Global Chart Report
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'Flowers' rules
a third week
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
Miley
Cyrus' monster smash 'Flowers'
scores the Global Track Chart for a
third week in a row with another
massive 644,000 points, down 9%
compared to the previous week and a
total of 1,960,000 so far. It's also
the third week that "Flowers" placed
with more than 600,000 points, last
week it peaked with 713,000 points.
I know it's only February, but it
seems that the song will be the
biggest hit of the year 2023.
Broken down by segments it generated
515,000 points by streaming (down 11%),
74,000 points by sales (down
21%), and 55,000 points by airplay
(up 41%).
The
disco and funk influenced tune
awakens certain reminiscences to
Gloria Gaynor's smash 'I Will
Survive', also a global no.1 hit in
April 1979. A little fun fact: this
and the last two weeks top three
consists of songs by women about
their ex-boyfriends. In the case of
Miley Cyrus, the song refers to her
ex-husband Liam Hemsworth.
'Bzrp Music Sessions Vol.53', a
reckoning with Shakira's ex-lover
and
professional footballer Piqué,
holds tight at the runner-up slot
with 343,000 points (down 8,5%)
and
'Kill Bill' by SZA, a fantasy to
kill her ex-boyfriend and his new
girlfriend out of jealousy, follows
still at no.3 with 265,000 points
(down 9%). Overall there was very
little movement this week on our
tally. Highest debut comes from the
South Korean girl group La Sserafim.
Their song "Fearless" was originally
released in May 2022, but only now
after the release of a Japanese
version, the song has enough power
for a jump in the Top 40 at no.25
with 106,000 points.
Outside our
weekly Top 40 waiting among other
'Feliz Cumpleanos Ferxxo' by
Feid at no.47, 'AMG' by Natanael
Cano | Peso Pluma | Gabito
Ballesteros at no.48, 'Sugar Rush
Ride' by Tomorrow & Together at
no.49, 'I Wanna Be Yours' by Arctic
Monkeys at no.54, 'I'm Not Here To
Make Friends' by Sam Smith at no.56,
'Leao' by Marilia Mendonca at no.57,
and 'Love Again' by Kid Laroi at
no.59 for their
first appearance on the big list.
A sixth
week in a row debuts an album from
Asia atop the Global Album Chart.
Currently Japanese rock power trio
Back Number holding scepter and
crown in the hands. Their ninth
studio effort 'Humor' triumphs with
155,000 equivalent sales. No change
at no.2 and no.3: SZA's 'SOS'
remains at the runner-up slot with
another 148,000 sales (down 6,5%).
The album climbs atop the
year-to-date list with 628,000 sales
in 2023. Last year's winner, Taylor
Swift's 'Midnight', ranks still at
no.3 on our weekly chart with
107,000 sales (down 8,5%). And
now, as every week, additional stats from outside
the current Global Album Top 10 in alphabetic
order, the first figure means last week's sales,
the second figure the total sales: '1989' by
Taylor Swift 25,000 / 13,889,000, '21' by Adele
12,000 / 31,832,000, '25' by Adele
10,000 /
24,231,000, '30' by Adele 17,000 / 5,704,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 34,000 /
7,340,000,
'Astroworld' by Travis Scott
13,000
/ 7,391,000, 'Beerbongs & Bentleys' by Post
Malone 9,000 / 9,157,000, 'Born Pink' by
Blackpink 24,000 / 1,577,000, 'Certified Lover
Boy' by Drake 24,000 / 5,117,000, 'Dangerous:
The Double Album' by Morgan Wallen 46,000 /
6,517,000, 'Dawn FM' by The Weeknd
19,000 /
2,500,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran
20.000 / 19,500,000,
'Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent' by
Lewis Capaldi 17,000 / 5,989,000, the 'Encanto' soundtrack
10,000 / 3,237,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
28,000
/ 4,640,000, 'Evermore' by Taylor Swift
14,000
/ 3,912,000, 'Fighting Demons' by Juice WRLD
8,000 / 1,470,000, 'Fine Line' by Harry Styles
22,000 / 8,364,000, 'Folklore' by Taylor Swift
27,000 / 6,447,000, 'F*ck Love' by The Kid Laroi
10,000 / 4,556,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 28,000 / 7,307,000, 'Goodbye & Good Riddance'
by Juice WRLD 20,000 / 6,754,000, 'Happier
Than Ever' by Billie Eilish 17,000 / 3,873,000,
'Harry's House' by Harry Styles
50,000 / 4,108,000,
'Hollywood's Bleeding' by Post Malone
19,000
/ 8,865,000, 'Honestly, Nevermind' by Drake
12,000 / 1,524,000, 'Justice' by Justin Bieber
11,000
/ 4,337,000, 'Legends Never Die' by Juice WRLD
16,000 / 5,739,000,
'My
Turn' by Lil Baby 18,000 / 5,044,000,
'Planet
Her' by Doja Cat 20,000 / 4,740,000, 'Proof' by
BTS (Bangtan Boys) 14,000 /
3,623,000, 'Question
Mark' by XXXTentacion 10,000 / 7,068,000, 'Red
(Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift
19.000 /
3,506,000, 'Renaissance' by Beyoncé
25,000 / 1,959,000, 'Scorpion' by Drake 15,000 / 8,664,000,
'7220' by Lil Durk 13,000 / 1,521,000, 'Shoot
For The Stars, Aim For The Moon' by Pop Smoke
21,000 / 7,576,000, 'Sour' by Olivia
Rodrigo 34,000 / 7,459,000, 'Stoney' by Post Malone
8,000 / 7,329,000, 'The Greatest Showman' soundtrack
7,000 / 9,396,000, 'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
56,000 / 4,469,000, 'Twelve Carat Toothache'
by Post Malone 11,000 / 1,372,000,
'Un Verano Sin Ti' by Bad Bunny
53,000 / 4,269,000, 'When We All Fall
Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
18,000
/ 10,670,000, and 'X' by Ed Sheeran
5,000 / 13,384,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 30 YEARS
AGO
... "I Will Always Love You"
was written and originally recorded
in 1973 by American singer /
songwriter legend Dolly Parton.
Written as a farewell to her
business partner and mentor Porter
Wagoner, expressing Parton's
decision to pursue a solo career. In
1992, Whitney Houston recorded a new
arrangement of the song for the
soundtrack to the blockbuster
"Bodyguard", her film debut. It was
her co-star Kevin Costner who
suggested "I Will Always Love You".
Producer David Foster and Whitney
Houston re-arranged the song as a
soul ballad. Her record company did
not feel a song with an a-cappella
introduction would be as successful;
however, Houston and Costner
insisted on retaining it. Perfect!
The song became one of the biggest
hits in history with a total of
16,547,000 points. "I Will Always
Love You" topped the hitlists in
almost all countries around the
world and also the 1993 year-end
list.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Tomorrow X Together's lands
first no.1 album
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Tomorrow X Together lands
its first No. 1 album on the
Billboard 200 albums chart,
as The Name Chapter:
Temptation debuts atop the
tally (dated Feb. 11). The
five-song set earned 161,500
equivalent album units in
the U.S. in the week ending
Feb. 2, according to
Luminate, largely driven by
CD album sales. Temptation
is the third top 10-charting
effort for the South Korean
vocal group, which reached
the top 10 previously in
2022 with Minisode 2:
Thursday’s Child (No. 4) and
in 2021 with The Chaos
Chapter: Freeze (No. 5).
Of The Name Chapter:
Temptation’s 161,500
equivalent album units
earned, album sales comprise
152,000, SEA units comprise
9,000 (equaling 13.24
on-demand official streams
of the set’s five songs) and
TEA units comprise 500. The
album scores the largest
sales week for any album
since Taylor Swift’s
Midnights debuted at No. 1
with 1.14 million copies
sold on the Nov. 5,
2022-dated chart. Of The
Name Chapter: TEMPTATION’s
152,000 sold, 98% were CD
sales (148,500), while 2%
were digital album sales
(3,500). The set was not
available to purchase in any
other configuration (such as
vinyl or.
Four former No. 1s are Nos.
3-6
on the new Billboard
200, as
Taylor Swift’s
Midnights falls 2-3 with
68,000 equivalent album
units earned (though up 1%),
Metro Boomin’s
Heroes & Villains rises 5-4
with 47,000 (down 12%),
Drake and 21 Savage’s
Her Loss climbs 6-5 with
44,000 (down 4%) and
Morgan Wallen’s
Dangerous: The Double Album
bumps 8-6 with 42,000 (up
5%).
Sam Smith collects
their fourth top 10-charting
effort on the Billboard 200
as Gloria debuts at No. 7
with 39,000 equivalent album
units earned. Of that sum,
SEA units comprise 23,000
(equaling 30.75 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s songs), album
sales comprise 14,000 and
TEA units comprise 2,000.
Gloria was preceded by its
hit single “Unholy,” a
co-billed collaboration with
Kim Petras, which became
both artists’ first No. 1 on
the Hot 100 in October.
Bad Bunny’s
former leader Un Verano Sin
Ti falls 7-8 on the
Billboard 200 with 39,000
equivalent album units
earned (down 5%).
Lil Yachty’s
Let’s Start Here begins at
No. 9 on the Billboard 200
with 36,000 equivalent album
units earned. Of that sum,
SEA units comprise 31,500
(equaling 41.34 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s tracks), album
sales comprise 4,500 and TEA
units comprise a negligible
sum. It’s the third top
10-charting effort for Lil
Yachty on the Billboard 200.
Rounding out the new
Billboard 200’s top 10 is Zach
Bryan’s
American Heartbreak, falling
9-10 with 31,000 equivalent
album units earned (down
4%).
Miley Cyrus’
“Flowers” leads the
Billboard Hot 100 for a
third week, encompassing its
entire run on the chart so
far, dating to its launch at
No. 1. With its continued
command, it ties the
three-week rule of her prior
leader, “Wrecking Ball,” in
2013.
“Flowers,” released on
Smiley Miley / Columbia
Records, drew 56.4 million
radio airplay audience
impressions (up 38%) and 48
million streams (down 20%)
and sold 37,000 (down 43%)
Jan. 27-Feb. 2, according to
Luminate.
The single spends a third
week at No. 1 on both the
Streaming Songs and Digital
Song Sales charts and blasts
11-6 on Radio Songs, where
it becomes Cyrus’ fourth top
10 – and first since
“Wrecking Ball” (No. 4 peak,
2013). She first reached the
region with “The Climb” (No.
7) and returned with “Party
in the U.S.A.” (No. 8), both
in 2009.
With “Flowers” having drawn
48 million weekly streams in
the latest tracking week,
after it posted 59.7 million
the week before and 52.6
million the week before
that, it’s the first
non-holiday song with three
consecutive weeks of 40
million streams or more
since Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good
4 U” logged four such frames
in a row (May 29-June 19,
2021).
“Flowers” likewise links a
sales streak not achieved
since 2021, as it’s the
first song to sell over
30,000 in three consecutive
weeks, after moving 65,000 a
week ago and 70,000 the week
prior to that, since
Coldplay and BTS’ “My
Universe” sold over 30,000
in each of its first four
weeks (Oct. 9-30, 2021).
“Flowers” introduces Cyrus’
eighth studio album, Endless
Summer Vacation, due March
10.
SZA’s
“Kill Bill” ranks at its No.
2 Hot 100 best for a fourth
week, with 48.6 million in
radio reach (up 28%), 32.5
million streams (down 5%)
and 2,000 sold (down 3%). It
tops Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
and Hot R&B Songs, which use
the same methodology as the
Hot 100, for an eighth week
each. The track also becomes
her first top 10 as a lead
artist on Radio Songs
(15-10), and her third
overall, following her
featured roles on Maroon 5’s
“What Lovers Do” (No. 5,
2017) and Doja Cat’s “Kiss
Me More” (No. 2, 2021).
Metro Boomin, The Weeknd and
21 Savage’s
“Creepin’ ” rises to a new
No. 3 high on the Hot 100,
from No. 4;
Taylor Swift’s
“Anti-Hero” slips 3-4, after
leading for a personal-best
eight weeks; and
Sam Smith and Kim Petras’
“Unholy” holds at No. 5,
after it ruled for a week in
October.
The Weeknd’s
“Die for You” rebounds to
its No. 6 Hot 100 best, from
No. 7, as it hits No. 1 on
Radio Songs, up 5% to 85.2
million in airplay audience.
The track tops Radio Songs
over six years after its
original release on The
Weeknd’s album Starboy,
sparked by a surge of
interaction on TikTok in
recent months, which led
Republic Records to
officially promote it to
radio.
David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s
“I’m Good (Blue)” descends
6-7 on the Hot 100, after
reaching No. 4, as it leads
the multi-metric Hot
Dance/Electronic Songs chart
for a 20th week;
Drake and 21 Savage’s
“Rich Flex” is steady at No.
8 on the Hot 100, after it
reached No. 2, as it tops
the multi-metric Hot Rap
Songs chart for a 12th week;
and
Harry Styles’
“As It Was” holds at No. 9
on the Hot 100, following 15
weeks at No. 1 beginning
last April, the
fourth-longest rule in the
chart’s history.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s
top tier, Lil
Uzi Vert’s
“Just Wanna Rock” jumps
12-10 with 28.7 million in
airplay audience (up 10%),
15 million streams (up 5%)
and 1,400 sold (up 14%).
The rapper lands his seventh
Hot 100 top 10 with the
stand-alone single,
following his featured turn
on Migos’ “Bad and Boujee”
(three weeks at No. 1, 2017)
and his own “XO TOUR Llif3”
(No. 7, 2017), “Futsal
Shuffle 2020” (No. 5, 2019),
“Baby Pluto” (No. 6, 2020),
“Lo Mein” (No. 8, 2020) and
“Silly Watch” (No. 9, 2020).
Record Of The Month
'Until I Found
You' is a fantastic, old-fashioned
tune with a lovely voice and
an acoustic-guitar, performed
by the 19 year-old American
newcomer Stephen Sanchez.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Sam Smith's 'Gloria' rules
the album tally
Monday, February 6, 2023
by Alan Jones, London
TSam Smith is back on top of
the album chart for the
first time in more than five
years, with fourth release,
Gloria, becoming the
artist’s third No.1.
Potentially the first major
album release of 2023, it
achieves first week
consumption of 14,155 units
(7,898 CDs, 1,440 vinyl
albums, 298 cassettes, 1,139
digital
downloads and 3,380
sales-equivalent streams),
and is home to Smith’s
eighth No.1 single – Kim
Petras collaboration Unholy,
which topped the chart for
four weeks last October, as
well as Calvin Harris &
Jessie Reyez collaboration,
I’m Not Here To Make
Friends, which debuts this
week at No.23, and two more
minor chart entries.
Gloria’s introductory sales
are somewhat lower than
30-year-old Smith’s previous
albums: debut set In The
Lonely Hour spawned three
No.1 singles before itself
debuting at No.1 on sales of
101,752 copies in 2014;
follow-up The Thrill Of It
All almost matched that
three years later, topping
the chart on an initial
frame of 97,328; and Love
Goes sold 23,755 copies
opening and peaking at No.2
behind Ariana Grande’s
Positions in 2020. Smith’s
overall album sales are
approaching four million,
with In The Lonely Hour on
2,852,368, The Thrill Of It
All on 780,259 and Love Goes
on 218,437. In The Lonely
Hour, which climbs 63-53
(2,050
sales)
this week, has spent 345
weeks in the Top 75 – the
14th highest total for any
album, the seventh highest
for a regular (not hits)
album, and the second
highest for a debut album,
behind Meat Loaf’s Bat Out
Of Hell (462 weeks) - and
arguably above it, if we
count Meat Loaf’s prior
album release as half of
Stoney & Meat Loaf. In The
Lonely Hour ranks 21st in
the 21st century, and fourth
for the last decade (since
February 2013).
Housing new remixes of the
11 tracks that made up his
1997 album Time Out Of Mind,
25 previously unreleased
outtakes and alternate
versions, 12 live tracks (11
previously unreleased) and a
dozen tracks reprised from
an earlier album in the
series, Fragments – Time Out
Of Mind Sessions 1996-1997:
The Bootleg Series Volume 17
debuts at No.9 (4,712 sales)
for Bob Dylan. It is the
72nd Top 75 album, and 42nd
Top 10 entry for the
81-year-old folk/rock
legend, and the sixth of 15
releases – Volumes 1-3 were
a single release – in the
ongoing Bootleg Series to
make the Top 10.
The rest of the Top 10: The
Highlights (4-2, 8,259
sales) by The Weeknd,
Midnights (2-3, 8,159 sales)
by Taylor Swift, SOS (3-4,
7,375 sales) by SZA, Curtain
Call: The Hits (7-5, 5,622
sales) by Eminem, = (8-6,
5,088 sales) by Ed Sheeran,
Diamonds (10-7, 4,872 sales)
by Elton John, Harry’s House
(12-8, 4,838 sales) by Harry
Styles and Divinely
Uninspired To A Hellish
Extent (9-10, 4,690 sales)
by Lewis Capaldi. The Weeknd
album achieves both its
highest position and highest
consumption since it debuted
at No.2 (8,617 sales) two
years ago next week, while
the Eminem set, on its 454th
appearance in the Top 75,
achieves its highest placing
since its eighth week on the
chart, 17 years ago this
week.
Overall album sales are up
0.39% week-on-week at
2,126,348, 2.00% above same
week 2022 sales of
2,084,726. Physical product
accounts for 275,812 sales,
12.97% of the total.
Wilting ever so slightly,
Flowers is still a runaway
No.1 for Miley Cyrus, its
consumption falling 12.09%
to 106,508 units – 9,074
digital downloads, the rest
from sales-equivalent
streams - on its third week
at the summit. It
nevertheless has the highest
sale for a single on its
third week at No.1 since Ed
Sheeran’s Shape Of You
(119,658), six years ago
last week.
It also outperforms its two
nearest competitors together
– Escapism (2-2, 53,110
sales) by Raye feat. 070
Shake, and SZA’s Kill Bill
(3-3, 43,334 sales).
With Taylor Swift’s
Anti-Hero continuing at No.4
(33,739 sales) and Messy In
Heaven remaining at No.5 for
Venbee & Goddard (29,098
sales), we have the exact
same Top 5 in the same
positions for the third week
in a row – the second such
occurrence in the 2020s, and
the first since March/April
2020, when Dave, Aitch &
Ashanti, Fireboy DML & Ed
Sheeran, Lost Frequencies &
Calum Scott and Belters Only
feat. Jazzy froze everything
else out. Andrew Goddard of
Venbee & Goddard is the only
male in the Top 5 for the
third week in a row. After
all of the top five saw
increases in consumption
week-on-week last frame,
they all lost sales this
week.
Miguel’s viral 2010 track
Sure Thing is up for the
third time since making its
belated chart debut at No.14
last month, improving 10-6
(28,572 sales).
Helped by sales of 6,547
copies of a single-track CD
edition, Voices was as high
as No.5 on Tuesday’s sales
flashes, and on course to
become the 24th hit and
ninth Top 10 entry for KSI,
and the third hit and second
Top 10 entry for Californian
singer/songwriter Oliver
Tree. It was derailed,
however, by Tree himself,
with his Oliver Schulz
collaboration Miss You,
entering the Top 10 for the
third time (11-10, 23,659
sales), while Voices opens
at No.11 (23,434 sales).
The rest of the Top 10: Calm
Down (6-7, 28,139 sales) by
Rema, Creepin’ (8-8, 25,371
sales) by Metro Boomin feat.
The Weeknd & 21 Savage and
Let Go (7-9, 24,281 sales)
by Central Cee.
Although only two songs in
the Top 10 achieve growth
week-on-week, overall
singles consumption
surpasses 26m. for the first
time, climbing 1.05%
week-on-week to 26,062,891
units – 7.11% above same
week 2022 consumption of
24,333,047 units. Paid-for
sales are up 4.50%
week-on-week at 311,209 –
10.77% below same week 2022
sales of 348,768.