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Sales Report: W/E 23rd May 2024
Source: Music Week
Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles



01 75,649 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso [618 CDs, 1,001 downloads, 74,030 streaming]
02 73,605 Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help [2,047 downloads, 71,558 streaming]
03 65,208 Tommy Richman - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
04 61,494 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)
05 58,587 Hozier - Too Sweet
06 47,403 Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
07 46,430 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
08 43,174 Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone - Fortnight
09 39,739 Artemas - i like the way you kiss me
10 39,538 Dasha - Austin

12 31,769 Myles Smith - Stargazing
16 21,600 Benson Boone - Slow It Down
17 21,322 Teddy Swims - Lose Control
18 21,257 Nemo - The Code
36 13,228 Baby Lasagna - Rim Tim Tagi Dim
37 13,219 Joost - Europapa

41 12,614 Charli XCX - 360
45 11,805 Tems - Love Me JeJe
48 11,399 Olly Alexander - Dizzy
51 11,010 Macklemore - HIND'S HALL
55 10,425 Gunna - one of wun
58 9,819 Teddy Swims - The Door
64 9,203 Gunna - on one tonight
67 9,040 Bambie Thug - Doomsday Blue
68 9,036 beabadoobee - Take a Bite
70 8,996 Marshmello & Kane Brown - Miles On It
71 8,932 Myles Smith - Solo

Trailing on sales flashes all week, Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso got a timely but ultimately unneeded shot from the release of the CD edition on Thursday, cementing its third straight week at No.1 on consumption of 75,649 units (618 CDs, 1,001 digital downloads, 74,030 sales-equivalent streams).

The track which threatened to derail it would have restored one of the duo whom Carpenter dethroned to the summit. I’m talking about singer and rapper Post Malone, who was top with Taylor Swift and Fortnight, and was looking for a quickfire return to the apex courtesy of his new Morgan Wallen collaboration, I Need Some Help. Valiant in failure, it opens instead at No.2 on consumption of 73,605 units (2,047 digital downloads, 71,558 sales-equivalent streams). Only the second hit for Wallen, who reached No.28 last year with Last Night, it is a full-on country song, and delivers Malone his 35th hit in total, and 10th Top 10 entry.

America’s top two singles continue their UK chart climbs: Not Like Us, which opened atop the Billboard Hot 100 last week, jumps 10-6 (47,403 sales) for Kendrick Lamar, while Tommy Richman’s viral debut, Million Dollar Baby – No.2 stateside – climbs 7-3 (65,208 sales).

While one country song debuts at No.2, two others drift to lower positions in the Top 10 despite increasing consumption: A Bar Song (Tipsy) retreats 3-4 for Shaboozey despite a muscular 23.01% rise week-on-week to 61,494, while Austin is down one slot week-on-week and three on its peak to No.10 even though its consumption increases for the 12th week in a row, adding 7.01% to 39,538 units. The Shaboozey hit tops the download singles chart (2,554 sales).

The rest of the Top 10: Too Sweet (2-5, 58,587 sales) by Hozier, Beautiful Things (4-7, 46,430 sales) by Benson Boone, Fortnight (5-8, 43,174 sales) by Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone and I Like The Way You Kiss Me (6-9, 39,739 sales) by Artemas. Outside of the first week after Christmas, when streaming elevates sales to giddy heights, Hozier’s tally is the highest for a No.5 singles since Shawn Mendes’ Stitches achieved 60,434 units in February 2016.

ACR brings down the curtain on Lose Control’s 18-week run in the Top 10 for Teddy Swims. It slides 8-17 (21,322 sales) while his second hit, The Door rises 68-58 (9,819 sales).

Two weeks after his November 2023 track Solo finally made its chart debut at No.69, 25-year-old singer/songwriter Myles Smith, from Luton, has a much bigger hit, with Stargazing debuting at No.12 (31,769 sales). Solo (73-71, 8,932 sales) remains in the Top 75.

A year ago this week, there were eight songs from the Eurovision Song Contest in the Top 75, including four in the Top 10. The 2024 intake is neither so large nor so dramatic but there are debuts for the Swiss entry and winner of the 68th Grand Prix, The Code (No.18, 21,257 sales) by Nemo; Croatian entry and competition runner-up Rim Tim Tagi Dim (No.36, 13,228 sales) by Baby Lasagne; disqualified Dutch entry, Europapa (No.37, 13,219 sales) by Joost; and Irish entry Doomsday Blue (No.67, 9,040 sales) by Bambie Thug. It is the first hit for all.

UK entrant Olly Alexander’s Dizzy – which finished 18th out of 25 entrants in the final – picked up 46 points from the national juries but none of the 2,204 available from the public vote. To do so means that it failed to rank among the Top 10 songs as voted for in 36 other countries, and ‘the rest of the world’. It does re-enter the chart domestically, but only at No.48 (11,399 sales), failing to match its original No.42 peak.

Five years after their first collaboration, One Thing Right, peaked at No.76 – missing the Top 75 by 13 sales – the second teaming of Marshmello & Kane Brown – country/EDM track Miles On It – is more successful, debuting at No.70 (8,996 sales). It is the 17th Top 75 entry for Marshmello, the first for 30-year-old country/pop singer/songwriter Brown. Despite falling tantalisingly short of the Top 75, One Thing Right has to-date consumption of 286,048 units, making it Brown’s top track, and Marshmello’s 12th.

Also new to the Top 75: 360 (No.41, 12,614 sales), the 23rd hit for Charli XCX, and the second from her upcoming sixth studio album, Brat; Hind’s Hall (No.51, 11,010 sales) a pro-Palestinian protest song and the ninth hit for rapper Macklemore, arriving five years to the week since his last; One Of Wun (No.55, 10,425 sales), the title track of American rapper Gunna’s new No.4 album, and On One Tonight (No.64, 9,203 sales), his 20th and 21st hits; and Take A Bite (No.68, 9,036 sales), the third hit for Beabadoobee.

Benson Boone scores his second Top 20 single as Slow It Down jumps 23-16 (21,600 sales).

There is also a new peak for Love Me Jeje (52-45, 11,805 sales) by Tems.

Overall singles consumption is up 3.26% week-on-week, busting through the 30 million mark for the first time at 30,971,974 units, 11.29% above same week 2023 consumption of 27,830,369 units. Paid-for sales are up 1.52% week-on-week at 277,950 – 8.24% below same week 2023 sales of 302,911.

Albums



01 29,740 Taylor Swift - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT [1,837 CDs, 1,313 vinyl, 15 cassettes, 429 downloads, 26,146 streaming]
02 17,981 Kings of Leon - Can We Please Have Fun [6,614 CDs, 5,500 vinyl, 2,560 cassettes, 987 downloads, 2,320 streaming]
03 9,058 Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism
04 8,196 Gunna - One of Wun
05 8,171 The Weeknd - The Highlights
06 7,985 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS
07 6,926 Keane - Hopes and Fears [total: 2,950,712, including 88,094 streaming]
08 6,278 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop
09 5,979 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
10 5,434 Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

11 5,365 Noah Kahan - Stick Season
13 5,153 Bugzy Malone - The Great British Dream
28 3,599 M Huncho & Potter Payper - 36 Hours
30 3,441 Gabrielle - A Place In Your Heart
31 3,422 Queen - Rock Montreal
36 3,075 Jordan Rakei - The Loop
37 3,023 BIG SPECIAL - POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES

43 2,897 Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
47 2,762 Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
65 2,345 Arab Strap - I'm totally fine with it 👍 don't give a fuck anymore 👍

xxx 856 Frank Turner - Undefeated
xxx 637 Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible

Compilations

01 11,589 Eurovision Song Contest Malmö 2024 [1,560 CDs, 537 downloads, 9,492 streaming]

Resuming at No.1 despite its consumption falling for the third straight week, The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD) is the third of 12 No.1 albums by Taylor Swift to climb back to the summit after being dethroned.

Emulating 2020 set Evermore and 2022’s Midnights, TTPD does so with consumption falling just 6.76% week-on-week to 29,740 units as her Eras tour rolls into Europe – 1,837 CDs, 1,313 vinyl albums. 15 cassettes, 429 digital downloads and 26,146 sales-equivalent streams.

In so doing, it earns its third and Swift’s 23rd week at No.1, the latter tally including an impressive 19 (8.33%) of the 228 weeks that have elapsed so far in the 2020s. In America, where TTPD will secure its fourth straight week at No.1, Swift will have spent a much more impressive 73 weeks at No.1, more than any other solo artist – The Beatles lead the overall list with 131 weeks at the top. In Ireland, where TTPD is No.1 for the fourth straight week, Swift has spent 35 weeks at No.1.

Swift’s return to the summit this week was anything but a formality, however, as she was up against familial Followill foursome Kings Of Leon, who were in pursuit of their seventh No.1 with ninth studio album, Can We Please Have Fun. Comprising a dozen new songs co-written by the quartet – brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared and their cousin Matthew – Can We Please Have Fun was ahead on sales flashes until Wednesday but its inferior streaming power saw it slip to No.2 in the final reckoning, with consumption of 17,981 units (6,614 CDs, 5,500 vinyl albums, 2,560 cassettes, 987 digital downloads and 2,320 sales-equivalent streams). That’s 7.93% below the 19,530 sales their last album, When You See Yourself, sold on debuting at No.1 in 2021.

Their ninth Top 10 and 11th Top 75 album, Can We Please… nudges their overall UK album consumption to upwards of eight million – 8,000,485 to be precise, of which 2008 fourth album Only By The Night accounts for 3,178,352 units, 2007 third album Because Of The Times for 1,030,911 units and 2010 fifth album, Come Around Sundown for 995,014 units. Can We Please Have Fun topped all of the pure sales charts for which it was eligible, but ranked only 55th on streaming.

American rapper Gunna’s sixth chart album – his entire solo output plus Lil Baby collaboration Drip Harder – One Of Wun is his fourth straight Top 10 entry debuting at No.4 (8,196 sales) to equal his best placing.

Twenty years to the week after it debuted at No.1 on pure sales of 155,373, Keane’s debut album, Hopes And Fears, has been remastered and supplemented by b-sides, rarities and demos in new CD, vinyl, Blu-ray and digital anniversary editions, and is back in the chart for the first time in more than 17 years, re-entering at No.7 (6,926 sales). Its initial sales were very impressive as, by that point, they had only two hits, their No.3 debut smash Somewhere Only We Know and follow-up Everybody’s Changing, which opened and peaked at No.4 the day the album dropped. Hopes And Fears remains Keane’s biggest album, with to-date consumption of 2,950,712 units (all pure sales but for 88,094 sales-equivalent streams) outselling everything else by a margin of more than three to one. Somewhere Only We Know similarly leads their singles rankings, going triple platinum today (1,807,079 sales), with Everybody’s Changing (797,629 sales) second.

With consumption off 80.44% week-on-week, Radical Optimism drops 1-3 (9,058 sales) for Dua Lipa.

The rest of the Top 10: The Highlights (4-5, 8,171 sales) by The Weeknd, Guts (5-6, 7,985 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (7-8, 6,278 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, Gold: Greatest Hits (9-9, 5,979 sales) by ABBA and Sour (10-10, 5,434 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo.

In the Top 10 continuously this year until now, Stick Season slips 8-11 (5,365 sales) for Noah Kahan. Also checking out of the Top 10 are Top 200 departees, Undefeated by Frank Turner (856 sales) and Inevitable Incredible (637 sales) by Kelly Jones, which debuted at No.3 and No.6 respectively last week.

His five previous album chart entries all peaked inside the Top 10 but Mancunian rapper Bugzy Malone’s latest – the eight song EP, King Of The North – falls short, debuting at No.13 (5,153 sales).

Also new to the Top 75: 36 Hours (No.28, 3,599 sales), a collaborative mixtape between London rappers M Huncho and Potter Payper, providing the former’s seventh chart entry, the latter’s fifth; A Place In Your Heart (No.30, 3,441 sales), the eighth and lowest-charting studio album by Gabrielle; The Loop (No.36, 3,075 sales), the fifth album and second chart entry for 31-year-old singer/songwriter Jordan Rakei, born in New Zealand, raised in Australia and living in London; Postindustrial Hometown Blues (No.37, 3,023 sales), the first album by Birmingham punk/hip-hop duo Big Special – singer Joe Hicklin and drummer Callum Moloney.

Outside the Top 40 albums: You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To (No.43, 2,897 sales), the third album and first Top 75 entry by hardcore punk quintet Knocked Loose from Kentucky, arriving eight years after its predecessor, A Different Shade Of Blue, reached No.135; and I’m Totally Fine With It, Don’t Give A F**k anymore (No.65, 2,345 sales), the eighth studio album and third chart entry for Scottish indie duo Arab Strap.

Recorded in 1981, and first released in 2007, when it peaked at No.20, Queen’s Canadian concert recording Rock Montreal has been re-issued on CD, vinyl, Blu-ray and digitally to coincide with its debut on Disney+, and re-enters at No.31 (3,422 sales).

The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (50-47, 2,762 sales) reaches a new peak for Chappell Roan.

The UK entry by Olly Alexander finished 18th out of 25 at the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden last Saturday (May 11) but both semi-finals and the final of the 68th staging of the competition drew big audiences for the BBC, sending demand for the Eurovision Song Contest: Malmö album soaring. Hosting all 37 entries for the competition, it jumps 3-1 on the compilation chart with consumption growing 339.22% week-on-week to 11,589 units (1,560 CDs, 537 digital downloads, 9,492 sales-equivalent streams). It is the fourth Eurovision album to top the chart, following 2021 retrospective Now That’s What I Call Eurovision, Eurovision Song Contest: Turin 2022, and Eurovision Song Contest: Liverpool 2023. The latter album sold 17,477 copies a year ago this week, and has to-date consumption of 88,817 units, both records for a Eurovision album.

Overall album sales are down 1.46% week-on-week at 2,426,756, 7.12% above same week 2023 sales of 2,265,403. Physical product accounts for 251,225 sales, 10.35% of the total.

Bonus Information

Single Totals
1,807,079 Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
797,629 Keane - Everybody's Changing
286,048 Marshmello & Kane Brown - One Thing Right

Album Totals
3,178,352 Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
1,030,911 Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
995,014 Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown

Compilation Totals
88,817 Eurovision Song Contest Liverpool 2023

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