Global Chart Report
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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
(excerpt)
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
(excerpt)
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.