GLOBAL NO.1 - 40 YEARS AGO... "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)" was released on November 30, 1979 as a part of Pink Floyd's rock opera The Wall that explores Pink, a jaded rockstar whose eventual self-imposed isolation from society is symbolized by a wall. The protest song "Another Brick In The Wall (Part II)" against rigid schooling, features a children's choir. It describes the protagonist's traumas including his overprotective mother and abusive schoolteachers become metaphorical bricks in the wall. Dave Gilmour recorded his impressive guitar solo in one take, with no editing or mixing. The song went to no.1 in many countries around the world, like the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ireland and it was the biggest hit of the year 1980 globally.

USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'The Box' rules Billboard Hot 100 for fifth week
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Roddy Ricch's "The Box" spends a fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It notches also a sixth week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, despite a 6% drop to 63.2 million

U.S. streams in the week ending Feb. 6, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The track rebounds 16-9 on Digital Song Sales, up 7% to 12,000 sold in the week ending Feb. 6, and surges 25-15 on Radio Songs, gaining by 34% to 46.1 million all-format airplay audience impressions in the week ending Feb. 9, as it wins the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer award for a third consecutive week. Notably, "The Box" is the 14th song released on Atlantic to lead the Hot 100 for at least five weeks in the chart's six-decade history, a figure that has swelled by four since just the start of 2017. The label's other such leaders in that recent stretch: Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" (7 weeks, 2019) and Ed Sheeran's "Perfect," with Beyoncé (6 weeks, 2017-18), and "Shape of You" (12 weeks, 2017). Future's "Life Is Good," featuring Drake, spends its fourth consecutive week at No. 2 on the Hot 100, encompassing its entire run on the chart so far. It also keeps at No. 2 on Streaming

Songs (37.6 million, down 13%). The song is the second ever to log its first four weeks on the Hot 100 at No. 2, after Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby" became the first entry (of 32 to-date) to launch in the runner-up spot, on the chart dated April 6, 1996. "Baby" waited patiently for four frames as Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" ran up its No. 1 run to six weeks before ascending for a two-week reign of its own. Post Malone's "Circles" is steady at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, and returns to No. 1 on Radio Songs, from No. 2, for a seventh week at the summit (103.6 million, up 2%). Maroon 5's "Memories" holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2. It dips to No. 2 on Radio Songs (although with a less than 1% increase to 102.3 million), after it interrupted the reign of "Circles" on the ranking a week earlier, when it became the band's seventh leader, the most among groups. Tones and I's "Dance Monkey" climbs 7-5 on the Hot 100, reaching the top five for the first time, as it rises 5-3 on Digital Song Sales (16,000, down 2%), 5-4 on Streaming Songs (22.8 million, up 2%) and 12-11 on Radio Songs (54.6 million, up 2%). The song by the Australian singer-songwriter, real name Toni Watson, previously became the longest-leading No. 1 in her homeland, while topping multiple other global surveys, including the Official UK Singles chart, where it broke the record for the most time at No. 1 by a female soloist. Lewis Capaldi's "Someone You Loved" slips 5-6 on the Hot 100, after it spent three weeks at No. 1; Arizona Zervas' "Roxanne" rises 8-7, after reaching No. 4; and Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber's No. 4-peaking "10,000 Hours" drops 6-8, as it tops the multi-metric Hot Country Songs chart for an 18th week. Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Dua Lipa's "Don't Start Now" holds at its No. 9 high, while claiming top Streaming Gainer honors (16.1 million, up 12%), and Billie Eilish's "Everything I Wanted" is steady at No. 10, after it hit a No. 8 peak to-date in November. Lil Wayne’s Funeral -- which debuts at No. 1 -- leads a packed top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, where five albums bow in the region. Funeral is the fifth leader for Lil Wayne, and it enters with 139,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 6, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The album was released on Jan. 31 via Young Money / Republic Records. Lil Wayne previously topped the Billboard 200 with Tha Carter V (2018), Tha Carter IV (2011), I Am Not a Human Being (2010) and Tha Carter III (2008). Funeral not only secures Lil Wayne his fifth leader, but also his 12th top 10 effort. He first hit the Billboard 200 just over 20 years ago, on the list dated Nov. 20, 1999, when Tha Block Is Hot debuted and peaked at No. 3. Streaming activity drove 72% of Funeral’s first-week units, as, of its 139,000 total unit start, 99,000 were in SEA units. (That translates into 134 million on-demand streams for the album’s songs in its first week.) The remaining unit sum of its total first week was provided by 38,000 in album sales and 2,000 in TEA units. Funeral’s first-week album sales were bolstered sales from by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer, as well as an array of merchandise/album bundles sold via his website. At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Roddy Ricch​’s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial falls one spot with 86,000 equivalent album units earned (down 9%). Eminem’s former leader Music to Be Murdered By dips one rung to No. 3 with 69,000 units (down 22%), though the set’s album sales perked up by 55% to 22,000, as the album’s CD arrived in stores following its initial commercial release on digital download only. Russ’s Shake the Snow Globe bows at No. 4 with 65,000 equivalent album units earned (with 39,000 of that sum in album sales, pumped by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer, as well as merchandise/album bundles). It’s the third total and consecutive top 10 effort for the hip-hop artist, and it matches his highest-rank on the chart, first achieved with 2018’s Zoo. Rap rules the entire top five on the Billboard 200, as Post Malone’s former No. 1 Hollywood’s Bleeding is steady at No. 5 with 55,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%). The last time the top five albums were all rap titles was a little over a year ago, on the Jan. 26, 2019-dated list. Billie Eilish​’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? slips 3-6 with 52,000 equivalent album units earned (down 16%). A week ago, the former No. 1 surged 10-3 in the wake of its multiple Grammy Award wins on Jan. 26, including album of the year. Kesha snares her fourth top 10 album, as High Road bows at No. 7 with 45,000 equivalent album units. Of that starting sum, 35,000 were in album sales, aided by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with her upcoming tour, as well as merchandise/album bundle sales via her official website. Kesha previously clocked top 10s with Rainbow (No. 1 in 2017), Warrior (No. 6, 2012) and Animal (No. 1, 2010). Halsey’s Manic descends four spots to No. 8 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned (down 23%). Louis Tomlinson’s debut album Walls bows at No. 9 with 39,000 equivalent album units earned. Album sales comprise 35,000 of that sum, driven by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with his upcoming tour, as well as merchandise/album bundles. Closing out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 is Yo Gotti’s Untrapped, which starts at No. 10 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the fourth top 10 effort for the rapper, and follows the No. 6-peaking I Still Am in 2017. Untrapped was driven largely by streaming activity, as SEA units comprise 27,000 of its total starting sum. It also netted 7,000 in album sales (bolstered by merchandise/album bundle sales) as well as a little under 1,000 in TEA units.