{"id":1345,"date":"2019-03-17T14:37:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T21:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:42","slug":"juice-wrld-scores-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-with-death-race-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"Juice WRLD Scores First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With &#8216;Death Race for Love&#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: Maren Morris debuts in top 10 with &#8216;Girl.&#8217;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billboard.com\/music\/juice-wrld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Juice WRLD<\/a>&nbsp;claims his first No. 1 album on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart, as&nbsp;<em>Death Race for Love<\/em>&nbsp;debuts atop the tally. The set, which was released on March 8 via Grade A\/Interscope Records, earned 165,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 14, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 43,000 were in album sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on&nbsp;multi-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&nbsp;March 23-dated chart &#8212; where&nbsp;<em>Death Race&nbsp;<\/em>launches at No. 1 &#8212; will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s websites on March 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juice WRLD previously visited the top 10 with a pair of albums, both in 2018.\u00a0<em>WRLD on Drugs<\/em>, his collaborative set with Future, debuted and peaked at No. 2 (on the Nov. 3, 2018-dated chart), while Juice WRLD\u2019s debut studio album,\u00a0<em>Goodbye &amp; Good Riddance,\u00a0<\/em>climbed to a No. 8 peak on Aug. 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Death Race<\/em>&nbsp;logs both the biggest week overall, and the largest streaming week, for an R&amp;B\/hip-hop album in 2019. Of&nbsp;<em>Death Race<\/em>\u2019s 165,000 equivalent album units earned in its opening frame, 120,000 were in SEA units, which translates to 176.44 million on-demand audio streams for its songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last R&amp;B\/hip-hop album to tally a larger week in both units and streams was Meek Mill\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Championships<\/em>, when it launched at No. 1 on the Dec. 15, 2018-dated list with 229,000 units earned, and 235.44 million on-demand audio streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Death Race<\/em>&nbsp;nets the second-biggest streaming week of 2019 for any album, trailing only the debut week of Ariana Grande\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Thank U, Next<\/em>&nbsp;(307 million on-demand audio streams, Feb. 23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of\u00a0<em>Thank U, Next<\/em>, the album holds at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, with 72,000 equivalent album units (down 16 percent). Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Star is Born<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack is also a non-mover, staying steady at No. 3 with 48,000 units (down 35 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maren Morris nets her highest-charting album yet on the Billboard 200, as&nbsp;<em>Girl<\/em>bows at No. 4 with 46,000 units (with 25,000 of that sum in album sales). It surpasses her previous high, logged when&nbsp;<em>Hero<\/em>&nbsp;debuted and peaked at No. 5 (June 25, 2016). Further, Morris logs the highest charting country album by a female artist in over five months. Carrie Underwood was the last female act to go higher with a country set, when&nbsp;<em>Cry Pretty<\/em>&nbsp;debuted at No. 1 on the Sept. 29, 2018-dated list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Queen\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack steps 6-5 on the new Billboard 200, earning 36,000 units (down 17 percent), while A Boogie Wit da Hoodie\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hoodie SZN<\/em>climbs 10-6 with 34,000 units (down 3 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post Malone\u2019s&nbsp;<em>beerbongs &amp; bentleys<\/em>&nbsp;rebounds 11-7 with 32,000 units (down 1 percent), Gunna\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Drip or Drown 2<\/em>&nbsp;is stationary at No. 8 with 31,000 units (down 25 percent) and Drake\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Scorpion<\/em>&nbsp;ascends 12-9 with 30,000 units (up less than 1 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing out the new top 10 is Travis Scott\u2019s\u00a0<em>Astroworld<\/em>, rising 13-10 with 28,000 units (down 4 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1345\" data-postid=\"1345\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1345 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Maren Morris debuts in top 10 with &#8216;Girl.&#8217; Juice WRLD&nbsp;claims his first No. 1 album on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart, as&nbsp;Death Race for Love&nbsp;debuts atop the tally. The set, which was released on March 8 via Grade A\/Interscope Records, earned 165,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 14, according to Nielsen Music. 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