Big winner for a third week in a row is Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars' 'Uptown Funk!'. It gets massive 613.000 points, another 15% points increase compared to the previous week. Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space' holds tight at no.2 with 530.000 points, a whopping 46% boost.
The rest of the top five is also unchanged: Hozier's 'Take Me To Church' at no.3 with 421.000 points (up 17%), Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' at no.4 with 357.000 points (up 1%), and Meghan Trainor's 'All Around That Bass' at no.5 with 335.000 points (up 48%). This week's highest debut comes from the seven member Japanese boy goup Kis-My-Ft2, with their 16th single release 'Thank You, Jan!'. It sold massive 436.000 copies in its initial week according to Oricon, enough for a no.6 bow on the global chart. Finally it's time to celebrate 60 years Global Chart!
Lately various countries added track sales and streaming to their national album chart. And from this week on, the biggest music market of the world, the USA, makes the same. The official Billboard Top 200 Album Chart combined now album sales (conversion factor 1:1), digital track sales (10:1) and streaming (1500:1). And it seems that other countries follow this example in the next time. Let us look back in the past: with the breakthrough of the Compact Disc at the end of the Eighties and the earlier Nineties, the global album sales grew strongly with a peak in the second half of the Nineties. But now, for over 10 years the global album sales shrink dramatically. What happened?? The main reason for this decline was the new market of the Digital Tracks! Today many people don't buy a complete album as before, but they looking for the best tunes of an album and purchase only these songs. Since one, two years there's another 'problem'... Streaming! More and more people having a subscription of Spotify or other streaming-providers and buying no longer music in digital or physical formats. That's why the downward momentum of the global album sales accelerated this year and for the first time ever also the digital track sales are on the way down. Several times in the last months i thought about it, to give it up the Global Album Chart, because the worldwide sales fall further and further (certainly also in the coming years). I will summarize again: the Digital Track Sales and Streaming are the reasons for the decay of the global album sales, and that's why we follow the example of the US-Billboard Chart and other... from next year on we'll integrate Track Sales and Streaming tentatively for a hidden Global Album Chart. But the official hitlist on our Media Traffic website remains provisionally a pure sales chart (by popular request), till more countries and key markets switch over to a combined album chart.
Happy' ranks at no.5 behind USA For Africa's 'We Are The World' (1985), Bryan Adams' '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You', Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' (1992) and of course Elton John's 'Candle In The Wind' (1997). Second biggest hit of 2014 was a quiet, magnificent song. An impressive voice accompanied only by a piano: John Legend's 'All Of Me'. In its 55th week on the tally it jumps back at no.27 this week with 116.000 points, a total of 8.901.000 points so far (8.610.000 of it in 2014). Rounds out the top three last year was the rousing Neo-Soul smash 'All About The Bass' by the 21 year-old American singer / songwriter Meghan Trainor. The song slides currently no.6 on the weekly hitlist and has a total of 7.359.000 points after 24 weeks on the tally (6.731.000 of it in 2014
Taylor Swift's second Single 'Blank Space' from her top selling Album '1989' shoots straight to no.1 while last week's no.1, AKB 48's 'Kibôteki Refrain' slips to no.15.
Meghan Trainor's 'All About That Bass', one of the most successful hits of 2014, returns at no.2 and Hozier's Grammy-nominated 'Take Me To Church' reaches a new peak at no.3.
Mark Ronson enters the World's Top 10 with 'Uptown Funk!' ft. Bruno Mars at no.5 up from no.11 last week.
Mariah Carey's Xmas classic 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' reenters the world charts at no.29.
Lately various countries added track sales and streaming to their national album chart. And from this week on, the biggest music market of the world, the USA, makes the same. The official Billboard Top 200 Album Chart combined now album sales (conversion factor 1:1), digital track sales (10:1) and streaming (1500:1). And it seems that other countries follow this example in the next time. Let us look back in the past: with the breakthrough of the Compact Disc at the end of the Eighties and the earlier Nineties, the global album sales grew strongly with a peak in the second half of the Nineties. But now, for over 10 years the global album sales shrink dramatically. What happened?? The main reason for this decline was the new market of the Digital Tracks! Today many people don't buy a complete album as before, but they looking for the best tunes of an album and purchase only these songs. Since one, two years there's another 'problem'... Streaming! More and more people having a subscription of Spotify or other streaming-providers and buying no longer music in digital or physical formats. That's why the downward momentum of the global album sales accelerated this year and for the first time ever also the digital track sales are on the way down. Several times in the last months i thought about it, to give it up the Global Album Chart, because the worldwide sales fall further and further (certainly also in the coming years). I will summarize again: the Digital Track Sales and Streaming are the reasons for the decay of the global album sales, and that's why we follow the example of the US-Billboard Chart and other... from next year on we'll integrate Track Sales and Streaming tentatively for a hidden Global Album Chart. But the official hitlist on our Media Traffic website remains provisionally a pure sales chart (by popular request), till more countries and key markets switch over to a combined album chart ... and now to the current hitlist: as expected the clear winner of the this week is Australian's rock legend AC/DC. The band is more than 40 years on stage and their 17th studio album 'Rock Or Bust' shoots atop with 806.000 initial sales. Sorted by countries it sold 246.000 in Germany, 171.900 in the USA, 92.800 in United Kingdom, 91.800 in France, 31.000 in Canada, and 26.700 in Australia. In Germany 'Rock Or Bust' is the fastest selling album since more than seven years. Only Herbert Grönemeyer's '12' moved more copies in its first week at retail (March, 2007). Back to AC/DC, their former album 'Black Ice' was a big surprise, when it exploded with stellar 1.762.000 copies in the week 45, 2008. And it sold nearly 7 million copies to date. Taylor Swift's '1989' slides down at no.2 with a 12% sales decline to 334.000 copies, a total of 3.728.000 after only six weeks on the tally. Still at no.3 is this year's most successful Xmas album, 'That's Christmas To Me' by Pentatonix with another 234.000 sales. Second highest debut at no.8 and the clear new no.1 in United Kingdom is former boy-group legend Take That. Their new smash 'III' started with 158.000 units, the most of it from UK (144.500). No.1 in Japan and new at no.13 globally with 81.100 copies is 'Love Ballade' by Exile Atsushi, lead vocalist of the super group Exile. Some additional sales stats: 'Racine Carrée' by Stromae sold 12.000 copies last week and reaches a total of 2.606.000 so far, 'Native' by One Republic sold 16.000 units last week, 1.733.000 so far, 'Ultraviolence' by Lana Del Rey sold 9.000 units last week and has a total of 1.173.000 units so far, 'Xscape' by Michael Jackson sold 1.511.000 copies so far, 5 Seconds Of Summer's self-titled album 1.227.000, and 'Pure Heroine' by Lorde 2.840.000.
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