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.