{"id":1452,"date":"2019-06-09T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:40","slug":"thomas-rhett-scores-second-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart-with-center-point-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett Scores Second No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart With &#8216;Center Point Road&#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: Miley Cyrus\u2019 \u201cShe Is Coming\u201d bows in top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/thomas-rhett\">Thomas Rhett<\/a>&nbsp;notches his second No. 1 album on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart&nbsp;as&nbsp;<em>Center Point Road<\/em>&nbsp;debuts atop the tally. The album earned 76,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 6, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 45,000 were in album sales. Both sums represent the biggest weeks of 2019 for any country album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Center Point Road<\/em>\u00a0was released on May 31 via Valory Records, and marks the first country album to hit No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart in 2019.<\/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\u00a0June 15-dated chart, where Rhett debuts at No. 1, will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s websites on June 11. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Center Point Road<\/em>&nbsp;is the first country album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2019, and the first since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/kane-brown\">Kane Brown<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Experiment<\/em>&nbsp;opened atop the list dated Nov. 24, 2018. It also logs the biggest week in both total units and album sales for a country album since&nbsp;<em>Experiment<\/em>&nbsp;(126,000 units earned in its first week, with 107,000 of that sum in album sales).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further,&nbsp;<em>Center Point Road<\/em>&nbsp;launches with 33.59 million on-demand audio streams earned for its songs in its debut week. That marks the biggest streaming debut week ever for a country album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Center Point Road<\/em>&nbsp;follows Rhett\u2019s last album, and first Billboard 200 topper,&nbsp;<em>Life Changes<\/em>. It started atop the list dated Sept. 30, 2017 with 123,000 units, of which 94,000 were in album sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Center Point Road<\/em>\u00a0was led by the single \u201cLook What God Gave Her,\u201d which has so far peaked at No. 4 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-songs\">Hot Country Songs<\/a>\u00a0chart, and at No. 6 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-airplay\">Country Airplay<\/a>\u00a0tally (as of the most recently published lists, dated June 8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Billie&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Eilish<\/a>\u2019s former leader When&nbsp;<em>We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/em>&nbsp;slips down a notch, earning 63,000 equivalent album units (but up 1%).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dj-khaled\">DJ&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dj-khaled\">Khaled<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Father of Asahd<\/em>&nbsp;slips 2-3 with 39,000 units (down 31%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/khalid\">Khalid<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Free Spirit<\/em>&nbsp;moves up 5-4 with 38,000 units (up less than 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/miley-cyrus\">Miley Cyrus<\/a>\u2019 new&nbsp;<em>She Is Coming<\/em>&nbsp;is the second and final debut in the top 10, as it arrives at No. 5 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned (of which 12,000 were in album sales). The six-song EP is the first of three EPs that will lead into a larger project named&nbsp;<em>She Is: Miley Cyrus<\/em>. Previous artists that have released a series of EPs that built into a longer album include&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/john-mayer\">John Mayer<\/a>&nbsp;(with his&nbsp;<em>The Search for Everything<\/em>album) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jason-mraz\">Jason Mraz<\/a>&nbsp;(<em>We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>She Is Coming<\/em>&nbsp;is Cyrus\u2019 12th&nbsp;top 10 effort, including those albums credited under her&nbsp;<em>Hannah Montana<\/em>&nbsp;alias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tyler, the Creator\u2019s previous chart-topper,\u00a0<em>Igor<\/em>, dips 3-6 in its third week on the list, with 32,000 equivalent album units (down 36%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/elton-john\">Elton John<\/a>&nbsp;collects his 20th top 10 album, as his greatest hits package&nbsp;<em>Diamonds<\/em>vaults from No. 23 to No. 7. The album is basking in the glow of the recent release of&nbsp;<em>Rocketman<\/em>, a fantastical musical film based on John&#8217;s life, and earned nearly 32,000 equivalent album units (up 83%).&nbsp;<em>Rocketman<\/em>&nbsp;was released in U.S. movie theaters on May 31, and features star Taron Egerton performing a bevy of familiar John classic tracks, like \u201cBennie and the Jets,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m Still Standing\u201d and \u201cCrocodile Rock.\u201d While the soundtrack album to&nbsp;<em>Rocketman<\/em>&nbsp;consists largely of Egerton\u2019s covers, the original John hits are found on&nbsp;<em>Diamonds<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are DaBaby\u2019s\u00a0<em>Baby On Baby<\/em>(holding at No. 8 with 31,000 units; down 3%), the 2019\u00a0<em>Aladdin<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack (6-9 with 30,000 units; down 21%) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Thank U, Next<\/em>\u00a0(9-10 with nearly 30,000 units; down 6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1452\" data-postid=\"1452\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1452 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Miley Cyrus\u2019 \u201cShe Is Coming\u201d bows in top 10. Thomas Rhett&nbsp;notches his second No. 1 album on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart&nbsp;as&nbsp;Center Point Road&nbsp;debuts atop the tally. The album earned 76,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 6, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 45,000 were in album sales. 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