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NCT127's first single album, Be There For Me, debuts at #1 on this week's United World Chart! The Album, powered by its lead single of the same name, debuted at #1 on the Circle Album Chart, and has sold 808,368 units in South Korea so far!

Posted on January 17, 2024

ATEEZ' 4th studio album 'The World EP.Fin: Will', the final installment of the group's 'The World' series and the follow up to 'The World EP.2: Outlaw', has landed at #1 on the United World Chart after debuting at #1 on the Circle Album chart, selling a combined 1.6 Million units of its two charting versions in South Korea alone in its first week!

Posted on December 24, 2023

The album also debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with 152,000 equivalent album units, of which 146,000 were pure album sales. It's Ateez' 1st No. 1 and 4th top 10 album in the US! The album also debuted at #1 on the Billboard World Album chart, at #2 in the UK after a neck to neck race with Peter Gabriel's I/o, at #3 on the Oricon Album chart in Japan, at #30 in Denmark, at #37 in Lithuania, at #52 in Poland, at #56 in Sweden, at #92 in Switzerland & #103 in Belgium (Flanders)!

KingGnu's 'The Greatest Unknown' lands at #2 on the United World chart, scoring the 2nd Highest New entry after debuting atop the Oricon chart in Japan with 230,000 equivalent album units!

King Gnu’s 2019 album 'Ceremony' swept the charts and made them one of the leading bands in Japan! 'The Greatest Unknown'' is an album full of King Gnu’s original creativity!

PeterGabriel's 10th studio album I/O (Bright-Side & Dark-Side Mixes), his first ft. new original material in over 21 years since 'Up' (2002), and also his longest, debuts at #10 on the United World Album chart after landing at #1 on the Official UK chart, #2 in Belgium, Germany, Scotland & Switzerland, #3 in Austria, #4 in Belgium & Italy, #5 in the Netherlands, #6 in Croatia, #7 in France & Poland, #19 in Spain, #23 in New Zealand, #25 in Denmark, #28 in Ireland, #40 in Finland, #45 in Sweden, #47 in Japan, #80 in Canada and #99 on the US Billboard 200!

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Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You tops the United World chart for a 2nd week this year and a 12th week since its release, and scores a 94th week on the chart, breaking the record for the longest run in United World chart history! The song earns another 305,000 points including 233,000 from streaming, 34,000 from sales (up 3%) and 38,000 from airplay (up 11%)!

Posted on December 24, 2023

All I Want For Christmas Is You scores a 16th week atop the Billboard Global 200 with 102.5 million streams (up 1%) and 12,000 sold (up 32%) as per Luminate, breaking the record for the longest run at #1 in Global 200 chart history! The song also tops the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. for an 11th week! "All I Want For Christmas" returns to #1 on the US hot 100 for a 13th week, with Mariah extending her record as the artist with the most career weeks at #1 in Hot 100 history (92)! It has reached #1 in 25 countries so far, and is the best-selling Christmas song by a Female Artist in history with almost 28 Million sales units worldwide and over 14 Million in the US alone, already certified 14X Platinum by the RIAA and 7x times Platinum in the UK (4,2M)! The song lifts to #7 on the United World All time chart of the most successful songs in history with 16.762.000 points!

Wham!'s Last Christmas holds its peak at #2 on the United World chart for a 5th non-consecutive week with 261,000 points in its 66th week on the chart!

"Last Christmas" also holds at its #2 peak on the Billboard Global 200 and the Global Excl. U.S., and remains at #4 on the US Hot 100, scoring a 2nd week at #1 on the Official UK chart! Exactly 39 years ago, in 1984, Last Christmas" debuted at #2 on the United World Chart with massive sales of 500,000 with Wham! donating all Royalties to relief efforts for the Ethiopian Famine! Written and produced by Pop Legend George Michael, the song debuted at #2 in the UK in December 1984, held off the top spot by Band Aid's Do They Know Its Christmas, on which Michael also performed, and didn't reach #1 till New Year's Day 2021, 36 years later, becoming Wham!'s 5th UK #1 single, after holding the record for years as the highest-selling single not to top the UK chart! The song is now certified 6x Platinum in the UK for sales of 3,600,000 and has also reached #1 in Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden, #2 in Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, & Switzerland, #3 in Canada, Greece, Portugal & Scotland, #4 in Lithuania & the US (Hot 100), #5 in Singapore and top 10 in Romania, Spain & the UAE!

Tate McRae's chart-topping smash hit Greedy holds at #3 on the United World Chart, scoring the highest points increase with 235,000 in its 13th week on the chart after 3 consecutive weeks at #1!

greedy rebounds 9-5 on the Billboard Global 200 after 2 weeks at #1, and 4-3 on the Billboard Global Excl'US after 1 week atop the chart! The song first went viral on TikTok, when a snippet was leaked in August 2023. It has topped the Global Spotify chart for 21 non consecutive days and has already hit #1 on the weekly charts in Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore & the UAE, #2 in Australia, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, MENA, New Zealand, Slovakia & Switzerland, #3 in Czech Republic, Poland and the UK, #4 in Iceland, India & Lebanon, #5 in Portugal and Top 10 in France, Japan (Billboard Hot Overseas), Sweden and the US, becoming her first song to chart in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10, peaking at #7 so far! The song has already been certified Platinum in Australia (70,000), Hungary (4,000) & New Zealand (30,000), Gold in Belgium (20,000), Denmark (45,000), France (100,000), Portugal (5,000), Spain (30,000) and the UK (400,000)!

Brenda Lee's classic Rockin Around The ChristmasTree lifts to a new peak this year at #4 (+1) on the United World Chart with 196,000 points!

The song holds at 3 on the Billboard Global 200, and is #4 on the Billboard Global Excl. US and #2 on the Hot 100 after topping the chart for the past 2 weeks! "Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree" has also reached #1 in Canada, Lithuania & New Zealand, #2 in Australia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Luxembourg & Slovakia, #3 in Austria, Ireland, Sweden & Switzerland, #4 in Germany, Poland, Portugal & the UK, #5 in Czech Republic & the Netherlands and Top 10 in Croatia, Finland, France, Italy & Norway!

Jungkook's chart-topping smash hit Seven ft. Latto holds in the Top 10 of the United World chart for a 22nd week, at #8 for a 2nd week, scoring another 162,000 points after 11 weeks at #1, the 2nd longest run atop the chart this year!

It's also the 1st K-Pop and debut song to top the chart for 11 weeks in history and the 1st to hold in the United World Top 3 for 18 weeks! Seven also scored the Biggest K-Pop Debut of All Time with a massive 630,000 points, marking the Top Solo Debut since Ed Sheeran's Perfect which landed at #1 in December, 2017 with 631,000 points! Seven is the first song of 2023 to top both the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. US in its first seven weeks, scoring the 2nd biggest overall streaming week of all time for any artist on the Global 200 (217.1M streams) behind only BTS' Butter! It lifts 10-8 on this week's Billboard Global Excl. U.S., after 9 weeks at No. 1, the longest run for an Asian Artist in history! It debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, tying Jimin as the only K-Pop Artist to land at #1 in history, and held for 2 straight weeks atop the chart! "Seven" debuted at #3 on the UK Singles Chart and set a new record as the highest debuting single by a solo Korean act in history! It also reached #1 in Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Malaysia, MENA, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan & Vietnam, #2 in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Peru & South Korea, #4 in Bolivia & the Dominican Republic, #5 in Canada, Colombia, Greece, Israel, Luxembourg, Panama & UAE, #6 in North Africa, #7 in Ecuador, Ireland, Portugal & Switzerland, #9 in Austria, Latvia & Romania and Top 20 in Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, South Africa & Uruguay! Seven broke the record for the most opening-day streams for a male artist and collab in Spotify history (almost 16 Million plays) and the biggest debut in 2023, becoming the 1st K-Artist to debut atop the global and US chart! It's also the fastest song in history to surpass one BILLION streams on Spotify, and the most-streamed Asian song and collab of 2023 on the platform!

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Ariana Grande's Santa Tell Me lifts to a new peak at #10 (+1) on the United World Chart scoring another 157,000 points and a Milestone 20th week on the chart!

The song is #6 on this week's Billboard Global 200 after peaking at #5, and #7 on the Billboard Global Excl'US! "Santa Tell Me" has reached #2 in Singapore, #3 in the Netherlands, #4 in Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Latvia & Sweden, #5 in Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, South Korea & Switzerland and Top 10 in Austria, Canada, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, #11 in Ireland, Italy & the UK and #12 on the US Hot 100! It has been certified 3x Platinum in Australia & Sweden, 2x Platinum in Denmark, New Zealand, Norway & the UK, Platinum in Brazil, Germany, Italy, & Portugal and Gold in Spain, Switzerland & Greece!

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Mariah Carey, the Queen of Christmas, is back #1 on the United World Chart with AllIWantForChristmasIsYou for the first time this year and the 11th week since its release in 1994, earning another 304,000 points including 237,000 from streaming (up 45%), 33,000 from sales (up 18%) and 34,000 from airplay (up 89%)!

Posted on December 15, 2023

All I Want For Christmas Is You scores a 15th week atop the Billboard Global 200 with 101.7 million streams (up 38%) and 9,000 sold (up 46%) as per Luminate, tying Harry Styles for the longest run at #1 in Global 200 chart history! The song also tops the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. for a 10th week! "All I Want For Christmas" is back #1 on the Official German song chart this week, lifts 6-2 on the Official UK chart, rockets 15-2 on the ARIA chart in Australia and holds at #2 on the US Hot 100 for a 2nd week this year! The song has reached #1 in 25 countries and is the best-selling Christmas song by a Female Artist in history with almost 28 Million sales units worldwide, and over 14 Million in the US alone, already certified 14X Platinum by the RIAA and 7x times Platinum in the UK (4,2M)! The song is #8 on the United World All time chart of the most successful songs of All Time with 16.457.000 points!

Wham!'s Last Christmas shoots back to its peak at #2 (+5) on this week's United World chart with 256,000 points!

"Last Christmas" holds at its #2 high on the Billboard Global 200 and returns to its #2 peak on the Global Excl. U.S., lifting 5-4 on the US Hot 100 and 5-1 on this week's Official UK chart! Exactly 39 years ago, in 1984, Last Christmas" debuted at #2 on the United World Chart with massive sales of 500,000 with Wham! donating all Royalties to relief efforts for the Ethiopian Famine! It's now the 5th non-consecutive week at #2 on the chart! Written and produced by Pop Legend George Michael, the song debuted at #2 in the UK in December 1984, held off the top spot by Band Aid's DoTheyKnowItsChristmas, on which Michael also performed, and didn't reach #1 till New Year's Day 2021, 36 years later, becoming Wham!'s 5th UK #1 single, after holding the record for years as the highest-selling single not to top the UK chart! The song is now certified 6x Platinum in the UK for sales of 3,600,000 and has also reached #1 in Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden, #2 in Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, & Switzerland, #3 in Canada, Greece, Portugal & Scotland, #4 in Lithuania & the US (Hot 100), #5 in Singapore and top 10 in Poland, Romania & Spain!

Brenda Lee's classic Rockin Around The Christmas Tree re-enters the United World Top 10 at #5 (+8) for the first time this year with 197,000 points, after scoring a 2nd week at #1 on the US Hot 100, breaking the record for the eldest Artist to top the chart in Billboard history!

The song rockets 22-3 on the Billboard Global 200, and returns to its #3 high (+19) on the Billboard Global Excl. US! "Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree" has also reached #1 in Canada, Lithuania & New Zealand, #2 in Australia, Greece, Hungary & Slovakia, #3 in Austria, Ireland, Sweden & Switzerland, #4 in Germany, Portugal & the UK, #5 in Czech Republic & the Netherlands and Top 10 in Croatia, Finland, France, Italy & Norway!

Jack Harlow's "Lovin On Me" lifts to a new peak at #6 (+2) on the United World Chart, scoring another 168,000 points in its 4th week on the chart!

Lovin On Me reigns at #1 on the ARIA chart in Australia and is #5 on the Hot 100 after peaking at #1, his 3rd chart topper in the US. The song is #6 on this week's Billboard Global 200 after reaching #3 last week, and is #3 this week in the UK after topping the Official chart for 3 weeks, already certified silver for 200,000 sales units! Co-written by Harlow, the track first went viral on TikTok Tok, and has so far peaked at #1 in Canada & New Zealand, #2 in Ireland, #5 in Latvia, South Africa and UAE, #8 in Lithuania, #13 in Denmark, Netherlands, Norway & Sweden, #15 in Finland & #17 in Luxembourg & Switzerland!

Jungkook's chart-topping smash hit Seven ft. Latto holds in the Top 10 of the United World chart for a 21st week, at #8 this week, scoring another 167,000 points after 11 weeks at #1, the 2nd longest run atop the chart this year!

It's also the 1st K-Pop and debut song to top the chart for 11 weeks in history and the 1st to hold in the United World Top 3 for 18 weeks and Top 10 for 21 weeks! Seven also scored the Biggest K-Pop Debut of All Time with a massive 630,000 points, marking the Top Solo Debut since Ed Sheeran's Perfect which landed at #1 in December, 2017 with 631,000 points! Seven is the first song of 2023 to top both the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. US in its first seven weeks, scoring the 2nd biggest overall streaming week of all time for any artist on the Global 200 (217.1M streams) behind only BTS' Butter! It's #10 on this week's Billboard Global Excl. U.S., after 9 weeks at No. 1, the longest run for an Asian Artist in history! It debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, tying Jimin as the only K-Pop Artist to land at #1 in history, and held for 2 straight weeks atop the chart! "Seven" debuted at #3 on the UK Singles Chart and set a new record as the highest debuting single by a solo Korean act in history! It also reached #1 in Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Malaysia, MENA, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan & Vietnam, #2 in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Peru & South Korea, #4 in Bolivia & the Dominican Republic, #5 in Canada, Colombia, Greece, Israel, Luxembourg & UAE, #6 in North Africa & Panama, #7 in Ecuador, Ireland, Portugal & Switzerland, #9 in Austria, Latvia & Romania and Top 20 in Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, South Africa & Uruguay! Seven broke the record for the most opening-day streams for a male artist and collab in Spotify history (almost 16 Million plays) and the biggest debut in 2023, becoming the 1st K-Artist to debut atop the global and US chart! It's also the fastest song in history to surpass one BILLION streams on Spotify, and the most-streamed Asian song and collab of 2023 on the platform!

Taylor Swift's "You're Losing Me (From The Vault) scores this week's Hot Shot Debut on the United World Chart, landing at #22 with 118,000 points!

Written and produced by Taylor and Jack Antonoff, YoureLosingMe topped the singles chart in the Netherlands and the Philippines, and debuted atop the US Digital Songschart, reaching #7 in Singapore, #13 in Australia, #14 in Ireland & Malaysia, #15 in New Zealand and the Billboard Global 200, #18 in Canada and #20 in the UK!

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Stray Kids' 8th Korean EP Rock-Star is #1 on the United World Chart for a 2nd week! Rock-Star debuted at #1 on the Circle chart in Korea with massive sales of 3,650,904 + 177,901 from its Nemo edition, at #1 on the Oricon chart in Japan with 128k units and at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 224,000 eaus, scoring their 4th consecutive US #1! The album has reached #1 in Austria, Hungary, Japan & Poland, #2 in Australia, Belgium, France & Germany & in Greece, #3 in Lithuania, #4 in Denmark & Switzerland, #6 in Spain, #7 in Italy, #8 in Croatia, #11 in New Zealand, #12 in the Netherlands & Norway, #15 in Finland, #21 in Canada, #31 in Sweden and #69 in the UK!

Posted on December 10, 2023

Enhypen's new OrangeBlood scores this week's top New Entry on the United World Chart, landing at #2 after debuting at #1 on the Circle Chart in Korea with huge sales of 1,791,500, at #1 on the Oricon Albums chart in Japan, #3 in Belgium, #4 on the Billboard 200 (90,000 units), #15 in Austria & Switzerland, #16 in Hungary, #17 in Germany, #26 in the UK Album Downloads, #62 in Spain and #68 in Italy!

Taylor Swift's 4th re-recorded studio album 1989 Taylors version holds at #3 on the United World Chart with massive sales of over 4,3 Million since its debut, after reaching #1 in 19 countries so far!

1989 Taylors version hit #1 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, the UK & the US, scoring her 13th #1 album on the Billboard 200, the biggest sales week of her career and the top-selling album of the 2020's decade with 1.653 million units, her 6th album to sell over 1 Million first-week copies, and the top-selling vinyl album of the 21st century!

Drake's starstudded 8th studio album, For All The Dogs, rebounds 4-3 in its 5th week on the United World Chart after debuting at #1, selling almost 1.5 Million units so far!

The Scary Hours edition of the album was released on November 17, 2023, ft. 6 extra tracks! For All The Dogs has topped the weekly charts in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the UK and the US where it debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 402,000 eaus, Drake's 13th #1 album in the country, with the largest streaming week of 2023 for any album and the 4th-largest ever!

Dolly Parton's amazing 49th solo studio album Rock Star scores the 2nd highest New Entry on the United World Chart, landing at #5 after debuting at #3 on the Billboard 200 with 128,000 units, her highest charting album ever in the US!

RockStar has so far reached #2 in Scotland & Switzerland, #3 in Australia, #5 in the UK, #8 in Austria, #12 in New Zealand, #17 in the Netherlands, #18 in Canada & Germany, #37 in Denmark, #59 in Belgium & #70 in Ireland!

Aespa scores a 2nd consecutive week at #6 on the United World Chart with their high power 4th EP, Drama, selling another 139,000 units!

The album debuted at #3 on the Circle Album Chart in Korea with 1,041,345 units, their 3rd consecutive Album to sell over 1 Million copies in its first week, and has so far reached #2 on the Billboard World Albums chart, #4 on the Heatseekers chart in Australia, #5 in Japan (Oricon) & Portugal, #10 on the UK downloads chart, #19 in Hungary, #28 in Poland, #30 In France, #33 on the Billboard 200 in the US, #43 in Scotland and #79 In Spain!

'First Howling: Now', the 1st studio album by Japanese boy band &TEAM, scores the 3rd Highest New Entry on the United World Chart, landing at #7 with 103,000 units, powered by its title track "War Cry"!

The album was released 5 months after their 2nd mini-album 'First Howling: We' and features 6 new songs, 10 previously released songs and two songs from the reality television show, &Audition – The Howling

JungKook's debut Solo album Golden, ft. Latto, Jack Harlow, Major Lazer & DJ Snake, holds for a 3rd week in the Top 10 of the United World chart at #8, selling another 87,000 units globally after debuting at #1 and breaking several global sales records!

'Golden' is the 1st Album by a Solo Artist to sell over 2M units in its 1st day in Hanteo history and the 1st to sell over 2,4M in its first week! The album debuted at #1 on the Circle chart in Korea with almost 2 Million units including its Weverse sales and scored the Highest Debut on the Billboard 200 for a K-Pop Soloist, landing at #2 with over 210K US sales units & 164.8K pure sales! In Japan, the album debuted at #1 on the Oricon chart selling 207,000 units in its 1st week, and scored the top debut by a K-Pop Soloist in UK history, landing at #3 on the UK Official Albums chart! The album has also reached #1 in Belgium, France, Lithuania, Poland & Portugal, #2 in Australia & New Zealand, #3 in Austria & Italy, #4 in Canada & Switzerland, #6 in Germany & Ireland, #7 in Denmark, #8 in Slovakia & Spain, #9 in Hungary, #10 in the Netherlands, #11 in Norway, #12 in Finland, #13 in the Czech Republic & #14 in Sweden!

Taylor Swift's chart-topping, history-making 10th studio album album, Midnights, re-enters the United World Chart at #9, selling another 87,000 units (Excl. China) in its 56th week and over 10,5 Million units globally!

The album has broken a string of records, including most single-day streams of an album in Spotify history (186 Million)! In the US, Midnights opened with over 1.57 Million units, becoming the best-selling album of 2022, and the 1st to debut 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10! Midnights topped the Billboard 200 for 6 weeks and spent 13 consecutive weeks atop the Top Album Sales chart, the most since Titanic (1997). The Album has hit #1 in 28 countries including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK!

Morgan Wallen's chart-topping, history-making 3rd studio album 'One Thing at a Time' re-enters the United World Chart at #10 with 78,000 units and 5.2 Million equivalent units so far!

One Thing at a Time debuted atop the US Billboard 200 dated March 18, 2023, with 501,000 album-equivalent units, marking the biggest week for a country album since 'Red (Taylor's Version)' by Taylor Swift in November 2021! The album has spent 16 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200, surpassing Bad Bunny's 'Un Verano Sin Ti' as the album with the most No. 1 weeks this decade! In the week of the album's release, all 36 tracks entered the Billboard Hot 100, breaking the record set by Drake in 2018 for most songs by an artist on the chart at one time, as well as the record for most debuts on the chart (27)! The album was named the number one album for 2023 in Billboard's year-end album chart, making Wallen the first country artist to win both the year-end number one positions for both album and single in the same year!

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