Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated March 25), because the set earned 259,000 equal album models in the USA within the week ending March 16, in keeping with Luminate. That’s down 48% in comparison with its debut week sum of 501,000 models per week in the past.
One Factor at a Time logs the most important second-week for an album since Taylor Swift’s Midnights collected 342,000 models within the week ending Nov. 3, 2022 (chart dated Nov. 12), after debuting per week earlier with 1.578 million models.
One Factor at a Time’s second week is almost as massive because the opening week of Wallen’s final album, Harmful: The Double Album, which launched with 265,000 models (week ending Jan. 14, 2021, chart dated Jan. 23).
One Factor at a Time is the primary album by a male act to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since Harry Types’ Harry’s Home tallied its first two weeks atop the record on the charts dated June 4 and 11, 2022. It’s additionally the primary nation album to log its first two weeks at No. 1 since Harmful spent its first 10 weeks at No. 1 (Jan. 21-March 27, 2021 charts). (Nation albums are thought-about those who have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s High Nation Albums chart.)
Additionally within the prime 10 of the brand new Billboard 200 albums chart, TWICE and Miley Cyrus debut at Nos. 2 and three, respectively, with their newest efforts, Able to Be and Countless Summer time Trip. Each acts earn their largest weeks by models earned for the reason that chart started measuring by models in December 2014.
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Of One Factor at a Time’s 259,000 equal album models earned within the week ending March 16, SEA models comprise 234,000 (down 39%, equaling 308.06 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 36 songs), album gross sales comprise 21,000 (down 81%) and TEA models comprise 4,000 (down 53%). Notably, the album’s haul of 308.06 million streams for its songs tallies the second-biggest streaming week ever for a rustic album, after the set’s debut body (498.28 million).
TWICE scores a career-high inserting on the Billboard 200, because the pop ensemble’s new album Able to Be debuts at No. 2 with 153,000 equal album models earned – the act’s greatest week ever. It’s the fourth prime 10-charting effort for the South Korean group. Beforehand, the act went as excessive as No. 3 with its final two charting units, Between 1&2: eleventh Mini Album and Formulation of Love: O+T=<3, The third Full Album, each in 2021.
Of Able to Be’s 153,000 equal album models earned, album gross sales comprise 145,500, SEA models comprise 7,000 (equaling 10.28 on-demand official streams of the set’s seven tracks) and TEA models comprise 500.
Like many Okay-pop releases, Able to Be was issued in collectible bodily format packages (11 completely different CDs [including exclusives for Barnes & Noble, Target and the group’s official webstore] and two vinyl LPs [one exclusive to Target and one exclusive to the act’s webstore). 86% of the album’s first-week sales came from its CD editions. CD variants of Ready contain a standard set of items and randomized elements (such as a postcards, photo cards, etc.).
Unusually, Ready to Be had a vinyl version of the album available on the same wide release date as the CD edition of the album, as most major K-pop titles in the past were initially available only as a physical album on CD – on no other physical formats (like vinyl or cassette).
TWICE recently scored its second charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, with the new album’s “Moonlight Sunrise,” spending one week on the list at No. 84 (Feb. 4, 2023 dated chart).
Miley Cyrus’ Endless Summer Vacation debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 119,000 equivalent album units earned – her biggest week since the chart began measuring by units in December of 2014. Endless Summer Vacation marks Cyrus’ 14th top 10-charting effort, including her releases billed to her Disney Channel character Hannah Montana.
Of Endless Summer Vacation’s 119,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 61,000 (equaling 80.61 on-demand official streams of the set’s 13 tracks – Cyrus’ biggest streaming week ever for an album), album sales comprise 55,000, and TEA units comprise 3,000. Aiding first-week sales for Endless Summer Vacation were four vinyl LP variants (including one exclusive to Target and two exclusive to her webstore) and two deluxe boxed sets (one with a puzzle and a CD, the other with a beach towel and a CD) sold exclusively through her webstore. 44% of Endless’ first week sales came from its vinyl editions.
Endless Summer Vacation was ushered in by the smash single “Flowers,” which has spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (through the most recently published chart, dated March 18). It marks her second No. 1 on the list, following 2013’s “Wrecking Ball.”
As Ready to Be and Endless Summer Vacation both launch with over 100,000 units, it’s the first time the chart has housed two debuting albums each with over 100,000 units since the Sept. 10, 2022-dated chart – when TWICE also factored in. That week, DJ Khaled’s God Did debuted at No. 1 with 107,000, while TWICE’s Between 1&2 debuted at No. 3 with just over 100,000.
Both Ready to Be and Endless Summer Vacation arrive with first weeks so significant that had either arrived on the chart in the four weeks before Wallen’s One Thing at a Time debuted (March 18-dated chart), and posted the same opening-numbers, either could have been No. 1. Here are the five weeks at No. 1 leading up to One Thing at a Time’s arrival: March 11-dated chart: 94,000 units (the debut week of Karol G’s Mañana Sera Bonito); March 4: 87,000 (SZA’s 10th week at No. 1 with SOS); Feb. 24: 93,000 (SOS’ ninth week at No. 1) and Feb. 18: 100,000 (SOS’ eighth week at No. 1).
The rest of the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 consists entirely of former No. 1s. SOS falls 2-4 (76,000 equivalent album units earned; down 8%), Mañana dips 3-5 (52,000; down 13%), Midnights descends 5-6 (47,000; down 3%), Dangerous is down a spot to No. 7 (39,000; a decline of 6%), Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains moves 7-8 (39,000; down 4%), Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti falls 8-9 (36,000; down 5%) and Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss is a non-mover at No. 10 (34,000; down less than 1%).
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