World Music Awards

Beyoncé's new album 'Cowboy Carter' is the Biggest Album in the World this week and rockets straight to #1 on the United World chart after reaching #1 in 18 countries!

Posted on April 14, 2024

Beyoncé becomes the first black woman in history to top the United World chart with a country album! 'Cowboy Carter' met with universal acclaim upon its release, boosted the listenership of Black country artists and country radio in general, and increased the popularity of Western wear andculture globally! 'Cowboy Carter' landed Beyoncé her biggest streaming week ever, breaking streaming records on several platforms. It became the most-streamed album in a single day in 2024 on Spotify with over 76 million streams globally, making it the 6th highest first-day stream debut for any female album and the highest for any album by a black woman. The album also marks the most first-day streams for a country album by a female artist in the history of Amazon Music! 

'Cowboy Carter' debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, with 407,000 album-equivalent units, with Beyoncé becoming the first woman to debut their first 8 albums at No. 1. 'Cowboy Carter' also debuted at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart, making Beyoncé the first Black woman to have a No. 1 country album, and also topped the Americana/Folk Albums and Top Album Sales charts. All 23 songs on Cowboy Carter debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Texas Hold 'Em" making history, becoming the 1st country song by a black woman to top the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts.

The album debuted at No. 1 on the Official UK Albums Chart selling 40,000 copies in its 1st week, Beyoncé's 5th chart topper as a solo act, and her 6th overall. The album also debuted at #1 on the Official UK Vinyl Albums Chart. "Texas Hold 'Em" also returned to #1 for a 5th week, marking her longest #1 Single in the UK and her 2nd time to top the UK Singles & Albums Chart simultaneously since her debut with 'Dangerously in Love', and "Crazy in Love" in 2003. Beyoncé also became the first black artist to top the UK Charts with a country album and the first to simultaneously top the Album Chart and Singles Charts with a country album and a country single ("Texas Hold 'Em”).

In Australia, the album debuted atop the ARIA Albums Chart, becoming the singer's 4th consecutive album to do so since 'Beyoncé' (2013). It also became the first country album by a female artist to top the chart since Shania Twain's 'Now' in 2017. 'Cowboy Carter' has also hit #1 in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland! It has reached #4 so far in Lithuania & Slovak, #5 in Czech Republic, #6 in Italy and #11 in Finland.

Korean Superstar Group NCT DREAM lands at #2 on the United World Chart with their 6th EP 'Dream()scape' after debuting at #1 on the Circle chart in Korea! 

NCT DREAM's 6th EP 'Dream()scape', consisting of 6 tracks, including the lead single, "Smoothie", has landed at #2 on the United World chart after debuting at #1 on the Circle Album chart in Korea and #7 on the Oricon chart in Japan! The album scored the Top New Entry on the WorldwideiTunes Album chart, landing at #6 after going to #1 on iTunes in 12+ countries upon its release and selling 1,329,701 units on HANTEO on its first day, scoring the group's top first-day sales and 2nd highest for a SM Entertainment's album! 

The critically acclaimed album received 3 stars from NME's Tássia Assis who described the album as "creative, cohesive and enjoyable”.

In support of the EP, the band is set to go on the "The Dream Show 3: Dream()scape" world tour kicking off in May…

 
BTS’ j-hope lands at #4 on the United World Chart with his starstudded 'HOPE ON THE STREET VOL.1', his first soundtrack album for his documentary film 'HOPE ON THE STREET'! 
The starstudded six-track soundtrack features a number of special guests, including band mate JungKook on “i wonder,” Benny Blanco and Nile Rodgers on “lock/ unlock,” Yunjin of Le Sserafim on “I Don't Know”, Jinbothe Super Freak on “what if” and Korean hip-hop vet  Gaeko of Dynamic Duo and yoonmirae on the smash hit “NEURON” which reflects the album’s theme of exploring j-hope’s artistic roots, ‘street dance. The album was described in a press release as spanning a “diverse array of sounds and moods that showcase j-hope’s musical prowess and depth.”  
'HOPE ON THE STREET VOL.1' has so far reached #1 on the Billboard World Album chart, #2 on the Billboard Top Album sales chart, #2 on the Circle chart in Korea, selling 421,060 units in its 1st week and 84,532 on Weverse! The Album debuted at #2 in Japan, #5 on the US Billboard 200, #6 in France, #10 in Germany, #29 in New Zealand, #30 in Italy, #35 in Lithuania, #38 in Finland & the UK and #62 in Australia!
 
New Korean Superstar Group  ILLIT, formed by Belift Lab through the survival show 'R U Next', scores the 4th Highest New Entry on the United World Chart, landing at #8 with their debut EP 'SUPER REAL ME'!
'SUPER REAL ME', produced by Hybe's chairman & Founder Bang Sihyuk, features 4 tracks, including the record-breaking lead single "Magnetic", and debuted at #3 on the Circle Album chart in Korea, at 3 on the Oricon Album chart in Japan and at #5 onthe Billboard World Albums chart, selling over 380,000 physical albums worldwide in its first week of release! 
ILLIT's name, a combination of "I will" and "it," reflects the team's high potential and determination to achieve its dreams according to Belift! 

JungKook's 'GOLDEN' holds at #20 on the United World Chart after debuting at #1, and scores another 49,000 units globally! 

'Golden', Jungkook's starstudded debut studio album ft. Jack Harlow, Major Lazer, Latto and DJ Snake, is the best-selling Album by a K-Pop Soloist in history,
and the 1st Album by a Solo Artist to sell over 2M units in its 1st day in Hanteo history and 2,4M in its first week! According to the International Federation of thePhonographic Industry (IFPI)'s Global Music Report, Golden was the 14th most-consumed album across all formats in 2023, and the 7th best-selling album worldwide, having sold over 2.7 million units in less than two months!
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 US Billboard 200 for a K-Pop Soloist, landing at #2 with over 210K US sales units & 164.8K pure sales! 'Golden' sold 244,000 copies in the United States during 2023, and ranked as the 10th best-selling CD album of the year according to Billboard. In Japan, the album debuted at #1 on the Oricon chart selling 207,000 units in its 1st week! It landed at #3 on the Official UK Albums chart, scoring the top debut by a K-Pop Soloist in UK history!
'Golden' also hit #1 in Belgium, France, Lithuania, Poland & Portugal! It has reached #2 in Australia & New Zealand, #3 in Austria & Italy, #4 in Canada & Switzerland, #5 in Hungary, #6 in Germany, Ireland & Scotland, #7 in Denmark, #8 in Slovak & Spain, #10 in the Netherlands, #11 in Norway, #12 in Finland, #13 in the Czech Republic, #14 in Sweden, #17 in Greece & #24 in Iceland!

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Vultures1, the 1st collaborative studio album by Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign, debuts at #1 on the United World Chart!

Posted on February 26, 2024

Vultures1 debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with 148,000 equivalent album units, West's 11th No. 1 album, making him the Artist with the 2nd-most consecutive No. 1 debuts and the Rapper with the 3rd most. All 16 tracks debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Carnival" landing at #3! The album has so far hit No. 1 in 17 countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland, #2 in Ireland, Sweden & the UK, #3 in Hungary & Spain, #5 in Italy, #6 in Belgium (Wallonia), #9 in France, #20 in Japan.

Released independently via West's YZY brand and produced primarily by Ye, the starstudded album features uncredited guest vocals from West's daughter North, Freddie Gibbs, YG, Quavo, PlayboiCarti, Travis Scott, BumpJ, Lil Durk, RichtheKid and Chris Brown!

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The hugely popular Korean Girl Group Nmixx are on top of the world at #1 on the United World chart with their 2nd EP Fe3O4_BREAK after debuting at #1 on the Circle Album chart in Korea with 703,495 units, and at #5 with the Nemo version, selling another 23,531 copies!

Posted on February 05, 2024

Tha album debuted at #17 on the Oricon Albums chart in Japan, #171 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the Billboard World Albums chart!

 Fe3O4_BREAK features 7 songs including its the pre-release single "Soñar" and its lead single "Dash". 

Rock legends, Green Day, land at #2 on this week's United World Album chart with their amazing new album Saviors after debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200 & the UK Official chart and selling 114,000 sales units globally in its first week according to UWC!
'Saviors debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 49,000 album-equivalent units, including 39,000 pure album sales, 9,500 streaming equivalent units and 500 track equivalent albums. 10,390 extra copies of the album were sold through independent record stores. The album debuted at #1 in the UK with 31,361 album-equivalent units, including 1,493 units from digital downloads & 3,369 from sales-equivalent streams! It also landed at #1 in Denmark (Hitlisten vinyl albums) & Scotland, #2 in Australia, Austria, Germany & Ireland, #3 in Switzerland, #4 in Canada, #5 in Belgium (Wallonia) & Italy, #6 in the Netherlands, New Zealand & Flanders, #7 in France & Portugal, #8 in Spain & #14 in Japan!

The very popular Japanese Girl Band JOY scores the 3rd Highest New Entry on this weeks United World Chart, landing at #4 with their debut mini-album 'Kitto, Zettai, Zettai' and 87,000 sales units after debuting at #1 on the Oricon Albums chart in Japan!

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Canadian singer/songwriter Tate McRae is back #1 on the United World Chart for a 6th week with her global smash hit greedy, earning another 266,000 points (up 0.5%) including 155,000 from streaming, (up 1%), 27,000 from sales (up 3%) and 84,000 from airplay (up 1%)!

Posted on February 02, 2024

greedy holds at #3 on the Billboard Global 200, after 2 weeks at No. 1 beginning in November, and holds at #2 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart! The song returns to its peak of #3 for a 3rd week on the US Hot 100! It's Tate's first Top 10 hit! "greedy" spent 6 consecutive weeks at #1 on US Pop Radio (Mediabase), her longest running #1 song on the chart. It ties for the 3rd longest running solo female #1 this decade!

"greedy" is the lead single of Tate's second studio album Think Later (2023) and was written by Tate, Amy Allen, Jasper Harris and One Republic's lead singer Ryan Tedder. Described by McRae as an ode to female empowerment, "greedy" first went viral on TikTok, when a snippet was leaked in August 2023. It has topped the Global Spotify chart for 33 non consecutive days, and has surpassed 700 Million streams, her 2nd and fastest song to reach this milestone!

"greedy" has already hit #1 on the weekly charts in Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland & the UAE, #2 in Australia, Belgium (Wallonia), Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, MENA, New Zealand & Slovakia, #3 in Belgium (Flanders), Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal & the UK, #4 in Iceland, India & Lebanon, and Top 10 in France, Japan (Billboard Hot Overseas), Paraguay, Philippines, South Africa & Sweden. The song has already been certified 2xPlatinum in Hungary (8,000),Platinum in Australia (70,000), Belgium (40,000), Brazil (40,000), France (200,000), New Zealand (30,000), Poland (50,000), Portugal (10,000) & Greece (2M streams), Gold in Denmark (45,000), Italy (50,000), Spain (30,000), and the UK (400,000)! 

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Ariana Grande's new amazing single Yesand? from her highly anticipated 7th studio album Eternal Sunshine is the first new No. 1 single of 2024!

Posted on January 25, 2024

'Yes, And?' is Ariana's 7th No. 1 on the United World chart, and debuts with 348,000 points, of which 249,000 were from streaming, 76,000 from sales, and 23,000 from airplay over the past week! Written and produced by Ariana, Max Martin & ILya Salmanzadeh, the lyrics focus on overcoming negativity and addressing a range of negative press the Superstar received between 2020 and 2023.

"Yes, And?" earned over 11 million streams within its first 24 hours on Spotify, debuting at #1 on the Global Spotify chart and holding for 8 consecutive days, marking Grande's largest song debut on the platform!

The track is projected to debut at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 powered also by strong digital sales due to the release of various remixed versions! In the United Kingdom, "Yes, And?" debuted at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, marking Ariana's 21st top-ten song and her first top-3 entry since "34+35" peaked at No. 3 in 2021. The song was held off the UK top spot this week by Noah Kahan's "Stick Season" which boasted just 600 more overall chart units, but was the most-streamed track in the UK of its debut week. "Yes, And?" has debuted at #1 in Lithuania & Switzerland, #2 in Ireland, Australia & the Netherlands, #3 in New Zealand, #4 in France & Norway, #6 in Belgium (Flanders) & Sweden, #7 in Iceland, #8 in Germany and #10 in Japan (Billboard Hot Overseas) & Slovakia! It has reached the Top 20 in Belgium (Wallonia), Canada, Czech Republic, Finland & Italy so far!

La Diabla by Mexican American singer XAVI, lifts to a new peak at #4 (+1) on the United World chart, earning another 205,000 points in its 5th week on the chart!

After going viral on TikTok the song debuted at #76 on the Billboard Hot 100, later peaking at #22. It also peaked at #3 on the Billboard Global 200, #2 on the Billboard Global Excl. and topped the US Hot Latin Songs and Mexico Songs charts! It's the first song by a solo Mexican artist to top Spotify's weekly Global chart and the fourth regional Mexican song to top the chart! The song has so far reached #1 in Mexico, #3 in Ecuador and #5 in Bolivia & Colombia!

XAVI's other breakthrough hit, La Victima, returns to its peak at #13 (+1) on the United World chart, earning another 137,000 points!

"One Of The Girls" by The Weeknd, JENNIE & Lily Rose Depp lifts to a new peak at #8 (+2) on the United World Chart, earning another 147.000 points in its 9th week on the chart and a total of 1,002,000 points so far!

One Of The Girls is the first and most successful single from The Idol Episode 4 (Music from the HBO Original Series) starring The Weeknd, Jennie & Lily Rose Depp. The song first went viral on TikTok, with Billboard attributing the song's growth to Blinks' support of Jennie, and fans praising her "enchanting vocals". The song debuted at #14 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart dated July 8, 2023 with 2.5 million streams and 1,000 downloads sold in its opening week and #19 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales, doubling in streams in 6 weeks! On December 16, it debuted at #17 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100, rising to the top of the chart the following week. On December 30, "One of the Girls" debuted at #100 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 6 million streams and 1.5 million radio audience impressions, marking Depp's first entry on the chart and Jennie's first entry as a solo artist. It has so far peaked at #61, with Jennie setting a new record for the highest charting K-Pop Female Soloist in Billboard Hot 100 history! The song has reached #10 on the Billboard Global 200 with the Weeknd scoring his 11th top-ten hit, Jennie her 2nd, and Depp her first on the chart. On the Billboard Global Excl. US, the track has hit #7, marking the Weeknd's 9th Top 10, Jennie's 2nd, and Depp's first. In the UK, the song also became the highest-charting song by a lead Korean female soloist, peaking at #21 on the Official Chart.

"One of the Girls" has so far peaked at #1 in Malaysia, #3 in Greece & Indonesia, #4 in Hungary, #6 in Singapore, the UAE & Vietnam, #7 in India, #8 in Australia & Lithuania, #11 in the Philippines, #30 in Canada, #33 in Ireland & #38 in New Zealand!

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