Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time notches a 3rd straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 1). The set earned 209,500 equal album items in america within the week ending March 23 (down 19%), in accordance with Luminate. It debuted at No. 1 with 501,000 items, then tallied 259,000 in its second body.
Within the final 12 months, solely two albums have exceeded 200,000 items in every of their first three weeks: One Factor at a Time and Taylor Swift’s Midnights (which surpassed 200,000 in every of its first 4 weeks).
The final album by a male act to spend its first three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 was Drake’s Licensed Lover Boy, which additionally spent its first three frames atop the record (Sept. 18-Oct. 2, 2021-dated charts).
Additional, within the final 10 years, solely two nation albums have clocked a minimum of three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and each are by Wallen: One Factor at a Time, his final album, Harmful: The Double Album (10 weeks at No. 1 in 2021). (Nation albums are thought of those who have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s Prime Nation Albums chart.)
Additionally within the high 10 of the brand new Billboard 200 chart, U2 collects its thirteenth high 10-charting effort, as Songs of Give up debuts at No. 5. The retrospective sees U2 revisiting its personal catalog, re-recording and re-interpreting acquainted hit songs from the band’s profession. Among the many tracks together with on the undertaking: “The place the Streets Have No Identify,” “One,” “Satisfaction (Within the Identify of Love)” and “I Will Observe.”
Plus, U2 turns into solely the fourth group with a newly-charting high 10 title on the Billboard 200 albums chart within the Nineteen Eighties, ‘90s, 2000s, ‘10s and now the ‘20s.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Models comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The brand new April 1, 2023-dated chart will likely be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on March 28. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
Of One Factor at a Time’s 209,500 equal album items earned within the week ending March 23, SEA items comprise 194,000 (down 17%, equaling 256.13 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 36 songs), album gross sales comprise 12,500 (down 41%) and TEA items comprise 3,000 (down 12%).
SZA’s chart-topping SOS climbs 4-2 on the Billboard 200 with 72,000 equal album items earned (although down 5%), whereas Swift’s former chief Midnights jumps 6-3 with 61,000 items (up 31%) following her Eras Tour launch on March 17. Miley Cyrus’ Limitless Summer season Trip falls 3-4 in its second week with 49,000 items (down 59%).
U2’s Songs of Give up debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 46,500 equal album items earned. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 42,000, SEA items comprise 4,000 equaling 4.99 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA items comprise 500. The retrospective re-records undertaking is offered in a number of editions, together with a normal 16-track version, a 20-track deluxe and a 40-track tremendous deluxe (with the latter divided into 4 10-track chapters named after every band member: Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr.). Gross sales have been additionally aided by a dozen vinyl variants of the album, together with unique editions bought by Amazon, Goal and unbiased retailers.
U2 is the fourth group to realize a newly-charting high 10 album on the Billboard 200 chart within the Nineteen Eighties, ‘90s, 2000s, ‘10s and now the ‘20s. The quartet joins AC/DC, Def Leppard and Metallica.
Rounding out the highest 10 of the brand new Billboard 200 are 5 former No. 1s: Karol G’s Mañana Será Bonito (5-6 with 45,000 equal album items earned; down 15%); Harmful: The Double Album (a non-mover at No. 7 with 42,000; down 2%); Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains (holding at No. 8 with 40,000; up 3%); Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss (10-9 with 38,000; up 12%); and Unhealthy Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti (9-10 with 37,000; up 1%).
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