USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'I'm The Problem' rebounds for 13th week at no.1
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

For the first time in four months, Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem is back at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set climbs 2-1 on the list dated Jan. 17. The set collects its

13th nonconsecutive week atop the list, and its first since the Aug. 30, 2025-dated chart. The album debuted at No. 1 on the May 31, 2025, chart and spent 12 nonconsecutive weeks in the lead beginning with its debut frame. I’m the Problem earned 85,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Jan. 8, according to Luminate, with the bulk of that sum driven by streaming activity of its songs. Of I’m the Problem’s equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 82,000 (equaling 87.75 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it spends a 20th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 3,000 (it falls 24-34 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl falls a spot to No. 2 (72,000 equivalent album units) after 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving hits a new peak as it rises 4-3

with 65,000 equivalent album units. It also hits new highs on both Top Streaming Albums (up 4-3) and Top Album Sales (7-3). Five former No. 1s Dean on the Billboard 200: the soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters dips 3-4 (57,000 equivalent album units), Tate McRae’s So Close To What rises 8-5 (40,000), SZA’s SOS steps 7-6 (40,000), Sabrina Carpenters’s Man’s Best Friend falls 5-7 (38,000), and Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time ascends 9-8 (36,000). Alex Warren’s You’ll Be Alright, Kid returns to the top 10 for the first time since the Nov. 1, 2025-dated chart, as the set perks up 11-9 (34,000 equivalent album units). Peso Pluma and Tito Double P’s DINASTÍA rounds out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, as it falls 6-10 in its second week (31,000). Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” rules the Billboard Hot 100 for a 10th week, becoming the first of her 13 career No. 1s to top the chart for double-digit weeks. The song drew 18.4 million official streams (up 1% week-over-week) and 62.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%) and sold 11,000 (down 63%) in the United States Dec. 26-Jan. 1. It drops to No. 2 after eight weeks atop the Streaming Songs chart; holds at No. 3 after reaching No. 2 on Radio Songs; and climbs from No. 4 for a seventh week at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales. It’s the highest-selling song of the week overall, with 7,000 downloads (in addition to 4,000 vinyl versions that shipped during the tracking week). Plus, the song’s The Chainsmokers Remix (Extended Version) was released digitally Jan. 6. “The Fate of Ophelia” contributes to Swift’s eight Hot 100 No. 1s totaling 28 weeks on top in the 2020s — both the most among all artists this decade. Overall, Swift’s 13 No. 1s tie her for the fourth-most in the Hot 100’s history. She has spent 46 weeks atop the chart, tying Beyoncé for the seventh-most all-time. Djo scores his first Hot 100 top 10, as “End of Beginning” soars 16-6, topping its prior No. 11 peak in March 2024. It bounded by 92% to 19.1 million streams, 52% to 4.4 million in radio reach and 175% to 6,000 sold in the tracking week. The solo self-written, and co-produced, single by the musical nom de plume of Joe Keery, of Netflix’s Stranger Things, reentered the Hot 100 a week earlier following the Dec. 31 premiere of the series’ finale (although the song is not heard in the episode). Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” which topped the Hot 100 for 10 weeks starting last May, rises 3-2. It logs a 25th week at No. 1 on Radio Songs (71.4 million, up 5%). Huntr/x’s “Golden,” from Netflix’s smash movie KPop Demon Hunters, dips 2-3 on the Hot 100, after eight weeks at No. 1 beginning last August. Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” is steady at its No. 4 Hot 100 high, while Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” holds at its No. 5 best. Kehlani’s “Folded” backtracks to No. 7 from its No. 6 Hot 100 high. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Sombr’s “Back to Friends” falls to No. 8 from its No. 7 peak; Taylor Swift’s “Opalite” slips 8-9, after hitting No. 2; and Leon Thomas walks “Mutt” 9-10 after it reached No. 6.

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.