Global Chart Report
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Tate McRae
defends the pole position
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
The 20
year-old Canadian singer, dancer and
actress Tate Rosner McRae reigns the
Global Track Chart for a second week
with another 248,000 points, a 5,5%
increase compared to the previous
week. The song is the lead single
from Tate McRae's upcoming second
studio and was written by herself,
Amy Allen, Jasper Harris, and One
Republic lead singer Ryan Tedder.
Broken down by segments 'Greedy'
gets 172,000 points by streaming in
the current week (up 6%), 29,000
points by sales (up 4%), and 47,000
points by airplay (up 4%). Tate
McRae delivers also this week's
highest debut, 'Exes', another new
track from her upcoming album, bows
at no.35 with 85,000 points. The
former no.1 smashes, Taylor Swift's
'Cruel Summer' and Jung Kook's
'Seven', following still at no.2 with
215,000 points (down 3,5%),
respectively at no.3 with 189,000
points (down 8%). Never before in
history our two modern carol
classics placed so high in the
calendar week 48:
Mariah
Carey's 'All I Want For
Christmas Is You' rockets to no.10
with 143,000 points (up 58%) and
Wham!'s 'Last Christmas' returns at
no.20 with 109,000 points (up 55%).
The latter improves to position 83
on the
ALL TIME CHART
with a total of 10,014,000 points
and 'All I Want For Christmas Is
You' ranks at no.8 there with
massive 15,943,000 points.
Outside our weekly
Top 40 waiting among other
'El Amor De Su Vita' by Grupo
Frontera feat. Grupo Firme
at no.53, 'The Night We Met' by
Lord Huron at no.58, and 'Can't
Catch Me Now' by Olivia Rodrigo at
no.59 for their first appearance on
the big list. Jung Kook celebrates
his third solo number one on the
Track Chart and on the Global Album
Chart he catapults also to the
summit with his solo debut 'Golden'.
The set bows easily there with
massive 951,000 equivalent sales.
Last week's leader, Taylor Swift's
'1989 (Taylor's Version)', slides to
the runner-up slot with another
healthy 358,000 sales, after it
started with stellar 2,221,000 sales
the week before. Together with the
sales of the original version,
'1989' generated a total of
4,388,000 sales in 2023 and climbs
at no.2 on the year-to-date list,
only overtaken by Morgan Wallen's
'One Thing At A Time' with a total
of 5,044,000 sales. 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 33,000 / 15,605,000, '21' by Adele
15,000 / 32,358,000, '25' by Adele
12,000 /
24,659,000, '30' by Adele 9,000 / 6,155,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 24,000 /
8,605,000,
'Astroworld' by Travis Scott
16,000
/ 8,069,000, the soundtrack to 'Barbie: The
Album' 38,000 / 1,331,000, 'Beerbongs & Bentleys' by Post
Malone 12,000 / 9,676,000, 'Certified Lover
Boy' by Drake 21,000 / 6,095,000, 'Dangerous:
The Double Album' by Morgan Wallen 40,000 /
8,549,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran
19,000 / 20,325,000,
'Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent' by
Lewis Capaldi 18,000 / 6,746,000, 'Endless Summer
Vacation' by Miley Cyrus 19,000 /
1,377,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
16,000
/ 5,547,000, 'Evermore' by Taylor Swift
39,000
/ 4,983,000, 'Fine Line' by Harry Styles
15,000 / 9,223,000, '5-Star' by
Stray Kids 13,000 / 3,328,000, 'Folklore' by Taylor Swift
57,000 / 8,436,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 17,000 / 8,173,000, Génesis' by Peso
Pluma 34,000 / 1,020,000, 'Goodbye & Good Riddance'
by Juice WRLD 15,000 / 7,508,000, 'Happier
Than Ever' by Billie Eilish 15,000 / 4,447,000,
'Harry's House' by Harry Styles
29,000 / 5,958,000, 'Her Loss' by
Drake & 21 Savage 23,000 /
3,135,000, 'Hereos & Villains' by
Metro Boomin 33,000 / 2,955,000,
'Hollywood's Bleeding' by Post Malone
19,000
/ 9,785,000, 'Layover' by V 19,000 /
860,000, 'Legends Never Die' by Juice WRLD
10,000 / 6,211,000, 'Lover' by
Taylor Swift 67,000 / 7,980,000,
'My
Turn' by Lil Baby 19,000 / 5,864,000,
'Planet
Her' by Doja Cat 12,000 / 5,325,000,
'Red
(Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift
39,000 /
4,788,000, 'Renaissance' by Beyoncé
17,000 / 3,212,000, 'Scarlet' by
Doja Cat 39,000 / 376,000, 'Scorpion' by Drake
15,000 /
9,328,000,
'Shoot
For The Stars, Aim For The Moon' by Pop Smoke
12,000 / 8,326,000, 'SOS' by SZA
57,000 / 4,567,000, 'Sour' by Olivia
Rodrigo 38,000 / 8,843,000, 'Speak
Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 49,000 / 2,196,000, 'Stoney' by Post Malone
10,000 / 7,707,000, 'Subtract' by Ed
Sheeran 10,000 / 1,053,000, 'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
37,000 / 6,303,000,
'Un Verano Sin Ti' by Bad Bunny
28,000 / 5,919,000, 'Utopia' by
Travis Scott 56,000 / 2,194,000, 'When We All Fall
Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
13,000
/ 11,281,000, and 'X' by Ed Sheeran
5,000 / 13,610,000, 'Zach Bryan' by
Zach Bryan 56,000 / 1,020,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 30 YEARS
AGO
... "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" was released on August
30, 1993, as the first single from Meat Loaf's sixth album Bat Out Of
Hell II: Back Into Hell (1993). The female voice in that extravagantly
produced power ballad comes from Lorraine Crosby. The accompanying music
video was directed by Michael Bay and is based on Beauty & The Beast and
Phantom Of The Opera. "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)"
reached no.3 on the Year-End Chart 1993 with no.1 placements in almost
all countries around the world and it earned Meat Loaf a Grammy Award
for Best Rock Vocal Performance.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Drake's
'For All The Dogs' back at
No.1
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Drake’s
For All the Dogs jumps back
to No. 1 on the Billboard
200 (dated Dec. 2), for a
second week atop the list,
rising 4-1 with 145,000
equivalent album units
earned in the U.S. in the
week ending Nov. 23 (up
102%), according to
Luminate. Nearly all of its
units were driven by
streaming activity. The
album’s return to the top is
fueled largely by its deluxe
reissue on Nov. 17 with six
new songs, dubbed For All
the Dogs Scary Hours
Edition. All versions of the
album are combined for
tracking and charting
purposes. Of For All the
Dogs’ 145,000 equivalent
album units earned in the
week ending Nov. 23, SEA
units comprise 141,500 (up
99%, equaling 190.23 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s 29 tracks,
inclusive of its six added
songs), album sales comprise
2,000 (up 884%) and TEA
units comprise 1,500 (up
456%).
Taylor Swift’s
chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s
Version) is a non-mover at
No. 2 on the Billboard 200,
earning 138,000 equivalent
album units (down 14%).
Dolly Parton’s
Rockstar makes a splashy
debut at No. 3 on the
Billboard 200, scoring the
legend her highest-charting
album ever and her third top
10. She previously visited
the region with Blue Smoke
(No. 6 in 2014) and Trio
(her collaborative set with
Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou
Harris; No. 6 in 1987).
Rockstar launches with
128,000 equivalent album
units earned in the week
ending Nov. 23. Of that sum,
album sales comprise
118,500, SEA units comprise
8,000 and TEA units comprise
1,500. The arrival marks
Parton’s biggest week, by
units earned, since the
chart began measuring by
units in December 2014.
Further, with 118,500 copies
sold, Parton achieves her
biggest sales week for an
album in the modern era,
since Luminate began
electronically tracking
sales in 1991. She more than
doubles her previous biggest
week, notched in 1993 when
Slow Dancing With the Moon
sold 50,500 copies in its
second week on the chart
(rising 54-19 on the March
20, 1993-dated list). The
star-studded Rockstar was
promoted as Parton’s first
rock album (she’s primarily
released country music in
her nearly 60-year career),
and its recording was
sparked by Parton’s
induction into the Rock &
Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.
The 30-song set has a mix of
original songs and covers,
and boasts a cavalcade of
guest stars — 40 in all.
Among them are Pat Benatar,
Miley Cyrus, Melissa
Etheridge, Joan Jett and the
Blackhearts, Elton John,
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Paul
McCartney, Stevie Nicks,
Chris Stapleton, Ringo
Starr, Sting and Steven
Tyler. Rockstar’s first-week
sales were bolstered by its
availability across a
variety of editions and
formats, in addition to some
non-traditional music
retailers including Cracker
Barrel, Dollar General and
HSN. The album’s CD edition
was available in four
editions — a standard
version and three variants,
each with alternative cover
art: for HSN, with three
bonus tracks; a Dallas
Cowboys version, and a
Tennessee Volunteers edition
with a bonus track. The
latter two were tied to a
pair of high-profile live TV
performances from Parton:
during the Georgia Bulldogs
vs. Tennessee Volunteers
football game on Nov. 19,
and during halftime of the
Washington Commanders vs.
Dallas Cowboys football game
on Thanksgiving Day (Nov.
23).
Enhypen nabs
its third top 10-charting
effort on the Billboard 200
as Orange Blood bows at No.
4 with 90,000 equivalent
album units earned. Of that
sum, album sales comprise
87,000, SEA units comprise
3,000 (equaling 4.68 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s songs) and TEA
units comprise a negligible
sum. The Korean pop ensemble
previously hit the top 10
with Dark Blood (No. 4, in
June) and Manifesto: Day 1
(No. 6, 2022). Nearly all of
Orange Blood’s first-week
activity was generated by CD
sales (86,000), enhanced by
the album’s availability
across a dozen collectible
CD packages (including
exclusive versions sold by
Barnes & Noble, Target and
Walmart; all with branded
merchandise inside, some
with randomized elements).
The top 10 of the Billboard
200 is rounded out by six
former No. 1s:
Morgan Wallen’s
One Thing at a Time is
steady at No. 5 (68,000
equivalent album units
earned; down less than 1%);
Taylor Swift’s
Midnights rises 7-6 (56,000;
up 9%);
Stray Kids’
ROCK-STAR falls 1-7 in its
second week (51,000; down
77%);
Taylor Swift’s
Lover bolts 14-8 (nearly
51,000; up 16%);
Taylor Swift’s
Folklore climbs 18-9
(45,000; up 22%); and
SZA’s
SOS bumps 12-10 (44,000; up
less than 1%). (Many albums
on the chart, including
Swift’s Midnights, Lover and
Folklore, see sizable sales
gains owed to holiday
shopping promotions and
early Black Friday campaigns
that kicked in during the
tracking week.) Jack Harlow
“Lovin on Me” lifts to No. 1
on the Billboard Hot 100
songs chart, a week after it
debuted at No. 2. The song
becomes the rapper’s third
leader on the list. Released
on Generation Now/Atlantic,
it becomes the 1,160th No. 1
in the Hot 100’s 65-year
history. It drew 23.6
million streams (up 6%) and
20.8 million radio airplay
audience impressions (up
71%) and sold 11,000
downloads (down 10%) in the
Nov. 17-23 tracking week,
according to Luminate. (The
song entered a week earlier
at No. 2, with 22.2 million
streams, 12.2 million in
radio audience and 12,000
sold, following its Nov. 10
release.) The single scores
a second week at No. 1 on
the Streaming Songs chart;
holds at its No. 2 high on
Digital Song Sales; and
debuts at No. 32 on Radio
Songs. Harlow achieves his
third Hot 100 leader,
following “First Class” (No.
1 for three weeks in
April-May 2022) and
“Industry Baby,” with Lil
Nas X (No. 1, one week,
October 2021). Taylor
Swift’s “Cruel Summer” falls
to No. 2 on the Hot 100
following four
nonconsecutive weeks at No.
1. It rules Radio Songs for
a sixth week (68.8 million,
down 7%). Doja Cat’s “Paint
the Town Red” holds at No. 3
on the Hot 100, after it led
for three nonconsecutive
weeks beginning in
September. Mariah Carey’s
“All I Want for Christmas Is
You” dashes 17-4 on the Hot
100, with 22 million streams
(up 57%), 15.6 million
airplay audience impressions
(up 105%) and 3,000 sold (up
70%) Nov. 17-23. The song,
originally released in 1994,
hit the Hot 100’s top 10 for
the first time in December
2017. In December 2019, it
ascended to the summit at
last, for three weeks that
holiday season. It became
the second holiday song ever
to reign, after “The
Chipmunk Song,” by The
Chipmunks with David
Seville, spent four weeks at
No. 1 beginning in December
1958. SZA’s “Snooze” slips
4-5 on the Hot 100, after
reaching No. 2. Zach Bryan’s
“I Remember Everything,”
featuring Kacey Musgraves,
keeps at No. 6 on the Hot
100, after it led for a week
upon its debut in September.
Tate McRae’s “Greedy” rises
8-7 on the Hot 100, a week
after it became her first
top 10. Brenda Lee dances
merrily back onto the Hot
100 at No. 8 with “Rockin’
Around the Christmas Tree,”
which re-enters with 22
million official streams (up
57%), 15.4 million in
airplay audience (up 83%)
and 2,000 sold (up 308%). It
has spent nine weeks at its
No. 2 high since it first
reached the rank in December
2019; it was originally
released in 1958 and hit a
prior No. 14 peak in 1960.
For its 65th anniversary,
the song received its first
official video (featuring
cameos from Tanya Tucker and
Trisha Yearwood) Nov. 3.
Swift’s “Is It Over Now?
(Taylor’s Version) [From the
Vault]” slides 5-9 on the
Hot 100, three weeks after
it debuted as her 11th No.
1. Rounding out the Hot
100’s top 10, Tyla earns her
first visit to the region
with her first entry on the
chart, “Water,” which rises
15-10. The song drew 38.4
million in airplay audience
(up 24%) and 14.4 million
streams (up 49%) and sold
2,000 (up 19%) Nov. 17-23,
helped by two remixes, with
Marshmello and Travis Scott,
respectively, released Nov.
17.
Record Of The Month
'Según Quién'
comes from Maluma's sixth
studio album 'Don Juan',
a collab with Mexican singer
/ songwriter Carín León.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Jack Harlow remains at the
top
Monday, November 27, 2023
by Alan Jones, London
No.1 on debut last week,
Lovin On Me continues to
pace the pack, securing
second week supremacy on
consumption of 52,688 units
(1,757 digital downloads,
50,931 sales-equivalent
streams) for Jack Harlow.
That’s a 13.58% increase
week-on-week, and the
highest for a No.1 single
for 10 weeks. While
Lovin On Me sustains,
the song that debuted at
No.2 last week – Houdini by
Dua Lipa – suffers a 42.39%
dip in consumption to 23,583
units, and slides to No.7,
allowing Prada (3-2, 34,791
sales) by Cassö, Raye &
D-Block Europe to claim
runners-up slot for the
fifth time in seven weeks
and a place in the Top 5 for
the 11th week in a row,
despite having its lowest
sale for seven weeks.
Harlow and Lipa’s arrival in
harness at the top last week
marked the first time in a
little over eight years (421
weeks, to be precise) that
the Top 2 have been debuts
by different artists. The
once commonplace occurrence
– it has happened well over
100 times in chart history –
was realised then by Adele
opening at No.1 with Hello
and Justin Bieber at No.2
with Sorry. Since then, we
have had two instances of a
brand new Top 2, but in both
cases it was achieved by a
single artist. In January
2017, Ed Sheeran became the
first artist to debut at
No.1 and No.2 simultaneously
with
Shape Of You and Castle
On The Hill. And, just three
weeks ago, Taylor Swift
became the second, thanks to
Taylor’s Versions of Is It
Over Now? and Now That We
Don’t Talk. The latter Swift
track has since exited the
Top 10, though Is It Over
Now? rallies 7-6 (25,117
sales), while 2019 cut Cruel
Summer also bounces, moving
9-8 (22,388 sales).
Stick Season continues to
grow for Noah Kahan,
climbing 5-4 (31,435 sales),
even as his album of the
same title falls 6-14.
Greedy returns to its peak
(4-3, 33,588 sales) for
20-year-old Canadian Tate
McRae who also has the
week’s highest debut and her
eighth hit with Exes (No.12,
18,634 sales). Both tracks
are from her second album,
Think Later, which drops in
two weeks.
Also rallying, but below
their peaks, are Water (8-5,
29,159 sales) by Tyla and My
Love Mine All Mine (11-10,
18,965 sales) by Mitski.
The first four of Chase &
Status’ six Top 10 hits each
spent just one week in the
top tier but their big 2023
comeback has seen first
Becky Hill collaboration
Disconnect and now Bou,
Irah, Flowdan, Trigga &
Takura collaboration
Baddadan spend 10 weeks in
the Top 10. After two
earlier Top 10 runs of a
fortnight each, Baddadan has
the sixth week of its
current run in that portion
of the chart, rallying 10-9
(21,594 sales).
Overall singles sales are up
0.41% week-on-week to
27,740,841 units, 15.33%
above same week 2022
consumption of 24,053,443
units. Paid-for sales are
down 9.31% week-on-week at
270,545 – 3.74% below same
week 2022 sales of 281,059.
Their first two studio
albums peaked at No.2 –
behind The Pretenders and
The Police in 1980 – but
Madness finally secure their
first No.1 studio album with
their lucky 13th release,
Theatre Of The Absurd
Presents C’est La Vie,
hereafter called C’est La
Vie.
Proving that timing is
everything, it tops the
chart despite modest first
week consumption of 18,024
units (10,324 CDs, 5,507
vinyl albums, 574 cassettes,
1,233 digital downloads and
386 sales-equivalent
streams).
Although it peaked at No.2
in January 1980, Madness’
first album, One Step
Beyond, made its chart debut
in November 1979. The 44
years that have elapsed
since then mark the longest
time from debut to first
No.1 with a studio album for
an act.
Reluctant to accept her
invitation to join The Rock
& Roll Hall Of Fame last
year, country legend Dolly
Parton eventually acceded,
and set about recording her
rockiest album yet,
Rockstar, a sprawling
30-song, 141-minute set,
which debuts this week at
No.5 (7,195 sales), becoming
her fifth Top 10 and 23rd
Top 75 entry. It consists
almost entirely of covers
and collaborations, many of
them with bona fide rock
stars such as Lynyrd
Skynyrd, Aerosmith’s Steven
Tyler and REO Speedwagon’s
Kevin Cronin. The
77-year-old is joined on Let
It Be by Paul McCartney &
Ringo Starr, on Heart Of
Glass by Debbie Harry and on
Every Breath You Take by
Sting.
Six weeks after debuting at
No.1, For All The Dogs
rebounds 24-3 (10,762 sales)
for Drake, following the
release of a new ‘Scary
Hours’ edition, featuring
six additional tracks, last
Friday (17th).
After three weeks at No.1,
1989 (Taylor’s Version) dips
to No.2 (14,372 sales) for
Taylor Swift.
The rest of the Top 10:
Hackney Diamonds (8-4, 7,500
sales) by The Rolling
Stones, Guts (9-6, 7,043
sales) by Olivia Rodrigo,
Diamonds (12-7, 6,411 sales)
by Elton John, The
Highlights (13-8, 6,187
sales) by The Weeknd,
1967-1970 (2-9, 6,037 sales)
by The Beatles and Folklore
(16-10, 5,881 sales) by
Taylor Swift.
Overall album sales are up
2.66% week-on-week at
2,477,954, 17.38% above same
week 2022 sales of
2,111,064. Perhaps
surprisingly that is the
highest so far in the 2020s.
The last time album
consumption was higher was
in the last week of 2019 -
204 weeks ago – when
consumption was 2,641,650.
Physical product accounts
for 425,175 sales, 17.16% of
the total.