{"id":1269,"date":"2019-02-03T17:11:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T01:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:43","slug":"backstreet-boys-score-first-no-1-album-in-nearly-20-years-on-billboard-200-chart-with-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Backstreet Boys Score First No. 1 Album in Nearly 20 Years on Billboard 200 Chart With &#8216;DNA&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plus: Weezer&#8217;s &#8216;Teal Album&#8217; vaults 47-5.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>After a nearly 20-year wait,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/billboard.com\/music\/backstreet-boys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Backstreet Boys<\/a>&nbsp;are back on top of the Billboard 200 chart. The group debuts at No. 1 on the list with its new studio album&nbsp;<em>DNA<\/em>, marking the vocal quintet\u2019s third No. 1, and first leader since&nbsp;<em>Black &amp; Blue<\/em>&nbsp;spent two weeks at No. 1 in December of 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>DNA<\/em>&nbsp;was released on the Boys\u2019 label K-BAHN, via RCA Records, on Jan. 25. The set earned 234,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 1, according to Nielsen Music, with album sales comprising 227,000 of that sum.&nbsp;<em>DNA<\/em>is also the top-selling album of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new\u00a0Feb. 9-dated chart &#8212; where\u00a0<em>DNA<\/em>\u00a0debuts at No. 1 &#8212;\u00a0will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s websites on\u00a0Feb. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boys &amp; a Beatle:<\/strong>&nbsp;Backstreet Boys last led the Billboard 200 way back on Dec. 16, 2000, when&nbsp;<em>Black &amp; Blue<\/em>&nbsp;spent its second and final week in charge. Now, 18 years and nearly two months later, the group is back at No. 1. That\u2019s the longest gap between No. 1 albums for an act since last year, when Paul McCartney&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8475341\/paul-mccartney-first-no-1-album-in-over-36-years-on-billboard-200-chart\">returned to the top after 36 years<\/a>. His&nbsp;<em>Egypt Station<\/em>&nbsp;set bowed at No. 1 on the chart dated Sept. 22, 2018 &#8212;&nbsp;36 years, 3 months and 10 days after&nbsp;<em>Tug of War<\/em>&nbsp;last led the list (June 12, 1982).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Longest Gap Between No. 1s for a Group Since 2010:<\/strong>&nbsp;In terms of the longest wait between No. 1s for a&nbsp;<em>group,<\/em>&nbsp;Backstreet Boys\u2019 gap between leaders is the biggest since 2010. That&nbsp;year, on the Feb. 27-dated list, Sade (led by vocalist Sade Adu) returned to No. 1 after more than 24 years. That week, the band\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Soldier of Love<\/em>opened atop the list &#8212;&nbsp;the act\u2019s first week at No. 1 since<em>&nbsp;Promise<\/em>&nbsp;spent its second and final week in charge&nbsp;on Feb. 22, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10 Top 10 Albums:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>DNA<\/em>\u00a0also marks Backstreet Boys\u2019 10th top 10 album &#8212; the entirety of the act\u2019s charting efforts. Their first top 10 came with their self-titled U.S. debut, which bowed at No. 29 on the list dated Aug. 30, 1997, and eventually peaked at No. 4 on Jan. 31, 1998. The group previously led the list with\u00a0<em>Millennium<\/em>(10 weeks at No. 1 in 1999) and\u00a0<em>Black &amp; Blue<\/em>. The last group to hit the top 10 with each of their its first 10 charting albums was Led Zeppelin, between 1969 and 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biggest Week for a Pop Album in Nearly a Year:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>DNA<\/em>\u2019s opening sum of 234,000 units earned is the biggest week for a&nbsp;<em>pop album<\/em>&nbsp;since Justin Timberlake\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Man of the Woods<\/em>&nbsp;bowed at No. 1 on the Feb. 18, 2018-dated list with 293,000 units.&nbsp;<em>DNA<\/em>has the largest week among all albums, regardless of genre, since Lil Wayne\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Tha Carter V<\/em>&nbsp;launched at No. 1 on Oct. 13, 2018 with 480,000 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Backstreet Boys\u2019 Largest Sales Week Since 2005:<\/strong>&nbsp;Of&nbsp;<em>DNA<\/em>\u2019s total unit start of 234,000 units, album sales comprise the bulk of that sum: 227,000. That\u2019s the biggest sales week for any Backstreet Boys album since the July 2, 2005-dated chart, when&nbsp;<em>Never Gone<\/em>&nbsp;arrived at No. 3 with 291,000 copies sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>DNA<\/em>\u00a0also has the largest sales week, overall, for any album since Carrie Underwood\u2019s\u00a0<em>Cry Pretty<\/em>\u00a0sold 251,000 copies in its premiere week (list dated Sept. 29, 2018).\u00a0<em>DNA<\/em>\u2019s opening sales is the biggest for a pop album since Timberlake\u2019s\u00a0<em>Man of the Woods<\/em>\u00a0sold 242,000 in its first frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>DNA<\/em>\u2019s sizable sales are powered strongly by those generated from a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/8030253\/concert-ticket-bundles-chart-boost-metallica-taylor-swift-kenny-chesney\">concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer<\/a>&nbsp;with the act\u2019s upcoming U.S. arena tour. The trek starts July 12 in Washington D.C., and is slated to play over 30 dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>DNA<\/em>&nbsp;was preceded by the single \u201cDon\u2019t Go Breaking My Heart,\u201d which reached No. 18 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/pop-songs\">Pop Songs<\/a>&nbsp;airplay chart last August. It marked the group\u2019s first top 20 hit on the tally since 2005\u2019s \u201cIncomplete\u201d peaked at No. 8. The Grammy Award-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/grammys\/8489045\/2019-grammy-nominees-full-list\">nominated<\/a>&nbsp;track also reached No. 9 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/adult-pop-songs\">Adult Pop Songs<\/a>&nbsp;airplay chart &#8212;&nbsp;the group\u2019s&nbsp;first top 10 ever on the chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>DNA<\/em>\u2019s new single, \u201cChances,\u201d holds at No. 19, its peak, on the newest Adult Pop Songs airplay chart (dated Feb. 2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200, Future\u2019s\u00a0<em>Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD\u00a0<\/em>falls a spot to No. 2 in its second week, with 56,000 equivalent album units earned (down 56 percent). A Boogie Wit da Hoodie\u2019s\u00a0<em>Hoodie SZN<\/em>\u00a0is steady at No. 3 with 47,000 units (down 4 percent) and Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Star Is Born<\/em>soundtrack climbs 8-4 with 40,000 units (up 15 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weezer\u2019s new all-covers self-titled release, dubbed the&nbsp;<em>Teal Album<\/em>, vaults 47-5 with 39,000 units (up 184 percent)&nbsp;after its first full week of chart tracking activity. It\u2019s the ninth top 10 for the band. The surprise-released 10-song set boasts such covers as Weezer&#8217;s&nbsp;hit redux of Toto\u2019s \u201cAfrica,\u201d as well as its take on TLC\u2019s \u201cNo Scrubs.\u201d While the set\u2019s rise was powered by album sales (27,000), it still racked up a decent streaming number. The set generated 10,000 in SEA units, which translates to 12.5 million on-demand audio streams for its tracks. (That\u2019s more than Billboard 200\u2019s No. 1 album of the week, Backstreet Boys\u2019&nbsp;<em>DNA<\/em>, which tallied 5,000 SEA units, equaling 6.6 million streams of its 12 songs.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Teal Album<\/em>&nbsp;debuted at No. 47 on the Feb. 2-dated chart, after only one day of activity, as it dropped without warning on Jan. 24, the final day of that chart\u2019s tracking week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200: Post Malone\u2019s\u00a0<em>beerbongs &amp; <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">bentleys<\/g><\/em>\u00a0shifts 7-6 with 36,000 units (up 1 percent), Meek Mill\u2019s\u00a0<em>Championships<\/em>\u00a0falls 6-7 with nearly 36,000 units (down 2 percent), 21 Savage\u2019s\u00a0<em>I Am > I Was<\/em>\u00a0descends 5-8 with 35,000 units (down 6 percent), Travis Scott\u2019s\u00a0<em>Astroworld<\/em>\u00a0moves 10-9 with 34,000 units (up less than 1 percent) and the\u00a0<em>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/em>soundtrack declines 4-10 with nearly 34,000 units (down 13 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1269\" data-postid=\"1269\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1269 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Weezer&#8217;s &#8216;Teal Album&#8217; vaults 47-5. 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