USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
Shaboozey adds eighth week at No.1 on Hot 100
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Shaboozey's “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tallies an eighth non- consecutive week at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100, furthering 2024’s longest command. The single became the singer-

songwriter’s first leader on the survey in July. “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” on American Dogwood / Empire, totaled 82 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 7%), 31.7 million official streams (down 3%) and 11,000 sold (down 12%) in the United States Aug. 23-29. The track rebounds from No. 2 for a 12th week at No.1 on the Digital Song Sales chart; notches a fifth week at No.1 on Radio Songs; and dips 2-5 on Streaming Songs, following five frames at the summit. Sabrina Carpenter bounds onto the Hot 100 at No. 2 with “Taste,” which starts with 42.5 million streams, 4.6 million in radio audience and 6,000 sold. It premieres at No. 1 on Streaming Songs, becoming her second leader, after “Please Please Please” reigned for two weeks in June. “Please Please Please” surges 9-3 on the Hot 100 (32.3 million streams, up 64%; 44.9 million airplay audience impressions, up 7%), after it became Carpenter’s first No.1 in June, and “Espresso”

rebounds 7-4 (29.6 million streams, up 54%; 60.7 million in airplay audience) after hitting No. 3. As the tracks mark Carpenter’s first three top five Hot 100 hits, she becomes only the second act – and first soloist – ever to chart her first three top five hits in the region simultaneously. She joins the vaunted company of The Beatles, who achieved the feat over five weeks in 1964. Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, falls 2-5 on the Hot 100 following six weeks at No.1 beginning upon its debut in May. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” ranks at No. 6 on the Hot 100 a week after it debuted at No. 3 (though up 13% to 30.8 million streams and 28% to 16.7 million in radio audience). Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” descends to No. 7 from its No. 5 Hot 100 best. Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” slips to No. 8 from its No. 6 Hot 100 high and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” tumbles 4-9, following two weeks on top. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which ruled the Hot 100 for a week in March, holds at No. 10. It also ties for the ninth-most weeks logged in the top 10 over the chart’s history. Sabrina Carpenter achieves her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Sept. 7), as her new studio album, Short n’ Sweet, debuts atop the tally. The set earned 362,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 29, according to Luminate — marking her best week ever, and the year’s third-largest debut. The set, which is also her first top 10-charting effort, was announced on June 3, and its Aug. 23 release was preceded by a pair of top three-charting Billboard Hot 100 hit songs: “Espresso” (No. 3) and “Please Please Please” (No. 1). Meanwhile, the first official release of Travis Scott’s 2014 mixtape Days Before Rodeo opens at No. 2, marking his fifth top five-charting effort. The set earned a little over 361,000 equivalent album units — the year’s fourth-largest debut and biggest week for any rap album. Of that sum, album sales comprise 331,000 – yielding 2024’s second-biggest sales week, and best sales week for any rap album. Days Before Rodeo’s Aug. 23 release was announced on Aug. 18 — the 10th anniversary of the set’s initial free release in 2014. Until Aug. 23, the set had never been commercially released nor officially made widely available through all streaming services. Carpenter’s and Scott’s debuts were both aided by social media chatter about them potentially vying for No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The two artists also had promotional help on social media from some very famous friends. Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet starts with 362,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 184,000 (her biggest sales week ever and the fifth-largest sales debut of 2024), SEA units comprise 176,000 (equaling 233 million on-demand official streams of the 12 songs on the streaming edition of the album; her largest streaming week ever and the fourth-largest streaming debut of 2024) and TEA units comprise 2,000. At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Scott’s Days Before Rodeo enters with 361,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 331,000 (the second-biggest sales week of 2024, trailing only the 1.91 million sales start of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department), SEA units comprise 30,000 (equaling 40.63 million on-demand official streams of the 12 songs on the album’s streaming edition) and TEA units comprise less than 500 units. Days Before Rodeo was initially released as a free mixtape on Aug. 18, 2014. It garnered its first commercial and official streaming release for its 10th anniversary, on Aug. 23, as the 12-track set was issued through all major digital retail and streamers. Scott ushered in the album’s official release with an anniversary concert on Aug. 22 at The Masquerade in Atlanta, where he performed 10 of the standard album’s 12 songs, in addition to other material. Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion falls to No. 3 with 111,000 equivalent album units (down 55%), after debuting atop the chart a week ago. Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess dips 2-4 with 72,000 (up less than 1%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time slips 4-5 with 58,000 (down 3%), Swift’s former No. 1 The Tortured Poets Department descends 3-6 with 57,000 (down 8%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft falls 5-7 with nearly 53,000 (down 2%). Lainey Wilson ropes her first top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 with the No. 8 debut of her fifth studio album, Whirlwind. The set swirls in with 48,000 equivalent album units earned — her best week ever by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 34,000; SEA units comprise 14,000 (equaling 17.83 million on-demand official streams of the 14 songs on the streaming edition of the album) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000. Closing out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 are Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene, which falls 6-9 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned (down 7%), and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season, slipping 8-10 with 37,000 units (down 2%).

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Sabrina Carpenter's 'Taste' bows at No.1
Monday, September 2, 2024
by Alan Jones, London
 
It’s another banner week for Sabrina Carpenter who becomes the first female solo artist in singles chart history to secure all of the top three positions simultaneously, and also does ‘the double’ – topping the singles and albums charts at the same time – for the first time in her career. Becoming only the fourth

act in chart history to lock her peers out of the singles top three – emulating Justin Bieber in 2016, Ed Sheeran in 2017 and Harry Styles in 2022 – Carpenter’s feat is, of course, predicated on the release of her new album, Short N’ Sweet, which itself storms to No.1, with its constituent tracks joining in a sales-equivalent streaming bonanza, and securing modest digital download sales. Carpenter’s new single, Taste, leads the charge, racing to a No.1 debut on consumption of 67,477 units (938 digital downloads, 66,539 sales-equivalent streams), while former No.1s Please Please Please (17-2, 55,660 sales) and Espresso (14-3, 49,298 sales) achieve resets from ACR and surge back into the top three. The nine other tracks on Short N’ Sweet are ‘starred-out’ of the chart between No.10 and No.31, led by Good Graces (26,214 sales), Bed Chem (25,795 sales) and Juno (22,201 sales). Carpenter becomes the first female ever to have three solo No.1 singles in a

calendar year: Ariana Grande had three No.1s in fourteen weeks (Carpenter took 17) with Thank U, Next, 7 Rings and Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored but they spanned two calendar years: 2018 and 2019. And a little over nine months elapsed as Madonna moved from two to five No.1s, but these also spanned two calendar years, 1986 and 1987. Jess Glynne had three No.1s in 2015, but only two of them were solo. The rest of the Top 10 have taken a knock from Carpenter’s dominance, with the only one to even hold its place being Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars collaboration Die With A Smile, which increases consumption 24.92% week-on-week to 34,128 units as it remains at No.7. Overall singles consumption is down 1.60% week-on-week to 28,377,234 units, 11.76% above the same week 2023 consumption of 25,380,291 units. Paid-for sales are up 3.56% week-on-week at 318,237, 4.33% above same week 2023 sales of 305,015. Sabrina Carpenter becomes the fourth artist – all of them American – to do the chart double thus far in 2024, simultaneously landing at No.1 with her sixth studio album Short N’ Sweet and the third single from it, Taste. Following in the footsteps of Noah Kahan, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, who all topped both charts at the same time earlier in the year, Carpenter was obviously destined to make a big impression after the first two singles from Short N’ Sweet – Espresso and Please Please Please – spent multiple weeks at No.1. Even so, Short N’ Sweet’s opening frame of 89,658 sales – 31,972 CDs, 20,590 vinyl albums, 5,937 cassettes, 1,054 digital downloads and 30,105 sales-equivalent streams – exceeded expectations, and is the second highest of the year, trailing only the 270,091 start made by Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department 18 weeks ago. The luck of the Irish seems to have run out, with albums which might have been fancied to be No.1 – The Script’s Satellites and Fontaines DC’s Romance – having to settle for runners-up slot in the last two weeks. The Script’s failure to snare their seventh No.1 last week came after some sales of Satellites were ruled ineligible due to a breach of chart regulations but Fontaines DC were robbed only by the fact they came up against Sabrina Carpenter. The Dublin quintet’s fourth studio album, Romance, racked up impressive first week consumption of 43,034 units – 10,834 CDs, 20,788 vinyl albums, 1,160 cassettes, 3,501 digital downloads and 6,751 sales-equivalent streams – 115.35% more than their previous best of 19,983 units their last album, Skinty Fia, achieved when it opened at No.1 in 2022. Both previous Fontaines DC studio albums also made the Top 10, with 2019 debut Dogrel opening and peaking at No.9 on consumption of 7,197 units, and follow-up, A Hero’s Death, placing second on 19,040 units as it opened its account in 2020. Despite its lower peak, its longer availability has helped Dogrel to achieve the higher to-date consumption tally of 93,666 units, with Skinty Fia on 82,686 and A Hero’s Death on 63,378. They also charted with 2021 concert recording Live At Kilmainham Gaol, which reached No.42, and has to-date consumption of 3,479 units. The announcement on Monday that Oasis are to reform for a tour in 2025, with UK and Irish dates already confirmed, created a whirlwind of interest in the band, who consequently end the week with three albums in the Top 5 for the first time ever. Last week, before wind of a reunion surfaced, Oasis catalogue sauntered along as usual – with top titles Time Flies: 1994-2009 slipping 22-24, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? drifting 37-41 and Definitely Maybe upticking 50-49. They accounted for the majority of the consumption of 11,054 units of Oasis catalogue in the week. Fast forward to this week and kerching! – they have already started earning from their proposed reunion, with 2010 compilation Time Flies: 1994-2009 increasing consumption 332.25% to 17,558 units as it climbs 24-3, 1995 second album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? catapulting 41-4 with consumption up 313.45% to 11,531 units, and 1994 debut Definitely Maybe soaring 49-5, adding 297.46% to 10,310 sales. Overall Oasis album consumption grew by 54,933 units to a lifetime total of 18,708,017, with overall week-on-week growth at 396.95%. Definitely Maybe was released exactly 30 years ago, for which reason it was already destined for release in expanded editions today (August 30) and must be fancied to return to No1 next week. Time Flies is at its highest position since its second week on the chart in 2010; Morning Glory since a 25th anniversary reissue in 2020; and Definitely Maybe since a 2014 20th anniversary reissue. All Oasis album sales to date were published in a story at Musicweek.com this week. The rest of the Top 10: The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (4-6, 10,036 sales) by Chappell Roan, The Tortured Poets Department (3-7, 9,142 sales) by Taylor Swift, F-1 Trillion (1-8, 8,343 sales) by Post Malone, Brat (5-9, 7,537 sales) by Charli XCX and Hit Me Hard And Soft (6-10, 7,167 sales) by Billie Eilish. The threshold to make the Top 10 is at its highest level for 25 weeks. Overall album sales are up 2.43% week-on-week at 2,386,560 units, 13.62% above same week 2023 sales of 2,100,417. Physical product accounts for 324,957 sales, 13.62% of the total.