{"id":1771,"date":"2020-04-12T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T21:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:35","slug":"the-weeknds-after-hours-scores-third-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1771","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd\u2019s \u2018After Hours\u2019 Scores Third Week at No. 1 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\">Plus: Rod Wave and Sam Hunt debut in the top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billboard.com\/music\/the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>&nbsp;scores a third straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first album to lead for three consecutive weeks since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/post-malone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Post Malone<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hollywood\u2019s Bleeding<\/em>&nbsp;also spent its first three weeks atop the tally last year (Sept. 21-Oct. 5, 2019-dated charts), of a total of five non-consecutive frames at No. 1.<\/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 April 18-dated chart, where\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>\u00a0holds at No. 1, will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on April 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>After Hours<\/em>&nbsp;earned 90,000 equivalent album units (down 35%) in the U.S. in the week ending April 9, according to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data. Of that sum, 64,000 are in SEA units (down 26%, equaling 89.4 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s songs), 23,000 are in album sales (down 51%) and 3,000 are in TEA units (down 31%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album continues to benefit from sales of merchandise\/album bundles the artist has been releasing on a consistent basis since\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>\u00a0premiered on March 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>After Hours<\/em>\u2019 total unit sum for the week is the smallest total for a No. 1 album in a tracking week in 2020. It\u2019s the lowest for an album at No. 1 since Harry Styles\u2019&nbsp;<em>Fine Line<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8547134\/harry-styles-fine-line-spends-second-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tallied<\/a>&nbsp;89,000 units in its second week at No. 1, on the Jan. 4, 2020-dated chart, which reflected the tracking week ending Dec. 26, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond consecutive-week reigns, the last album to spend more than three weeks at No. 1 was Roddy Ricch\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial<\/em>, which accumulated four non-consecutive weeks atop the list (Dec. 21, 2019, and then three weeks in 2020: Jan. 18, Feb. 8 and Feb. 22).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming in at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 is singer-rapper&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rod-wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rod Wave<\/a>&nbsp;with his second album,&nbsp;<em>Pray 4 Love<\/em>. The set starts with 72,000 equivalent album units. Of that sum, 69,000 are in SEA units (equating to 105.8 million on-demand streams of the sets songs), while just 2,000 are in album sales, and less than 1,000 are TEA units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 69,000 SEA units and 105.8 million in on-demand streams for its 14 songs,&nbsp;<em>Pray 4 Love<\/em>&nbsp;is the most streamed album of the week. It edges out Lil Uzi Vert\u2019s 32-song&nbsp;<em>Eternal Atake<\/em>&nbsp;(68,000 SEA units, 105.6 million streams).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pray 4 Love<\/em>&nbsp;easily marks Rod Wave\u2019s best week ever on the Billboard 200, surpassing his previous peak of No. 10 with his debut set,&nbsp;<em>Ghetto Gospel<\/em>. The latter debuted and peaked on the Nov. 23, 2019-dated list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pair of former No. 1s round out the top four, as Lil Uzi Vert\u2019s\u00a0<em>Eternal Atake<\/em>\u00a0holds at No. 3 (69,000 units; down 19%) and Lil Baby\u2019s\u00a0<em>My Turn<\/em>\u00a0rises 6-4 (48,000 units, down 10%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/sam-hunt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sam Hunt<\/a>&nbsp;jumps in at No. 5 with&nbsp;<em>Southside<\/em>, his sophomore studio effort and first studio set in over five years.&nbsp;<em>Southside<\/em>&nbsp;launches with 46,000 equivalent album units earned (28,000 in SEA units, equaling 36.8 million on-demand streams of its songs; 16,000 in album sales and 3,000 in TEA units).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Southside<\/em>&nbsp;bows with the third-largest streaming week ever for a country album, and the second-biggest debut frame for a country set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest streaming week for any country effort is the debut frame of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/luke-combs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luke Comb<\/a>s\u2019&nbsp;<em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>, which started with 74 million clicks (Nov. 23, 2019 chart). The second-largest streaming week overall for a country set is owned by Gene&nbsp;Autry\u2019s 2003 holiday hits collection&nbsp;<em>Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Other Christmas Classics<\/em>. It earned 43.71 million streams for its tracks on the Jan. 5, 2019-dated list thanks to big Christmastime plays of the album\u2019s holiday favorites \u201cHere Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)\u201d and \u201cRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Southside<\/em>&nbsp;is Hunt\u2019s second top 10 album, following his first studio effort,&nbsp;<em>Montevallo<\/em>, which debuted and peaked at No. 3 (Nov. 15, 2014 chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bad-bunny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bad Bunny<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>YHLQMDLG<\/em>&nbsp;rises one rung to No. 6 (43,000 units; down 15%), Roddy Ricch\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial<\/em>&nbsp;ascends 9-7 (38,000 units; down 6%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dua Lipa<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>&nbsp;slips 4-8 in its second week (nearly 38,000 units; down 43%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post Malone\u2019s\u00a0<em>Hollywood\u2019s Bleeding<\/em>\u00a0returns to the top 10, lifting 11-9 (37,000 units; down 2%) and Jhen\u00e9 Aiko\u2019s\u00a0<em>Chilombo<\/em>\u00a0also rebounds to the top 10, bumping 12-10 (27,000 units; down 12%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1771\" data-postid=\"1771\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1771 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Rod Wave and Sam Hunt debut in the top 10. The Weeknd\u2019s&nbsp;After Hours&nbsp;scores a third straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first album to lead for three consecutive weeks since&nbsp;Post Malone\u2019s&nbsp;Hollywood\u2019s Bleeding&nbsp;also spent its first three weeks atop the tally last year (Sept. 21-Oct. 5, 2019-dated charts), of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-now","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","no-post-comment","no-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}