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Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and illustrator, Kenshi Yonezu, scores a 2nd week atop the global album chart with his new album 'Stray Sheep' selling another 313.000 equivalent units and 1.328.000 so far!

Posted on September 01, 2020

Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and illustrator, Kenshi Yonezu tops the global album chart for a 2nd week with his new album 'Stray Sheep' selling another 313.000 equivalent units and 1.328.000 so far! Yonezu is the 4th Act to have debuted with over a Million official Units this year following BTS's 'Map Of The Soul 7', Seventeen's 'Heng:Garae' and Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' which rebounds to #2 after selling another 159.000 and 1.63 million official sales so far, not counting the album’s unofficial tally in China which is in excess of 750.000!

Former chart topper, 'Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon', the posthumous album by rapper Pop Smoke, sells another 135,000 sales, and a total of 1.3 million so far, while new Korean Group Treasure's 'The First Step: Chapter One' debuts at #4 with sales of 131.000!

Juice Wrld's former #1 Album 'Legends Never Die' holds at #4 after selling another 122.000 equivalent units and 1.406.000 so far, while Harry Styles' 'Fine Line' reenters the Top 10 at 6 with sales of 69.000 and 2.897.000 so far!

The Original Broadway Cast of 'Hamilton: An American Musical' lifts 10-7 after selling another 68.000 and 2.620.000 since its release 11 weeks ago while Han Seung Woo's brand new album 'Fame' debuts at #8 after selling 65.000 in its first week.

New entry at #9 for Young Dolph's 'Rich Slave' after selling 65.000 in its first week and closing the Top 10 this week is the Weeknd's 'After Hours' after selling another 51.000 and 2.356.000 so far!

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Jason Derulo Rebounds To #1 On The Global Track Chart For A 4th Week With "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)" By New Zealand Producer Jawsh 685!

Posted on September 01, 2020

Jason Derulo rebounds to #1 on the Global Track Chart for a 4th week with "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)" by New Zealand Producer Jawsh685. Its the first No. 1 on the Global Track Chart for both artists! Jawsh 685 first released the instrumental version, titled "Laxed (Siren Beat)", to YouTube in 2019. The original song was a tribute to Jawsh 685's Samoan and Cook Island roots and went viral on Tik Tok in 2020, sparking the "Culture Dance" challenge, in which others would show off their cultural roots while dancing to the song. Following its viral success, "Laxed (Siren Beat)" was officially released to online platforms on 24 April 2020 and Jawsh 685 signed with Columbia Records in May 2020. Following the viral success of "Laxed (Siren Beat)" on TikTok, Jason Derulo posted a video of himself partaking in the "Culture Dance" challenge, which received tens of millions of views. Jawsh 685 was in talks with multiple artists, including Derulo, to remix "Laxed (Siren Beat)". On 11 June 2020, Columbia Records officially released the new Jason Derulo Remix after receiving clearance from Jawsh who is credited as an artist and co-writer, as well as the track's sole producer. "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" has so far peaked at number one in Australia, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, the song became Derulo’s fifth number-one single and topped the official chart for 3 consecutive weeks. In Ireland, the song became Derulo's first number one single and in Australia it held atop the ARIA Singles chart for 6 consecutive weeks! In the US, the Song peaked at #7 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Rolling Stone Top 100, and was both Artists' 1st Number 1 in Canada! The song has so far hit #2 in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland & Singapore, #3 in Malaysia, #5 in Hungary & Portugal, #6 in France & Italy, #8 in Panama, #10 in El Salvador and #12 in Argentina! "Savage Love" has already been certified Gold in the UK for sales of 400.000, Gold in Austria for 15.000 units, Gold in Belgium for 20.000 units and Gold in France for 100.000 units! Its already Platinum in Australia and Italy for sales of 70.000, and Platinum in New Zealand for 30.000 units and the US for 1 Million units!

Last week's chart topper, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP" dips to #2, while Drake scores this week's biggest debut with his 13th Global Top 10 hit "Laugh Now Cry Later" ft. rapper Lil Durk which lands at #3!

The song is from Drake's upcoming sixth studio album 'Certified Lover Boy’.

The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" dips 3-4 after previously topping the global chart for a whopping great 17 non consecutive weeks! Its the biggest selling Single of 2020 so far!

Harry Styles' "Watermelon Sugar" dips 4-5 while Dababy's "Rockstar" ft. Roddy Ricch dips 5-6 after previously topping the global chart for 4 whole weeks!

SAINt JHN's "Roses" remixed by Imanbek dips 6-7 after peaking at #2, while Topic''s "Breaking Me" ft. A7S dips 7-8!

New entry at #9 for "Smile" by Japanese Group Twenty*Twenty, while former number One, Lady Gaga''s "Rain On Me" with Ariana Grande closes this week's Top 10, down 2 spots from last week!

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Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and illustrator, Kenshi Yonezu, tops the Global Album Chart with his new album 'Stray Sheep' and massive equivalent sales of 1,015,000!

Posted on August 24, 2020

Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and illustrator, Kenshi Yonezu, tops the global album chart with his new album 'Stray Sheep' and massive equivalent sales of 1,015,000 according to Oricon! Yonezu becomes the 4th Act to debut with over a Million Units this year following BTS's 'Map Of The Soul 7', Seventeen's 'Heng:Garae' and Taylor Swift's ‘Folklore'!

Korean Superstar Kang Daniel debuts at #2 with his 3rd studio album 'Magenta', and 1st week sales of 327,000 units.

Last week's chart topper 'Folklore’ by Taylor Swift, slips 1 - 3 after selling another 219,000 units, and a total of 1,469,000 official units plus over 750.000 units in China!

Juice WRLD’s former #1 Album 'Legends Never Die' holds at #4 after selling another 141.000 equivalent units and 1.284.000 so far while former chart topper, Pop Smoke's posthumous Album 'Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon', slips 3-5 after selling another 141.000 equivalent album units and 1.164.000 so far!

New entry at #6 for Korean Idol Group GIDLE's 'Dumdi Dumdi' after selling 98.000 equivalent units in its 1st week while English psychedelic pop band, Glass Animals, lands at #7 with its brand new album 'Dreamland' and equivalent sales of 83.000

Country Superstar Luke Bryan debuts at #8 with his brand new album 'Born Here, Live Here, Die Here' and 1st week sales of 77.000 while Rod Wave's 'Pray For Love' reenters the Top 10 at #9 after selling another 76.000 and 602.000 so far!

The Original Broadway Cast of 'Hamilton: An American Musical' drops 5- 10 this week after selling another 73.000 and 2.552.000 since its release 0 weeks ago.

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Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP" Debuts At #1 On The Global Track Chart!

Posted on August 24, 2020

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP" debuts at #1 on the Global Track Chart! It's Megan's 1st chart topper and Cardi's 2nd following her Maroon 5 collab, "Girls Like You" which topped the Global Track Chart for 10 non consecutive weeks beginning the week of July 7, 2018 through November 3rd, 2019! "WAP" is an acronym for 'Wet-Ass Pussy' and is the lead single from Cardi's upcoming 2nd studio album. The song sees Cardi and Megan discuss how they want men to please them, using several sexual innuendos. 'WAP' replaces the chart topping "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)" by Jason Derulo and Kiwi Producer Jawsh 685 which slips to #2 after 3 weeks at #1!

Former chart topper, "Blinding Lights" by the Weeknd, which held at #1 for 17 non consecutive weeks, lifts 4-3 in its 37th week on the chart. It is the top selling Single of 2020!

Harry Styles' "Watermelon Sugar" dips 3-4 this week on the Global Track Chart, while former #1, Dababy's "Rockstar" ft Roddy Rich, holds at #5 after holding for 5 weeks at #1!

SainT JHN's "Roses" (Imanbek Remix) holds at #6 while Topic's "Breaking Me" ft. A7S holds at #7 and Lady Gaga's chart topping collab, "Rain On Me" with Ariana Grande, holds at #8!

Tones and I's smash hit "Dance Monkey" lifts 10-9, after a record-breaking 45th week in the Global Top 10, while Dua Lipa's "Break My Heart" lifts 12-10 in its 20th week on the chart!

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Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' Scores A 2nd Consecutive Week Atop The Global Album Chart!

Posted on August 19, 2020

Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore' scores a 2nd week at #1 on the Global Album Chart selling another 237.000 official equivalent units globally! 'Folkore' has already sold in excess of 2 Million albums having debuted at #1 on the Global Album Chart with over 1 Million official equivalent album units plus over 720,000 in China where it is the best-selling album of the year by a western female artist! The album broke numerous records on streaming services, including the Guinness World Record for the biggest Album debut of 2020 with over 80.6 million streams in 24 hrs, the biggest opening day for an album by a female artist on Spotify of All Time! ‘Folklore’ also had the largest streaming 1st week for a Female Artist in 2020 with 218,000 SEA units (289.85 million on-demand streams). It's also 2020's top-selling Album in the US having shifted 846,000 equivalent album units in its 1st week, the biggest debut on the Billboard 200 since the chart topper's last album, 'Lover' in 2019! 615,000 of 'Folklore's units sold in the 1st week were pure sales. She is also the first act in Nielsen SoundScan history to have 7 albums sell at least 500,000 copies each in a single week! All 16 tracks of 'Folklore' debuted simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "cardigan" at #1 making Swift the 1st artist in history to debut at #1 on both the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 in the same week! Swift has now surpassed Nicki Minaj as the Female with the most Hot 100 entries of all time ie. 113! 'Folklore' also debuted atop the weekly Album charts in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and the UK! In the UK, 'Folklore' is #1 for a 3rd week, and debuted atop the Official UK Albums Chart with sales of 37,000 units, surpassing Eminem's 'Music To Be Murdered By' for the biggest digital sales week of 2020 in the country! It's Swift's 5th consecutive UK #1 album, making her one of only five female artists to score at least five chart-toppers in the country, following Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion, and the first female artist to do so in the 21st century! She is now the 1st woman in UK history to debut 3 Top 10 songs simultaneously. In Ireland, 'Folklore' scored the biggest opening week of 2020! Swift is now the 1st female solo artist to chart 5 x #1 albums in Ireland in the 21st century!! In Australia, 'Folklore' is #1 for a 3rd week! It's Swift's 6th album to debut at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart with all 16 tracks in the Top 50, breaking the all-time record for the most simultaneous debuts in one week, with "Cardigan" becoming Swift's sixth Australian #1 hit! In Canada, 'Folklore' is Swift's 7th consecutive #1 album. All 16 tracks debuted simultaneously on the Canadian Hot 100 chart. 'Folklore' has already hit #2 in Austria, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Scotland & Spain, #3 in Belgium (Wallonia) & Sweden, #5 in Germany, #7 in Hungary, #8 in Iceland, Italy & Japan and #12 in France!

Korean Superstar Group ATEEZ debuts at #2 this week on the Global Album Chart with 'Zero: Fever Part 1' and 213.000 equivalent sales!

Former chart topper, Pop Smoke's posthumous Album 'Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon', rebounds 4-3 after selling another 147.000 equivalent album units and 1.023.000 so far while Juice WRLD's former #1 Album 'Legends Never Die' dips 3-4 after selling another 135.000 units and 1.122.000 so far!

The Original Broadway Cast of 'Hamilton: An American Musical' holds at #5 after selling another 78.000 and 2.479.000 since its release, while former chart topper, Harry Styles' 'Fine Line', slips 6-7 after selling another 74.000 units this past week and 2.761.000 in total!

New entry at #7 for Reppenhaus's 'Apache 207' with first week sales of 60.000 while Former #1, Dababy's 'Blame It On Baby' rebounds into the Top 10 at #8 after selling another 54.000 equivalent units and 997.000 so far!

Lil Baby's 'My Turn', holds at #9 after selling other 53.000 equivalent album units and 1.762.000 since its release on February 28, and previous chart topper, The Weeknd's 'After Hours' rebounds to #10 on the Global Album chart after selling another 52.000 and 2.252.000 units so far!

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