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Radio’s In Her Corner Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” marks a pair of airplay chart milestones, hitting the top 10 on (11-10) 25% 15% 57% and debuting on Mainstream Top 40 at No. 38. Radio Disney leads all THIS WEEK THIS WEEK THIS WEEK reporters on the latter list with 465 plays through May 31, according to Nielsen Music. “From the first time I heard ‘Fight Song,’ I felt it could JESSIE J’S “FLASHLIGHT” ’S “ALL HANDS ON PIA MIA’S “DO IT connect broadly,” says Radio Disney GM/vp programming Phil Guerini. On STREAMS DECK” AUDIENCE AGAIN” SALES April 25, Platten performed the song at the Radio Disney Music Awards, 2.1 MILLION 9.9 MILLION 7,000 which he calls a “defining moment for her.” Citing the song’s inspirational lyrics, he adds, “She’s no longer a ‘small boat on the ocean.’ ” —GARY TRUST

MARKET WATCH A WEEKLY NATIONAL MUSIC SALES REPORT

Weekly Unit Sales

Adam Levine’s Bare Bum ALBUMS DIGITAL DIGITAL ALBUMS* TRACKS

This Week 3,899,000 1,839,000 18,945,000 Lands Another Hit Last Week 4,238,000 1,981,000 20,059,000 The band’s fleshy video for “This Summer’s Gonna Hurt...” sparks chart Change -8.0% -7.2% -5.6% action for the group, which has long specialized in racy clips This Week Last Year 4,168,000 1,840,000 20,812,000 Change -6.5% -0.1% -9.0%

BY KEITH CAULFIELD *Digital album sales are also counted within album sales.

Weekly Album Sales (Million Units) recording not originally available on the 2015 group’s current album, the nine-month-old 2014 15 V. The tune was issued in both a clean and an 10 explicit version (which boasts the lyric “this 5 3.9M summer’s gonna hurt like a motherf—er”), 0 digitally released May 15 and added to phys- M J F M A M J J A S O N D J ical and digital editions of V three days later. YEAR-TO-DATE MAROON 5 IS SETTING JUNE OFF TO A (The album climbs 14-11 on the Billboard Overall Unit Sales red-hot start, thanks to the band’s new music 200.) “This Summer’s Gonna Hurt...” scored video for “This Summer’s Gonna Hurt...” The its fi rst performance on the May 19 season 2014 2015 CHANGE MUSIC. PLATTEN: BRENT N. CLARKE/GETTY IMAGES. JESSIE J: JASON MERRITT/GETTY IMAGES. Albums 102,915,000 99,439,000 -3.4%

F DEF JAM. SYKES: TRISH HALPIN recently released track’s clip, which premiered fi nale of . May 30 on YouTube, drew immediate Skin-baring videos are nothing new for Digital Tracks 508,351,000 456,346,000 -10.2% attention for its open- Maroon 5, which has Store Singles 1,005,000 1,570,000 56.2% ing scene, which shows drawn attention with clips Total 612,271,000 557,355,000 -9.0% frontman like “Animals” (in which Album w/TEA* 153,750,100 145,073,600 -5.6%

*Includes track-equivalent album sales (TEA) with 10 track downloads equivalent to naked from behind. a naked Levine showers one album sale. (The Voice star emerges in what appears to be from a shower, puts on a blood) and “This Love” Digital Track Sales

towel, then drops it to put (featuring Levine in his 2014 508.4 Million on his clothes.) Levine in the underwear). The rollout 2015 456.3 Million It’s no surprise to “Summer” video. of “This Summer’s Gonna see the song tally a 156 Hurt...” is reminiscent percent gain in streams for the week ending of how the band unveiled its 2011 summer Sales by Album Format May 31 (2.3 million U.S. streams in total), anthem, “,” which spent 2014 2015 CHANGE according to Nielsen Music. The peppy track, four weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100. It too was CD 53,533,000 48,309,000 -9.8% produced by Shellback (Ariana Grande, initially a non-album track that earned its Digital 45,796,000 46,105,000 0.7% ), rises 31-30 on the fi rst performance on The Voice, was tacked on Vinyl 3,375,000 4,806,000 42.4% (where it is the band’s 16th top 40 hit) and to an album (the then-10-months-old Hands Other 212,000 218,000 2.8% climbs 26-19 on with 50 million in All Over) and produced a racy video — the audience, up 30 percent. explicit version of “Moves” includes nipple Sales by Album Category

2014 2015 CHANGE GRAMMER: MICHAEL KOVAC/GETTY IMAGES. LEVINE: TYLER GOLDEN/NBC/NBCU PHOTO BANK/GETTYTINASHE: IMAGES. LIVINGSTON/GETTY DAVID THIS SUMMER: COURTESY IMAGES. OF UNIVERSAL PIA MIA: MICHAEL BEZJIAN/GETTY IMAGES. YEARS AND YEARS: MIKE MASSARO. BLAKE: COURTESY O “This Summer’s Gonna Hurt...” is a new fl ashes from female dancers. O Current 50,291,000 47,743,000 -5.1%

Catalog 52,624,000 51,696,000 -1.8%

Deep Catalog 43,010,000 42,842,000 -0.4%

Current AlbumAlbum Sales

SYKES STILL WANTED 50.3 Million Sykes 2014 Nearly four years after boy band The 2015 47.7 Million Wanted, which is now on hiatus, made its U.S. Billboard chart debut in July 2011, one of its stars, Nathan Catalog Album Sales Sykes, has struck out on his own with “Kiss Me Quick” (Global). The 2014 52.6 Million funky cut jumps 43-34 on Dance Club 2015 51.7 Million Songs and is the first single from the big-voiced ’s debut studio Nielsen Music counts as current only sales within the first 18 months of an album’s release (12 months for classical and jazz albums). Titles that stay in the top half of the Billboard 200, album, due later this year. however, remain as current. Titles older than 18 months are catalog. Deep catalog is a subset of catalog for titles out more than 36 months. —GARY TRUST, AMAYA MENDIZABAL Blake For week ending May 31, 2015. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national and KEITH CAULFIELD sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected by Nielsen Music.

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