USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Ordinary' holds at No.1 on Billboard Hot 100
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Alex Warren's “Ordinary” adds an eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has spent all its weeks on top consecutively, having become his first leader on the chart.

Released on Atlantic Records it tallied 20.7 million official streams (up 6% week-over-week), 74 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1%) and 6,000 sold (down 12%) in the United States July 18-24. The track keeps at No. 4 on Streaming Songs, following four weeks at the summit; scores a sixth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs; and drops to No. 9 from No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, where it has led for nine weeks. “Golden” by Huntr/x, the trio of Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, surges 4-2 for a new Hot 100 high. It simultaneously tops Streaming Songs for the first time, rising a spot with 25.7 million streams, up 12%, marking the Hot 100’s top gainer in streaming for a fourth consecutive week. “Golden” becomes the first song by an all-woman group to lead Streaming Songs since the chart began in 2013. “Golden,” from the hit Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters, also jumps 109% to 3.7 million in radio audience — it debuts at No. 35 on the Pop

Airplay chart — and 10% to 4,000 sold. (A remix of the song by David Guetta was released Friday, July 25, and will count toward next week’s charts.) Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, dips 3-4 on the Hot 100, and helps him make history on the Hot Country Songs chart, where it rules for a 10th week. Justin Bieber’s “Daisies” drops to No. 3 on the Hot 100 a week after it debuted at No. 2, becoming his 27th top 10. It’s the chart’s top gainer in airplay (10.5 million, up 145%). Morgan Wallen’s “Just in Case” holds at No. 5 on the Hot 100 after reaching No. 2. Ravyn Lenae’s “Love Me Not” lifts a spot for a new No. 6 Hot 100 high, a week after it became her first top 10. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led the Hot 100 for a week in March 2024, and wrapped as the year’s No. 1 song, ascends 9-7 — as it adds a record-extending 101st week on the chart overall and a record-padding 71st week in the top 10. Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” stumbles 6-8 on the Hot 100, following its record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1 beginning last July. Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” rises 11-9 after 13 weeks atop the Hot 100 beginning in March. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” is steady at No. 10 following five weeks at No. 1 beginning in January. Tyler, The Creator scores his fourth No. 1, all earned consecutively, on the Billboard 200 albums chart as his latest album, Don't Tap The Glass, debuts atop the tally (dated Aug. 2). The set launches with 197,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 24, according to Luminate. Of the albums' 197,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 24, album sales comprise 128,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 69,000 (equaling 93.34 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 4 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping I’m the Problem bumps 3-2 on the latest Billboard 200, earning 142,000 equivalent album units (down 4% — though it returns to No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for a ninth nonconsecutive week on top). The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack rises 5-3 (89,000; up 5%) and Jackboys and Travis Scott’s Jackboys 2 falls 1-4 in its second week (78,000; down 66%). Alex Warren hits the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for the first time as You’ll Be Alright, Kid jumps 19-5 after it was expanded with 10 added songs. The set earned 73,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week (up 207%). Of that sum, SEA units comprise 59,000 (up 157%, equaling 80.19 million on-demand official streams of its songs — it moves 15-5 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 13,000 (up 9,483% — it debuts at No. 7 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 71%). Justin Bieber’s Swag shifts 2-6 in its second week on the Billboard 200, earning 72,000 equivalent album units (down 55%). The Essential Ozzy Osbourne vaults 134-7 the Billboard 200, following Osbourne’s death on July 22. The best-of collection reaches the top 10 for the first time (it previously peaked at No. 81 in 2003, the year it was released) and marks the 10th top 10-charted set for the late metal god. Essential earned nearly 44,000 equivalent album units in the July 18-24 tracking week (up 309%). Of that sum, SEA units comprise 35,000 (up 287%, equaling 48.70 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 9 on Top Streaming Albums), TEA units comprise 6,000 (up 888%) and album sales comprise 3,000 (up 197% — it re-enters at No. 30 on Top Album Sales). Jessie Murph achieves her first top 10 on the Billboard 200 as Sex Hysteria debuts at No. 8 with 44,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that figure, SEA units comprise 35,000 (equaling 48.23 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 10 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 9,000 (it debuts at No. 10 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out falls 4-9 in its second week on the Billboard 200, earning 43,000 equivalent album units (down 63%). Closing out the top 10 is BTS’ Permission To Dance On Stage (Live), debuting at No. 10. The act’s first live album also marks its eighth top 10-charted project. The live set launches with 43,000 equivalent album units earned, with album sales comprising 36,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 5,000 (equaling 6.58 million on-demand official streams of its songs) and TEA units comprise 2,000.

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Justin Bieber's 'Daisies' rises to number one
Monday, July 28, 2025
by Alan Jones, London
 
Justin Bieber’s career flowers afresh with Daisies – the lead single from his surprise seventh studio album Swag – dashing 4-1 on consumption of 40,643 units (509 digital downloads and 40,134 sales-equivalent streams) It is the eighth song from Bieber to plant itself atop the chart but the first since 2019.

It is his fourth with sole billing, and his first unaccompanied chart-topper since 2015. Its title not mentioned in its lyrics although petals are, Daisies is the clear breakout hit from Swag, with the two other songs from the set which debuted last week going into reverse: Yukon falling (32-33, 12,001 sales) and All I Can Take, No.33 last week, now ‘starred-out’ (7,876 sales). The latter’s chart position is taken by another cut from Swag – Go Baby, which debuts at No.49 although its consumption is down 29.11% week-on-week to 9,584 units. It is Bieber’s 80th Top 75 entry. Daisies’ blossoming was more than sufficient for it to take root at the chart summit, with two-week champ Dior lagging behind (1-2, 36,832 sales). Although Daisies is No.1, Alex Warren’s Ordinary is the most popular track for the 17th time in 19 weeks. On its 22nd straight week in the Top 10, despite falling into ACR five weeks ago, Ordinary stays at No.7 with adjusted DUS of 27,571 units,

and unadjusted consumption of 53,884 units – 32.58% more than Daisies. It is joined in the Top 10 by Eternity, the focus track from Warren’s newly expanded You’ll Be Alright, Kid album. Debuting at No.3 (32,596 sales), Eternity is the sixth song from Warren’s album to chart, and the fourth to make the Top 10. Warren’s Bloodline single (feat. Jelly Roll) also enjoys a fillip from the album’s release, jumping 31-19 (17,478 sales), while two more Warren tracks are ‘starred-out’ of the Top 75. Three weeks ago, three songs from the soundtrack to Netflix animated fantasy film K-pop Demon Hunters debuted simultaneously on the Top 75. They have grown their audience every week since, as has the soundtrack album, which has now spent five weeks atop the compilation chart. Break-out hit Golden jumps 9-4 (31,816 sales) this week for Huntr/X, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast, while Your Idol advances 23-14 (22,332 sales) for Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & K-pop Demon Hunters Cast. Despite increasing consumption by 22.33% week-on-week to 19,449 units – progress which is fully recognised by its 48-27 move on the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart – How It’s Done (credited to the same artists as Golden) is now ‘starred-out’. It loses its chart position to Soda Pop (same artists as Your Idol), which debuts at No.17 (20,459 sales). The rest of the Top 10: Manchild (2-5, 31,765 sales) by Sabrina Carpenter, Blessings (3-6, 28,431 sales) by Calvin Harris feat. Clementine Douglas, Victory Lap (6-8, 26,009 sales) by Fred Again, Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax, Sapphire (5-9, 25,668 sales) by Ed Sheeran and Survive (8-10, 24,273 sales) by Lewis Capaldi. Nine of the Top 10 singles have one-word titles, the other has two, making it the least wordy top tier in chart history. Overall singles consumption is down 2.13% week-on-week at 30,460,978 units, 3.62% above same week 2024 consumption of 29,395,057 units. Paid-for sales are up 0.01% week-on-week at 289,014, 5.95% below same week 2024 sales of 307,294. Forty-two weeks after it debuted at No.47, and 11 weeks after securing its previous peak of No.9, Alex Warren’s introductory album, You’ll Be Alright, Kid catapults 25-1, effecting the 32nd change in leadership of the chart in as many weeks. Originally released as a 10-song album, and later re-issued with 11 tracks – both of which include the parenthetical title suffix (Chapter 1) – the set is now a fully-fledged full-length album with 21 songs – all of which were co-authored by the 24-year-old Californian. The expanded version of the title was released physically in two CD, eight vinyl and one cassette variants, and digitally. It triggered a 426.88% expansion in consumption week-on-week to 20,843 units (4,182 CDs, 2,177 vinyl albums, 168 cassettes, 756 digital downloads and 13,560 sales-equivalent streams). Overall consumption of You’ll Be Alright, Kid – which has spawned six Top 40 hits, including Eternity (new at No.3 this week) and the extraordinary Ordinary, which spent 12 weeks at No.1 earlier this year – stands at 149,087 units. Less than four days after its release and a mere 38 weeks since his last album topped the chart, Tyler, The Creator’s new album, Don’t Tap The Glass roars to No.2 on consumption of 17,828 units. The 34-year-old Californian rapper’s eighth studio and sixth Top 10 album, Don’t Tap The Glass is the follow-up to Chromakopia, which also dropped on a Monday last September and easily overwhelmed the rest of the market to debut atop the chart on consumption of 25,079 units. That tally has since grown to 123,704 units, placing it fourth in Tyler’s canon behind 2019 No.4 album Igor (334,102 sales), 2017 No.9 album Flower Boy (240,591 units) and 2021 No.4 album, Call Me If You Get Lost (159,272 units). Released in the same week last August, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet and Fontaines DC’s Romance debuted at No.1 and No.2 respectively on the overall album chart back then, with the positions reversed on the vinyl albums chart. Forty-seven weeks on, both enjoy a bounce this week with Short N’ Sweet rebounding 11-9 (7,091 sales) after leaving the Top 10 for the first time last week. Romance, on the other hand, spent only its first two weeks in the Top 10, and has dipped as low at No.81, but now jumps 37-12 (5,348 sales) – a 45-week high. 2,732 of those sales are for Romance’s new double vinyl ‘bonus edition’ set, which pairs a 12-inch blue/turquoise edition of the original album and a black vinyl 7-inch containing new songs, It’s Amazing To Be Young and Before You I Just Forget. Short N’ Sweet and Romance are the only albums to sell upwards of 60,000 copies on vinyl in the period since they made their debuts last August, with Short N’ Sweet’s tally currently standing at 67,353 (8.90% of its overall tally of 756,519 units), and Romance at 64,412 (30.78% of its overall tally of 209,282 units). Immediately behind them are Definitely Maybe by Oasis (56,901 units) and the best-selling 2025 release on vinyl, People Watching by Sam Fender (54,224 units). Oasis’ Live ’25 tour rolls into London with the first of their five nights at Wembley Stadium scheduled for this evening (July 25), so it is no surprise to find they have three albums in the Top 5 for the third week in a row, with 2010 compilation Time Flies: 1994-2009 (2-3, 16,574 sales) still leading the way, followed by 1995 second album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (3-4, 12,097 sales) and 1994 debut Definitely Maybe (5-5, 8,988 sales). Two days after Billie Eilish finished her 10-date UK tour in Manchester on Wednesday (July 23), Hit Me Hard And Soft (12-10, 6,057 sales) secures its highest consumption for 22 weeks, and returns to the Top 10 for the first time in 10 weeks. It becomes her third album to exceed 500,000 units in the UK, with a to-date tally of 506,155. Meanwhile, her 2021 chart-topper, Happier Than Ever, jumps 48-35 (3,130 sales) – its highest chart placing for 154 weeks, and highest consumption for 160 weeks – and 2019 No.1, When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? improves 69-54 (2,635 sales), with its highest chart position and sales for 29 weeks. The rest of the Top 10: Swag (4-6, 8,328 sales) by Justin Bieber, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (9-7, 8,315 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and +-=÷× Tour Collection (7-8, 7,861 sales) by Ed Sheeran. Overall album sales are down 1.49% week-on-week at 2,439,806 units, 2.77% above same week 2024 sales of 2,373,985. Physical product accounts for 241,687 sales, 9.91% of the total.