{"id":1837,"date":"2020-06-07T19:45:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T02:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:43","slug":"lady-gaga-scores-sixth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-chromatica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga Scores Sixth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart with &#8216;Chromatica&#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: Jimmy Buffett, Anuel AA and Run the Jewels debut in top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lady-gaga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lady Gaga<\/a>&nbsp;notches her sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with the chart-topping debut of&nbsp;<em>Chromatica<\/em>. The set starts with 274,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending June 4, according to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data &#8212; the biggest week for any album by a woman in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Chromatica<\/em>&nbsp;was released on May 29 via Interscope Records. The set was led by the singles \u201cStupid Love\u201d and \u201cRain on Me\u201d with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lady-gaga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ariana Grande<\/a>. The former debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March, while the latter opened at No. 1 on the June 6 chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Chromatica<\/em>\u00a0was originally slated for an April 10 release, but was delayed due to COVID-19 concerns.Lady Gaga previously hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with the\u00a0<em>A Star Is Born<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack (with Bradley Cooper, in 2018 and 2019),\u00a0<em>Joanne<\/em>\u00a0(2016),\u00a0<em>Cheek to Cheek<\/em>\u00a0(with\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/tony-bennett\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Bennett<\/a>, 2014),\u00a0<em>Artpop<\/em>\u00a0(2013) and\u00a0<em>Born This Way<\/em>\u00a0(2011).<\/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 June 13-dated chart (where&nbsp;<em>Chromatica<\/em>&nbsp;starts at No. 1) will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on June 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Chromatica<\/em>\u2019s starting sum of 274,000 equivalent album units, album sales comprise 205,000, SEA units total 65,000 (equating to 87.16 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s tracks in the week ending June 4) and TEA units equal a little more than 4,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at some notable achievements earned by the debut of&nbsp;<em>Chromatica<\/em>&nbsp;at No. 1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fifth Biggest Week of 2020, Largest for an Album By a Woman:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Chromatica<\/em>\u2019s start of 274,000 equivalent album units earned marks the fifth-largest week for any album in 2020 and the biggest for an album by a woman. The only larger weeks posted in 2020 were from the debut frames of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>&nbsp;(444,000),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BTS<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>Map of the Soul: 7<\/em>&nbsp;(422,000),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-uzi-vert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lil Uzi Vert<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Eternal Atake<\/em>&nbsp;(288,000) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/eminem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eminem<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Music to Be Murdered By<\/em>&nbsp;(279,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last larger week for an album by a woman was racked up by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lover<\/em>, which blasted in at No. 1 on the chart dated Sept. 7, 2019, with 867,000 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Album sales comprise 75 percent of&nbsp;<em>Chromatica<\/em>\u2019s overall debut frame (205,000 of 274,000). The set\u2019s sales were bolstered by dozens of merchandise\/album bundles sold via her official webstore, and a concert ticket\/album sale offer with her three upcoming U.S. stadium shows scheduled for August. In addition, the album sold well via traditional retail, including the iTunes Store, Amazon and Target. The latter carried an exclusive deluxe CD edition of the album with bonus tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strong Streams:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Chromatica<\/em>\u2019s bow with 65,000 SEA units equates to 87.16 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s tracks in the week ending June 4. That\u2019s the biggest streaming week for any non-R&amp;B\/hip-hop or Latin album in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest streaming week of 2020 for any album is owned by Lil Uzi Vert\u2019s hip-hop set\u00a0<em>Eternal Atake<\/em>, which bowed at No. 1 on March 21 with 400.4 million clicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For comparison among non-R&amp;B\/hip-hop or Latin albums, here are the next-biggest streaming weeks of 2020 after&nbsp;<em>Chromatica<\/em>\u2019s start with 87.16 million:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/selena-gomez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Selena Gomez<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Rare<\/em>&nbsp;(debut, 79.3 million; Jan. 25),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/halsey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Halsey<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Manic<\/em>&nbsp;(debut, 75.6 million; Feb. 1) and BTS\u2019&nbsp;<em>Map of the Soul: 7<\/em>&nbsp;(debut, 74.8 million; March 7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last album outside of the R&amp;B\/hip-hop or Latin genres to manage a bigger streaming week than&nbsp;<em>Chromatica<\/em>&nbsp;was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/harry-styles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harry Styles<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>Fine Line<\/em>, which started at No. 1 with 108.7 million clicks (Dec. 28, 2019-dated chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last non-R&amp;B\/hip-hop or Latin album by a\u00a0<em>woman<\/em>\u00a0to collect a bigger streaming week than\u00a0<em>Chromatica<\/em>\u00a0was Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lover<\/em>, with 117.4 million in its second week on the list (Sept. 14, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Six No. 1 Albums in Only Nine Years:<\/strong>&nbsp;Lady Gaga has tallied six No. 1s on the Billboard 200 chart in just nine years and two days &#8212; the fastest a woman has claimed six No. 1 albums. Lady Gaga logged her first No. 1 with&nbsp;<em>Born This Way<\/em>, when it debuted atop the list dated Jun 11, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, Taylor Swift achieved six No. 1s the fastest, among women, when&nbsp;<em>Lover<\/em>&nbsp;opened at No. 1 on Sept. 7, 2019 &#8212; just 10 years and nine months after her first No. 1,&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>, topped the list (Nov. 29, 2008).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among men or groups, there are acts that have scores their first six No. 1s in quicker time than Gaga &#8212; The Beatles, Justin Bieber, Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, Drake, Future, Jay-Z, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley and Kanye West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One of Just Eight Women With at Least Six No. 1 Albums:<\/strong>&nbsp;Lady Gaga joins an elite club of just eight women who have landed six No. 1 albums. She\u2019s now tied with Beyonc\u00e9, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift, all with six each. Ahead of them: Barbra Streisand, with the most of any woman, 11; Madonna, with nine; and Janet Jackson, with seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among all artists, The Beatles continue to hold the record for the most No. 1s, with 19 leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Only Two Women Have Had a No. 1 Album in 2020:<\/strong>&nbsp;So far this year, just two women have led the Billboard 200 &#8212; Lady Gaga with&nbsp;<em>Chromatica<\/em>&nbsp;and Selena Gomez with&nbsp;<em>Rare<\/em>. The latter opened atop the list on Jan. 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, of the 18 No. 1 albums in 2020 &#8212; which include two carryover No. 1s from 2019 &#8212; 14 are by solo men, two are by male groups (BTS and Jackboys) and two are by women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point a year ago, there were 17 No. 1s &#8212; with one carryover from 2018. Of those 17, four were either by a solo woman, or co-credited to a woman and a man (Gaga and Bradley Cooper\u2019s\u00a0<em>A Star Is Born<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack). The other 13 leaders at this point a year ago consisted of three No. 1s by male groups (Backstreet Boys, BTS and Vampire Weekend) and 10 by solo men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jimmy-buffett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jimmy Buffett<\/a>&nbsp;lands his highest-charting album in over 15 years, as&nbsp;<em>Life on the Flip Side<\/em>&nbsp;starts with 75,000 equivalent album units earned (with 74,000 of that sum in album sales). The last time the veteran singer-songwriter (and Margaritaville brand boss) was higher on the list was in 2004, when&nbsp;<em>License to Chill<\/em>&nbsp;became his first No. 1 when it opened atop the chart dated July 31, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Life on the Flip Side<\/em>&nbsp;is Buffett\u2019s 40th charting album on the Billboard 200. He first visited the list in 1974 with&nbsp;<em>Living and Dying in 3\/4 Time<\/em>, which arrived on the March 2 chart, on its way to a No. 176 peak on March 30. In total,&nbsp;<em>Life On the Flip Side<\/em>&nbsp;is Buffett\u2019s 22nd top 40 album, and 12th top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Life on the Flip Side<\/em>\u00a0is Buffett\u2019s first non-holiday studio album since\u00a0<em>Songs From St. Somewhere<\/em>, which hit No. 4 in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new album\u2019s sales were helped by a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer with a slate of upcoming Buffett shows. The bundle offer was originally attached to a string of dates that were meant to run from May 16 through Oct. 15, 2020. Some of those shows were ultimately canceled due to&nbsp;COVID-19 concerns, while the remaining shows were&nbsp;postponed and rescheduled&nbsp;to July 10 through Sept. 2, 2021.&nbsp;Only the postponed and rescheduled shows are part of the ticket bundle offer which contributes to the chart total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Gaga and Buffett at Nos. 1 and 2, it\u2019s the first time since the Jan. 4-date chart that the top two titles are both non-R&amp;B\/hip-hop titles. On the Jan. 4-dated chart, Harry Styles\u2019&nbsp;<em>Fine Line<\/em>&nbsp;was No. 1, while Michael Bubl\u00e9\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Christmas<\/em>&nbsp;was No. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trio of former No. 1s come in at Nos. 3-5 on the new Billboard 200, as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-baby\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Baby<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>My Turn<\/em>\u00a0falls from No. 2 to No. 3 (62,000 equivalent album units; down 4 percent),\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/gunna\" target=\"_blank\">Gunna<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Wunna<\/em>\u00a0drops from No. 1 to No. 4 in its second week (49,000; down 56 percent) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/future\" target=\"_blank\">Future<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>High Off Life<\/em>\u00a0dips from No. 3 to No. 5 (44,000; down 27 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dark Lane Demo Tapes<\/em>&nbsp;is steady at No. 6 (41,000; down 14 percent) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/polo-g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polo G<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Goat<\/em>&nbsp;falls 5-7 (40,000; down 22 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/anuel-aa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anuel AA<\/a>&nbsp;claims his first top 10 album on the all-genre Billboard 200, as&nbsp;<em>Emmanuel<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 8 with 39,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 36,000 are in SEA units, equating to 55.8 million on-demand streams for the album\u2019s songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The set is the Latin album to reach the Billboard 200\u2019s top 10 in 2020, following a pair of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bad-bunny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bad Bunny<\/a>&nbsp;efforts (<em>YHLQMDLG<\/em>, No. 2 and&nbsp;<em>Las Que No Iban a Salir<\/em>, No. 7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Emmanuel<\/em>&nbsp;is Anuel AA\u2019s second studio album. His first,&nbsp;<em>Real Hasta La Muerte<\/em>, peaked at No. 44 in 2018. It also spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums chart, and finished as one of the top 10 biggest Latin albums of 2018 and 2019 on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s year-end charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dababy\" target=\"_blank\">DaBaby<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>Blame It on Baby<\/em>\u00a0falls from No. 7 to No. 9 on the new Billboard 200 with just under 39,000 equivalent album units (down 8 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/run-the-jewels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Run the Jewels<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>RTJ4<\/em>, bowing at No. 10 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (with 30,000 of that in album sales). It\u2019s the first top 10 for the rap duo, which previously notched two charting sets,&nbsp;<em>Run the Jewels 3<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 13 in 2017) and&nbsp;<em>Run the Jewels 2<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 50 in 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>RTJ4<\/em>&nbsp;was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/9395729\/run-the-jewels-rtj4-listen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released early<\/a>&nbsp;via digital retailers and streamers on Wednesday, June 3 &#8212; instead of on June 5 (a Friday, traditionally the day in which albums are released each week). The album\u2019s sales also benefit from an array of merchandise\/album bundles sold via the act\u2019s official webstore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the album was available as a free download via the act\u2019s website,\u00a0alongside an appeal for donations to the Mass Defense Program. None of those free downloads were reported to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1837\" data-postid=\"1837\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1837 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Jimmy Buffett, Anuel AA and Run the Jewels debut in top 10. Lady Gaga&nbsp;notches her sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with the chart-topping debut of&nbsp;Chromatica. The set starts with 274,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending June 4, according to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data &#8212; the biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1838,"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-1837","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\/1837","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=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/2859"}],"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=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}