Taylor Swift's latest top-seller, 'Midnights', scores a 4th week at #1 on the United World Chart, earning another 230.000 equivalent units globally and 3.822.000 Million in just 4 weeks Excl. China, and tops the United World Year-End chart replacing Bad Bunny! Including China, Taylor's tally surpasses 5.530 Million sales globally and is the World's best-selling Album of 2022!
'Midnights' is Taylor's 10th studio album, inspired by her sleepless nights, and is a major commercial success across all formats of music consumption, having broken numerous records globally. It achieved the Spotify feat for the most single-day streams of an album and has reached #1 in 30 territories so far, 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, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and the US. In the United States, it opened with over 1.5 million units, becoming 2022's fastest and best-selling album, logged the largest vinyl sales week of the 21st century, marked Swift's 11th number-one album on the Billboard 200, and spawned 10 top-ten songs on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, the most for any album in history! The Album is already 2x Platinum in the US, Platinum in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK, and Gold in Denmark, Poland & Spain!
Keisuke Kuwata, Iconic frontman of the Southern All Stars, the 5th best-selling Japanese Act of All Time with sales of over 50M, scores the highest new entry on this week's United World chart, landing at #2 with his new best-of album ‘Always Somewhere’, which sold 154.475 units in its 1st week!
'Her Loss', the collaborative studio album by Drake and 21 Savage, dips 2-3 after landing at #1 on the United World Chart, earning another 139,000 equivalent sales units in its 4th week and 1.064.000 so far! 'Her Loss' debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 404,000 album-equivalent units, including 12,000 pure album sales. Its tracks earned a total of 513.56 million on-demand streams. The album is Drake and 21 Savage's 12th and 3rd number-one album in the US, respectively. It has also reached #1 in Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Lithuania, Norway, Switzerland and the UK, #2 in Australia, Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Slovakia & Sweden, #3 in Italy, #4 in Finland and is a Top 10 hit in Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany & Spain! It has already been certified Silver in the UK for 60.000 units!
Michael Bublé's 'Christmas’ Album rebounds 7-4 on the United World Chart, selling another 84.000 units and 14.838 Million copies so far worldwide in its 71st week on the list! 'Christmas' is Bublé's 7th studio album and 1st Christmas album, and was first released on October 25, 2011, in the US. It's Bublé's 3rd chart-topper in the US following 2007's 'Call Me Irresponsible' and 2009's 'Crazy Love' and his most successful album so far! It's also one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century and one of the best-selling Christmas albums of All Time worldwide. The Album has reached #1 in Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden & the UK, #2 in Finland, Latvia, Lithuania & Mexico, #3 in Belgium & South Africa, #7 in the Czech Republic and #8 in Spain.
Harry Styles' chart-topping 3rd studio album, 'Harry's House', dips 4-5 on the United World Chart, earning another 73.000 equivalent units and 3.594.000 so far in its 28th week on the list! Powered by its awesome single 'As It was', Harry's 2nd song to debut at #1 in both the UK and US, 'Harry's House' debuted at #1 on the UK Albums Chart with 113,000 album-equivalent units, becoming the fastest-selling album of 2022 in the country! It also debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200 with 521,500 album-equivalent units, including 330,000 album sales, the largest opening week of 2022 in the US at the time. It reached No. 1 in various other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland! The Album is already Platinum in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, the UK & the US and Gold in Austria & Poland.
Bad Bunny's former chart-topping 'Un Verano Sin Ti' slips 3-6 on the United World Chart, scoring another 72.000 units and 3.785.000 so far and dips 1-2 on the United World Year-End chart! 'Un Verano Sin Ti' ('A Summer Without You') is the 4th solo studio album, and 5th overall by Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny. Released on May 6, 2022, by Rimas Entertainment, the album includes 23 tracks and is a huge critical and commercial success, having debuted atop the US Billboard 200, marking Bad Bunny's 2nd #1 album and 2nd all-Spanish language album to top the chart! It's the first Spanish-language album in history to earn a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200 with 274,000 album-equivalent units, Bunny's 2nd #1 album and 2nd all-Spanish language album to top the Billboard 200. The album also achieved the biggest streaming week for a Latin album ever, accumulating 356.66 Million official streams in the US, the most for any album since Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy' (2021), and was the most-streamed album on Spotify in 2022! It spent 13 nonconsecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200, becoming the album with the most weeks at No. 1 in 2022 and the 9th album overall to spend more than 10 weeks on top of the chart since 2000. 'Un Verano Sin Ti' is also the 1st album to spend its first six months on the chart in the top two, since the Billboard 200 began publishing in 1956! It topped the 2022 Billboard 200 Year-End Chart, the first all-Spanish album to do so. 'Un Verano Sin Ti is the 2nd-best-selling non-English-language album in U.S. history, just behind Linda Ronstadt's 'Canciones de Mi Padre' at 2.5 million units! The Album also hit #1 in Spain and is 4x platinum having sold 160,000 units in the country. It's Bunny's first album to reach #2 in Australia, #4 in Canada & Italy and top 10 in the Netherlands and Switzerland! It has been certified Diamond in Mexico, 4x Platinum in Spain and Platinum in Italy!
French Superstar Mylène Farmer debuts at #7 with her 12th studio album 'L’emprise', which earned 65.000 equivalent units it its 1st week on retail. 'L'emprise' was released on November 25, 2022 by Stuffed Monkey. The album was certified Gold in France for 50,000 copies sold within the first week of its release! The album also debuted at #1 in Belgium (Wallonia) and Switzerland.
Lil Baby's 3rd Studio album 'It's Only Me' slips 6-8 on the United World Chart, earning another 57.000 equivalent units and a total of 776.000 so far, after landing at #3! 'It's Only Me' debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with 216,000 album-equivalent units (including 6,500 pure album sales) in its first week on sale in the United States. The album earned a total of 288.97 million official streams for its tracks, the third-highest figure for one-week streams for an album in 2022! It's the Rapper's 3rd chart topper in the US and also debuted at #1 in Canada, reaching #2 in the Netherlands, #3 in the UK, #4 in Switzerland, #5 in Norway, and has reached the Top 10 in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Ireland & New Zealand!
The Weeknd’s Greatest Hits Album, ‘The Highlights’, re-enters the United World top 10 at #9, scoring another 49.000 equivalent units and 4.067.000 since its release on February 5, 2021! 'The Highlights' debuted at #2 on the US Billboard 200 with 89,000 album-equivalent units, including 10,000 pure album sales. It’s the Weeknd's highest charting compilation album, and marks the biggest first week debut for a greatest hits album since Blake Shelton's ‘Fully Loaded: God's Country’ in 2019, which peaked at #2 on the chart dated December 28, 2019. The album also debuted at #1 in Canada & New Zealand, reaching #2 in Australia, Portugal & the UK, #3 in Ireland, Netherlands, #3 in the UK, #4 in France, #7 in Poland, #8 in Argentina and #10 in Belgium (Flanders) & Switzerland! The album has been certified 3x Platinum in Canada & New Zealand, and Platinum in France & the UK!
Morgan Wallen's former chart-topper, 'Dangerous: The Double Album', re-enters the United World Chart at #9, scoring another 48.000 equivalent units and 6.129.000 so far. 'Dangerous' is the 2nd studio album by the country music singer, and was released on January 8, 2021, via Big Loud Records and Republic Records featuring Chris Stapleton and Ben Burgess. Dangerous was preceded by the release of two singles: "More Than My Hometown", and "7 Summers"; and six promotional singles: "Cover Me Up", "This Bar", "Heartless (Wallen Album Mix)", "Somebody's Problem", "Still Goin' Down", and "Livin' the Dream". The album received positive reviews from music critics and was a massive commercial success, landing at #1 on the US Billboard 200 and US Top Country Albums charts, earning 265,000 album-equivalent units in its first week! In March 2022, the album broke the all-time record for the longest duration in the #1 spot (84 weeks and still counting) on Billboard's Country Albums chart. It achieved the most weeks in the top ten of the Billboard 200 by a solo studio album! It became the 1st country album to spend its first 4 weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart since Shania Twain's 'Up'! in 2003. The album spent a total of 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the best-selling album for the first half of 2021. As of September 2021, the album has earned 2,539,000 album-equivalent units and has sold 267,000 copies in the United States. 'Dangerous' also landed at #1 in Canada & #2 in Australia. It has been certified 4x Platinum in the US for 4 Million sales units, Platinum in Canada (80.000) and Gold in Australia for 35.000 units!
