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'Die With A Smile' keeps the crown
Sunday, October 13, 2024
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden

 

'Die With A Smile' by Lady GaGa and Bruno Mars reigns the Global Track Chart for a straight sixth week with another massive 454,000 points. That's a 2% decrease compared to the previous week. Broken down by segments it generated 348,000 points by streaming (down 3%), 38,000 points by sales (unchanged), and 68,000 points by airplay (up 2%). It's Lady GaGa's 19th global Top 10 smash and her eighth number one. Furthermore it's the highest position for Lady GaGa here since more than four years, when 'Rain On Me', a collab with Ariana Grande, topped the hitlist in the calendar week 23, 2020. Bruno Mars celebrates his 12th global Top 10 hit and the sixth number one. Nearly eight years ago he was the last time at the pole position when '24k Magic' ruled the tally two times in the calendar weeks one and two of 2017. The current collaboration was a result of Mars inviting GaGa to his studio where he had been working on new music. He presented the

track in progress to her and the duo finished writing and recording the song the same day. Billie Eilish's former number one smash 'Birds Of A Feather' remains at the runner-up slot for a fifth consecutive week with 331,000 points, a 2% loss with 241,000 points by streaming, 37,000 points by sales, and 53,000 points by airplay. Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso', another former no.1 hit, rounds out the top three again with 271,000 points, a 4,5% decline with 169,000 points by streaming, 32,000 points by sales, and 70,000 points by airplay. By the way, 'Espresso' ranks at no.2 on the year-to-date list with a total of 8,596,000 points, only surpassed by Benson Boone's 'Beautiful Things' with 9,468,000 points. No.3 on that list is currently Teddy Swims' 'Lose Control' with 7,885,000 points. Back to this week's tally; 'Where Do We Go', the new smash by the Japanese boy band JO1, is the highest of five new-entries and bows at no.14 with 136,000 points. Hozier's 'Too Sweet' remains at no.12 in its 29th week on the tally with 158,000 points. With a total of 6,099,000 points it's the 464th song in history, which breaks through the 6 million border and thus gets a ticket for ALL TIME CHART, where it lands at no.440. Outside our current Top 40 waiting among other 'La Patrulla' by Peso Pluma feat. Neton Vega at no.42, 'Diet Pepsi' by Addison Rae at no.47, 'Embrace It' by Ndotz at no.50, 'Peligrosa' by FloyyMenor at no.51 for their first appearance on the hitlist. Back to the roots: Over 20 years ago Media Traffic started the weekly Global Album Chart. At that time this hitlist was based exclusively on sales figures and - like the Track Chart - included 40 positions. But the global album sales fell dramatically over the years, and that's why we shortened the Top 40 to a Top 10 list in June 2016. Later we included streaming data and now with the further increase in the streaming share we can finally offer an expanded hitlist again. The one and only new-entry on this week's Top 20 is also the new number one: Coldplay's 10th studio album 'Moon Music' leads easily with massive 465,000 equivalent sales (39,000 points by streaming + 426,000 points by sales). More than half of the sales come from United Kingdom (230,000). The band's former studio set 'Music Of The Spheres' started at no.2 with 281,000 consumption units, three years ago in the calendar week 43. The equivalent sales of 'Music Moon' are almost four times higher than the nearest competitor, Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short n' Sweet' with 119,000 (96,000 points by streaming + 23,000 points by sales). Billie Eilish's current effort 'Hit Me Hard And Soft' rises back to no.3 with 78,000 equivalent sales (64,000 points by streaming + 14,000 points by sales). With a total of 2,5 million the set reaches no.2 on the year-to-date list behind Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' with 7,46 million. 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 8,000 / 16,451,000, '1989 (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift 24,000 / 5,978,000, '21' by Adele 21,000 / 33,218,000, '25' by Adele 14,000 / 25,237,000, '30' by Adele 8,000 / 6,552,000, 'After Hours' by The Weeknd 28,000 / 10,038,000, 'Cowboy Carter' by Beyoncé 8,000 / 1,486,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 21,000 / 21,227,000, 'Emails I Can't Send' by Sabrina Carpenter 35,000 / 1,547,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran 8,000 / 6,112,000, 'Evermore' by Taylor Swift 13,000 / 6,166,000, 'For All The Dogs' by Drake 11,000 / 3,231,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua Lipa 14,000 / 9,115,000, Génesis' by Peso Pluma 18,000 / 2,357,000, 'Golden' by Jung Kook 29,000 / 2,992,000, 'Guts' by Olivia Rodrigo 35,000 / 3,785,000, 'Harry's House' by Harry Styles 12,000 / 7,144,000, 'Heroes & Villains' by Metro Boomin 18,000 / 4,328,000, 'Lover' by Taylor Swift 37,000 / 10,853,000, 'Midnights' by Taylor Swift 27,000 / 11,525,000, 'One Moment At A Time' by Morgan Wallen 35,000 / 7,966,000, 'Radical Optimism' by Dua Lipa 11,000 / 832,000, 'Red (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift 13,000 / 6,110,000, '17 Is Right Here' by Seventeen 13,000 / 1,422,000, 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift 9,000 / 3,475,000, 'The Highlights' by The Weeknd 37,000 / 8,637,000, 'Un Verano Sin Ti' by Bad Bunny 36,000 / 7,793,000, 'Utopia' by Travis Scott 39,000 / 4,514,000, and 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish 18,000 / 12,057,000.


GLOBAL NO.1 - 10 YEARS AGO ... "Shake It Off" is the lead single from Taylor Swift's fifth studio album, 1989 (2014) and was released on 18 August 2014. It's an uptempo pop track and features a departure from Swift's earlier country pop musical style. "Shake It Off" debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the 22nd song to do so. It produced first-week digital sales of 544,000 units for the chart issue dated September 6, 2014, the largest debut sales week for a single of 2014 in the USA. The song topped also the charts in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The music video, directed by Mark Romanek, was shot in June 2014, over three days in Los Angeles. The video features Swift "embracing her inner dorky dancer by submerging herself with some of the world's best dancers in the styles of hip hop, lyrical, ballet, jazz and even cheerleader."


USA
Billboard Report
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Shaboozey scores 13th week at No.1
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles


Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” adds a 13th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song, which became the singer / songwriter’s first leader in July, extends 2024’s longest reign.

It also now boasts outright the third-longest command this decade. “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” on American Dogwood / Empire, totaled 76.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (down 3%), 26.7 million official streams (down 4%) and 8,000 sold (down 4%) in the United States Sept. 27-Oct. 3. The track posts a 10th week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart; drops to No. 2 after seven weeks at No. 1 on Streaming Songs; and keeps at No. 2 following 13 weeks at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales. Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” ascends 6-2 on the Hot 100, surpassing its prior No. 5 high. Following the Sept. 27 premiere of its official video, the song drew 24.2 million streams, up 16%, and sold 5,000, up 30%, in the week ending Oct. 3. It also scored 52.2 million in airplay audience (up less than 1%). The Weekend and Playboi Carti’s “Timeless” clocks in with a No. 3 Hot 100 debut, marking The Weeknd’s highest career bow. Released Sept. 27, the track opens

 with 28.6 million streams, 5.1 million in airplay audience and 6,000 sold in its first week. The Weekend earns his 19th top 10 and Playboi Carti, his fifth. The collaboration also launches at No. 1 on Streaming Songs, where the acts lead for a fourth and second time, respectively. Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, falls 2-4 on the Hot 100, following six weeks at No. 1 beginning upon its debut in May. Sabrina Carpenter boasts three songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 for a sixth consecutive week. “Espresso” slips to No. 5 from its No. 3 high, having become her first top 10; “Taste” holds at No. 9, after it debuted at its No. 2 best; and “Please Please Please” drops 8-10, after it became her first No. 1 in June. Thanks to the trio of hits – all from Carpenter’s album Short n’ Sweet, which rebounds for a fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 – she has become one of seven acts, dating back to The Beatles, that have tripled up in the top 10 for six consecutive weeks or more. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” backtracks 5-6 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 3, and Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” falls to No. 7 from its No. 4 Hot 100 high. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led the Hot 100 for a week in March, descends 7-8. Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet rises 3-1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Oct. 12), notching its fourth nonconsecutive week atop the list. It earned 100,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Oct. 3 (up less than 1%), according to Luminate. Short n’ Sweet debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated Sept. 7, spent its first three weeks at No. 1, and then stepped away for two weeks as Travis Scott’s Days Before Rodeo rode to the top (Sept. 28 chart) and Future’s Mixtape Pluto debuted in the penthouse (Oct. 5 chart). Of Short n’ Sweet’s 100,000 equivalent album units earned in its third week, SEA units comprise 85,000 (up 1%, equaling 114.24 million on-demand official streams of the album’s 12 songs; it holds at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart), album sales comprise 14,000 (down 3%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 2%). Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is steady at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 for a fourth nonconsecutive week at its peak (63,000 equivalent album units earned; down 40%). Future’s Mixtape Pluto falls 1-2 in its second week (55,000; down 57%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time rises 5-4 (50,000; down 5%), and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft steps 8-5 (nearly 50,000; up 10%). Post Malone’s former leader F-1 Trillion falls 4-6 (47,000 equivalent album units; down 11%); Taylor Swift’s chart-topping The Tortured Poets Department is a non-mover at No. 7 (44,000; down 5%); Noah Kahan’s Stick Season climbs 10-8 (37,000; down 1%); Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene moves 11-9 (just over 32,000; down 8%); and Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album rises 12-10 (32,000; down 5%).


Record Of The Month
'The Emptiness Machine' is Linkin Park's lead single from their upcoming eighth studio album 'From Zero' and the first time to feature Emily Armstrong on vocals and Colin Brittain on drums.


United Kingdom
Music Week Report
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Sabrina Carpenter's 'Taste' tops a sixth week
Monday, October 7, 2024
by Alan Jones, London

 
As Sab Summer turns to Sab Autumn, Sabrina Carpenter’s domination of the singles chart continues, with latest smash Taste claiming its sixth straight week at No.1 – and Carpenter’s 18th in 23 weeks – on consumption of 52,878 units (501 digital downloads and 52,377 sales-equivalent streams).

With earlier hits Espresso (3-3, 38,079 sales) and Please Please Please (5-5, 34,459 sales) holding steady in a static top six, she has had three songs in the top five for an unprecedented six weeks in a row. Espresso has spent 25 consecutive weeks in the Top 20, with cumulative consumption of 1,409,326 units; Please Please Please has been in the same region for 17 weeks with to-date consumption of 869,873 units; and Taste’s six weeks at No.1 have earned it to-date consumption of 358,376 units. In the first three quarters of 2024 – up to 27 September -Carpenter has the fourth highest track consumption tally of any artist, at 4,632,939 units, behind Billie Eilish (6,079,205 units), Eminem (7,109,568 units) and the artist who beats the three of them put together, Taylor Swift (21,815,108 units). Chappell Roan is Carpenter’s closest rival again this frame, spending her third straight week – and fifth in total – at No.2 with Good Luck, Babe! on

consumption of 40,677 units. In the six months since it dropped, Good Luck, Babe! has achieved consumption of 844,276 units and has spawned upwards of 100 commercially available covers – orchestral, chiptune (8-bit), piano, techno, drum & bass, house, indie, rock, lullaby, hi-nrg, music box, male vocal and Japanese language versions among them – but the only one to achieve consumption in excess of 2,000 units is that by the aforementioned Sabrina Carpenter, whose take on the track was recorded for Radio 1’s Live Lounge, and is not available to buy, but has racked up sales-equivalent audio and video streams of 3,385 units in the last 15 weeks. One that isn’t a cover is Good Luck, Babe by Chappell. For stream and sale since 30 July, it is a completely different song with lyrics like ‘Gimme your liver, gimme your blood’ and ‘I’m drowning in p***y’. The second single from his upcoming sixth album, Hurry Up Tomorrow - following last month’s No.12 hit Dancing In The Flames – Timeless debuts at No.7 (29,446 sales) for Canadian singer The Weeknd, delivering his 54th Top 75 and 16th Top 10 hit. It also features American rapper, Playboi Carti, becoming his ninth Top 75 and second Top 10 entry, surpassing the first, earlier The Weeknd collaboration Popular, which reached No.10 last year, and also featured Madonna. The rest of the Top 10: Die With A Smile (4-4, 37,963 sales) by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, Backbone (6-6, 29,733 sales) by Chase & Status and Stormzy, Kisses (8-8, 27,814 sales) by Bl3ss, CamrinWatsin and Bbyclose, Hot To Go! (7-9, 26,669 sales) by Chappell Roan and Somedays (9-10, 25,959 sales) by Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D. Overall singles consumption is up 271 units (0.0009321435925% week-on-week since you asked) to 29,073,045 units, 9.93% above same week 2023 consumption of 26,445,684 units. Paid-for sales are down 3.10% week-on-week at 288,827, 2.57% above same week 2023 sales of 281,578. Going for (Liquid) Gold: Seven acts with prior No.1s released new albums last Friday. Only one could debut at the chart apex – so it’s condolences to Nines, Ed Sheeran, Michael Bublé, Lady Gaga, The Lumineers and Gilbert O’Sullivan, and congratulations to Shed Seven, whose latest release, Liquid Gold, is a celebration of their trigesimal (30th) anniversary as a recording act, and in which they reimagine highlights from their catalogue in new, orchestral versions alongside new track All Roads Lead To You. Effecting a change in leadership of the chart for the ninth straight week, Liquid Gold racks up first week consumption of 25,622 units (14,955 CDs, 7,885 vinyl albums, 142 cassettes, 2,314 digital downloads and 326 sales-equivalent streams), arriving at the summit less than nine months after their sixth studio album, A Matter Of Time, earned the veteran alt-rock band their first ever No.1 on consumption of 17,756 copies. Shed Seven formed in York in 1990. Founder members Rick Witter, Paul Banks and Tom Gladwin and later recruits Tim Wills and Rob Maxfield are responsible for both A Matter Of Time and Liquid Gold, which earn Shed Seven the rare honour of securing two No.1 studio albums in the same calendar year. Several groups – including Led Zeppelin, Slade and Blue – have had two studio No.1s in a year, where one was a belated chart-topper from a previous year but the only groups to have two No.1 studio albums top the chart in the year of their release before Shed Seven are The Beatles and The Monkees. Had they pursued a different release strategy, it would likely be Bring Me The Horizon (BMTH) who would be celebrating their second No.1 album this week, rather than Shed Seven. BMTH’s seventh album, Post Human: Nex Gen, dropped digitally 18 weeks ago, debuting at No.5 on consumption of 10,250 units. It roars back onto the chart at No.2 this week, after being released physically for the first time, with consumption of 20,771 units including 7,763 CDs, 7,074 vinyl albums, 4,322 cassettes, 630 digital downloads and 982 sales-equivalent streams, and is five sales from becoming their eighth silver album with to-date consumption of 59,995 units. London rapper Nines’ sixth, and apparently final album, has the appropriate title Quit While You’re Ahead, and preserves his record of reaching the top five with every release, opening at No.4 (16,308 sales). Marking the end of his ‘mathematics era’, Ed Sheeran’s +--=÷× Tour Collection – which includes only previously released studio recordings, despite its title – becomes his eighth Top 10 album but the only one not to reach No.1, debuting at No.5 (12,285 sales). Dance, No One’s Watching is London-based jazz quintet Ezra Collective’s third album and their first Top 10 entry, opening at No.7 (9,966 sales). Their 2019 debut You Can’t Steal My Joy, peaked at No.70, and 2022 follow-up Where I’m Meant To Be reached No.24 when first released, and No.31 after it won the Mercury Music Prize the following year. The rest of the Top 10: Short n’ Sweet (2-3, 19,236 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter, The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (3-6, 10,153 sales) by Chappell Roan, The Highlights (8-8, 7,483 sales) by The Weeknd, Time Flies: 1994-2009 (7-9, 7,132 sales) by Oasis and Hit Me Hard And Soft (11-10, 6,879 sales) by Billie Eilish. Overall album sales are up 2.80% week-on-week at 2,450,347 units, their highest level for 19 weeks and 10.58% above same week 2023 sales of 2,215,831. Physical product accounts for 345,453 sales, their highest level for 23 weeks, and 14.10% of the total.

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