USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'I'm The Problem' spends first two months at No.1
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Morgan Wallen's I’m the Problem has spent its first two months on the Billboard 200 at No. 1 as the set holds atop the chart dated July 19, earning 151,000 equivalent album units in the

United States in the week ending July 10 (down 12%). The album opened at No. 1 on the May 31 chart. Of I’m the Problem’s 151,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 10, SEA units comprise 143,500 (down 12%, equaling 188.69 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for an eighth week), album sales comprise 6,500 (down 12% — it rises 11-5 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 23%). The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack climbs 3-2 — a new peak — in its third week, earning 75,000 equivalent album units (up 21%). It’s the first soundtrack to debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and then see unit increases in its second and third weeks since the Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 album in 2017. In the 2020s, only four soundtracks have reached the top two on the Billboard 200: KPop Demon Hunters, Wicked (which debuted and

peaked at No. 2 in 2024), Barbie (also No. 2 debut and peak, in 2023) and Encanto (nine weeks at No. 1 in 2022). Of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack’s 75,000 units earned in its third week, SEA units comprise 70,000 (up 24%, equaling 96.33 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it holds at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 4,000 (down 6% — it rises 21-9 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 6%). As the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack racked up 96.33 million streams for its songs in its third week, it scores the biggest streaming week for a soundtrack in more three years. The last soundtrack to post a bigger streaming figure was Encanto, on the March 12, 2022-dated chart, when it rang up 101.16 million streams for its songs in its eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. KPop Demon Hunters premiered on June 20 in a limited theatrical release in the U.S., and on Netflix, alongside its soundtrack. In the tracking week ending July 6, KPop Demon Hunters held at No. 2 in its third week on Netflix’s Top 10 Movies in United States chart. Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time climbs 6-3 on the latest Billboard 200 (with 39,000 equivalent album units earned; down 2%); SZA’s chart-topping SOS rises 7-4 (36,000; down 7%); Sabrina Carpenter’s former No. 1 Short n’ Sweet bumps 9-5 (35,000; up 6%); Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album ascends 11-6 (29,000; down 4%); Bad Bunny’s former No. 1 Debí Tirar Más Fotos jumps 16-7 (nearly 29,000; up 3%); and Karol G’s Tropicoqueta falls 5-8 (just under 29,000; down 29%). Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits returns to the top 10, rallying 43-9 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned (up 56%) following streaming gains generated by Independence Day celebrations. The album, released in 2008, hit No. 1 on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated chart in the wake of Keith’s death that Feb. 5. Of 35 Biggest Hits’ 26,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 24,000 (up 59%, equaling 32.93 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it jumps 43-11 on Top Streaming Albums). The rest of the album’s 2,000 units were generated by album sales and TEA units. About one-third of the album’s streams for the week were generated by Keith’s 2002 No. 1 Hot Country Songs hit “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),” which was also his most-streamed song of the week. Closing out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 is PartyNextDoor and Drake’s former No. 1 $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, rising 17-10 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%). Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” adds a sixth week atop the Billboard Hot 100. The song has linked its lead consecutively, having become the singer-songwriter’s first No. 1 on the chart. “Ordinary,” on Atlantic Records, tallied 19.1 million official streams (down 5% week-over-week), 73 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 5%) and 6,000 sold (down 9%) in the United States July 4-10. The single’s airplay performance is especially noteworthy, as it becomes the first song this year to reach 70 million in weekly airplay audience, and the first since Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” last November. “Ordinary” tops the Adult Pop Airplay chart for a seventh week and Pop Airplay for a fifth week. “Ordinary” slips 2-4 on the Streaming Songs chart, following four weeks at the summit; claims a fourth week at No. 1 on Radio Songs; and drops to No. 2 after eight weeks atop Digital Song Sales. Drake’s “What Did I Miss?” bounds onto the Hot 100 at No. 2 with 22.6 million streams, 3.6 million in airplay audience and 6,000 sold through July 10 following its July 5 release. Drake pushes his career total to 81 Hot 100 top 10s, extending his record for the most in the chart’s nearly 67-year history. The track concurrently launches at No. 1 on Streaming Songs — where it’s Drake’s record-extending 21st leader — and Digital Song Sales, where it’s his 15th chart-topper, the most among male artists; overall, only Taylor Swift (29 No. 1s) and Nicki Minaj (17) have more. Huntr/x’s “Golden” blasts 23-6 on the Hot 100 with 18.8 million streams — up 39% — 950,000 in airplay audience and 3,000 sold. The song is from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, which shoots 3-2 on the Billboard 200, having become the highest-charting soundtrack of 2025. Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, retreats 2-3 on the Hot 100, after it debuted in May as Wallen’s fourth No. 1 and McRae’s first. Wallen follows on the Hot 100 with the No. 2-peaking “Just in Case,” which slides 3-4, and “I’m the Problem,” which falls 5-8. He posts his 10th career week with at least three simultaneous top 10s and his eighth this year, as he continues scaling both leaderboards. Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” staggers 4-5 on the Hot 100, following its record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1 beginning last July. Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” drops 6-7 after 13 weeks atop the Hot 100 beginning in March. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led the Hot 100 for a week in March 2024, and became the year’s No. 1 song, backtracks 8-9. It adds a record-extending 69th week in the top 10 and — potentially setting up another historic milestone next week — a record-furthering 99th week on the chart overall. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” descends 9-10 after five weeks at No. 1 beginning in January.

Record Of The Month
'Back To Friends' became the breakout hit of the 20-year-old American singer / songwriter
Shane Michael Boose, known professionally as Sombr. The song entered many charts
around the world after going viral on the video-sharing app Tik Tok.

United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
MK feat. Chrystal's 'Dior' reaches number one
Monday, July 14, 2025
by Alan Jones, London
 
As if by design, Dior takes advantage of a weakening singles sector to advance to No.1 for MK feat. Chrystal. In the closest battle for chart honours for a while, the track overpowers Manchild (3-2, 38,478 sales), which threatened to rise to the top for a third time for Sabrina Carpenter; and Love Me Not,

which rallies 4-3 (36,852 sales) for Ravyn Lenae. Dior’s coronation is despite a 6.71% dip in its own consumption to 39,701 units (1,126 digital downloads, 38,575 sales-equivalent streams) – the lowest for a No.1 single for 17 weeks. Dior is only the second hit for featured vocalist 36-year-old singer/songwriter Chrystal - originally from Bolton – whose introductory hit, The Days, peaked at No.4 in January and dips 41-47 (9,101 sales) on its 39th straight week in the chart. Chrystal’s partner, MK, is a more experienced chart campaigner, with Dior being his 15th hit. His most-consumed title is his 2017 No.7 hit, 17, with to-date consumption of 1,724,218 units, while Chrystal’s (natch) is The Days, with 876,820 units. Fifty-three next month, MK – a DJ, producer, songwriter and artist from Detroit – first made the UK chart in February 1995 alongside Alana with the song Always. His gestation of 30 years and five months between debut and first No.1 is one of

the longest in chart history, though Michael Ball, Tony Christie and Ozzy Osbourne all had longer waits. After eight previous weeks in the Top 10 – four of them at No.7, the rest at No.8 – Blessings climbs to a new peak of No.6 (28,182 sales) for Calvin Harris feat. Clementine Douglas. Harris has had 23 higher-charting hits, Douglas none. Although Blessings’ consumption in the latest frame is up 1.32% week-on-week, making it the only track in the Top 10 not to suffer a decline, it is only its fourth best tally to date. Its CD sales plunging from 25,415 to 61 as stock is exhausted, Survive falls 1-4 (34,183 sales) for Lewis Capaldi. It is a good week for Olivia Dean, whose Rein Me In collaboration with Sam Fender returns to the Top 10 (12-10, 24,154 sales) a fortnight after debuting at No.6 - replacing Skye Newman’s Family Matters (10-11, 23,939 sales) - while her solo tracks Nice To Each Other (15-14, 22,537 sales) and Dive (74-63, 7,496 sales) both reach new peaks. The rest of the Top 10: Pink Pony Club (5-5, 29,938 sales) by Chappell Roan, Victory Lap (6-7, 26,933 sales) by Fred Again, Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax, Ordinary (8-8, 26,594 sales) by Alex Warren, and Sapphire (9-9, 24,524 sales) by Ed Sheeran. Love Me Not and Pink Pony Club will be on ACR next week, joining Ordinary which incidentally, returns to No.1 on the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart, with unadjusted consumption of 52,191 units. Overall singles consumption is down 1.75% week-on-week at 30,284,451 units, 9.01% above same week 2024 consumption of 27,780,426 units. Paid-for sales are down 19.24% week-on-week at 279,341, 4.91% above same week 2024 sales of 266,266. Set to perform to 320,000 fans in five concerts in their home city of Manchester over the next nine days as part of their Live ’25 Reunion Tour, Oasis continue to enjoy spectacular growth week-on-week, and occupy three of the top four positions in the album chart for only the second time in their career. Returning to No.1 for the first time since it debuted there 786 weeks ago – a little over 15 years – the band’s career-encompassing compilation Time Flies: 1994-2009 sees a 184.72% surge in consumption to 21,015 units (406 CDs, 285 vinyl albums, 262 digital downloads and 20,062 sales-equivalent streams). Their second and most successful studio album, 1995’s (What’s The Story) Morning Glory – which spent 10 weeks at No.1 in 1995/1996 – achieves its highest chart placing in more than 29 years, exploding 14-2, with consumption up 197.47% at 15,733 units; while 1994 debut album, Definitely Maybe, catapults 26-4 (11,421 sales) on a gain of 177.95%. Oasis’ 1998 compilation The Masterplan (No.59, 2,411 sales) re-enters the Top 75 after an absence of 44 weeks. Time Flies’ return to the summit earns the Mancunian legends their 23rd week at No.1 in total, a tally exceeded by 21 other acts. Preventing Oasis from becoming the first act to occupy all of the top three places in the chart simultaneously, Sabrina Carpenter’ Short n’ Sweet remains at No.3, with consumption up 56.44% week-on-week to 12,842 units, after the judicious release of a new, double vinyl zoetrope picture disc edition, which accounted for 3,191 of those sales, and help it extend its initial sojourn in the top five to 46 weeks in a row – the highest for any solo album in chart history. If a top four configuration consisting of the aforementioned Oasis titles and Short ’N Sweet sound familiar, that’s because the very same titles – albeit in a different order – occupied the top four slots on the chart 44 weeks ago. At that time, in the wake of the announcement of the Oasis tour dates, Definitely Maybe – further boosted by new 30th anniversary editions – was No.1, Time Flies… was No.3 and …Morning Glory was No.4, with Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet, which had debuted at No.1 the previous week, easing to No.2. The rest of this week’s Top 10: +-=÷× Tour Collection (4-5, 8,137 sales) by Ed Sheeran, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (7-6, 7,832 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, Stick Season (10-7, 6,076 sales) by Noah Kahan, The Highlights (12-8, 5,617 sales) by The Weeknd, Virgin (1-9, 5,309 sales) by Lorde and Brat (9-10, 5,301 sales) by Charli XCX. It is the fourth week in a row that Stick Season has climbed, and its highest placing for 46 weeks. Overall album sales are down 2.49% week-on-week at 2,396,734 units, 7.87% above same week 2024 sales of 2,221,865. Physical product accounts for 228,043 sales, 9.51% of the total.