Global Chart Report
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'Beautiful
Things' keeps the crown
Sunday, March 24, 2024
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
Benson Boone's
'Beautiful Things' remains atop the
Global Track Chart for a fifth
consecutive
week. The song reaches a new peak
with
331,000 points, that's another 7%
increase compared to the previous
hitlist.
Broken down by segments it
generated 248,000 points by
streaming (up 6%), 40,000 points by
sales (up 5%), and 43,000 points by
airplay (up 19%). Benson Boone began
sharing his music on TikTok in 2021
and subsequently auditioned for
American Idol. He withdrew from the
competition but continued
to
gain popularity on TikTok, amassing
1.7 million followers. His talent
was recognized by Imagine Dragons'
frontman Dan Reynolds, who signed
Boone to his record label, Night
Street Records. Ariana
Grande's 'We Can't Be Friends
(Wait For Your Love)' holds tight at
the runner-up slot with 320,000
points, an 8% growth with 295,000
points by streaming, 14,000 points
by sales and 11,000 points by
airplay. Teddy Swims' 'Lose Control'
rounds out the top three with
261,000 points (up 5% with 148,000
points by streaming, 36,000 points
by sales and 77,000 points by
airplay). 'Lose Control' is now the
most played song globally for the
first time, and it ends the 16-week
run of Dua Lipa's 'Houdini' atop the
airplay chart. 'Colorcon Wink' by
AKB 48 is the best selling song of
the week with 86,000 points by sales
only (it debuts at no.33 on the
major hitlist) and of course Ariana
Grande's 'We Can't Be Friends' is
still the most streamed song. Kim
Tae-Hyung, known professionally as V
and member of the South Korean pop
phenomenon BTS, brings this week's
highest debut. His latest smash
'Fr(iend)s' bows at no.16 globally
with 131,000 points. Tate McRae's
'Greedy' enters the
ALL TIME CHART
at no.433 with a total of 6,107,000
points. It's the 458th song in the
almost 70-year history of the Media
Traffic Global Chart to enter this
hitlist, which reunites all songs
with over 6 million points. Outside our weekly Top 40 waiting
among other 'Overdrive' by Ofenbach
feat. Norma Jean Martine at no.45,
'Whatever She Wants' by Bryson
Tiller at no.52, 'Scared To Start'
by Michael Marcagi at no.55,
'Stumblin' In' by Cyril at no.58, and 'The Night We Met'
by Lord Huron at no.59 for their first appearance on the big
list. Seven-member male idol group
West. shoots atop the Global Album
Chart this week with their best-of
compilation 'Award 2014-2024' and
234,000 equivalent sales, according
to Oricon. The group was formerly
known as Johnny's West and changed
their name to West. in October last
year. Second highest debut of the
week comes from American singer /
songwriter Kacey Musgraves, her
sixth studio album 'Deeper Well'
arrives at no.3 globally with
111,000 sales. Sandwiched between
West. and Kacey Musgraves ranks last
week's chart leader, Ariana Grande's
'Eternal Sunshine'. The set
generated another 129,000
consumption units, a 60% decrease
compared to its initial week. And now, as every
week, additional stats from outside
the current Global Album Top 10 in
alphabetic order, the first figure
means last week's sales, the second
figure the total sales: '1989' by
Taylor Swift 22,000 / 16,071,000,
'21' by Adele 22,000 / 32,644,000,
'25' by Adele 13,000 / 24,887,000,
'30' by Adele 8,000 / 6,315,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 39,000 /
9,126,000, the soundtrack to
'Barbie: The Album' 39,000 /
1,949,000, 'Certified Lover Boy' by
Drake 16,000 / 6,467,000,
'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 27,000 /
20,680,000, 'Endless Summer
Vacation' by Miley Cyrus 19,000 /
1,715,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
17,000 / 5,828,000, 'Evermore' by
Taylor Swift 35,000 / 5,672,000,
'Folklore' by Taylor Swift 59,000 /
9,555,000, 'For All The Dogs' by
Drake 49,000 / 2,664,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 27,000 / 8,504,000, Génesis' by
Peso Pluma 44,000 / 1,594,000,
'Golden' by Jung Kook 53,000 /
1,950,000, 'Guts' by Olivia Rodrigo
50,000 / 2,449,000, 'Hackney
Diamonds' by the Rolling Stones
9,000 / 1,281,000, 'Harry's House'
by Harry Styles 32,000 / 6,474,000,
'Hereos &
Villains' by Metro Boomin 38,000 /
3,597,000, 'Pink Friday 2'
by Nicki Minaj 14,000 / 992,000, 'Red (Taylor's
Version)' by Taylor Swift 38,000 /
5,480,000, 'Renaissance' by Beyoncé
7,000 / 3,511,000, 'Scarlet' by
Doja Cat 25,000 / 894,000,
'SOS' by SZA
70,000 / 5,729,000, 'Sour' by Olivia
Rodrigo 53,000 / 9,607,000, 'Speak
Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 34,000 / 2,990,000, 'Subtract'
by Ed Sheeran 6,000 / 1,285,000,
'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
65,000 / 7,124,000, 'Un Verano Sin
Ti' by Bad Bunny 50,000 / 6,459,000,
'Utopia' by Travis Scott 63,000 /
3,274,000, and 'When We All Fall Asleep,
Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
20,000 / 11,550,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 10 YEARS
AGO
... "Happy" by singer and producer
Pharrell Williams is one of the
biggest hits in the music history.
Originally produced for the
Despicable Me 2 soundtrack album, it
also served as the lead single from
Williams' second studio album, Girl
(2014). It was released on November
21, 2013, alongside a long-form
music video, advertised as being
"the world's first 24-hour music
video." It consists of the
four-minute song repeated multiple
times, with various people dancing
around Los Angeles and miming along.
"Happy" is a midtempo soul song on
which Williams's falsetto voice has
been compared to Curtis Mayfield by
critics. The song has been a huge
global success and went to no.1 in
nearly all countries all over the
world. It was far and away the
biggest smash of 2014 with a total of
14.076.000 points on the Year-End
Chart.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
'Lose Control' hits No.1 on
Billboard Hot 100
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Teddy Swims' “Lose Control”
lifts to No. 1 on the
Billboard Hot 100 songs
chart. The singer-songwriter
reigns with his first career
entry on the ranking. It
becomes
the 1,167th No. 1 in
the Hot 100’s history. “Lose
Control” drew 59.1 million
radio airplay audience
impressions (up 9%) and 23.2
million streams (down 2%)
and sold 8,000 (down 34%) in
the week ending March 21,
according to Luminate. The
single rises 5-3 on the
Radio Songs chart;
holds at No. 4, after
reaching No. 3, on Streaming
Songs;
and falls to No. 6 after
three nonconsecutive weeks
atop Digital Song Sales. Two
new versions of “Lose
Control” arrived during the
tracking week: a Tiësto
remix (March 19) and a radio
edit (March 21). They joined
the previously available
original version; a
cappella, instrumental,
piano and strings versions;
slowed down and sped up
mixes; a BBC Radio 1 Live
Lounge Session recording; a
live version recorded at
Nashville’s Ryman
Auditorium, with Freak
Freely; and a goddard.
remix. The song is from
Teddy Swims’ debut
full-length, I’ve
Tried Everything But Therapy
(Part I).
The set hit a No. 25 high on
the March 16-dated Billboard
200 chart. As “Lose Control”
leads the Hot 100, Benson
Boone’s “Beautiful Things”
rises from No. 3 to a new
No. 2 high. With both songs
on Warner Records, the label
lands the Hot 100’s top two
spots simultaneously for the
first time since the chart
dated April 6, 2013, when
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’
“Thrift Shop,” featuring
Wanz, tallied its fifth of
six weeks at No. 1 and
Baauer’s “Harlem Shake”
placed at No. 2 following
five weeks in charge. Also
notable in the Hot 100’s top
10, Cardi B’s “Enough
(Miami)” debuts at No. 9.
Released March 15, the song
starts with 14.5 million
streams, 8.8 million in
radio audience and 37,000
sold (as it opens as her
seventh Digital Song Sales
leader). Cardi B notches her
12th Hot 100 top 10, and
first on her own since “Up,”
which became her fifth No. 1
in March 2021. Elsewhere in
the Hot 100’s top 10, Ariana
Grande’s “We Can’t Be
Friends (Wait for Your
Love)” drops to No. 3 a week
after it soared in as her
ninth No. 1. Still, it tops
Streaming Songs for a second
week (26.3 million, down
19%) and claims the Hot
100’s top Airplay Gainer
award (12.4 million, up
168%). Jack Harlow’s “Lovin
on Me” rebounds 5-4 on the
Hot 100, following six
nonconsecutive weeks at No.
1 beginning last December,
as it notches a 10th week
atop the Radio Songs chart
(73.9 million, down 2%).
“Carnival,” by Ye and Ty
Dolla $ign and featuring
Rich the Kid and Playboi
Carti, falls 4-5 on the Hot
100 after a week at No. 1
two weeks earlier. Beyoncé’s
“Texas Hold ‘Em” keeps at
No. 6 after two weeks atop
the Hot 100 earlier this
month. Zach Bryan’s “I
Remember Everything,”
featuring Kacey Musgraves,
advances 9-7 on the Hot 100,
after it led for a week upon
its debut last September.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s
top 10, Tate McRae’s
“Greedy” repeats at No. 8,
after reaching No. 3, and
Taylor Swift’s “Cruel
Summer” rebounds 13-10,
following four
nonconsecutive weeks at No.
1 beginning last October.
Ariana Grande's Eternal
Sunshine spends a second
week at No. 1 on the
Billboard 200 albums chart
(dated March 30), after
debuting atop the tally a
week ago. The set earned
100,500 equivalent album
units in the U.S. in the
tracking week ending March
21 (down 56%), according to
Luminate. It’s the third
Grande album to have logged
a personal-best two weeks at
No. 1. Her last two
full-length studio sets, Positions (in
2020) and Thank
U, Next (2019),
both spent their first two
weeks at No. 1. Eternal
Sunshine debuted at No. 1 on
the March 23-dated list with
227,000 units earned. Of Eternal
Sunshine’s
100,000 units earned in the
tracking week ending March
21, SEA units comprise
87,000 (down 41%, equaling
115.05 million on-demand
official streams of the
set’s songs), album sales
comprise 13,000 (down 56%)
and TEA units comprise 500
(down 84%). Kacey
Musgraves’ Deeper
Well makes
a splash, as it debuts at
No. 2 on the Billboard 200
with 97,000 equivalent album
units earned — her biggest
week, by units, since the
chart began ranking by that
measurement in December
2014. Further, of the
album’s first-week units,
traditional album sales
comprise 66,000 — Musgraves’
biggest sales week ever. Of Deeper
Well’s
first-week unit sum of
97,000, traditional album
sales comprise 66,000 (it’s
the top-selling album of the
week), SEA units comprise
30,000 (equaling 38.06
million on-demand official
streams of the set’s songs)
and TEA units comprise
1,000. Morgan Wallen’s
chart-topping One
Thing at a Time slips
2-3 on the new Billboard
200, pushed down with a 3%
gain to 70,000 equivalent
album units earned. Justin
Timberlake returns to the
Billboard 200 with his first
album in over six years, as Everything
I Thought It Was starts
at No. 4. The set opens with
67,000 equivalent album
units earned and marks
Timberlake’s sixth
consecutive top
five-charting effort — the
entirety of his solo
releases, which includes
four No. 1s. Of Everything’s
first-week unit sum of
67,000, traditional album
sales comprise 41,000, SEA
units comprise 24,000
(equaling 31.13 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s songs) and TEA
units comprise 2,000. Noah
Kahan’s Stick
Season falls
3-5 on the new Billboard 200
with 46,000 equivalent album
units earned (down 5%). Five
former No. 1s round out the
rest of the top 10, as
SZA’s SOS dips
5-6 (43,000; down 4%),
Swift’s Lover climbs
9-7 (41,000; up 6%), Bryan’s
self-titled album falls 6-8
(40,000; down 2%), Swift’s 1989
(Taylor’s Version)
descends 8-9 (nearly 40,000;
up 3%) and Ye (formerly
known as Kanye West) and Ty
Dolla $ign’s Vultures
1 drops
4-10 (39,000; down 13%).
Record Of The Month
He's the
grandson of reggae-legend
Bob Marley and the son of
Fugees front woman Lauryn
Hill.
22 year-old YG Marley debuts
with his first song 'Praise
Jah In The Moonlight'.
It samples his grandfather's
1978 song 'Crisis' and
sounds like a genuine Bob
Marley song.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Ariana Grande rules album
chart for a second week
Monday, March 25, 2024
by Alan Jones, London
Ending a run of 10
consecutive weeks in which
new albums debuted at No.1,
and 17 consecutive weeks in
which leadership of the
chart changed, Eternal
Sunshine snares a second
straight week at the summit
for Ariana Grande on
consumption of 16,292 units
(747 CDs, 932 vinyl albums,
77 cassettes, 126 digital
downloads and 14,410
sales-equivalent streams).
Of her four previous No.1
albums only the third -
2019’s Thank U, Next –
secured multiple weeks
(three) at the summit.
American country singer
Kacey Musgraves’ sixth
studio album, and fifth
chart entry Deeper Well
(No.3, 8,341 sales) is her
third straight Top 10 album,
and highest-charting set to
date. The 35-year-old from
Texas is expected to debut
at No.2 in the US album
chart with the set,
equalling her peak position
there, 11 years to the week
after her introductory
album, Same Trailer,
Different Park, achieved the
same rank. Musgraves was
denied a No.1 debut on that
occasion by Justin
Timberlake, whose third solo
album, The 20/20 Experience,
opened at the summit.
Timberlake’s album also
opened at No.1 in the UK
that week. But times have
changed, and this week
Timberlake’s new album,
Everything I Thought It Was
debuts behind Musgraves’ in
both countries.
His first regular solo album
since Man
Of The Woods reached No.2 in 2018 – he
has since had a dalliance with film soundtracks that saw him helming multiple
Trolls sets and The Book Of Love – Everything I Thought It Was debuts at No.5
(6,162 sales). It is Timberlake’s sixth solo studio album, seventh solo chart
entry, and sixth Top 10 solo album. Timberlake also had three Top 75 albums –
but no Top 10 success – prior to going solo, as a member of *NSync, who have
never officially disbanded, although their last album was in 2001, and who join
him on Paradise, a track on Everything I Thought It Was.
Nominated for the prestigious BBC Sound Of award and the BRITs Rising Star award
earlier this year, Caity Baser has yet to land a Top 20 single but makes her
album chart debut at No.7 (5,931 sales) with Still Learning. Officially a
mixtape – she told Apple Music ‘I’m not ready for an album yet’ – it contains 13
succinct songs, none of which are more than three minutes long and all of which
she co-wrote. Originally from Southampton, the 21-year-old – real name Caitlin
Rose Stonehill - makes her home in Brighton.
Three weeks after becoming his first triple platinum album, The Highlights
returns to the No.2 peak it achieved on debut in 2021 for The Weeknd. Climbing
from No.3 on consumption of 9,511 units, the album is No.2 for the seventh time
in all, and in the Top 10 for the 106th time in a 163-week chart career that has
never seen it fall below No.32. The only artist albums to spend longer in the
Top 10 are Bridge Over Troubled Water (135 weeks) by Simon & Garfunkel and, in a
less enlightened era, The Black & White Minstrel Show (120 weeks) by The George
Mitchell Minstrels. The Highlights overtook previous modern era champ, Divide by
Ed Sheeran – which was Top 10 for 104 weeks – only last week. Several soundtrack
sets have also spent longer in the Top 10 than The Highlights.
The rest of the Top 10: Stick Season (4-4, 7,316 sales) by Noah Kahan, My 21st
Century Blues (6-6, 6,110 sales) by Raye, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-8, 5,575
sales) by Fleetwood Mac, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (10-9, 5,259 sales) by Taylor
Swift and Curtain Call: The Hits (12-10, 5,036 sales) by Eminem.
Overall album sales are down 0.84% week-on-week at 2,350,117, 8.00% above same
week 2023 sales of 2,176,070. Physical product accounts for 262,254 sales,
11.16% of the total.
Hold ‘Em Folds: after four weeks atop the singles chart, Texas Hold ‘Em dips to
No.3 (48,168 sales) for Beyonce, unable to fend off Beautiful Things, which
increases sales for the ninth week in a row for Benson Boone, climbing 2-1 on
consumption of 54,642 units (1,747 digital downloads and 52,895 sales-equivalent
streams), while We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love) (3-2, 49,914 sales)
reaches a new peak for Ariana Grande.
With Lose Control (5-4. 47,418 sales) by Teddy Swims and End Of Beginning (4-5,
44,114 sales) by Djo completing the leading quintet, the Top 5 once again
consists entirely of songs by American solo artists – and with Benson Boone
being preceded at No.1 by Noah Kahan and Beyonce, the last three No.1s have been
by American solo artists for the first time since 1959, when there were actually
four in a row (Perry Como, Marvin Rainwater, Connie Francis and Tommy Edwards).
Twenty-two in June, singer/songwriter Boone is the youngest male solo artist to
have a No.1 since January 2016, when a 17-year-old Shawn Mendes topped the list
with Stitches. Boone’s career took off after he created a buzz on TikTok, but he
also garnered substantial earlier publicity from appearing on American Idol in
2021, with judge Katy Perry telling him ‘they’re gonna swoon over Benson Boone”
and predicting he could win the series, only for him to quit.
Still encumbered by ACR, Stick Season nevertheless rises 7-6 (28,131 sales) for
Noah Kahan. On the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart – where ACR and primary artist
rules don’t apply – Stick Season spends its second week in a row and 10th week
in total at No.1 on unadjusted consumption of 55,063 units.
The rest of the Top 10: Yes, And? (6-7, 25,187 sales) by Ariana Grande, Carnival
(8-8, 24,460 sales) by Kanye West & Ty Dolla Sign and Training Season (9-9,
24,098 sales) by Dua Lipa.
So far reaching only No.67 and No.74 respectively in the Hot 100 in their native
USA, Michael Marcagi and Dasha are doing considerably better with their debut
hits in the UK, with new peaks for both this week – Marcagi’s Scared To Start is
the only new arrival in the Top 10, climbing 14-10 (23,380 sales) while Dasha’s
Austin grows closer, vaulting 25-15 (17,594 sales).
Overall singles consumption is up 0.66% week-on-week to 28,892,578 units, 9.29%
above same week 2023 consumption of 26,435,980 units. Paid-for sales are up
8.40% week-on-week at 290,444 – 0.62% below same week 2023 sales of 292,259.