Global Chart Report
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'Die With A
Smile' reigns a 14th week
Sunday, May 11, 2025
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
It's the longest standstill in the
history of our Global Track Chart:
The 28th week with 'Die With A
Smile' and 'Apt.' atop the tally!
And the average retention time of
all our Top 40 hits is an incredible
25,7 weeks, a historic record! In
the calendar week 37, 2024 (dated to
September 14)
'Die With A Smile' by
Lady GaGa & Bruno Mars ruled the
Global Track Chart for the first
time. Now the song
tops the tally for a 14th
week with another healthy 298,000
points, a 2,5% decline compared to the
previous week. The Grammy-decorated 'Die
With A Smile' breaks more and more
records... never before a hit was
such a long time at no.1 on
Spotify's streaming chart and
also on YouTube's hitlist. On our
ALL TIME CHART
it climbs currently at no.10
with a total of
15,796,000 points and it has a big
potential to come dangerously close to the top
spots there,
where Elton John's 'Candle In The
Wind 1997' leads since 27 years with
a total of 21,314,000 points. The
Weeknd's 'Blinding Lights' from
2019
ranks at the runner-up slot on that
list with 21,290,000 points and
Mariah Carey's eternal carol 'All I
Want For Christmas Is You' from 1994
holds no.3 with 19,433,000 points.
Broken down by
sectors 'Die With A Smile' gets
218,000 points by streaming
this week (down 2%), 34,000 points by sales
(down 2%), and 46,000 points by
airplay (down 6%).
'Apt.' by
South Korean singer,
songwriter Rosé in collaboration
with Bruno Mars ranks still at the
runner-up slot, after 21 weeks at
number one, with 267,000 points
(down 6%, with 170,000 points by
streaming, 30,000 points by sales,
and 67,000 points by airplay).
By the way, without 'Apt.', 'Die
With A Smile' would have been
number one now for an unbelievable
35th week! Biggest winner of
the week is Ed Sheeran's 'Azizam',
which climbs at no.10 with 157,000
points, a 21% boost. The tune is
driven by massive airplay, it
reaches no.1 on the (not-published)
Global Airplay Chart with 82,000
points.
Outside
our current Top 40 waiting among
other
'Morena' by Neton Vega & Peso Pluma
at no.47, 'Party 4 U' by Charli XCX
at no.53, and 'Priceless' by Maroon
5 feat. Lisa at no.55 for their first appearance on the
hitlist. Let's take a look to the
year-to-date lists: Of course 'Apt.'
and 'Die With A Smile' ruling the
track sector with 7,851,000,
respectively 7,630,000 points in
2025. In the third place ranks
Billie Eilish's 'Birds Of A Feather'
with 4,828,000 points, followed by
Gracie Abrams' 'That's So True'
(4,088,000 points) and Kendrick
Lamar feat. SZA's 'Luther'
(3,832,000 points). In the album
sector SZA's 'SOS (inclusive the
deluxe edition 'Lana') reigns the
year-to-date list with 2,468,000
equivalent sales. At the runner-up
slot ranks Bad Bunny's 'Debí Tirar
Más Fotos' with 2,008,000 sales,
followed by Kendrick Lamar's 'GNX'
(1,892,000), Sabrina Carpenter's
'Short n' Sweet' (1,880,000), and
Snow Man's 'The Best Of 2020-2025'
(1,572,000). Back to the weekly
hitlists: 'Addiction', the second
album release by Japanese all-female
idol group Sakurazaka 46, catapults
the the pole position of the Global
Album Chart with 177,000 equivalent
sales (almost all of these are
physical sales). Bad Bunny's 'Debí
Tirar Más Fotos' jumps back to the
runner-up slot with 131,000
consumption units (78,000 points by
streaming + 53,000 points by sales).
It's the highest position for this
album since 15 weeks. SZA's 'SOS' it's gradually becoming
a classic. Placed for the first time
in December 2022, it rises back to no.3
this week with another 107,000 equivalent
sales (103,000 points by streaming +
4,000 points by sales). It's a
fantastic hundred and first week for the set on our tally,
only a few albums reached that level
in the past. 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 10,000 / 16,718,000,
'1989 (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 22,000 / 6,814,000, '21' by
Adele 16,000 / 33,775,000, '25' by
Adele 13,000 / 25,643,000, '30' by
Adele 10,000 / 6,827,000, 'After
Hours' by The Weeknd 25,000 /
10,844,000, 'Alligator Bites Never
Heal' by Doechii 36,000 / 789,000, 'Chromakopia' by Tyler,
The Creator 30,000 / 2,021,000, 'Cowboy Carter' by
Beyoncé 17,000 / 1,912,000, 'Divide'
by Ed Sheeran 24,000 / 21,830,000,
'Emails I Can't Send' by Sabrina
Carpenter 20,000 / 2,309,000,
'Equals' by Ed Sheeran 9,000 /
6,406,000,
'Evermore' by Taylor Swift 12,000 /
6,647,000, 'Fireworks &
Rollerblades' by Benson Boone 44,000
/ 2,753,000, 'From Zero' by Linkin
Park 29,000 / 1,282,000, 'Future
Nostalgia' by Dua Lipa 15,000 /
9,559,000, 'Guts' by Olivia Rodrigo
28,000 / 4,732,000, 'Harry's House'
by Harry Styles 11,000 / 7,493,000,
'Heroes & Villains' by Metro Boomin
13,000 / 4,813,000, 'I've Tried
Everything But Therapy (Part 1)' by
Teddy Swims 46,000 / 2,739,000,
'Incómodo' by Tito Double P 39,000 /
1,972,000, 'Lover' by
Taylor Swift 32,000 / 11,989,000,
'Midnights' by Taylor Swift 24,000 /
12,462,000, 'Muse' by Jimin 20,000 /
2,035,000, 'One Thing At A Time' by
Morgan Wallen 44,000 / 9,166,000,
'Red (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 14,000 / 6,609,000, 'Rosé' by
Rosie 37,000 / 1,643,000, 'Starboy'
by The Weeknd 33,000 / 9,031,000,
'Stick Season' by Noah Kahan 39,000
/ 4,809,000, 'The Highlights' by The
Weeknd 31,000 / 9,780,000, 'Un Verano Sin Ti' by Bad Bunny
52,000 / 8,925,000, 'Utopia' by
Travis Scott 22,000 / 5,369,000, and
'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do
We Go?' by Billie Eilish 23,000 /
12,676,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 30 YEARS
AGO
... "Back For Good" was released on March 27, 1995,
as the second single from the band's third studio effort Nobody Else
(1994). The fantastic blue-eyed soul ballad won British Single Of The
Year at the 1996 Brit Awards. Gary Barlow claimed he wrote the song in
only fifteen minutes. However, "Back For Good" catapulted atop the
hitlist in United Kingdom with nearly 350,000 single sales in its
initial week, so this made it one of the fastest selling singles of the
year there. Furthermore the song went to the summit in Germany, Canada,
Australia, Spain, Norway, Ireland, and reached the Top 10 in many other
countries, even in the United States.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
'Luther' leads Hot 100
for a 12th week
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s
“Luther” rules the Billboard
Hot 100 songs chart for a
12th total and consecutive
week. Dating to the Hot
100’s Aug. 4, 1958, start,
“Luther” now solely boasts
the
most weeks spent at No. 1
among duets by co-billed
lead solo men and women. It
breaks out of a tie with
Puff Daddy and Faith Evans’
“I’ll Be Missing You”
(featuring vocal group 112),
which led for 11 weeks in
1997. “Luther,” whose title
is a tribute late R&B
luminary Luther Vandross (who
is sampled on the song),
became Lamar’s
sixth Hot 100 No. 1 and
SZA’s third. Lamar and SZA
each extend their longest
career commands on the chart
with the song. “Luther”
tallied 65.4 million radio
airplay audience impressions
(down 4% week-over-week),
19.1 million official
streams (down 7%) and 2,000
sold (down 12%) in the U.S.
May 2-8. The track leads
Radio Songs for
a sixth week and rebounds
3-2 following seven weeks
atop Streaming Songs.
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song
(Tipsy)” rises 5-4 on the
Hot 100, following its
record-tying 19 weeks at no.
1 beginning
last July, and notches a
44th week in the top five –
surpassing The Weeknd’s
“Blinding Lights” for the
most
weeks ever spent in the
tier.
Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,”
which led the Hot 100 for a
week in March 2024, and
became the year’s No. 1
song, repeats at No. 7, as
it logs a record-extending
61st week in the top 10. It
posts a 90th week on the Hot
100 overall, tying The
Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights”
(in 2019-22) for the
second-longest stay in the
chart’s history. It’s one
week from potentially tying
the longest: Glass Animals’
“Heat Waves” ran up 91
weeks in 2021-22. Alex
Warren’s “Ordinary” holds at
its No. 2 Hot 100 high. It
tops Streaming Songs (21.6
million streams, up less
than 1%) and Digital Song
Sales (6,000 sold, down 11%)
for a third week each, while
sporting a 24% surge to 24.5
million in radio audience.
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’
“Die With a Smile” keeps at
No. 3, following five
nonconsecutive weeks atop
the Hot 100 beginning in
January. Drake’s “Nokia”
slips 4-5 on the Hot 100,
after reaching No. 2, and
Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony
Club” is steady at No. 6,
after hitting No. 4. Benson
Boone’s “Beautiful Things”
rises 9-8 on the Hot 100,
after peaking at No. 2;
Doechii’s “Anxiety” ascends
10-9 for a new best; and,
rounding out the top 10,
Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the
Problem” drops 8-10, after
reaching No. 2.
Bad Bunny’s Debí
Tirar Más Fotos returns
to No. 1 on the Billboard
200 albums chart, jumping
7-1 on the May 17-dated
chart, following the set’s
release on vinyl. It’s the
fourth total week atop the
list for the
Spanish-language project,
which spent three
consecutive weeks at No. 1
on the Jan. 25-Feb. 8-dated
charts. Of Debí
Tirar Más Fotos’
84,500 equivalent album
units earned in the week
ending May 8, album sales —
essentially all vinyl —
comprise a little over
48,000 (up 15,099%, it
reenters Top Album Sales for
its first week at No. 1),
SEA units comprise just over
36,000 (down 3%, equaling
50.27 million on-demand
official streams of the
set’s songs; it falls 5-6 on
Top Streaming Albums) and
TEA units comprise under 500
units (down 8%). At No. 2 on
the Billboard 200, Fuerza
Regida debuts with its
highest-charting album ever,
and first top 10, as 111XPANTIA arrives
with 76,000 equivalent album
units earned — the band’s
best week ever by units. The
set also becomes the
highest-charting
Spanish-language album by a
duo or group (surpassing the
No. 4 peak of Maná’s
Amar Es Combatir in
2006), and for a regional
Mexican music album (higher
than the No. 3 peak of Peso
Pluma’s Génesis in
2023). Of the 76,000 units
earned by 111XPANTIA in
its opening week, album
sales comprise 39,000 (the
band’s best sales week ever,
and the biggest sales week
for a regional Mexican album
in the modern era; it debuts
at No. 2 on Top Album
Sales), SEA units comprise
37,000 (equaling 50.44
million on-demand official
streams of the set’s songs;
it debuts at No. 5 on Top
Streaming Albums) and TEA
units comprise a negligible
sum. Nos. 3-7 on the latest
Billboard 200 are all former
chart-toppers. SZA’s SOS slips
2-3 (52,000 equivalent album
units, though up 1%), Morgan
Wallen’s One
Thing at a Time is
steady at No. 4 (46,000;
down less than 1%), Kendrick
Lamar’s GNX dips
3-5 (45,000; down 7%),
Sabrina Carpenter’s Short
n’ Sweet falls
5-6 (41,000; down 6%) and
PartyNextDoor and Drake’s $ome
$exy $ongs 4 U descends
6-7 (40,000; down 7%). Key
Glock lands his fourth top
10-charting effort on the
Billboard 200 at
Glockaveli debuts
at No. 8 with 34,000
equivalent album units
earned. Of that sum, SEA
units comprise 28,000
(equaling 37.28 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s songs; it
debuts at No. 12 on Top
Streaming Albums), album
sales comprise 6,000 (it
enters at No. 9 on Top Album
Sales) and TEA units
comprise a negligible sum.
Rounding out the top 10 of
the latest Billboard 200 are
Morgan Wallen’s former
leader Dangerous:
The Double Album (rising
10-9 with 33,500 equivalent
album units; up 1%) and
Shaboozey’s Where
I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m
Going (falling
8-10 with 32,000; down 8%).
Record Of The Month
The song was
originally self-released by
American rapper and
songwriter Doechii to
YouTube
on November 10,
2019. It was re-recorded in
2025 following it gaining
traction on social media
platforms, being released to
streaming platforms on March
4, 2025. 'Anxiety' contains
a prominent sample of the
2011 song 'Somebody That I
Used To Know' by Gotye feat.
Kimbra.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Alex Warren stays since eight
weeks at number
one
Monday, May 12, 2025
by Alan Jones, London
Eclipsing Noah Kahan’s Stick
Season to become the
longest-running No.1 single
by a male solo American for
well over 60 years, Ordinary
spends its eighth
consecutive week at the
summit for Alex Warren, on
consumption of 65,972 units
(1,820 digital downloads,
64,152 sales-equivalent
streams). Matching
the run of Elvis Presley’s 1960 smash It’s Now Or Never, Ordinary
suffered a 4.72% dip in consumption week-on-week to its lowest level for
six weeks but remains far ahead of its nearest challenger, which, for
the first time in seven weeks is not Pink Pony Club, which slips to No.3
(36,625 sales) for Chappell Roan.
While
Ordinary remains well ahead, the remainder of the Top 5 is very close,
with star performer Love Me Not (5-2) climbing for the 11th week in a
row for Ravyn Lenae, and showing an impressive turn of speed with
consumption – up 21.39% at 37,943 units – growing for the 22nd time in
23 weeks.
It
leapfrogs Show Me Love by WizTheMC and Bees & Honey, which slips 3-4,
despite increasing consumption for the 11th time in 12 weeks, adding
2.84% week-on-week to achieve a best-yet tally of 35,536 units.
After
surging to No.2 on early sales flashes following its release on CD
(1,982 sales) and 7-inch vinyl (1,050 sales), Azizam
ended up reaping no
benefit at all from its physical debut, and actually slips 4-5 (33,491
sales) for Ed Sheeran. The prolific singer/songwriter was fancied to add
another Top 10 hit this week but Old Phone – the second single from his
upcoming album Play – faded as the week progressed, eventually debuting
at No.17 (17,719 sales) to become his 78th Top 75 and 65th Top 40 hit.
After
debuting together six weeks ago, Sombr’s first two hits climbed for the
next four but came to a halt last week. They both now resume their
climbs in earnest, with Undressed in the Top 10 for the first time
(13-6, 26,189 sales) and Back To Friends jumping 21-15 (19,622 sales).
Benson
Boone’s Beautiful Things (7-7, 25,286 sales) becomes only the sixth song
in chart history to rack up 30 weeks in the Top 10. His new single
Mystical Magical inches 17-16 (18,070 sales) on its second frame.
Completing
the Top 10: Anxiety (6-8, 24,108 sales) by Doechii, Sports Car (8-9,
24,047 sales) by Tate McRae and Steve’s Lava Chicken (9-10, 21,489
sales) by Jack Black.
Overall singles consumption is down 2.01% week-on-week to 31,122,520
units, 3.76% above same week 2024 consumption of 29,994,688 units.
Paid-for sales are up 0.67% week-on-week at 263,410, 3.80% below same
week 2024 sales of 273,801.
Rising
from the ashes of a 1970s concert film whose sales were down to a
trickle – six last week - Pink Floyd At Pompeii: MCMLXXII is the
stunning, newly remastered restoration of that historic audience-free
performance at the ancient Italian amphitheatre.
Issued for
the first time in audio formats, with new mixes by Steven Wilson, the
set enjoys a Vesuvian eruption in demand, debuting atop the album chart
on consumption of 13,870 units (5,083 CDs, 3,691 vinyl albums, 3,650
Blu-rays, 755 Audio DVDs, 384 digital downloads and 307 sales-equivalent
streams).
Originally
released theatrically and on video as Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii – its
new title refers in Roman numerals to 1972, its original release year,
although it was actually recorded in October 1971 – it is the seventh
No.1 album for the prog rock legends, following Atom Heart Mother
(1970), Wish You Were Here (1975), The Final Cut (1983), The Division
Bell (1994), Pulse (1995) and The Endless River (2014). It is their
first since their catalogue was acquired by Sony Music last October.
Pink Floyd
have now had No.1 albums in five different decades over a span of more
than 54 years – short on both counts of the record span by a group of
more than 59 years and six different decades, established by The Rolling
Stones, when their latest studio set, Hackney Diamonds, topped the chart
in 2023.
Missing
from that list of Pink Floyd No.1s, incidentally, is their 1973 magnum
opus The Dark Side Of The Moon, which peaked at No.2 (behind the K-Tel
compilation 20 Flash Back Greats Of The Sixties) and is not just their
biggest seller but also one of the 10 biggest selling albums of all-time
in the UK, with a to-date tally of 4,889,429 sales, a total which
increases at the rate of about 1,000 a week.
It is the
second time that Pink Floyd legend David Gilmour has blocked Sabrina
Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet – which rebounds 4-2 (11,692 sales) this week
– from returning to No.1, having also done so 34 weeks ago with his
latest solo album, Luck And Strange. Short N’ Sweet has now spent 23
weeks at runner-up, matching the all-time record for an artist album set
by Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water between 1970 and 1972.
While
Ordinary spends its eighth straight week atop the singles chart for Alex
Warren, his debut album You’ll Be Alright Kid (Chapter 1) – to which it
has latterly been appended – jumps 16-9 (5,005 sales), eclipsing the
previous No.10 peak it scaled five weeks ago.
The rest
of the Top 10: +-=÷× Tour Collection (6-3, 8,566 sales) by Ed Sheeran,
50 Years: Don’t Stop (7-4, 7,089 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Highlights
(8-5, 6,186 sales) by The Weeknd, Brat (9-6, 5,522 sales) by Charli XCX,
Hit Me Hard And Soft (14-7, 5,201 sales) by Billie Eilish, Diamonds
(13-8, 5,156 sales) by Elton John and The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest
Princess (12-10, 4,949 sales) by Chappell Roan. 50 Years: Don’t Stop
equals its previous peak, while Brat is at an 18-week high, and Hit Me
Hard And Soft a 17-week high.
Overall album sales are down 3.90% week-on-week at 2,514,591 units,
2.11% above same week 2024 sales of 2,462,731. Physical product accounts
for 248,665 sales, 9.89% of the total.