{"id":1619,"date":"2019-11-24T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:38","slug":"celine-dion-scores-first-no-1-album-in-over-17-years-on-billboard-200-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"Celine Dion Scores First No. 1 Album in Over 17 Years 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\">\u201cCourage\u201d bows at No. 1, earning the pop superstar her fifth chart-topping album.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Pop superstar&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/celine-dion\">Celine Dion<\/a>&nbsp;debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with her new studio album&nbsp;<em>Courage<\/em>. The set, which was released on Nov. 15 via Columbia Records, earned 113,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 20 in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Courage<\/em>&nbsp;marks Dion\u2019s fifth No. 1 album, and her first chart-topper in over 17 years. She was last at No. 1 with 2002\u2019s&nbsp;<em>A New Day Has Come<\/em>.<\/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 comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Nov. 30-dated chart, where\u00a0<em>Courage<\/em>\u00a0bows at No. 1,\u00a0will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s websites on Nov. 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Courage<\/em>\u2019s total unit start of 113,000, album sales comprise 109,000, SEA units equal 3,000 and TEA units total 1,000.&nbsp;<em>Courage<\/em>\u2019s first week got a boost from album sales generated by a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer with Dion\u2019s Courage World Tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Courage<\/em>&nbsp;is Dion\u2019s first English-language studio album since 2013\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Loved Me Back to Life<\/em>, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (dated Nov. 23, 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some notable achievements for Dion with the arrival of&nbsp;<em>Courage<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Five No. 1s:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Courage<\/em>\u00a0is Dion\u2019s fifth No. 1 on the Billboard 200. She has previously hit the top with\u00a0<em>Falling Into You<\/em>\u00a0(No. 1 for three weeks in 1996),\u00a0<em>Let\u2019s Talk About Love\u00a0<\/em>(one week in 1998),\u00a0<em>All the Way\u2026\u00a0A Decade of Song<\/em>\u00a0(three weeks total, two in 1999 and one in 2000) and\u00a0<em>A New Day Has Come<\/em>\u00a0(one week in 2002).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No. 1s in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s<\/strong>: Dion has now collected No. 1 albums in each of the last three decades. She\u2019s just the 13th act, and fourth woman, to achieve the feat. The others: Backstreet Boys, Garth Brooks, Dave Matthews Band, Janet Jackson, Jay-Z, Metallica, Nas, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears and U2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Over 17 Years Between No. 1s:&nbsp;<\/strong>Dion had to wait over 17 years&nbsp;for her latest No. 1&nbsp;between&nbsp;<em>A New Day Has Come<\/em>\u2019s lone week at No. 1 on April 13, 2002 through&nbsp;<em>Courage<\/em>\u2019s premiere. That\u2019s the longest spell between No. 1s for a woman ever on the chart. She surpasses the 16-year and nearly four-month gap tallied by Whitney Houston between the final week at No. 1 for the Houston-led soundtrack to&nbsp;<em>The Bodyguard<\/em>&nbsp;(May 29, 1993) and the debut of&nbsp;<em>I Look To You<\/em>&nbsp;(Sept. 19, 2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Dion\u2019s gap between No. 1s is extensive, it\u2019s actually not the longest wait in 2019 for a new No. 1. On the Feb. 9-dated chart, Backstreet Boys returned to No. 1 for the first time in 18 years and nearly two months, as&nbsp;<em>DNA<\/em>&nbsp;debuted atop the chart. It was the group\u2019s first week at No. 1 since&nbsp;<em>Black &amp; Blue<\/em>&nbsp;spent its second and final week in charge on Dec. 16, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A solo artist waited longer than Dion for a No.1, but topped the chart a little over a year ago:\u00a0Paul McCartney\u2019s\u00a0<em>Egypt Station<\/em>\u00a0premiered at No. 1 on the Sept. 22, 2018-dated list. It was his first No. 1 in 36 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>13 Top 10 Albums:&nbsp;<\/strong>Dion now has a lucky 13 top 10-charting albums on the Billboard 200. Her first title to visit the region was&nbsp;<em>The Colour of My Love<\/em>, which climbed to the top 10 on Feb. 25, 1994, when it rose 14-10 after debuting on the list dated Nov. 27, 1993.&nbsp;<em>Colour<\/em>&nbsp;was Dion\u2019s third chart entry, following&nbsp;<em>Unison<\/em>&nbsp;(which peaked at No. 74 in 1991) and a self-titled album (No. 34 in 1992).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Tory Lanez collects his fourth consecutive top five effort (the entirety of his charting albums), as&nbsp;<em>Chixtape 5<\/em>&nbsp;debuts with 83,000 equivalent album units earned (with 9,000 of that sum in album sales).&nbsp;<em>Chixtape 5<\/em>&nbsp;follows&nbsp;<em>Love Me Now?<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 4 in 2018),&nbsp;<em>Memories Don\u2019t Die<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 3, 2018) and&nbsp;<em>I Told You<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 4, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hip-hop artist\u2019s set is the most-streamed album of the week, as it earned 73,000 in SEA units, which equates to 94 million on-demand audio streams for the album\u2019s songs in its release week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A quartet of former No. 1s are next on the new Billboard 200. First up, Post Malone\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hollywood\u2019s Bleeding<\/em>&nbsp;dips 2-3 with 69,000 equivalent album units (down 4%) while Taylor Swift\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Lover<\/em>&nbsp;climbs 5-4 with 56,000 units (up 48%, in large part due to sales generated by the set\u2019s release on vinyl LP). The vinyl set, which hit retail on Nov. 15, sold 18,000 copies in the week ending Nov. 20. That\u2019s also the biggest sales week for a vinyl album by a woman in 2019, and the largest for a woman since Jan. 9, 2016, when Adele\u2019s&nbsp;<em>25<\/em>&nbsp;blew through 31,000 copies over Christmas week of 2015. (The biggest sales week of 2019 for any vinyl album belongs to The Raconteurs\u2019&nbsp;<em>Help Us Stranger<\/em>, which launched with 25,000 sold on the list dated July 6.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke Combs\u2019&nbsp;<em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>&nbsp;falls 1-5 in its second week with 55,000 units (down 68%) and YoungBoy Never Broke Again\u2019s&nbsp;<em>AI YoungBoy 2<\/em>&nbsp;slips 3-6 with 44,000 units (down 13%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summer Walker\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Over It<\/em>&nbsp;continues its sturdy run in the top 10, as the album spends its seventh straight week in the region, moving 4-7 with 42,000 units earned (down 12%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DaBaby\u2019s\u00a0<em>Kirk<\/em>\u00a0dips 7-8 with 37,000 units (down 14%), Billie Eilish\u2019s\u00a0<em>When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/em>\u00a0shifts 8-9 with 35,000 units (up 12%) and Kanye West\u2019s\u00a0<em>Jesus Is King<\/em>\u00a0falls 6-10 with 30,000 units (down 21%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1619\" data-postid=\"1619\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1619 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCourage\u201d bows at No. 1, earning the pop superstar her fifth chart-topping album. 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