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J-pop album jumps atop the Global Chart!

Posted on April 03, 2016

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'Tennen Kinen Members Best Selection', the third compilation by Japanese rock band Ikimono Gakari starts with 137,000 sales according to Oricon. Adele's '25' remains at No.2 with 114,000 sales, a 4% sales decline compared to the previous week. Since its release in November 2015 the album has sold 17,53 million copies. Ten years after her last solo album, former No Doubt lead vocalist Gwen Stefani returns on the scene with 'This Is What The Truth Feels Like'. The album debuts at no.3 globally with 102,000 sales, 76,200 of it in the United States alone, another 4,800 units in United Kingdom, 4,500 in Canada and 1,800 in Australia. Gwen's former studio albums were big

'Love, Angel, Music, Baby' from 2004 sold around 8 million copies to date. Even more successful was No Doubt's 'Tragic Kingdom' from 1995 with the global single hit 'Don't Speak' (no.6 on the year-end chart 1997). This album sold approximately 16 million copies to date!

Back to this week's hitlist, right behind Gwen Stefani is the German indie-band AnnenMayKantereit at no.4 with their debut major album 'Alles Nix Konkretes' and 74,000 sales. Closing the top five is 68 year-old punk legend Iggy Pop. His 17th solo studio album in 40 years, 'Post Pop Depression', arrives at no.5 globally with 69,000 copies sold. Some additional sales stats: 'Revival' by Selena Gomez sold 9.000 copies last week and reaches a total of 671,000 so far, 'Get Weird' by Little Mix sold also 9,000 units last week, 669,000 so far, 'I Cry When I Laugh' by Jess Glynne sold 12,000 units last week and has a total of 923,000 units so far, 'Handwritten' by Shawn Mendes sold 778,000 copies so far, 'Blackstar' by David Bowie 1,643,000, and 'Blurryface' by Twenty One Pilots 984,000.


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The song rises from No.2 to No.1 in its ninth week on the global chart. It's the first time ever, that a tune from Denmark reaches the top of the Global Track Chart! Aqua's "Barbie Girl" remained ten weeks at No.2 globally in 1997. But it was never No.1, because of Elton Johns superseller "Candle In The Wind".

Back to the current hitlist, 'Work' by Rihanna feat. Drake returns to No.2. Twenty One Pilots' "Stressed Out" jumps from No.5 to No.3 and celebrates a new peak on the Global Chart.

The highest debut of the week is the seven member Japanese boy band Kis-My-Ft2 with their new single smash 'Gravity'. The Single debuts at No.19.


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'Kimi Wa Melody' is the 22nd number one hit for this hugely popular Japanese Girl Band! The only other two Acts in history to have had 22 Number Ones are Madonna and Elvis Presley!

'Kimi Wa Melody' is the 29th Global Top 10 success for AKB 48! Only Michael Jackson (33), The Beatles (38), ELVIS PRESLEY (43) and Madonna (47) have had more hit Songs in the Global Top 10.

AKB48 has replaced Rihanna's 'Work', after three weeks at No.1. The song slips to No.3.

Lukas Graham's '7 Years' overtakes 'Work', at No.2 and looks destined to become next week's new global number one!

'Dangerous Woman', the title track of Ariana Grande's upcoming third studio album, shoots to No.9 as this week's second highest debut.


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'2016: Au Rendez Vouz Des Enfoirés' is the World's best-selling Album this week, and debuts, selling 146,000 copies, with 135,000 of those in France! Les Enfoirés is a group of French-speaking artists who give every year, since 1986, a charity concert in aid of the organization Les Restos du Cœur. It's the largest media event in the francophone world.

Adele​'s '25' remains at No.2 for a third consecutive week, despite a considerable 27% sales dip to 119,000. Her former LP '21' has been 150 weeks on the Top 40 list, a historic record! '21' has sold 27,879,000 copies so far. '25' has sold a total of 17,417,000.

Justin Bieber​'s 'Purpose' slips one slot to no.4 with sales last week of 71,000.

At No.3,  is the 7th studio album by the five-member Japanese boy Band News.  'Quartetto' debuted with sales of 109,000, according to Oricon.

The third highest debut of the week is the new album by the American metalcore band Killswitch Engage​. 'Incarnate' closes the top five with sales of 59,000.

'Dark Sky Island' by Enya​ sold 11.000 copies last week and reaches a total of 894,000 so far.

'Get Weird' by Little Mix​ sold 10,000 units last week, and 660,000 so far.

'Delirium' by Ellie Goulding​ sold 12,000 units last week and has a total of 630,000 units so far.

'My Everything' by Ariana Grande​ has sold 1,769,000 as of today.


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In its fourth week, "Work" peaked at number one in the USA and became Rihanna's fourteenth number-one song in America and the 1,052nd number-one single on the Hot 100 Billboard chart overall. Subsequently, she became the artist with the third-most number-one singles on the chart following The Beatles with 20 and Mariah Carey with 18. She broke a tie with Michael Jackson, who had reached 13 chart-toppers on the Billboard Hot 100 in his lifetime. Additionally, "Work" became Drake's second number-one single on the chart, the previous being the pair's 2010 collaboration, "What's My Name?". For the same issue, it rose to number 10 on the Radio Songs chart and became her 24th top-ten single, surpassing Mariah Carey's lead of 23 top-tens on that chart. "Work" is Drake's 14th top-ten song on the Radio Songs chart.

In the United Kingdom, "Work" debuted at number thirteen on the UK Singles Chart in the issue dated February 4, 2016. The following week, it jumped to number four, becoming Rihanna's 27th top-10 hit in the country. It is also her first since "FourFiveSeconds" reached number three in February 2015. It later reached number two during the week of March 3, 2016. The following week, ''Work'' slipped to number 3.

In France, "Work" peaked at number one on the singles chart for two weeks, becoming Rihanna's sixth number-one in the country, the second-highest amount of all time. The single also broke the record for the most streams in a single week, with 2.056 million streams.

In the Netherlands, "Work" was only Rihanna's second single to ever reach the top position on the Single Top 100 Chart, after "Don't Stop The Music" hit number one in 2007.

''Work'' topped the chart in Canada for the issue dated March 12, 2016 marking Rihanna's tenth chart topper. She subsequently joint Katy Perry for the record of the most chart toppers in the history of the Canadian Hot 100. Also it is Drake's first number one in his home country.




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