Global Chart Report
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'Espresso'
reigns a ninth week
Sunday, July 21, 2024
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
The
first half of the year 2024 is over,
so let's take a look back:
'Beautiful Things' by Benson Boone
was the big winner during this
period. The power-ballad about the
meaning of life, where Boone
reflects on gratitude for life, love
and volatility of happiness, started
in the calendar week 5 at no.35,
reached quickly number one and
stayed there for nine weeks.
Meanwhile it has achieved a total of
6,955,000 points. Another powerful
ballad lands at the runner-up spot:
it's 'Lose Control' by Teddy Swims
with 5,846,000 points added up.
'Greedy' by Tate McRae rounds out
the top three of the year-to-date
list with 5,026,000 points in 2024.
Already bowed in September last
year, it got additional 3,215,000
points in 2023. Taylor Swift's new
album 'The
Tortured Poets Department' has left
the competition far behind. In only
10 weeks the set generated more than 6,4
million equivalent sales, the
fastest selling album since Adele's
'25' eight and half years ago!
It's not only the most
successful album of the first half
of 2024, rather certainly of the
entire year. Also at number two of
the year-to-date list ranks Taylor
Swift, the addition of her '1989'
and '1989 (Taylor's Version)' albums
brings it to another 2,3 million
equivalent sales between January and
June 2024. With a total of nearly
21,95 million units the effort lands
currently at no.59 on the
ALL TIME CHART.
Morgan Wallen's 'One Thing At A
Time' lands at no.3 on the half-year
chart with 1,92 million equivalent
sales.
Back to our weekly
charts, where Sabrina Carpenter's
'Espresso' rules the Global Track
Chart for a ninth non-consecutive week
with 356,000 points (down 5,5%
compared to the previous week). Broken down by
segments the summer smash generated 237,000 points by streaming (down
8%),
35,000 points by sales (up 3%), and
84,000 points by airplay (down 1%).
Billie Eilish's 'Birds Of A Feather'
remains at the runner-up slot with
299,000 points (up 3% compared to
the week before with 246,000 points
by streaming, 29,000 points by
sales, and 24,000 points by
airplay). Rounds out the top three
is Sabrina
Carpenter's second big smash 'Please Please
Please' with 277,000 points,
down 3% compared to the previous
week and with 223,000 points by
streaming, 29,000 points by sales,
and 25,000 points by airplay).
Highest debut of the week comes from
an unusual combination: 'Alibi'
by Iranian-Dutch singer,
songwriter and visual artist
Sevdaliza, together with Brazilian
singer and drag queen Pabllo Vittar
and French musician Yseult starts at
no.21 globally with 129.000 points.
Outside
our weekly Top 40 waiting among
other 'Gong' by the SixTones at
no.41, 'Brand New Dance' by Eminem
at no.48, and 'The Night We Met' by
Lord Huron at no.49 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. Eminem catapults atop
this week's Global Album Chart with
his 12th studio album 'The Death Of
Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)'. The set
starts with 367,000 equivalent sales
(219,000 streaming points + 148,000
sales points). Eminem's former
studio effort 'Music To Be Murdered
By' bowed also at the summit of the
Global Chart with 415,000 sales in
the calendar week 5, 2020. His
renewed success is remarkable, but
far away from the times of over 20
years ago, when 'The Marshall
Mathers LP' (2000) and 'The Eminem
Show' (2002) started with nearly 2
million sales, respectively more
than 1,5 million sales in the first
seven days at retail. 'Romance:
Untold', the new album by South
Korean boy group Enhypen, arrives at
the runner-up slot with 363,000
equivalent sales (24,000 streaming
points + 339,000 sales points) and
rounds out the top three is 'I
Sway', the 10th extended play by
South Korean girl group (G)I-dle,
with 127,000 sales (5,000 streaming
points + 122,000 sales points). 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 11,000 / 16,336,000,
'1989 (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 36,000 / 5,612,000, '21' by Adele 14,000 / 32,937,000,
'25' by Adele 8,000 / 25,049,000,
'30' by Adele 7,000 / 6,442,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 27,000 /
9,682,000, the soundtrack to
'Barbie: The Album' 13,000 /
2,353,000, 'Cowboy
Carter' by Beyoncé 15,000 /
1,363,000,
'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 17,000 /
21,029,000, 'Endless Summer
Vacation' by Miley Cyrus 8,000 /
1,920,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
9,000 / 6,023,000, 'Evermore' by
Taylor Swift 14,000 / 6,011,000,
'Folklore' by Taylor Swift 34,000 /
10,245,000,
'For All The Dogs' by
Drake 12,000 / 3,108,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 23,000 / 8,907,000, Génesis' by
Peso Pluma 18,000 / 2,127,000,
'Golden' by Jung Kook 29,000 /
2,638,000,
'Harry's House'
by Harry Styles 25,000 / 6,952,000,
'Heroes &
Villains' by Metro Boomin 20,000 /
4,104,000, 'Midnights' by Taylor
Swift 36,000 /
11,139,000, 'Radical Optimism' by
Dua Lipa 27,000 / 622,000, 'Red (Taylor's
Version)' by Taylor Swift 18,000 /
5,914,000, '17 Is Right Here' by
Seventeen 10,000 / 1,204,000, 'Sour'
by Olivia Rodrigo 39,000 /
10,399,000,
'Speak
Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 13,000 / 3,338,000, 'Utopia'
by Travis Scott 36,000 / 4,065,000,
'Vultures 1' by ¥$: Kanye West & Ty
Dolla $ign 8,000 / 1,172,000, and 'When We All Fall Asleep,
Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
13,000 / 11,896,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 10 YEARS
AGO
...
"Stay With Me", released on 14 April 2014, is from Sam Smith's
debut studio album In the Lonely
Hour (2014). It's a gospel-inspired
ballad that details the protagonist
pleading with his one-night stand
not to leave him. The music legends
Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne receiving
co-writer credits due to the song's
similarity to Petty's single "I
Won't Back Down". In an interview
Sam Smith said that the song was
written in a studio in Old Street
with James Napier and William
Phillips. The latter started playing
with three chords on the piano, and
Napier quickly provided a drum
pattern, and according to Sam Smith,
"the song just flowed out of us so
naturally." After finishing the
song, he started to layer his vocal
about 20 times, singing in different
parts of the studio and harmonizing.
The result sounded like a gospel
choir, but all from his own voice,
and this demo was then used in the
released song. The single topped the
charts in United Kingdom, Canada,
Ireland and New Zealand, in the
United States it reached no.2. At
the 57th Annual Grammy Awards
ceremony, "Stay With Me" won two
Awards for Record of the Year and
Song of the Year.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
'A Bar Song (Tipsy)'
rebounds for second week at
No.1
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Shaboozey's “A Bar Song
(Tipsy)” is top shelf on the
Billboard Hot 100 again,
rebounding from the
runner-up spot for a second
week at No. 1. Two weeks
earlier, the single became
his first
leader on the chart. The
song by the Virgina native
(born Collins Obinna
Chibueze) is from his LP Where
I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m
Going,
which debuted at its No. 5
high on the Billboard 200 in
June. It has spent two weeks
at No. 1 on Americana/Folk
Albums and reached No. 2 on
Top Country Albums. “A Bar
Song (Tipsy),” on American
Dogwood / Empire, rules the
Hot 100 with 77.2 million
radio airplay audience
impressions (up 11%, good
for top Airplay Gainer
honors for a third week), 39
million official streams
(down 6%) and 16,000 sold
(down 24%) in the United
States July 12-18. The track
keeps at its No. 2 high on
Radio Songs;
holds at No. 2 on the
Streaming Songs chart,
following a week at No. 1;
and dips to No. 2 after nine
weeks atop Digital Song
Sales. Post Malone’s “I Had
Some Help,” featuring Morgan
Wallen, rebounds 3-2 on the
Hot 100 following six
nonconsecutive weeks at No.
1 beginning in May. It tops
Radio Songs for a fourth
week (84.8
million, up 5%). Kendrick
Lamar’s “Not Like Us” drops
to No. 3 on the Hot 100, a
week after it returned to
the summit for a second week
on top.
Tommy Richman’s “Million
Dollar Baby” holds at No. 4
on the Hot 100, after
hitting No. 2. Sabrina
Carpenter’s “Espresso” keeps
at No. 5 on the Hot 100,
after reaching No. 3, and
her “Please Please Please”
repeats at No. 6, four weeks
after it became her first
No. 1. She claims a sixth
week with multiple songs in
the top 10, the most of any
artist this year. Hozier’s
“Too Sweet” lifts 8-7 on the
Hot 100, following a week at
No. 1 in April. Teddy Swims’
“Lose Control,” which led
for a week in March, rises
10-8 on the Hot 100 and
Benson Boone’s No. 2-peaking
“Beautiful Things” is
stationary at No. 9.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s
top 10, Eminem’s “Houdini”
escapes from below the tier,
bounding 18-10 as the top
Streaming Gainer award
winner (21.6 million, up
64%); it’s also up 11% to
24.6 million in airplay
audience. The lead single
from his new album, The
Death of Slim Shady (Coup de
Grâce).
Eminem achieves his 11th No.
1 album on the Billboard
200 chart (dated July 27) as
his latest studio album, The
Death of Slim Shady (Coup de
Grâce),
debuts atop the list. The
set launches with 281,000
equivalent album units
earned in the U.S. in the
week ending July 18,
according to Luminate. It
scores the largest week for
any rap album in 2024. With
an 11th No. 1 on the
Billboard 200 chart, Eminem
ties Bruce Springsteen,
Barbra Streisand and Ye
(formerly Kanye West) for
the fifth-most No. 1s on the
Billboard 200. Ahead of them
are The Beatles (a record 19
No. 1s), Jay-Z and Taylor
Swift (each with 14) and
Drake (13). Of The
Death of Slim Shady (Coup de
Grâce)’s
281,000 first-week units,
SEA units comprise 164,500
(equaling 220.08 million
on-demand official streams
of the tracks on the
streaming edition of the
album; Death also
debuts at No. 1 on Top
Streaming Albums), album
sales comprise 114,000 (all
from digital downloads; it
wasn’t available as a
physical album) and TEA
units comprise 2,500.
Death’s
first-week sales mark the
biggest sales week in 2024
for a rap album. It also
nets the second-largest
sales week this year for a
digital download album,
behind only the debut of
Swift’s Poets with
274,000 downloads sold in
its opening week. Enhypen
captures its
highest-charting album ever,
and fourth top 10, as Romance:
Untold debuts
at No. 2 on the Billboard
200 with 124,000 equivalent
album units earned — the
act’s largest week ever by
units. Of that sum, album
sales comprise 117,000 (the
group’s best sales week
ever; the set debuts at No.
1 on Top Album Sales), SEA
units comprise 7,000
(equaling 9.53 million
on-demand official streams
of the album’s tracks) and
TEA units comprise a
negligible sum. The album’s
sales were bolstered by its
availability across 17
different CD variants, all
containing collectible paper
ephemera like photocards,
stickers and a poster, as
well as two vinyl editions.
Zach Bryan's The
Great American Bar Scene slips
2-3 in its third week on the
list (88,000 equivalent
album units; down 36%) while
Taylor Swift’s The
Tortured Poets Department
falls 1-4 (82,000; down
50%). The latter spent its
first 12 weeks on the chart
at No. 1. Morgan Wallen's
chart-topping One
Thing at a Time dips
3-5 on the Billboard 200
with 66,000 equivalent album
units earned (down 5%),
Billie Eilish’s Hit
Me Hard and Soft descends
4-6 with 57,000 units (down
2%) and Chappell Roan’s The
Rise and Fall of a Midwest
Princess falls
5-7 with 54,000 units (down
less than 1%). Clairo scores
her highest-charting album
ever, and first top 10, as Charm enters
at No. 8 on the Billboard
200 with 47,000 equivalent
album units earned — her
best week ever by units. Of
that sum, album sales
comprise 32,000 (her best
sales week ever), SEA units
comprise 15,000 (equaling
19.78 million on-demand
streams of the set’s tracks)
and TEA units comprise a
negligible sum. The set’s
first-week sales was
amplified by the album’s
availability across eight
vinyl variants and four
deluxe boxed sets
(containing branded
merchandise and a CD). Vinyl
sales comprise 15,000 of the
album’s first week –
Clairo’s best week ever on
vinyl. Megan Moroney lands
her first top 10-charting
set on the Billboard 200 as
her second full-length
studio album Am
I Okay? bows
at No. 9 with 43,000
equivalent album units
earned — the
singer-songwriter’s largest
week by units. Of that sum,
SEA units comprise 30,000
(equaling 38.05 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s tracks), album
sales comprise 13,000 and
TEA units comprise less than
500. Closing out the top 10
of the new Billboard 200 is
Noah Kahan's
Stick Season,
slipping 7-10 with 40,000
equivalent album units
earned (though up 4%).
Record Of The Month
'Alibi' is a furious tune by
Iranian-Dutch singer,
songwriter and visual artist
Sevdaliza,
together with Brazilian
singer and drag queen Pabllo
Vittar and French musician
Yseult.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Eminem's new album is the
clear number one
Monday, July 22, 2024
by Alan Jones, London
As he said in the lyrics of
his recent No.1 single,
Houdini, guess who’s back?
Eminem, that’s who, with his
first album of new material
in more than four years, The
Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De
Grâce) (TDOSS), outselling
its nearest challenger by a
margin of more than four to
one to debut at No.1. The 51
year-old hip-hop heavyweight’s 12th studio album racked up first week
consumption of 45,063 units (778 cassettes, 7,418 digital downloads and 36,867
sales-equivalent streams).
Eminem’s 10th consecutive studio album to debut at No.1 – his entire 21st
century output – and his 11th solo No.1 in total, TDOSS moves him up to sixth
place in the list of solo acts with most No.1 albums, behind Robbie Williams
(14), Elvis Presley (13), Taylor Swift (12), Bruce Springsteen (12) and Madonna
(12), and alongside David Bowie (11).
TDOSS is Eminem’s first album since surprise release Music To Be Murdered By
opened atop the list of consumption of 36,302 units in 2020. The follow-up to
her 2021 mixtape, One Foot
In Front Of The Other, which
opened at No.4 (5,436
sales), 23-year-old
singer/songwriter Griff from
Hertfordshire returns with
her first regular album,
Vertigo (No.3, 9,793 sales).
Their line-up unchanged
since before they released
their first album in 1997,
Glaswegian pop/rock quartet Travis have their highest charting album since 2013,
with 10th studio set, LA Times, debuting at No.4 (9,323 sales). All of their
studio albums have made the Top 20, nine of them the Top 10. 1999’s The Man Who
and 2001’s The Invisible Band both reached No.1, with the latter providing the
band’s best first week (199,697 sales), and the former their most consumed title
(2,713,265 units). Their last album, 10 Songs, debuted and peaked at No.5 (8,775
sales) in 2020.
London singer/songwriter Cat Burns seems to have been around for some time, so
it’s a surprise that she is only 24, and that Early Twenties is her first album.
A critically-acclaimed debut, on which she co-wrote every song, it debuts at
No.7 (7,722 sales), and includes her smash hit debut single, Go, which was
released more than four years ago, spent 18 weeks in the Top 10, peaked at No.2,
and has to-date consumption of 1,688,157 units.
Buoyed by the viral hit Apple, which almost didn’t make the cut, Brat increases
consumption by 6.28% to 8,591 units for Charli XCX, even as it slips 4-6. With
consumption of 71,738 units in its first six weeks on release, it is XCX’s
biggest seller, and first silver album, though her 2022 No.1 album, Crash, has
to-date consumption of 59,811 units, and should go silver next week.
The rest of the Top 10: The Tortured Poets Department (2-2, 111,11053 sales) by
Taylor Swift, Hit Me Hard And Soft (3-5, 8,821 sales) by Billie Eilish, The Rise
And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (5-8, 7,609 sales) by Chappell Roan, The
Highlights (6-9, 6,912 sales) by The Weeknd and 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-10,
6,037 sales) by Fleetwood Mac.
Overall album sales are up 5.05% week-on-week at 2,334,084 units, 9.38% above
same week 2023 sales of 2,133,940. Physical product accounts for 280,100 sales,
12.00% of the total.
Toppled from the chart summit in Tuesday’s sales flashes, Sabrina Carpenter
subsequently reasserted herself, and has the nation’s top two singles for the
fifth straight week.
Espresso – which spent five weeks at the summit, before retreating to No.2 for a
further five weeks, and returning to pole position last week – once again the
victor, with follow-up, Please Please Please, which itself spent three weeks at
the top, remaining at No.2.
Consumption of both tracks is down again, with Espresso (1-1, 51,679 sales
including 30 CDs, five cassette, 900 digital downloads and 50,744
sales-equivalent streams) off 4.43% week-on-week to the lowest level of its
14-week chart tenure, while Please Please Please (2-2, 49,802 sales) declines
6.23% week-on-week. Espresso’s tally is the lowest for a No.1 so far this year.
It will fall into ACR next week, most likely paving the way for Please Please
Please to return to the summit. With seven weeks at No.1 in total, Espresso
matches Noah Kahan’s Stick Season as the longest-running No.1 of 2024.
In the whole of chart history only Ed Sheeran has previously locked up the top
two positions for five weeks in a row, doing so in 2017, with Shape Of You at
No.1 and Castle On The Hill at No.2 throughout. Shape Of You continued at No.1
the following week, but Castle On The Hill slipped to No.3, with Rag n’ Bone
Man’s Human coming between them.
The track that overhauled Espresso briefly was perennial 1996 soccer anthem 3
Lions by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds. No.20 the previous
week, driven by England’s advance to the final of Euro 2024, it enjoyed a
24-hour residency atop the chart on Tuesday, even though the Euros were over,
and England had lost to Spain to finish runners-up for the second tournament in
a row. Eventually settling at No.8 (33,337 sales), it is at its highest position
since reaching No.4 during the 2020 Euros, staged belatedly in 2021 because of
Covid.
Although it drew closer to breaking up Carpenter’s domination, Shaboozey’s debut
hit, A Bar Song (Tipsy) spends its seventh week in total – and fourth in a row –
at No.3 (46,156 sales). However, it will move to ACR next week, and is therefore
no longer a challenger.
Eminem’s new album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), debuts at No.1 this
week but its streaming tallies are not enough to return introductory single,
Houdini, to No.1. The track, which topped the chart on debut six weeks ago,
improves 7-4 (44,552 sales) and is joined in chart combat by two more tracks
from the album, namely Habits (No.11 28,804 sales) and Renaissance (No.13,
27,347 sales). They raise Eminem’s tally of Top 75 hits to 66, his tally of Top
20 hits to 41. Habits is a collaboration with singer, songwriter and producer
White Gold from New York, for whom it is the first hit. Fifteen more tracks from
TDOSS are ‘starred-out’ of the Top 75, including Big Sean & Baby Tron
collaboration, Tobey, which debuted last week at No.29 as the album’s second
preview track.
The rest of the Top 10: Birds Of A Feather (4-5, 41,421 sales) by Billie Eilish,
Good Luck, Babe! (5-6, 40,149 sales) by Chappell Roan, Stargazing (6-7, 38,229
sales) by Myles Smith, Austin (10-9, 31,530 sales) by Dasha and I Had Some Help
(8-10, 31,067 sales) by Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen. I Had Some Help will
fall into ACR and exit the Top 10 next week but Austin escapes, having increased
consumption again.
Overall singles consumption is up 3.01% week-on-week to 28,616,078 units, 8.56%
above same week 2023 consumption of 26,359,835 units. Paid-for sales are up
4.19% week-on-week at 277,429 – 8.49% below same week 2023 sales of 303,181.