He's an icon of the American music history: Don Henley, member of the legendary Los Angeles based rock band The Eagles. Their compilation 'Greatest Hits 1971-1975' from 1976 sold nearly 30 million in the USA alone, the best selling album of all time there. Don Henley's fifth solo studio set 'Cass County' leads this week's Global Album Chart with 117,000 sales. 84,000 of it in the United States alone, another 11,000 in United Kingdom and 5,000 in Canada. Don Henley's debut solo album 'I Can't Stand Still' from 1982 contains the Grammy-nominated single smash 'Dirty Laundry', which reached no.10 on the Global Chart in January 1983 and was the biggest solo hit for the 68 year-old musician. Newcomer Fetty Wap, the 24 year-old rapper from New Jersey, debuts at the vice-position with his first album. It found 90,000 buyers in its initial week around the globe. The album was driven by three successful single releases, 'Trap Queen' (no.10 in June 2015), 'My Way' (no.17 in the week 31, 2015) and '679' (currently at no.22). There are massive 21 new-entries inside this week's Top 40, nine come from the United States (Don Henley, Fetty Wap, George Strait, Thomas Rhett, The Dead Weather, the soundtrack to the musical 'Hamilton', Bryson Tiller, Silversun Pickups and Kurt Vile), three from United Kingdom (Disclosure, Chvrches, New Order), two from Germany (Robin Schulz and The BossHoss), two from Italy (Negramaro and Il Volo), one from Japan (Exile Takahiro), one from France (the compilation 'Corsu: Mezzu Mezzu'), one from Canada (Amanda Cook), one from Australia (Parkway Drive) and another one from the Netherlands (Common Linnets). Some additional sales stats: 'Burning Bridges' by Bon Jovi sold 14,000 copies last week and reaches a total of 245,000 so far, Drones' by Muse sold 12,000 units last week, 898,000 so far, 'Chaos And The Calm' by James Bay sold 17,000 units last week and has a total of 752,000 copies so far, 'My Everything' by Ariana Grande sold 1,663,000 copies so far, 'Rebel Heart' by Madonna 809,000, and 'The Pinkprint' by Nicky Minaj 929,000.
Canadian teen idol / model / singer / songwriter Justin Bieber holds the hot spot of the Global Track Chart for a fourth consecutive week with 324,000 points, a minor 1% points decrease compared to the previous week. 'Locked Away' by R.City and Maroon 5 mastermind Adam Levine reaches a new peak at no.2 with 240,000 points, a 10% increase over the last week. Rounds out the top three is 'Can't Feel My Face' by The Weeknd, the former number smash gets another 230,000 points, a 5% decline. Highest deubt of the week is the theme of the new James Bond film, Spectre. 'Writing's On The Wall, written and performed by Sam Smith, bows at no.9 globally with 149,000 points. In United Kingdom the tune arrives at the pole position, it's the first number one for a James Bond theme there. Contrarily to this recruit, the dinosaur of our current tally is 'Uptown Funk!' by Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars. The big smash placed an incredible 45th week on the hitlist and slides at no.34 with 73,000 points.
Justin Bieber's 'What Do You Mean?', his most successful song so far, holds the pole position for a second week with another 342,000 points, down 3% compared to the week before. The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' rises one place at no.2, despite a 6% points decline to 266,000. Vigorously on the advance is 'Locked Away' by American duo R.City feat. Maroon 5 mastermind Adam Levine. The track jumps from no.7 to no.3, driven by a 10% points increase to 196,000. Is it a record?? 'Wildest Dreams' by Taylor Swift is the sixth song from her topical album '1989', which climbs to the Global Top 10 (this week at no.10 with 135,000 points), after 'Shake It Off' (no.1), 'Out Of The Woods' (no.6), 'Blank Space' (no.1), 'Style' (no.10) and 'Bad Blood' (no.2). Michael Jackson's superseller album 'Thriller' contained only five Global Top 10 hits: 'The Girl Is Mine' (no.4), 'Billie Jean' (no.1), 'Beat It' (no.2), 'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (no.9) and the title-song (no.1). Outside our weekly Top 40 waiting among other Red Velvet's 'Dumb Dumb' at no.42, Adam Lambert's 'Ghost Town' at no.48, X Ambassadors' 'Renegades' at no.52, and Meghan Trainor feat. John Legend's 'Like I'm Gonna Lose You' at no.55 for their first appearance on the big list.
This week the top three positions of the Global Album Chart are occupied by heavy metal Bands. British rock band Bring Me The Horizon debuts at the top of the chart with their fifth album 'That's The Spirit' after selling 159,000 copies this first week worldwide. Most of the sales are from the USA (55,200) and UK (43,500). Close behind is the American metal legend Slayer. Their 12th studio album 'Repentless' is the band's best-selling album so far and debuts at No.2 with 124,000 copies sold. Last week's No.1, Iron Maiden, drop to No.3 this week with their new LP 'The Book Of Souls', after selling a total of 96,000 copies globally, a 69% sales decline compared to the previous week.
A fortnight ago The Weeknd's 'Beauty Behind The Madness' debuted with global sales of 449,000. Tthis week the album drops one slot to No.4 with sales of 90,000. The Album has sold a total of 674,000 in three weeks and is the.33rd best selling Album this year! Taylor Swift's '1989' is still the biggest seller of 2015 with sales of 3,568,000. Ed Sheeran's 'X' is just behind with sales of 3,291,000 and Sam Smith's 'In The Lonely Hour' is in #rd position after selling 2,822,000 units.
'Cast In Steel'' by A-ha sold 15,000 copies last week and reaches a total of 47,000 so far. 'Chambre 12' by Louane sold 13,000 units last week, 579,000 so far. 'Drones' by Muse sold also 14,000 units last week and has a total of 873,000 copies so far, 'Meliora' by Ghost sold 94,000 copies so far. 'Rebel Heart' by Madonna sold a total of 799,000 copies, and 'Tracker' by Mark Knopfler 593,000.
It's Justin Bieber's second Global No.1 smash, after 'Boyfriend' was one week atop the tally in the week 15, 2012 with 375.000 points. There are three J-pop songs inside this week's Top 10: highest debut at no.2 is 'Ai Wo Sakebe' by boygroup Arashi (309.000 points), second highest at no.8 is 'Unfair World' by Sandaime J Soul Brothers (166.000 points). And finally last week's big chart-leader, 'Halloween Night' by AKB 48 throws down at no.9 (160.000 points). An impressive chart-debut at no.34: 'Schrei Nach Liebe' is a 22 year-old smash by the German punk band Die Ärzte. In those days, this anti-racism song reached no.9 in Germany and ranked massive 33 weeks on the official hitlist by Media Control. Now after a big anti-racism campaign because of the terrible refugee disaster in Europe, the song celebrates a spectacular return in Germany with massive download-sales last week. Outside our weekly Top 40 waiting among other Adam Lambert's 'Ghost Town' at no.47, Robin Schulz feat. Francesco Yates' 'Sugar' at no.48, Meghan Trainor feat. John Legend's 'Like I'm Gonna Lose You' at no.55, and Sam Feldt feat. Kimberley Anne's 'Show Me Love' at no.57 for their first appearance on the big list.
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