Global Chart
Report
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Harry Styles keeps the crown
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
Harry Styles' synth-pop smash 'As It Was' leads confidently for a
seventh week with another 396,000 points, down 1% compared to the
previous week. Broken down by segments 'As It Was' generated 249,000
points by streaming (down 4,5%), 40,000 points by sales (down 3%),
and 107,000 points by airplay (up 10%). Simultaneous to Kendrick
Lamar's album release, five songs of the set found the way into the
Top 40. Highest is 'N95' (the title is related to the N95 respirator
mask). The seething cultural critique shoots at the runner-up slot
with 199,000 points. In the case of Kendrick Lamar applies our chart
rule, that only the three most successful songs of an album counted
with the full points, the fourth gets a 10% deduction, the fifth
20%, the sixth 30%, et cetera. Without this chart rule Kendrick
Lamar would have nine songs inside the Top 40 this week! Rounds out
the current top three is Jack Harlow's 'First Class' with 188,000
points, down 9%.
Outside our weekly Top 40 waiting among other 'Silent Hill' by
Kendrick Lamar feat. Kodak Black at no.45, 'Stefania' by Kalush at no.52, and 'Jordan' by Ryan Castro at no.59
for their
first appearance on the big list.
From January 2022 on there's a change in the composition of the Global
Album Chart. The reason is the different approach to merging sales
figures and streaming (equivalent sales) in various countries. This
leads to distortions. That's why we decided, that the national
equivalent sales are additionally weighted to the market size of the
countries (according to the latest IFPI informations). This will
also ensure a little more stability in our Top 10. Let's take a look
on our current tally: Only three weeks ago, American rapper Pusha T.
scored with his album 'It's Almost Dry' and 89,000 equivalent sales.
This week the set would be only placed at no.9, a very busy week,
contained seven albums with a six-figure sales. Most successful
effort of the week is the extended play 'Thursday's Child' by South
Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together, also known as TXT, with massive
647,000 equivalent sales. Shy behind the legendary American rapper
Kendrick Lamar bows with his fifth studio album 'Mr.Morale & The Big
Steppers' and 372,000 sales. Rounds out the top three is Bad Bunny's
'Un Verano Sin Ti' with 204,000 sales, a total of 494,000 after two
weeks on the hitlist. And now, as every week, additional
stats from outside the current Global Album Top 10 in alphabetic
order, the first figure means last week's sales, the second figure
the total sales: '1989' by Taylor Swift 27,000 / 12,955,000, '21' by
Adele 12,000 / 31,464,000, '25' by Adele 11,000 / 23,901,000, '30'
by Adele 33,000 / 5,008,000, the 'A
Star Is Born' soundtrack 4,000 / 6,992,000, 'After Hours' by The
Weeknd 38,000 / 6,153,000, 'An Evening With Silk Sonic' by Silk
Sonic 18,000 / 1,029,000, 'Astroworld' by Travis Scott 16,000 /
6,886,000, 'Beerbongs
& Bentleys' by Post Malone 17,000 / 8,691,000, 'Certified Lover Boy' by Drake
51,000 / 3,870,000, 'Dangerous: The Double Album' by Morgan Wallen
67,000 / 4,560,000, 'Dawn FM' by The Weeknd 43,000 / 1,481,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 27,000 / 18,738,000, 'Divinely
Uninspired To A Hellish Extent' by Lewis Capaldi 15,000 / 5,463,000,
'Donda' by Kanye West 18,000 / 2,077,000, 'DS4Ever' by Gunna 27,000
/ 1,178,000, the 'Encanto' soundtrack 55,000 / 2,397,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran 55,000 /
3,021,000,
'Evermore' by Taylor Swift 14,000 / 3,300,000, 'Fighting Demons' by
Juice WRLD 23,000 / 1,031,000, 'Fine Line' by Harry
Styles 49,000 / 7,181,000, 'Folklore' by Taylor Swift 25,000 /
5,291,000, 'F*ck Love' by The Kid Laroi
35,000 / 3,782,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua Lipa
51,000 / 6,086,000, 'Goodbye & Good Riddance' by Juice
WRLD 26,000 / 5,966,000, the soundtrack of the Original Hollywood Cast
to 'Hamilton: An American Musical' 17,000 / 4,752,000, 'Happier Than
Ever' by Billie Eilish 37,000 / 2,852,000,
'Hollywood's Bleeding' by Post Malone 30,000 / 7,953,000, 'Justice' by
Justin Bieber 44,000 / 3,490,000, 'Legends
Never Die' by Juice WRLD 23,000 / 5,086,000, 'Love Sux' by Avril
Lavigne 6,000 / 226,000, 'Map Of The Soul: 7' by
BTS (Bangtan Boys) 15,000 / 7,870,000, 'Montero' by Lil Nas X 34,000 /
1,806,000, 'Music Of The Spheres' by Coldplay 8,000 / 1,120,000, 'Music To Be Murdered By' by
Eminem 7,000 / 3,167,000, 'My Turn' by Lil Baby 21,000 / 4,366,000, 'No.6 Collaborations' by Ed Sheeran
4,000
/ 4,565,000, 'Oddinary' by Stray Kids 23,000 / 809,000, 'Planet Her'
by Doja Cat 58,000 / 3,430,000, 'Positions' Ariana Grande
14,000 / 3,228,000,
'Question Mark' by XXXTentacion 19,000 / 6,509,000, 'Red (Taylor's
Version)' by Taylor Swift 36,000 / 2,527,000,
'Scorpion' by
Drake 15,000 / 8,177,000, '7220' by Lil Durk 35,000 / 636,000, 'Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon' by
Pop Smoke 32,000 / 6,671,000,
'Stoney' by Post Malone 12,000 /
6,989,000, 'The
Greatest Showman' soundtrack 6,000 / 9,234,000, 'The Highlights' by
The Weeknd 29,000 / 2,936,000, 'Unlimited Love' by Red Hot Chili
Peppers 18,000 / 455,000, 'Voyage' by Abba 5,000 / 1,946,000, 'When We All Fall
Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish 25,000 / 9,916,000, and 'X' by Ed Sheeran
9,000 / 13,173,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 10 YEARS AGO
... "Somebody That I Used To Know" was written and recorded by
Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter Gotye (real name Willy De Backer). The song
with the guest vocals of the New Zealand singer-guitarist Kimbra was released in
Australia and New Zealand by Eleven Music on 5 July 2011 as the second single
from Gotye's third studio album, Making Mirrors (2011). It was later released by
Universal Music globally. "Somebody That I Used to Know" is a mid-tempo, indie
pop ballad. It contains a sample of the Brazilian jazz guitarist Luiz Bonfá's
instrumental "Seville" from 1967. Commercially, "Somebody That I Used to Know"
is Gotye's most successful and signature song. It has topped charts in the
United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and as well as 23 other national
charts, and reached the top 10 in more than 30 countries around the world. On
the global chart it remained for 56 weeks and got a total of 11.603.000 million
points. It also reached the hot spot of the End-Of-Year list 2012 and won two
Grammy Awards for Best Pop Duo / Group Performance and Record of the Year.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Kendrick Lamar tops Billboard Top 200 easily
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles
Kendrick Lamar lands
his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard
200 chart
as his latest release, Mr.
Morale & The Big Steppers,
launches atop the list (dated May 28). He’s debuted at No.1
with each of his last four albums.
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers charges
in with 295,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the
week ending May 19, according to Luminate — the largest week of
the year for any album. It’s the third straight week in which
that benchmark has been crushed. A week ago, Bad
Bunny’s Un
Verano Sin Ti did
the trick with its No. 1 debut of 274,000, and in the week
before that, Future’s I
Never Liked You bowed
at No. 1 with 222,000. Of Mr.
Morale & The Big Steppers’
295,500 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise
258,500 (equating to 343.02 million on-demand official streams
of the set’s 18 tracks), album sales comprise 35,500 and TEA
units comprise 1,500. It claims
the biggest week, by equivalent album units, for any album
since Adele’s 30
debuted with
839,000 units in the week ending Nov. 25, 2021 (chart dated Dec.
4, 2021). At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Bad Bunny’s Un
Verano Sin Ti falls
from the No. 1 slot in its second week (182,000 equivalent album
units earned; down 34%). Future’s former No. 1 I
Never Liked You slips
from No. 2 to No. 3 with 89,500 units (down 23%). Tomorrow X
Together scores its second top 10 album and highest-charting
effort yet on the Billboard 200, as Minisode
2: Thursday’s Child bows
at No. 4. It surpasses the No. 5 debut and peak of The
Chaos Chapter: Freeze,
in June 2021. (In total, Minisode
2: Thursday’s Child is
the sixth charting effort on the Billboard 200 for the South
Korean pop quintet.)
Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child starts
with 68,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album
sales comprise 65,500; SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 4.37
million on-demand official streams of the set’s five tracks) and
TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
Morgan Wallen’s
chart-topping Dangerous:
The Double Album is
pushed down one spot to No. 5 despite a 5% gain (55,500
equivalent album units earned). Jack
Harlow’s Come
Home the Kids Miss You falls
three rungs to No. 6 in its second week with 55,000 units (down
51%). Florence + The Machine collects its fourth top 10 album on
the Billboard 200 as Dance
Fever debuts
at No. 7 with 54,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum,
album sales comprise 42,500, SEA units comprise 11,000 (equaling
14.5 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 14 tracks)
and TEA units comprise 500 units. The Black Keys round out the
week quartet of debuts in the Billboard 200’s top 10, as Dropout
Boogie bows
at No. 8. The set starts with 33,000 equivalent album units
earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 27,500; SEA units
comprise 5,000 (equaling 6.5 million on-demand official streams
of the set’s 10 tracks) and TEA units comprise 500 units. In
total, Dropout
Boogie is
the duo’s sixth top 10 album on the Billboard 200 and comes only
a year after its last release, Delta
Kream,
which debuted and peaked at No. 6 on the May 29, 2021-dated
chart. Closing out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are two
former No. 1s: Olivia
Rodrigo’s Sour falls
5-9 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned (though up less
than 1%) and Lil
Durk’s 7220 slips
7-10 with 29,000 units (down 7%).
Jack Harlow‘s
“First Class” holds the No. 1 spot on the Billboard
Hot 100 songs
chart for a third total week, five weeks after it flew
in at No. 1.
“First Class,” released on Generation Now / Atlantic Records,
drew 60.3 million radio airplay audience impressions – up 23%,
as it wins the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award for a fifth
consecutive week – and 25.2 million streams (down 19%) and sold
8,600 downloads (up 8%) in the May 13-19 tracking week,
according to Luminate. The track jumps 8-3 for a new high on Radio
Songs and
7-4 on Digital
Song Sales,
after a week on top, and drops 2-6 on Streaming
Songs,
following three weeks at No. 1. Harry Styles’ “As It Was” keeps
at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after three weeks at No. 1, with 70.1
million in airplay audience (up 6%) – as it rules Radio Songs
for a second week – 22.5 million streams (down 3%) and 7,900
sold (up 5%). The track tops the Pop
Airplay chart
for a second week and ascends to No. 1 on Adult
Pop Airplay,
where it’s Styles’ second leader, following “Watermelon Sugar”
for a week in October 2020. Kendrick Lamar debuts four songs in
the Hot 100’s top 10, led by “N95” at No. 3, as it opens with
37.2 million streams, 942,000 airplay audience impressions and
2,300 sold. The track starts as his third No. 1 on Streaming
Songs, following “Humble.” (for four weeks, beginning in April
2017) and his featured turn on Lil Wayne’s “Mona Lisa” (one,
October 2018). Lamar’s other top 10 premieres on the latest Hot
100, also from his new album Mr.
Morale & The Big Steppers:
“Die Hard,” with Blxst and Amanda Reifer, at No. 5 (driven
primarily by 27 million streams, as well as 2.4 million in
airplay audience); “Silent Hill,” with Kodak Black, at No. 7
(26.5 million streams; 1.8 million in radio reach); and “United
in Grief,” at No. 8 (25 million streams). Future’s “Wait for U,”
featuring Drake and Tems, descends 3-4 on the Hot 100, two weeks
after it debuted
at No. 1.
Morgan Wallen’s “You Proof” roars in at No. 6 on the Hot 100.
The song, released May 13 – Wallen’s birthday, after he had teased
it on TikTok May 1 –
debuts at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (23,100 sold), where it’s
his fourth top 10, all achieved this year, and No. 8 on
Streaming Songs (22.4 million). Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top
10, Lizzo’s “About Damn Time” holds at its No. 9 high and
Latto’s “Big Energy” retreats 8-10, after hitting No. 3.
Meanwhile, after a slow
start for new music this
year – as only two of the 26 songs to appear in the Hot 100’s
top 10 between January and the April 9 chart were released in
2022 – a robust 17 top 10s released this year have reached the
region in the seven weeks since, by Styles, Harlow, Wallen,
Future, Lizzo, Bad Bunny and Lamar.
Record Of The Month
'Stefania' by the Kalush Orchestra from the war-torn Ukraine is the
big winner of this year's Eurovision Song Contest - the world's greatest music
event.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Florence + The Machine celebrate their
fourth no.1
Monday, May 23, 2022
by Alan Jones, London Despite not yet yielding a
Top 50 single, Florence + The Machine’s fifth album, Dance Fever, makes
a strong debut atop the chart, achieving the highest weekly sale of any
album in 2022 to deliver her/their fourth No.1. The 19th different album
to top the chart in as many weeks, Dance Fever does so on
consumption of 31,187 units (12,161 CDs, 6,520 vinyl double
packs, 6,664 cassettes, 1,796 digital downloads and 4,046
sales-equivalent streams), becoming the first album to exceed 30,000
sales since Adele’s 30 sold 70,813 copies on its fifth and last week at
No.1, 21 weeks ago.
Available in four CD, nine vinyl and three cassette editions, Dance
Fever doubtless benefitted from multiple purchases but still delivers
the lowest opening week tally in Florence + The Machine’s career.
Their only Florence + The Machine album NOT to reach No.1 - their last
album High As Hope - came off second best to Drake’s Scorpion, opening
at No.2 on sales of 40,304 in 2018. Debut album, Lungs, sold 63,032
copies on debuting at No.2 in 2009 while follow-up, Ceremonials, sold
94,050 copies to debut at No.1 in 2011, and How Big, How Blue, How
Beautiful sold 68,788 copies debuting at No.1 in 2015. Lungs did reach
No.1 eventually - but not until its 28th week on the chart.
However, it
is by far F+TM's biggest seller, with a to-date tally of 1,887,909,
followed by Ceremonials (963,387), How Big… (408,289) and High As Hope
(146,533). Their 2012 MTV Unplugged set, which reached No.27, has sold
45,708 copies.
A little over five years after his last proper album, Damn debuted at
No.2 for Kendrick Lamar, the Californian rapper returns to active
service, and again debuts at No.2 with Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.
Lamar’s fifth chart album, and fourth Top 10 entry, it achieves
consumption of 28,206 copies – 1,643 digital downloads and 26,563 from
sales-equivalent streams. Had it been released physically, it would
likely have been No.1.
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, which debuted and peaked at No.16 on sales of
7,141 copies in 2012 is Lamar’s biggest-seller with to-date consumption
of 387,571 units, ahead of Damn (354,938) and To Pimp A Butterfly, his
only No.1, which debuted atop the chart in 2015 on sales of 29,695
copies, which have since climbed to 280,901.
Released exactly 20 years after their first album, Dropout Boogie is
American rock duo The Black Keys’ 11th studio set, their eighth Top 75
entry, and their fifth (consecutive) Top 10 album, debuting at No.5
(5,692 sales). Their eighth album, Turn Blue, provided their highest
placing and weekly sale, debuting and peaking at No.2 on sales of 33,037
in 2014. Their seventh studio album, 2011’s El Camino – which debuted at
number 29, on sales of 21,891 and peaked 38 weeks later at No.6,
following the Ohio pair's incendiary televised performances at the
Reading and Leeds festivals over the August 2012 bank holiday - is the
pair's biggest seller to date with consumption of 452,508 copies. It is
also home to their most popular track, Lonely Boy, which peaked at No.80
but is their only gold single, with consumption to date of 535,948
units.
London folk/rock band Bear’s Den secure their second Top 10 album with
fourth regular release, Blue Hours, opening at No.6 (5,650 sales) to
match the peak scaled by their 2016 second album, Red Earth & Pouring
Rain. It arrives 32 weeks after their Fragments collaboration with Paul
Frith reached No.177.
Three of last week’s Top 10 albums remain in the top tier: = (5-3, 8,171
sales) by Ed Sheeran, Between Us (6-4, 6,095 sales) by Little Mix and
Sour (10-7, 4,443 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo. The last of these celebrates
its first birthday, never having left the Top 20, with consumption to
date of 494,237 units.
There are Top 10 re-entries for 50 Years: Don’t Stop (13-8, 4,211 sales)
by Fleetwood Mac, The Highlights (14-9, 4,181 sales) by The Weeknd and
Curtain Call: The Hits (15-10, 4,041 sales) by Eminem.
Overall album sales are down 1.08% week-on-week at 2,047,648, 8.76%
above same week 2021 sales of 1,882,687. Physical product accounts for
263,952 sales, 12.89% of the total.
After finishing second in the Eurovision Song Contest last Saturday (May
14), UK entry Sam Ryder’s Space Man secures the exact same result on the
singles chart, vaulting 78-2, with consumption soaring 888.18%
week-on-week to 61,268 units (including 22,697 digital downloads and
1,274 CDs).
It actually managed to establish a small lead on the last two of the
week’s sales flashes but ultimately lost out to Harry Styles’ As It Was,
which secured its seventh straight week at No.1 at the death. That was
thanks to a 10.61% increase in consumption to 65,568 units, due largely
to a second injection of CDs, that accounted for 9,187 sales, and
increased streaming ahead of the release of his highly-anticipated new
album, Harry’s House, today (May 20).
Ryder’s very first hit, Space Man is the first UK entry to even reach
the Top 10 since 2007 when Scooch’s abomination Flying The Flag (For
You) reached No.5, the first Eurovision hit of any origin to reach the
Top 10 since 2012, when Sweden’s Loreen reached No.3 with Euphoria, and
the highest charting UK entry since 1996, when Gina G also reached No.2
with Ooh Ahh...Just A Little Bit.
Ryder was trumped at the finish in Eurovision, almost inevitably, by
Ukraine’s Kalush with their song Stefania. Ukraine’s third winner to
date, it makes a surprisingly muted debut this week at No.38 (11,478
sales). There are also debuts for Norway’s bizarre Give That Wolf A
Banana (No.47, 9,914 sales) by Subwoolfer, Spanish entry SloMo (No.56,
8,728 sales) by Cuban-born Chanel and Swedish entry Hold Me Closer
(No.59, 8,459 sales) by Cornelia Jakobs, which finished 10th, 3rd and
4th, respectively. There’s also a new entry from 2021 Eurovision
winners, Maneskin, who score their fifth hit with Supermodel (No.43,
10,638 sales), after performing it at this year’s contest.
In the biggest shake-up in the Top 10 for weeks – although,
historically, it’s a fairly tame week – rapper Kendrick Lamar’s new
album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, spawns two new arrivals, namely
N95 (No.6 29,975 sales) and Die Hard (No.7, 29,321 sales). A
collaboration with fellow rapper Blxst and singer Amanda Reifer (a
hitmaker previously as a member of Cover Drive), Die Hard is only the
second song of that title ever to chart, doing so, remarkably, a week
after an otherwise unrelated rap collaboration between Knucks and
Stormzy reached No.61. Lamar’s full allotment of three tracks as a
primary artist is completed by United In Grief (No.14, 24,001 sales). He
has had 37 hits in less than 10 years since his 2012 chart debut.
Emulating Harry Styles’ As It Was, there are increases in sales but
unchanged chart positions in the Top 10 for Go by Cat Burns (3-3, 46,610
sales) and About Damn Time (4-4, 41,610 sales, exactly 5,000 less) by
Lizzo.
The rest of the Top 10: First Class (2-5, 39,793 sales) by Jack Harlow,
Peru (7-8, 28,843 sales) by Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran, Starlight (5-9,
28,195 sales) by Dave and Baby (6-10, 27,750 sales) by Aitch & Ashanti.
The last two go to ACR next week.
Singles consumption is up 0.72% week-on-week at 25,215,253 units – an
all-time high, and 8.53% above same week 2021 consumption of 23,232,597
units. Paid-for sales are up 14.61% week-on-week at 370,384 – 6.09%
below same week 2021 sales of 394,414.