000, 'Scorpion' by Drake 15,000 / 8,664,000,
'7220' by Lil Durk 13,000 / 1,521,000, 'Shoot
For The Stars, Aim For The Moon' by Pop Smoke
21,000 / 7,576,000, 'Sour' by Olivia
Rodrigo 34,000 / 7,459,000, 'Stoney' by Post Malone
8,000 / 7,329,000, 'The Greatest Showman' soundtrack
7,000 / 9,396,000, 'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
56,000 / 4,469,000, 'Twelve Carat Toothache'
by Post Malone 11,000 / 1,372,000,
'Un Verano Sin Ti' by Bad Bunny
53,000 / 4,269,000, 'When We All Fall
Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
18,000
/ 10,670,000, and 'X' by Ed Sheeran
5,000 / 13,384,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 30 YEARS
AGO
... "I Will Always Love You"
was written and originally recorded
in 1973 by American singer /
songwriter legend Dolly Parton.
Written as a farewell to her
business partner and mentor Porter
Wagoner, expressing Parton's
decision to pursue a solo career. In
1992, Whitney Houston recorded a new
arrangement of the song for the
soundtrack to the blockbuster
"Bodyguard", her film debut. It was
her co-star Kevin Costner who
suggested "I Will Always Love You".
Producer David Foster and Whitney
Houston re-arranged the song as a
soul ballad. Her record company did
not feel a song with an a-cappella
introduction would be as successful;
however, Houston and Costner
insisted on retaining it. Perfect!
The song became one of the biggest
hits in history with a total of
16,547,000 points. "I Will Always
Love You" topped the hitlists in
almost all countries around the
world and also the 1993 year-end
list.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
SZA's 'SOS' spends seventh
straight week at no.1
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
SZA’s
SOS racks up a seventh
consecutive week at No. 1 on
the Billboard 200 chart
(dated Feb. 4) – the
entirety of its chart run.
The last album by a woman
with seven weeks at No. 1
was
Taylor Swift’s Folklore,
more than two years ago, as
it notched its eighth and
final week atop the list on
the chart dated Oct. 31,
2020. Of SOS’ 111,000
equivalent album units
earned in the week ending
Jan. 26, SEA units comprise
109,500 (down 7%, equaling
148.87 million on-demand
official streams of the
set’s tracks), album sales
comprise 1,000 (up 37%) and
TEA units comprise 500 units
(down 8%). In the last year,
only three albums have spent
at least seven weeks at No.
1: SOS, Bad Bunny’s Un
Verano Sin Ti (13
nonconsecutive weeks) and
the Encanto soundtrack (nine
nonconsecutive weeks). The
last album by a woman with
seven consecutive weeks at
No. 1 was Adele’s 25, which
spent its first seven weeks
at No. 1 in late 2015 and
early 2016 (Dec. 12,
2015-Jan. 23, 2016). 25
spent 10 total
nonconsecutive weeks at No.
1. At No. 2 on the new
Billboard 200, Taylor
Swift’s
former No. 1 Midnights is a
non-mover with 67,000
equivalent album units
earned (down 8%). It has
spent the entirety of its 14
weeks on the chart inside
the top two. The last album
by a woman to spend its
first 14 weeks at either
Nos. 1 or 2 was Swift’s own
1989, with its first 15
weeks in the top two (Nov.
15, 2014-Feb. 21, 2015).
Trippie Redd notches
his seventh top 10-charting
effort on the Billboard 200
as Mansion Muzik debuts at
No. 3 with 56,000 equivalent
album units earned. Of that
sum, SEA units comprise
50,000 (equaling 68.1
million official on-demand
streams of the set’s 25
tracks), album sales
comprise 5,000 and TEA units
comprise 1,000. Mansion
Muzik is the hip-hop
artist’s seventh consecutive
top five-charting effort,
stretching back to 2018’s
Life’s a Trip, which debuted
and peaked at No. 4 (Aug.
25, 2018-dated chart).
HARDY hits
the top 10 of the Billboard
200 for the first time as
his new double album The
Mockingbird & The Crow
arrives at No. 4 with 55,000
equivalent album units
earned – easily his best
week ever in terms of units.
Of the starting sum, SEA
units comprise 34,000
(equaling 44.68 million
official on-demand streams
of the set’s 17 tracks),
album sales comprise 19,500
and TEA units comprise
1,500. The
half-country/half-rock
project includes guest turns
from Jeremy McKinnon (of A
Day To Remember), Lainey
Wilson and Morgan Wallen.
The Mockingbird & The Crow
marks the highest-debuting
rock album since Red Hot
Chili Peppers’ Return of the
Dream Canteen entered at No.
3 (Oct. 29, 2022) and
highest-bowing country album
since Luke Combs’ Growin’ Up
started at No. 2 (July 9,
2022). Four former No. 1s
are next on the Billboard
200:
Metro Boomin’s
Heroes & Villains falls 3-5
(53,000 equivalent album
units; down 4%),
Drake and 21 Savage’s
Her Loss dips 4-6 (46,000;
down 4%),
Bad Bunny’s
Un Verano Sin Ti falls 6-7
(41,000; down 4%) and
Morgan Wallen’s
Dangerous: The Double Album
descends 7-8 (nearly 41,000;
down 2%).
Zach Bryan’s
American Heartbreak falls
8-9 with 32,000 equivalent
album units (though up 2%)
and
Lil Baby’s
former No. 1 It’s Only Me
slips 9-10 with 28,000 (down
5%).
Miley
Cyrus’
“Flowers” holds at No. 1 on
the Billboard
Hot 100,
reigning for a second frame
a week after it soared
in at the summit,
as it continues its
dominance in both streaming
and sales. “Flowers,”
released on Smiley Miley /
Columbia Records, drew 59.8
million streams (up 14%,
good for the Hot 100’s top
Streaming Gainer award) and
40.8 million radio airplay
audience impressions (up
22%) and sold 65,000 (down
6%) in its second full
tracking week, Jan. 20-26,
according to Luminate (after
it arrived
Jan. 12 at
7 p.m. EST). The single
spends a second week at No.
1 on both the Streaming
Songs and Digital
Song Sales charts
and surges 18-11 on Radio
Songs. Cyrus first announced
during her Miley’s
New Year’s Eve Party NBC
special that “Flowers” would
be released Jan. 13, which fans
recognized as
her ex-husband Liam
Hemsworth’s birthday. That
narrative and interaction
on TikTok have
helped grow the profile of
the song, which ushers in
Cyrus’ eighth studio album, Endless
Summer Vacation, due
March 10.
Propelled in part by that
buzz, “Flowers” boasts the
greatest weekly streaming
sum since Drake’s “Way 2
Sexy,” featuring Future and
Young Thug, totaled 67.3
million (Sept. 18, 2021).
“Flowers” is also the first
song with consecutive weeks
of 50 million or more
streams in two years, since
Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers
License” arrived with 76.1
million and followed with
59.7 million (Jan. 23, 30,
2021). SZA’s “Kill Bill”
ranks at its No. 2 Hot 100
best for a third week, with
38 million in radio reach
(up 29%), 34.1 million
streams (down 2%) and 2,000
sold (down 17%). It tops Hot
R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot
R&B Songs,
which use the same
methodology as the Hot 100,
for a seventh week each. The
song is from her album SOS,
which adds a seventh
week at No. 1 on
the Billboard
200.
Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero”
repeats to No. 3 on the Hot
100, after leading for a personal-best eight
weeks; Metro Boomin, The
Weeknd and 21 Savage’s
“Creepin'” is steady at its
No. 4 high, as it wins the
chart’s top Airplay Gainer
trophy (67.2 million, up
16%); and Sam Smith and Kim
Petras’ “Unholy” keeps at
No. 5, after it ruled for a
week in October. David
Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s “I’m
Good (Blue)” holds at No. 6
on the Hot 100 after
reaching No. 4, as it
ascends to No. 1 on Radio
Songs (85 million, up 2%).
Guetta claims his first
Radio Songs leader (among
seven top 10s), while Rexha
earns her second (among four
top 10s), after “Meant To
Be,” with Florida Georgia
Line, dominated for five
weeks in 2018. (The song
that “I’m Good” prominently
interpolates, Eiffel 65’s
“Blue [Da Ba Dee],” hit No.
6 on Radio Songs in 2000.)
The Weeknd’s “Die for You”
keeps at No. 7 on the Hot
100, after hitting No. 6;
Drake and 21 Savage’s “Rich
Flex” is a non-mover at No.
8, after it reached No. 2,
as it tops the multi-metric Hot
Rap Songs chart
for an 11th week; and Harry
Styles’ “As It Was” rebounds
10-9 on the Hot 100,
following 15 weeks at No. 1
beginning last April, the fourth-longest
reign in
the chart’s history.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s
top tier, JVKE achieves his
first top 10, with his
initial entry, as “Golden
Hour” climbs 11-10 with 29.1
million in radio reach (up
4%), 14 million streams
(essentially even
week-over-week) and 2,000
sold (up 2%).
Record Of The Month
'Until I Found
You' is a fantastic, old-fashioned
tune with a lovely voice and
an acoustic-guitar, performed
by the 19 year-old American
newcomer Stephen Sanchez.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
The Reytones landing their
first no.1 album
Monday, January 30, 2023
by Alan Jones, London
They have never had a hit
single but The Reytons’
third entry to the album
chart in less than 2 years,
What’s Rock And Roll?,
becomes their first No.1,
debuting at the top on
consumption of 12,252 units.
The proudly independent (‘No
backing. No label. All
Reytons’) quartet from South
Yorkshire’s coronation, the
first by an unsigned act
since Central Cee’s 23 last
March, follows the No.27
peak of their February 2021
EP, May Seriously Harm You
And Others Around You, and
their first full length
album, Kids Off The Estate,
which reached No.11 in
November 2021.
Although clearly very
popular, the success if
What’s Rock And Roll? is
also a triumph of marketing,
with headline sales of 4,131
CDs, 5,430 vinyl albums, 894
cassettes, 1,039 digital
downloads and 758
sales-equivalent streams
being the sum total of a
plethora of variants,
probably the most ever for a
No.1 album. Encompassing
signed editions, exclusive
artwork, colour variations,
gatefold sleeves and a
deluxe ‘podcast’ edition of
the album with commentaries
on every track, there are 32
versions of the set - 16 CD,
nine vinyl, five cassette
and two digital.
The Reytons are fronted by
37-year-old Jonathan ‘Jonny’
Yerrell, who had a No.124
single in 2011, Chasing
Rainbows, as Jay Mya.
Yerrell was born in
Rotherham but
moved to the
nearby city of Doncaster,
from which The Reytons, who
formed in 2017, are the
third act to have a No.1
album in less than five
months, following Yungblud’s
eponymous September 2022
release, and Louis
Tomlinson’s November 2022
set, Faith In The Future.
Italian rock band Måneskin
make their maiden entry into
the Top 10 with third album
Rush! debuting at No.5
(6,681 sales). The group
previously reached No.49
with second album Teatro
D’Ira Volume 1 in 2021,
after one of its tracks,
Zitti E Buoni, won the
Eurovision Song Contest. As
far as I can recall, they
are the first Italian rock
group to have a Top 10 album
– though Milan metal band
Lacuna Coil placed six
albums on the chart between
2006 and 2019, all peaking
in a very narrow band
between No.42 and No.48.
Anglo-American rock quartet
Black Star Riders’ fifth
album, Wrong Side Of
Paradise, is their second to
reach the Top 10, after 2017
third release Heavy Fire,
and equals its peak,
debuting at No.6 (6,346
sales). All of their albums
to date have made the Top
30, with their 2013 debut,
All Hell Breaks Loose, being
their lowest charter (No.25)
but their biggest seller
(33,593 units).
The rest of the Top 10:
Midnights (2-2, 8,393 sales)
by Taylor Swift, SOS (3-3,
8,343 sales) by SZA, The
Highlights (5-4, 8,221
sales) by The Weeknd,
Curtain Call: The Hits (7-7,
5,634 sales) by Eminem, =
(8-8, 5,351 sales) by Ed
Sheeran, Divinely Uninspired
To A Hellish Extent (10-9,
4,972 sales) by Lewis
Capaldi and Diamonds (12-10,
4,822 sales) by Elton John.
Overall album sales are up
1.14% week-on-week at
2,118,110, 2.14% above same
week 2022 sales of
2,073,745. Physical product
accounts for 281,133 sales,
13.27% of the total. Flowers continues to blossom
atop the singles chart for
Miley Cyrus, increasing
consumption by 32.07% to
121,151 units (12,010
downloads, 109,141
sales-equivalent streams) on
its second week at No.1. Her
only previous No.1s – 2013’s
We Can’t Stop and Wrecking
Ball – each spent only one
week at the summit.
Bringing to an end a run of
seven straight weeks in
which leadership of the
chart has changed hands,
Flowers has the highest
consumption of any track
since LadBaby’s Sausage
Rolls For Everyone sold
163,445 copies on debut 56
weeks ago, and is the first
to record a six-figure sale
since then. Flowers’ first
two weeks' tally of 212,882
is the highest since Adele’s
Easy On Me racked up 320,411
sales in its initial
fortnight in October 2021.
Easy On Me’s second week
contributed 103,194 to that
total, so Flowers has the
highest sale for a single on
its second week at No.1
since Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of
You (139,595), six years ago
this very week.
A well-spaced Top 5 finishes
in exactly the same
positions as last week with
Escapism by Raye (feat. 070
Shake) at No.2 (59,082
sales), Kill Bill by SZA at
No.3 (44,278 sales),
Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift at
No.4 (34,376 sales) and
Messy In Heaven by Venbee &
Goddard at No.5 (29,450
sales). It is the first time
there has been no movement
in this portion of the chart
for 14 weeks, with Andrew
Goddard of the latter act
the only male interloper in
an otherwise all-female top
five. It is the second week
in a row that the top four
have been all female, last
week’s being the first such
configuration in 216 weeks.
All of the top five increase
sales week-on-week.
The highest by far of five
debuts on this week’s Top 75
is Martin’s Sofa (No.9,
26,452 sales), a new track
from London rapper Headie
One. His 25th hit, it
arrives four years and a
week after his debut hit,
18Hunna (feat. Dave), and is
already higher on the chart
than any of his last 11
hits.
Miguel’s viral 2010 track
Sure Thing enjoys a 13.54%
increase in consumption as
it (and he) reaches the Top
10 for the first time
(11-10, 25,548 sales).
After calming down and
cooling its heels at its
previous peak of No.8 for
three weeks, Nigerian
Afrobeats star Rema’s Calm
Down advances to No.6,
securing its highest weekly
consumption yet (28,002
units), after 39 weeks on
release, 22 weeks in the Top
75 and 20 weeks in the Top
40.
The rest of the Top 10: Let
Go (6-7, 27,335 sales) by
Central Cee and Creepin’
(7-8, 26,904 sales) by Metro
Boomin feat. The Weeknd & 21
Savage.
Overall singles consumption
is up 1.28% week-on-week at
25,793,345 units - their
highest ever level, and
7.38% above same week 2022
consumption of 24,020,119
units. Paid-for sales are up
2.95% week-on-week at
297,807 – 17.96% below same
week 2022 sales of 363,016.