USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
Zach Bryan's 'With Heaven On Top' debuts at No.1
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Zach Bryan earns his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Jan. 24) as With Heaven on Top opens in the pole position with 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the

United States in the week ending Jan. 15, according to Luminate. The 25-song set is the second leader for the singer-songwriter, who previously led the tally with his 2023 self-titled release. In total, Heaven marks the sixth top 40 set for Bryan, with five of those reaching the top 10. In early 2025, Bryan announced With Heaven on Top as a forthcoming EP. Then in July, he shared the project’s release date of Jan. 9, 2026. The set was issued via streaming services and as a widely available download for purchase, while a CD and vinyl release are expected in March. The album’s first-week was bolstered by its midweek deluxe reissue on Jan. 12 with 24 bonus acoustic tracks. Of With Heaven On Top’s 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 127,000 (equaling 130.32 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 6,000 (it debuts at No. 7 on Top

   Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000. With Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem slipping a spot to No. 2 (with 82,000 equivalent album units earned, down 4%), the Nos. 1 and 2 albums on the Billboard 200 are country sets for the first time in nearly two years. It last happened on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated chart, when Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits reentered the chart at No. 1 following his death, and Wallen’s One Thing at a Time fell to No. 2. Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving holds at its peak of No. 3 (64,000 equivalent album units earned, down 3%), Taylor Swift’s chart-topping The Life of a Showgirl falls 2-4 (63,000, down 13%) ...and the former No. 1 soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters is down a rung to No. 5 (56,000, down 1%). The Kid Laroi lands his second top 10 on the Billboard 200 as Before I Forget bows at No. 6 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 30,000 (equaling 30.83 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 13 on Top Streaming Albums), 11,000 comprise album sales (aided by the availability of a signed CD, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The artist previously visited the top 10 with the chart-topping F*ck Love in 2021. Four former No. 1s round out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200: SZA’s SOS dips 6-7 (40,000 equivalent album units, down less than 1%), Tate McRae’s So Close To What falls 5-8 (nearly 40,000, down 2%), Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is down 8-9 (36,000, down less than 1%) and Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend descends 7-10 (33,000, down 12%). Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” blasts onto the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1. The song starts as his 10th career leader, and his first to debut at the summit. Mars ties for the 10th-most No. 1s in the Hot 100’s history, which dates to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, inception. He’s just the fourth solo male with 10 or more No. 1s, joining Drake, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. Released Jan. 9 on Atlantic Records, “I Just Might” arrives with 23.5 million official streams and 32.6 million radio airplay audience impressions and sold 13,000 in the United States in its first week of release (ending Jan. 15). The single launches at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, where it’s Mars’ fourth leader; at a personal-best No. 12 on Radio Songs — the highest start for a lead male artist since the chart became an all-format ranking in 1998; and at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, becoming his 12th chart-topper. Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” falls to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after a career-best 10 weeks at No. 1. Huntr/x’s “Golden” holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after eight weeks at No. 1 beginning last August; Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” repeats at its No. 4 high; and Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” which reigned for 10 weeks starting last May, drops 2-5, as it claims a 26th week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (67.5 million, down 6%). Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” backtracks to No. 6 from its No. 5 Hot 100 best as it leads the Hot Country Songs chart for an eighth week. Djo’s “End of Beginning” descends to No. 7 on the Hot 100 a week after it reached the top 10, at No. 6. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, sombr’s “Back to Friends” is steady at No. 8 after hitting No. 7; Kehlani’s “Folded” falls to No. 9 from its No. 7 high; and Swift’s “Opalite” slips 9-10, after reaching No. 2.

Record Of The Month
'I Just Might' by Bruno Mars is the first big global release of 2026
and also the first sign of his new album 'The Romantic', available February 27.

United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Djo's 'End Of Beginning' holds no.1 position
Monday, January 19, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Stronger Thing: End Of Beginning racks up a 12.20% increase to 53,743 units (334 cassettes, 1,104 digital downloads, 52,305 sales-equivalent streams) in the latest frame, easing its way to a second week at No.1 for Djo – Stranger Things actor Joe Keery. While the songs actually featured in Stranger Things

are in decline (see below), Keery’s tangential momentum continues to grow, with End Of Beginning now being joined in the Top 75 by two further DJO/Joe cuts, Basic Being Basic (81-62, 7,478 sales), and Delete Ya (95-74, 6,281 sales). Both songs – but not End Of Beginning - are from his debut album The Crux, which holds at No.57 (2,474 sales) this week. I Just Might is the introductory single from Bruno Mars’ eagerly awaited fourth album, The Romantic, and the highest of eight new entries to the Top 75 this week, opening at No.6 (30,633 sales). It thus becomes his 30th charted single, and 14th Top 10 hit, including collaborations, in a career that stretches back to 2010, and has seen consumption of his songs in excess of 43 million units. Perhaps surprisingly, I Just Might is the first hit by Mars on which he gets a solo artist credit since Versace On The Floor peaked at No.59 in 2017. The single’s release drives Mars’ entire oeuvre to increase consumption,

most notably earning re-entries for 2024’s Lady Gaga collaboration Die With A Smile (No.28, 12,452 sales) and 2012’s Locked Out Of Heaven (No.36, 10,611 sales), both No.2 hits. On the album chart, Mars’ 2010 debut, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, increases consumption 90.22% week-on-week to 3,608 units, elevating 84-31 to secure its highest chart placing for 716 weeks – nearly 14 years. Home to the No.1 singles Just The Way You Are and Grenade, the album itself spent two weeks at No.1, has spent 663 weeks in the Top 200 (291 of them in the Top 75), and is the 45th biggest artist album of the millennium, with to-date consumption of 2,435,575 units. Two weeks after reaching its previous peak of No.3, Raindance bounds 4-2 (45,947 sales) for Dave & Tems. No.1 again on the album chart, and newly nominated for four MOBO awards, Olivia Dean continues to have three songs in the Top 10, with So Easy (To Fall In Love) holding at No.5 (31,535 sales), Rein Me In (with Sam Fender) falling 6-7 (29,604 sales) and Man I Need slipping 7-8 (28,449 sales), all on increasing consumption. Man I Need is No.1 on the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart for the third week in a row with unadjusted consumption of 56,108 units. The rest of the Top 10: The Fate Of Ophelia (2-3, 43,387 sales) by Taylor Swift, Where Is My Husband! (3-4, 42,134 sales) by Raye, Lush Life (8-9, 28,335 sales) by Zara Larsson and – back in the Top 10 eight weeks after peaking at No.9 – Die On This Hill (11-10, 26,428 sales) by Sienna Spiro. Overall singles consumption is up 9.56% week-on-week to 30,694,256 units, 4.44% above same week 2025 sales of 29,389,252 units. Paid-for sales are up 9.53% week-on-week at 246,031, 0.67% above same week 2025 sales of 244,394. In pursuit of their first No.1 album since 2003, Blue got off to a terrific start, with their seventh studio set, Reflections, over 5,000 units ahead of its nearest challenger, and more than 8,000 units ahead of Olivia Dean’s The Art Of Loving in the first of this week’s sales flashes. Dean whittled away that lead as the week went on, however, and emerges triumphant, with The Art Of Loving snatching pole position at the death, securing its third straight week at the summit (and fifth in all) on consumption of 16,836 units (846 CDs, 1,326 vinyl albums, 54 cassettes, 243 digital downloads and 14,367 sales-equivalent streams) – the lowest for a No.1 for 22 weeks. Blue’s fast start was facilitated by the simultaneous release of no fewer than 20 physical variants – eight CD, eight vinyl and four cassette – and in-store signings which generated multiple purchases from eager fans but wasn’t quite enough to earn them their fourth No.1 album in all. It would have been their first since Guilty opened its account with sales of 88,879 copies a little over 22 years ago, completing a triumvirate of career-opening No.1s for the boy band, alongside debut set All Rise, which sold 137,499 copies on debut atop the list in 2001, and One Love, which sold 117,510 copies to claim pole position a year later. Finishing in second place, Reflections’ opening tally of 15,737 sales is the highest for a studio album by Blue since Guilty and their best for any album since their 2004 Best Of opened at No.6 with 58,336 sales in 2004. On hiatus between 2005 and 2011, their subsequent studio releases Roulette (No.13, first week sales 8,381, 2013), Colours (No.13, 8,586 sales, 2015) and Heart & Soul (No.22, 3,521 sales, 2022) all fell short of the Top 10 and had lower first week sales than Reflections, whose release comes ahead of Blue’s extensive 25th anniversary tour, which starts in Oxford in April. The band retains its original line-up of Duncan James, Simon Webbe, Lee Ryan and Antony Costa, and every track on Reflections was co-written by one of the four with outsiders, apart from opening track The Vow, on which both Costa and Ryan have writer credits alongside Jonny Wright. Blue have sold upwards of four million albums in the UK with top titles being One Love (1,426,478 sales), All Rise (1,319,390 sales), Best Of (690,539 sales), Guilty (661,599 sales) and 4Ever Blue (47,441 sales), a 2005 compilation that was never released physically in the UK but is available digitally. The Blue album is but the most visible of six albums debuting in the Top 75 this week – the first new intake of 2026. Released only digitally as this juncture, country star Zach Bryan’s sixth studio album, With Heaven On Top, nevertheless performs very strongly, debuting at No.3 (10,531 sales) to earn the 29-year-old his first Top 10 entry. Comprising 25 new songs, all written solely by Bryan, it has been released in regular and acoustic editions – the latter omitting the spoken-word track, Down Down Stream. On course to become Bryan’s second No.1 album in the USA, With Heaven On Top is his third Top 75 entry here, following his eponymous fourth album, which peaked at No.22 in 2023, and The Great American Bar Scene, a No.16 album in 2024. Bryan’s first Top 200 entry was his third album, American Heartbreak, a 2022 release that peaked at no.122, and has to-date consumption of 105,710 units – more than The Great American Bar Scene (76,645 units) but less than Zach Bryan (145,764 units). Yorkshire indie/rock trio The Cribs – 45-year-old twins Ryan and Gary Jarman and their 41-year-old brother Ross – debut at No.5 (8,014 sales) with Selling A Vibe, their ninth studio album in all, and their first for more than five years. It is their fifth Top 10 album, and their highest-charting, eclipsing the No.8 peak achieved by 2009’s Ignore The Ignorant and 2017’s 24/7 Rock Star Shit. Their third album – 2007’s Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever – is their biggest seller and only gold album, with to-date consumption of 115,278 units. The rest of the Top 10: 50 Years: Don’t Stop (3-4, 8,715 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, Man’s Best Friend (2-6, 7,498 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter, The Highlights (5-7, 7,458 sales) by The Weeknd, The Life Of A Showgirl (4-8, 7,150 sales) by Taylor Swift, , +-=÷× Tour Collection (6-9, 6,298 sales) by Ed Sheeran and So Close To What (7-10, 5,899 sales) by Tate McRae. Overall album sales are up 8.17% week-on-week at 2,519,544 units, 4.20% above same week 2025 sales of 2,417,907. Physical product accounts for 298,478 sales, 11.85% of the total.