{"id":1570,"date":"2019-10-06T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T20:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:38","slug":"dababy-earns-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"DaBaby Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart with &#8216;Kirk&#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: The Beatles\u2019 former No. 1 &#8220;Abbey Road&#8221; returns to the top three, Kevin Gates and Whiskey Myers debut in top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dababy\">DaBaby<\/a>&nbsp;scores his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as&nbsp;<em>Kirk<\/em>&nbsp;opens in the top slot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The set, which is the hip-hop artist\u2019s second studio effort, starts with 145,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 3, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, just 8,000 were in album sales, as the set was powered largely by streaming activity.\u00a0<em>Kirk<\/em>\u00a0was released on Sept. 27 via SouthCoast\/Interscope Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Elsewhere in the top 10,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-beatles\">The Beatles<\/a>\u2019 former No. 1\u00a0<em>Abbey Road<\/em>\u00a0returns to the top five after its 50th anniversary reissue,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/kevin-gates\">Kevin Gates<\/a>\u2019\u00a0<em>I\u2019m Him\u00a0<\/em>debuts and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/whiskey-myers\">Whiskey Myers<\/a>\u00a0lands its first top 10. <br><br><\/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;Oct. 12-dated chart (where&nbsp;<em>Kirk&nbsp;<\/em>debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s websites on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kirk<\/em>, which is DaBaby\u2019s actual last name (real name: Jonathan Kirk), follows his first studio release,&nbsp;<em>Baby on Baby<\/em>, which peaked at No. 7 on the June 1-dated list. The latter boasts DaBaby\u2019s breakthrough single \u201cSuge,\u201d which marked his first top 10 hit on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart (reaching No. 7 on July 6). Through the week ending Oct. 2,&nbsp;<em>Baby on Baby<\/em>&nbsp;has earned 719,000 equivalent album units, and collected over 1 billion on-demand audio streams for its songs. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted above,\u00a0<em>Kirk<\/em>\u00a0starts with 145,000 equivalent album units, of which 8,000 were in album sales, 2,000 in TEA units and 136,000 in SEA units. The latter sum equates to 181.7 million on-demand audio streams for the set\u2019s 13 songs during its first week &#8212; the fifth-largest debut streaming week for an album in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hollywood\u2019s Bleeding&nbsp;<\/em>shifts down one slot after spending its first three weeks at No. 1. The album tallied 124,000 equivalent album units in the new tracking week, down 17%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Beatles\u2019 former No. 1 album&nbsp;<em>Abbey Road<\/em>&nbsp;zooms back into the top 10 for the first time since 1970, as the set vaults from No. 71 to No. 3 after the album was reissued on Sept. 27 to commemorate its 50th anniversary. It earned 81,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 3 (up 803%) with 70,000 of that sum in album sales (up 3,091%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Abbey Road<\/em>&nbsp;was released on Sept. 26, 1969, and spent 11 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in late 1969 and early 1970. It first reached the top of the list dated Nov. 1, 1969, and it spent its final week at No. 1 on Jan. 24, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album continued to chart consistently through May of 1971, returned for a spell in 1976, and then racked up numerous weeks on the chart between 1981 and 1988. Then, from 1991 through 2009, catalog (older) albums like\u00a0<em>Abbey Road<\/em>\u00a0were generally ineligible to chart on the list, so\u00a0<em>Abbey Road<\/em>\u00a0was absent from the chart during that time. But in late 2009, after the catalog restriction was lifted,\u00a0<em>Abbey Road<\/em>\u00a0returned to the chart and has racked up 200 weeks on the tally since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With&nbsp;<em>Abbey Road<\/em>\u2019s rise to No. 3 on the new chart, the album nets its first week in the top 10 since April 25, 1970 (when it ranked at No. 9) and its highest placing since March 14, 1970 (No. 3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Abbey Road<\/em>&nbsp;boasts familiar favorite songs like \u201cCome Together,\u201d \u201cSomething\u201d (which together topped the Hot 100 chart as a double-sided single), \u201cOctopus\u2019s Garden,\u201d \u201cHere Comes the Sun,\u201d \u201cCarry That Weight\u201d and \u201cThe End.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album was freshly mixed and reissued on Sept. 27 in a variety of formats, many coming with an array of previously unreleased recordings and demo tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Abbey Road<\/em>\u00a0is the latest in a series of 50th anniversary reissues from The Beatles, following the act\u2019s self-titled set (often referred to as The White Album) in 2018 and\u00a0<em>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em>\u00a0in 2017. The White Album\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8485591\/the-beatles-white-album-returns-billboard-200-chart-top-10\">re-entered at No. 6<\/a>\u00a0on the Nov. 24, 2018, chart following its reissue, and\u00a0<em>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0re-entered the chart at No. 3 on the June 17, 2017-dated list after its re-release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200, Kevin Gates collects his fourth top 10 album, as&nbsp;<em>I\u2019m Him<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 4 with 70,000 equivalent album units earned (with 10,000 of that sum in album sales). He previously visited the top 10 with&nbsp;<em>Luca Brasi 3<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 4 in 2018),&nbsp;<em>By Any Means 2<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 4, 2017) and&nbsp;<em>Islah<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 2, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Lover<\/em>&nbsp;falls one rung to No. 5 with 57,000 equivalent album units (down 13%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Country-rock band Whiskey Myers captures its first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as the group\u2019s self-titled effort starts at No. 6 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (of which 39,000 were in album sales). Sales of the new album were boosted by a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer with the band\u2019s tour in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The debut of the new album follows the Texas act\u2019s first big national attention back in 2018, when it was seen performing the song \u201cStone\u201d in an episode of Paramount Network\u2019s\u00a0<em>Yellowstone<\/em>, starring Kevin Costner. During the release week of the new album, Whiskey Myers landed its first live performance on national television, performing \u201cRolling Stone\u201d on NBC\u2019s\u00a0<em>Today<\/em>\u00a0on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whiskey Myers also scored its first chart hit on a&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;airplay chart recently, as the new album\u2019s \u201cGasoline\u201d premiered at No. 37 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart dated Oct. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band previously visited the chart with its last three albums:&nbsp;<em>Mud<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 80 in 2016),&nbsp;<em>Early Morning Shakes<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 54, 2014) and&nbsp;<em>Firewater<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 198, 2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 No. 1&nbsp;<em>When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?&nbsp;<\/em>climbs 8-7 with 39,000 equivalent album units (up 20%). The set gains in the wake of Eilish\u2019s performances on NBC\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>&nbsp;on Sept. 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the rest of the new top 10:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/young-thug\">Young Thug<\/a>\u2019s former leader\u00a0<em>So Much Fun\u00a0<\/em>dips 5-8 with nearly 39,000 equivalent album units earned (down 13%),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lizzo\">Lizzo<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Cuz I Love You<\/em>\u00a0is steady at No. 9 with 37,000 units (though up 13%) and Lil Tecca\u2019s\u00a0<em>We Love You Tecca<\/em>\u00a0falls 6-10 with 35,000 units (down 10%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1570\" data-postid=\"1570\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1570 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: The Beatles\u2019 former No. 1 &#8220;Abbey Road&#8221; returns to the top three, Kevin Gates and Whiskey Myers debut in top 10. 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