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Now a look on this week's
hitlist: the fourth week in a row, Japanese music dominate the Global
Chart. After Smap, Back Number and the Kinki Kids, now One OK Rock, an
alternative rock / post hardcore band from Tokyo, storms at the
summit. Their eighth full-length album 'Ambitions' moved 315,000 units
in its initial week, 304,100 of it in their native country alone,
according to Oricon. An English version of the effort enters many
charts around the globe, among other in the United States, Canada,
Germany, Taiwan and Hong Kong. You can see 'I Was King', the first
single from the album, further down on this page. The second and final
debut of the week comes from London's trio The XX. 'I See You', third
set of the indie pop band, rockets to the vice position of the Global
Chart with 141,000 equivalent sales. 46,000 of it in the United States
(according to Billboard), 26,500 in United Kingdom (according to OCC)
and around 15,000 in Germany (according to GfK). Another 6,000 sales
coming from France, 5,800 from Canada, 3,600 from Australia and 2,100
from Japan. The big favourite of the 89th Academy Awards ceremony on
February 26, 2017 (commonly referred to as Oscars) is the musical 'La
La Land' with 14 nominations. The soundtrack to that sprints from no.9
to no.4 this week, driven by a 35% sales boost to 77,000. And
now, as every week, additional stats from outside the current Top 10
in alphabetic order, the first figure means last week's sales, the
second figure the total sales: '1989' by Taylor Swift 8,000 /
9,824,000, '21' by Adele 14,000 / 28,421,000, '4 Your Eyez Only'
by J.Cole 35,000 / 677,000, '57th & 9th' by Sting 11,000 / 386,000, 'A Head Full Of Dreams' by Coldplay
22,000
/ 4,075,000, 'A Moon Shaped Pool' by Radiohead 5,000 / 1,153,000, 'Anti' by Rihanna
29,000 / 1,548,000, 'Beauty Behind The Madness' by
The Weeknd 21,000 / 2,424,000, 'Blackstar' by David Bowie 12,000 /
2,014,000, 'Blurryface' by Twenty One Pilots 38,000 / 2,477,000, 'Chapter And
Verse' by Bruce Springsteen 6,000 / 361,000, 'Dangerous Woman' by Ariana Grande
27,000 /
1,137,000, 'Day Breaks' by Norah Jones 9,000 / 483,000, 'Encore
Un Soir' by Celine Dion 7,000 / 924,000, 'Fantôme' by Hikaru Utada
14,000 / 711,000, 'Glory
Days' by Little Mix 22,000 / 610,000,
'Illuminate' by Shawn Mendes 33,000 / 776,000, 'Immortalized' by
Disturbed 9,000 / 1,155,000, 'Joanne' by Lady GaGa 25,000 / 895,000, 'Lemonade' by Beyoncé
15,000 / 2,724,000, 'Nobody But Me'
Michael Bublé 14,000 / 816,000, 'Purpose' by Justin Bieber 27,000 /
5,376,000, 'Revolution Radio' by Green Day 11,000 / 522,000, the 'Suicide Squad' soundtrack
27,000 /
986,000, 'The Getaway' by Red Hot Chili Peppers 10,000 / 1,290,000,
'The Heavy Entertainment Show' by Robbie Williams 13,000 / 623,000, 'The
Wonder Of You' by Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
13,000 / 679,000, 'This House Is Not For Sale' by Bon Jovi
9,000 / 446,000, 'This Is Acting' by Sia 35,000 / 1,449,000, the
'Trolls' soundtrack 36,000 / 593,000, 'Views' by Drake 43,000 /
2,798,000, 'We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service' by A Tribe
Called Quest 17,000 / 381,000, 'X' by Ed Sheeran 34,000 / 8,793,000,
'You Want It Darker' by Leonard Cohen 24,000 / 951,000.
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GLOBAL ALBUM CHART
On the Global Track Chart Ed Sheeran keeps the top two
positions for a second week. 'Shape On You' and 'Castle On The Hill'
remains at no.1 with 496,000 points, respectively at no.2 with 283,000
points. The both smashes are the first signs from his upcoming album,
which will be released on March 3. The current top three is tight in
British hands: beside Ed Sheeran, the electronic music act Clean
Bandit from Cambridge reaches a new peak, 'Rockabye' jumps from no.5
to no.3 with 244,000 points. The song overtakes the band's former big
smash 'Rather Be', which peaked at no.4 in April 2014. The American DJ
duo Chainsmokers gives us this week's highest debut, 'Paris' bows at
no.4 with 218,000 points and features uncredited vocals from American
singer and songwriter Emily Warren. It's the Chainsmokers' fifth
Global Top 10 success, the former hit 'Closer' is still there at no.9
with 191,000 points.
Outside the Top 40 waiting among other 'I Would Like' by Zara Larsson at no.41,
'Bounce Back' by Big Sean at no.43, 'Touch' by
Little Mix at no.48, 'You Don't Know Me' by Jax Jones feat. Raye at
no.49, and 'How Far I'll Go' by Auli'i Cravalho at no.54 for their first
appearance on the big list.
COMPLETE GLOBAL TRACK CHART
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Justin Timberlake's 'Can't Stop The Feeling' from the 'Trolls'
soundtrack was the biggest hit of 2016 with a total of 8,575,000
points. In the very last minute Sia's 'Cheap Thrills' climbed to the
vice-position with 8,193,000 points and overtook Drake's 'One Dance'
(8,150,000 points), which was a long time the leader of the
year-to-date chart. Remarkable the big success of Justin Bieber, he
ranks four times inside the year-end Top 20! Two times as major artist
with the by Ed Sheeran penned ballad 'Love Yourself' at no.5
(6.527.000 points) and 'Sorry' at no.17 (4.479.000 points), another
two times as feature artist with DJ Snake's 'Let Me Love You' at no.13
(5.084.000 points) and Major Lazer's 'Cold Water' at no.14 (5.062.000
points). Above there's a magnificent video countdown of the Media
Traffic year-end track Top 40
(special thanx to Charta09).
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20 years ago the R&B power ballad
"Un-Break My Heart" by
Toni Braxton
held the top position of the Global Chart for massive 14 weeks
with a total of 10.763.000 points it ranks at no.36 on the Alltime
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USA
Billboard Report
(excerpt)
Migos return to no.1 on Billboard Hot 100
Thuesday, January 24, 2017
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles
The xx scores its highest charting album ever on the
Billboard 200 chart, as the alternative band’s third studio album, I See
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in the week ending Jan. 19, according to
Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 36,000 were in traditional album sales.
The xx had previously peaked as high as No. 5 in 2012 with Coexist, the act’s
second album. It debuted at its peak, starting with 73,000 sold in its first
week. The band has charted one other title, its self-titled debut effort, which
reached No. 92 in 2010.
I See You’s 36,000 in traditional album sales enables the title to bow at No. 1
on the Top Album Sales chart, which ranks the week’s best-selling albums.
I See You is blocked from the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 by The Weeknd’s
Starboy, which holds for a third straight week at No. 1, and collects a fourth
week atop the list overall. (It debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated Dec. 17,
then returned to the top on Jan. 21, where it has been since.) Starboy earned
61,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking frame (down 3 percent). The
bulk of those units were generated by streams of the songs from the album, as
streaming equivalent album units for Starboy
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totaled 38,000 for the week (which translates to 57.2
million streams of the album’s tracks). The rest of Starboy’s overall units were
powered by track equivalent album units (10,000) and traditional album sales
(13,000 copies sold).
As for the rest of the new top 10: La La Land dips one rung to No. 3 on the
Billboard 200, with 42,000 units (up less than 1 percent), while Moana falls one
slot as well, to No. 4, with 34,000 units (down 13 percent).
Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic falls one position to No. 5 with 33,000 units (down 10
percent), while the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American
Musical, is steady at No. 6 with 28,000 units (down 4 percent).
J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only slips two slots to No. 7 with a little more than
27,000 units (down 10 percent), and Drake’s Views descends a spot to No. 8 with
27,000 units (down 4 percent).
Post Malone’s Stoney is a non-mover at No. 9 with 25,000 units (up 7 percent),
largely driven by streams (18,000 of the album’s units were generated by
streams).
Rounding out the top 10 is the Trolls soundtrack, climbing four slots to No. 10
with 23,000 units (up 20 percent). The set had a big gain in traditional album
sales, as it sold 14,000 for the week (up 40 percent). The album was sale-priced
for $6.99 in the iTunes Store during the tracking period.
Migos' "Bad and Boujee," featuring Lil Uzi Vert, rebounds from No. 2 to No. 1 to
top the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Feb. 4) for a second total week, again driven
in part by viral online buzz; it first led the Jan. 21-dated chart. The song
dethrones Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" (1-2), which debuted at No. 1 a week ago
(on the Jan. 28 tally).
"Bad" tops the Streaming Songs chart for a fourth week with 43 million U.S.
streams (up 11 percent) in the week ending Jan. 19, according to Nielsen Music.
The majority of its streams stem from YouTube (21.8 million), followed by
Spotify (10.6 million). The track also leads the audio subscription
services-based On-Demand Streaming Songs chart for a fourth week (21 million
on-demand clicks, up 17 percent).
Impressively, "Bad" wins the Hot 100's top Streaming Gainer award for a record
fifth straight week. It passes Desiigner's "Panda" and Rihanna's "Work,"
featuring Drake, each of which earned the honor for four consecutive frames in
2016.
"Bad" dips 3-4 on Digital Song Sales (68,000 downloads sold, down 21 percent)
but surges 34-27 on Radio Songs, gaining by 23 percent to 41 million in airplay
audience. Sheeran's "Shape" shifts to No. 2 on the Hot 100 following its No. 1
debut, although it remains the best-selling song in the U.S. and gains in
streams and airplay. The cut holds atop Digital Song Sales, down 50 percent to
120,000 sold (having sold 360,000 in its first two frames). It pushes 4-2 on
Streaming Songs (21.3 million, up 7 percent) and 18-12 on Radio Songs (75
million, up 31 percent).
Meanwhile, Sheeran's other top 10-debuting song from a week ago, "Castle on the
Hill," tumbles 6-28 on the Hot 100, down 2-11 on Digital Song Sales (37,000
sold, down 78 percent) and 11-18 on Streaming Songs (9.2 million, down 29
percent). Both
songs boast an official lyric video, with the proper official clip for "Castle" having
arrived early today (Jan. 23). At radio, "Shape" is being promoted to pop and
adult pop formats, while "Castle" is being worked to alternative and adult
alternative.
Rae Sremmurd's "Black Beatles" holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100, following its
seven-week command, and The Chainsmokers' "Closer," featuring Halsey, rebounds
5-4, after spending 12 weeks at No. 1. "Closer" extends its record for the most
weeks logged in the top 10 from a song's debut, having totaled all 25 of its
weeks on the chart in the region since its debut at No. 9 on Aug. 20. Rounding
out the Hot 100's top five, The Weeknd's "Starboy" descends 4-5 after its one
week at No. 1.
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"I Was King" is taken from the album
"Ambitions" by One OK Rock
this week at No.1 in Japan and
also at No.1 globally
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United Kingdom
Music Week Report
(excerpt)
London trio The XX lands at the summit
Monday, January 23, 2017
by Alan Jones, London
The girls from The X Factor yield pole position to
the band with The XX Factor, as Little Mix's second run atop the chart is
terminated with Glory Days - which dips to No.2 (15,265 sales) - being dethroned
by The xx's third album, I See You. Debuting atop the pile on sales of 26,503
copies (including 5,856 from streams), I See You is The xx's second No.1
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emulating their second album
Coexist, which debuted in pole position in September 2012 on sales of
58,266 copies. The London trio's eponymous debut album made a more
modest start, entering at No. 36 on sales of 4,180 copies in September
2009, and reached its peak position of number three, while achieving its
highest weekly sale of 28,666 copies, in the immediate aftermath of its
Mercury Prize triumph 54 weeks later. It rallies 192-123 this week on
sales of 1,003, to raise its cumulative tally to 562,400 - Coexist
re-enters at No.196 (690 sales), and has sold 266,239 copies to date.
No.1 in Australia and No.2 in the US this week, the soundtrack album to
La La Land ends a five week gestation by exploding 99-3 (14,887 sales)
to make its Top 75 debut. Sizzling to the top of the box office chart
with nearly four times the takings of any other movie and helped by
co-stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's appearance on The Graham Norton
Show, it is the highest ranked of three soundtrack albums in the
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Top 20 - Moana advances 18-16
(6,158 sales) to reach a new peak, while Trolls retreats 17-20 (5,339
sales) on its 13th appearance in the Top 40. Several of La La Land's
tracks also make the Top 200 singles chart, although only Gosling/Stone
duet City Of Stars (No.72, 5,693 sales) makes the Top 75. Electronica
artist Bonobo - 40 year old Simon Green, who was born in Brighton but is
now based in Los Angeles - scores by far his highest charting album with
sixth studio set Migration debuting at No.5 (9,484 sales). It
accelerates the upwards spiral he has enjoyed since his 2000 debut
Animal Magic failed to chart. He improved on that with Dial M For Monkey
(No.181, 2003, Days To Come (No.180, 2006) and Black Sands (No.107,
2010) before making his Top 40 debut with most recent album, The North Borders,
which opened at No.74 but eventually peaked at No.34. Despite its low
peak, Black Sands is Bonobo's biggest seller with a to-date tally of
72,756, while The North Borders has sold 56,993 copies, including a live
variant. Missing from the Top 75 since 1999, when his concept album
Return To The Centre Of The Earth - a sequel to his 1974 chart-topper
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - reached No.34, veteran rocker Rick
Wakeman returns to the Top 10 for the first time in more than 40 years
with Piano Portraits. The 67-year-old keyboards player came to fame as a
member of prog. rock legends Yes, with whom he had six Top 10 albums,
and enjoyed a successful parallel career as a solo artist, in which
capacity he scored the last of his four previous Top 10 albums in 1976
with No Earthly Connection. New set Piano Portraits, which includes
covers of tracks made famous by The Beatles, David Bowie, 10CC and Led
Zeppelin among others, debuts this week at No.7 (8,467 sales). One of
the best-known and longest established British rappers, Wiley has racked
up 10 Top 20 singles, and overall UK singles sales of more than
3,137,000 but has had less luck with album buyers with eight studio
albums and half a dozen mix albums all failing to make the Top 40, with
combined sales of just 108,000 before The Ascent reached No.26 in 2013.
New album Godfather is rumoured to be his last, and finally
delivers him a Top 10 album, debuting at No.9 (8,138 sales). Elsewhere
in the Top 10, Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best Of George Michael holds at
No.4 (10,972 sales), Pete Tong & The Heritage Orchestra's Classic House
falls 2-6 (9,097 sales), The Weeknd's Starboy rallies 11-8 (8,183 sales)
and The Rolling Stones' Blue & Lonesome holds at No.10 (6,941 sales).
Overall album sales are down 3.57% week-on-week at 1,571,069 - 10.15%
below same week 2016 sales of 1,748,505. Streaming accounted for 593,711
sales – 37.79% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are down 7.55%
week-on-week at 977,358 and are 23.37% below same week 2016 sales of
1,275,423.
Ed Sheeran continues to dominate the singles chart
with Shape Of You and Castle On The Hill, holding down the top two positions for
the second week in a row while again achieving six figure sales.
Although down substantially on their sensational first week, they remain far
ahead of the rest of the field, with Shape Of You selling a further 139,595
copies (including 73,897 from streams) and Castle On The Hill selling 100,947
copies (including 52,198 from streams).
Steve Mac co-wrote and co-produced both Shape Of You and its predecessor at No.1
Rockabye, and is thus on a run of 11 weeks at the chart summit. We'll deal with
his production credits at a later date but Shape Of You is his 13th No.1 credit
as a songwriter.
Chainsmokers secure both their own highest debut and the week's highest
debut with brand new track Paris entering at No.10 (28,735 sales). Their two
previous Top 10 hits both made more circumspect debuts - Don't Let Me Down
(feat. Daya) debuted at No.51 and peaked nine weeks later at No.2, while Closer
(feat. Halsey) opened at No.33, and took a further four weeks to reach No.1. Of the five new arrivals in the Top 10 last week, the only ones to improve their
chart positions this week are Jax Jones & Raye's You Don't Own Me, which follows
its 33-9 charge by jumping to No.4 (42,023 sales), and Australian
singer/songwriter Starley's Call On Me (8-7, 32,550 sales).
The rest of the Top 10: Human (3-3, 44,081 sales) by Rag'n'Bone Man, Rockabye
(4-5, 35,897 sales) by Clean Bandit, Touch (5-6, 35,576 sales) by Little Mix,
September Song (7-8, 32,434 sales) by JP Cooper and I Would Like (6-9, 32,412
sales) by Zara Larsson.
Overall singles sales are up 0.85% week-on-week at 11,283,291 – 31.93% above
same week 2016 sales of 8,552,720. Streams accounted for 9,771,690 sales, 86.60%
of the total. Paid-for sales are down 12.72% week-on-week at 1,511,601 – 23.45%
below same week 2016 sales of 1,974,563 and below same-week, previous-year sales
for the 180th week in a row. COMPLETE
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