Global Chart Report
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Flowers bloom
ten weeks
at no.1
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
There are no movements in the upper
region of our Global Track Chart..
and Miley Cyrus' 'Flowers' leads
the tally for a fantastic tenth consecutive
week with 428,000 points, a
4% decline compared to the
previous week. With
a total of 5,271,000 points
'Flowers' reigns also clearly the
year-to-date list. Broken down by
segments the song generated 258,000 points
by streaming in the current week (down
4%), 45,000
points by sales (down 12%), and 125,000
points by airplay (down 2%). 'Die
For You' by The Weeknd (inclusive
the new remix with Ariana Grande)
remains at the runner-up slot for a
third week in a row with
295,000 points (down 17%) and also
'TQG' by Karol G & Shakira holds
tight at no.3 with 281,000 points
(down 10%). Six debuts on our tally
this week, two of it landing
directly in the Top 10: 'Tapestry'
by Snow Man bows at no.5 with
228,000 points, driven by massive
903,000 singles sales in its initial
week, according to Oricon. It's the
seventh global
Top 10 smash for the Japanese boy
group. Jimin, singer, dancer and
member of the South Korean pop
phenomenon BTS (Bangtan Boys),
achieves his first solo Top 10
success. 'Set Me Free, Pt. 2' jumps
at no.9 with 185,000 points. Outside our
weekly Top 40 waiting among other
'Ceilings' by Lizzy McAlpine at
no.48, 'Snooze' by SZA at no.55, and
'Feliz Cumpleanos Ferxxo' by Feid at
no.59 for their
first appearance on the big list.
'Ready To Be', the twelfth extended
play by South Korean girl group
Twice, gets the crown of the current
Global Album Chart. The set bows
with massive 883,000 equivalent
sales. Last week's number one,
Morgan Wallen's new effort 'One
Thing At A Time', slides to the
runner-up slot with another healthy
282,000 sales, a total of 818,000
after two weeks. Rounds out the top
three is Miley Cyrus' eighth studio
album 'Endless Summer Vacation',
which bows with 197,000 consumption
units. Let's take a look on the
year-to-date list:
'The
Name Chapter: Temptation' by
Tomorrow X Together leads still
there with 1,60 million sales,
followed by SZA's 'SOS' with 1,45
million, and Taylor Swift's
'Midnights' with 1,13 million. These
are the only three albums globally
with more than a million sales this
year 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 25,000 / 14,062,000, '21' by Adele
11,000 / 31,919,000, '25' by Adele
10,000 /
24,307,000, '30' by Adele 12,000 / 5,805,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 38,000 /
7,581,000,
'Astroworld' by Travis Scott
16,000
/ 7,493,000, 'Beerbongs & Bentleys' by Post
Malone 11,000 / 9,234,000, 'Born Pink' by
Blackpink 8,000 / 1,659,000, 'Certified Lover
Boy' by Drake 24,000 / 5,286,000, 'Dangerous:
The Double Album' by Morgan Wallen 44,000 /
6,859,000, 'Dawn FM' by The Weeknd
17,000 /
2,614,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran
20.000 / 19,634,000,
'Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent' by
Lewis Capaldi 18,000 / 6,105,000, the 'Encanto' soundtrack
9,000 / 3,303,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
26,000
/ 4,822,000, 'Evermore' by Taylor Swift
12,000
/ 3,999,000, 'Fighting Demons' by Juice WRLD
6,000 / 1,517,000, 'Fine Line' by Harry Styles
21,000 / 8,524,000, 'Folklore' by Taylor Swift
24,000 / 6,622,000, 'F*ck Love' by The Kid Laroi
11,000 / 4,644,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 23,000 / 7,486,000, 'Goodbye & Good Riddance'
by Juice WRLD 18,000 / 6,884,000, 'Happier
Than Ever' by Billie Eilish 12,000 / 3,975,000,
'Harry's House' by Harry Styles
51,000 / 4,511,000, 'Her Loss' by
Drake & 21 Savage 45,000 /
2,062,000,
'Hollywood's Bleeding' by Post Malone
22,000
/ 9,012,000, 'Honestly, Nevermind' by Drake
9,000 / 1,595,000, 'Justice' by Justin Bieber
12,000
/ 4,411,000, 'Legends Never Die' by Juice WRLD
14,000 / 5,843,000,
'My
Turn' by Lil Baby 17,000 / 5,169,000,
'Planet
Her' by Doja Cat 18,000 / 4,871,000, 'Proof' by
BTS (Bangtan Boys) 11,000 /
3,716,000, 'Question
Mark' by XXXTentacion 9,000 / 7,129,000, 'Red
(Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift
16,000 /
3,634,000, 'Renaissance' by Beyoncé
29,000 / 2,223,000, 'Scorpion' by Drake 15,000 / 8,773,000,
'Shoot
For The Stars, Aim For The Moon' by Pop Smoke
20,000 / 7,720,000, 'Sour' by Olivia
Rodrigo 31,000 / 7,678,000, 'Stoney' by Post Malone
9,000 / 7,393,000, 'The Greatest Showman' soundtrack
6,000 / 9,439,000, 'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
57,000 / 4,881,000, 'The Name
Chapter: Temptation' by Tomorrow X
Together 24,000 / 1,595,000,
'Trustfall' by Pink 46,000 /
341,000,
'Un Verano Sin Ti' by Bad Bunny
45,000 / 4,624,000, 'When We All Fall
Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
15,000
/ 10,779,000, and 'X' by Ed Sheeran
6,000 / 13,423,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 40 YEARS
AGO
... "Billie Jean" was released
on January 2, 1983, as the second
single from Michael Jackson's
legendary sixth studio album
Thriller (1982). The innovative
track blends post-disco, R&B, funk,
and dance-pop. The lyrics describe a
woman, Billie Jean, who claims that
the narrator is the father of her
newborn son, which he denies.
Michael said the lyrics were based
on groupies' claim about his older
brothers when he toured with them as
the Jackson 5. The music video,
directed by Steve Barron, was the
first video by a black artist to be
aired in heavy rotation on MTV.
Michael's performance of the song on
the TV special Motown 25: Yesterday,
Today, Forever on May 16, 1983,
introduced a number of Jackson's
signatures, including the famous
moonwalk, black sequined jacked, and
high-water pants. "Billie Jean"
topped the national hitlists in the
United States, United Kingdom,
France, Canada, Australia, Italy,
Spain, Belgium, Switzerland,
Ireland, and it reached the
runner-up slot on the Year-End Chart
1983.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Morgan Wallen spends second
week at no.1
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Morgan Wallen’s
One Thing at a Time spends a
second week atop the Billboard
200 albums
chart (dated March 25), as
the set earned 259,000
equivalent album units in
the United States in
the week ending March 16,
according to Luminate.
That’s down 48% compared to
its debut week sum of
501,000 units a week ago.
One Thing at a Time logs
the largest second-week for
an album since Taylor
Swift’s Midnights collected
342,000 units in the week
ending Nov. 3, 2022 (chart
dated Nov. 12), after
debuting a week earlier with
1.578 million units.
One Thing at a Time’s
second week is nearly as
large as the opening week of
Wallen’s last album, Dangerous:
The Double Album,
which launched with
265,000 units (week ending
Jan. 14, 2021, chart dated
Jan. 23). Of One
Thing at a Time’s
259,000 equivalent album
units earned in the week
ending March 16, SEA units
comprise 234,000 (down 39%,
equaling 308.06 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s 36 songs),
album sales comprise 21,000
(down 81%) and TEA units
comprise 4,000 (down 53%).
Notably, the album’s haul of
308.06 million streams for
its songs tallies the
second-biggest
streaming week ever for a
country album, after the
set’s debut frame (498.28
million). Twice scores a
career-high placing on the
Billboard 200, as the pop
ensemble’s new album Ready
to Be debuts
at No. 2 with 153,000
equivalent album units
earned – the act’s biggest
week ever. It’s the fourth
top 10-charting effort for
the South Korean group.
Previously, the act went as
high as No. 3 with its last
two charting sets, Between
1&2: 11th Mini Album and Formula
of Love: O+T=<3, The 3rd
Full Album,
both in 2021. Of Ready
to Be’s
153,000 equivalent album
units earned, album sales
comprise 145,500, SEA units
comprise 7,000 (equaling
10.28 on-demand official
streams of the set’s seven
tracks) and TEA units
comprise 500. Miley Cyrus’ Endless
Summer Vacation debuts
at No. 3 on the Billboard
200 with 119,000 equivalent
album units earned – her
biggest week since the chart
began measuring by units in
December of 2014. Endless
Summer Vacation marks
Cyrus’ 14th top 10-charting
effort, including her
releases billed to her
Disney Channel character
Hannah Montana. Of Endless
Summer Vacation’s
119,000 equivalent album
units earned, SEA units
comprise 61,000 (equaling
80.61 on-demand official
streams of the set’s 13
tracks – Cyrus’ biggest
streaming week ever for an
album), album sales comprise
55,000, and TEA units
comprise 3,000. Aiding
first-week sales for Endless
Summer Vacation were
four vinyl LP variants
(including one exclusive to
Target and two exclusive to
her webstore) and two deluxe
boxed sets (one with a
puzzle and a CD, the other
with a beach towel and a CD)
sold exclusively through her
webstore. 44% of Endless’
first week sales came from
its vinyl editions.
Endless Summer Vacation was
ushered in by the smash
single “Flowers,” which has
spent six weeks at No. 1 on
the Billboard Hot 100
(through the most recently
published chart, dated March
18). It marks her second No.
1 on the list, following
2013’s “Wrecking Ball.” The
rest of the new top 10 on
the Billboard 200 consists
entirely of former No. 1s. SOS falls
2-4 (76,000 equivalent album
units earned; down 8%),
Mañana dips
3-5 (52,000; down 13%), Midnights descends
5-6 (47,000; down 3%), Dangerous is
down a spot to No. 7
(39,000; a decline of 6%), Metro
Boomin’s Heroes
& Villains moves
7-8 (39,000; down 4%), Bad
Bunny’s Un
Verano Sin Ti falls
8-9 (36,000; down 5%) and Drake and 21
Savage’s Her
Loss is
a non-mover at No. 10
(34,000; down less than 1%).
Miley Cyrus’
“Flowers” rebounds for a
seventh week atop the
Billboard Hot 100. The song
debuted at No. 1 and spent
its first six weeks on the
chart in charge before
ranking at No. 2 the last
two weeks, as The Weeknd and
Ariana Grande’s “Die for
You” and then Morgan
Wallen’s “Last Night” took
turns at the summit.
“Flowers,” released on
Smiley Miley / Columbia
Records, drew 106.7 million
radio airplay audience
impressions (up 1%) and 28.2
million streams (up 12%,
good for top Streaming
Gainer honors on the Hot
100) and sold 15,000 (up
15%) March 10-16, according
to Luminate.
Morgan Wallen’s
“Last Night” drops to No. 2
after a week atop the Hot
100, as it leads Streaming
Songs for a second week
(39.9 million, down 18%). It
also drew 14.5 million in
airplay audience (up 34%)
and sold 12,000 (down 37%).
SZA’s
“Kill Bill” holds at No. 3
on the Hot 100 after seven
weeks at its No. 2 high.
The Weeknd and Grande’s
“Die for You” repeats at No.
4 on the Hot 100, after a
week at No. 1 two weeks
earlier;
Metro Boomin, The Weeknd and
21 Savage’s
“Creepin’ ” rises 6-5, after
reaching No. 3;
PinkPantheress and Ice Spice’s
“Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2” slips
5-6, also after hitting No.
3; and
Taylor Swift’s
“Anti-Hero” jumps 12-7,
following a personal-best
eight weeks at No. 1 in
November-January.
Rema and Selena Gomez’s
“Calm Down” bounds 19-8 on
the Hot 100, besting its
prior No. 15 high set two
weeks earlier, with 44.2
million in airplay audience
(up 13%, as it wins the
chart’s top Airplay Gainer
award), 14.9 million streams
(up 4%) and 5,000 sold (up
8%). Rounding out the Hot
100’s top 10 are two more
tracks, joining “Last
Night,” from Morgan
Wallen’s
album One Thing at a Time,
which rules the Billboard
200 for a second week.
“Thought You Should Know”
falls to No. 9 from its No.
7 Hot 100 high and
Morgan Wallen's
“You Proof” descends 8-10,
after it hit No. 5 in
October.
Record Of The Month
A big
collaboration of two
Colombian female superstars:
Shakira and Karol G.
'TQG' (acronym for 'Te Quedó
Grande') is
from Karol's fourth album
'Mañana Será
Bonito'.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
PinkPantheress' 'Boy's A
Liar' remains at no.2
Monday, March 20, 2023
by Alan Jones, London
Buoyed by the release of
parent album Endless Summer
Vacation, which debuts at
No.1 this week, Flowers tops
the singles chart for the
ninth week in a row for
Miley Cyrus. It is the
fourth single to spend its
first nine weeks in the
chart at No.1 in the 2020s,
following Drivers License by
Olivia Rodrigo,
Bad Habits by Ed Sheeran and
As It Was by Harry Styles.
Flowers’ consumption climbs
5.83% week-on-week to 56,815
units (3,013 digital
downloads, 53,802
sales-equivalent streams),
as it reverses two weeks of
decline, thus avoiding ACR
for at least three more
weeks.
Two more songs from Endless
Summer Vacation enter the
Top 75 – River (No.16,
16,561 sales) and Jaded
(No.27, 10,348 sales). They
raise Cyrus’ tally of hits
to 26. A further six songs
from Endless Summer Vacation
are ‘starred-out’ of the Top
75, under the primary artist
rule which only allows three
to be allocated chart
placings.
Flowers’ runner-up for the
fourth straight week, Boy’s
A Liar by PinkPantheress is
still set to fall into ACR
next week, with its
consumption off for a third
week in a row, and by 5.13%
to 49,704 units in the
current frame.
The highest of this week’s
nine Top 75 debuts is
Miracle, opening at No.3
(35,483 sales) for Calvin
Harris & Ellie Goulding.
With a sound
reminiscent of
Robert Miles’ 1990s ‘dream
house’, it certainly packs a
punch, and delivers both
artists with their
highest-charting hit since
2019. It is their third, and
highest-charting, Top 10
collaboration, following I
Need Your Love (No.4, 2013)
and Outside (No.6, 2014),
which have to-date
consumption of 898,825 units
and 1,163,483 units,
respectively. Miracle is
Harris’ 29th Top 10 hit and
46th Top 75 hit in the week
he celebrates 16 years as a
chart artist, Goulding’s
12th Top 10 and 31st Top 75
hit. It is No.1 on digital
downloads, which account for
3,225 of its sales.
Six weeks after debuting at
No.65, Croydon-based rapper
Strandz’s first hit, Us
Against The World, is now
his first Top 10 entry,
climbing 12-10 (21,394
sales).
With ACR ending the Top 10
careers of Kill Bill (4-14,
17,152 sales) by SZA and
Sure Thing (5-17, 15,302
sales) by Miguel, the
ensuing vacuum allows
Ceilings (7-6, 27,756 sales)
by Lizzie McAlpine and
People (8-7, 25,812 sales)
by Libianca to advance to
new peaks. A new version of
People, performed as a duet
with Irish singer Cian
Ducrot, has just been
released, and should add
further impetus for the
track next week.
The rest of the Top 10: Die
For You (3-4, 35,350 sales)
by The Weeknd, Calm Down
(6-5, 28,926 sales) by Rema,
As It Was (9-8, 22,324
sales) by Harry Styles and
Players (10-9, 21,623 sales)
by Coi Leray.
Overall singles consumption
is up 0.71% week-on-week to
26,013,465 units – 7.61%
above same week 2022
consumption of 24,173,143
units. Paid-for sales are
down 2.49% week-on-week at
288,490 – 11.81% below same
week 2022 sales of 327,113.
Miley Cyrus scores the chart
double for the second time
in her career, with Endless
Summer Vacation debuting
atop the album chart to
become her first No.1 in
almost a decade, while lead
single, Flowers, extends its
run at No.1 to nine weeks.
Its 10 songs all co-written
by Cyrus, Endless Summer
Vacation achieved
consumption of 18,746 units
in the week – 4,969 CDs,
3,150 vinyl albums, 2,385
digital downloads and 8,242
sales-equivalent streams.
Her 10th charted album
(including one as Hannah
Montana), it is Cyrus’
second No.1, following
October 2013 release
Bangerz, which secured her
highest first week sale of
30,759 copies, and debuted
the same week as Wrecking
Ball became her second No.1
single. Bangerz has gone on
to achieve lifetime sales of
251,063, but is, perhaps
surprisingly, not Cyrus’
biggest-selling album. That
would be her 2008 release
Breakout, which peaked at
No.10, and houses her first
three Top 40 hits, although
none of them went Top 10.
Despite this, Breakout has
to-date consumption of
330,949 units.
The 31-year-old is the first
artist to simultaneously top
the albums and singles
charts in 2023.
Recording artists since 2007
but uncharted until 2015,
Nottingham post-punk duo
Sleaford Mods’ 12th studio
album, UK Grim, is the
highest-charting of their
seven Top 75 and four Top 10
albums, debuting at No.3
(9,064 sales). Their
previous highest was last
album Spare Ribs, which
debuted and peaked at No.4
in January 2021 on sales of
6,877 copies. They burn
brightly but briefly – their
biggest selling album to
date is Key Markets, No.11
in 2020, with to-date
consumption of 26,715 units.
They have never come near
the singles chart, with
their most popular track
hitherto being B.H.S, a
track from their 2017 album,
English Tapas, which has
accumulated lifetime
consumption of 20,541 units.
Returning to the Top 10
after an absence of nine
weeks, Fleetwood Mac’s 2018
No.5 compilation 50 Years:
Don’t Stop bounces 15-9
(5,083 sales).
The Highlights (3-2, 9,271
sales) registers its third
week in its peak position
for The Weeknd, matching the
place it held on debut 109
weeks ago, and returned to
six weeks ago. His Starboy
album rallies 27-23 – a 308
week high – on consumption
of 9,271 units. No.5 in 2016
it is, of course, responding
to the ongoing viral success
of its song Die For You,
which remains in the top
five of the singles chart.
The rest of this week’s Top
10: Trustfall (5-4, 7,669
sales) by Pink, Harry’s
House (7-5, 5,284 sales) by
Harry Styles, Curtain Call:
The Hits (10-6, 5,245 sales)
by Eminem, SOS (6-7, 5,233
sales) by SZA, Midnights
(8-8, 5,115 sales) by Taylor
Swift and Diamonds (14-10,
4,702 sales) by Elton John.
All have lower sales than
last week. Remarkably, SZA’s
album has endured 14 weeks
in the Top 10 without a
physical release. If an
upcoming deluxe version of
SOS - which adds 10 tracks –
were also to be made
available physically it
would seem a shoe-in for
No.1.
Overall album sales are down
1.35% week-on-week at
2,154,817, 7.06% above same
week 2022 sales of
2,012,711. Physical product
accounts for 278,446 sales,
12.92% of the total.