{"id":1416,"date":"2019-05-06T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:41","slug":"pnks-hurts-2b-human-album-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"P!nk&#8217;s &#8216;Hurts 2B Human&#8217; Album Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 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<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plus: Hillsong United, ScHoolboy Q &amp; AJR bow in top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pnk\">P!nk<\/a>&nbsp;claims her third total and consecutive No. 1 album on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart, as&nbsp;<em>Hurts 2B Human<\/em>arrives atop the tally with 115,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 2, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 95,000 were in album sales.&nbsp;<em>Hurts<\/em>&nbsp;follows P!nk\u2019s previous leaders&nbsp;<em>Beautiful Trauma<\/em>&nbsp;(2017) and&nbsp;<em>The Truth About Love<\/em>&nbsp;(2012).<\/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;May 11-dated chart (where<em>&nbsp;Hurts 2B Human&nbsp;<\/em>debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s websites on May 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hurts 2B Human<\/em>\u00a0was ushered in by the radio single \u201cWalk Me Home,\u201d which recently became P!nk\u2019s 16th top 10 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/adult-pop-songs\">Adult Pop Songs<\/a>\u00a0airplay chart. (The track has so far peaked at No. 6, as of the most recently published list, dated May 4). Over on the Pop Songs airplay list, it entered the tally at No. 40 on the May 4-dated chart, marking the diva\u2019s 29th entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hurts 2B Human<\/em>&nbsp;follows P!nk\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Beautiful Trauma<\/em>&nbsp;album, which charged in at No. 1 back in November 2017 with 408,000 units earned in its first week, of which 384,000 were in album sales &#8212; her largest sales week ever. That album, unlike&nbsp;<em>Hurts<\/em>, saw its sales bolstered by a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer for her then-upcoming tour (which is still currently on the road).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly two decades into her Billboard 200 history, P!nk continues her hottest streak. The new set is also her eighth total and consecutive top 10, dating to her first,&nbsp;<em>M!ssundaztood<\/em>, in 2002. She first charted with&nbsp;<em>Can\u2019t Take Me Home<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 26) in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/hillsong-united\">Hillsong United<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>People<\/em>\u00a0debuts, marking the act\u2019s fourth top 10 and highest-charting effort yet. The live set arrives with 107,000 equivalent album units earned &#8212; the largest week for a Christian music album in 2018. The ensemble &#8212; an offshoot of the Hillsong Church &#8212; previously hit the top 10 with\u00a0<em>Wonder<\/em>\u00a0(No. 10 in 2017),\u00a0<em>Empires<\/em>\u00a0(No. 5 in 2015) and\u00a0<em>Zion<\/em>\u00a0(No. 5 in 2013). With 101,000 copies sold of\u00a0<em>People<\/em>, Hillsong United also claims the week\u2019s top-selling album and the act\u2019s best sales week yet, surpassing the 47,000 sold of\u00a0<em>Empires<\/em>\u00a0in its first frame. (<em>People<\/em>\u2019s debut was bolstered by sales from a concert ticket\/album redemption offer for the act\u2019s tour, which continues through July.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/schoolboy-q\">ScHoolboy Q<\/a>&nbsp;scores his third Billboard 200 top 10 album, as&nbsp;<em>Crash Talk<\/em>&nbsp;enters at No. 3 with 81,000 equivalent album units earned (18,000 in album sales). All three of the hip-hop artist\u2019s top 10-charting albums have all reached the top three:&nbsp;<em>Crash Talk<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 3),&nbsp;<em>Blank Face LP<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 2 in 2016) and&nbsp;<em>Oxymoron<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1 in 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/em>&nbsp;falls from No. 1 to No. 4 with 76,000 units (down 14%). The album spent it first and third weeks at No. 1 on the tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three more former No. 1s trail Eilish, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/khalid\">Khalid<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Free Spirit<\/em>&nbsp;falls 2-5 (58,000 units; down 4%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Thank U, Next<\/em>&nbsp;slips 5-6 (38,000 units; down 13%), and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bts\">BTS<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>Map of the Soul: Persona<\/em>&nbsp;descends 3-7 (33,000 units; down 42%). Meanwhile,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/beyonce\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Homecoming: The Live Album<\/em>&nbsp;slides from its No. 4 high to No. 8 with 32,000 units (down 43%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brother trio\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ajr\">AJR<\/a>\u00a0notches its first top 10 album, as\u00a0<em>Neotheater<\/em>\u00a0debuts at No. 9. The sibling band also logs its best week ever in total units and album sales, as the set begins with 32,000 units earned (of which 22,000 were in album sales). The group previously topped out at No. 61 in 2017 with its last album,\u00a0<em>The Click<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new album was preceded by the single \u201c100 Bad Days,\u201d which has reached No. 13 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/alternative-songs\">Alternative Songs<\/a>&nbsp;airplay chart (through the most recently published list, dated May 4) and No. 7 on the Hot Rock Songs chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Neotheater<\/em>&nbsp;follows the act\u2019s success in 2018 with a pair of hit radio singles from&nbsp;<em>The Click<\/em>: \u201cSober Up\u201d and \u201cBurn the House Down.\u201d The former hit No. 1 on the Alternative Songs airplay chart and No. 15 on the Adult Pop Songs airplay tally. \u201cBurn\u201d hit No. 2 on Alternative and No. 15 on Adult Pop Songs. Meanwhile,&nbsp;<em>The Click<\/em>has so far earned 590,000 equivalent album units and tallied 631.1 million on-demand audio streams for its tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 is Nipsey Hussle\u2019s\u00a0<em>Victory Lap<\/em>, which falls 7-10 with 30,000 units (down 17%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1416\" data-postid=\"1416\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1416 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Hillsong United, ScHoolboy Q &amp; AJR bow in top 10. P!nk&nbsp;claims her third total and consecutive No. 1 album on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart, as&nbsp;Hurts 2B Humanarrives atop the tally with 115,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 2, according to Nielsen Music. 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