GLOBAL NO.1 - 30 YEARS AGO... Madonna is known for her blatant style- and taboo breaks. With the release of the lead single 'Like A Prayer' for the album of the same name, she came with really heavy guns: a 180 ° image turn-around from the blonde beast to a meekly brunette ... her music changed into an exalted, hymn-like and danceable sound with religious-controversial and provocative texts. But the big bone of contention was the music video, directed by Mary Lambert. It portrays Madonna as a witness to the murder of a girl by white supremacists. While a black man is arrested for the murder, Madonna hides in a church for safety seeking strength to go forth as a witness. The clip depicts a church and Catholic symbols such as stigmata. It also features a Ku Klux Klan-style cross burning, and a dream about kissing a black saint. The Vatican condemned the video, while family and religious groups protested against its broadcast. They boycotted products by soft drink manufacturer Pepsi, who had used the song in their commercial. The company canceled their sponsorship contract with Madonna, but allowed her to retain the fee. 'Like A Prayer' became, not least because of this rather unintentionally publicity through the condemnation of parent associations and church representatives, the world's biggest hit in 1989.

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Billboard Report (excerpt)
Logic scores third no.1 album on Billboard 200
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Logic notches his third No.1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind debuts atop the tally. The set starts with 80,000 equivalent album units earned in

the week ending May 16, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 24,000 were in album sales. Confessions was released on May 10 via Visionary / Def Jam Recordings. Logic previously led the list with Bobby Tarantino II (in 2018) and Everybody (2017). Logic made his Billboard 200 debut in 2014 with Under Pressure, which peaked at No. 4 -- his first of six top 10 albums (including Confessions). Confessions’ debut frame was largely powered by streaming activity, as the set racked up 54,000 SEA units (of its total 80,000 overall units). That 54,000 SEA number equates to 73.93 million on-demand audio streams for its tracks in the album’s debut frame, which also made it the most streamed album of the week. Billie Eilish’s When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is steady at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 with 68,000 units (down 3%), while Khalid’s Free Spirit is also a non-mover, holding at No. 3 with 46,000 units (down 8%). Sammy Hagar & The Circle’s

Space Between debuts at No. 4, granting Hagar his first top 10 album ever. The set opens with 40,000 equivalent albums units earned. The sizable sales week was mostly powered by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer for the rocker’s tour that started in April. The sales start also marks Hagar’s third-largest sales week since Nielsen Music began tracking data in 1991. Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next, is stationary at No. 5 on the new Billboard 200 (36,000 units; down 11 percent), while Queen’s Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection vaults 29-6 with 32,000 units (up 92%) thanks to sale pricing in the iTunes Store. The 51-track collection was deeply discounted to just $6.99 during the tracking week, thus stirring its 53% sales hike (rising to 9,000 sold) and 391% digital sales increase (jumping to 6,000 sold). Luke Combs’ This One’s For You jumps 12-7, revisiting the top 10 for the first time in nearly a year. The album, which was released in 2017, was last in the top 10 (at No. 10) on the July 28, 2018-dated chart, and peaked at No. 4 on June 16 of that same year (following a deluxe reissue of the set). In the latest tracking week, This One’s For You earned 28,000 equivalent album units (up an overall 5%) and gained in album sales (up 12%), TEA units (up 8%) and SEA units (up 3%). The rise in activity is likely owed to promotion and excitement generated by Combs’ new single “Beer Never Broke My Heart,” which was released on May 8, and which Combs preformed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on May 9. (The track is not on This One’s For You, but is from a forthcoming new album.) DaBaby’s Baby On Baby hits a new high and reaches the top 10 for the first time, as the album rises 14-8 with nearly 28,000 equivalent album units (up 9%). The set debuted at No. 25 on the chart dated March 16, and has never left the top 40. The album has increased in units in six of the last eight weeks, mostly derived from streaming activity (led by the set’s song “Suge”). Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys is steady at No. 9 on the new Billboard 200, with 27,000 units earned (down 5%). Closing out the new top 10 is Mac DeMarco, who logs his first top 10 album with Here Comes the Cowboy bowing at No. 10. The set earned nearly 27,000 equivalent album units, with 20,000 of that sum generated by album sales. The latter figure was enhanced by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with DeMarco’s tour, which began earlier in May. Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, leads the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a seventh week. As on the Hot 100, "Road" rules the Streaming Songs chart for a seventh week, with 103.1 million U.S. streams (down 1%) in the week ending May 16, according to Nielsen Music. Volume for "Road" should surge on next week's charts (dated June 1) following the Friday (May 17) premiere of its official video. The track dips to No. 2 on the Digital Song Sales chart, after four weeks at No. 1, with 69,000 downloads sold (down 12%) in the week ending May 16. On the Radio Songs chart, "Road" pushes 4-3, with 83.8 million audience impressions, up 8%, in the week ending May 19. Sheeran and Bieber's "I Don't Care," released at midnight ET Friday, May 10, soars onto the Hot 100 at No. 2, as it opens at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (77,000) and No. 3 on Streaming Songs (34.1 million) and charges 33-13 on Radio Songs (49.1 million). Like "Road," the official video for "Care" premiered Friday (May 17). Top 10 totals: Bieber banks his 15th Hot 100 top 10 and Sheeran adds his seventh. While "Care" marks their first song co-billed as artists, Sheeran co-wrote two Bieber top 10s: "Love Yourself" (No. 1 for two weeks in February 2016) and Major Lazer's "Cold Water," featuring Bieber and MO (No. 2, August 2016). More Max Martin: Sheeran and Bieber co-wrote "Care" with Max Martin, among the song's six authors. Martin boasts 22 Hot 100 No. 1s and nine hits that have hit No. 2 (including "Care"). He last reached such heights as a writer via Ariana Grande's "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored," which debuted at its No. 2 peak in February. Jonas Brothers' former one-week Hot 100 leader "Sucker" rises 4-3 and becomes the trio's first No. 1 on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart. It spends a fifth week atop Pop Songs, where it's also the act's first No. 1. Billie Eilish notches her first top five Hot 100 hit as "Bad Guy" roars 9-4, besting its prior No. 7 peak. The track returns to its No. 2 high on Streaming Songs (from No. 3), up 4% to 39.9 million U.S. streams; rises 11-8 on Digital Song Sales (15,000, up 15%); and debuts at No. 43 on Radio Songs (24.1 million, up 42%). Post Malone's "Wow." rebounds 6-5 on the Hot 100, after hitting No. 2, and his and Swae Lee's one-week No. 1 "Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)" rises 7-6. Sam Smith and Normani's "Dancing With a Stranger" revisits the Hot 100's top 10 and its No. 7 high (from No. 11), as it rules Radio Songs for a second week (106.6 million, up 4%). Taylor Swift's "Me!," featuring Brendon Urie, drops 3-8 on the Hot 100, after arriving at No. 2 two weeks ago, and Khalid re-enters the top 10 (12-9) with his No. 8-peaking "Talk," which becomes his fourth Radio Songs top 10 (12-6; 70.2 million, up 21%, good for top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100). "Talk" tops the Hot R&B Songs chart for a fourth week. Rounding out the Hot 100's top 10, Halsey's two-week No. 1 "Without Me" backtracks 8-10.