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'Die With A Smile' keeps the crown
Sunday, September 29, 2024
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden

 

'Die With A Smile' by Lady GaGa and Bruno Mars remains atop the Global Track Chart for a straight third week with massive 458,000 points. That's another 2% increase compared to the previous week. Broken down by segments it generated 359,000 points by streaming (up 2%), 38,000 points by sales (up 2%), and 61,000 points by airplay (up 5%). It's Lady GaGa's 19th global Top 10 smash and her eighth number one. Furthermore it's the highest position for Lady GaGa here since more than four years, when 'Rain On Me', a collab with Ariana Grande, topped the hitlist in the calendar week 23, 2020. Bruno Mars celebrates his 12th global Top 10 hit and the sixth number one. Nearly eight years ago he was the last time at the pole position when '24k Magic' ruled the tally two times in the calendar weeks one and two of 2017. The current collaboration was a result of Mars inviting GaGa to his studio where he had been working on new music.

He presented the track in progress to her and the duo finished writing and recording the song the same day. At the moment it's a very stable situation in the Top 10, hardly any change of places: Billie Eilish's former number one smash 'Birds Of A Feather' follows still at the runner-up slot with 319,000 points, an 1% decrease with 232,000 points by streaming, 36,000 points by sales, and 51,000 points by airplay. Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso' rounds out the top three again with 300,000 points, an 1,5% decline with 195,000 points by streaming, 33,000 points by sales, and 72,000 points by airplay. Hinatazaka 46, one of these numerous girl groups from Japan, starting with this week's highest debut, their new single smash 'Zettaiteki Dairokkan' bows at no.16 with 130,000 points. The act's biggest success was 'Do Re Mi Sol La Si Do' five years ago, which peaked at no.8 globally with 174,000 points in the calendar week 31, 2019. At the bottom of our current Top 40 lands the second and final new entry, 'Sailor Song' by American singer / songwriter Gigi Perez with 89,000 points. Outside our current Top 40 waiting among other 'Yellow' by Coldplay at no.41, 'I Love You, I'm Sorry' by Gracie Abrams at no.53, and 'The Door' by Teddy Swims at no.59 for their first appearance on the hitlist. Back to the roots: Over 20 years ago Media Traffic started the weekly Global Album Chart. At that time this hitlist was based exclusively on sales figures and - like the Track Chart - included 40 positions. But the global album sales fell dramatically over the years, and that's why we shortened the Top 40 to a Top 10 list in June 2016. Later we included streaming data and now with the further increase in the streaming share we can finally offer an expanded hitlist again. Newcomer Chappell Roan surprisingly reaches the summit of the Global Album Chart with her debut effort 'The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess'. One year after its release, it has now been supplemented by various deluxe vinyl anniversary editions. With this new sales power the album jumps at no.1 for the first time with 142,000 consumption units (56,000 points by streaming + 86,000 points by sales). In total it generated nearly 1,4 million equivalent sales so far. 'Mixtape Pluto', the seventeenth mixtape by American rapper Future and his first solo release in two years, rockets to runner-up slot as the highest debut of the week with 133,000 equivalent sales (117,000 points by streaming + 16,000 points by sales). Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short n' Sweet' holds tight at no.3 with 127,000 consumption units (98,000 points by streaming + 29,000 points by sales). And now, as every week, additional stats from outside the current Global Album Top 20 in alphabetic order, the first figure means last week's sales, the second figure the total sales: '1989' by Taylor Swift 9,000 / 16,434,000, '1989 (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift 26,000 / 5,931,000, '21' by Adele 24,000 / 33,176,000, '25' by Adele 15,000 / 25,209,000, '30' by Adele 9,000 / 6,535,000, 'After Hours' by The Weeknd 28,000 / 9,978,000, 'Cowboy Carter' by Beyoncé 9,000 / 1,470,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 16,000 / 21,188,000, 'Emails I Can't Send' by Sabrina Carpenter 33,000 / 1,478,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran 6,000 / 6,098,000, 'Eternal Sunshine' by Ariana Grande 34,000 / 2,010,000, 'Evermore' by Taylor Swift 11,000 / 6,141,000, 'Folklore' by Taylor Swift 35,000 / 10,642,000, 'For All The Dogs' by Drake 10,000 / 3,210,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua Lipa 16,000 / 9,085,000, Génesis' by Peso Pluma 19,000 / 2,320,000, 'Golden' by Jung Kook 32,000 / 2,932,000, 'Guts' by Olivia Rodrigo 29,000 / 3,717,000, 'Harry's House' by Harry Styles 12,000 / 7,121,000, 'Heroes & Villains' by Metro Boomin 18,000 / 4,293,000, 'Lover' by Taylor Swift 38,000 / 10.779.000, 'Midnights' by Taylor Swift 27,000 / 11,470,000, 'One Moment At A Time' by Morgan Wallen 34,000 / 7,896,000, 'Radical Optimism' by Dua Lipa 14,000 / 809,000, 'Red (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift 14,000 / 6,083,000, '17 Is Right Here' by Seventeen 14,000 / 1,392,000, 'Sour' by Olivia Rodrigo 39,000 / 10,774,000, 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift 10,000 / 3,456,000, 'Starboy' by The Weeknd 41,000 / 7,914,000, 'Stick Season' by Noah Kahan 40,000 / 3,441,000, 'The Highlights' by The Weeknd 38,000 / 8,562,000, 'Un Verano Sin Ti' by Bad Bunny 37,000 / 7,719,000, 'Utopia' by Travis Scott 37,000 / 4,437,000, and 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish 12,000 / 12,023,000.


GLOBAL NO.1 - 10 YEARS AGO ... "Shake It Off" is the lead single from Taylor Swift's fifth studio album, 1989 (2014) and was released on 18 August 2014. It's an uptempo pop track and features a departure from Swift's earlier country pop musical style. "Shake It Off" debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the 22nd song to do so. It produced first-week digital sales of 544,000 units for the chart issue dated September 6, 2014, the largest debut sales week for a single of 2014 in the USA. The song topped also the charts in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The music video, directed by Mark Romanek, was shot in June 2014, over three days in Los Angeles. The video features Swift "embracing her inner dorky dancer by submerging herself with some of the world's best dancers in the styles of hip hop, lyrical, ballet, jazz and even cheerleader."


USA
Billboard Report
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Shaboozey scores 12th week at No.1
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles


The hit boasts twice as many weeks at No. 1 than any other leader this year. Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tallies a twelfth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, extending 2024’s

longest command. Notably, it has now reigned for twice as long as any other No. 1 this year, doubling up on Post Malone six-week leader “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen. “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” on American Dogwood / Empire, totaled 78.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 4%), 27.8 million official streams (down 3%) and 8,000 sold (down 8%) in the United States Sept. 20-26. The track holds for a ninth week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart and a seventh week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs and rebounds 3-2 following 13 weeks at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales. Meanwhile, Sabrina Carpenter boasts three songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 for a fifth consecutive week – becoming the first woman in the chart’s 66-year history to establish such a run. The singer-songwriter’s “Espresso” holds at its No. 3 high, having become her first top 10; “Please Please Please” rises 9-8, after it became her first No. 1 in June; and “Taste” slips 8-9, after

it debuted at its No. 2 best. Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, is steady at No. 2 on the Hot 100, following six weeks at No. 1 beginning upon its debut in May. Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” repeats at its No. 4 Hot 100 high and Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” keeps at No. 5, after reaching No. 3. Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” maintains its No. 6 Hot 100 altitude, after hitting No. 5. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led the Hot 100 for a week in March, is stationary at No. 7. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” is a non-mover at No. 10, following two weeks at No. 1 in May and July. Future notches his 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart — and third in 2024 — as Mixtape Pluto debuts atop the list dated Oct. 5. The long-teased set’s Sept. 20 release date was announced on Sept. 11. Mixtape Pluto earned 129,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 26, according to Luminate, largely driven by streaming activity. Future scored two No. 1s earlier in 2024 with his two co-billed sets with Metro Boomin: We Don’t Trust You (a debut atop the April 6 chart) and We Still Don’t Trust You (also debuting at No. 1, April 27). The last act to notch three new No. 1 albums faster than Future — who has earned his three latest in a span of just six months — was the Glee Cast, which notched three chart-topping soundtracks in less than two months in 2010. Of Mixtape Pluto’s first-week equivalent album units of 129,000, SEA units comprise 118,500 (equaling 156.62 million on-demand official streams of the 17 songs on the streaming edition of the album; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 10,000 and TEA units comprise 500. The album was available to purchase either as a standard 11-song album (via download, CD and vinyl) or as an expanded 17-song album (download). Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess rises 3-2 on the Billboard 200 for a third nonconsecutive week at its peak position. The set earned 105,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week (up 64%) — it’s biggest week yet by units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise a career weekly-best 56,000 (up 328%; it’s also the top-selling album of the week, reaching No. 1 on Top Album Sales for the first time). The week-over-week growth is owed to the release of four new vinyl variants and a cassette tape in celebration of the album’s first anniversary on Sept. 22. Of the album’s sales, vinyl comprises 50,000 — easily Roan’s best week on vinyl and the sixth-largest week for any vinyl album in 2024. Sabrina Carpenter’s former No. 1 Short n’ Sweet slips 2-3 on the Billboard 200 with 100,000 equivalent album units earned (down 7%); Post Malone’s chart-topping F-1 Trillion is a non-mover at No. 4 (53,000; down 12%), and Morgan Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time is steady at No. 5 (53,000; up 2%). Katy Perry lands her sixth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as her new studio album 143 debuts at No. 6. The set earned 48,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week ending Sept. 26. Of that sum, album sales comprise 37,500 (her best sales week since 2017), SEA units comprise 10,000 (equaling 13.11 million streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise 500. The album’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across eight vinyl variants (including a signed edition), four CD variants (including a signed edition), a cassette tape and multiple digital download variants (including two exclusive to her webstore, each with bonus tracks). Taylor Swift’s chart-topping The Tortured Poets Department falls 6-7 on the latest Billboard 200 (47,000 equivalent album units; down 9%), while Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft is steady at No. 8 (45,000; up 2%). Lil Tecca captures his fourth top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 as Plan A arrives at No. 9 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned — his biggest week by units since 2019. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 28,500 (equaling 40.45 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 13,500 (his best sales week ever) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The set’s sales were aided by its availability in two CD variants (including a signed edition) and multiple digital download variants (including three exclusive to the artist’s webstore, two of which included bonus tracks). Closing out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 is Noah Kahan’s Stick Season, falling 9-10 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%).


Record Of The Month
'The Emptiness Machine' is Linkin Park's lead single from their upcoming eighth studio album 'From Zero' and the first time to feature Emily Armstrong on vocals and Colin Brittain on drums.


United Kingdom
Music Week Report
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Sabrina Carpenter's 'Taste' tops a fifth week
Monday, September 30, 2024
by Alan Jones, London

 
Already No.1 for more weeks in a calendar year than any female soloist in the 70-year history of the singles chart, Sabrina Carpenter tops the chart for the 17th time this year - actually, in the last 22 weeks – with Taste securing its fifth straight week at the summit on consumption of 53,149 units

(635 digital downloads and 52,514 sales-equivalent streams). It thus matches the five weeks that Please Please Please spent at No.1 but still trails the seven weeks that her first chart-topper, Espresso, spent at the summit earlier this year. Last week we mentioned that Carpenter was only the third act in chart history to spend a minimum of four weeks at No.1 with their first three chart-toppers, emulating The Beatles and Wet Wet Wet. Upping that to five, only The Beatles have previously achieved it. We also mentioned last week that “Carpenter has now eclipsed Ariana Grande (15 weeks) to move second behind Ed Sheeran (23 weeks) for most weeks at No.1 in the 2020s”. We meant Olivia Rodrigo not Ariana Grande, so apologies for that. Of Sheeran’s 23 weeks, incidentally, only 16 were solo, the others being from collaborations, so Carpenter has now had more weeks at No.1 solo than any other act in a year in the 2020s. The last act to spend more

weeks at No.1 solo in a year was still Sheeran, however. He spent 18 weeks at No.1 in 2017, 14 with Shape Of You and four with Perfect. Carpenter continues to have three songs in the top five, with the aforementioned Espresso remaining at No.3 (40,124 sales) and Please Please Please dipping 4-5 (36,197 sales). Chappell Roan remains Carpenter’s greatest threat, with introductory hit Good Luck, Babe! at No.2 (43,909 sales) for the second week in a row, and fourth time in total; while there are new peaks for her other concurrent hits, Hot To Go! (9-7, 28,986 sales) and Pink Pony Club (21-15, 18,798 sales). Die With A Smile continues to grow for Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, with a 4.33% expansion in consumption to 37,564 units hoisting it 5-4. After pausing at No.10 last week, Somedays also reaches a new peak, climbing to No.9 (26,892 sales) for Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D. The rest of the Top 10: Backbone (6-6, 30,075 sales) by Chase & Status and Stormzy, Kisses (7-8, 28,720 sales) by Bl3ss, CamrinWatsin and Bbyclose and, climbing into the Top 10 for the third time, Guess (11-10, 24,993 sales) by Charli XCX & Billie Eilish. Overall singles consumption is down 0.51% week-on-week to 29,072,774 units, 10.28% above same week 2023 consumption of 26,363,022 units. Paid-for sales are up 2.62% week-on-week at 298,070, 12.46% above same week 2023 sales of 265,057. Leadership of the album chart changes for the eighth week in a row, with melodic Manchester/Stockport indie quintet Blossoms’ fifth studio album, Gary, delivering their sixth Top 5 entry and fourth No.1 on first week consumption of 21,884 units (10,605 CDs, 7,890 vinyl albums, 344 cassettes, 1,423 digital downloads and 1,622 sales-equivalent streams). A succinct return to form, with 10 tracks and a playing time of just 30 minutes, every track on Gary was co-penned by the band – 31-year-old guitarist/lead vocalist Tom Ogden, 33-year-old bassist Charlie Salt, 27-year-old lead guitarist Josh Dewhurst, 30-year-old keyboards player Myles Kellock and 31-year-old drummer Joe Donovan. Gary, incidentally, is titled after and has lyrics about an eight-foot-tall fibreglass statue of Gary The Gorilla, which was stolen from a Lanarkshire garden centre in 2023, and sawn in half. All previous Blossoms releases were on EMI but Gary is their first release on their own independent Odd SK label, whose name seems to comprise of the initial letters of Blossoms members’ surnames. To secure their latest No.1, Blossoms had to see off two other acts who have had previous No.1s, namely Tom Walker, whose I Am debuts at No.4 (10,720 sales); and Katy Perry, whose 143 debuts at No.6 (9,250 sales). I Am is the second album by 32-year-old Scottish singer/songwriter Walker, whose debut, What A Time To Be Alive, sold 36,679 copies debuting at No.1 in 2019; 143 is the sixth studio album by American singer / songwriter Perry and its failure to compete for honours follows the disappointing showing of its singles Woman’s World (No.47) and Lifetimes (No.89). Perry debuted at No.1 with 2010 second album Teenage Dream (54,176 sales) and 2013 third album Prism (53,827 sales), while her last album, Smile, debuted and peaked at No.5 (8,579 sales) in 2020. Although only No.1 for one week, perennial favourite Teenage Dream has spent 247 weeks in the Top 75 – the last 91 consecutively – and moves 45-51 (2,817 sales) this week, raising its lifetime consumption to 1,859,922 units, over a million more than its nearest challenger. That would be her 2008 debut One Of The Boys, which has to-date consumption of 742,572 units despite being Perry’s only album to fall short of the Top 10, reaching No.11. Across all its editions, Teenage Dream spun-off eight Top 20 singles, although her most-consumed singles title, Roar (2,818,721 units) – No.1 exactly 11 years ago - is from Prism. Jamie xx's second solo album, In Waves, debuts at No.5 (10,092 sales), nine years after his debut solo set, In Colour, debuted and peaked at No.3 (19,255 sales). He has been No.1 twice as a member of The xx. Chappell Roan’s UK dates are over but her album, The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess – No.1 seven weeks ago – climbs for the third straight week, jumping 4-3 with consumption growing a further 61.24% to 17,059 units, thanks primarily to the release of a trio of deluxe vinyl anniversary editions. The rest of the Top 10: Short n’ Sweet (2-2, 18,343 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter, Time Flies: 1994-2009 (6-7, 8,457 sales) by Oasis, The Highlights (9-8, 7,470 sales) by The Weeknd, Brat (8-9, 6,974 sales) by Charli XCX and The Tortured Poets Department (10-10, 6,815 sales) by Taylor Swift. Overall album sales are up 0.39% week-on-week at 2,383,649 units, 10.20% above same week 2023 sales of 2,162,951. Physical product accounts for 293,974 sales, 12.33% of the total.

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