USA
Billboard Report (excerpt)
Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' dips to No. 2
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
by Keith Caulfield & Gary Trust, Los Angeles

Bruno Mars notches his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, and first in more than a decade, as The Romantic debuts atop the tally (dated March 14). The set launches with

186,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending March 5, according to Luminate. Mars was last on top with his second full-length studio album, Unorthodox Jukebox, which climbed to No. 1 in March 2013 (nearly three months after it debuted). In turn, The Romantic is also Mars’ first No. 1-debuting album. Mars’ gap of nearly 13 years between No. 1s is the longest for any living solo male artist since Paul McCartney returned to the top in 2018 with Egypt Station, 36 years and three months after he was last No. 1 with the third and final week atop the chart with Tug of War on the June 12, 1982-dated chart. Of The Romantic’s 186,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 93,500 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 90,500 (equaling 93.95 million on-demand official streams of the set’s nine songs, Mars’ best streaming week for an album; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming

Albums) and TEA units comprise 2,000. Three former No. 1s follow Mars on the Billboard 200: Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS holds at No. 2 with 77,000 equivalent album units earned (down 10%), Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem steps 5-3 (75,000, up 7%) and Don Toliver’s Octane pumps 6-4 (66,000, down 3%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving rounds out the top five, climbing 7-5 (60,000, down 2%). Last week's No. 1, Megan Moroney’s Cloud 9, floats down to No. 6 in its second week (55,000 equivalent album units earned, down 62%). Gorillaz achieve their sixth top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 with the No. 7 debut of The Mountain. The set launches with 53,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 38,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 15,000 (equaling 15.86 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Gorillaz previously visited the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with Cracker Island (No. 3, 2023), The Now Now (No. 4, 2018), Humanz (No. 2, 2017), Plastic Beach (No. 2, 2010) and Demon Days (No. 6, 2005). Blackpink scores its third top 10 on the Billboard 200 as Deadline debuts at No. 8 with 52,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 41,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 11,000 (equaling 11.46 million on-demand official streams of the set’s five songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Deadline marks the return of the pop quartet to the Billboard 200 after more than three years. The group’s last release was Born Pink, which marked the act’s first No. 1 (debuting atop the Oct. 1, 2022-dated chart). Since then, the four members (Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé) have all released solo album projects, all of which have charted on a Billboard album ranking. Taylor Swift’s chart-topping The Life of a Showgirl is a non-mover at No. 9 on the latest Billboard 200 with just under 43,000 equivalent album units earned for the week (down 3%). Closing out the top 10 of the Billboard 200 is Mitski’s Nothing’s About To Happen to Me, debuting at No. 10 with nearly 43,000 equivalent album units earned — the artist’s best week ever by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 31,000 (her best sales week ever; it debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 12,000 (equaling 12.16 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Bruno Mars’ “I Just Might” rebounds for a third week atop the Billboard Hot 100. The song, up four spots, spent its first two weeks on the chart at No. 1 in January, having become his 10th career leader, and his first to debut at the summit. “I Just Might” tops the Hot 100 with 18 million official streams (up 70%) and 72.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 6%) and 6,000 sold (up 37%) in the United States Feb. 27-March 5. The single vaults 16-4 on the Streaming Songs chart, after it led in its debut week, rules Radio Songs for a third frame and is the top-selling song of the week. Meanwhile, Mars’ “Risk It All” bounds onto the Hot 100 at No. 4, led by 23.2 million streams, good for a No. 1 entrance on Streaming Songs, where it’s his fifth leader. PinkPantheress’ “Stateside,” with Zara Larsson, twirls 13-7 on the Hot 100, driven most heavily by its 49% flight to 18.7 million streams. It’s also up 48% to 2.6 million in radio audience. The song was originally released by PinkPantheress solo on her album Fancy That last April; its remix with Larsson, among other acts, arrived on PinkPantheress’ Fancy Some More? project in October. She scores her second Hot 100 top 10, after “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2,” with Ice Spice, reached No. 3 in March 2023. Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” dips to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after two nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 since Valentine’s Day. Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” recedes a spot from its No. 2 Hot 100 high and Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” falls 3-5 after 10 weeks at No. 1 last June-August. Taylor Swift’s “Opalite” descends 4-6 on the Hot 100, two weeks after it hit No. 1, and her “The Fate of Ophelia” slides 7-9, after it began her career-best 10 weeks atop the chart upon its debut in October and extended its No. 1 run through January. Huntr/x’s “Golden” drops 6-8 on the Hot 100 following eight weeks at No. 1 last August-October and sombr’s “Back to Friends” falls 9-10, after reaching No. 7.

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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
The collab 'Rein Me In' holds number one
Monday, March 9, 2026
by Alan Jones, London
 
Supercharged by its election as Song Of The Year at the BRIT Awards last Saturday, and by its release in a new 7-inch variant, Rein Me In spends its third consecutive week at No.1 for Sam Fender & Olivia Dean. Increasing consumption for the fifth week in a row, to 62,104 units – 34.22% up over its last

frame – Rein Me In reached its highest tally since its release 54 weeks ago, with 3,599 7-inch singles 1,233 digital downloads and sales-equivalent consumption of 57,272, contributing to its total. All but 14 of those 7-inch sales were for the new clear vinyl, ‘North Shields’ pressing of the single, so-called because it was manufactured in Fender’s hometown of North Shields. Overall consumption of Rein Me In now stands at 1,049,144 units, making it the fourth track by Fender and third by Dean to secure a seven-figure tally. Of 782 tracks to achieve consumption of a million units in the 2020s alone (in other words, counting their consumption only from January 2020 to yesterday), Ed Sheeran has the most – 17, followed by Taylor Swift (16), Coldplay (11), Arctic Monkeys, Adele and Billie Eilish (10 apiece). Olivia Dean, of course, picked up three more BRIT Awards, and achieved increased consumption across her catalogue, including her other current

Top 10 hits, So Easy (To Fall In Love), which falls 2-5 despite increasing consumption 12.80% week-on-week to 38,485 units, and her earlier No.1 Man I Need, which moves 7-8 with ACR-adjusted consumption up 13.66% to 31,704 units. Man I Need remains at No.1 on the Top 200 Combined Tracks chart – where ACR and primary artist rules don’t exist – topping the list for the 12th time, on unadjusted consumption of 62,226 units. That is its highest level for 19 weeks, and just 122 more than Rein Me In. Alex Warren spent 13 weeks at No.1 last year with Ordinary, and performed it at the BRIT Awards. It somehow failed to take away the prize for Best International Song but enjoys a pleasing rebound (19-16, 18,944 sales), although it is comprehensively overshadowed by his new song, Fever Dream, which is his seventh hit, fifth Top 10 entry and the highest of 10 songs debuting in the Top 75 this week, opening at No.3 (44,840 sales). Iloveitiloveitiloveit rocketed 26-4 last week to become American singer/songwriter Bella Kay’s first Top 10 hit. Its consumption surges a further 52.55% week-on-week to 45,126 units, as it jumps to No.3. Her first hit, the Sick, which reached No.72 last August, re-emerged at No.53 last week, and also hits a new peak, climbing to No.41 (10,206 sales), while a third Kay song, Steady, debuts at No.63 (7,388 sales). I Just Might – the introductory single from his new album The Romantic – rebounds 8-6 (34,253 sales) for Bruno Mars on its eighth week in the Top 10, while two more songs from the set debut lower down. Risk It All (No.15, 19,231 sales) and Cha Cha Cha (No.47, 9,139 sales) increase Mars’ tally of hits to 32. The rest of the Top 10: Stateside (3-4, 41,851 sales) by PinkPantheress, Homewrecker (5-7, 33,741 sales) by Sombr, Lush Life (6-9, 30,155 sales) by Zara Larsson and, surging 44.01% after opening the BRIT Awards, Aperture (16-10, 25,043 sales) by Harry Styles. Every track in the Top 10 increased consumption week-on-week. Overall singles consumption is up 2.23% week-on-week to 31,723,880 units, 4.07% above same week 2025 sales of 30,482,342 units. Paid-for sales are up 5.85% week-on-week at 269,620, 6.59% above same week 2025 sales of 252,960. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s virtual band Gorillaz are kings of the chart jungle for the third time, with The Mountain making a suitably lofty debut at the chart summit. Their ninth studio set, The Mountain was released via their own label Kong in 25 physical variants (13 CD, eight vinyl, four cassette), helping it to achieve consumption of 29,982 units – 12,698 CDs, 11,061 12-inch vinyl albums, 888 cassettes, 1,270 digital downloads and 4,065 sales-equivalent streams. It is Gorillaz’s highest opening since fifth studio set Humanz debuted at No.2 in 2017 on consumption of 44,465 units. The Mountain’s coronation comes 25 years to the month since Gorillaz’s eponymous debut reached No.3, nearly 21 years since second album Demon Days became their first No.1, and three years to the week since their last album, Cracker Island became their second No.1 Demon Days holds the record for the band’s highest first week sales (105,320), their highest weekly sale (176,006) and their highest cumulative sale, which currently stands at 2,053,211 units. That is far in excess of any album by Albarn’s other band, Blur, either studio or compilation, with the top titles in these categories being Parklife (1,175,394 sales) and Greatest Hits (1,597,285 sales). More than nine years after his last solo album, 24K Magic, and four years after he teamed with Anderson Paak as Silk Sonic for An Evening With…, Bruno Mars is back with The Romantic. Home to I Just Might, which has been in the Top 10 for eight weeks, and new hits Risk It All and Cha Cha Cha, the succinct (nine tracks, 31 minutes) album debuts at No.3 on consumption of 18,547 units. That’s well down on the aforementioned 24K Magic, which opened and peaked at No.3 n consumption of 52,334 units – but above the 12,484 units An Evening With moved on its No.9 debut. Born in Japan but resident in the USA, and with dual heritage, 35-year-old indie/pop singer/songwriter Mitski scores her third consecutive Top 10 album, her fourth career Top 75 entry and her equal highest chart placing with eighth studio album, Nothing’s About To Happen To Me (No.4, 13,832 sales) on which she singlehandedly wrote all 11 tracks. Her fifth studio album, Be The Cowboy, earned Mitski a first UK chart toehold in 2018, peaking at No.64, and is by some distance her most popular release, with to-date consumption of 140,278 units. A meagre 20 minutes long with nine tracks when it debuted and peaked at No.3 last May, PinkPantheress’ mixtape Fancy That returns to the Top 75 following the release of a massively engorged Fancy Some More? edition on CD, vinyl and digitally, extending to as many as 31 tracks and 91 minutes with the addition of remixes featuring the likes of Zara Larsson, Kylie Minogue, Sugababes, Jade and Basement Jaxx. It catapults back onto the Top 75 after an absence of 20 weeks, and into the Top 10 for the first time since its debut, soaring 178-5 (8,857 sales). The British Album Of The Year by the British Artist Of The Year at last Saturday’s BRIT Awards, The Art Of Loving increases consumption 20.08% to an 11-week high of 19,415, as it holds at No.2 for Olivia Dean. Alex Warren came away empty handed but impressed many with his performance of Ordinary, which helped to power a 25.33% increase in consumption of his album, You’ll Be Alright Kid, to its highest tally for 21 weeks (7,226 units) as it jumps 11-7. The rest of the Top 10: 50 Years: Don’t Stop (6-6, 8,464 sales) by Fleetwood Mac, The Essential (7-8, 7,188 sales) by Michael Jackson, The Highlights (9-9, 6,720 sales) by The Weeknd and +-=÷× Tour Collection (10-10, 6,410 sales) by Ed Sheeran. Overall album sales are up 3.02% week-on-week at 2,587,736 units, 0.52% above same week 2025 sales of 2,574,421. Physical product accounts for 338,209 sales, 13.07% of the total.