Global Chart Report
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'Beautiful
Things' holds tight at no.1
Sunday, April 14, 2024
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
Benson Boone's
'Beautiful Things' remains atop the
Global Track Chart for an eighth
consecutive
week. The song gets another
332,000 points, that's a little 1%
decrease compared to the previous
hitlist.
Broken down by segments it
generated 233,000 points by
streaming (down 4%), 41,000 points by
sales (up 14%), and 58,000 points by
airplay (up 6%). Benson Boone began
sharing his music on TikTok in 2021
and subsequently auditioned for
American Idol. He withdrew from the
competition but continued
to
gain popularity on TikTok, amassing
1.7 million followers. His talent
was recognized by Imagine Dragons'
frontman Dan Reynolds, who signed
Boone to his record label, Night
Street Records. Artemas Diamandis,
24-year old British / Cypriote
singer-songwriter, bolts to the
runner-up slot this week with his
darkwave / alternative pop smash 'I
Like The Way You Kiss Me', driven by
a 18% points boost to 272,000. It
seems that the song is too bulky for
the
radio, it gets only some hundreds
points by airplay, but for that many
points by streaming (247,000) and by
sales (25,000). Ariana
Grande's 'We Can't Be Friends
(Wait For Your Love)' rounds out the
top three with 257,000
points, a 9% decline with 198,000
points by streaming, 32,000 points
by sales and 27,000 points by
airplay. Biggest winner of the week
called 'Too Sweet' by Irish
singer-songwriter Hozier. The tune
sprints from no.10 to no.5 after a
37% points increase to 242,000 with
209,000 points by streaming, 26,000
points by sales, and 7,000 by
airplay. It reaches the no.1 slot in
United Kingdom, Ireland, and New
Zealand. Outside our weekly Top 40 waiting
among other 'Feather' by Sabrina
Carpenter at no.41, 'Slow It Down'
by Benson Boone at no.45, and 'Overdrive' by Ofenbach
feat. Norma Jean Martine at no.47 for their first appearance on the big
list. Back to the roots: Over 20
years ago Media Traffic started the
weekly Global Album Chart. At that
time this hitlist was based
exclusively on sales figures and -
like the Track Chart - included 40
positions. But the global album
sales fell dramatically over the
years, and that's why we shortened
the Top 40 to a Top 10 list in June
2016. Later we included streaming
data and now with the further
increase in the streaming share we
can finally offer an expanded
hitlist again. The current tally is
leading by South Korean boy group
Tomorrow X Together, commonly known
as TXT. Their sixth extended play
'Minisode 3: Tomorrow' bows at the
pole position with 392,000
equivalent sales. The album
generated only 31,000 points by
streaming, but massive 361,000
points by sales, especially because
of whopping sales in the United
States, South Korea, and Japan. Last
week's leader, Beyoncé's 'Cowboy
Carter', slides to the runner-up
spot with another 184,000 equivalent
sales, a total of 672,000 after two
weeks. American rapper J.Cole
follows at no.3 with his fourth
mixtape 'Might Delete Later' and
112,000 consumption units. The
leading single from the set, '7
Minute Drill', starts at no.40 on
the Global Track Chart this week,
but it was removed from all
streaming services on April 12,
seven days after release. And now, as every
week, additional stats from outside
the current Global Album Top 20 in
alphabetic order, the first figure
means last week's sales, the second
figure the total sales: '1989' by
Taylor Swift 21,000 / 16,139,000,
'21' by Adele 20,000 / 32,708,000,
'25' by Adele 12,000 / 24,925,000,
'30' by Adele 8,000 / 6,340,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 38,000 /
9,240,000, the soundtrack to
'Barbie: The Album' 34,000 /
2,054,000, 'Certified Lover Boy' by
Drake 17,000 / 6,520,000,
'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 25,000 /
20,757,000, 'Endless Summer
Vacation' by Miley Cyrus 15,000 /
1,770,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
15,000 / 5,879,000, 'Evermore' by
Taylor Swift 32,000 / 5,770,000,
'Folklore' by Taylor Swift 54,000 /
9,718,000,
'For All The Dogs' by
Drake 41,000 / 2,788,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 24,000 / 8,582,000, Génesis' by
Peso Pluma 40,000 / 1,719,000,
'Golden' by Jung Kook 49,000 /
2,098,000,
'Hackney
Diamonds' by the Rolling Stones
8,000 / 1,305,000, 'Harry's House'
by Harry Styles 30,000 / 6,568,000,
'Hereos &
Villains' by Metro Boomin 39,000 /
3,712,000, 'Pink Friday 2'
by Nicki Minaj 10,000 / 1,028,000, 'Red (Taylor's
Version)' by Taylor Swift 36,000 /
5,588,000, 'Sour' by
Olivia Rodrigo 52,000 / 9,769,000,
'Speak
Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor
Swift 31,000 / 3,084,000, 'Subtract'
by Ed Sheeran 6,000 / 1,303,000,
'Un Verano Sin
Ti' by Bad Bunny 48,000 / 6,603,000,
'Vultures 1' by ¥$: Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign 46,000 /
824,000, and 'When We All Fall Asleep,
Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish
26,000 / 11,619,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 30 YEARS
AGO
... "Streets Of Philadelphia" was
released on February 2, 1994 for the
1993 American legal drama film
Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks, an
early mainstream film dealing with
HIV / AIDS. Philadelphia director
Jonathan Demme asked Springsteen to
write a song for his fim. In late
August 1993, after the conclusion of
the "Other Band" tour, he recorded a
demo of his completed song at Thrill
Hill Recording, Beverly Hills,
California (his home studio),
supplying all of the
instrumentation. He mailed the tape
to Demme, who later said, "my wife
and I sat down and listened to it,
and we were literally weeping by the
end". "Streets Of Philadelphia"
reached the top position in Germany,
France, Italy, Norway, Austria,
Ireland, and won four Grammy Awards:
Song of the Year, Best Rock Song,
Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo,
and Best Song Written Specifically
for a Motion Picture or Television.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
'Like That' holds atop Hot
100
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Future, Metro Boomin and
Kendrick Lamar’s
“Like That” lands a third
total and consecutive week
at No. 1 on the Billboard
Hot 100 songs chart, two
weeks after it soared to the
summit.
Released on Boominati /
Freebandz / Republic / Epic
Records, drew 40 million
streams (down 13%) and 14
million radio airplay
audience impressions (up
39%) and sold 3,000 (down
56%) April 5-11. The single
adds a third week at No. 1
on the Streaming Songs chart;
drops 8-14 on Digital Song
Sales;
and debuts at No. 41 on
Radio Songs. Notably, “Like
That” is the first song to
clear 40 million in streams
in its first three weeks,
after it registered 46.1
million the week before and
59.6 million in its debut
week, since Miley Cyrus’
“Flowers” began with 52.6
million, 59.7 million and 48
million consecutively in
January-February 2023.
Further, “Like That” is the
first song to log any three
consecutive weeks at No. 1
on the Hot 100 in over nine
months, since Morgan
Wallen’s “Last Night” linked
10 frames in a row on top
(of 16 total) in May-July
2023. Hozier’s “Too Sweet”
ascends 4-2 on the Hot 100,
winning top Streaming Gainer
honors (36.7 million, up
15%).
The singer-songwriter ties
his prior best rank on the
chart, as his breakthrough
hit “Take Me to Church”
peaked at No. 2 for three
weeks in December
2014-January 2015.
Benson Boone’s “Beautiful
Things” holds at No. 3 on
the Hot 100, after reaching
No. 2, as it earns the
chart’s top Airplay Gainer
award for a third
consecutive week (57.4
million, up 14%). Teddy
Swims’ “Lose Control” rises
5-4 on the Hot 100, three
weeks after becoming his
first No. 1. The single
likewise becomes his first
leader on Radio Songs (69.7
million, up 6%). Beyoncé’s
“Texas Hold ‘Em” slides 2-5
on the Hot 100, after it
reigned for two weeks in
early March. J. Cole’s “7
Minute Drill” debuts at No.
6 on the Hot 100, led by
23.4 million streams. The
song is his 13th top 10 and
first since Drake’s “First
Person Shooter,” on which
he’s featured, debuted at
No. 1 in October 2023,
becoming his first leader.
On “7 Minute Drill,” J. Cole
is widely interpreted as
responding to Kendrick
Lamar’s apparent disses
directed at himself and
Drake in Future, Metro
Boomin and Lamar’s “Like
That.” Days after releasing
“7 Minute Drill,” J. Cole
publicly apologized for the
track’s arrival, explaining
that it doesn’t “sit right
with my spirit.” The song
was removed from the
streaming edition of his
album Might
Delete Later on
April 12, one day after the
end of the latest charts’
tracking week. (As of April
15, the song is still
available on the set’s
digital download edition.)
Rounding out the Hot 100’s
top 10, Jack Harlow’s “Lovin
on Me” rebounds 8-7,
following, as noted above,
six nonconsecutive weeks at
No. 1, beginning last
December; Ariana Grande’s
“We Can’t Be Friends (Wait
for Your Love)” climbs 9-8,
after it debuted at No. 1 in
March; Future, Metro Boomin,
Travis Scott and Playboi
Carti’s “Type Shit” lifts
10-9, after it arrived at
its No. 2 best; and Noah
Kahan’s first top 10, “Stick
Season,” returns to the
region and its highest rank
(15-10).
Beyoncé’s
Cowboy Carter holds atop the
Billboard 200 albums chart
(dated April 20), after
debuting at No. 1 a week
ago, as the set earned
125,500 equivalent album
units in the U.S. in the
week ending April 11 (down
69%), according to Luminate.
Of Cowboy Carter’s
second-week unit sum of
125,500, SEA units comprise
103,000 (down 54%, equaling
132.69 million on-demand
official streams of the
set’s songs), traditional
album sales comprise 20,500
(down 88%) and TEA units
comprise 2,000 (down 70%).
While Cowboy Carter’s CD and
vinyl editions were
available to purchase only
via Beyoncé’s official
webstore in the set’s first
two weeks of release, those
physical configurations
became widely available to
all retailers beginning on
April 12. (The album has
also been purchasable as a
digital download, widely,
since its release on March
29.) At No. 2 on the
Billboard 200, J.
Cole’s
surprise-release album Might
Delete Later arrives with
115,000 equivalent album
units earned. Of that sum,
SEA units comprise 105,000
(equaling 137.95 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s 12 songs),
album sales comprise 9,000
and TEA units comprise
1,000. The album was only
available to stream or to
purchase as a digital
download. Might Delete Later
was issued on April 5
without warning, and boasts
collaborations with Gucci
Mane, Cam’ron, Bas, Central
Cee, Ari Lennox and Young
Dro, among others. Might
Delete Later is J. Cole’s
seventh album to reach the
top two rungs on the
Billboard 200, after he
notched six earlier No. 1s
in 2011-21. He has logged
one other entry on the list,
with the Forest Hills Drive:
Live, which hit No. 71 in
2016. Tomorrow X
Together notches its fifth
top 10-charting album on the
Billboard 200, as Minisode
3: Tomorrow debuts at No. 3
with 107,500 equivalent
album units earned. Of that
sum, album sales comprise
103,500 (making it the
top-selling album of the
week), SEA units comprise
4,000 (equaling 5.54 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s songs) and TEA
units comprise a negligible
sum. The album’s sales were
supported by its
availability across 17
collectible CD editions
(including exclusive
editions sold by Barnes &
Noble, Target and the act’s
webstore), all containing
randomized paper merchandise
(but with the same audio
tracklist). With the Nos.
1-3 titles on the Billboard
200 each earning at least
100,000 equivalent album
units, it’s the first time
we’ve had as many albums
clear 100,000 in a week
since the Dec. 2, 2023-dated
list. That week, Drake’s For
All the Dogs jumped 4-1 with
145,000, Taylor Swift’s 1989
(Taylor’s Version) held at
No. 2 with 137,000 and Dolly
Parton’s Rockstar debuted at
No. 3 with 128,000.
Future and Metro Boomin’s
chart-topping We Don’t Trust
You falls 2-4 in its third
week on the list, earning
99,000 equivalent album
units (down 24%). The set’s
sequel album, We Still Don’t
Trust You, was released on
April 12 and will impact
next week’s chart dated
April 27.
Morgan Wallen’s
former leader One Thing at a
Time is pushed down 3-5,
despite a 4% gain, with
72,000 equivalent album
units earned.
Benson Boone’s
debut full-length studio
album, Fireworks &
Rollerblades, skates in at
No. 6 with 58,000 equivalent
album units earned. It’s the
first chart entry for the
singer-songwriter. Of the
set’s starting sum, SEA
units comprise 52,000
(equaling 70.21 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s songs), album
sales comprise 4,000
(largely from its digital
download, as the set’s only
physical availability was
through a limited release on
CD) and TEA units comprise
2,000. The album was led by
the hit single “Beautiful
Things” (the most-streamed
song on the set), which has
spent the last nine weeks
inside the top five on the
Billboard Hot 100 songs
chart (through the list
dated April 13), peaking at
No. 2.
Ariana Grande’s
chart-topping Eternal
Sunshine falls 4-7 on the
Billboard 200 with 48,000
equivalent album units
earned (down 17%),
Noah Kahan’s
Stick Season slips 7-8
(though up 2%) with 45,000
units,
Olivia Rodrigo’s
former No. 1 Guts dips 6-9
with 43,000 (down 13%) and
SZA’s
chart-topping SOS drops
9-10, though with a 1% gain,
to 40,000 units.
Record Of The Month
24-year old British /
Cypriote singer-songwriter
Artemas Diamandis lands his
first global smash
with the retro-futuristic
sound collage 'I Like The
Way You Kiss Me'.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Hozier climbs to number one
Monday, April 15, 2024
by Alan Jones, London
How sweet it is: Bouncing
Beyonce?’s Texas Hold ‘Em
(1-3, 45,999 sales) from
pole position, and blocking
Benson Boone’s Beautiful
Things (2-2, 51,533 sales)
from reclaiming it, Too
Sweet becomes the first ever
No.1 for Hozier. Taken from
Hozier’s Unheard EP, Too
Sweet jumps 4-1 with
consumption
surging 46.35%
week-on-week to 61,030 units
(1,004 digital downloads,
60,026 sales-equivalent
streams), to surpass the
No.2 peak of his 2014 debut
smash, Take Me To Church.
A 34-year-old
singer/songwriter from
County Wicklow, Hozier is
the first act from the
Republic Of Ireland to have
a No.1 single since 2006,
when Westlife topped for the
14th and last time with The
Rose. Before Hozier, the
last Irish solo act to have
a No.1 was Ronan Keating,
who topped in 2002 with
Tomorrow Never Comes.
Full name Andrew John
Hozier-Byrne, Hozier is one
of seven writers of Too
Sweet. Surprisingly, he is
only the third solo artist
born in Ireland to have a
hand in writing their own
No.1. The first was Gilbert
O’Sullivan, who topped with
Clair and Get Down – both of
which he wrote in their
entirety – within a 21-week
purple patch at the end of
1972 and the start of 1973.
The second was Enya who
co-penned her 1988 No.1,
Orinoco Flow.
Cheers!: Too Sweet is the
second
No.1 in a row with
‘whiskey’ in its lyrics,
following Texas Hold ‘Em –
and the Top 10’s only new
entry Austin by Dasha, also
mentions whiskey. After
three straight weeks at
No.15 – something that
(appropriately) 15 songs
have done before with none
of them making it to four
weeks – Austin takes a big
upwards lurch, jumping to
No.8, its consumption
increasing for the seventh
week in a row to 29,213
units.
I Like The Way You Kiss Me
continues to grow for
Artemas, climbing 6-5
(41,449 sales). The
24-year-old from Oxfordshire
lands his second Top 40 hit
as earlier release If U
Think I’m Pretty jumps 52-39
(10,339 sales).
The rest of the Top 10: Lose
Control (3-4, 43,909 sales)
by Teddy Swims, End Of
Beginning (7-6, 34,125
sales) by Djo, We Can’t Be
Friends (Wait For Your Love)
(5-7, 32,363 sales) by
Ariana Grande plus
re-entries Scared To Start
(12-9, 25,415 sales) by
Michael Marcagi and Stick
Season (11-10, 23,745 sales)
by Noah Kahan.
Overall singles consumption
is up 1.80% week-on-week to
28,394,107 units, 15.16%
above same week 2023
consumption of 24,656,954
units. Paid-for sales are
down 2.89% week-on-week at
268,313 – 0.35% below same
week 2023 sales of 269,247.
The Libertines’ first album
in more than eight years,
All Quiet On The Eastern
Esplanade, is also their
first No.1 for nearly 20
years, debuting atop the
chart on first week
consumption of 21,706 units
(10,183 CDs, 8,601 vinyl
albums, 370 cassettes, 1,371
digital downloads and 1,181
sales-equivalent streams).
The follow-up to Anthems For
Doomed Youth – which debuted
and peaked at No.3 (23,620
sales) in 2015 – it returns
them to the top of the chart
for the first time since
their eponymous second album
sold 72,189 copies to open
at No.1 in 2004. Their other
studio set, 2002 debut Up
The Bracket, sold 7,576
copies debuting and peaking
at No.35.
All four members of The
Libertines – Carl Barât
(45), Pete Doherty (45),
John Halsall (43) and Gary
Powell (54) – have been with
the group since pre-fame,
although they have disbanded
and reformed on two separate
occasions. That self-titled
2004 album achieved sales of
183 units in the latest
frame, enough for it to
become their first album to
pass the half million sales
mark, with to-date
consumption of 500,140
units.
Nearly seven years after the
release of their first
single, Sarajevo,
indie/rock/punk band The
K’s, from Earlestown in
Merseyside, have finally got
round to releasing an album,
specifically I Wonder if The
World Knows?, which makes a
strong debut at No.3 (12,546
sales). The K’s members are
Ryan Breslin (30, lead
guitar), James Boyle (28,
vocals and guitar), Dexter
Baker (28, bass) and Nathan
Peers (23, drums).
Californian
singer/songwriter Conan
Gray, 25, has his highest
charting album yet, debuting
at No.4 (9,505 sales) with
third release, Found Heaven,
having reached No.30 with
2020 debut Kid Krow and No.8
with 2022 follow-up
Superache. Kid Krow has
to-date consumption of
76,609 units, and Superache
70,392. Gray’s only hit
single, Heather – from Kid
Krow - reached No.17 in
2020, and has achieved
to-date consumption of
796,840 units.
Rapper J Cole scores his
seventh Top 40 and fourth
Top 10 album with Might
Delete Later (No.7, 7,933
sales). It follows
consecutive No.2 albums with
2018’s KOD and 2021’s The
Off-Season, both of which
topped 20k first week sales
here - KOD opening with
20,749 and The Off-Season
with 21,050.
Feeder’s 12th studio
release, Black/Red, is their
15th chart album, and 11th
Top 10 entry, debuting at
No.8 (7,358 sales).
Originally a quartet, they
are currently a duo,
comprising Welshman Grant
Nicholas (who also writes
all the songs) and Japanese
colleague Taka Hirose, who
have both been members of
the band for more than 29
years.
The rest of the Top 10:
Cowboy Carter (1-2, 14,879
sales) by Beyonce, Guts
(2-5, 8,669 sales) by Olivia
Rodrigo, The Highlights
(3-6, 8,665 sales) by The
Weeknd, Eternal Sunshine
(4-9, 7,182 sales) by Ariana
Grande and Stick Season
(5-10, 7,019 sales) by Noah
Kahan.
Overall album sales are up
2.11% week-on-week at
2,384,366, 15.28% above same
week 2023 sales of
2,068,404. Physical product
accounts for 330,121 sales,
13.85% of the total.