USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' rebounds for second week at No.1
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Shaboozey's “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is top shelf on the Billboard Hot 100 again, rebounding from the runner-up spot for a second week at No. 1. Two weeks earlier, the single became his first

leader on the chart. The song by the Virgina native (born Collins Obinna Chibueze) is from his LP Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going, which debuted at its No. 5 high on the Billboard 200 in June. It has spent two weeks at No. 1 on Americana/Folk Albums and reached No. 2 on Top Country Albums. “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” on American Dogwood / Empire, rules the Hot 100 with 77.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 11%, good for top Airplay Gainer honors for a third week), 39 million official streams (down 6%) and 16,000 sold (down 24%) in the United States July 12-18. The track keeps at its No. 2 high on Radio Songs; holds at No. 2 on the Streaming Songs chart, following a week at No. 1; and dips to No. 2 after nine weeks atop Digital Song Sales. Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, rebounds 3-2 on the Hot 100 following six nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in May. It tops Radio Songs for a fourth week (84.8

million, up 5%). Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” drops to No. 3 on the Hot 100, a week after it returned to the summit for a second week on top. Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby” holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 2. Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” keeps at No. 5 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 3, and her “Please Please Please” repeats at No. 6, four weeks after it became her first No. 1. She claims a sixth week with multiple songs in the top 10, the most of any artist this year. Hozier’s “Too Sweet” lifts 8-7 on the Hot 100, following a week at No. 1 in April. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led for a week in March, rises 10-8 on the Hot 100 and Benson Boone’s No. 2-peaking “Beautiful Things” is stationary at No. 9. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Eminem’s “Houdini” escapes from below the tier, bounding 18-10 as the top Streaming Gainer award winner (21.6 million, up 64%); it’s also up 11% to 24.6 million in airplay audience. The lead single from his new album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce). Eminem achieves his 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated July 27) as his latest studio album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), debuts atop the list. The set launches with 281,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 18, according to Luminate. It scores the largest week for any rap album in 2024. With an 11th No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, Eminem ties Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Ye (formerly Kanye West) for the fifth-most No. 1s on the Billboard 200. Ahead of them are The Beatles (a record 19 No. 1s), Jay-Z and Taylor Swift (each with 14) and Drake (13). Of The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)’s 281,000 first-week units, SEA units comprise 164,500 (equaling 220.08 million on-demand official streams of the tracks on the streaming edition of the album; Death also debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 114,000 (all from digital downloads; it wasn’t available as a physical album) and TEA units comprise 2,500. Death’s first-week sales mark the biggest sales week in 2024 for a rap album. It also nets the second-largest sales week this year for a digital download album, behind only the debut of Swift’s Poets with 274,000 downloads sold in its opening week. Enhypen captures its highest-charting album ever, and fourth top 10, as Romance: Untold debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 124,000 equivalent album units earned — the act’s largest week ever by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 117,000 (the group’s best sales week ever; the set debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 7,000 (equaling 9.53 million on-demand official streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The album’s sales were bolstered by its availability across 17 different CD variants, all containing collectible paper ephemera like photocards, stickers and a poster, as well as two vinyl editions. Zach Bryan's The Great American Bar Scene slips 2-3 in its third week on the list (88,000 equivalent album units; down 36%) while Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department falls 1-4 (82,000; down 50%). The latter spent its first 12 weeks on the chart at No. 1. Morgan Wallen's chart-topping One Thing at a Time dips 3-5 on the Billboard 200 with 66,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft descends 4-6 with 57,000 units (down 2%) and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess falls 5-7 with 54,000 units (down less than 1%). Clairo scores her highest-charting album ever, and first top 10, as Charm enters at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 with 47,000 equivalent album units earned — her best week ever by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 32,000 (her best sales week ever), SEA units comprise 15,000 (equaling 19.78 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The set’s first-week sales was amplified by the album’s availability across eight vinyl variants and four deluxe boxed sets (containing branded merchandise and a CD). Vinyl sales comprise 15,000 of the album’s first week – Clairo’s best week ever on vinyl. Megan Moroney lands her first top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 as her second full-length studio album Am I Okay? bows at No. 9 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned — the singer-songwriter’s largest week by units. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 30,000 (equaling 38.05 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 13,000 and TEA units comprise less than 500. Closing out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 is Noah Kahan's Stick Season, slipping 7-10 with 40,000 equivalent album units earned (though up 4%).

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Eminem's new album is the clear number one
Monday, July 22, 2024
by Alan Jones, London
 
As he said in the lyrics of his recent No.1 single, Houdini, guess who’s back? Eminem, that’s who, with his first album of new material in more than four years, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) (TDOSS), outselling its nearest challenger by a margin of more than four to one to debut at No.1. The 51

year-old hip-hop heavyweight’s 12th studio album racked up first week consumption of 45,063 units (778 cassettes, 7,418 digital downloads and 36,867 sales-equivalent streams). Eminem’s 10th consecutive studio album to debut at No.1 – his entire 21st century output – and his 11th solo No.1 in total, TDOSS moves him up to sixth place in the list of solo acts with most No.1 albums, behind Robbie Williams (14), Elvis Presley (13), Taylor Swift (12), Bruce Springsteen (12) and Madonna (12), and alongside David Bowie (11). TDOSS is Eminem’s first album since surprise release Music To Be Murdered By opened atop the list of consumption of 36,302 units in 2020. The follow-up to her 2021 mixtape, One Foot In Front Of The Other, which opened at No.4 (5,436 sales), 23-year-old singer/songwriter Griff from Hertfordshire returns with her first regular album, Vertigo (No.3, 9,793 sales). Their line-up unchanged since before they released their first album in 1997,

Glaswegian pop/rock quartet Travis have their highest charting album since 2013, with 10th studio set, LA Times, debuting at No.4 (9,323 sales). All of their studio albums have made the Top 20, nine of them the Top 10. 1999’s The Man Who and 2001’s The Invisible Band both reached No.1, with the latter providing the band’s best first week (199,697 sales), and the former their most consumed title (2,713,265 units). Their last album, 10 Songs, debuted and peaked at No.5 (8,775 sales) in 2020. London singer/songwriter Cat Burns seems to have been around for some time, so it’s a surprise that she is only 24, and that Early Twenties is her first album. A critically-acclaimed debut, on which she co-wrote every song, it debuts at No.7 (7,722 sales), and includes her smash hit debut single, Go, which was released more than four years ago, spent 18 weeks in the Top 10, peaked at No.2, and has to-date consumption of 1,688,157 units. Buoyed by the viral hit Apple, which almost didn’t make the cut, Brat increases consumption by 6.28% to 8,591 units for Charli XCX, even as it slips 4-6. With consumption of 71,738 units in its first six weeks on release, it is XCX’s biggest seller, and first silver album, though her 2022 No.1 album, Crash, has to-date consumption of 59,811 units, and should go silver next week. The rest of the Top 10: The Tortured Poets Department (2-2, 111,11053 sales) by Taylor Swift, Hit Me Hard And Soft (3-5, 8,821 sales) by Billie Eilish, The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (5-8, 7,609 sales) by Chappell Roan, The Highlights (6-9, 6,912 sales) by The Weeknd and 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-10, 6,037 sales) by Fleetwood Mac. Overall album sales are up 5.05% week-on-week at 2,334,084 units, 9.38% above same week 2023 sales of 2,133,940. Physical product accounts for 280,100 sales, 12.00% of the total. Toppled from the chart summit in Tuesday’s sales flashes, Sabrina Carpenter subsequently reasserted herself, and has the nation’s top two singles for the fifth straight week. Espresso – which spent five weeks at the summit, before retreating to No.2 for a further five weeks, and returning to pole position last week – once again the victor, with follow-up, Please Please Please, which itself spent three weeks at the top, remaining at No.2. Consumption of both tracks is down again, with Espresso (1-1, 51,679 sales including 30 CDs, five cassette, 900 digital downloads and 50,744 sales-equivalent streams) off 4.43% week-on-week to the lowest level of its 14-week chart tenure, while Please Please Please (2-2, 49,802 sales) declines 6.23% week-on-week. Espresso’s tally is the lowest for a No.1 so far this year. It will fall into ACR next week, most likely paving the way for Please Please Please to return to the summit. With seven weeks at No.1 in total, Espresso matches Noah Kahan’s Stick Season as the longest-running No.1 of 2024. In the whole of chart history only Ed Sheeran has previously locked up the top two positions for five weeks in a row, doing so in 2017, with Shape Of You at No.1 and Castle On The Hill at No.2 throughout. Shape Of You continued at No.1 the following week, but Castle On The Hill slipped to No.3, with Rag n’ Bone Man’s Human coming between them. The track that overhauled Espresso briefly was perennial 1996 soccer anthem 3 Lions by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds. No.20 the previous week, driven by England’s advance to the final of Euro 2024, it enjoyed a 24-hour residency atop the chart on Tuesday, even though the Euros were over, and England had lost to Spain to finish runners-up for the second tournament in a row. Eventually settling at No.8 (33,337 sales), it is at its highest position since reaching No.4 during the 2020 Euros, staged belatedly in 2021 because of Covid. Although it drew closer to breaking up Carpenter’s domination, Shaboozey’s debut hit, A Bar Song (Tipsy) spends its seventh week in total – and fourth in a row – at No.3 (46,156 sales). However, it will move to ACR next week, and is therefore no longer a challenger. Eminem’s new album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), debuts at No.1 this week but its streaming tallies are not enough to return introductory single, Houdini, to No.1. The track, which topped the chart on debut six weeks ago, improves 7-4 (44,552 sales) and is joined in chart combat by two more tracks from the album, namely Habits (No.11 28,804 sales) and Renaissance (No.13, 27,347 sales). They raise Eminem’s tally of Top 75 hits to 66, his tally of Top 20 hits to 41. Habits is a collaboration with singer, songwriter and producer White Gold from New York, for whom it is the first hit. Fifteen more tracks from TDOSS are ‘starred-out’ of the Top 75, including Big Sean & Baby Tron collaboration, Tobey, which debuted last week at No.29 as the album’s second preview track. The rest of the Top 10: Birds Of A Feather (4-5, 41,421 sales) by Billie Eilish, Good Luck, Babe! (5-6, 40,149 sales) by Chappell Roan, Stargazing (6-7, 38,229 sales) by Myles Smith, Austin (10-9, 31,530 sales) by Dasha and I Had Some Help (8-10, 31,067 sales) by Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen. I Had Some Help will fall into ACR and exit the Top 10 next week but Austin escapes, having increased consumption again. Overall singles consumption is up 3.01% week-on-week to 28,616,078 units, 8.56% above same week 2023 consumption of 26,359,835 units. Paid-for sales are up 4.19% week-on-week at 277,429 – 8.49% below same week 2023 sales of 303,181.