Global Chart Report
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Bruno Mars
overtakes himself
Sunday, October 27, 2024
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
A big surprise atop
the Global Track Chart: After many
weeks with very little movement in
the upper region, a new track shoots
straight ahead to the summit of our
tally. It's 'Apt.' by South Korean
singer, songwriter Rosé in
collaboration with Bruno Mars.
Inspired by a popular South Korean
drinking game named Apartment, from
which the title of the song is also
derived, the tune employs the game's
rhythmic chant of apateu (Korean: 아파트)
to create a playful and addictive
chorus. 'Apt.' starts with massive 557,000
points and that's the largest weekly
points frame for a number one smash
since Jung Kook's 'Seven' peaked
with 630,000 points in the calendar
week 30, 2023.
Broken
down by segments it generated
512,000 points by streaming, 39,000
points by sales, and 6,000 points by
airplay. By the way, the song interpolates Toni Basil's
1982 hit 'Mickey', which peaked at
no.5 globally in December of that year. 'Apt.'
ends the seven week reign of 'Die
With A
Smile' by Lady GaGa &
Bruno Mars. It sails to the
runner-up slot, despite an
impressive 7% gain to another
healthy 467,000 points, with 360,000
points by streaming, 38,000
points by sales, and 69,000 points
by airplay.
It's the largest points level for a
runner-up slot since 'Bzrp Music
Sessions Vol.53' by Bizarrap &
Shakira placed with 506,000 points
there in the calendar week 4, 2023.
Billie Eilish's former number one
smash 'Birds Of A Feather' rounds
out this week's top three with 335,000
points, an 1,5% increase, with 239,000
points by streaming, 38,000 points
by sales, and 58,000 points by
airplay.
´Tu Boda' by Óscar Maydon & Fuerza
Regida succeeds a spectacular jump
from no.28 to no.6,
driven by a huge 113% points boost
to 207,000, so it's the clear winner
of the week with the largest points
increase. The fantastic tune is a
corrido tumbado-sierreño song, which
thematically revolves about a man
who is seeing his loved one marry
someone else. Outside
our current Top 40 waiting among
other
'La Patrulla' by Peso Pluma feat.
Neton Vega at no.42, 'The Door' by
Teddy Swims at no.47, 'Diet Pepsi' by
Addison Rae at no.48, and 'Embrace It'
by Ndotz at no.57 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. Clear leader in the
current week of the Global Album
Chart is 'Spill The Feels', the 12th
extended play by the South Korean
boy band Seventeen. The effort bows
with 552,000 equivalent sales (only
15,000 points by streaming + massive
537,000 points by sales). Their
former set, the compilation album
'17 Is Right Here', started with
stellar 872,000 sales in the week
20, 2024 and generated a total of
1,44 million so far. Sabrina
Carpenter's 'Short n' Sweet' rises
back to the runner-up spot with
96,000 equivalent sales. That's a
14% decrease compared to the
previous week with 75,000 points by
streaming + 21,000 points by sales.
Last week's number one rounds out
this week's top three, 'Brat' by
Charli XCX ranks there with 87,000
consumption units, down 55% compared
to last week with 69,000 points by streaming +
18,000 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 8,000 / 16,467,000,
'1989 (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 24,000 / 6,027,000, '21' by Adele
20,000 / 33,258,000,
'25' by Adele 13,000 / 25,263,000,
'30' by Adele 8,000 / 6,568,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 29,000 /
10,096,000, 'Cowboy
Carter' by Beyoncé 7,000 /
1,500,000,
'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 20,000 /
21,267,000, 'Emails I Can't Send' by
Sabrina Carpenter 34,000 /
1,615,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
7,000 / 6,126,000, 'Eternal
Sunshine' by Ariana Grande 32,000 /
2,166,000, 'Evermore' by
Taylor Swift 13,000 / 6,192,000,
'For All The Dogs' by
Drake 10,000 / 3,251,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 13,000 / 9,141,000, Génesis' by
Peso Pluma 18,000 / 2,393,000,
'Golden' by Jung Kook 28,000 /
3,048,000, 'Guts' by Olivia Rodrigo
29,000 / 3,848,000,
'Harry's House'
by Harry Styles 11,000 / 7,166,000,
'Heroes &
Villains' by Metro Boomin 18,000 /
4,364,000, 'Lover' by Taylor Swift
36,000 / 10,926,000, 'Midnights' by Taylor
Swift 30,000 /
11,582,000, 'One Moment At A Time'
by Morgan Wallen 34,000 / 8,037,000, 'Radical Optimism' by
Dua Lipa 10,000 / 852,000, 'Red (Taylor's
Version)' by Taylor Swift 13,000 /
6,136,000, '17 Is Right Here' by
Seventeen 10,000 / 1,443,000,
'Speak
Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 9,000 / 3,493,000, 'Starboy'
by The Weeknd 38,000 / 8,078,000, 'Stick
Season' by Noah Kahan 35,000 /
3,592,000, 'The Death Of Slim Shady
(Coup De Grâce)' by Eminem 34,000 /
1,117,000,
'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
35,000 / 8,707,000, 'Un Verano Sin
Ti' by Bad Bunny 31,000 / 7,861,000, 'Utopia'
by Travis Scott 37,000 / 4,589,000,
and 'When We All Fall Asleep,
Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
16,000 / 12,089,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 50 YEARS
AGO
... "Rock Your Baby" was one of the
landmark recordings of early disco
music. It was also one of the first
records to use a drum machine, an
Roland rhythm machine. The track was
not originally intended for George
McCrae but he happened to be in the
studio and added a vocal; the
resulting combination of infectious
rhythm and falsetto vocals made it a
massive global hit. Abba's Benny
Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus have
cited the song as an inspiration for
the backing track of their 1976
smash hit "Dancing Queen". In a 1975
interview, John Lennon said of "Rock
Your Baby" that "I'd give my
eyetooth to have written that".
Released in May 1974, the song
topped the hitlists in almost all
countries around the world and with
a total of 10,287,000 points it
landed finally at the runner-up spot
on the Year-End Chart 1974.
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%).
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
(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.