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AC/DC's new Album 'Power Up' tops this week's United World Album Chart with equivalent sales of 348,000!

Posted on December 02, 2020

AC/DC's new Album 'Power Up' tops this week's United World Album Chart with equivalent sales of 348.000! ‘Power Up’ (PWRϟUP) is AC/DC's 17th studio album, and was released on November 13, 2020 via Columbia Records and Sony Music Australia. The album marks the return of vocalist Brian Johnson, drummer Phil Rudd and bassist Cliff Williams, who left AC/DC before, during, or after the supporting tour for their previous album 'Rock or Bust'. It's also the band's first album since the death of co-founder and rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young in 2017 and is a tribute to him. The critically acclaimed album debuted at #1 in 21 countries including Australia, with AC/DC becoming the first act to have a number one album in Australia in each of the five decades (1980s to 2020s)! The album registered 21,535 sales in its first week, outselling the rest of the top 15 combined! In the United States, 'Power Up' debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with 117,000 album-equivalent units, 111,000 of which were pure sales! Its the band's 3rd album to top the chart, following 'For Those About to Rock We Salute You' (1981) and 'Black Ice' (2008). The album's tracks accumulated a total 7.8 million on-demand streams in the week ending 28 November! The album also debuted at #1 on the UK Official Albums Chart with 62,000 chart sales, the biggest opening week of 2020 so far, and has already been certified Silver for 60.000 sales units! In Germany, the album debuted at No. 1, selling almost 160,000 copies, the biggest debut of the year! It is #1 for a 2nd week. The album has also debuted at #1 in Argentina, Austria, where it has already been certified Platinum for 15.000 units, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, where it has been certified Gold for 20.000 units, Sweden & Switzerland. It has also peaked at #2 in Denmark & the Netherlands, at #3 in the Czech Republic & Greece, at #11 in Japan and at #15 in Slovak.

Japanese utaite Group, Strawberry Prince, debuts at #2 with 'Sutopuri' and 1st week sales of 232.000, while Ariana Grande's 'Positions' holds at #3 for a 2nd week after debuting at #2 on the United World Chart, selling another 139.000 equivalent units and a total of 424,000 since its release.

Korean Boy band, Treasure, lands at #4 this week with their brand new album 'The First step: Chapter Three' which sold 121,000 equivalent units in its 1st week.

New entry at #5 for Future & Lil Uzi Vert's 'Pluto x Baby Pluto' with first week sales of 115.000, while Chris Stapleton's brand new 'Starting Over' lands at #6 with sales of 113.000.

New entry for Korean Band SHINEE's Taemin at #7 with his brand new album 'Never Gonna dance Again: Act 2' and sales of 102.000, while the late Pop Smoke's former chart topping album 'Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon', dips 6-8 this week after selling another 92.000 units and 2.761.000 so far.

Former No. 1, Juice WRLD's 'Legends Never Die', rebounds 10-9 after selling another 61.000 units and 2.421.000 so far, while Harry Styles' former chart topping album, 'Fine LIne', holds at #10 after selling another 59.000 and a total of 3.638.000 so far!

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Billie Eilish's "Therefore I Am" rockets to #1 on the United World Chart!

Posted on December 02, 2020

Billie Eilish's "Therefore I Am" debuts at #1 on the United World Chart! It's her second global No.1 success following "Bad Guy" which topped the United World Chart 19 months ago, and is her fifth Top 10 hit on the chart! The song was written by Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell. "Therefore I Am” also debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Global 200 with 72.8 million streams and 26,000 sold worldwide in its first full tracking week, ending Nov. 19, following its Nov. 12 release. The Song vaulted 94-2 on the Billboard US Hot 100 after drawing 24.2 million streams, 14,000 downloads, and 18.3 million radio airplay audience impressions! It's Billie's 4th Top 10 hit in the US and 20th total Hot 100 hit! The Song also debuted at #1 in the US on the Rolling Stone Top 100 and at #1 in Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand and Slovakia. It peaked at #2 in Austria, Canada, Finland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK, #3 in Australia, Czech Republic & Denmark, #4 in Sweden, #5 in Germany, #11 in the Netherlands, #13 in Belgium (Flanders), #15 in Italy, #34 in France, #41 in Belgium (Wallonia), #53 in Scotland and #75 on the Hot 100 in Japan!

Bad Bunnny's reggaeton smash hit, "Dákiti", ft. Jhay Cortez holds at #2! "Dákiti" is #1 for a 2nd week on the new Billboard Global 200 chart and the Billboard Global Chart Excl. US! The Song has been #1 on the Global Spotify Chart over 24 days and has already garnered over 181 million streams on the platform!

Last week's chart topper, "Mood", by 24kGoldn feat. Iann Dior slips 1-3 in its 13th week on the chart. "Mood" also held for a whopping great 35 days atop the Global Spotify chart and has over 496 million streams so far on the platform! Released on July 24, 2020, the song went viral on TikTok, and became a chart success worldwide, topping the Billboard Hot 100 where it is currently #1 for a 5th week!

#BTS 방탄소년단’s “Dynamite holds at #4 for a 2nd week on the United World chart after topping the chart for 8 non consecutive weeks! It's BTS's first english language bop and their most successful single to date! It's the 1st song in 2020 to sell over 1 million downloads, and scored the biggest global sales debut of 2020! It also had the biggest debut of 2020 on Global Spotify with 7.778 million first-day streams, surpassing Taylor Swift's 7.742 million streams of "Cardigan"! "Dynamite" has over 385 million streams on Spotify so far! "Dynamite" also held atop the new Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart for 5 weeks and made history when it topped the US Hot 100 for 3 weeks and held in the US Hot 100 Top 10 for 9 weeks, setting a new record for tracks by Korean Artists.

Ariana Grande

holds at #5 for a 2nd week with her global smash hit "Positions" which debuted at #1 atop the United World Chart! The song also debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande's fifth US No. 1 single and extending her record of being the 1st artist to have five No. 1 debut singles on the chart and for being the only artist to have the lead singles of all her albums debut within the top-10 of the chart. It also debuted at #1 on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S., making "Positions" the first song to debut atop both charts and the Hot 100 simultaneously!

MALUMA's "Hawái" slips 6-3 this week on the World United Chart. Maluma scored his highest peak so far at #3 on the Hot 100 last week, powered by the new remix of the song by Canadian superstar

The Weeknd. The song has so far hit over 418 Million streams on Spotify after breaking several streaming records in Latin America!

Former Number One, Jason Derulo and Jawsh685's "Savage Love (Laxed Siren Beat)" dips 6-7 after previously topping the chart for 5 non consecutive weeks, the last of which was thanks to BTS's Remix of the song!

Justin Bieber's "Holy" ft. Chance The Rapper dips 7-8 after debuting at #3 and The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" dips 8-9 this week after previously topping the chart for 17 weeks, the most ever for an artist in 2020! "Blinding Lights" has now surpassed 1.63 Billion streams on Spotify, the most for a song over the past year!

#InternetMoney's "Lemonade" ft Gunna & Don Tolliver dips 9-10 after peaking at #8 three weeks ago!

The second highest debut of the week on the United World Chart is from the Japanese idol boy band SixTONES whose 3rd single, "New Era" debuts at no.11 globally after selling 446,000 single units, according to Oricon.

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Japanese Boy Band Arashi tops this week's United World Album Chart with its 17th and final Studio Album 'This Is Arashi' and massive equivalent sales of 700,000!

Posted on November 22, 2020

Japanese Boy Band Arashi has topped this week's United World Album Chart with its 17th studio album 'This Is Arashi' and massive equivalent units of 700,000, sold in the 1st week acording to Oricon! It's the hugely popular Band's final recording before they go on hiatus on December 31, 2020. As of October 2020, the group had sold over 56.7 million albums, singles and videos and is the best selling boy band in Asia so far! Arashi has continued to release chart-topping singles and albums, perform sold-out concert tours and remain the most popular Boy Band in Japan!

South Korean boy group, Monsta X, debuts at #2 this week with their third studio album 'Fatal Love’ and 173,000 equivalent sales, 167,000 of which comes from the band's native country alone according to Hanteo.

Ariana Grande's 'Positions' dips 2-3 after selling another 152,000 equivalent units and a total of 424,000 since its release while Korean Girl band Mamamoo lands at #4 this week with their brand new album 'Travel' which sold 121,000 equivalent units in its 1st week.

Kylie Minogue debuts at #5 on the United world Chart with her brand new 'Disco' selling 115,000 units and also topping the Official UK Album chart and the ARIA Album chart in Australia!

Former #1, Pop Smoke’s ‘Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon’ holds at No. 6 after selling another 96,000 and 2.669.000 so far, while Korean Superstar Mino lands at #7 this week with his brand new Album 'Take' after selling 83,000 equivalent units.

Ab6ix's 'Salute' debuts at #8 with 83,000 equivalent units and Australian Rapper The Kid Laroi's new Mixtape 'F*ck Love' enters the United World Album's Top 10 at #9 after selling another 75,000 equivalent units and 398,000 so far.

Former #1, Juice WRLD's 'Legends Never Die', holds at #10 with equivalent sales of 63,000 and a total of 2,360,000 so far!

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24Goldn's "Mood" ft. iann Dior finally hits No. 1 on the United World Chart!

Posted on November 22, 2020

24kGoldn's "Mood" ft. iann dior finally makes it to #1 on the United World Chart, up 2-1 after 12 weeks on the tally. The song was powered by the new Justin Bieber and J Balvin Remix! The song also tops the Global Airplay chart! "Mood" also held for a whopping great 35 days atop the Global Spotify chart and has over 475 million streams so far on the platform! Released on July 24, 2020, the song went viral on TikTok, and became a chart success worldwide, topping the Billboard Hot 100 where it is currently #1 for a 4th week! It also takes over as the most-streamed song of the week for the first time, logging its first frame atop the Streaming Songs chart. "Mood" garnered 25.3 million U.S. streams and sold 13,000 downloads in the US in the week ending Nov. 12, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It also scored 85 million radio airplay audience impressions (up nearly 1%) in the week ending Nov. 15. The track spends a third week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart. The song also jumps 6-2 on Digital Song Sales. "Mood" became the first song to top the Hot 100, Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, Hot Alternative Songs, and Hot Rap Songs charts in the same week! The song hit #2 on the new Billboard Global 200 chart! Internationally, "Mood" has peaked at #1 in Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The song also hit #2 in Belgium, #3 in Finland & Lithuania, #4 in Greece, #7 in France, #8 in Italy, #10 in Scotland, #13 in Romania, #15 in Malaysia, #22 in Slovenia, #32 in Spain and #38 in Poland. "Mood" has so far been certified Gold in Denmark for 45k units, Gold in Germany for 200K units and Gold in Italy for 35k units! It has gone Platinum in Austria for 30k units, Platinum in New Zealand for 30k units, Platinum in the US for 400k units and double Platinum in Australia for 140k units!

Just behind 'Mood' is the reggaeton smash hit "Dákiti" by Puerto Rican Superstars Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez who are #1 this week on the new Billbord Global 200 chart and the Billboard Global Chart Excl. US! The song holds atop the Global Spotify chart for a 18th day with over 147 million streams so far on the platform!

MALUMA's streaming hit 'Hawái' shoots 10 - 3 powered by a new remix of the song by Canadian superstar The Weeknd. This is Maluma's highest position so far! The song has so far hit over 406 Million streams on Spotify.

#BTS 방탄소년단’s “Dynamite slips 1-4 on the United World chart after holding at #1 for 8th unconsecutive days! Only Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP", BTS' own Remix of Jason Derulo & Jawsh685's "Savage Love" and Ariana Grande's smash hit "Positions" managed to replace "Dynamite" for 1 week atop the global chart since its release on August 21st up till "Mood" took over the United World Chart this week! It's BTS's first english language bop and their most successful single to date! It is the 1st song in 2020 to sell over 1 million downloads and scored the biggest global sales debut of 2020! It also had the biggest debut of 2020 on Global Spotify with 7.778 million first-day streams, surpassing Taylor Swift's 7.742 million streams of "Cardigan"! "Dynamite" has over 363 million streams on Spotify so far and is #2 on the Global Spotify Chart! "Dynamite" also held atop the new Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart for 5 weeks and the Billboard Global 200 chart for 3 and made history when it topped the US Hot 100 for 3 weeks and held in the US Hot 100 Top 10 for 9 weeks, setting a new record for tracks by South Korean groups. It is the World’s most viewed video of All time in its first 24 hours!

Ariana Grande, dips 3-5 with her global smash hit "Positions" which debuted at #1 on the United World Chart! The Song also debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande's fifth US number-one single and extending her record of being the first artist to have five number-one debut singles on the chart and for being the only artist to have the lead singles of each of her albums debut within the top-10 of the chart. It also debuted at #1 on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S., making "Positions" the first song to debut simultaneously atop both charts and the Hot 100.

Former Number One, Jason Derulo and Jawsh685's "Savage Love (Laxed Siren Beat)" dips 5-6 after previously topping the chart for 5 non consecutive weeks.

Justin Bieber's "Holy" ft. Chance The Rapper holds at #7 for a 2nd week after debuting at #3, and The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" dips 6-8 this week after previously topping the chart for 17 weeks, the most ever for an artist in 2020. "Blinding Lights" has now surpassed 1.6 Billion streams on Spotify, the most for a song in 2020! The Song peaked at No. 1 in 34 countries, including the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 where "Blinding Lights" spent 4 weeks at #1, 39 weeks in the top ten and 33 weeks in the top five, breaking records for the most time spent on the Top 10 and Top 5 since the Billboard Hot 100 began in 1958! The Song became the Weeknd’s 5th number One Single in Canada, spending 7 weeks atop the chart! It also became his first number one single in Germany where it held atop the official chart for 10 weeks. In the United Kingdom it topped the Official Chart for 8 weeks, and in Australia it topped the ARIA chart for 11 weeks, thus making it the most successful single worldwide in 2020 to date!

#InternetMoney's "Lemonade" holds at #9 for a 3rd week after peaking at #8 two weeks ago and Miley Cyrus' 'Midnight Sky" shoots 16 - 10 this week!

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BTS' "Dynamite" is back at #1 on the United World Chart for an 8th week!

Posted on November 15, 2020

BTS's "Dynamite" is back at #1 on the World United chart for an 8th incredible week! Only Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP", BTS' own Remix of Jason Derulo & Jawsh685's "Savage Love" and Ariana Grande's smash hit "Positions" has managed to replace "Dynamite" for 1 week atop the global chart since its release on August 21st! It's the band's first english language bop and their most successful single to date! It is the 1st song in 2020 to sell over 1 million downloads and and had the biggest global sales debut of 2020 and the biggest debut of 2020 on Global Spotify with 7.778 million first-day streams, surpassing Taylor Swift's 7.742 million streams of "Cardigan"! "Dynamite" has over 337 million streams on Spotify so far! The catchy song topped the new Billboard Global 200 for 3 weeks and is No. 4 this week on the chart. BTS is the only act along with Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber to score multiple hits in the Top 5 of the Billboard Global 200 since its inception! "Dynamite" held atop the new Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart for 5 weeks and is #3 this week. "Dynamite" also made history when it topped the US Hot 100 for 3 weeks and held in the US Hot 100 Top 10 for 9 weeks. The Song is #16 this week and holds in the US Top 20 for an 11th week. "Dynamite" has therefore now become BTS's longest-running song on the Hot 100, setting a new record for tracks by all-South Korean groups. The previous record was the 10 weeks achieved by BTS's 2017 "MIC Drop" remix. The song has also topped the US Digital Song Sales chart for 10 weeks. "Dynamite" sold 265,000 downloads in the US in its 1st week, the biggest pure sales week since Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" launched with 353,000 downloads in 2017! "Dynamite" is the band's first single to debut at #1 on the Hot 100 in the United States making BTS the first all-South Korean act to top the chart. BTS is also the first Asian act to chart a No. 1 song in America since #KyuSakamoto with "Sukiyaki" (1963). "Dynamite" scored the biggest sales week of the year in the US with 300,000 units, surpassing the The Weeknd's record with "Blinding Lights". "Dynamite" is the 20th song in Billboard history to spend its 1st two weeks atop the Hot 100 since the chart began in 1958! "Dynamite" is also the 1st song to top the Billboard Hot 100, the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. US simultaneously! It's #9 on the Billboard's Pop Songs radio airplay chart for a 2nd week, the highest chart position ever for a South Korean act, surpassing the No. 10 peak reached by PSY's "Gangnam Style" in October 2012! The Song has sold 1.1 million certified sales units in the US so far! "Dynamite" debuted at #1 on the Gaon Digital, Streaming, Download & BGM Charts in Korea, after scoring their first Perfect All Kill, and is back #1 on both the Gaon Digital and Streaming charts for a 9th non consecutive week! The song was #1 on the Gaon Download chart for 6 non consecutive weeks! "Dynamite" debuted at #3 on the Official UK chart and held 9 weeks in the Top 20, and 10 weeks in the Top 40, at #21 this week! It has already been certified BRIT Silver by the BPI for sales of 200.000 units! This is BTS's 2nd single to be certified silver in the UK after "Boy With Luv" ft. Halsey in February 2020. "Dynamite" has also peaked at #1 in Colombia, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Scotland & Singapore, at #2 in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Japan, the UAE, Venezuela and on the Rolling Stone Top 100 in the US! "Dynamite" has also reached #3 in Russia, #4 in New Zealand & Switzerland, #5 in Uruguay, #6 in Guatemala, Ireland & Panama, #7 in Belgium (Flanders), Bolivia & Slovakia, #8 in Germany & the Netherlands, #9 in Austria, Costa Rica & the Czech Republic and #10 in Argentina & Greece! The Song has so far peaked at #12 in El Salvador, Lebanon & Malta, #13 in Finland, #17 in Croatia, #18 in France & Poland, #19 in Sweden, #20 in Iceland & Norway, #26 in Denmark & Italy, #38 in Spain, #47 in Romania and #51 in Paraguay! The "Dynamite" MV, directed by #YongSeokChoi scored the biggest debut of All time on YouTube with over 3 million concurrent viewers, and is the most viewed video of All Time in its first 24 hours with 101.1 million hits, breaking 3 Guinness World Records ie. Most Viewed YouTube Video In 24 Hours, Most Viewed YouTube Music Video In 24 Hours + Most Viewed YouTube Music Video In 24 Hours By A K-Pop Group! "Dynamite" is the fastest video to reach 100 and 200 million views, and the fastest Group video and Korean Artist video to reach 300 and 400 Million views! It's the fastest Korean Artist video and Group video of All Time to reach 500Million views and the fastest Korean Artist MV to reach 550 million! The video has already over 589 million views so far and over 21 million likes! It is the 6th most liked video of All Time on YouTube!

Now back to the rest of the Top 10 on the United World Chart. 24KGoldn's ft. Iann Dior lifts one spot to a new peak at #2 with already 435 million streams on Spotify while last week's chart topper, Ariana Grande, dips 1-3 with her global smash hit "Positions".

New entry for Bad Bunny's "Dakiti" ft. Jhay Cortez while former Number One, Jason DeRulo and Jawsh685's "Savage Love (Laxed Siren Beat" dips 4-5 after previously topping the chart for 5 non consecutive weeks.

The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" dips 5-6 this week after previously topping the chart for 17 weeks, the most ever for an artist in 2017. "Blinding Lights" has now surpassed 1.59 Billion streams on Spotify!

Meanwhile Justin Bieber's "Holy" ft. Chance The Rapper dips 6-7 after debuting at #3 and Harry Styles' "Watermelon Sugar" dips 7-8 after peaking at #3 on the chart. "Watermelon Sugar" has already over 842 Million streams on Spotify!

Internet Money's "Lemonade" holds at #9 after peaking at #8 two weeks ago and Maluma's Hawái holds at #10 after peaking at 4! The Song was a huge streaming hit in Latin America with already over 383 million streams on Spotify!

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