{"id":2029,"date":"2020-11-15T13:33:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T21:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:39","slug":"ariana-grandes-positions-spends-second-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2029","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8216;Positions&#8217; Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200"},"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: The Kid Laroi\u2019s &#8216;F*ck Love&#8217; hits new high, the late King Von gets first top 10, NAV\u2019s &#8216;Emergency Tsunami&#8217; debuts at No. 6.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>&nbsp;spends a second week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;albums chart, as the set earned 82,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 12 (down 53%), according to Nielsen Music\/MRC Data. It bowed atop the list a week ago with 174,000 units earned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s Grande\u2019s second chart-topping album to spend two weeks at No. 1, following&nbsp;<em>Thank U, Next<\/em>, which spent a total of two weeks in the lead (its debut week, and second week \u2013 Feb. 23 and March 2, 2019).&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>&nbsp;is Grande\u2019s fifth No. 1 album overall.<\/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. 21-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Positions<\/em>\u00a0holds at to No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Nov. 17. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>\u2019 82,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Nov. 12, SEA units comprise 73,000 (down 43%, equaling 99.5 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), 8,000 comprise album sales (down 81%) and 1,000 comprise TEA units (down 61%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pop Smoke<\/a>\u2019s former No.&nbsp;<em>1 Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon<\/em>&nbsp;rises 3-2 with 57,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%). With&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Shoot for the Stars<\/em>&nbsp;both released via Republic Records, the company holds the top two for the eighth time in the last three months. (<em>Shoot for the Stars<\/em>&nbsp;was released via Victor Victor Worldwide\/Republic Records.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-kid-laroi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Kid Laroi<\/a>&nbsp;hits a new high on the Billboard 200, as his&nbsp;<em>F*ck Love<\/em>&nbsp;album surges to a new peak of No. 3 (up from No. 81 a week ago), following the set\u2019s deluxe reissue on Nov. 6 with seven bonus tracks (including tunes featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/youngboy-never-broke-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YoungBoy Never Broke Again<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/marshmello\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marshmello<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/machine-gun-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Machine Gun Kelly<\/a>). For tracking and charting purposes, all versions of the album are combined, and the set earned 52,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 12 (up 458%) &#8212; a new one-week high for the artist and the album.&nbsp;The original 15-track album was released on July 24 and debuted at No. 8 on the Aug. 8-dated chart with 40,000 units. Both the No. 8 debut and the 40,000 units represented high-water marks for the artist until this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/luke-combs\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a>\u2019 former No. 1\u00a0<em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>\u00a0is a non-mover at No. 4 on the new Billboard 200, with 46,000 equivalent album units earned (down 12%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/king-von\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">King Von<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Welcome to O\u2019Block<\/em>&nbsp;surges into the top 10, rising 13-5 in its second chart week, following the rapper\u2019s death on Nov. 6 (the first day of the latest chart\u2019s tracking week). The set earned 44,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 12 (up 69%). The album bowed on the chart a week ago with 26,000 units.&nbsp;<em>Welcome to O\u2019Block<\/em>&nbsp;is the first top 10 for the late artist (born Dayvon Daquan Bennett),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/9479524\/king-von-dies-age-26-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who died at 26 after being shot in an Atlanta nightclub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/nav\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NAV<\/a>&nbsp;tallies his fourth top 10 album, as his mixtape&nbsp;<em>Emergency Tsunami<\/em>&nbsp;storms in at No. 6 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned. He previously visited the region with&nbsp;<em>Good Intentions<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 1 this May 23),&nbsp;<em>Bad Habits&nbsp;<\/em>(No. 1; April 6, 2019) and&nbsp;<em>Reckless<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 8; June 2, 2018). Of&nbsp;<em>Emergency Tsunami<\/em>\u2019s starting sum, 35,000 comprise SEA units (equaling 46.4 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s songs), 7,000 comprise album sales and a negligible figure comprises TEA units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/juice-wrld\" target=\"_blank\">Juice WRLD<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Legends Never Die<\/em>\u00a0falls one rung to No. 7 (39,000 equivalent album units; down 1%),\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-baby\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Baby<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>My Turn<\/em>\u00a0is steady at No. 8 (33,000; down 5%), the original Broadway cast recording of\u00a0<em>Hamilton: An American Musical\u00a0<\/em>rises a spot to No. 9 (31,000; up 5%) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Folklore<\/em>\u00a0jumps 27-10 (29,000; up 52%) thanks\u00a0to a surge in vinyl album sales from Swift&#8217;s\u00a0official webstore.\u00a0The set sold 14,000 copies across all formats for the week (up 309%), with vinyl albums comprising 9,000 of that sum.\u00a0The vinyl edition of the album has been available to order since\u00a0<em>Folklore<\/em>\u00a0was released on July\u00a024, but its manufacturing and shipment was delayed. (Sales of physical albums only\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/index.php\/articles\/business\/9419979\/billboards-new-bundle-chart-rules-start-date\" target=\"_blank\">count<\/a>\u00a0once they are fulfilled to the customer.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2029\" data-postid=\"2029\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2029 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: The Kid Laroi\u2019s &#8216;F*ck Love&#8217; hits new high, the late King Von gets first top 10, NAV\u2019s &#8216;Emergency Tsunami&#8217; debuts at No. 6. 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