Global Chart Report
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'Seven' reigns
a tenth week
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
'Seven', the debut solo
single by South Korean singer and
Bangtan Boys member Jung Kook (with
additional rap-lines by Latto),
keeps the crown of the Global Track
Chart for a tenth consecutive week with another
317,000 points, a 4%
decrease compared to the previous
week. Broken down by segments
'Seven' gets 270,000 points by
streaming in the current week (down
4%), 15,000 points by sales (down
12%), and
32,000 points by airplay
(down 3%). Doja Cat's 'Paint The
Town Red' holds tight at the
runner-up slot for a third
consecutive week. The smash, which
interpolates Dionne Warwick's 1964
hit 'Walk On By', gets another 316,000
points, a new peak and a 4% increase.
It seems that the song will climb
atop of the hitlist next week.
Taylor Swift's 'Cruel Summer' turns
back to no.3, despite a 2% points
decrease to 218,000. Canadian rapper
and singer Drake delivers this
week's highest debut. 'Slime You
Out', the first sign of his upcoming
eighth
studio album 'For All The Dogs' and
a collaboration with SZA, bows at
no.10 globally with 140,000 points.
For several months 'I Wanna Be
Yours' by the British indie-rock act
Arctic Monkeys ranks shy behind the
Top 40. This week it succeeds the
jump on the tally for the first time
and placed at no.39 with 87,000
points. Originally 'I Wanna Be
Yours' is a poem by John Cooper
Clarke, on his 1982 album 'Zip Style
Method'. The poem was brought to
wider audience via an adaption by
Arctic Monkeys on their 2013 album
'AM'. Outside our weekly
Top 40 waiting among other
'Make Up Day' by the Naniwa Boys at
no.45 and
'Holanda' by Jhayco at no.49 for their first appearance on
the big list. Three albums, each
with around a half million
equivalent sales, entering this
week's album chart. 'Layover', the
debut solo effort by BTS member V,
leads with 557,000 sales. Stray
Kids, another South Korean act, bows
at no.2 with the third
Japanese-language extended play
'Social Path' and 508,000 sales. But
the most important release of the
week comes from Olivia Rodrigo. Her
second studio set 'Guts' arrives at
no.3 with 492,000 sales. By the way,
Rodrigo's former album 'Sour' turns
back at no.13 globally this week
with 50,000 sales and generated a
total of massive 8,53 million so
far. 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 48,000 / 15,232,000, '21' by Adele
14,000 / 32,245,000, '25' by Adele
11,000 /
24,568,000, '30' by Adele 9,000 / 6,079,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 29,000 /
8,395,000,
'Astroworld' by Travis Scott
19,000
/ 7,934,000, 'Beerbongs & Bentleys' by Post
Malone 13,000 / 9,580,000, 'Certified Lover
Boy' by Drake 26,000 / 5,903,000, 'Dangerous:
The Double Album' by Morgan Wallen 45,000 /
8,217,000, 'Dark Blood' by Enhypen
8,000 / 1,316,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran
20,000 / 20,169,000,
'Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent' by
Lewis Capaldi 18,000 / 6,608,000, 'Endless Summer
Vacation' by Miley Cyrus 31,000 /
1,194,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
18,000
/ 5,413,000, 'Evermore' by Taylor Swift
29,000
/ 4,701,000, 'Fine Line' by Harry Styles
20,000 / 9,089,000, '5-Star' by
Stray Kids 20,000 / 3,205,000, 'Folklore' by Taylor Swift
53,000 / 7,994,000, 'Fuck My Life:
10th Mini Album' by Seventeen 8,000
/ 3,971,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 20,000 / 8,026,000, Génesis' by Peso
Pluma 46,000 / 699,000, 'Goodbye & Good Riddance'
by Juice WRLD 17,000 / 7,383,000, 'Happier
Than Ever' by Billie Eilish 16,000 / 4,319,000,
'Harry's House' by Harry Styles
36,000 / 5,713,000, 'Her Loss' by
Drake & 21 Savage 27,000 /
2,933,000, 'Hereos & Villains' by
Metro Boomin 38,000 / 2,682,000,
'Hollywood's Bleeding' by Post Malone
21,000
/ 9,624,000, 'Legends Never Die' by Juice WRLD
10,000 / 6,132,000,
'My
Turn' by Lil Baby 18,000 / 5,718,000,
'Planet
Her' by Doja Cat 13,000 / 5,229,000,
'Red
(Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift
35,000 /
4,491,000, 'Renaissance' by Beyoncé
30,000 / 3,033,000, 'Scorpion' by Drake
18,000 /
9,195,000,
'Shoot
For The Stars, Aim For The Moon' by Pop Smoke
16,000 / 8,210,000, 'SOS' by SZA
60,000 / 4,070,000, 'Sour' by Olivia
Rodrigo 50,000 / 8,526,000, 'Stoney' by Post Malone
10,000 / 7,631,000, 'Subtract' by Ed
Sheeran 15,000 / 959,000, 'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
41,000 / 5,991,000,
'Un Verano Sin Ti' by Bad Bunny
33,000 / 5,685,000, 'When We All Fall
Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
16,000
/ 11,163,000, and 'X' by Ed Sheeran
5,000 / 13,570,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 40 YEARS
AGO
... "Every Breath You Take" is
the Police's and Sting's signature
song and was released on May 20,
1983, as the lead single from the
band's final album Synchronicity
(1983). Sting wrote the song in 1982
in the aftermath of his separation
from Frances Tomelty and the
beginning of his relationship with
Trudie Styler. While recording,
guitarist Andy Summers came up with
a guitar part inspired by Béla
Bartók that would later become a
trademark lick, and played it
straight through in one take. He was
asked to put guitar onto a simple
backing track of bass, drums, and a
single vocal, with Sting offering no
directive beyond "make it your own".
"Every Breath You Take" topped the
official hitlist in the United
States for eight weeks and was the
biggest hit of the year there.
Furthermore it reached no.1 in
United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland and
no.2 in Australia, Spain, Sweden,
and Norway. The song won two Grammys
for Song Of The Year and Best Pop
Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocals and Sting received 1983 the
prestigious Ivor Novello Award for
Best Song Musically and Lyrically
from the British Academy of
Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
'Slime You Out' debuts at
number one
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
chart.
“Slime You
Out,” the 1,156th single to
top the Hot 100 over the
chart’s 65-year
history,
and the 71st to debut
at No. 1.
It drew 32.6
million streams and 5.2
million radio airplay
audience impressions and
sold 2,000 downloads in the
tracking week ending Sept.
21, according to Luminate.
The single also debuts at
No. 1 on the Streaming
Songs chart
and No. 29 on Digital
Song Sales.
SZA’s second No. 1: SZA
earns her second Hot 100 No.
1. She first reigned for a
week in April with “Kill
Bill.” She claims her first
No. 1 debut, after “Kill
Bill” reached the summit in
its 19th week on the chart,
and after a wait of seven
nonconsecutive weeks at No.
2.
Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town
Red” holds at No. 2 on the
Hot 100, two weeks after it
became her second
No. 1.
The song drew 44.9 million
in radio reach (up 19%),
26.7 million streams (down
2%) and sold 8,000 (up 4%) –
as it becomes her second
leader (5-1) on Digital Song
Sales and her ninth top 10
(13-9)
on the Radio
Songs chart.
It also tops the
multi-metric Hot
Rap Songs chart
for a fifth week.
SZA’s “Snooze” reawakens
with an 8-3 leap on the Hot
100, surpassing its prior
No. 7 best. Following the Sept.
15 release of
its remix featuring Bieber,
it’s up 50% to 21.4 million
streams and 86% to 3,000
sold; already an established
airplay hit, it rises to a
new No. 3 high, from No. 5,
on Radio Songs (70.1
million, up 4%). SZA now has
four career top five Hot 100
hits, among nine top 10s, as
“Snooze” and “Slime You Out”
join “Kill Bill” and “Kiss
Me More,” featuring Doja Cat
(No. 3, 2021). Luke Combs’ cover of Tracy
Chapman’s No. 6-peaking 1988
Hot 100 classic “Fast Car”
holds at No. 4 after eight
weeks at its No. 2 high.
Still, it tops Radio Songs
for a fourth week (76.6
million, down 2%) and
ascends to No. 1 on the
multi-metric Hot Country
Songs chart, after 19 weeks
at No. 2.
Zach Bryan’s “I Remember
Everything,” featuring Kacey
Musgraves, drops 3-5 on the
Hot 100, three weeks after
it debuted at No. 1. It
leads the multi-metric Hot
Rock & Alternative Songs
and Hot
Rock Songs charts
for a fourth week each.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s
top 10, Swift’s “Cruel
Summer” descends 5-6, after
reaching No. 3; Olivia
Rodrigo’s “Vampire” falls to
No. 7 following its second
nonconsecutive week
at No. 1;
Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night”
slips 6-8, following 16
weeks at No. 1, the most
ever for a
non-collaboration; Gunna’s
“Fukumean” holds at No. 9,
after hitting No. 4; and Dua
Lipa’s “Dance the Night”
repeats at No. 10, after
reaching No. 6.
Rod Wave captures
his third No. 1 album on the
Billboard 200 chart (dated
Sept. 30) as his latest
release, Nostalgia, opens
atop the tally. The set bows
with 137,000 equivalent
album units earned in the
U.S. in the week ending
Sept. 21, according to
Luminate — the
rapper/singer’s biggest week
yet by units earned. Nearly
all of the album’s
first-week sum was driven by
streaming activity of the
set’s 18 tracks.
Of Nostalgia’s 137,000
equivalent album units
earned in the week ending
Sept. 21, SEA units comprise
135,000 (equaling 187.51
million on-demand official
streams of the set’s 18
songs — the third-largest
debut streaming week for an
R&B/hip-hop album in 2023),
album sales comprise 1,500
(it was only available to
purchase as a digital
download album) and TEA
units comprise 500.
Olivia Rodrigo’s
Guts falls to No. 2 after
debuting atop the tally, as
the set earned 134,000 in
its second week (down 56%).
Four more former No. 1s
round out the top six:
Zach Bryan’s
self-titled album is a
non-mover at No. 3 (79,000;
down 17%),
Morgan Wallen’s
One Thing at a Time is
stationary at No. 4 (76,000;
down 3%),
SZA’s
SOS rises 6-5 (53,000; up
17%) and
Travis Scott’s
Utopia falls 5-6 (47,000;
down 16%).
Peso Pluma’s
Génesis is steady at No. 7
(46,000 equivalent album
units; up 7%),
Taylor Swift’s
chart-topping Midnights
stands still at No. 8
(42,000; up 1%) and
Morgan Wallen’s
former leader Dangerous: The
Double Album holds at No. 9
(38,000; down 2%).
The Barbie film
soundtrack closes out the
top 10, as it steps 11-10
with 36,000 units (down 4%).
Record Of The Month
'Paint The
Town Red' is the second
single from Doja Cat's
upcoming fourth album
'Scarlet'.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
'Guts' tops the album list,
'Utopia' follows at no.2
Monday, September 25, 2023
by Alan Jones, London
Claiming the top three
places for the sixth week in
a row, seven places in the
Top 10 including the highest
new entry, and the two
biggest climbers within the
Top 75, female solo artists
continue to dominate the
singles chart. Doja Cat is
No.1 for the third week in a
row with Paint The Town Red,
though it suffers
its second dip in
support in as many weeks,
with consumption down 7.82%
to 50,144 units (1,120
digital downloads, 49,024
sales-equivalent streams).
Olivia Rodrigo remains in
second place with former
No.1 Vampire (38,068 sales),
while South African-born UK
singer/songwriter Kenya
Grace’s debut hit,
Strangers, enjoys another
53.25% increase in
consumption to 37,298 units
as it soars 12-3.
None of Tate McRae’s six
previous hits has debuted
higher than No.24, but the
20-year-old Canadian
singer/songwriter easily
surpasses that, and grabs
her third Top 10 entry with
viral breakout Greedy
debuting at No.8 (26,129
sales).
Exes Drake & SZA have teamed
up for the first time for
Slime You Out, a song about…
toxic exes, which dashes to
a No.10 debut on consumption
of 24,471 units. It is SZA’s
18th hit and Drake’s 134th –
a total which puts him in
equal second place for most
UK Top 75 entries alongside
Cliff Richard, with only
Elvis Presley ahead. It is
also
Drake’s 41st Top 10
entry – the most by any
rapper – and SZA’s fourth.
Cassö, Raye & D-Block Europe
reach a new peak for the
fifth week in a row with
their collaboration, Prada
(5-4, 30,180 sales, 14 fewer
than last week). It swaps
places with Adore U (4-5,
27,990 sales) by Fred
Again.. feat. Obongjayar,
which, nevertheless, jumps
3-1 on the digital downloads
chart (1,203 sales).
The rest of the Top 10: Bad
Idea Right? (3-6, 27,809
sales) by Olivia Rodrigo,
Cruel Summer (6-7, 26,984
sales) by Taylor Swift and
Get Him Back! (7-9, 24,990
sales) by Olivia Rodrigo.
Overall singles sales are
down 0.99% week-on-week to
26,224,825 units, 14.53%
above same week 2022
consumption of 22,898,349
units. Paid-for sales are
down 5.65% week-on-week at
265,297 – 2.84% below same
week 2022 sales of 273,046.
Twenty-one years after their
eponymous introductory
release became the first of
their three No.2 albums,
Busted top the chart for the
first time, with new
compilation/remakes set,
Greatest Hits 2.0 becoming
the 16th album to debut at
No.1 in as many weeks.
With a regular edition
featuring new versions of
re-recordings of songs from
their first two albums and
new song Good One, and a
deluxe ‘guest features’
edition adding a plethora of
collaborations with Jonas
Brothers, Vamps, McFly,
James Arthur, Wheatus and
Hanson, among others, the
set racks up first week
consumption of 27,319 units
(15,932 CDs, 3,868 vinyl
albums, 1,631 cassettes,
3,656 digital downloads and
2,232 sales-equivalent
streams). Galvanised by the
band’s current 20th
Anniversary/Greatest Hits
arena tour, it topped all of
the constituent format
charts, except streaming,
where it ranked 40th.
Alongside its lofty chart
position, the album has a
higher first week sale than
all but two of their five
previous chart entries.
Lower: their self-titled
debut, which opened at No.30
in 2002 on sales of 8,607
copies, peaking 17 weeks
later at No.2 on consumption
of 36,645 copies; their
third studio album, Night
Driver, which sold 21,026
copies debuting at No.13 in
2016; and fourth studio
album, Half Way There, which
achieved consumption of
17,136 units opening at No.2
in 2019. Higher: their
second studio album, A
Present For Everyone, which
sold 117,583 copies debuting
at No.2 in 2003; and concert
set Live: A Ticket For
Everyone which sold 28,501
copies debuting at No.11 in
2004.
Born in Japan but resident
in the USA, and with dual
heritage, indie/pop
singer/songwriter Mitski
turns 33 next Wednesday
(September 27), and scores
her second consecutive Top
10 album and third Top 75
entry courtesy of The Land
Is Inhospitable And So Are
We (No.4, 6,420 sales). Be
The Cowboy earned Mitski a
first UK chart toehold in
2018, peaking at No.64, and
has remained popular ever
since, accumulating 80,540
sales, while her sixth album
and second charted set,
Laurel Hell, opened at No.6
(5,876 sales) last year and
has to-date consumption of
28,449 units. The
highest-charting set by a
Japanese-born artist is
UK-based Rina Sawayama’s
Hold The Girl, which debuted
and peaked at No.3 a year
ago this week, and which
sees a 512.50% spike in
consumption – up from 96 to
588 in the latest frame –
after being released in its
ninth vinyl variant (opaque
white and cobalt blue vinyl,
different sleeve) and third
CD edition (different
sleeve) last Friday
(September 15), raising its
overall UK consumption to
30,042 units. Sawayama is 42
days older than Mitski.
Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts racked
up higher streaming figures
than any album thus far this
year when debuting at No.1
last week – and although its
pure sales dip 84.60%
week-on-week from 32,107 to
4,946 units, it suffers a
lesser 32.48% dip in
sales-equivalent streams to
19,018 units, with overall
consumption of 23,964 units
as it dips to No.2. Her 2021
debut album, Sour, climbs
8-5 (5,458 sales) to secure
its highest chart position
for 59 weeks.
Last week’s Top 10 was the
first in which Taylor Swift
had not featured this year.
This week she has three
re-entries: Midnights (11-7,
4,979 sales), 1989 (14-9,
4,621 sales) and Lover
(13-10, 4,404 sales).
The rest of the Top 10: The
Highlights (4-3, 6,858
sales) by The Weeknd, 50
Years: Don’t Stop (7-6,
5,220 sales) by Fleetwood
Mac and Diamonds (10-8,
4,837 sales) by Elton John.
It’s week nine at No.1 on
the compilation album chart
for Barbie The Album, on
consumption of 7,301 units
(441 CDs, 205 vinyl albums,
67 digital downloads and
6,588 sales-equivalent
streams).
Overall album sales are down
1.34% week-on-week at
2,147,708, 15.60% above same
week 2022 sales of
1,857,916. Physical product
accounts for 261,365 sales,
12.17% of the total.