Global Chart Report
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'Beautiful
Things' keeps the crown
Sunday, March 17, 2024
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
Benson Boone's
'Beautiful Things' remains atop the
Global Track Chart for a fourth
consecutive
week. The song reaches a new peak
with
308,000 points, that's another 8%
increase compared to the previous
hitlist.
Broken down by segments the tune
generated 234,000 points by
streaming (up 6%), 38,000 points by
sales (up 3%), and 36,000 points by
airplay (up 38%). 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. Parallel to Ariana
Grande's album release, a handful
songs from the effort enter the Top
40. Highest is 'We Can't Be Friends
(Wait For Your Love)', the official
second single lift-off from the
album. The synth-pop tune bows a
no.2 globally with 295,000 points
(247,000 points by streaming, 42,000
points by sales, and 6,000 points by
airplay). 'We Can't Be Friend (Wait
For Your Love)' is also the most
streamed song of the week, 'Puzzle'
by Sexy Zone - placed outside the
major hitlist at no.49 - is the best
selling track with 74,000 points,
and Dua Lipa's 'Houdini' the most
played song worldwide for
a 16th week in a row with 83,000
points. Together with 77,000 points
by streaming and 12,000 points by
sales the latter track ranks at no.10
on our tally. Back to Ariana Grande:
According to our chart-rules, only
the three most successful songs from
an album get the full number of
points. The fourth song receives a
10% point deduction, the fifth 20%
etc. So the lead-single 'Yes, And?'
bounds back at no.4 with 234,000
points, and 'The Boy Is Mine'
arrives at no.14 with 140,000
points. Furthermore 'Bye' reaches
no.19 (126,000 points) and 'Eternal
Sunshine' no.27 (106,000 points).
Last year's big winner, Miley Cyrus'
'Flowers' ranks now a 60th week on
the hitlist, currently at no.18 with
another 128,000 points. With a total
of 14,751,000 points it climbs at
no.11 on the
ALL TIME CHART. Outside our weekly Top 40 waiting
among other 'Supernatural' by Ariana
Grande at no.41, 'Overdrive' by Ofenbach
feat. Norma Jean Martine at no.52,
'Act II: Date @ 8' by 4Batz at
no.54, 'Whatever She Wants' by
Bryson Tiller at no.57, and 'The Night We Met'
by Lord Huron at no.59 for their first appearance on the big
list. We have change the composition
of our Global Album Chart. The track
equivalent albums, which attribute
the success of a song to the
corresponding album, are no longer
relevant. In return the physical,
digital sales and streaming of an
album were strengthened. 'With
You-th', the 13th extended play by
South Korean girl group Twice,
achieves this week's number one,
despite a 53% sales decline to
124,000 equivalent sales. Last week
the EP started at no.2, behind Le
Sserafim's 'Easy'. This week's
highest debut, 'Les Enfoirés 2024:
On A 35 Ans!', bows at the runner-up
slot with 91,000 sales. Les Enfoirés
is the name given to the singers and
performers in the yearly French
charity concert for the Restaurants
du Coeur. Founded at the initiative
of Coluche in 1986, a year after the
Restaurants du Coeur, its first
concert was held in 1989. 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 19,000 / 16,030,000,
'21' by Adele 19,000 / 32,603,000,
'25' by Adele 14,000 / 24,860,000,
'30' by Adele 6,000 / 6,301,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 37,000 /
9,050,000, the soundtrack to
'Barbie: The Album' 33,000 /
1,874,000, 'Certified Lover Boy' by
Drake 14,000 / 6,437,000,
'Dangerous: The Double Album' by
Morgan Wallen 15,000 / 9,174,000,
'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 21,000 /
20,632,000, 'Endless Summer
Vacation' by Miley Cyrus 17,000 /
1,679,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
14,000 / 5,797,000, 'Evermore' by
Taylor Swift 34,000 / 5,607,000,
'Folklore' by Taylor Swift 54,000 /
9,439,000, 'For All The Dogs' by
Drake 41,000 / 2,565,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 21,000 / 8,456,000, Génesis' by
Peso Pluma 36,000 / 1,514,000,
'Golden' by Jung Kook 51,000 /
1,847,000, 'Guts' by Olivia Rodrigo
48,000 / 2,345,000, 'Hackney
Diamonds' by the Rolling Stones
9,000 / 1,263,000, 'Harry's House'
by Harry Styles 27,000 / 6,415,000,
'Hereos &
Villains' by Metro Boomin 36,000 /
3,525,000, 'One Thing At A Time' by
Morgan Wallen 39,000 / 6,251,000, 'Pink Friday 2'
by Nicki Minaj 15,000 / 964,000, 'Red (Taylor's
Version)' by Taylor Swift 36,000 /
5,406,000, 'Renaissance' by Beyoncé
7,000 / 3,497,000, 'Scarlet' by
Doja Cat 20,000 / 849,000,
'SOS' by SZA
54,000 / 5,591,000, 'Sour' by Olivia
Rodrigo 49,000 / 9,504,000, 'Speak
Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 31,000 / 2,926,000, 'Subtract'
by Ed Sheeran 5,000 / 1,274,000,
'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
63,000 / 6,997,000, 'Un Verano Sin
Ti' by Bad Bunny 43,000 / 6,365,000,
'Utopia' by Travis Scott 56,000 /
3,147,000, 'When We All Fall Asleep,
Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
15,000 / 11,515,000, and 'Zach
Bryan' by Zach Bryan 29,000 /
1,823,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 40 YEARS
AGO
... While at a June 1982 concert by
the Rolling Stones in West Berlin, Nena's guitarist Carlo
Karges noticed that balloons were being released. As he
watched them move toward the horizon, he noticed them
shifting and changing shapes, where they looked like strange
spacecraft. He thought about what happen if they floated
over the Berlin Wall to the Soviet sector, that's how this
song came about. Originally released in January 1983 in the
German-speaking territories, "99 Luftballons" initially
reached number one in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. One
year later, the song surprisingly became a big smash in the
United States, where it peaked at no.2. At the same time it
topped the hitlists in United Kingdom, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, and Ireland. US-American, Australian, and New
Zealand audiences preferred the original German version,
whereas an English translation of the song was released in
the other three countries. Furthermore it was another big
success in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway,
Finland, Spain, and even in Japan. "99 Luftballons" became
an anthem for the peace movement in the 1980s.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
'Carnival' hits number one
on Billboard Hot 100
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Ye (formerly known as Kanye
West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s
“Carnival,” featuring Rich
the Kid and Playboi Carti,
rises to No. 1 on the
Billboard Hot 100. The song
marks Ye’s fifth leader
and Ty Dolla $ign’s second,
as well as the first each
for Rich the Kid and Playboi
Carti. “Carnival,” which
becomes the 1,165th No. 1 in
the Hot 100’s 65-year
history, drew 33.7 million
streams (up 4%) and 3.9
million radio airplay
audience impressions (up
85%) and sold 3,000
downloads (up 15%) in the
March 1-7 tracking week,
according to Luminate. The
single adds a third week
atop the Streaming Songs chart
and jumps 19-13 for a new
high on Digital Song Sales.
The track was released Feb.
10 on
Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s
collaborative album Vultures
1,
on the former’s YZY label.
The set, Ye’s first
following a string of hate
speech and antisemitic
remarks, debuted at No. 1 on
the Feb. 24-dated Billboard
200 chart
and led for two weeks; it
holds at No. 3 in its fourth
week on the list. Teddy
Swims’ “Lose Control”
rebounds to its No. 2 Hot
100 high, from No. 5. It
also jumps 3-1 for a second
week atop Digital Song Sales
(26,000, up 230%, sparked by
a
cappella and instrumental
mixes released March 1 and a
“Live at the Ryman” version,
with Freak Freely, released
March 5, while 11 versions
of the song were discounted
to a 69-cent sale price
during the tracking week).
Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me”
holds at No. 3 on the Hot
100, following six
nonconsecutive weeks at No.
1, as it notches an eighth
week atop the Radio Songs chart
(76.5 million, down 4%).
Benson Boone’s “Beautiful
Things” is steady at No. 4
on the Hot 100, after
hitting No. 3. Beyoncé’s
“Texas Hold ‘Em” falls to
No. 5 after two weeks atop
the Hot 100. Tate McRae’s
“Greedy” rises 8-6 on the
Hot 100, after reaching No.
3. Zach Bryan’s “I Remember
Everything,” featuring Kacey
Musgraves, keeps at No. 7 on
the Hot 100, after it led
for a week upon its debut
last September. SZA’s
“Snooze” bumps 9-8 on the
Hot 100, after reaching No.
2. Doja Cat’s “Agora Hills”
returns to the Hot 100’s top
10, lifting 12-9, after
hitting No. 7. Rounding out
the Hot 100’s top 10, Taylor
Swift’s “Cruel Summer” holds
at No. 10, following four
nonconsecutive weeks at No.
1 beginning in October.
Morgan Wallen's
One Thing at a Time returns
to No. 1 on the Billboard
200 (dated March 16), rising
2-1, and captures a 19th
nonconsecutive week atop the
list, breaking the record
for the most weeks at No. 1
by a country album. It
surpasses Garth Brooks’
Ropin the Wind, which held
the record with 18 weeks,
earned nonconsecutively,
during its run atop the list
in 1991-92. (Country albums
are defined as those that
have appeared on Billboard’s
Top Country Albums chart.
The list began in 1964.) One
Thing at a Time earned
68,000 equivalent album
units in the U.S. in the
week ending March 7 (up less
than 1%), according to
Luminate. One Thing at a
Time continues to have the
most weeks at No. 1 among
all albums since Adele’s 21
logged 24 nonconsecutive
weeks atop the tally in
2011-12. One Thing at a Time
debuted atop the chart dated
March 18, 2023, and spent
its first 12 weeks at No. 1
through early June. It
revisited the summit for
three weeks in a row last
June and July, and then
posted single-week runs at
No. 1 in October, January
and February. In the album’s
53 weeks on the list, it has
never dipped below No. 6.
One Thing at a Time finished
2023 as both the No. 1
year-end Billboard 200 album
and Luminate’s year-end top
album. Of One Thing at a
Time’s 68,000 equivalent
album units earned in the
week ending March 7, SEA
units comprise 65,000 (down
less than 1%, equaling 89.63
million on-demand official
streams of the set’s songs),
album sales comprise 2,000
(up 15%), and TEA units
comprise 1,000 (up 24%). At
No. 2 on the new Billboard
200, Noah Kahan’s Stick
Season hits a new peak,
rising 4-2 with 53,000
equivalent album units
earned (down 8%). The album
previously topped out at No.
3 on the June 24, 2023-dated
list, and returned to that
rank on the Feb. 24, 2024,
tally. The rest of the top
10 consists of former No.
1s. Ye (formerly known as
Kanye West) and Ty Dolla
$ign’s Vultures 1 is a
non-mover at No. 3 with
nearly 53,000 equivalent
album units earned (down
18%), SZA’s SOS rises 5-4
(50,000 units; down 1%) and
Drake’s For All the Dogs
rounds out the top five,
climbing 6-5 (42,000; down
4%). Taylor Swift’s 1989
(Taylor’s Version) steps 7-6
(39,000 equivalent album
units earned; down 5%),
Taylor Swift’s Lover bumps
9-7 (38,000; down 3%) and
Zach Bryan’s self-titled set
rallies 12-8 (38,000; up
3%). Morgan Wallen’s
Dangerous: The Double Album
ascends 11-9 with nearly
38,000 units (up 1%), for
its 138th nonconsecutive
week in the top 10. It
extends its record for the
most weeks in the top 10
among albums by a singular
artist. The only album with
more weeks in the top 10 is
the original cast recording
of My Fair Lady, with 173
weeks in the region,
beginning in 1956. Closing
out the top 10 on the new
Billboard 200 is Travis
Scott’s Utopia, which jumps
17-10 with 36,000 equivalent
album units earned (up 12%).
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)
Three weeks at the top for
Beyoncé
Monday, March 11, 2024
by Alan Jones, London
Texas Holdover: Despite
consumption dipping 15.24%
week-on-week to 62,113 units
(4,550 digital downloads,
57,563 sales-equivalent
streams), Texas Hold ‘Em is
No.1 for the third week in a
row for Beyonce?. The eighth
No.1 of her career
(including two with
Destiny’s Child) it is now
in a three-way tie
for most weeks
at No.1 in her oeuvre, alongside 2003’s Crazy In Love (feat. Jay-Z) and 2007’s
Beautiful Liar (with Shakira). With its to-date consumption rising to 220,731
units, it becomes her 63rd track to be certified silver (including 14 with
Destiny’s Child.)
Climbing for the seventh week in a row since it debuted at No.46, Alibi moves
11-10 (23,746 sales) for Ella Henderson feat. Rudimental. Her 10th Top 10 hit,
their seventh, it swaps places with Yes, And? (10-11, 22,859 sales) by Ariana
Grande.
Registering its sixth straight week of increased consumption – it is up 7.33%
week-on-week at 49,729 units - Beautiful Things returns to its peak position of
No.2 for Benson Boone.
Initially powered by TikTok, End Of Beginning is now a bona fide hit for DJO
(actor Joe Keery), with TV and radio joining the scramble to play it. It
continues to climb the chart, moving 5-4 (38,263 sales).
Attracting the ire of the Osbournes for its use of an Ozzy sample, Carnival
has
nevertheless turned into the first real hit from Kanye West & Ty Dolla Sign’s
Vultures 1 album, and adds a hefty 26.01% to its consumption this week as it
climbs 9-5 (32,814 sales).
The rest of the Top 10: Lose Control (2-3, 46,001 sales) by Teddy Swims, Stick
Season (4-6, 31,689 sales) by Noah Kahan, Praise Jah In The Moonlight (6-7,
27,940 sales) by YG Marley, Training Season (8-8, 27,158 sales) by Dua Lipa and
Cruel Summer (7-9, 26,094 sales) by Taylor Swift.
Overall singles consumption is up 0.99% week-on-week to 29,140,070 units, 12.81%
above same week 2023 consumption of 25,830,383 units. Paid-for sales are down
0.24% week-on-week at 279,992 – 5.36% below same week 2023 sales of 295,857.
For the second week in a
row, the new No.1 album is a
one-off collaboration
between a much-loved veteran
singer with a hatful of No.1
albums already to his
credit, and an
instrumentalist without a
prior No.1, both 50+. Last
week, Rod Stewart & Jools
Holland fitted that brief
and topped the chart with
Swing Fever,
and this week it is the turn of Liam Gallagher & John Squire.
Gallagher, 51, and 61-year-old guitarist Squire’s eponymous teaming effects the
16th change of leadership of the chart in as many weeks, debuting at the summit
on consumption of 39,395 units – more than three times that of its nearest
challenger, the aforementioned Stewart/Holland set, which eases 1-2 (12,402
sales).
With sales of 17,094 copies on CD, 17,654 on vinyl and 2,468 digital downloads
supplemented by 2,179 sales-equivalent streams, Gallagher & Squire’s effort
secures the highest weekly consumption of any album since Take That’s This Life
opened at the summit with 116,163 sales, some 14 weeks ago, in November 2023.
Gallagher’s 14th No.1 album in total – he had eight with Oasis (all seven of the
Manchester band’s studio releases and the compilation Time Flies 1994-2009), and
five solo previously – it is Squire’s first, although he was a member of
Madchester legends The Stone Roses and subsequently The Seahorses, whose
solitary album, Do It Yourself, provided his previous highest chart placing,
reaching No.2 in 1997.
Heavy metal legend Bruce Dickinson has fronted five No.1 albums as the lead
singer of Iron Maiden, and is a sporadic solo artist. In the latter guise, his
seventh release, The Mandrake Project, is his first for nearly 19 years, and by
far the most successful, debuting at No.3 (11,801 sales). The 65-year-old from
Worksop’s first solo album, Tattooed Millionaire, was his highest-charting
hitherto, reaching No.14 in 1994, and his last, Tyranny Of Souls, was his
lowest-charting, reaching only No.65 in 2005. Veteran of nearly 50 chart albums
across his career, initially with Samson, then Iron Maiden and solo, Dickinson
nevertheless worked as a commercial airline pilot for several years in the
2000s.
Two years after Yard Act reached No.2 with first album, The Overload, on
consumption of 17,461 units, follow-up Where’s My Utopia opens at No.4 (11,288
sales). A rock quartet from Leeds, Yard Act comprise 33-year-old vocalist James
Smith plus bassist Ryan Needham (43), guitarist Sam Shipstone (38) and drummer
Jay Russell (30). Fellow Leeds band The Kaiser Chiefs tempted fate by calling
their new release Easy Eighth Album but the set – which is indeed their eighth
studio album – had lower first week sales than any of its predecessors but
maintained their record of making the Top 10 with every studio release to date,
opening at No.6 (10,160 sales). Their best first week sale came in 2007, when
second album, Yours Truly, Angry Mob became the first of their two No.1 albums
on initial sales of 151,139 units. Its lifetime tally of 864,968 units is,
however, far below their 2005 debut, Employment, which opened at No.3 on 74,439
sales and has to-date consumption of 2,117,032 units.
The seventh album by art rockers Everything Everything, Mountainhead maintains
their record of reaching the Top 20 with every release, and secures their sixth
straight Top 10 placing, opening at No.9 (9,066 sales).
Never previously charting higher than No.33, 37-year-old London rapper Skrapz’s
fourth Top 75 entry, Reflection, debuts at No.10 (7,222 sales).
Winner of an unprecedented six BRIT Awards at last Saturday’s ceremony, Raye
returns to the Top 10, with breakthrough album My 21st Century Blues catapulting
103-5 (10,945 sales) to achieve its highest chart placing since it debuted at
No.2, some 56 weeks ago. Its consumption jumped 556.10% week-on-week, and its
cumulative consumption now stands at 84,297 units.
The rest of the Top 10: The Highlights (4-7, 10,092 sales) by The Weeknd and
Stick Season (3-8, 9,118 sales) by Noah Kahan.
Overall album sales are up 2.56% week-on-week at 2,458,664, 12.56% above same
week 2023 sales of 2,184,354. Physical product accounts for 347,756 sales,
14.14% of the total.