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%).

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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.