{"id":2012,"date":"2020-11-01T17:48:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T01:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:39","slug":"luke-combs-what-you-see-is-what-you-get-back-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-sets-new-streaming-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"Luke Combs&#8217; &#8216;What You See Is What You Get&#8217; Back at No. 1 on Billboard 200, Sets New Streaming Record"},"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\u2019s deluxe reissue prompts its 21-1 jump back to the top. Plus: Bruce Springsteen and Ty Dolla $ign start in the top five.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/luke-combs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luke Combs<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>&nbsp;album vaults back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for a second total week, following its deluxe reissue on Oct. 23 &#8212; and sets a new weekly streaming record for a country album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The set, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8543887\/luke-combs-lands-first-no-1-album-with-record-setting-week-on-billboard-200-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debuted<\/a>&nbsp;atop the list dated Nov. 23, 2019, zooms from No. 21 to No. 1 with 109,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 29 (up 399 percent), according to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data. The album was reissued on Oct. 23 with a handful of additional songs, bringing its total song count to 23.<\/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). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Nov. 7-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>\u00a0returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Nov. 3. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of\u00a0<em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>\u2019s 109,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Oct. 29, SEA units comprise 76,000 (up 289 percent; equaling 102.26 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), 22,000 comprise album sales (up 1,734 percent) and 11,000 comprise TEA units (up 904 percent). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>\u2019s streaming total of 102.26 million weekly streams for its songs breaks its own record for the largest streaming week for a country album. It first set the record in its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/8543887\/luke-combs-lands-first-no-1-album-with-record-setting-week-on-billboard-200-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debut week<\/a>&nbsp;(ending Nov. 14, 2019 \u2013 chart dated Nov. 23), when it racked up 74 million streams. (Note: Since January, streams on the Billboard 200 now include both on-demand audio and video streams. Before that, streams were audio only. That said, even counting just audio streams for&nbsp;<em>What You See&nbsp;<\/em>in the latest week, it would still have the biggest week country streaming week ever.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>&nbsp;is also only the second country album to reach No. 1 in 2020 (following Kenny Chesney\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Here and Now<\/em>&nbsp;on May 16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the new cuts added to the tracklist of&nbsp;<em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>&nbsp;are the hit songs \u201cSix Feet Apart\u201d (No. 10 peak on Hot Country Songs in May) and \u201cWithout You\u201d (No. 15 on Hot Country Songs). Also included is the new song \u201cForever After All,\u201d which is expected to make a high debut on both Hot Country Songs and the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart dated Nov. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, the 11-month and 15-day gap between weeks at No. 1 for\u00a0<em>What You See<\/em>\u00a0is the longest wait since early 2018, when Bon Jovi\u2019s\u00a0<em>This House Is Not a Home<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/8230391\/bon-jovis-back-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart\" target=\"_blank\">returned<\/a>\u00a0to No. 1 after 15 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bruce-springsteen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a>\u2019s new album&nbsp;<em>Letter to You<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, as he becomes the first act with new top five-charting albums in each of the last six decades (1970s, \u201880s, \u201890s, 2000s, \u201810s and the \u201820s).&nbsp;<em>Letter to You<\/em>&nbsp;is Springsteen\u2019s 20th studio effort. Further,&nbsp;<em>Letter to You<\/em>&nbsp;is the top selling album of the week, debuts at No. 1 on the Album Sales chart and launches with Springsteen\u2019s biggest sales week for any album since 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Letter to You<\/em>&nbsp;bows with 96,000 equivalent album units earned (Springsteen\u2019s largest week, in terms of units, since the Billboard 200 began measuring in consumption units in December 2014). Of that sum, 92,000 comprise album sales, 4,000 comprise SEA units (totaling 5.37 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s songs) and less than 1,000 comprise TEA units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>L<\/em><em>etter to You<\/em>\u2019s sales start of 92,000 is Springsteen\u2019s best sales week since&nbsp;<em>High Hopes<\/em>&nbsp;debuted at No. 1 with 99,000 copies sold on the chart dated Feb. 1, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All told,\u00a0<em>Letter to You<\/em>\u00a0is Springsteen\u2019s 21st top 10 and top five-charting album. (All 21 of his top 10 efforts also reached the top five.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Springsteen logged two top five sets in the 1970s (<em>Born to Run<\/em>, No. 3 in 1975 and&nbsp;<em>Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em>, No. 5 in 1978), five in the \u201880s (<em>The River<\/em>, No. 1 in 1980;&nbsp;<em>Nebraska<\/em>, No. 3 in 1982;&nbsp;<em>Born in the U.S.A.<\/em>, No. 1 in 1984; the live album&nbsp;<em>Bruce Springsteen &amp; The E Street Band 1975-1985<\/em>, No. 1 in 1986; and&nbsp;<em>Tunnel of Love<\/em>, No. 1 in 1987), three in the 1990s (<em>Human Touch<\/em>, No. 3 in 1992;&nbsp;<em>Lucky Town<\/em>, No. 3 in 1992; and&nbsp;<em>Greatest Hits<\/em>, No. 1 in 1995), six in the \u201800s (<em>Live in New York City<\/em>, No. 5 in 2001;&nbsp;<em>The Rising<\/em>, No. 1 in 2002;&nbsp;<em>Devils &amp; Dust<\/em>, No. 1 in 2005;&nbsp;<em>We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions<\/em>, No. 3 in 2006;&nbsp;<em>Magic<\/em>, No. 1 in 2007; and&nbsp;<em>Working On a Dream<\/em>, No. 1 in 2009), four in the \u201810s (<em>Wrecking Ball<\/em>, No. 1 in 2012;&nbsp;<em>High Hopes<\/em>, No. 1 in 2014;&nbsp;<em>Chapter and Vers<\/em>e, No. 5 in 2016; and&nbsp;<em>Western Stars<\/em>, No. 2 in 2019) and now one in the \u201820s (<em>Letter to You<\/em>, No. 2 in 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Letter to You<\/em>&nbsp;sold well on vinyl, with 18,000 of its sales coming from the format &#8212; the second-largest sales week for a vinyl album in 2020 (trailing only to the debut week of Tame Impala\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Slow Rush<\/em>, with 26,000 sold; chart dated Feb. 29).&nbsp;<em>Letter to You<\/em>&nbsp;was also a hot seller with independent record stores, as it moved 16,000 of its total 92,000 via indie stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>L<\/em><em>etter to You<\/em>&nbsp;launches at No. 1 both the Vinyl Albums and Tastemaker Albums charts. The latter list ranks the top selling albums of the week at indie and small chain record stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Letter to You<\/em>\u00a0was led by its title track, which has risen to No. 2 on the Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart (through the most recently published chart dated Oct. 31).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200 chart,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pop Smoke<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon<\/em>&nbsp;falls 2-3 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned (down 8 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ty Dolla $ign scores his highest charting album ever and first top 10, as&nbsp;<em>Featuring Ty Dolla $ign<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 4 with 44,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 39,000 comprise SEA units (totaling 50.83 million on-demand streams of its songs), 4,000 comprise album sales and 1,000 comprise TEA units. He previously peaked as high as No. 11 with&nbsp;<em>Beach House 3<\/em>&nbsp;in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trio of former No. 1s are next up on the new Billboard 200, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/juice-wrld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Juice WRLD<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Legends Never Die<\/em>&nbsp;falls 4-5 (42,000 equivalent album units earned; down 6 percent),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/21-savage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">21 Savage<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/metro-boomin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Metro Boomin<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Savage Mode II<\/em>&nbsp;slips 3-6 (36,000; down 24 percent) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-baby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lil Baby<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>My Turn<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover at No. 7 (35,000 units; down 4 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original Broadway cast recording of&nbsp;<em>Hamilton: An American Musical<\/em>&nbsp;is steady at No. 8 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned (down 9 percent), while Machine Gun Kelly\u2019s previous leader&nbsp;<em>Tickets to My Downfall<\/em>&nbsp;holds at No. 9 with 28,000 units (down 6 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry Styles\u2019 former No. 1\u00a0<em>Fine Line<\/em>\u00a0returns to the top 10, climbing from No. 20 to No. 10, following the Oct. 26 release of the set\u2019s new video for the song \u201cGolden.\u201d The album earned 27,000 equivalent album units (up 20 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2012\" data-postid=\"2012\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2012 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The set\u2019s deluxe reissue prompts its 21-1 jump back to the top. 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