GLOBAL NO.1 - 40 YEARS AGO... "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)" was released on November 30, 1979 as a part of Pink Floyd's rock opera The Wall that explores Pink, a jaded rockstar whose eventual self-imposed isolation from society is symbolized by a wall. The protest song "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)" against rigid schooling, features a children's choir. It describes the protagonist's traumas including his overprotective mother and abusive schoolteachers become metaphorical bricks in the wall. Dave Gilmour recorded his impressive guitar solo in one take, with no editing or mixing. The song went to no.1 in many countries around the world, like the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ireland and it was the biggest hit of the year 1980 globally.

USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'The Box' tops Hot 100 for seventh week
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Roddy Ricch's "The Box" notches a seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It posts an eighth week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, despite a 12% drop to 52.2 million

U.S. streams in the week ending Feb. 25, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It pushes 8-7 on Digital Song Sales, down 3% to 11,000 sold in the week ending Feb. 20, and 13-10 on Radio Songs, gaining by 12% to 59.3 million all-format airplay audience impressions in the week ending Feb. 23. Future's "Life Is Good," featuring Drake, spends its sixth consecutive week at No. 2 on the Hot 100, encompassing its entire, and unprecedented, run on the chart; a week ago, it became the first song ever to log its first five weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 2. It also keeps at No. 2 on Streaming Songs (42 million, up 6%), while surging 21-5 on Digital Song Sales (11,000, up 56%) and rising 26-25 on Radio Songs (39.5 million, up 12%). Helping spark the track's gains, a remix, featuring Drake, DaBaby and Lil Baby, was released on Feb. 15. Post Malone's "Circles" is steady at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, as it notches a ninth week at

No. 1 on Radio Songs (104.5 million, essentially even week-over-week), and Tones and I's "Dance Monkey" climbs from No. 5 to a new No. 4 Hot 100 high. Dua Lipa's "Don't Start Now" rises 6-5 on the Hot 100, marking her first top five hit. Her sole prior top 10, "New Rules," reached No. 6 in February 2018. "Start" also becomes Lipa's second No. 1 on the Pop Songs airplay ranking, after "Rules" reigned for four weeks, also in February 2018. Arizona Zervas' "Roxanne" bumps 7-6 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 4; Maroon 5's "Memories" drops 4-7, after hitting No. 2; and Lewis Capaldi's "Someone You Loved" keeps at No. 8, after it spent three weeks at No. 1. Bieber's "Intentions," featuring Quavo, rises 11-9 on the Hot 100, as parent album Changes launches as Bieber's seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The track holds at No. 3 on Streaming Songs, up 10% to 24.3 million streams. Bieber adds his 18th Hot 100 top 10, and second from Changes, after "Yummy" bowed and peaked at No. 2 in January. Quavo collects his sixth top 10, and third via a Bieber collab, after DJ Khaled's "I'm the One," featuring Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne (No. 1, one week, May 2017), and "No Brainer," by the same lineup minus Lil Wayne (No. 5, August 2018). Quavo further outpaces the top 10 total of Migos (the trio of himself, Offset and Takeoff), which has tallied four top 10s. Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" lifts 12-10. It also ranks at No. 10 on Streaming Songs (19.4 million, up 11%). The Weeknd achieves his 10th Hot 100 top 10 and second from his album After Hours, due March 20, after "Heartless" topped the chart dated Dec. 14, becoming his fourth No. 1. Justin Bieber scores his seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as Changes debuts atop the tally. The set, which was released on Feb. 14 via SchoolBoy/Raymond Braun/Def Jam Recordings, earned 231,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 20, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Changes’ 231,000 first-week units represent the third-largest week of 2020 for an album, behind the debut frames of Eminem’s Music to Be Murdered By (279,000; chart dated Feb. 1) and Halsey’s Manic (239,000; also Feb. 1). Changes is Bieber’s first album in more than four years, since Purpose debuted at No. on the Dec. 5, 2015-dated chart with 649,000 units (with 522,000 of that sum in album sales). Of Changes’ first-week sum, 126,000 are in album sales, 101,000 are in SEA units (equating to 135 million on-demand streams of the songs on the album) and 4,000 are in TEA units. The album’s sales were bolstered by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with Bieber’s upcoming tour, and many merchandise/album bundle offers sold via Bieber’s official webstore. Notably, at 25, Bieber is the youngest solo artist to achieve seven No. 1 albums. (He turns 26 on March 1.) Previously, the youngest soloist to land seven No. 1s was Elvis Presley, who logged his seventh leader (of 10 total) when he was 26 years and 11 months old (with Blue Hawaii on Dec. 11, 1961). At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Artist 2.0 debuts with 111,000 equivalent album units -- nearly all from streaming activity. Of the set’s starting sum, 106,000 are in SEA units (equaling 149 million in on-demand streams of songs from the album), making it the No. 1 most-streamed album of the week. The remainder of the album’s units were driven by album sales (3,000) and TEA units (1,000). Artist 2.0 is A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s sixth charting album and third top 10 effort, following Hoodie SZN (No. 1 on Jan. 19, 2019) and The Bigger Artist (No. 4 on Oct. 21, 2017). Of note, the rapper’s last album, Hoodie SZN, also debuted at No. 2 (on Jan. 5, 2019), but waited until Jan. 19 to ascend to No. 1. Tame Impala achieves its highest charting album ever on the Billboard 200, as The Slow Rush bows at No. 3 with 110,000 equivalent album units (with 80,000 of that in album sales). The act previously topped out at No. 4 in 2015 with Currents. Further, The Slow Rush logs Tame Impala its best sales week for an album, trumping the 45,000 first-week sales of Currents. (The Slow Rush’s sales were goosed by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with the act’s upcoming tour, as well as a handful of merchandise/album sale bundles sold via its webstore.) Roddy Ricch​’s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial falls from No. 1 to No. 4 on the new Billboard 200 chart with 70,000 equivalent album units earned (down 11%). The set has logged four total weeks on top. Monsta X rounds out the new arrivals in the top 10, as the six-member South Korean vocal group makes its Billboard 200 chart debut at No. 5 with its first all-English-language album, All About Luv. The set launches with 52,000 equivalent album units earned, with 50,000 of that sum comprising album sales. All About Luv is Monsta X’s first album for Epic Records since signing with the label in 2019. All About Luv's first week was bolstered by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer, a bevy of merchandise/album bundles, in-store appearances during street week, and more than a dozen different variants of the album available for fans to purchase (such as multiple CD editions, each with a different cover for one of the group’s members). Post Malone’s former No. 1 Hollywood’s Bleeding descends from No. 2 to No. 6 with 50,000 equivalent album units earned (down 4%), while Billie Eilish​’s former leader When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? dips from No. 5 to No. 7 with 44,000 units (down 4%). Pop Smoke’s Meet the Woo, V.2 is pushed down one spot to No. 8, though with an 11% increase in units (to 40,000) in its second week on the list. The album gains in the wake of fan reaction to the rapper’s death on Feb. 19. Eminem’s former chart-topper Music to Be Murdered By, slipping from No. 3 to No. 9 with 39,000 equivalent album units earned, and Halsey’s Manic, falling from No. 8 to No. 10 with 31,000 units.