USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Love Somebody' launches at No. 1
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

The single, released Oct. 18, arrives as Wallen’s third Hot 100 leader, after Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Wallen, opened on top in May and reigned for 6 weeks, and “Last Night”

dominated for 16 weeks in 2023. “Love Somebody,” on Big Loud / Republic, becomes the 1,175th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 66-year history, and the first to debut atop the chart since “I Had Some Help.” It arrives with 31.1 million official streams, 15.2 million radio airplay audience impressions and 17,000 sold in the United States Oct. 18-24. The track concurrently debuts at No. 1 on Streaming Songs, where it’s Wallen’s third No. 1, and Digital Song Sales, where he adds his seventh leader. It begins at No. 42 on Radio Songs. Wallen initially previewed the song on TikTok in May and performed it during the European leg of his One Night at a Time Tour. Following the original single’s proper release Oct. 18, a live version was posted to Wallen’s official YouTube account Oct. 24. Rosé and Bruno Mars roar onto the Hot 100 at No. 8 with “APT.” Released Oct. 18, the duet debuts with 25 million streams, 3.2 million in airplay audience and 14,000 sold in the

U.S. Blackpink member Rosé spent one prior week on the Hot 100 as a soloist, when “On the Ground” charted at No. 70 for a week in March 2021. Mars, meanwhile, claims his 20th Hot 100 top 10 with “APT.,” becoming the 25th act with 20 or more top 10s. (Drake boasts a record 78.) Having scored his first top 10 in 2010, Mars is one of only seven artists to reach the milestone since then. Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” dips to No. 2. It holds for a 13th week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (72.2 million, down 2% week-over-week). Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” drops to No. 3 from its No. 2 Hot 100 high. Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” descends to No. 5 from its No. 3 best, while her “Taste” falls 8-9, after it debuted at its No. 2 peak. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” repeats at No. 4 on the Hot 100 after hitting No. 3. With Mars also at No. 8 with “APT.,” he charts two top 10s simultaneously for the first time since March 23, 2013, when “When I Was Your Man” ranked at No. 3 and “Locked Out of Heaven” was No. 10. Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Wallen, backtracks 5-6 on the Hot 100, following six weeks at No. 1 beginning upon its debut in May. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led the Hot 100 for a week in March, slides 6-7 and rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Benson Boone’s No. 2-peaking “Beautiful Things” descends 9-10. Yeat lands his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as Lyfestyle debuts atop the list dated Nov. 2. The set earned 89,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 24, according to Luminate — his best week ever by units, largely driven by album sales. Lyfestyle is the fifth total and consecutive top 10-charting set for the rapper, who had gone as high as No. 2 in March with 2093. Of Lyfestyle’s 89,000 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 60,000 (Yeat’s best sales week ever; it’s No. 2 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 29,000 (equaling 39.67 million on-demand official streams of the songs on the streaming edition of the album; it debuts at No. 17 on the Top Streaming Albums chart) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Lyfestyle’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across many variants, exclusively sold through the artist’s webstore. Lyfestyle’s opening-week sales actually exceed the cumulative sales of Yeat’s entire album catalog before this past week. Until Lyfestyle’s release, his catalog of albums had sold a combined 35,000 copies. In total, of Lyfestyle’s first-week sales of 60,000, digital downloads comprise 43,500; CD sales comprise 12,000 and vinyl sales comprise 4,500. Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Short n’ Sweet climbs 4-2 on the Billboard 200 with 79,000 equivalent album units earned (down 7%). After debuting at No. 1, Jelly Roll’s Beautifully Broken falls to No. 3 with 68,000 (down 58%). Rod Wave’s Last Lap dips 2-4 in its second week with 67,000 units (down 47%). Seventeen collects its sixth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as Spill The Feels debuts at No. 5 with 66,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 64,000 (it’s No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 2,000 (equaling 2.61 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The album’s sales were bolstered by its availability across 17 CD variants, each containing collectible branded paper ephemera (such as photocards, posters, lyric books and stickers, some randomized). Morgan Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time rises 9-6 on the Billboard 200 with 50,000 equivalent album units earned (up 5%), GloRilla’s Glorious falls 5-7 in its second week with nearly 50,000 (down 27%), and Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us surges 19-8 with 49,000 units (up 78%). The latter vaults up the chart, and back into the top 10 for the first time since its No. 2 debut in July, thanks to its Oct. 18 deluxe reissue on digital download and streaming services with seven additional tracks. Of the 49,000 units The Secret of Us earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise the bulk of the sum — a little over 45,000 (up 89%). Rounding out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200: Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft (falling 7-9 with a little over 48,000 equivalent album units earned; down 4%) and BigXthaPlug’s Take Care (8-10 in its second week; with 48,000; up less than 1%).

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Sabrina Carpenter's 'Taste' tops a ninhth week
Monday, October 28, 2024
by Alan Jones, London
 
No.1 for the ninth week in a row – something only five of the 70 previous No.1 songs of the 2020s have managed – Taste remains well ahead of its nearest challengers for Sabrina Carpenter but registers a 7.09% dip in consumption week-on-week to 43,913 units (360 digital downloads, 43,553 sales-

equivalent streams). That is the lowest of its career, and the lowest for a No.1 single since Strangers topped for the third and final time for Kenya Grace on consumption of 37,139 units a year ago this week. It extends Carpenter’s impressive occupancy of the chart’s top position to 21 of the last 26 weeks. Neither Taste nor Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars duet Die With A Smile – which retreats 2-3 (32,987 sales) – will be No.1 next week as both hit ACR, which could leave the path open for Carpenter’s Island labelmate, Gigi Perez, to snatch pole position with her debut hit, Sailor Song, which increase consumption for the 11th week in a row, as it climbs 3-2 (34,995 sales). Mars could still be No.1, however. His latest hit, Apt, pairs him with Blackpink’s New Zealand-born South Korean singer Rosé, and is the highest of seven new entries to the Top 75, at No.4 (32,525 sales). It is Mars’ 13th Top 10 hit, and 28th Top 75 entry, Rosé’s first Top 10 hit and second Top 75 entry

outside of Blackpink. And don’t rule out Gaga either – her brand-new single Disease dropped today (25th). Liam Payne’s tragic death in Buenos Aires (16 October) came too late to impact last week’s chart but three songs from the late singer’s output with One Direction return to the Top 40 this week, two of them in the Top 10. Night Changes (No.6, 28,206 sales) leads the way, surpassing its 2014 No.7 peak, followed by 2013 No.2 hit, Story Of My Life (No.9, 24,370 sales) and 2011 No.1 hit, What Makes You Beautiful (No.23, 14,646 sales), with a further five tracks ‘starred-out’. The rest of the Top 10: I Love You I’m Sorry (4-5, 30,449 sales) by Gracie Abrams, Somedays (5-7, 27,281 sales) by Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & DOD, Hot To Go! (6-8, 25,956 sales) by Chappell Roan and Thick Of It (8-10, 23,993 sales) by KSI feat. Trippie Redd. Overall singles consumption is down 0.45% week-on-week to 29,633,331 units, 10.64% above same week 2023 consumption of 26,783,637 units. Paid-for sales are up 0.84% week-on-week at 282,168, 5.38% above same week 2023 sales of 267,775. More than 36 years after she first topped the albums chart, Kylie Minogue becomes the 16th artist to have 10 No.1 albums, opening atop the list with her 17th studio album, Tension II. The 11th new No.1 by a female solo artist this year – joining albums by Ariana Grande, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Gracie Abrams, Chappell Roan, Beabadoobee, Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX, and surpassing the previous record of 10 set only last year – Tension II is the 13th different album to lead the chart in as many weeks, and enjoys an easy victory on introductory consumption of 35,235 units (17,818 CDs, 8,898 vinyl albums, 2,162 cassettes, 4,086 digital downloads and 2,271 sales-equivalent streams). A sequel to Minogue’s September 2023 release Tension, its first week consumption is 33.82% below its predecessor’s opening frame of 53,237. It is her fourth consecutive No.1 studio album in a row – the longest sequence of her career – and joins her previous No.1 studio albums Kylie (1988), Enjoy Yourself (1989), Fever (2001), Aphrodite (2010), Golden (2018), Disco (2020), Tension (2023) and compilations Greatest Hits (1992) and Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection (2019). Minogue is only the third female solo artist to have 10 or more No.1 albums, joining Madonna and Taylor Swift; the third artist not from the UK or USA to achieve the feat, joining ABBA and U2; and, at 56, the third oldest female solo artist to have a No.1 album with new material – Barbra Streisand, 74 when she topped with Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway in 2016; and Shania Twain, who was 57 when she reached No.1 last year with Queen Of Me are the others – doing so in the week her sister Dannii turns 53. Despite its impressive start, Tension’s overall consumption so far is 96,532 units putting it far behind Minogue’s debut album, Kylie, which remains her biggest seller with to-date sales of 2,142,128, with 2002 release Fever (1,752,093) in second place. Tension II is also No.1 in Minogue’s native Australia, becoming her ninth chart-topper there – all since 2000. UK-based Australian electropop quartet Confidence Man failed to dent the Top 200 with earlier albums Confident Music For Confident People (2018) and Tilt (2022), but they performed an impressive set at Glastonbury and, after garnering rave reviews, their third album, 3AM (La La La) breaks their duck comprehensively, debuting at No.9 (6,444 sales). Curiously, it becomes their lowest-charting album down under, debuting at No.40. No.1 on debut 17 weeks ago, Gracie Abrams’ second album, The Secret Of Us, returns to the Top 10 for the first time since, powering 36-7 (7,703 sales) following the release of a deluxe edition. The rest of the Top 10: Short n’ Sweet (3-2, 14,852 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter, Brat (1-4, 12,008 sales) by Charli XCX, +--=÷× Tour Collection (6-5, 8,133 sales) by Ed Sheeran, The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (5-6, 8,123 sales) by Chappell Roan, The Highlights (8-8, 7,206 sales) by The Weeknd and Hit Me Hard And Soft (9-10, 6,162 sales) by Billie Eilish. Overall album sales are up 0.06% week-on-week at 2,459,043 units, 6.23% above same week 2023 sales of 2,314,870. Physical product accounts for 321,408 sales, 13.07% of the total.