Musgraves previously visited the top 10 with Pageant Material (No. 4 with 49,000 units (with 39,000 of that sum powered by traditional album sales). Singer Kacey Musgraves collects her third top 10 album, as her seventh studio album Golden Hour bows at No. The album is currently enjoying a top 20 hit on the Hot 100 with “Plug Walk,” which is Rich The Kid’s highest-charting hit. The set’s SEA units were unsurprisingly large: 50,000. Of that sum, just 6,000 were in traditional album sales. 2 on the new Billboard 200 chart, rapper Rich The Kid sees his full-length debut studio album The World Is Yours arrive with 59,000 units earned. The Weeknd's 'My Dear Melancholy': Fans Share Theories on Which Ex Each Song Is AboutĪt No. 1 set was George Benson’s Breezin’, way back on the July 31 and Aug.
JAY-Z TV special and other video footage.) Previous to Collision Course, the last six-track No. (The album was initially only available in a CD/DVD edition, where the DVD included the MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups: Linkin Park vs. 18, 2004 chart, when JAY-Z and Linkin Park teamed up for the six-track MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups Presents: Collision Course.
1 album by an artist, one has to scroll back to the Dec. In 2010, the Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals soundtrack, which also had just six tracks, bowed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in nearly eight years. The biggest song on My Dear Melancholy appears to be its lead-off track, “Call Out My Name.” The tune is likely headed for a top 10 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 dated April 14.įinally, My Dear Melancholy is the shortest album - by track count - to hit No. Comparably, Culture II had 24 tracks assisting its big streaming start, while ? had 18. My Dear Melancholy’s streaming sum is even more impressive, considering it was achieved with only six songs. My Dear Melancholy’s streaming start of 94,000 SEA units is the third-biggest streaming week for an album in 2018, following the debut frames of Migos’ Culture II (150,000 SEA units) and XXXTentacion’s ? (106,000 SEA units). The title bows with 94,000 SEA units, which equates to 140.8 million on-demand audio streams of the set’s songs (each SEA unit is equal to 1,500 streams). Though My Dear Melancholy’s sales were solid, the album’s debut saw more than half of its units driven by streams. The Weeknd Is Reportedly Fighting for 'Starboy' Trademark
1) will be posted in full on Billboard's websites on Tuesday, April 10. The new April 14-dated chart (where The Weeknd debuts at No. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. 1s: 2016’s Starboy and 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness. My Dear Melancholy follows The Weeknd’s two previous No. The six-song album appeared with little warning, following a cryptic Instagram post on March 27, which led to a confirmation of an album two days later. Of that sum, 68,000 were in traditional album sales.
The surprise release, which arrived on March 30 via XO/Republic Records, earned 169,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 5, according to Nielsen Music - the biggest week for an R&B album in over a year, since his own last album. 1 in a row on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as his latest project, My Dear Melancholy, debuts atop the list.