{"id":1648,"date":"2019-12-22T15:16:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T23:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:37","slug":"harry-styles-fine-line-album-earns-huge-no-1-debut-on-billboard-200-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles&#8217; &#8216;Fine Line&#8217; Album Earns Huge No. 1 Debut 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\">The set tallies the third-biggest week of the year for an album in the U.S.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/harry-styles\">Harry Styles<\/a>&nbsp;lands his second No. 1 album on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart, as his sophomore effort&nbsp;<em>Fine Line<\/em>&nbsp;makes a huge debut atop the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The set, which was released on Dec. 13 via Erskine\/Columbia Records, earned 478,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 19, according to Nielsen Music. That figure marks the biggest week for a pop album by a male artist in over four years, the largest week for a Columbia album in more than three years, and the third-biggest week overall for any album in 2019. It also scores the largest sales week for an album by a solo U.K. male artist since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking sales data in 1991.<\/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 comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Dec. 28-dated chart, where&nbsp;<em>Fine Line<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 1, will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s websites on Dec. 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of\u00a0<em>Fine Line<\/em>\u2019s total unit start of 478,000, album sales comprise 393,000; SEA units total 83,000 (equating to 108.7 million on-demand audio streams for the album\u2019s songs); and TEA units equal 3,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some notable achievements for Styles with the bow of&nbsp;<em>Fine Line<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Styles\u2019 Second No. 1 Album:&nbsp;<\/strong>Styles goes two-for-two at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as&nbsp;<em>Fine Line<\/em>&nbsp;follows his previous No. 1, his self-titled debut album in 2017. The latter started atop the list dated June 3, 2017,&nbsp;with 230,000 equivalent album units earned in its first week and 193,000 of that sum in album sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First U.K. Male Artist to Debut at No. 1 With First Two Albums:&nbsp;<\/strong>The England-born Styles is the first U.K. male artist to debut at No. 1 with his first two albums. (Further, only two solo U.K. male acts have debuted at No. 1 with their first albums: Styles and his former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/one-direction\">One Direction<\/a>&nbsp;bandmate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/zayn\">Zayn<\/a>. The latter launched at No. 1 back in 2016 with&nbsp;<em>Mind of Mine<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Third-Largest Week for an Album in 2019:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Fine Line<\/em>\u2019s starting sum of 478,000 units marks the third-biggest week of 2019 for any album. Only the debuts of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lover<\/em>\u00a0(869,000; Sept. 7 chart) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Hollywood\u2019s Bleeding<\/em>\u00a0(489,000; Sept. 21) landed larger frames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biggest Week for a Pop Album by a Male Artist in Four Years:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Fine Line<\/em>\u2019s blockbuster bow yields the largest week for a pop album by a male artist in over four years. The last set to notch a bigger week was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\">Justin Bieber<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Purpose<\/em>, which entered at No. 1 on the Dec. 5, 2015-dated chart with 649,000 units. (Pop albums are those that did not chart on a genre-specific tally such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/alternative-albums\">Alternative Albums<\/a>&nbsp;or Top R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Albums, etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Columbia Records\u2019 Biggest Week Since 2016:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Fine Line<\/em>&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;released via Erskine\/Columbia Records &#8212; gives Columbia its largest overall week for an album since the May 14, 2016-dated chart, when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/beyonce\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>\u200b\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Lemonade<\/em>&nbsp;(on Parkwood\/Columbia) bowed at No. 1 with 653,000 units.&nbsp;<em>Fine Line<\/em>&nbsp;also logs the largest week for any album released by a Sony Music label in over a year. The last larger week registered by a Sony release was the debut of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/travis-scott\">Travis Scott<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Astroworld<\/em>&nbsp;(on Cactus Jack\/Epic Records), when it started at No. 1 on the Aug. 18, 2018, chart with 537,000 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Fine Line\u2019 Is Already Among 2019\u2019s Top 10-<em>Selling<\/em>\u00a0Albums:<\/strong>\u00a0After only one week in release,\u00a0<em>Fine Line<\/em>\u00a0is the sixth-largest selling album of 2019.\u00a0<em>Fine Line,\u00a0<\/em>which sold 393,000 copies in its debut week,\u00a0was bolstered by sales generated from a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer with his upcoming tour, as well as an array of merchandise\/album bundles sold via his official website. So far in 2019, the top-selling album in the U.S. is Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lover<\/em>, with 1.05 million copies sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Largest Sales Week for a U.K. Male Artist in Nielsen Music History:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Fine Line<\/em>\u2019s debut sales of 393,000 is the largest sales week for an album by a solo U.K. male artist since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking sales data in 1991. It surpasses the 374,000 sold by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/eric-clapton\">Eric Clapton<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Unplugged<\/em>&nbsp;album over Christmas week of 1992 (reflected on the chart dated Jan. 9, 1993). Both Styles and Clapton were born in England &#8212;&nbsp;Styles in Redditch, Worcestershire, and Clapton in Ripley, Surrey. (The largest sales week for an album by a female U.K. artist &#8212;&nbsp;and for&nbsp;<em>any<\/em>&nbsp;album &#8212; remains the debut of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/adele\">Adele<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>25<\/em>&nbsp;in 2015 with 3.38 million sold. The largest sales frame by a U.K. group is the 1.26 million sold by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-beatles\">The Beatles<\/a>\u2019 greatest hits set&nbsp;<em>1<\/em>&nbsp;over Christmas week of 2000.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fourth-Biggest Vinyl Sales Week in Nielsen Music History:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Fine Line<\/em>\u00a0was also a big seller on vinyl LP, as the album sold 28,000 copies on the format in its debut week. The only larger weeks for a vinyl album since Nielsen Music launched in 1991 were garnered by Adele\u2019s\u00a0<em>25<\/em>\u00a0in the week ending Dec. 24, 2015 (31,000),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pearl-jam\">Pearl Jam<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Vitalogy<\/em>\u00a0in its opening week (34,000 exclusively on vinyl LP in the\u00a0week ending Nov. 27, 1994,\u00a0before it became widely available on CD) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jack-white\">Jack White<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lazaretto<\/em>\u00a0in its debut week (40,000; June 14, 2014).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, country superstar&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/blake-shelton\">Blake Shelton<\/a>&nbsp;collects his 12th top 10 album, as&nbsp;<em>Fully Loaded: God\u2019s Country<\/em>&nbsp;enters with 96,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 83,000 were in album sales. Like Styles\u2019&nbsp;<em>Fine Line<\/em>, Shelton\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Fully Loaded<\/em>&nbsp;was boosted by a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 12-song&nbsp;<em>Fully Loaded: God\u2019s Country<\/em>&nbsp;album operates as a greatest hits collection for Shelton, and includes five No. 1 hits on the Country Airplay chart: \u201cCame Here to Forget,\u201d \u201cA Guy With a Girl,\u201d \u201cEvery Time I Hear That Song,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll Name the Dogs\u201d and his most recent leader, \u201cGod\u2019s Country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fully Loaded<\/em>\u00a0is the third in a series of best-of collections for Shelton, following\u00a0<em>Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits\u00a0<\/em>(2015) and\u00a0<em>Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton<\/em>\u00a0(2011).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fully Loaded<\/em>&nbsp;also marks the highest-charting greatest hits album on the Billboard 200 since October of 2017, when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/tom-petty\">Tom Petty<\/a>&nbsp;&amp; The Heartbreakers\u2019&nbsp;<em>Greatest Hits<\/em>&nbsp;spent two weeks at No. 2 in the wake of Petty\u2019s death on Oct. 2 of that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/\">Roddy Ricch<\/a>\u200b\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Please Excuse Me for Being Anti-Social&nbsp;<\/em>dips from No. 1 to No. 3 in its second week, earning 81,000 equivalent album units (down 20%). A trio of former No. 1s follow Ricch:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hollywood\u2019s Bleeding<\/em>&nbsp;is steady at No. 4 with 63,000 units (down 5%), the&nbsp;<em>Frozen II<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack rises 7-5 with 60,000 units (up 3%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/michael-buble\">Michael Bubl\u00e9<\/a>\u200b\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Christmas<\/em>&nbsp;ascends 8-6 with 58,000 units (up 11%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pentatonix\">Pentatonix<\/a>\u200b\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Best of Pentatonix Christmas<\/em>&nbsp;hits a new high, rising 9-7 with 56,000 equivalent album units (up 8%, beating its previous peak of No. 8),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/mariah-carey\">Mariah Carey<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Merry Christmas<\/em>&nbsp;shifts 12-8 with 51,000 units (up 18%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>\u200b\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/em>&nbsp;steps 11-9 with 49,000 units (up less than 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift\u2019s previous leader\u00a0<em>Lover<\/em>\u00a0rounds out the top 10, moving 13-10 with 47,000 equivalent album units earned (up 9%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1648\" data-postid=\"1648\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1648 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The set tallies the third-biggest week of the year for an album in the U.S. Harry Styles&nbsp;lands his second No. 1 album on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart, as his sophomore effort&nbsp;Fine Line&nbsp;makes a huge debut atop the list. 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