Travis Scott’s Utopia guidelines the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Aug. 19) for a second week, because the set earned 147,000 equal album items within the U.S. within the week ending Aug. 10 (down 70%), in accordance with Luminate. The album charged in at No. 1 per week in the past with 496,000 items earned in its first week — the largest week for an R&B/hip-hop or rap album in 2023.
Utopia is the primary rap album to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in almost two years, since Drake’s Licensed Lover Boy logged its first three weeks at No. 1 (Sept. 18-Oct. 2, 2021 charts), of its 5 complete (nonconsecutive) weeks atop the checklist. Utopia is the primary rap album with greater than a single week at No. 1 in over a 12 months, since Tyler, the Creator’s Name Me If You Get Misplaced claimed a complete of two weeks at No. 1, in two separate weeks (July 10, 2021, its debut body, and April 30, 2022, charts).
Utopia leads a sleepy high 10 on the Billboard 200, which is absent of any debuts within the area for the second time in lower than a month. Simply three weeks in the past, on the July 29-dated checklist, there have been additionally no new debuts within the high 10.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most well-liked albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, observe equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered 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 Aug. 19, 2023-dated chart shall be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Aug. 15. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
Of Utopia’s 147,000 equal album items earned within the week ending Aug. 10, SEA items comprise 110,000 (down 55%, equaling 145.99 million on-demand official streams of the streaming set’s 19 complete songs), album gross sales comprise 37,000 (down 85%) and TEA items comprise lower than 1,000 (down 58%).
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time rises 3-2 on the Billboard 200 with 92,000 equal album items earned (down 4%), whereas the Barbie film soundtrack steps 4-3 with 74,000 (down 18%), Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Converse Now (Taylor’s Model) bumps 5-4 with 60,000 (down 9%) and Swift’s chart-topping Midnights ascends 8-5 with 56,000 (up 15%).
Swift’s former No. 1 Lover climbs 10-6 (51,000 equal album items; up 17%); Publish Malone’s Austin falls 2-7 in its second week (50,000; down 55%); Peso Pluma’s Génesis slips 7-8 (47,000; down 6%); Swift’s former chief Folklore jumps 12-9 (44,000; up 9%) — as she boasts 4 albums within the high 10 for a 3rd time, having turn out to be the primary dwelling artist to realize the feat in almost 60 years final month — and Wallen’s chart-topping Harmful: The Double Album falls 9-10 (43,000; down 4%).
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