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Sales Report: W/E 6th June 2024
Source: Music Week
Commentary: Alan Jones

Singles



01 66,935 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso [150 CDs, 1,258 downloads, 65,527 streaming]
02 54,737 Billie Eilish - LUNCH
03 54,353 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)
04 51,335 Central Cee & Lil Baby - BAND4BAND
05 45,032 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER
06 44,653 Tommy Richman - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
07 44,425 Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help
08 40,967 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
09 36,336 Myles Smith - Stargazing
10 36,721 Dasha - Austin

11 35,493 Billie Eilish - CHIHIRO
14 26,985 Hozier - Too Sweet
19 19,495 Teddy Swims - Lose Control [total: 1,003,923]
31 12,905 Zach Bryan - Pink Skies
35 12,218 Teddy Swims - The Door

41 10,422 Bring Me the Horizon - Top 10 staTues tHat CriEd bloOd
47 9,551 Marshmello & Kane Brown - Miles On It
50 9,100 Bring Me the Horizon - YOUtopia
57 8,632 Bring Me the Horizon feat. AURORA - liMOusIne
60 8,025 Becky Hill - Right Here
62 7,972 Zerb & The Chainsmokers feat. Ink - Addicted
66 7,647 Twenty One Pilots - The Craving
73 7,236 Lithe - Fall Back

Espresso is No.1 for the fifth straight week for Sabrina Carpenter but has the smallest sale of its reign, with consumption down 8.18% to 66,935 units. (150 CDs, 1,258 digital downloads, 65,527 sales-equivalent streams). It should receive a small boost when released on 7-inch brown vinyl and cassette next week, though they are very limited and prohibitively priced at £12.99 and £10.99 respectively, even before postage is factored in.

In the absence of an album from Carpenter with Espresso on it, her fifth and most recent studio album, Emails I Can’t Send, continues to grow, nearly two years after its release. The closest thing she has had to a hit album – it was No.76 on its first week, nine sales outside the published chart – it has had higher consumption in each of the last seven weeks than in any of the 89 before, including the week of its release. It climbs 108-91 (1,925 sales) this week, with its to-date consumption increasing to 81,515 units, considerably more than the rest of her albums combined.

No.1 a year ago with Dave collaboration Sprinter, Central Cee has his highest charting single since with Band4Band debuting at No.4 (51,335 sales). The highest of seven new entries to the Top 75 this week, it is the 32nd Top 75 and eighth Top 10 hit for the London rapper, who turns 26 on Tuesday (4 June). It includes a cameo from American rapper Lil Baby, becoming his 29th Top 75, fourth Top 10 and second highest charting hit, trailing only his 2021 Drake collaboration, Girls Want Girls.

After dipping 12-14 last week, Stargazing surges to No.9 (36,336 sales) to become the first Top 10 hit for Myles Smith. It and Central Cee’s track restore a British presence to the Top 10, after which the highest-charting UK artist is Artemas at No.24.

Billie Eilish’s three concurrent chart entries from new album Hit Me Hard And Soft continue to flock together, with Birds Of A Feather the star performer as it reaches a new peak, flying 9-5 (45,032 sales) while increasing consumption 4.33%. Losing support, Lunch remains at No.2 (54,737 sales), while Chihiro descends 7-11 (35,493 sales).

The rest of the Top 10: A Bar Song (Tipsy) (3-3, 54,353 sales) by Shaboozey, Million Dollar Baby (5-6, 44,653 sales) by Tommy Richman, I Had Some Help (6-7, 44,425 sales) by Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen, Beautiful Things (8-8, 40,967 sales) by Benson Boone and Austin (10-10, 36,721 sales) by Dasha.

ACR ends a nine-week run in the Top 10 for Too Sweet (4-14, 26,985 sales) by Hozier.

Pink Skies is the introductory single from country singer Zach Bryan’s upcoming fifth album, The Great American Bar Scene, and makes its debut at No.31, (12,905 sales), becoming his third hit. It’s his highest charting solo hit, although his Kacey Musgraves collaboration I Remember Everything climbed as high as No.14 in January. His only other charted title, Something In The Orange, from 2022’s American Heartbreak, is his most-consumed track, with a to-date tally of 631,697 units, although it peaked at No.70.

Released only digitally thus far, Bring Me The Horizon’s new album Post Human: Next Gen has spawned no fewer than eight hit singles, including a trio that make their initial appearances this week, simultaneous with the album’s No.2 debut. Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood (No.41, 10,422 sales), leads the way, followed by Youtopia (No.50, 9,100 sales) and Limousine (No.57, 8,632 sales). It increases their tally of Top 75 entries to 21. Limousine features Norwegian singer Aurora, for whom it provides a fourth hit, putting her equal with the 1990s/2000s dance act who share her name.

Denied the No.1 slot on the album chart by Taylor Swift’s last-minute smash and grab, Twenty One Pilots’ Clancy album nonetheless spins off its second and the band’s 10th Top 75 single in the form of The Craving (No.66, 7,647 sales). Despite their limited singles chart profile, three tracks by the band have achieved consumption well in excess of a million units. Their debut hit, Stressed Out, which peaked at No.12, leads the way with consumption of 2,140,331 units. It is followed by their only other Top 40 entry, and sole Top 10 hit, Heathens, which reached No.5 and has consumption of 1,754,606 units. Their third biggest song, Ride, reached No.47, and has to-date consumption of 1,190,619 units. All three were hits in 2016.

The final new entry is Fall Back (No.73, 7,236 sales), the viral introductory hit for Lithe - a singer/songwriter/rapper from Melbourne, Australia – which has upwards of 54m. plays on Spotify.

Teddy Swims’ second hit, The Door, jumps 45-35 (12,218 sales), to join his debut hit, Lose Control (20-19, 19,495 sales) in the Top 40. On its 22nd straight week in the Top 20, Lose Control’s consumption has now topped 1m. units, with a to-date tally of 1,003,923 units. Home to both tracks, Swims’ debut album, I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy Part 1 remains at No. 24 (3,900 sales).

There are also new peaks for: Miles On It (57-47, 9,551 sales) by Kane Brown & Marshmello, Right Here (65-60, 8,025 sales) by Becky Hill and Addicted (66-62, 7,972 sales) by Zerb & The Chainsmokers feat. Ink.

No fewer than 16 tracks are non-movers, including 13 in the Top 40.

Overall singles consumption is down 3.56% week-on-week to 29,467,400 units, 4.89% above same week 2023 consumption of 28,093,513 units. Paid-for sales are up 5.96% week-on-week at 281,937 – 5.19% below same week 2023 sales of 297,375.

Albums



01 40,636 Taylor Swift - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT [17,570 CDs including 5,299 of The Manuscript edition, 4,042 vinyl, 24 cassettes, 2,073 downloads, 16,927 streaming]
02 34,646 Twenty One Pilots - Clancy
03 26,687 Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
04 22,674 Paul Weller - 66
05 10,250 Bring Me the Horizon - POST HUMAN: NeX GEn [1,087 downloads, 9,163 streaming]
06 8,061 The Weeknd - The Highlights
07 6,675 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS
08 6,511 Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism
09 5,795 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop
10 5,330 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits

12 5,255 Meekz - TRU
24 3,900 Teddy Swims - I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1)
33 3,364 Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
37 3,143 RM - Right Place, Wrong Person
38 3,132 Wallows - Model

43 2,920 Niko B - dog eat dog food world
60 2,354 Take That - This Life
73 2,148 Lenny Kravitz - Blue Electric Light
74 2,146 Pak-Man - Legendary Still
91 1,925 Sabrina Carpenter - emails i can't send [total: 81,515]

149 1,864 Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

xxx 1,039 ZAYN - ROOM UNDER THE STAIRS
xxx 1,035 Slash - Orgy of the Damned
xxx 537 Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Loophole

Compilations

01 3,692 Eurovision Song Contest Malmö 2024 [335 CDs, 196 vinyl, 30 downloads, 3,131 streaming]

Boosted by the release last Friday (May 24) of a new CD variant adding previously unreleased bonus track The Manuscript, The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD) returns to No.1 for Taylor Swift.

Also given impetus by the approach of the UK leg of her Eras tour – which starts a week today (June 7) in Edinburgh – TTPD increased consumption week-on-week for the first time, surging 62.41% to 40,636 units. No.1 for the fourth time in six weeks, its latest tally includes 17,570 CDs (5,299 with The Manuscript), 4,042 vinyl albums, 24 cassettes, 2,073 digital downloads and 16,927 sales-equivalent streams.

Its return to the summit was never assured, however – Twenty One Pilots’ seventh studio album Clancy was ahead in all of the week’s sales flashes, and was only prevented from becoming their first No.1 album because of inferior streaming. Their fifth Top 75 entry, and fourth Top 10 set, it opens at No.2 (34,646 sales), equalling their previous peak, as set by fifth album, Trench, which had consumption of 29,835 units as it opened in that position in 2018. Their most recent album before Clancy was Scaled And Icy, which debuted and peaked at No.3 on consumption of 15,505 units in 2021.

A duo comprising 35-year-olds Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun – both from Columbus, Ohio – throughout their chart career, their two biggest-selling albums are approaching milestones. Their most consumed set, Blurryface, a 2015 release that peaked at No.5 in 2016 – is weeks away from double platinum, with to-date consumption of 594,200 units, while third album Vessel – a 2013 release, which reached a belated No.39 peak three years later – is set to go platinum shortly, with to-date consumption of 295,423 units. Clancy will fall short in America too, but it does debut at No.1 in Germany, where Twenty One Pilots’ previous peak was No.4.

If she is still making records in 2054, it’s possible that Adele – whose albums thus far (19,21, 25 and 30) have all been titled after her age when she started recording them – will release one entitled 66. Paul Weller has beaten her to it, with 66 being the title of his 17th solo studio album, which dropped the day before he actually turned 66 last Saturday, and making its debut chart appearance at No.4 (22,674 sales). Including compilations and live sets it is the 23rd Top 10 and 31st Top 75 album of his solo career, which followed extremely successful spells fronting first The Jam and then The Style Council.

Weller’s album completes a top four with consumption well in excess of 20,000 units. Its sales would have sufficed for a No.1 debut in 10 of the 21 previous chart weeks this year, most recently six weeks ago. The last time the No.4 album achieved a greater sale was in the chart for 19 November 2021 - 132 weeks ago – when Little Mix’s Between Us sold 33,822 copies.

Not due on vinyl or CD until 27 September, Bring Me The Horizon’s Post Human: Next Gen – which dropped unexpectedly in digital form only last Friday (May 24) – nevertheless becomes the Sheffield rock quartet’s fifth Top 10 and seventh Top 75 album, debuting at No.5 on consumption of 10,250 units (1,087 digital downloads, 9,163 sales-equivalent streams). It is the second in a projected quartet of Post Human releases, and the follow-up to 2020’s Post Human: Survival Horror. That set was also available initially only digitally and debuted at No.5 (9,054 sales). Twelve weeks later, it was released on CD, vinyl and cassette, and exploded 166-1 (14,904 sales).

The No.4 (Weller) thus outsold the No.5 (BMTH) by 12,424 units – the biggest gap between the two positions since that Little Mix album was 13,352 units ahead of Rod Stewart’s The Tears Of Hercules – and has a much bigger lead over its rival in percentage terms, with a 121.21% advantage vs. Little Mix’s 65.23%.

Its consumption dipping 60.20% week-on-week, Billie Eilish’s third album, Hit Me Hard And Soft dips 1-3 (26,687 sales).

The rest of the Top 10: The Highlights (4-6, 8,061 sales) by The Weeknd, Guts (5-7, 6,675 sales) by Olivia Rodrigo, Radical Optimism (6-8, 6,511 sales) by Dua Lipa, 50 Years: Don’t Stop (9-9, 5,795 sales) by Fleetwood Mac and Gold: Greatest Hits (12-10, 5,330 sales) by Abba.

Four albums make speedy departures from the Top 75, a week after debuting in The Top 10. Only Lives Outgrown (7-149, 1,864 sales) by Beth Gibbons remains in the Top 200. Room Under The Stairs (1,039 sales) by Zayn, Orgy Of The Damned (1,035 sales) by Slash and Loophole (537 sales) by Michael Head – No.3, No.8 and No.10 last week – are nowhere to be seen.

Masked Mancunian Meekz’s third mixtape, Tru, debuts at No.12 (5,255 sales), equalling his highest chart position. The 27-year-old rapper – real name Mico Guy Tyler Howles – reached No.32 with 2020 debut, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, and No.12 with 2022 follow-up Respect The Come Up.

Also new to the Top 75: Right Place Wrong Person (No.37, 3,143 sales), the second solo album by BTS rapper RM, following 2022 No.45 entry Indigo; Model (No.38, 3,132 sales), the third album and first chart entry for California alt-rock trio Wallows; Dog Eat Dog Food World (No.43, 2,920 sales), the first album by 23-year-old Buckinghamshire rapper Tom Austin as Niko B; Blue Electric Light (No.73, 2,148 sales), the 12th studio album (all charted) by 60-year-old New Yorker Lenny Kravitz; and Legendary Still (No.74, 2,146 sales), the second chart album by Yorkshire-born, London-raised rapper Pak-Man.

Chappell Roan’s debut album The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess reaches a new peak for the fourth week in a row, climbing 44-33 (3,364 sales).

Released in a new deluxe edition, Take That’s latest album, This Life, rallies 181-60 (2,354 sales), 25 weeks after debuting at No.1.

Eurovision Song Contest: Malmö 2024 is No.1 on the compilation chart for the third time, on consumption of 3,692 units (335 CDs, 196 vinyl albums, 30 digital downloads, 3,131 sales-equivalent streams).

Overall album sales are down 1.26% week-on-week at 2,449,013, 7.79% above same week 2023 sales of 2,271,992. Physical product accounts for 336,408 sales, 13.74% of the total.

Bonus Information

Single Totals
2,140,331 Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out
1,754,606 Twenty One Pilots - Heathens
1,190,619 Twenty One Pilots - Ride
631,697 Zach Bryan - Something in the Orange

Album Totals
594,200 Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface
295,423 Twenty One Pilots - Vessel

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