{"id":1721,"date":"2020-02-23T15:24:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T23:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:35","slug":"justin-bieber-earns-seventh-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber Earns Seventh No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart with &#8216;Changes&#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: A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, Tame Impala and Monsta X debut in top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\">Justin Bieber<\/a>&nbsp;scores his seventh No. 1 album on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart as&nbsp;<em>Changes<\/em>&nbsp;debuts atop the tally. The set, which was released on Feb. 14 via SchoolBoy\/Raymond Braun\/Def Jam Recordings, earned 231,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 20, according to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bieber leads a busy top 10, where&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/a-boogie-wit-da-hoodie\">A Boogie Wit da Hoodie<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/tame-impala\">Tame Impala<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/monsta-x\">Monsta X<\/a>&nbsp;also arrive with their latest efforts.<\/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 Feb. 29-dated chart, where&nbsp;<em>Changes<\/em>&nbsp;enters at No. 1,&nbsp;will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Feb. 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Changes<\/em>\u2019 231,000 first-week units represent the third-largest week of 2020 for an album, behind the debut frames of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/eminem\">Eminem<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Music to Be Murdered By<\/em>&nbsp;(279,000; chart dated Feb. 1) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/halsey\">Halsey<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Manic<\/em>&nbsp;(239,000; also Feb. 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Changes<\/em>&nbsp;is Bieber\u2019s first album in more than four years, since&nbsp;<em>Purpose<\/em>&nbsp;debuted at No. on the Dec. 5, 2015-dated chart with 649,000 units (with 522,000 of that sum in album sales).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Changes<\/em>\u2019 first-week sum, 126,000 are in album sales, 101,000 are in SEA units (equating to 135 million on-demand streams of the songs on the album) and 4,000 are in TEA units. The album\u2019s sales were bolstered by a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer with Bieber\u2019s upcoming tour, and many merchandise\/album bundle offers sold via Bieber\u2019s official webstore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, at 25, Bieber is the youngest solo artist to achieve seven No. 1 albums. (He turns 26 on March 1.) Previously, the youngest soloist to land seven No. 1s was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/elvis-presley\">Elvis Presley<\/a>,&nbsp;who logged his seventh leader (of 10 total) when he was 26 years and 11 months old (with&nbsp;<em>Blue Hawaii<\/em>&nbsp;on Dec. 11, 1961).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If one included groups in our calculation, all four members of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-beatles\">The Beatles<\/a>&nbsp;were younger than Bieber on the occasion of the band\u2019s seventh No. 1. The Fab Four achieved their seventh leader (of a record 19) with&nbsp;<em>Rubber Soul<\/em>&nbsp;on Jan. 8, 1966. At the time, the oldest member of the group was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ringo-starr\">Ringo Starr<\/a>, who was only 25 years and six months old, while the youngest member,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/george-harrison\">George Harrison<\/a>, was just 22 years and 10 months old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Changes<\/em>&nbsp;marks not only Bieber\u2019s seventh No. 1, but his ninth top 10 effort &#8212;&nbsp;the entirety of his charting albums. Here\u2019s a look at all nine of his albums on the Billboard 200:&nbsp;<em>Changes<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1),&nbsp;<em>Purpose<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1; Dec. 5, 2015),&nbsp;<em>Believe: Acoustic<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1; Feb. 16, 2013),&nbsp;<em>Believe<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1; July 7, 2012),&nbsp;<em>Under the Mistletoe<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1; Nov. 19, 2011),&nbsp;<em>Never Say Never: The Remixes<\/em>&nbsp;EP (No. 1; March 5, 2011),&nbsp;<em>My Worlds Acoustic<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 7; Dec. 11, 2010),&nbsp;<em>My World 2.0<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1 for four weeks; April 10, 2010) and&nbsp;<em>My World<\/em>&nbsp;EP (No. 5; April 10, 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Artist 2.0<\/em>&nbsp;debuts with 111,000 equivalent album units &#8212; nearly all from streaming activity. Of the set\u2019s starting sum, 106,000 are in SEA units (equaling 149 million in on-demand streams of songs from the album),&nbsp;making it the No. 1 most-streamed album of the week. The remainder of the album\u2019s units were driven by album sales (3,000) and TEA units (1,000).&nbsp;<em>Artist 2.0<\/em>&nbsp;is A Boogie Wit da Hoodie\u2019s sixth charting album and third top 10 effort, following&nbsp;<em>Hoodie SZN<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1 on Jan. 19, 2019) and&nbsp;<em>The Bigger Artist<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 4 on Oct. 21, 2017). Of note, the rapper\u2019s last album,&nbsp;<em>Hoodie SZN<\/em>, also debuted at No. 2 (on Jan. 5, 2019), but waited until Jan. 19 to ascend to No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tame Impala achieves its highest charting album ever on the Billboard 200, as&nbsp;<em>The Slow Rush<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 3 with 110,000 equivalent album units (with 80,000 of that in album sales). The act previously topped out at No. 4 in 2015 with&nbsp;<em>Currents<\/em>. Further,&nbsp;<em>The Slow Rush<\/em>&nbsp;logs Tame Impala its best&nbsp;<em>sales week<\/em>&nbsp;for an album, trumping the 45,000 first-week sales of&nbsp;<em>Currents<\/em>. (<em>The Slow Rush<\/em>\u2019s sales were goosed by a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer with the act\u2019s upcoming tour, as well as a handful of merchandise\/album sale bundles sold via its webstore.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Slow Rush<\/em>&nbsp;was also a hot seller on vinyl LP, as 32% of the album\u2019s first-week sales were generated by its vinyl configuration. The set sold just under 26,000 vinyl copies &#8212;&nbsp;the seventh-biggest sales week for a vinyl album since Nielsen Music\/MRC Data began tracking music data in 1991. (The largest week for a vinyl album in the Nielsen era was logged by the debut week of Jack White\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Lazaretto<\/em>&nbsp;in 2014, with 40,000 sold.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/\">Roddy Ricch<\/a>\u200b\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial<\/em>&nbsp;falls from No. 1 to No. 4 on the new Billboard 200 chart with 70,000 equivalent album units earned (down 11%). The set has logged four total weeks on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monsta X rounds out the new arrivals in the top 10, as the six-member South Korean vocal group makes its Billboard 200 chart debut at No. 5 with its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/8551036\/monsta-x-all-about-luv-album-breakdown\">first all-English-language album<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>All About Luv<\/em>. The set launches with 52,000 equivalent album units earned, with 50,000 of that sum comprising album sales.&nbsp;<em>All About Luv<\/em>&nbsp;is Monsta X\u2019s first album for Epic Records since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/8513225\/monsta-x-epic-records\">signing with the label in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>All About&nbsp;<\/em><em>Luv<\/em>&#8216;s first week was bolstered by sales generated from a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer, a bevy of merchandise\/album bundles, in-store appearances during street week, and more than a dozen different variants of the album available for fans to purchase (such as multiple CD editions, each with a different cover for one of the group\u2019s members).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While&nbsp;<em>All About Luv<\/em>&nbsp;is Monsta X\u2019s first Billboard 200 entry, the act has charted on other&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;tallies since 2015 following its formation on a TV competition show in its home country that same year. Among those charting efforts were nine top 10s on the World Albums chart between 2016 and 2019 (all released via Starship Entertainment). The World Albums chart ranks the week\u2019s most popular albums in the U.S. that are, generally speaking,&nbsp;titles that contain native music or native-language music from countries outside the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Hollywood\u2019s Bleeding<\/em>&nbsp;descends from No. 2 to No. 6 with 50,000 equivalent album units earned (down 4%), while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>\u200b\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/em>&nbsp;dips from No. 5 to No. 7 with 44,000 units (down 4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/\">Pop Smoke<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Meet the Woo, V.2<\/em>&nbsp;is pushed down one spot to No. 8, though with an 11% increase in units (to 40,000) in its second week on the list. The album gains in the wake of fan reaction to the rapper\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8551644\/pop-smoke-cause-of-death-gunshot-los-angeles-coroner\">death<\/a>&nbsp;on Feb. 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the new top 10 are Eminem\u2019s former chart-topper&nbsp;<em>Music to Be Murdered By,<\/em>&nbsp;slipping from No. 3 to No. 9 with 39,000 equivalent album units earned (down 23%), and Halsey\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Manic<\/em>, falling from No. 8 to No. 10 with 31,000 units (down 9%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1721\" data-postid=\"1721\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1721 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, Tame Impala and Monsta X debut in top 10. 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