For the first time in 13 weeks an album remains atop the Global Album
Chart for a 2nd consecutive week! Taylor Swift's 'Reputation' garners
equivalent sales of 366,000 globally in its 2nd week! After its 1st week
of massive sales, the album has now sold over 2 million units!


Last week's runner-up 'Finally' by Namie Amuro holds at N°2. According
to Oricon 'Finally' sold another 322,000 units and a total of 1,435,000
so far. 'Finally' is the best-selling album from Asia this year so far.
SAM SMITH's 'The Thrill Of It All' moves up one from 4 to 3 with
equivalent sales of 142,000 and a total of 735,000 sold so far.


Ed Sheeran's 'Divide' moves back up one to N°4 with equivalent sales of
140,000 and a total of 8.257 million units sold after 38 weeks in the
global top 10!
New entry for Tim McGraw & Faith Hill's 'The Rest Of Our Life' which is
the highest debut of the week and a collaborative album by the American
country music artists who are also husband and wife. The Album debuts at
no.5 globally with 118,000 equivalent sales!
P!nk's 'Beautiful Trauma' holds at N°6 with equivalent sales of 101.000
and a total of 1.301 million units sold so far!


New entry for 西野カナ／Kana Nishino's 'Love It' at N°7 with equivalent sales
this week of 86.000!
Maroon 5's 'Red Pill Blues' holds another week at N°8 with equivalent
sales of 67.000.


New entry for Morrissey Official's 'Low In High School' which debuts at
N°9 with equivalent sales of 67.000.
Former N°1 for two consecutive weeks, 'To Be One' by South Korean boy
band Wanna One 워너원, a remix package of the same album which debuts at
no.10 this week globally with 65,000 sales, and with the original 'To Be
One', a total of 1,110,000 so far.

Camila Cabello scores a second week atop the Global Track Chart.
"Havana" features guest vocals from American rapper Young Thug and has
reached N°1 in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland,
Israel, Latvia, Scotland, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom, N°2 in
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal
and Switzerland, N°3 in Belgium and the Philippines, N°5 in Croatia,
Lebanon and the Netherlands and top 10 in Finland, Paraguay and Sweden.
The song is presently holding at N°2 on the US Billboard Hot 100,
Cabello's highest ranking in America as of yet.


Post Malone's 'Rockstar' feat. 21 Savage holds at N°2 and Ed Sheeran's
'Perfect' is still holding at no.3.


Japanese boygroup Arashi debuts with 'Doors' at no.4 and the highest
international debut of the week is 'Walk On Water', a duet between
rapper Eminem and R&B icon Beyoncé which debuts at N°11 this week!

While global album sales continue to fall dramatically, two Female
Artists have two Albums in the global Top 10 with sales of over one
million in a single week! Taylor Swift's 'Reputation' and 'Finally', a
compilation by J-pop Icon Namie Amuro.


'Reputation' is Taylor's 6th studio album and rockets to the N°1 spot in
its 1st week with massive equivalent sales of 1,619,000, 1,585,000 of
which were pure sales! It's the second best weekly sales frame this
year, after Ed Sheeran's 'Divide' which debuted with 1,789,000
equivalent sales in March. Most of 'Reputation''s sales, ie 1,238,000,
come the United States (Nielsen) with 81,000 from Canada (Nielsen),
83,600 from the UK (Official charts), 55,000 from Australia (ARIA) and
37,000 from Japan (Oricon). Taylor Swift's former album '1989' debuted
with 1,681,000 sales globally, in the week 46, 2014 and has sold a total
of 10,255,000 so far.


Japanese Legend, Namie Amuro is an Icon in her native Japan. 'Finally'
is already her 14th number one Album there and with equivalent sales of
1,113,291, it's the best sales week this year in Japan, followed by
Arashi's "Untitled', which topped the chart on November 4 with sales of
668.000. Namie started her career in 1991 at age 14 as an idol singer in
the band Super Monkey's. In 1995 she signed to Avex Trax and debuted as
a solo artist with the single 'Body Feels Exit'. Namie's biggest success
was her second album 'Sweet 19 Blues' from 1996, which debuted with
massive sales of 1,921,850 copies in its first week and sold nearly 3,4
million to date.

Camila Cabello scores the N°1 spot in the world this week, and tops the Global Track Chart for the 1st time ever! "Havana" was released on August 3, 2017 as a promotional single of Camila's upcoming debut album, along with "OMG". Due to the spontaneous success of the song and Camila discarding "Crying in the Club" from the album, "Havana" became the official lead single. The song has reached N°1 in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Scotland and the United Kingdom as well as the top ten in a number of countries including Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, while peaking at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, Cabello's highest ranking as of yet.


'Rockstar' by Post Malone feat. 21 Savage moves up one spot to N°2 this week, and Ed Sheerans 'Perfect' moves back up one to N°3.


SAM SMITH's "Too Good At Goodbyes" moves up one spot to N°4 and closing this week's top 5 is Maroon 5's "What Lovers Do" ft. SZA