USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
Morgan Wallen claims fourth week atop Billboard 200
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Morgan Wallen's I’m the Problem spends a month at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 21), as the set earned 209,000 equivalent album units in the United States in

the tracking week, ending June 12 (down 15%), according to Luminate. The album debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 31. With 209,000 units earned, Problem lands the largest fourth week for an album since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department earned 260,000 in its fourth week (May 25, 2024-dated chart). Of I’m the Problem’s 209,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 12, SEA units comprise 197,000 (down 14%, equaling 257.9 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for a fourth week), album sales comprise 10,500 (down 34% — it falls 3-9 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,500 (down 15%). Lil Wayne notches his 13th top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as Tha Carter VI debuts at No. 2 with 108,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 73,000 (equaling 97.06 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 2

on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 34,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000. Lil Wayne’s long-running Tha Carter series began in 2004 with the release of Tha Carter, which debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the July 17, 2004-dated Billboard 200. He followed it with Tha Carter II (No. 2, 2005), Tha Carter III (No. 1 for three weeks, 2008), Tha Carter IV (No. 1 for two weeks, 2011), Tha Carter V (No. 1 for one week, 2018) and now Tha Carter VI. Enhypen collects its fifth consecutive, and total, top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 as Desire: Unleash arrives at No. 3 with 100,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 95,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 5,000 (equaling 7.29 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Addison Rae sees her debut full-length album, Addison, launch at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 48,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 25,500 (equaling 32.84 million on-demand official streams of its songs, it debuts at No. 13 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 23,000 (it debuts at No. 5 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The 24-year-old singer-actor got her start on TikTok in 2019 and made her Billboard Hot 100 chart debut with “Diet Pepsi” in September 2024; the song buzzed to No. 9 on the Pop Airplay chart in February. She also got a high-profile collab in 2024 thanks to her guest turn on the remix of Charli xcx’s Brat track “Von Dutch.” SZA’s former No. 1 SOS falls 3-5 on the Billboard 200 with 44,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%). My Chemical Romance’s Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, released in 2004, reaches the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for the first time, as the set reenters at No. 6 following a deluxe reissue. It previously peaked at No. 28 in 2005. In total, Three Cheers marks the fourth top 10-charting effort for the band, and its second-highest-charting set — second only to the No. 2-peaking The Black Parade in 2006. Three Cheers also marks the band’s first top 10 since April 2014, when the compilation May Death Never Stop You: The Greatest Hits 2001-2013 reached No. 9. A sweet album of a different kind, Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Short n’ Sweet, rises one spot to No. 7 on the latest Billboard 200. It earned 41,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week (up 11%). Morgan Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time dips 6-8 with 39,000 (down 4%). Rock band Turnstile nets its second chart entry, and first top 10, with the No. 9 debut of Never Enough. It earned 38,000 equivalent album units — of which album sales comprise 27,500 (it debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise a little more than 10,000 (equaling 12.8 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise less than 500. The set’s first-week units and album sales mark career-high frames for the group. Rounding out the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 is Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX, which falls 7-10 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned (down 7%). Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild” soars onto the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1. The song is her second leader, and first to debut on top. Her “Please Please Please” spent a week atop the ranking in June 2024, rising from the runner-up spot in its second week on the chart. “Manchild,” on Island Records and being promoted to radio by Republic, is the 1,182nd No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 66-year history, and the 85th to debut at the summit – and the first No. 1 entrance for Island. Carpenter co-produced the song with Jack Antonoff and co-wrote it with Antonoff and Amy Allen. (The trio also co-wrote “Please Please Please,” which Antonoff produced.) Released late on June 5, “Manchild” tallied 27.1 million official streams, 14 million radio airplay audience impressions and 20,000 sold in the United States June 6-12. The track debuts at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, where it’s Carpenter’s third leader, following “Taste” (three weeks on top) and “Please Please Please” (two). It opens at No. 3 on Digital Song Sales with 6,000 downloads sold; it also sold 14,000 copies on 7-inch vinyl, on which it was released with the exclusive instrumental B-side, “Inside of Your Head When You’ve Just Won an Argument with a Man.” (“Manchild” is the top-selling song of the week overall.) As it bubbles under the Radio Songs chart, “Manchild” launches at No. 22 on Pop Airplay and No. 24 on Adult Pop Airplay. Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” drops to No. 2 on the Hot 100 following two weeks at No. 1. Still, it adds a seventh week at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (7,000 sold) and gained by 12% to 54 million in airplay audience. Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, dips 2-3 on the Hot 100, three weeks after it roared in as Wallen’s fourth No. 1 and McRae’s first. Wallen follows on the Hot 100 with the No. 2-peaking “Just in Case” (3-4) and “I’m the Problem” (5-6). Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” descends 4-5 after 13 weeks atop the Hot 100 beginning in March. Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” wobbles 6-7 on the Hot 100, following its record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1 beginning last July, and Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” backtracks 7-8 after five weeks at No. 1 starting in January. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led the Hot 100 for a week in March 2024, and became the year’s No. 1 song, falls 8-9. It logs a record-extending 65th week in the top 10 and a record-furthering 95th week on the chart overall. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Benson Boone’s No. 2-peaking “Beautiful Things” retreats 9-10.

Record Of The Month
24 year-old Johannes Pietsch, better known by his stage name JJ, from Austria
won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with 436 points.
The song fusing pop and lyrical elements in a crescendo that flows into techno sounds and was written by JJ himself alongside Teodora Špirić and Thomas Thurner.

United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Sabrina Carpenter's 'Manchild' slides at No. 1
Monday, June 23, 2025
by Alan Jones, London
 
Out of luck last week when it was shooting for its 13th week at No.1 on Friday The 13th, Ordinary returns to pole position for Alex Warren on consumption of 59,221 units (1,269 digital downloads, 57,952 sales-equivalent streams). Pushing Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild – which supplanted it last week – down

last weekto No.2 (53,901 sales), Ordinary will nevertheless fall into ACR next week. Despite its return to No.1, Ordinary remains seventh on the all-time list of songs with most weeks at No.1. However, after achieving consumption in excess of 59,000 units for 13 weeks in a row, the track – which has been in the Top 10 for all but one its 20 weeks on release – has become the first song by Warren to achieve consumption of a million units. Already the No.1 song of 2025, it ends the week on 1,039,519 units, becoming the 540th most-consumed song of the 2020s and the 1,555th most-consumed of the 21st century. Catapulting 17-5 (33,488 sales). Dior becomes the third Top 10 hit for MK and the second for Chrystal. It is now the highest-charting of 10 hits by MK – 52-year-old DJ, producer and musician Marc Kinchen, who made his chart debut more than 30 years ago, with Alana collaboration Always in February 1995. Its consumption increasing for the third week in a

row – up 7.42% to a personal best of 40,375 units – Love Me Not nevertheless remains rooted at No.3, a place below its peak, for Ravyn Lenae. The rest of the Top 10: Pink Pony Club (4-4, 34,732 sales) by Chappell Roan, Family Matters (6-6, 29,558 sales) by Skye Newman, Undressed (5-7, 29,553 sales) by Sombr, Blessings (8-8, 27,586 sales) by Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas, Sapphire (9-9, 27,539 sales) by Ed Sheeran and Back To Friends (7-10, 27,337 sales) by Sombr. Overall singles consumption is up 1.64% week-on-week to 31,483,452 units, 8.36% above same week 2024 consumption of 29,055,796 units. Paid-for sales are down 4.06% week-on-week at 276,618, 0.38% above same week 2024 sales of 275,583. Eighty-two weeks after his introductory full-length album, Are We There Yet?, debuted and peaked at No.17, indie/pop singer/songwriter James Marriott’s second album, Don’t Tell The Dog, storms to a No.1 debut. Dedicated to his childhood canine, Jasper, the album’s first week consumption of 14,528 units (5,357 CDs, 5,140 12-inch vinyl, 316 cassettes, 1,770 digital downloads and 1,945 sales-equivalent streams) is 185.65% above Are We There Yet?’s first frame of 5,086 units, and is testament to how media-savvy Marriott is. Although it has only spawned one minor Top 75 entry to date – I Don’t Want To Live Like This reached No.67 in February – and none of its tracks have received significant airplay, Don’t Tell The Dog was an immediate success. This is due in no small part to the fact that as well as being a singer/songwriter, Marriott has carved himself a niche as a media personality with 2.03 million followers for his main YouTube channel and a further 230,000 for his music channel, one million TikTok followers, 580,000 X followers, 496,000 Instagram followers and 370,000 Twitch followers. Twenty-eight next month, Marriott - who co-wrote and co-produced every track on Don’t Tell The Dog – is the first recording artist born in Switzerland to have a No.1 album here, although he was raised in Buckinghamshire and now lives in Brighton. Are We There Yet?’s to-date tally is 24,100 units. Helped by a blitz of in-store appearances, Don’t Tell The Dog prevented Oasis’ Time Flies 1994-2009 compilation from reclaiming pole position for the first time since it debuted at the summit 783 weeks ago. Time Flies… catapulted 17-3 nine weeks ago after the release of a newly remastered, 15th anniversary limited quadruple coloured vinyl edition – one album apiece in red, orange, green and blue. Now available in a black vinyl version of that edition, and a new 2 CD equivalent ahead of the band’s reunion ‘Live 25’ tour, which starts in Cardiff two weeks today (July 4), the album surpasses that peak, levitating 14-2 (10,084 sales). Thirty-two weeks after The Cure returned to No.1, with their 14th studio release and first for 16 years, Songs Of A Lost World, an extensive remix collection of songs from the set, Mixes Of A Lost World, debuts at No.9 (5,414 sales), becoming the band’s 13th Top 10 and 26th Top 75 entry. Short n’ Sweet edges up 4-3 (9,461 sales), extending its opening run in the Top 5 to 43 weeks for Sabrina Carpenter, eclipsing the 21st century of 42 weeks, established by Ed Sheeran’s = in 2021/2022. Only three artist albums in all of chart history have spent more consecutive weeks in the Top 5 – Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water (84 weeks, 1970/1971), The Beatles’ Please Please Me (55 weeks, 1963/1964) and Elvis Presley’s soundtrack set, G.I. Blues (44 weeks, 1960/1961). Seven multi-artist soundtrack/cast albums have also spent more consecutive weeks in the Top 5 than Short N’ Sweet, which indisputably holds the record for an album by a female solo artist, surpassing the 41 weeks in a row that previous record holder Shania Twain’s Come On Over spent in the Top 5 in 1999/2000. After headlining the Lido Festival at London’s Victoria Park last Saturday (June 14) and Belsonic 25 in Belfast on Wednesday (18th June), Charli XCX enjoys a third straight week of improved performance for her latest album, Brat, which increases consumption 30.11% week-on-week as it returns to the Top 10 after a four-week gap, moving 13-7 (6,303 sales). Meanwhile, Sam Fender’s recent home city gigs in Newcastle continue to pay dividends, with latest album, People Watching (12-10, 4,909 sales) returning to the Top 10 after a 13-week absence. Pulp’s first album of new material since 2001, More topped the chart last week, and has enough clout to remain in the top tier, dipping 1-5 (7,227 sales). The rest of the Top 10: +-=÷× Tour Collection (5-4, 8,392 sales) by Ed Sheeran, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-6, 7,225 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and The Highlights (8-8, 5,893 sales) by The Weeknd. Overall album sales are down 0.90% week-on-week at 2,509,996 units, 6.54% above same week 2024 sales of 2,355,996. Physical product accounts for 247,040 sales, 9.84% of the total.