30 YEARS AGO ... 'A Groovy Kind Of Love' by Phil Collins topped the Global Charts for nine non-consecutive weeks and was the biggest success of the year 1988. It was released for the soundtrack to the British romantic crime comedy 'Buster', starring Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb and Sheila Hancock. The song heavily based on the Rondo movement of Sonatina in G major, op.36 no.5, by Muzio Clementi. Firstly recorded as an upbeat guitar-based pop song by Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders, it was a no.8 success in May 1966. Collin's version was a slow ballad with a prominent keyboard and strings.

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Billboard Report (excerpt)
Metro Boomin' debuts at no.1 on Billboard 200
Thuesday, November 13, 2018
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Metro Boomin lands his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as the producer’s new guest-laden album, Not All Heroes Wear Capes, debuts in the top slot. The surprise set, which

was announced Oct. 31 and released Nov. 2 via Boominati/Republic Records, earned 99,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 5,000 were in album sales, as the album was largely driven by streaming activity. The 25-year-old Metro Boomin (born Leland Wayne) has produced hits such as Migos’ “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert (No. 1 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart), Future’s “Mask Off” (No. 5), Kodak Black’s “Tunnel Vision” (No. 6) and Post Malone’s “Congratulations,” featuring Quavo (No. 8). On Heroes, Metro is joined by an array of guest artists, including Travis Scott, Young Thug, 21 Savage and J Balvin, among many others. Streams power the bulk of Heroes’ starting sum of 99,000 units. Of that sum, it earns 92,000 SEA units, which translates to 125.3 million on-demand audio streams for the set’s tracks in its first week (making it the most streamed album of the week, too).

The remaining 7,000 units in Heroes’ starting figure are comprised of album sales (5,000) and TEA units (2,000). Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack holds at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 for a second week, earning 79,000 units (down 15 percent); it spent its first three weeks at No. 1. Queen earns its highest-charting album in 38 years, as the Bohemian Rhapsody film soundtrack surges 25-3 with 59,000 units (up 187 percent) after the film’s opening in U.S. theaters on Nov. 2. Of its unit haul, album sales comprised 24,000 -- up 182 percent). The companion album to the hit biopic of the same name collects highlights from Queen’s career, including the title tune, “Under Pressure” with David Bowie, a new remix of “We Will Rock You,” and a handful of tracks from the band’s performance at Live Aid in 1985 -- the first time the recordings have been released in audio form. Bohemian Rhapsody is Queen’s highest-reaching album since 1980, when The Game spent five weeks at No. 1. (The Game includes Queen’s two Hot 100 No. 1 singles: “Another One Bites the Dust” and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.”) The Queen excitement doesn’t stop with Bohemian Rhapsody, as the 51-track Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection vaults 194-9 with 39,000 units (up 662 percent), with 18,000 of that sum in album sales (up 380 percent). The album previously topped out at No. 48 in 2002. At No. 4 on the Billboard 200, Takeoff’s first solo album, The Last Rocket, enters with 49,000 units (5,000 in album sales). Takeoff is the third member of the Migos trio to chart on the Billboard 200 apart from the group, following Quavo (with his solo set Quavo Huncho, which peaked at No. 2; Oct. 27, 2018) and Offset (via his collaborative album Without Warning, with Metro Boomin and 21 Savage; peaking at No. 4, on Nov. 18, 2017). Drake’s former No. 1 Scorpion climbs 7-5 on the new Billboard 200 with 45,000 units (down 8 percent), Lil Wayne’s fellow former chart-topper Tha Carter V dips 5-6 with 43,000 units (down 17 percent) and Lil Baby and Gunna’s Drip Harder slips 6-7 with 42,000 units (down 16 percent). Closing out the top 10 are two more former No. 1s: Travis Scott’s Astroworld climbs 9-8 with 40,000 units (down 11 percent) and Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys is steady at No. 10 with 39,000 units (down 6 percent). Ariana Grande scores her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Nov. 17), as "Thank U, Next" rockets onto the chart at No. 1, arriving as the top-streamed and top-selling song of the week. The track dethrones Maroon 5's "Girls Like You," featuring Cardi B, after seven weeks on top, although the collaboration ties for the second-most weeks spent at No. 1 in the history of the Radio Songs chart. "Next," released on Republic Records, is the 1,079th in the chart's 60-year history. "Next" also bows as her 11th Hot 100 top 10 and first since "God Is a Woman," which reached No. 8 in September. Grande reigns at last with her 35th Hot 100 entry. "Next" launches with 55.5 million U.S. streams and 81,000 downloads sold in the week ending Nov. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Notably, the song debuts on the Hot 100 with just over five days of streaming and sales data, as it was released late Saturday, Nov. 3 (as the tracking week for those metrics runs Friday through Thursday). As noticed by chart-watcher Jake Rivera, "Next" is the fourth No. 1 debut of 2018, tying the record established in 1995, the first year that any single soared in at the summit. "Next" follows prior 2018 No. 1 bows for Childish Gambino's "This Is America" (May 19) and Drake's "Nice for What" (April 21) and "God's Plan" (Feb. 3). The four No. 1 entrances in 1995: Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone," Mariah Carey's "Fantasy," Whitney Houston's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" and Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day." "Next" easily outperformed Maroon 5's "Girls" in the tracking week, as the latter drops to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after seven weeks at No. 1. Still, "Girls" leads Radio Songs for a 16th week, with 109.3 million in audience (down 4 percent), tying for the second-longest No. 1 run in the chart's 28-year history. "Girls" matches the longest Radio Songs reign this century, equaling Carey's 16-week command with "We Belong Together" in 2005. Below "Next" and "Girls," Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode" drops to No. 3 from its No. 2 Hot 100 peak, as it posts a third week at No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.  COMPLETE CHARTS