Adele is #1 Again with ‘Easy on Me’

After a six-year wait, Adele’s new music was sure to be a hit. But how big, especially for a song like “take it easy on me”—a classic piano torch song that ignores nearly all contemporary pop standards—was vague.

It turned out to be a really big hit.

The song peaked at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart, with 54 million streams, 74,000 track downloads, and 19,000 radio spin-offs in the United States during its first week of release, according to Billboard’s tracking arm, MRC Data. Released at midnight British time on October 15 – it landed on both sides of the Atlantic at the same time, so it was open to American fans the previous evening – it broke Spotify’s record for most streams in a single day, breaking Spotify’s record with 24 million clicks. World.

While Adele’s streaming numbers were large, they did not break records on the overall chart. For example, Drake’s single “Way 2 Sexy” had 67 million streams when it was released last month. But it was downloaded far less than “Easy on Me” and was not nearly as popular on the radio; Billboard’s chart is a composite of all these metrics. (As a result of the unusual timing of the song’s release, opened at number 68 in last week’s list, thanks to availability for just a few hours before the start of the new term last Friday. So officially, it climbed 67 places in its second week, reaching the top.)

Online YouTube musicologists praise “Easy on Me” as the best example of Adele’s vocal talent and old fashioned songand the song’s almost complete absence of percussion, enterprising drummers with choose NS my beat they would add. (Good luck guys!)

As of Monday, music video Beginning with Adele pushing a tape into a car stereo and going from sad black-and-white to a dramatic color climax, the film has reached 112 million views on YouTube.

“Easy on Me” is Adele’s fifth song to reach #1 on the Hot 100. His next album, “30” will expire on November 19.

On this week’s album charts, Atlanta rapper Young Thug’s new album “Punk” debuted at #1 in the United States with the equivalent of 90,000 sales, including 102 million streams and 12,000 copies sold as a complete package, according to MRC. Data. Starring J. Cole, Drake, Doja Cat, ASAP Rocky, and others, “Punk” was the last six months of Young Thug’s “1.Slime Tongue 2” is a compilation album from the rapper’s label, Young Stoner Life.

Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy” last week‘s most popular album drops to number 2. Re-release of “Faces”, 2014 mixtape by rapper Mac Miller who died in 2018 3. Coldplay’s latest LP, “Music of the Spheres,” opens. It took fourth place, and the Beatles’ last studio album, “Let It Be,” first released in 1970, is at number 5 thanks to a deluxe reprint.