{"id":1314,"date":"2019-02-24T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T21:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:42","slug":"ariana-grandes-thank-u-next-spends-second-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8216;Thank U, Next&#8217; Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart"},"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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Thank U, Next&nbsp;<\/em>spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, making it the first album by a solo woman to spend more than a single week at No. 1 in over a year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thank U<\/em>&nbsp;earned 151,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Feb. 21 (down 58 percent from its debut of 360,000 units), according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 20,000 were in album sales (down 82 percent).<\/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\u00a0March 2-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Thank U<\/em>\u00a0holds at No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s websites on Feb. 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thank U<\/em>\u2019s second week sum of 151,000 units is mostly comprised of SEA units: 124,000. That figure translates to 168.6 million on-demand audio streams for the album\u2019s songs in its second week (down from 307 million in its debut frame, when it set the&nbsp;record for&nbsp;both an album by a woman and for a pop album). The 168.6 million streaming figure for&nbsp;<em>Thank U<\/em>\u2019s second week easily makes it the most streamed album of this week, and also ranks it as the third-largest week for a woman&nbsp;<em>ever<\/em>&nbsp;(trailing its own debut frame, plus the first week of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/cardi-b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cardi B<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Invasion of Privacy<\/em>, with 202.6 million) and the second-biggest week ever for a pop album (after only&nbsp;<em>Thank&nbsp;U<\/em>\u2019s debut week).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thank U<\/em>&nbsp;also marks Grande\u2019s first album to tally more than just a single week atop the list. Her three previous leaders all locked up one frame&nbsp;each&nbsp;at No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus,\u00a0<em>Thank U<\/em>\u00a0is first album by a solo woman to earn more than one week at the top in over a year, since\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>reputation<\/em>\u00a0tallied four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 (its first three: Dec. 2-Dec. 16, 2017, and then Jan. 6, 2018). (In between\u00a0<em>reputation<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Thank\u00a0U<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>A Star Is Born<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack, credited to both\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lady-gaga\" target=\"_blank\">Lady <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">Gaga<\/g><\/a><g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">and<\/g>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bradley-cooper\" target=\"_blank\">Bradley Cooper<\/a>, spent three frames at No. 1.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, since&nbsp;<em>reputation<\/em>&nbsp;was last No. 1 (from&nbsp;the Jan. 13, 2018 through March 2, 2019-dated charts), five albums by&nbsp;<em>solo men<\/em>&nbsp;have spent at least two weeks atop the list: A Boogie Wit da Hoodie\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hoodie SZN<\/em>(two weeks), 21 Savage\u2019s&nbsp;<em>I Am &gt; I Was&nbsp;<\/em>(two), Travis Scott\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Astroworld&nbsp;<\/em>(three), Drake\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Scorpion<\/em>&nbsp;(five) and Post Malone\u2019s&nbsp;<em>beerbongs &amp; bentleys&nbsp;<\/em>(three).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps more surprising, of the 43 No. 1s since&nbsp;<em>reputation<\/em>&nbsp;was last on top, only five were by solo women. Grande\u2019s two No. 1s:&nbsp;<em>Sweetener<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Thank U, Next<\/em>; Camila Cabello\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Camila<\/em>, Cardi B\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Invasion of Privacy<\/em>,and Carrie Underwood\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Cry Pretty<\/em>. Twenty-four&nbsp;were by solo men, 11 were from groups (and all of those groups were comprised entirely of men) and three&nbsp;were&nbsp;soundtracks (<em>The Greatest Showman<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Black Panther<\/em>, and Gaga and Cooper\u2019s&nbsp;<em>A Star Is Born<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, the soundtrack to&nbsp;<em>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em>&nbsp;hits a new peak, as it rises 3-2 with 56,000 units (up 17 percent) as it continues to bask in the glow of the film\u2019s home video release on DVD and blu-ray on Feb. 12. The set beats its previous chart high of No. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With\u00a0<em>Bohemian<\/em>\u2019s new chart peak, it&#8217;s now solely\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/queen\" target=\"_blank\">Queen<\/a>\u2019s second-highest charting effort, breaking\u00a0out of\u00a0a tie with the\u00a0No. 3-peaking\u00a0<em>News of the World<\/em>, from 1978. Ahead of\u00a0<em>Bohemian<\/em>\u00a0is Queen\u2019s only No. 1, 1980\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Game<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>A Star Is Born<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack&nbsp;slips 2-3, despite a 3 percent increase (to 51,000 units). The former No. 1 has yet to depart the top 10, encompassing its first&nbsp;20 weeks&nbsp;on the chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both&nbsp;<em>Bohemian<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Star<\/em>&nbsp;are primed for further gains on next week\u2019s chart in the wake of Sunday\u2019s (Feb. 24) Academy Awards. The two films are both up for best picture and have five and eight total nominations, respectively. Plus, Queen is slated to open the Oscars broadcast with a performance, while Gaga and Cooper are scheduled to perform&nbsp;<em>Star<\/em>\u2019s hit single \u201cShallow,\u201d which is nominated for best original song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 4 on the Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/florida-georgia-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Florida Georgia Line<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Can\u2019t Say I Ain\u2019t Country<\/em>&nbsp;starts at No. 4, giving the country duo its fourth&nbsp;top five effort. The set enters with 50,000 units (29,000 in album sales).&nbsp;The act\u2019s last album,&nbsp;<em>Dig Your Roots<\/em>, entered at No. 2 on the Sept. 17, 2016-dated chart with 145,000 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8499727\/drake-scores-10th-top-10-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-so-far-gone-mixtape\">Debuting\u00a0at No. 5<\/a>\u00a0on the new Billboard 200 is\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\" target=\"_blank\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s 10-year-old\u00a0<em>So Far Gone<\/em>\u00a0mixtape. The set enters with 45,000 units (7,000 in album sales), garnering Drake his\u00a010th\u00a0total and\u00a0consecutive top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mixtape, which was originally released for free in early 2009, but never commercially issued or distributed to streaming services until Feb. 15 of this year, made its commercial and streaming debut&nbsp;to celebrate&nbsp;<em>Gone<\/em>\u2019s 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the full&nbsp;<em>So Far Gone<\/em>&nbsp;album never previously charted on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s charts (back in 2009, an album needed to be commercially released in order to chart), a distillation of the set did reach&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;tallies that year. The&nbsp;<em>So Far Gone<\/em>&nbsp;EP was released later in 2009 as Drake\u2019s first commercially released album (through Young Money\/Cash Money\/Republic Records). The EP combined five tracks from the full-length mixtape (including his first Billboard Hot 100 hit, the No. 2-peaking \u201cBest I Ever Had\u201d), along with two new cuts. The&nbsp;<em>So Far Gone<\/em>&nbsp;EP debuted and peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 dated Oct. 3, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing out the new Billboard 200\u2019s top 10 are a quintet of previous No. 1s. A Boogie Wit da Hoodie\u2019s\u00a0<em>Hoodie SZN\u00a0<\/em>falls 4-6 (39,000 units; down 10 percent), Post Malone\u2019s\u00a0<em>beerbongs\u00a0<\/em>dips 5-7 (34,000 units; down 14 percent), Travis Scott\u2019s\u00a0<em>Astroworld\u00a0<\/em>drops\u00a06-8 (33,000 units; down 12 percent), 21 Savage\u2019s\u00a0<em>I Am > I Was\u00a0<\/em>descends 7-9 (32,000 units; down 12 percent) and Meek Mill\u2019s\u00a0<em>Championships<\/em>\u00a0is steady at No. 10 (32,000 units; down 6 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1314\" data-postid=\"1314\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1314 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariana Grande\u2019s&nbsp;Thank U, Next&nbsp;spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, making it the first album by a solo woman to spend more than a single week at No. 1 in over a year.&nbsp; Thank U&nbsp;earned 151,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Feb. 21 (down 58 percent from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-now","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","no-post-comment","no-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ariana-grande-pink-wim-2019-ss-billboard-1548.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2980,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/2980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}