Global Chart Report
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Harry Styles
tops a twelfth week
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
by Fred Chuchel, Dresden
'As It Was' by Harry
Styles keeps the pole position for
an excellent tweftth week with
another 393,000 points (down 2%).
That gives a total of 4,946,000
points so far and the song jumps at
no.2 on the year-to-date list,
behind 'Stay' by Kid Laroi & Justin
Bieber (5,125,000 points). Broken
down by segments 'As It Was'
generated 238,000 points by
streaming last week (down 4%),
38,000 points by sales (down 2,5%),
and 117,000 points by airplay (up
2%). Since its release, the airplay
share of 'As It Was' has continued
to grow up and it's the most played
song globally since eight weeks. As
expected, 'Glimpse Of Us' by
Japanese singer, songwriter, rapper,
comedian and former Internet
personality and YouTuber Joji makes
another big jump this week from no.8
to the runner-up slot with 287,000
points, a massive 60% boost. The
1985 classic 'Running Up That Hill
(A Deal With God)' by Kate Bush
slides down at no.3 with 243,000
points (down 10%). Four songs from
Drake's new album 'Honestly,
Nevermind' entering the current Top 40 and
highest of it is the final track of the set,
calling 'Jimmy Cooke', a collab with rapper
21 Savage. The song arrives at no.11 with
153,000 points. 'ABCDEFU' by Gayle (this
week at no.25 with 96,000 points) is
the 444th smash in history, which
enters the
ALL TIME CHART.
This list brings all songs together with
more than 6 million total points. 'ABCDEFU'
bows on that list at no.429 with 6,056,000
points so far. Of Us', by Japanese singer,
songwriter, rapper, comedian and former
Internet personality and YouTuber Joji. The
chilling piano ballad starts with 179,000
points and it seems that it'll even jump
into the Top 3 next week. Shakira lands her
first Top 10 hit since eight years, 'Te
Felicito', the lead single of her upcoming
twelfth studio album, rises to no.9 with
179,000 points (up 25%). Outside our weekly
Top 40 waiting among other 'Texts To Green'
by Drake at no.41, 'Break My Soul' by
Beyoncé at no.44, and 'Until I Found You' by
Stephen Sanchez at no.48
for their first appearance on the big list.
From January 2022 on there's a change in the
composition of the Global Album Chart. The reason
is the different approach to merging sales figures
and streaming (equivalent sales) in various
countries. This leads to distortions. That's
why we decided, that the national equivalent
sales are additionally weighted to the market
size of the countries (according to the latest
IFPI informations). This will also ensure a
little more stability in our Top 10. Let's take
a look on our current tally: 'Proof', the
first anthology album by the South Korean
boy group BTS, remains at no.1 with another
massive 871,000 equivalent sales. That makes
a total of 2,279,000 sales in only two
weeks, so the album jumps at no.2 on the
year-to-list, behind Disney's 'Encanto'
soundtrack with 2,519,000 sales. Back to
this week's hitlist: the only and highest
newcomer called 'Honestly, Nevermind', the
seventh studio effort by Canadian rapper and
superstar Drake. It bows at the runner-up
slot with 291,000 consumption units - that's
far less than the former album generated:
'Certified Lover Boy' started at the summit
with 813,000 sales in the calendar week 37,
2021. Rounds out the top three for a third
week in a row is Harry Styles' 'Harry's
House' with 156,000 sales, a total of
1,549,000 so far. 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 27,000 / 13,090,000, '21' by Adele
11,000 / 31,519,000, '25' by Adele 12,000 /
23,956,000, '30' by Adele 25,000 / 5,142,000,
the 'A Star Is Born' soundtrack 4,000 / 7,014,000,
'After Hours' by The Weeknd 32,000 / 6,328,000,
'An Evening With Silk Sonic' by Silk Sonic 13,000
/ 1,103,000, 'Astroworld' by Travis Scott 16,000
/ 6,968,000, 'Beerbongs & Bentleys' by Post
Malone 16,000 / 8,778,000, 'Certified Lover
Boy' by Drake 48,000 / 4,109,000, 'Dangerous:
The Double Album' by Morgan Wallen 61,000 /
4,872,000, 'Dawn FM' by The Weeknd 33,000 /
1,664,000, 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran 25,000 / 18,868,000,
'Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent' by
Lewis Capaldi 15,000 / 5,539,000, 'Donda' by
Kanye West 14,000 / 2,155,000, 'DS4Ever' by
Gunna 19,000 / 1,284,000, the 'Encanto' soundtrack
37,000 / 2,610,000, 'Equals' by Ed Sheeran
59,000
/ 3,329,000, 'Evermore' by Taylor Swift 12,000
/ 3,366,000, 'Fighting Demons' by Juice WRLD
17,000 / 1,129,000, 'Fine Line' by Harry Styles
44,000 / 7,418,000, 'Folklore' by Taylor Swift
24,000 / 5,412,000, 'F*ck Love' by The Kid Laroi
30,000 / 3,944,000, 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua
Lipa 44,000 / 6,313,000, 'Goodbye & Good Riddance'
by Juice WRLD 23,000 / 6,087,000, the soundtrack
of the Original Hollywood Cast to 'Hamilton:
An American Musical' 13,000 / 4,823,000, 'Happier
Than Ever' by Billie Eilish 35,000 / 3,027,000,
'Hollywood's Bleeding' by Post Malone 31,000
/ 8,108,000, 'Justice' by Justin Bieber 33,000
/ 3,670,000, 'Legends Never Die' by Juice WRLD
21,000 / 5,197,000, 'Map Of The Soul: 7' by
BTS (Bangtan Boys) 26,000 / 7,958,000, 'Montero'
by Lil Nas X 25,000 / 1,947,000, 'Music To Be
Murdered By' by Eminem 5,000 / 3,196,000, 'My
Turn' by Lil Baby 19,000 / 4,467,000, 'No.6
Collaborations' by Ed Sheeran 4,000 / 4,585,000,
'Oddinary' by Stray Kids 8,000 / 859,000, 'Planet
Her' by Doja Cat 53,000 / 3,722,000, 'Positions'
Ariana Grande 13,000 / 3,298,000, 'Question
Mark' by XXXTentacion 24,000 / 6,623,000, 'Red
(Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift 27,000 /
2,668,000, 'Scorpion' by Drake 17,000 / 8,259,000,
'7220' by Lil Durk 24,000 / 775,000, 'Shoot
For The Stars, Aim For The Moon' by Pop Smoke
30,000 / 6,826,000, 'Stoney' by Post Malone
14,000 / 7,057,000, 'The Greatest Showman' soundtrack
5,000 / 9,260,000, 'The Highlights' by The Weeknd
33,000 / 3,095,000, 'Unlimited Love' by Red
Hot Chili Peppers 12,000 / 523,000, 'Voyage'
by Abba 5,000 / 1,974,000, 'When We All Fall
Asleep, Where Do We Go?' by Billie Eilish 24,000
/ 10,035,000, and 'X' by Ed Sheeran
8,000 / 13,217,000.
GLOBAL NO.1 - 20 YEARS
AGO
... "Without Me" is the lead single
from Eminem's fourth studio album, The
Eminem Show (2002), and was released
on May 14, 2002. The song was a huge
success around the globe and went to
no.1 in many countries, including United
Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Netherlands,
Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden
and Norway. The opening lyric "Two trailer
park girls go round the outside" is
based on the single "Buffalo Gals" by
Malcolm McLaren and mocks underground
artist Canibus, while the introduction
— "Obie Trice, real name, no gimmicks"
— is sampled from Obie Trice's own track
"Rap Name". It also heavily samples
Michael Jackson's hit song, "Billie
Jean". The song mocks a number of Eminem's
critics, including then-Vice-President
Dick Cheney, the FCC, Chris Kirkpatrick,
Limp Bizkit, Moby and Prince. It also
lampoons comparisons of him to Elvis
Presley as a white man succeeding commercially
in a predominantly black art form. A
line also attacks his mother Debbie
Mathers for the lawsuit she filed for
the lyrics of his debut single "My Name
Is". The funny video clip received various
MTV Video Music Awards and a Grammy
Award.
USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Drake rules Top 200 Album
Chart and Hot 100
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust,
Los Angeles
Drake’s Honestly,
Nevermind debuts
atop the Billboard 200
albums chart (dated July 2),
giving the superstar his
11th No. 1 on the chart. The
surprise release was announced on
June 16,
the set’s
tracks), album sales
comprise 11,000 and TEA
units comprise 2,000.
At No. 2 on the new
Billboard 200, Bad Bunny’s
chart-topping Un
Verano Sin Ti is
a non-mover with 121,000
equivalent album units (down
8%). Un
Verano Sin Ti has
tallied over 100,000 in each
of its first seven weeks on
the chart. The last title to
do so was Drake’s Scorpion,
which saw its first seven
weeks all exceed 100,000
units (July 28-Aug 25. 2018,
charts).
Harry Styles’
former leader Harry’s
House is
stationary at No. 3 with
79,000 equivalent album
units (down 13%), BTS’ Proof falls
1-4 in its second week with
75,000 units (down 76%) and Morgan
Wallen’s Dangerous:
The Double Album rises
6-5 with 52,000 units (up
less than 1%). Future’s
former No. 1 I
Never Liked You dips
5-6 with 49,000 units (down
11%), and Post
Malone’s Twelve
Carat Toothache descends
4-7 with 44,000 units (down
26%).
Kevin Gates nabs his fifth
top 10 album on the
Billboard 200 as Khazaarrives
at No. 8 with 38,000
equivalent album units
earned. Of that sum, SEA
units comprise 34,000
(equaling 47.05 million
on-demand official streams
of the set’s tracks), album
sales comprise 3,000 and TEA
units comprise less than
1,000.
Closing out the new top 10
are two former No. 1s:
Kendrick Lamar’s Mr.
Morale & The Big Steppers (7-9
with 36,000 equivalent album
units; down 14%) and Olivia
Rodrigo’s Sour (8-10
with 32,000 units; up 1%). Drake‘s
“Jimmy Cooks,” featuring 21
Savage,
blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard
Hot 100 songs
chart. The collaboration
marks Drake’s 11th Hot 100
No. 1 and 21 Savage’s
second.
“Jimmy Cooks,” released on
OVO / Republic Records,
tallied 42.2 million
streams, 3 million radio
airplay audience impressions
and 6,000 downloads sold in
its first week (June 17-23),
according to Luminate,
following the June 17
arrival of parent album Honestly,
Nevermind, announced
only hours
before its
release.
The track (seemingly an ode
to the character of Jimmy
Brooks that
Drake portrayed on the CTV
drama Degrassi:
The Next Generation from
2001-08) arrives as the
1,138th No. 1 in the Hot
100’s 63-year history, and
the 62nd
to enter on top.
As “Sticky” debuts at No. 6
and “Falling Back” bows at
No. 7 on the Hot 100, with
28.8 million and 27.8
million streams,
respectively, Drake, thanks
to those tracks and “Jimmy
Cooks,” pads his record
career count to 58 top 10s.
Harry Styles’ “As It Was”
drops to No. 2 after seven
weeks atop the Hot 100. The
track concurrently crowns
the Songs
of the Summer chart
for a fourth week, after the
seasonal survey, which
tracks the top titles
between Memorial Day and
Labor Day, returned
three weeks ago.
Jack Harlow’s “First Class”
slips 2-3 on the Hot 100,
after three nonconsecutive
weeks at No. 1, as it
notches a third week atop
the Radio Songs chart (84.3
million, up 3%).
Future’s “Wait for U,”
featuring Drake and Tems,
falls 3-4 on the Hot 100,
after a week at No. 1, and
Lizzo’s “About Damn Time”
retreats to No. 5 from its
No. 4 Hot 100 high, as it
leads the multi-metric Hot
R&B Songs chart
for a sixth week.
Below Drake’s “Sticky” at
No. 6 and “Falling Back” at
No. 7 on the Hot 100, Joji’s
“Glimpse of Us” rises 10-8
in its second week on the
chart, led by its 40%
increase to 25.6 million
streams.
Kate Bush’s 1985 classic
“Running Up That Hill (A
Deal With God)” descends 5-9
on the Hot 100, after
reaching No. 4, fueled by
its sync in Netflix’s Stranger
Things,
as it adds a third week each
atop the multi-metric Hot
Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot
Alternative Songs charts.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s
top 10, Glass Animals’ “Heat
Waves” backtracks 6-10,
after five weeks at No. 1.
Record Of The Month
'Until I Found
You' is a fantastic, old-fashioned
tune with a lovely voice and
an acoustic-guitar, performed
by the 19 year-old American
newcomer Stephen Sanchez.
United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
Kate Bush
stays at number
one
Monday, June 27, 2022
by Alan Jones, London
Kate Bush continues atop the
singles chart, with
consumption of Running Up
That Hill rising 0.85% to
78,568 units on its second
week at the summit. The 1985
classic, which previously
peaked at No.3, is in the
fourth week of its
renaissance, inspired by its
use in multiple episodes of
the fourth
season of Netflix’s hugely
popular Stranger Things
sci-fi/horror series. As
streaming of the episodes
declines slightly, so does
streaming of the track, with
sales-equivalent streams
down 2.36% week-on-week to
71,448 – but purchases of
digital downloads are up
50.53% week-on-week to a new
high of 7,120 units. Running
Up That Hill ended a 10-week
residency in pole position
for As It Was, the
introductory single from
Harry Styles’ album Harry’s
House, which was pushed down
to No.2 last week. Harry’s
not going quietly, however,
with his UK concert dates
creating increased demand
yet again for his
recordings, with increases
in consumption of As It Was
(2-2, 64,078 sales), Late
Night Talking (8-9, 32,845
sales) and, even as it
leaves the Top 10, Music For
A Sushi Restaurant (10-11,
30,856 sales). Only the
fourth artist in chart
history to register 100
hits, Drake adds his 122nd,
123rd and 124th – and 33rd,
34th and 35th Top 10 hits -
with a trio of
new
arrivals plucked from his
surprise new album,
Honestly, Nevermind,
specifically Jimmy Cooks
(No.7, 33,546 sales),
Massive (No.8, 33,058 sales)
and Falling Back (No.10,
31,374 sales). Jimmy Cooks
also features 21 Savage, who
thus scores his 14th hit but
only second Top 10 entry.
There are 14 tracks on
Honestly, Nevermind – and if
primary artist rules didn’t
prevent Drake from having
more than three hits at one
time, all the rest would
chart, giving him 14 of the
15 highest new entries to
the chart this week. The
highest-ranking of the 11
that are ‘starred-out’ is
Sticky, which would be No.13
(28,024 sales) and the
lowest Liability (10,778
sales), which would be
No.64.
There are new peaks in the
Top 10 for Scottish
DJ/production duo LF
System’s first hit, Afraid
To Feel (4-3, 52,663 sales)
and Green Green Grass (6-5,
37,782 sales), which becomes
George Ezra’s fourth top
five hit.
Completing the Top 10: Go
(3-4, 38,200 sales) by Cat
Burns and About Damn Time
(5-6, 33,611 sales) by
Lizzo.
Singles consumption is up
1.39% week-on-week at
25,197,317 units, 14.13%
above same week 2021
consumption of 22,078,136
units. Paid-for sales are up
4.23% week-on-week at
351,469 – 4.55% below same
week 2021 sales of 368,225.
In the closest race for
album chart honours in a
while, Foals made all the
early running, with Drake
easing ahead in the final
sales flash of the week –
but neither was destined for
No.1 as, fresh from his UK
tour dates, Harry Styles
sneaked home with Harry’s
House.
Topping the chart for the
third time in total, it does
so on consumption of 27,468
units – an 11.42% hike
week-on-week - made up of
2,454 CDs, 2,649 vinyl LPs,
43 cassettes, 586 digital
downloads and 21,736
sales-equivalent streams.
Drake’s surprise release
Honestly, Nevermind nearly
provided the Canadian rapper
with his fourth No.1 just 40
weeks after Certified Lover
Boy became his third – but
its first week consumption
of 27,123 units (688 digital
downloads, the rest from
streams) is 40.59% below the
45,651 copies that Certified
Lover Boy achieved on debut.
Honestly, Nevermind finished
just 345 sales behind
Harry’s House – the smallest
gap between the top two
since Michael Bublé beat
Machine Gun Kelly by 210 12
weeks ago.
They set off at a gallop,
with a lead of more than
7,000 on Sunday’s sales
flashes in pursuit of No.1
but Foals ended up in third
place with seventh studio
album Life Is Yours, on
consumption of 21,311 sales.
All of their albums have
reached the Top 10, and Life
Is Yours actually sold more
copies on debut that their
last album, Everything Not
Saved Will Be Lost: Part 2,
which became their only No.1
to date, on sales of 20,505
in October 2019. Absent from
the chart for a little over
14 years, Foals’ first
album, Antidotes, was
released on vinyl for the
first time last Friday, and
re-enters at No.71 (1,773
sales). It moves up to third
place in their best-sellers
list with 163,870 sales to
date, behind 2015 release
What Went Down (206,103
sales) and 2013’s Holy Fire
(234,820 sales).
Comprising Radiohead
veterans Thom Yorke and
Johnny Greenwood, and
drummer Tom Skinner from
jazz band Sons Of Kemet, The
Smile reached No.19 with
debut album, A Light For
Attracting Attention in
February, when it was
available only digitally. It
re-enters this week at No.5
(11,276 sales), having
finally been released on
vinyl and CD, with 7,334 of
its sales in the former and
3,429 in the latter format.
The rest of the Top 10: =
(3-4, 11,607 sales) by Ed
Sheeran, Gold Rush Kid (1-6,
10,612 sales) by George
Ezra, Fine Line (6-7, 6,145
sales) by Harry Styles,
Greatest Hits (12-8, 5,160
sales) by Queen, Sour (10-9,
4,724 sales) by Olivia
Rodrigo and Divide (7-10,
4,490 sales) by Ed Sheeran.
Overall album sales are up
2.96% week-on-week at
2,134,389, 22.00% above same
week 2021 sales of
1,749,515. Physical product
accounts for 326,582 sales,
15.30% of the total.