GLOBAL NO.1 - 40 YEARS AGO... "Hot Stuff" was released on April 13, 1979 as the lead single from Donna Summer's seventh studio album Bad Girls. Although Donna had previously been mainly been associated with disco songs, this release showed a significant rock direction, including a guitar solo by ex-Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan guitarist Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter. "Hot Stuff" won the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in the inaugural year the award was given out. The song went to no.1 in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland.

USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'Old Town Road' rules for record-tying 16th week
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Ed Sheeran scores his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his star-studded No. 6 Collaborations Project album enters atop the tally. The set, which was released on July 12

via Atlantic Records, bows with 173,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 18, according to Nielsen Music. It marks the largest week of the year for a pop album by a male artist. Of that starting sum, 70,000 were in album sales. Sheeran previously led the Billboard 200 with ÷ (Divide) in 2017 and x (Multiply) in 2014. No. 6 Collaborations Project, true to its title, features Sheeran on each track, partnering up with a galaxy of stars from across many genres of music, including Camila Cabello, Bruno Mars, Travis Scott and Chris Stapleton. No. 6 tallies the biggest week in total units (173,000) for a pop album by a male soloist in over a year, since Shawn Mendes’ self-titled album started at No. 1 on the June 8, 2018-dated list with 182,000 units. Overall in 2019, No. 6 nets the seventh-largest week among all albums in total units. It trails the debut frames of: Jonas Brothers’ Happiness Begins (414,000), Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next

(360,000), Billie Eilish’s When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (313,000), Backstreet Boys’ DNA (234,000), BTS’ Map of the Soul: Persona (230,000) and Khalid’s Free Spirit (202,000). No. 6’s starting sum of 173,000 units is comprised of 70,000 in album sales, 10,000 in TEA units, and 93,000 in SEA units. The latter SEA units sum translates to 121.17 million on-demand audio streams for the set’s songs during the tracking week. That’s the biggest streaming week for a pop album by a male artist since the debut of Sheeran’s last album, ÷ (Divide), when it racked up 134.58 million on-demand audio streams for its tracks (March 25, 2017-dated chart). At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Eilish’s former No. 1 When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is a non-mover with 60,000 equivalent album units earned (up 20%). The gain is likely spurred by interest driven courtesy of a new remix of the set’s “Bad Guy,” with Justin Bieber. The Revenge of the Dreamers III set slips from No. 1 to No. 3 in its second week, with 55,000 units (down 53%), while Lil Nas X’s 7 is steady at No. 4 with 50,000 units (up 3%). Chris Brown’s former leader Indigo dips from No. 3 to No. 5 with 42,000 units (down 14%), while Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You is stationary at No. 6 with 33,000 units (up 2%). A trio of former No. 1s are next: Khalid’s Free Spirit holds at No. 7 with 31,000 units (down 3%), Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys stands still at No. 8 with 25,000 units (up less than 1%) and Jonas Brothers’ Happiness Begins climbs 10-9 with 23,000 units (down 5%). Closing out the top 10 is DaBaby’s Baby On Baby, as it rises 14-10 with 23,000 units (down 2%). Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, rules the Billboard Hot 100 for a 16th week, tying the record for the most time tallied at No. 1 in the chart's six-decade history. "Road" matches Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito," featuring Justin Bieber, and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day," which spent a record 16 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2017 and 1995-96, respectively. As on the Hot 100, "Road" (on Columbia Records) leads the Streaming Songs chart for a 16th week, a likewise record-tying mark, equaling the run of "Despacito." "Road" rules Streaming Songs with 86.2 million U.S. streams, up 22%, in the week ending July 18, according to Nielsen Music. Helping power the surge, a new remix of "Road," with Young Thug and Mason Ramsey, was released July 12 (and accounts for less than a quarter of the song's overall streams in the tracking week). "Road" spends a 12th week atop the Digital Song Sales chart with 45,000 downloads sold (up 4%; under 15% from the Young Thug and Ramsey remix), in the week ending July 18. On Radio Songs, where it reached No. 2, "Road" retreats 8-10, with 53.5 million audience impressions, down 18%, in the week ending July 21. Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" notches a sixth total week at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, as it pushes 4-2 on Streaming Songs (55.7 million, up 39%), as it wins the top Streaming Gainer award on the Hot 100, and 7-2 on Digital Song Sales (33,000, up 64%) and keeps at No. 5 on Radio Songs (85 million, up 7%). Just as a new remix of "Road" helped boost the song in the latest tracking week, a remix of "Bad Guy" with Justin Bieber was released Thursday (July 11) afternoon, just ahead of the July 12-18 streaming and sales tracking week that fed this week's July 27-dated charts. (The Bieber remix accounts for around a third of streams and less than half of sales for "Bad Guy" in the tracking week.) With each song helped by respective new remixes, "Road" increases by 13% in overall metrics on the July 27 Hot 100 and "Bad Guy" bounds by 32%. Despite the latter's greater growth, "Road" sports a 1.3-to-1 points difference over "Bad Guy," after leading by 1.5-to-1 last week (and 1.9-to-1 two weeks ago). Beyond the Hot 100's top two contenders, Ed Sheeran and Bieber's No. 2-peaking "I Don't Care" ascends 6-3. As previously reported, the duet hits No. 1 on the Pop Songs radio airplay chart, while parent album No.6 Collaborations Project launches as Sheeran's third No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Rounding out the Hot 100's top five, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's "Señorita" climbs 5-4, after debuting at its No. 2 high, and Khalid's "Talk" backtracks 4-5, after reaching No. 3, as it leads Radio Songs for a sixth week (133.3 million, essentially even week-over-week).