USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
Morgan Wallen claims third week atop Billboard 200
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Morgan Wallen's I’m the Problem is No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 14) for a third consecutive week, following its debut atop the list dated May 31. It earned 246,000

equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending June 5 (down 14%), according to Luminate. It’s the largest third week for an album in over a year, since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department earned 282,000 in its third frame (May 18, 2024-dated chart). Of I’m the Problem’s 246,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 5, SEA units comprise 229,000 (down 11%, equaling 298.41 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for a third week), album sales comprise 15,500 (down 45% — it falls from No. 1 to No. 3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,500 (down 17%). At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Seventeen scores their seventh top 10-charting album, as Seventeen 5th Album Happy Burstday debuts. The set launches with 48,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 46,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 2,500

(equaling 3.26 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The set’s album sales were aided by its availability across 14 CD variants, all containing collectible paper ephemera, some randomized. SZA’s chart-topping SOS falls 2-3 on the Billboard 200 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%). Miley Cyrus achieves her 15th top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 as Something Beautiful bows at No. 4. It starts with 44,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 27,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 17,000 (equaling 22.18 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. (Cyrus’ tally of 15 top 10s is inclusive of her albums billed to her Disney Channel character Hannah Montana.) Something Beautiful’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across six vinyl variants (including one signed, sold in Cyrus’ webstore), a standard CD, a signed CD (exclusive to Cyrus’ webstore) and two deluxe CD boxed sets (sold via her webstore, each containing branded merch and a copy of the album). Taylor Swift’s chart-topping reputation rallies 78-5 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (up 221%). It’s the album’s first week in the top 10 since the Aug. 4, 2018-dated chart (when it ranked at No. 9), the set’s highest rank since the Jan. 27, 2018, chart (when it was No. 5) and its best week by units earned since the Jan. 13, 2018, chart, when it tallied 48,000 (at No. 3). The album debuted at No. 1 on the Dec. 2, 2017-dated chart and spent four nonconsecutive weeks atop the list. Of reputation’s 42,000 units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 27,000 (up 125%, equaling 34.75 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it reenters Top Streaming Albums at No. 10), album sales comprise 15,000 (up 1,184%, it reenters Top Album Sales at No. 4) and TEA units comprise less than 500 units. The album rallies up the list following fan support of the project after Swift announced that she had acquired her Big Machine-era catalog, including reputation. Rounding out the top 10 of the Billboard 200 are five former No. 1s: Wallen’s One Thing at a Time falls 4-6 (40,000; down 3%); Kendrick Lamar’s GNX drops 3-7 (39,000; down 7%); Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet dips 6-8 (37,000; though up 1%); PartyNextDoor and Drake’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U descends 7-9 (34,000; down 4%); and Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos falls 8-10 (33,000; down 7%). Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” adds a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, a week after it became the singer-songwriter’s first leader on the list. “Ordinary” tallied 21.5 million official streams (up 3% week-over-week), 48.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 11%) and 7,000 sold (down 12%) in the United States May 30-June 5. The track holds for a sixth week atop the Digital Song Sales chart and rises 4-3 on Streaming Songs, after four weeks at the summit, and 5-4 on Radio Songs (7-5). Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it bounded in as Wallen’s fourth No. 1 and McRae’s first. It scores a third week atop both Streaming Songs (24.1 million, down 4%). Wallen follows on the Hot 100 with the No. 2-peaking “Just in Case,” which keeps at No. 3, and “I’m the Problem” (4-5), as I’m the Problem, the parent set of all three songs, posts a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” lifts 5-4 after 13 weeks atop the Hot 100 beginning in March. Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” repeats at No. 6 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” is steady at No. 7 after five weeks at No. 1 beginning 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, is stationary at No. 8. It posts a record-extending 64th week in the top 10 and a record-padding 94th week on the chart overall. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” pushes 10-9, swapping spots with Drake’s “Nokia,” with both having reached No. 2. The former adds its 71st week on the chart overall, tying for the eighth-longest stay in the list’s history.

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)
'Just Keep Watching' is the highest new entry
Monday, June 9, 2025
by Alan Jones, London
 
Becoming more of a phenomenon and less ordinary with each passing week, Ordinary is No.1 for the 12th week in a row for Alex Warren, simultaneously becoming the longest-running No.1 hit of the 2020s – a title it previously held jointly with Ed Sheeran’s Bad Habits – and the seventh song in chart history

to accumulate a dozen weeks at the apex. Eclipsing Slim Whitman’s 1955 leviathan Rose Marie as the No.1 by a male American soloist to spend most consecutive weeks at the summit, it has now racked up more consecutive weeks at No.1 than all but four songs: Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (16 weeks, 1991), Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around (15 weeks, 1994), Drake’s One Dance (feat. WizKid & Kyla, 16 weeks, 2016) and Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You (13 weeks, 2017). Its consumption down for the third week in a row – falling 1.24% to 60,524 units (1,454 digital downloads, 59,070 sales-equivalent streams), its lowest level for 11 weeks – Ordinary is nevertheless still well clear of its nearest challengers, Love Me Not (3-2, 35,838 sales) by Ravyn Lenae and Pink Pony Club (2-3, 34,874 sales) by Chappell Roan. This mighty triumvirate has frozen everything else out of the Top 3 for five weeks in a row, but change is in the air, with four

other songs which achieve consumption in excess of 30,000 units, and new releases from Ed Sheeran (Sapphire) and Sabrina Carpenter (Manchild) looking to change the pecking order a week hence. Of these, the leading contender is Undressed, which is at its No.4 peak for the third week in a row for Sombr, while increasing consumption a further 6.96% to a best-yet 34,236 units. His second hit, Back To Friends, joins it in the Top 10 for the first time, rising 11-9 (24,483 sales). Lifted from the soundtrack to the upcoming Apple movie F1, Just Keep Watching (No.6, 30,531 sales) is the highest of eight new entries to the Top 75 this week, becoming the 16th chart entry and eighth Top 10 hit for Canadian singer/songwriter Tate McRae. Skye Newman’s first two singles climb in harness, with her introductory Top 10 hit, Family Matters, elevating 6-5 (33,934 sales), while Hairdresser, which paused at No.16 last week, heads north again, improving to No.15 (19,556 sales). Blessings is No.7 for the third week in a row for Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas, its consumption rising 7.32% to a new high of 30,273 units, the highest for a song in that position so far this year. The rest of the Top 10: Azizam (8-8,27,560 sales) by Ed Sheeran and Bloodline (9-10, 23,466 sales) by Alex Warren feat. Jelly Roll. Overall singles consumption is up 2.03% week-on-week to 30,967,447 units, 3.88% above same week 2024 consumption of 29,810,997 units. Paid-for sales are down 1.37% week-on-week at 278,433, 2.97% below same week 2024 sales of 286,959. Extending to 26 the number of consecutive weeks in which leadership of the album chart has changed hands – the second longest string in chart history - +-=÷× Tour Collection by Ed Sheeran makes an unexpected return to No.1. Thirty-five weeks after it debuted at No.5 and 22 weeks after its only previous week at the summit, +-=÷× Tour Collection takes advantage of a weak market to secure Sheeran his landmark 50th week at No.1 – only The Beatles (176 weeks), Elvis Presley (66 weeks) and ABBA (58 weeks) have spent longer in pole position – on consumption of 9,908 units (1,100 CDs, 151 vinyl albums, 21 digital downloads and 8,636 sales-equivalent streams). That’s 19.35% below its opening week and 36.51% below its previous week at No.1 but an increase of 15.17% week-on-week. It got there the hard way – Miley Cyrus’ new album Something Beautiful and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet conspired to keep it at bay in all of the week’s sales flashes, with Cyrus ahead until yesterday (June 5), when Carpenter took over, only for Sheeran’s album to have a late surge to overtake both in the final analysis. There are no new formats to help boost Sheeran but fans will be anticipating his three-night residency at his beloved Ipswich Town’s Portman Road venue next month, and be further excited by the release of his new song, Sapphire – from upcoming album, Play – today (May 6). It's back to bridesmaid duties, therefore, for Carpenter whose Short n’ Sweet (1-2, 9,265 sales), extending its record-breaking residency as runner-up to 26 weeks – 63.41% of its to-date chart run of 41 weeks, all of which have been spent in the top five. Ed Sheeran’s takeover notwithstanding, it is the second week in a row that sales of the No.1 album has been in four figures. In the 1,636 weeks that have elapsed in the modern (Kantar [Millward Brown]) chart era, and the 1,327 weeks thus far in the 21st century, it is only the 11th time that the No.1 album has had consumption of fewer than 10,000 units – and only the second time that the No.1 has been below 10,000 for two weeks in a row, matching the Covid-era weeks in May 2020 when Dua Lipa and Lewis Capaldi topped consecutively on consumption of 7,317 and 8,396 units respectively. That Dua Lipa tally – achieved by Future Nostalgia on its fourth and final (non-consecutive) week at No.1 is very likely the lowest to earn an album top-billing at any time since the 1960s. As alluded to above, Miley Cyrus’ ninth studio album, Something Beautiful was on course to become her third No.1 in all and second in a row but ends up debuting at No.3 (7,661 sales). It is Cyrus’ seventh Top 10 and 11th Top 75 album, including releases under her Disney alter ego, Hannah Montana. Cyrus’ second release, 2008’s Breakout, peaked at No.10 but is her only platinum album, with to-date consumption of 335,528 units. Her No.1 albums – 2013’s Bangerz and 2023’s Endless Summer Vacation – have to-date tallies of 275,964 and 127,443, respectively. The last album to remain at No.1 for more than a week was Taylor Swift’s latest set, The Tortured Poets Department – No.1 for 11 weeks in all, the last two consecutively in December 2024. That album rallies 36-29 (3,551 sales) this week following the news last Friday (May 30) that Swift has finally acquired the rights to her first six albums. Although her whole catalogue is energised, those six naturally gain the most, as Swifties feel empowered to both stream and buy them without being disloyal to their heroine. The last of the six, 2017’s Reputation soars 70-7 – a position it only surpassed when it debuted at No.1 394 weeks ago – with consumption up 146.11% week-on-week at 5,898 units. In the Top 75 for 342 weeks in a row since its 2018 release, Fleetwood Mac compilation 50 Years: Don’t Stop reached a new peak of No.4 six weeks ago. It revisited that peak again four weeks ago, and again this week, rising 6-4 (7,615 sales). The Anglo-American leviathans’ most successful studio album, Rumours – a 1977 release and 1978 No.1 – also enjoys an uptick, climbing 21-12 (4,670 sales), to achieve its highest chart placing for 23 weeks. Meanwhile, ABBA’s chart-topping and indefatigable 1992 compilation Gold: Greatest Hits rebounds 17-9 (4,887 sales), making its first appearance in the Top 10 for 53 weeks and its 88th in all, even though its consumption falls 1.33% week-on-week to 4,887 units. The rest of the Top 10: The Highlights (8-5, 5,989 sales) by The Weeknd, So Close To What (5-6, 5,905 sales) by Tate McRae, Diamonds (12-8, 5,067 sales) by Elton John and I’m The Problem (10-10, 4,771 sales) by Morgan Wallen. Overall album sales are up 0.77% week-on-week at 2,481,764 units, 2.49% above same week 2024 sales of 2,421,521. Physical product accounts for 233,060 sales, 9.39% of the total.