USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
'I'm The Problem' rules Billboard 200 for fifth week
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem rules the Billboard 200 albums chart for a fifth consecutive, and total, week, as the set holds atop the chart dated June 28. The album earned 186,000

equivalent album units in the United States in the tracking week ending June 19 (down 11%), according to Luminate. The album debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 31. With 186,000 units earned, Problem lands the largest fifth week for an album since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department earned 378,000 in its fifth week (June 1, 2024-dated chart). Of I’m the Problem’s 186,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 19, SEA units comprise 176,000 (down 11%, equaling 229.99 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for a fifth week), album sales comprise 9,000 (down 12% — it rises 9-7 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 6%). Ateez achieve their seventh top 10 album on the Billboard 200, as Golden Hour : Part.3 debuts at No. 2 with 105,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 101,500 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA

units comprise 3,000 (equaling 4.07 million on-demand official streams of the set’s five songs) and TEA units comprise 500 units. At No. 3 on the Billboard 200, Lil Tecca scores his highest-charting album ever, and fifth top 10, as DOPAMINE debuts with 48,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 45,000 (equaling 65.31 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 3,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Lil Tecca had previously gone as high as No. 4 with We Love You Tecca in 2019. Dopamine was issued as a standard 17-song album via streaming services, and was available to buy as a download, CD and in five deluxe CD boxed sets (each containing a branded T-shirt and a copy of the album on CD). All of the CD iterations were exclusively sold via the artist’s official webstore. In the midst of its first week, the album was reissued with four bonus tracks, and that iteration was exclusively sold as a download in his webstore. Dopamine was preceded by two Billboard Hot 100-charting songs: “Dark Thoughts” (which hit No. 28 in April) and “Owa Owa” (No. 50 earlier this month). The former marked the second top 40-charting song for the rapper, and first since “Ran$om” hit No. 4 in 2019. A trio of former No. 1s is next on the Billboard 200, as SZA’s SOS rises 5-4 (nearly 48,000 equivalent album units; up 9%), Wallen’s One Thing at a Time climbs 8-5 (40,000; up 3%), and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet steps 7-6 (39,000; down 3%). Brandon Lake notches his first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 — and first top 40-charting set — as his new project, King of Hearts, bows at No. 7 with 37,500 equivalent album units earned. He charted just one album previously, with the No. 135-peaking Coat of Many Colors in 2023. King of Hearts earned 37,500 units in its first week (Lake’s best week by units earned). Of that sum, album sales comprise 20,000 (his best sales week ever — it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 16,500 (equaling 22.06 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 30 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000. Closing out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 are Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX (rising 10-8 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned; down 6%), Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album (bumping 13-9 with 32,000; up 6%) and PartyNextDoor and Drake’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U (11-10 with 30,500; down 7%). Alrex Warren’s “Ordinary” rebounds for a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song tallied 20.4 million official streams (down 3% week-over-week), 61.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 14%) and 7,000 sold (down 2%) in the United States June 13-19. As the track ascends 3-1 on Radio Songs, it drops to No. 2 after seven weeks atop the Digital Song Sales chart and holds at No. 4 on Streaming Songs, following four weeks at No. 1. Carpenter’s “Manchild” descends to No. 2 in its second week on the Hot 100. It drew 21.1 million streams (down 22%), 16.8 million in radio audience (up 20%) and 3,000 sold (down 83%). Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after it launched in May as Wallen’s fourth No. 1 and McRae’s first. It rebounds for a fourth week atop Streaming Songs (21.7 million, down 2%). Wallen follows on the Hot 100 with the No. 2-peaking “Just in Case,” which keeps at No. 4, and “I’m the Problem,” which is steady at No. 6 – as Wallen logs his fifth week with at least three simultaneous top 10s this year. Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” repeats at No. 5 after 13 weeks atop the Hot 100 beginning in March. Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” stays at No. 7 on the Hot 100, following its record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1 beginning last July, and Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” is stationary at No. 8 after five weeks at No. 1 beginning in January. Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led the Hot 100 for a week in March 2024, and became the year’s No. 1 song, remains at No. 9. It posts a record-extending 66th week in the top 10 and a record-padding 96th week on the chart overall. Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” is a non-mover at No. 10, after it reached No. 2.

Record Of The Month
24 year-old Johannes Pietsch, better known by his stage name JJ, from Austria
won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with 436 points.
The song fusing pop and lyrical elements in a crescendo that flows into techno sounds and was written by JJ himself alongside Teodora Špirić and Thomas Thurner.

United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
Sabrina Carpenter's 'Manchild' returns to No. 1
Monday, June 30, 2025
by Alan Jones, London
 
The country’s favourite track for the 14th time in 15 weeks, Ordinary nevertheless falls 1-9 for Alex Warren, after finally falling into ACR, with notional consumption of 28,702 units and unadjusted consumption of 56,289 units. Its relegation allows Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild – which  legitimately toppled it a

fortnight ago – to return to No.1, albeit somewhat weakly, with consumption falling 15.11% week-on-week to 45,756 units. Comprising 54 7-inch singles, 362 digital downloads and 45,340 sales-equivalent streams, that’s the lowest tally for a No.1 for 15 weeks. Carpenter has now spent 23 weeks at No.1 in the 2020s – all in the last 61 weeks – equalling the 2020s record set by Ed Sheeran. Manchild is the third of her four number ones to have a second spell at No.1, and the one with the shortest (one week) gap between residencies. Previously, Espresso returned after five weeks off the top, and Please Please Please after two weeks off the top. Taste didn’t return to No.1. Manchild is being chased hard by Dior, which surges 5-2 on its third frame for MK feat. Chrystal, with consumption growing 25.01% week-on-week to 41,862 units. Already the highest charting single in the 30-year chart career of MK – 52-year-old DJ, producer and recording artist

Mark Kinchen from Detroit – it is also now the highest-charting hit for British singer/songwriter Chrystal, surpassing the No.4 peak her debut hit, The Days, achieved in January. Fred Again.. lands a hit for the sixth year in a row as Victory Lap – a collaboration with rappers Skepta and PlaqueBoyMax – is the highest of 10 Top 75 debuts this week, opening its account at No.4 (32,615 sales). Sampling Doechii’s Swamp B*tches, it is Fred Again..’s second Top 10 hit, following 2023’s Adore U, and the highest-debuting of his 17 chart singles. It is also only the second Top 10 hit of 38 chart entries for Skepta, some 13 years after his first, and the very first hit for 22-year-old PlaqueBoyMax, from New Jersey. No.86 last week as a solo track by Sam Fender, Rein Me In makes its Top 75 debut at No.6 (31,352 sales). Much of its impetus is due to the release of a duet version with Olivia Dean and, in line with standard OCC practice which allows alterations to credits on tracks which haven’t previously made the Top 40, it is now credited jointly to the pair. Fender’s 15th Top 75 and fourth Top 10 entry, it is Dean’s fifth Top 75 and first Top 10 hit. The rest of the Top 10: Love Me Not (3-3, 38,782 sales) by Ravyn Lenae, Pink Pony Club (4-5, 31,604 sales) by Chappell Roan, Undressed (7-7, 28,801 sales) by Sombr, Blessings (8-8, 28,770 sales) by Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas and Family Matters (6-10, 28,417 sales) by Skye Newman. Overall singles consumption is down 1.84% week-on-week to 30,902,628 units, 3.74% above same week 2024 consumption of 29,787,608 units. Paid-for sales are up 4.96% week-on-week at 290,343, 3.17% above same week 2024 sales of 281,427. After triumphantly curating and headlining the second annual staging of his own Bludfest festival last weekend, Yungblud ends a perfect week by debuting at No.1 with new album, Idols. Released the day before the Milton Keynes event, Idols is the fourth full-length album by the 25-year-old from Doncaster – real name Dominic Harrison - and third No.1. Sales of the set are heavily skewed towards physical formats, which account for 89.84% of its first week tally of 25,947 units. Selling 15,991 copies on 9 CD variants, 6,519 on eight vinyl variants and 800 on cassette, its remaining consumption comes from 621 digital downloads and 2,016 sales-equivalent streams. As usual with Yungblud, it’s an eclectic, genre-defying release on which he co-wrote every track. Its first week sales are 13.68% higher than the 22,825 copies his self-titled last album sold when it opened atop the chart in 2022, but 33.06% down on the 38,759 copies his second album and breakthrough set, Weird!, sold as it shot to No.1 in 2020. That eponymous 2022 set went silver earlier this month, and has to-date consumption of 60,818 units, while Weird!’s cumulative tally is 138,228 units. His 2018 full-length debut, 21st Century Liability didn’t chart at all for 59 weeks, and took a further 13 to reach its ultimate peak of No.141 but has accumulated consumption of 112,778 units. A six track, 18-minute EP, The Underrated Youth, reached No.6 in 2019 and has sold 52,562 copies, while Yungblud (Live In Atlanta), from the same year, reached No.182 and has to-date consumption of 25,578 units. The only acts to have more No.1 albums in the 2020s than Yungblud are Drake, Liam Gallagher and Ed Sheeran, with four apiece, and Taylor Swift, with nine. That Youngblud would achieve his third straight No.1 was never in doubt, but the battle to serve as his runner-up saw early leaders Haim eventually ceding to 30-year-old London hip-hop artist Loyle Carner, whose fourth studio album, Hopefully! (No.2, 17,245 sales), thus becomes his highest-charting set, eclipsing the No.3 peaks ascended by his last two albums, 2019’s Not Waving But Drowning and 2022’s Hugo. Previously No.1 with 2013 debut Days Are Gone, No.2 with 2017’s Something To Tell You and No.1 again with 2020 with Women In Music Part III, sororal female Los Angeles pop/rock trio Haim - 33-year-old Alana, 36-year-old Danielle and big sister, Este, 39 - have to settle for their lowest placing yet, with I Quit debuting at No.3 (13,961 sales). All have fared better here than in their native USA, where none reached the Top 5, with I Quit expected to fall short of the Top 20. A mere 63 weeks after his debut full-length album, Fireworks & Rollerblades, debuted and peaked at No.16, American singer/songwriter Benson Boone’s follow-up, American Heart, earns the 23-year-old singer/songwriter his introductory Top 10 appearance, debuting at No.4 (12,899 sales). Despite its more modest peak, Fireworks & Rollerblades - home to six hits, including No.1 smash Beautiful Things – has been in the Top 75 continuously since its release and dips 29-31 (3,594 sales) this week, while raising its cumulative consumption to 211,930 units. 4 (No.7, 8,004 sales) is the second full-length studio album and fourth Top 10 entry for Mancunian rapper, Aitch. Although a quartet of new arrivals leapfrog it, Short N’ Sweet’s introductory sojourn in the Top 5 continues for Sabrina Carpenter. On its 44th straight week, the album dips 3-5 (8,326 sales). It thus equals the all-time record for most consecutive weeks in the Top 5 for a solo album – set by Elvis Presley’s soundtrack set GI Blues in 1960/1961. Among artist albums, only Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water (84 weeks, 1970/1971) and The Beatles’ Please Please Me (55 weeks, 1963/1964) have spent more weeks in a row in the Top 5. The rest of the Top 10: +-=÷× Tour Collection (4-6, 8,055 sales) by Ed Sheeran, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-8, 6,775 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, Time Flies 1994-2009 (2-9, 6,136 sales) by Oasis and Brat (7-10, 5,973 sales) by Charli XCX. Overall album sales are down 2.19% week-on-week at 2,454,906 units, 4.05% above same week 2024 sales of 2,359,401. Physical product accounts for 255,610 sales, 10.41% of the total.