GLOBAL NO.1 - 50 YEARS AGO... "Sugar Sugar", released on May 24, 1969, became the biggest hymn of the bubblegum pop genre that flourished from 1968 to 1973. Originally The Archies was an American fictional band that featured in the animated TV series, The Archies Show. The music featured in the series was recorded by session musicians, including Ron Dante on lead vocals and Toni Wine on duet and backing vocals. Together they provided the voices of The Archies using multitracking. "Sugar Sugar" went to no.1 in many countries and was the most successful song of the year 1969 in the United States and United Kingdom. On the Global Chart it reached no.4 on the year-end hitlist 1969, but with the additional success in 1970 and a total of 9.974.000 points, it was also worldwide the most successful single release of the year 1969.

USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
Post Malone's 'Circles' spends second week at no.1
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Rapper Trippie Redd captures his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as A Love Letter to You 4 debuts atop the tally. The set, which was released on Nov. 22 via TenThousand

Projects, earned just under 104,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 28 in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music. A Love Letter To You 4 marks the prolific artist’s fourth top 10 album on the Billboard 200, and all of them have come in a little over a year. He previously visited the top 10 with ! (No. 3 on the chart dated Aug. 24, 2019), A Love Letter to You 3 (No. 3; Nov. 24, 2018) and Life’s a Trip (No. 4; Aug. 25, 2018). Of A Love Letter to You 4’s total unit start of nearly 104,000, album sales comprise 14,000, TEA units equal 1,000 and SEA units total 88,000. (All numbers are rounded to the nearest thousand.) The set’s first week got a small bump from album sales generated by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with the artist’s upcoming tour (starting in January) and some merchandise/album bundles sold via his official website. At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Jason Aldean debuts with his new 9 album, starting with 83,000 equivalent

album units earned. The bulk of the new studio effort’s bow was tallied via 68,000 in album sales. Like Trippie Redd, Aldean’s sales figure was goosed by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer. 9 is the country star’s eighth top 10 album, and all of them have been consecutive. Aldean started his top 10 hot streak with 2007’s Relentless, which rose to No. 7. Amongst his top 10s are four No. 1s in a row: Night Train (2012), Old Boots, New Dirt (2014), They Don’t Know (2016) and Rearview Town (2018). Aldean’s only charting effort to miss the top 10 was his first entry, a self-titled set, which peaked at No. 37 in 2005. The Frozen 2 soundtrack storms into the top 10, vaulting 15-3 in its second week on the list. The set earned 79,000 equivalent album units (up 214%), with 43,000 of that sum in album sales (up 133%). The album is basking in the glow of the film’s blockbuster grosses in U.S. theaters since its debut on Nov. 21. The new film is the sequel to the 2014’s Frozen, which saw its soundtrack spend a whopping 13 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (back when it was an album sales-only ranking), the most for a soundtrack this century. The first Frozen soundtrack finished 2014 as the second-biggest selling album of that year in the U.S., and the No. 1 album on the year-end Billboard 200 chart. Back on the new Billboard 200, Post Malone’s former No. 1 Hollywood’s Bleeding dips 3-4 with 73,000 equivalent album units earned (up 6%). Another former No. 1, Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, bolts 9-5 with 52,000 units (up 52%). The set’s rise is owed largely to the $15 sale pricing of the album’s vinyl edition at both Walmart and Target during the tracking week. In total, the album -- across all formats, including CD, download and vinyl LP -- sold 27,000 copies, with a gain of 180%, and most of those sales were on wax. In terms of pure vinyl LP sales, it moved a whopping 20,000 copies (up 345%) -- the second-largest sales week of 2019 for a vinyl LP (trailing only the 25,000-copy debut of The Raconteurs’ Help Us Stranger). Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Lover falls 4-6 on the Billboard 200 with 51,000 equivalent album units (down 10%). Coldplay collects its seventh top 10 album with the debut of its new studio effort Everyday Life at No. 7. The set launches with 48,000 equivalent album units earned, with 36,000 of that sum in album sales. The band first visited the Billboard 200 chart nearly 19 years ago, when the group’s debut full-length studio set, Parachutes, bowed on the tally dated Dec. 30, 2000 at No. 189. Parachutes eventually climbed to a peak of No. 51 on March 17, 2001. Since then, all seven of Coldplay’s subsequent full-length studio efforts, including the new album, have debuted in the top 10 (including four No. 1s). The fourth and final debut in the top 10 is YNW Melly’s Melly vs. Melvin, which bows at No. 8 with 43,000 equivalent album units (with just 1,000 of that sum in album sales). It’s the first top 10 for the rapper, who is currently in jail after being charged with two counts of first-degree murder earlier in 2019. Closing out the new top 10 are Luke Combs’ previous No. 1, What You See Is What You Get, which falls 5-9 with 41,000 equivalent album units (down 25%), and Summer Walker’s Over It, which slips 7-10 with 39,000 units (down 7%). Post Malone tallies a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Circles," which takes over as the top-selling song in the U.S. after the singer-songwriter and rapper performed it on the American Music Awards on Nov. 24. "Circles," released on Republic Records, blasts from No. 6 to No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, surging by 45% to 20,000 sold in the week ending Nov. 28, according to Nielsen Music. It rises 5-3 on Streaming Songs, up 5% to 24.6 million U.S. streams in the same span, while keeping at No. 3 on Radio Songs, with 90.6 million audience impressions, essentially even week-over-week, in the week ending Dec. 1. Lewis Capaldi's "Someone You Loved" holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, after the ballad logged three weeks at No. 1. It becomes his first No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary radio airplay chart (after topping the Adult Pop Songs and Pop Songs airplay tallies for seven and three weeks, respectively). Lizzo's "Good as Hell" spends a second week at its No. 3 Hot 100 best, as it adds a fifth week at No. 1 on the Hot R&B Songs chart and a third frame atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, as well as a second week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (97.4 million, up 4%). Maroon 5's "Memories" is steady at its No. 4 Hot 100 high, as it becomes the band's record-extending 14th No. 1 on Adult Pop Songs. Arizona Zervas' breakthrough hit "Roxanne" bounds from No. 12 to No. 5 on the Hot 100, as it tallies a second week at No. 1 on Streaming Songs (36.6 million, up 22%), rises 42-33 on Digital Song Sales (5,000, up 12%) and pushes closer to Radio Songs (15.2 million, up 65%). The track reaches the Hot 100's top 10 in its fourth week on the survey, after it debuted at No. 34 on the chart dated Nov. 16. Upon its entrance, the song was self-released, before Zervas signed with Columbia Records. Selena Gomez's "Lose You to Love Me" dips 5-6 on the Hot 100, after becoming her first No. 1, while becoming her eighth top 10 on Radio Songs (13-9; 62.2 million, up 16%). Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's former Hot 100 No. 1 "Señorita" descends 6-7 and Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber's "10,000 Hours" rises 9-8, after debuting at its No. 4 peak. The latter leads the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for an eighth week. Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Lizzo's former seven-week No. 1 "Truth Hurts" rebounds 10-9 (after she performed her song "Jerome" on the AMAs) and Chris Brown's "No Guidance," featuring Drake, falls 7-10, after reaching No. 5.