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'Beautiful Things' keeps the crown
Sunday, March 24, 2024
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden

 

Benson Boone's 'Beautiful Things' remains atop the Global Track Chart for a fifth consecutive week. The song reaches a new peak with 331,000 points, that's another 7% increase compared to the previous hitlist. Broken down by segments it generated 248,000 points by streaming (up 6%), 40,000 points by sales (up 5%), and 43,000 points by airplay (up 19%). 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. Ariana Grande's 'We Can't Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)' holds tight at the runner-up slot with 320,000 points, an 8% growth with 295,000 points by streaming, 14,000 points by sales and 11,000 points by airplay. Teddy Swims' 'Lose Control'

rounds out the top three with 261,000 points (up 5% with 148,000 points by streaming, 36,000 points by sales and 77,000 points by airplay). 'Lose Control' is now the most played song globally for the first time, and it ends the 16-week run of Dua Lipa's 'Houdini' atop the airplay chart. 'Colorcon Wink' by AKB 48 is the best selling song of the week with 86,000 points by sales only (it debuts at no.33 on the major hitlist) and of course Ariana Grande's 'We Can't Be Friends' is still the most streamed song. Kim Tae-Hyung, known professionally as V and member of the South Korean pop phenomenon BTS, brings this week's highest debut. His latest smash 'Fr(iend)s' bows at no.16 globally with 131,000 points. Tate McRae's 'Greedy' enters the ALL TIME CHART at no.433 with a total of 6,107,000 points. It's the 458th song in the almost 70-year history of the Media Traffic Global Chart to enter this hitlist, which reunites all songs with over 6 million points. Outside our weekly Top 40 waiting among other 'Overdrive' by Ofenbach feat. Norma Jean Martine at no.45, 'Whatever She Wants' by Bryson Tiller at no.52, 'Scared To Start' by Michael Marcagi at no.55, 'Stumblin' In' by Cyril at no.58, and 'The Night We Met' by Lord Huron at no.59 for their first appearance on the big list. Seven-member male idol group West. shoots atop the Global Album Chart this week with their best-of compilation 'Award 2014-2024' and 234,000 equivalent sales, according to Oricon. The group was formerly known as Johnny's West and changed their name to West. in October last year. Second highest debut of the week comes from American singer / songwriter Kacey Musgraves, her sixth studio album 'Deeper Well' arrives at no.3 globally with 111,000 sales. Sandwiched between West. and Kacey Musgraves ranks last week's chart leader, Ariana Grande's 'Eternal Sunshine'. The set generated another 129,000 consumption units, a 60% decrease compared to its initial week. 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 22,000 / 16,071,000, '21' by Adele 22,000 / 32,644,000, '25' by Adele 13,000 / 24,887,000, '30' by Adele 8,000 / 6,315,000, 'After Hours' by The Weeknd 39,000 / 9,126,000, the soundtrack to 'Barbie: The Album' 39,000 / 1,949,000, 'Certified Lover Boy' by Drake 16,000 / 6,467,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 27,000 / 20,680,000, 'Endless Summer Vacation' by Miley Cyrus 19,000 / 1,715,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran 17,000 / 5,828,000, 'Evermore' by Taylor Swift 35,000 / 5,672,000, 'Folklore' by Taylor Swift 59,000 / 9,555,000, 'For All The Dogs' by Drake 49,000 / 2,664,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua Lipa 27,000 / 8,504,000, Génesis' by Peso Pluma 44,000 / 1,594,000, 'Golden' by Jung Kook 53,000 / 1,950,000, 'Guts' by Olivia Rodrigo 50,000 / 2,449,000, 'Hackney Diamonds' by the Rolling Stones 9,000 / 1,281,000, 'Harry's House' by Harry Styles 32,000 / 6,474,000, 'Hereos & Villains' by Metro Boomin 38,000 / 3,597,000, 'Pink Friday 2' by Nicki Minaj 14,000 / 992,000, 'Red (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift 38,000 / 5,480,000, 'Renaissance' by Beyoncé 7,000 / 3,511,000, 'Scarlet' by Doja Cat 25,000 / 894,000, 'SOS' by SZA 70,000 / 5,729,000, 'Sour' by Olivia Rodrigo 53,000 / 9,607,000, 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift 34,000 / 2,990,000, 'Subtract' by Ed Sheeran 6,000 / 1,285,000, 'The Highlights' by The Weeknd 65,000 / 7,124,000, 'Un Verano Sin Ti' by Bad Bunny 50,000 / 6,459,000, 'Utopia' by Travis Scott 63,000 / 3,274,000, and 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish 20,000 / 11,550,000.


GLOBAL NO.1 - 10 YEARS AGO ... "Happy" by singer and producer Pharrell Williams is one of the biggest hits in the music history. Originally produced for the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack album, it also served as the lead single from Williams' second studio album, Girl (2014). It was released on November 21, 2013, alongside a long-form music video, advertised as being "the world's first 24-hour music video." It consists of the four-minute song repeated multiple times, with various people dancing around Los Angeles and miming along. "Happy" is a midtempo soul song on which Williams's falsetto voice has been compared to Curtis Mayfield by critics. The song has been a huge global success and went to no.1 in nearly all countries all over the world. It was far and away the biggest smash of 2014 with a total of 14.076.000 points on the Year-End Chart.


USA
Billboard Report
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'Lose Control' hits No.1 on Billboard Hot 100
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles


Teddy Swims' “Lose Control” lifts to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The singer-songwriter reigns with his first career entry on the ranking. It becomes the 1,167th No. 1 in

the Hot 100’s history. “Lose Control” drew 59.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 9%) and 23.2 million streams (down 2%) and sold 8,000 (down 34%) in the week ending March 21, according to Luminate. The single rises 5-3 on the Radio Songs chart; holds at No. 4, after reaching No. 3, on Streaming Songs; and falls to No. 6 after three nonconsecutive weeks atop Digital Song Sales. Two new versions of “Lose Control” arrived during the tracking week: a Tiësto remix (March 19) and a radio edit (March 21). They joined the previously available original version; a cappella, instrumental, piano and strings versions; slowed down and sped up mixes; a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge Session recording; a live version recorded at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, with Freak Freely; and a goddard. remix. The song is from Teddy Swims’ debut full-length, I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I). The set hit a No. 25 high on the March 16-dated Billboard

200 chart. As “Lose Control” leads the Hot 100, Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” rises from No. 3 to a new No. 2 high. With both songs on Warner Records, the label lands the Hot 100’s top two spots simultaneously for the first time since the chart dated April 6, 2013, when Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Thrift Shop,” featuring Wanz, tallied its fifth of six weeks at No. 1 and Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” placed at No. 2 following five weeks in charge. Also notable in the Hot 100’s top 10, Cardi B’s “Enough (Miami)” debuts at No. 9. Released March 15, the song starts with 14.5 million streams, 8.8 million in radio audience and 37,000 sold (as it opens as her seventh Digital Song Sales leader). Cardi B notches her 12th Hot 100 top 10, and first on her own since “Up,” which became her fifth No. 1 in March 2021. Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Ariana Grande’s “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” drops to No. 3 a week after it soared in as her ninth No. 1. Still, it tops Streaming Songs for a second week (26.3 million, down 19%) and claims the Hot 100’s top Airplay Gainer award (12.4 million, up 168%). Jack Harlow’s “Lovin on Me” rebounds 5-4 on the Hot 100, following six nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning last December, as it notches a 10th week atop the Radio Songs chart (73.9 million, down 2%). “Carnival,” by Ye and Ty Dolla $ign and featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, falls 4-5 on the Hot 100 after a week at No. 1 two weeks earlier. Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” keeps at No. 6 after two weeks atop the Hot 100 earlier this month. Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves, advances 9-7 on the Hot 100, after it led for a week upon its debut last September. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Tate McRae’s “Greedy” repeats at No. 8, after reaching No. 3, and Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” rebounds 13-10, following four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning last October. Ariana Grande's Eternal Sunshine spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated March 30), after debuting atop the tally a week ago. The set earned 100,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the tracking week ending March 21 (down 56%), according to Luminate. It’s the third Grande album to have logged a personal-best two weeks at No. 1. Her last two full-length studio sets, Positions (in 2020) and Thank U, Next (2019), both spent their first two weeks at No. 1. Eternal Sunshine debuted at No. 1 on the March 23-dated list with 227,000 units earned. Of Eternal Sunshine’s 100,000 units earned in the tracking week ending March 21, SEA units comprise 87,000 (down 41%, equaling 115.05 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 13,000 (down 56%) and TEA units comprise 500 (down 84%). Kacey Musgraves’ Deeper Well makes a splash, as it debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 97,000 equivalent album units earned — her biggest week, by units, since the chart began ranking by that measurement in December 2014. Further, of the album’s first-week units, traditional album sales comprise 66,000 — Musgraves’ biggest sales week ever. Of Deeper Well’s first-week unit sum of 97,000, traditional album sales comprise 66,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 30,000 (equaling 38.06 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000. Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time slips 2-3 on the new Billboard 200, pushed down with a 3% gain to 70,000 equivalent album units earned. Justin Timberlake returns to the Billboard 200 with his first album in over six years, as Everything I Thought It Was starts at No. 4. The set opens with 67,000 equivalent album units earned and marks Timberlake’s sixth consecutive top five-charting effort — the entirety of his solo releases, which includes four No. 1s. Of Everything’s first-week unit sum of 67,000, traditional album sales comprise 41,000, SEA units comprise 24,000 (equaling 31.13 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 2,000. Noah Kahan’s Stick Season falls 3-5 on the new Billboard 200 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%). Five former No. 1s round out the rest of the top 10, as SZA’s SOS dips 5-6 (43,000; down 4%), Swift’s Lover climbs 9-7 (41,000; up 6%), Bryan’s self-titled album falls 6-8 (40,000; down 2%), Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) descends 8-9 (nearly 40,000; up 3%) and Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 drops 4-10 (39,000; down 13%).


Record Of The Month
He's the grandson of reggae-legend Bob Marley and the son of Fugees front woman Lauryn Hill.
22 year-old YG Marley debuts with his first song 'Praise Jah In The Moonlight'.
It samples his grandfather's 1978 song 'Crisis' and sounds like a genuine Bob Marley song.


United Kingdom
Music Week Report
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Ariana Grande rules album chart for a second week
Monday, March 25, 2024
by Alan Jones, London

 
Ending a run of 10 consecutive weeks in which new albums debuted at No.1, and 17 consecutive weeks in which leadership of the chart changed, Eternal Sunshine snares a second straight week at the summit for Ariana Grande on consumption of 16,292 units (747 CDs, 932 vinyl albums,

77 cassettes, 126 digital downloads and 14,410 sales-equivalent streams). Of her four previous No.1 albums only the third - 2019’s Thank U, Next – secured multiple weeks (three) at the summit. American country singer Kacey Musgraves’ sixth studio album, and fifth chart entry Deeper Well (No.3, 8,341 sales) is her third straight Top 10 album, and highest-charting set to date. The 35-year-old from Texas is expected to debut at No.2 in the US album chart with the set, equalling her peak position there, 11 years to the week after her introductory album, Same Trailer, Different Park, achieved the same rank. Musgraves was denied a No.1 debut on that occasion by Justin Timberlake, whose third solo album, The 20/20 Experience, opened at the summit. Timberlake’s album also opened at No.1 in the UK that week. But times have changed, and this week Timberlake’s new album, Everything I Thought It Was debuts behind Musgraves’ in both countries.

His first regular solo album since Man Of The Woods reached No.2 in 2018 – he has since had a dalliance with film soundtracks that saw him helming multiple Trolls sets and The Book Of Love – Everything I Thought It Was debuts at No.5 (6,162 sales). It is Timberlake’s sixth solo studio album, seventh solo chart entry, and sixth Top 10 solo album. Timberlake also had three Top 75 albums – but no Top 10 success – prior to going solo, as a member of *NSync, who have never officially disbanded, although their last album was in 2001, and who join him on Paradise, a track on Everything I Thought It Was. Nominated for the prestigious BBC Sound Of award and the BRITs Rising Star award earlier this year, Caity Baser has yet to land a Top 20 single but makes her album chart debut at No.7 (5,931 sales) with Still Learning. Officially a mixtape – she told Apple Music ‘I’m not ready for an album yet’ – it contains 13 succinct songs, none of which are more than three minutes long and all of which she co-wrote. Originally from Southampton, the 21-year-old – real name Caitlin Rose Stonehill - makes her home in Brighton. Three weeks after becoming his first triple platinum album, The Highlights returns to the No.2 peak it achieved on debut in 2021 for The Weeknd. Climbing from No.3 on consumption of 9,511 units, the album is No.2 for the seventh time in all, and in the Top 10 for the 106th time in a 163-week chart career that has never seen it fall below No.32. The only artist albums to spend longer in the Top 10 are Bridge Over Troubled Water (135 weeks) by Simon & Garfunkel and, in a less enlightened era, The Black & White Minstrel Show (120 weeks) by The George Mitchell Minstrels. The Highlights overtook previous modern era champ, Divide by Ed Sheeran – which was Top 10 for 104 weeks – only last week. Several soundtrack sets have also spent longer in the Top 10 than The Highlights. The rest of the Top 10: Stick Season (4-4, 7,316 sales) by Noah Kahan, My 21st Century Blues (6-6, 6,110 sales) by Raye, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (8-8, 5,575 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (10-9, 5,259 sales) by Taylor Swift and Curtain Call: The Hits (12-10, 5,036 sales) by Eminem. Overall album sales are down 0.84% week-on-week at 2,350,117, 8.00% above same week 2023 sales of 2,176,070. Physical product accounts for 262,254 sales, 11.16% of the total. Hold ‘Em Folds: after four weeks atop the singles chart, Texas Hold ‘Em dips to No.3 (48,168 sales) for Beyonce, unable to fend off Beautiful Things, which increases sales for the ninth week in a row for Benson Boone, climbing 2-1 on consumption of 54,642 units (1,747 digital downloads and 52,895 sales-equivalent streams), while We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love) (3-2, 49,914 sales) reaches a new peak for Ariana Grande. With Lose Control (5-4. 47,418 sales) by Teddy Swims and End Of Beginning (4-5, 44,114 sales) by Djo completing the leading quintet, the Top 5 once again consists entirely of songs by American solo artists – and with Benson Boone being preceded at No.1 by Noah Kahan and Beyonce, the last three No.1s have been by American solo artists for the first time since 1959, when there were actually four in a row (Perry Como, Marvin Rainwater, Connie Francis and Tommy Edwards). Twenty-two in June, singer/songwriter Boone is the youngest male solo artist to have a No.1 since January 2016, when a 17-year-old Shawn Mendes topped the list with Stitches. Boone’s career took off after he created a buzz on TikTok, but he also garnered substantial earlier publicity from appearing on American Idol in 2021, with judge Katy Perry telling him ‘they’re gonna swoon over Benson Boone” and predicting he could win the series, only for him to quit. Still encumbered by ACR, Stick Season nevertheless rises 7-6 (28,131 sales) for Noah Kahan. On the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart – where ACR and primary artist rules don’t apply – Stick Season spends its second week in a row and 10th week in total at No.1 on unadjusted consumption of 55,063 units. The rest of the Top 10: Yes, And? (6-7, 25,187 sales) by Ariana Grande, Carnival (8-8, 24,460 sales) by Kanye West & Ty Dolla Sign and Training Season (9-9, 24,098 sales) by Dua Lipa. So far reaching only No.67 and No.74 respectively in the Hot 100 in their native USA, Michael Marcagi and Dasha are doing considerably better with their debut hits in the UK, with new peaks for both this week – Marcagi’s Scared To Start is the only new arrival in the Top 10, climbing 14-10 (23,380 sales) while Dasha’s Austin grows closer, vaulting 25-15 (17,594 sales). Overall singles consumption is up 0.66% week-on-week to 28,892,578 units, 9.29% above same week 2023 consumption of 26,435,980 units. Paid-for sales are up 8.40% week-on-week at 290,444 – 0.62% below same week 2023 sales of 292,259.

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