Adele's 'Hello' is the World's No.1 Single for the 12th consecutive week. "Hello" has attained international commercial success reaching number one in almost every country it charted in, including the United Kingdom, where it became her second UK number-one single, following "Someone like You". In the United States, "Hello" debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Adele's fourth number-one on the chart and breaking several records, including becoming the first song to sell over a million digital copies in a week. The accompanying music video was directed by Xavier Dolan and co-stars Adele and Tristan Wilds. It just broke the record for the fastest Video on You Tube to attain a billion Vevo views, previously held by Psy.
Justin Bieber continues to dominate the World's Top 5 where he has had 3 hits charting for the past 9 weeks. His chart topping Single 'Sorry', remains at no.2 on the global chart, getting closer in sales every second to "Hello" with 'Love Yourself' at No.3. The third hit Single, 'What Do You Mean?', remains at No.5 for another week.
Shawn Mendes' "Stitches' is moving fast up the global charts, currently at No.4. He is N.1 this week in the UK and No.2 in Germany, the two top selling markets in Europe.
Adele's '25'is still the World's Best-selling Album for a seventh week
after selling another 387,000 copies, more than twice as much Justin
Bieber's 'Purpose' at No.2, which sold 168,000 units this past week.
But this coming week, David Bowie's latest effort 'Black Star' will
most probably overtake '25' temporarily. After his sudden death on
January 10, the sales of his new LP have gone sky high. Both Adele's
former albums are still in the Top 40 with '21'rising to no.11 with
sales of 40,000, and '19' rising to no.29 with sales of 19,000.
Adele's 'Hello' rules now for a ninth consecutive week on the Global Track Chart. 'Hello' is no.5 on the year-end chart and no.263 on the All Time Chart.
Justin Bieber still dominates the World's Top 10 Singles with'Sorry' at no.2, 'Love Yourself' at no.3, and 'What Do You Mean?' at no.4.
Drake's 'Hotline Bling' rounds out the top five.
Mariah Carey's top streamed xmas Single 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' rises to no.7, the song's highest position in eight years! In its first week 1, back in 2008, it reached no.6. Shortly after its release in autumn 1994 'All I Want It Christmas Is You'
Adele's 25 is on a league of its own. In the fifth week at retail the Album' moved another unbelievable 2,505,000 copies, the second best result after its initial week. In the United States the album sold 1,16 million last week, in United Kingdom 449,900, in France 182,300, in Germany estimated 160,000, in Canada 152,800, and in Australia 91,100. The Album had already sold over 14 million copies by christmas. It is the superior winner on the Year-End Chart 2015!
Justin Bieber's 'Purpose' is in vice-position with sales of 459,000, a total of 2,673,000 after six weeks.
Coldplay's 'A Head Full Of Dreams' slips to no.3 with 432,000 copies, and a total of 1,654,000 after three weeks at retail.
The Highest debut was Chris Brown's 'Royalty', which jumped to no.4 after selling 224,000 copies, 161,600 of it in the United States alone.
German Superstar Helene Fischer closed the Top 5 with 'Weihnachten' after moving another 207,000 units last week, a total of nearly 900,000 in only six weeks. Her Album is No.1 in Germany and Austria and is one of the fastest selling albums of all time in the German-speaking territories. Helene's previous top selling LP 'Farbenspiel' is still No.8 this week in the Official Top 10 in Germany and No.7 in Austria with total sales of 2,545,000 since its release on October 4, 2013!
"Uptown Funk"is the best-selling Song of 2015. It was recorded by British producer Mark Ronson, with vocals from American singer Bruno Mars, for Ronson's fourth studio album, 'Uptown Special' (2015). RCA Records released the song as the album's lead single on 10 November 2014. Jeff Bhasker assisted the artists in co-writing and co-producing the track, with additional writing from Philip Lawrence. This is Mars' fourth collaboration with Ronson following Mars' own songs "Locked Out of Heaven", "Moonshine", and "Gorilla", and sixth with Bhasker (after "Talking to the Moon", "Young Girls" and the three previously mentioned songs).
The single received widespread critical acclaim from music critics, receiving two Grammy Award nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The song was also a global commercial success, spending fourteen consecutive weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, seven non-consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart, and topped the charts in several other countries including Australia, Canada, France, Ireland and New Zealand. In the week of 25 January 2015, the song was streamed a record 2.34 million times in a single week in the UK, a record later surpassed by Ellie Goulding's "Love Me like You Do" (2.58 million streams). The latter song also beat "Uptown Funk" for the highest number of streams in one week worldwide, with 15.5 million. "Uptown Funk" also set a new record for the highest number of streams in one week in the US, with 4.8 million streams. Worldwide, the song has accumulated an estimated 15.2 million points from sales and streams. In 2015, "Uptown Funk" won Ronson the Brit Award for British Single of the Year. The video for "Uptown Funk" was also nominated for five MTV Video Music Awards in 2015, winning Best Male Video. According to Billboard magazine, the song has earned $2.7 million in publishing royalties (excluding TV and film synchronization revenue), $1.9 million of which went to the writers based on their respective publishing deals.On June 24, 2015, it was reported that Trinidad James earned over $150,000 USD in royalty earnings from Uptown Funk's interpolation.
The video received its billionth view on YouTube on 15 September 2015, becoming the ninth video on YouTube to receive over 1 billion views.
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