30 YEARS AGO ... 'A Groovy Kind Of Love' by Phil Collins topped the Global Charts for nine non-consecutive weeks and was the biggest success of the year 1988. It was released for the soundtrack to the British romantic crime comedy 'Buster', starring Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb and Sheila Hancock. The song heavily based on the Rondo movement of Sonatina in G major, op.36 no.5, by Muzio Clementi. Firstly recorded as an upbeat guitar-based pop song by Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders, it was a no.8 success in May 1966. Collin's version was a slow ballad with a prominent keyboard and strings.

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Billboard Report (excerpt)
Kane Brown earns first no.1 album on Billboard 200
Thuesday, November 20, 2018
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Country singer-songwriter Kane Brown earns his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his second full-length studio effort, Experiment, bows in the top slot. The set, which

was released on Nov. 9 via Zone 4/RCA Nashville, starts with 124,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 15, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 105,000 were in album sales. Experiment is just the third country album to reach No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart in 2018. It follows Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty (Sept. 29; 266,000 units in its debut frame) and Jason Aldean’s Rearview Town (April 28; 183,000). Experiment follows Brown’s debut self-titled full-length album, released in 2016. The latter peaked at No. 5 on the Oct. 28, 2017-dated tally, after it was reissued with bonus tracks. Brown previously notched entries with a pair of EPs: Chapter I (No. 9; April 4, 2016) and Closer (No. 40; Oct. 31, 2015). At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Imagine Dragons logs its fourth top two-charting effort, as its fourth full-length studio effort Origins enters with 91,000 units (61,000 in album sales). The rock group’s last studio set, Evolve,

debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the July 15, 2017-dated list (starting with 146,000 units). The quartet also visited the top two with its two earlier studio sets: Smoke + Mirrors (No. 1; March 7, 2015) and Night Visions (No. 2; Sept. 22, 2012). The debut parade continues on the Billboard 200, as Trippie Redd’s A Love Letter to You 3 starts, appropriately enough, at No. 3. The set enters with 84,000 units (11,000 in album sales). The hip-hop artist’s album is powered largely by streaming activity, as it collected 72,000 in SEA units (which translates to 108.8 million on-demand audio streams for the album’s tracks in its first week). Love Letter is also the week’s most-streamed album overall. The late Lil Peep debuts at No. 4 with his first posthumous album, Come Over When You’re Sober, Pt. 2. The set starts with 81,000 units (43,000 in album sales, bolstered by sales from an array of merchandise/album bundles). The new album is Lil Peep’s first top 10 effort and follows Come Over When You’re Sober, which reached No. 38 (Dec. 9, 2017). The latter set was released on Aug. 15, 2017 but didn’t debut on the chart until Dec. 2, 2017 — after Lil Peep died on Nov. 15, 2017. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s former three-week No. 1 A Star Is Born soundtrack slips from No. 2 to No. 5 with 68,000 units (down 13 percent). The Beatles’ self-titled album, often referred to as the White Album, re-enters the chart at No. 6 following its 50th anniversary reissue on Nov. 9. The set climbs back onto the tally with 63,000 units earned (up 1,499 percent), of which 52,000 were in traditional album sales (up 5,596 percent). The album, first released in 1968, was remastered and reissued in a variety of formats, including some with a bevy of bonus tracks. The White Album spent nine nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 between Dec. 28, 1968 and March 1, 1969. Until this week, it was last higher on the chart on March 29, 1969, when it ranked at No. 5 (the final week in the top 10 of its initial chart run). Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200: Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack falls 3-7 (54,000 units; down 8 percent), Metro Boomin’s Not All Heroes Wear Capes slides 1-8 in its second week (52,000 units; down 47 percent), Drake’s former five-week leader Scorpion dips 5-9 (43,000 units; down 5 percent) and Travis Scott’s former two-week topper Astroworld descends 8-10 (41,000 units; up 2 percent). Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" leads the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Nov. 24) for a second week, gaining in streams after its first full week of tracking. The song blasted in atop the Hot 100 a week ago, becoming Grande's first No. 1 on the chart. "Next," released on Republic Records, repeats atop the Hot 100, as well as the Streaming Songs and Digital Song Sales charts, with 63.4 million U.S. streams (up 14 percent) and 43,000 downloads sold (down 47 percent) in the week ending Nov. 15, according to Nielsen Music. The track debuted with 55.5 million streams and 81,000 sold in the week ending Nov. 8, with just over five days of streaming and sales data, as it was released late Saturday, Nov. 3. "Next" concurrently nears Radio Songs, up 94 percent to 22 million in all-format airplay audience. On the mainstream top 40 radio-based Pop Songs chart, the track flies 33-20 with Greatest Gainer honors. "Next" (down 3 percent in overall activity week-over-week) easily outpaced Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode," which rebounds from No. 3 to its No. 2 Hot 100 high. The track rises 5-4 on Streaming Songs (35.2 million, up 1 percent) and 17-7 on Digital Song Sales (17,000, up 45 percent, boosted by a 69-cent sale price in the iTunes Store) and becomes Scott's first Radio Songs top 10 (11-9; 60.2 million, up 2 percent). Marshmello and Bastille's "Happier" rebounds 4-3 on the Hot 100, revisiting its best rank, as it becomes each act's first No. 1 on Radio Songs (3-1; 99.2 million, up 9 percent). The song unseats Maroon 5's "Girls Like You" after 16 weeks atop Radio Songs (1-2; 98.3 million, down 10 percent), leaving "Girls" tied for the second-longest No. 1 run in the chart's 28-year history, after Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" (18 weeks, 1998). "Girls" matched the 16-week Radio Songs commands of Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" in 2005 and No Doubt's "Don't Speak" in 1996-97. "Happier" dips 4-5 on Digital Song Sales (22,000, down 11 percent) and holds at No. 10 on Streaming Songs (21.2 million, down 4 percent).  COMPLETE CHARTS