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)
Jonas Brothers' Happiness Begins' debuts at no.1
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Jonas Brothers celebrate their third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as Happiness Begins bows atop the chart. The set earned 414,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the

week ending June 13, of which 357,000 were in album sales. Both figures represent the largest week of the year for any album in terms of units and album sales. Happiness Begins was released June 7 via Republic Records and is the pop trio’s first studio album since 2009’s chart-topping Lines, Vines and Trying Times. In total, Happiness Begins’ starting sum of 414,000 equivalent album units are comprised of 357,000 in album sales, 52,000 in SEA units and 5,000 in TEA units. It's the biggest sales week of 2019 for any album. The last album to post a larger week was Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V (also released via Republic Records), which started at No. 1 on the Oct. 13, 2018-dated chart with 480,000 units earned. (Happiness surpasses 2019’s previous high-water mark for an album, when Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next -- another Republic title -- bowed at No. 1 with 360,000 units on the Feb. 23 chart.) At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Billie Eilish’s former No. 1

When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? holds in the runner-up slot with 59,000 equivalent album units (down 6%). The album has yet to depart the top four rungs of the chart since its debut 11 weeks ago at No. 1. Santana collects its 15th top 10 album, as Africa Speaks debuts at No. 3 on the new Billboard 200 chart with 57,000 equivalent album units earned (nearly all from album sales). The rock band, led by Carlos Santana, first visited the top 10 nearly 50 years ago, when the act’s self-titled album climbed 13-10 on the Oct. 25, 1969-dated list. The album would later peak at No. 4 (Nov. 15, 1969). Like Jonas Brothers’ Happiness Begins, the debut sales frame for Africa Speaks was also driven by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer. Next up, Luke Combs’ The Prequel EP drives in at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 48,000 equivalent album units -- with 22,000 of that sum in album sales. The Prequel is Combs’ second top 10 effort and matches the peak position of his other top 10 set, the full-length effort This One’s for You, which topped out at No. 4 (June 16, 2018). The new five-song EP contains Combs’ current hit single “Beer Never Broke My Heart,” which has so far peaked at No. 3 on the Hot Country Songs chart, and at No. 10 on the Country Airplay list (as of the most recently published lists, dated June 15). Future nets his 12th top album, as his new EP Save Me starts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 42,000 equivalent album units (with 5,000 of that sum in album sales). The seven-track set follows his last full-length project, the chart-topping Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD, which started at No. 1 on the list dated Feb. 2. The fifth and final debut in the Billboard 200’s new top 10 belongs to Polo G’s debut album Die a Legend. The effort — led by the top 10 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs hit “Pop Out,” featuring Lil Tjay — enters at No. 6 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (of which a little under 1,000 were in album sales). The set’s start was powered almost entirely by streaming activity, as the album generated nearly 37,000 SEA units (with the rest – 1,000 units, spread across both album sales and TEA units). Rounding out the rest of the new top 10 on the Billboard 200: Khalid’s Free Spirit dips 4-7 (36,000 units; down 5%), DJ Khaled’s Father of Asahd slips 3-8 (31,000 units; down 22%), DaBaby’s Baby On Baby falls 8-9 (29,000 units; down 6%) and Elton John’s Diamonds descends 7-10 (nearly 29,000 units; down 10%). Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road," featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, rules the Billboard Hot 100 for an 11th week. The song boasts the chart's longest reign since Drake spent 11 weeks at No. 1 with "God's Plan" last February through April. As on the Hot 100, "Old Town Road" (on Columbia Records) leads the Streaming Songs chart for an 11th week, with 99.9 million U.S. streams, down 14%, in the week ending June 13, according to Nielsen Music. "Road" set the record for the top streaming week ever (143 million) following the April 5 arrival of its remix with Cyrus and claims nine of the 11 biggest streaming frames to date, including the top three. "Road" logs an eighth week atop the Digital Song Sales chart with 71,000 downloads sold, down 18%, in the week ending June 13. On Radio Songs, "Road" dips from its No. 2 high to No. 3, with 99.1 million audience impressions, up nearly 1%, in the week ending June 16. Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" holds at its No. 2 Hot 100 high, while Khalid's "Talk" keeps at its No. 3 best, with top Airplay Gainer honors for a third week (up 9% to 106 million). The track becomes Khalid's first Radio Songs No. 1 (3-1), after he reached No. 3 with three other hits: as featured, with Alessia Cara, on Logic's "1-800-273-8255" (November 2017) and with "Love Lies," with Normani (September 2018), and "Eastside," with Benny Blanco and Halsey (this March). Jonas Brothers' former one-week Hot 100 No. 1 "Sucker" lifts 5-4 and Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber's "I Don't Care" slips 4-5, after debuting at its No. 2 peak four weeks earlier.