{"id":2119,"date":"2021-01-17T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T00:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:38","slug":"morgan-wallens-dangerous-the-double-album-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-breaks-country-streaming-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2119","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen&#8217;s &#8216;Dangerous: The Double Album&#8217; Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200, Breaks Country 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\">Plus: Jazmine Sullivan starts at a career-best No. 4 with \u201cHeaux Tales.\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in record-setting fashion, as it garners the largest streaming week ever for a country album. The 30-song album \u2014 Wallen\u2019s first leader \u2014 further logs the largest overall week, by units earned, for a country set in over two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>, released on Jan. 8 via Big Loud\/Republic Records, starts with 265,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 14, according to MRC Data.<\/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 Jan. 23, 2021-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u00a0debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Jan. 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of\u00a0<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u2019 265,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Jan. 14, SEA units comprise 184,000 (equaling 240.18 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 74,000 and TEA units comprise 7,000. (Of\u00a0<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u2019 74,000 in album sales, digital download album sales comprise 50,000.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is Wallen\u2019s second full-length album, following 2018\u2019s&nbsp;<em>If I Know Me<\/em>, which peaked at No. 13 on the Aug. 29, 2020-dated chart. It has spent over 110 weeks on the tally and earned 1.7 million equivalent album units, while its songs have accrued 2.4 billion on-demand streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u2019 release, the singer-songwriter had snared 13 charting hits on the Hot Country Songs chart, including eight top 10s (two of which reached No. 1). On the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart, he\u2019s placed 10 tunes, including the new album\u2019s \u201c7 Summers.\u201d The latter debuted at No. 6,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9439575\/7-summers-enters-atop-hot-country-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marking<\/a>&nbsp;at the time only the second top 10 Hot 100 debut for a song by a solo male and no accompanying acts that has also appeared on Hot Country Songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at some of the notable feats that Wallen achieves with&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u2019 debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Largest Streaming Week for a Country Album<\/strong>: As&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;collected 184,000 SEA units, equaling 240.18 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s 30 songs, it lands the largest streaming week ever for a country album. It beats, more than doubling, the 102.26 million streams achieved by&nbsp;<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;in the week ending Oct. 29, 2020. That week, Combs\u2019 then-year-old album was reissued with bonus tracks, bringing its total track count to 23. Upon its deluxe reissue, the album shot back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for its second week in the lead. It tallied its first week at No. 1 when it debuted in the top slot (chart dated Nov. 23, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Certainly, the fact that&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;has a whopping 30 songs greatly enhances its ability to accrue a large streaming total \u2013 as the stream count is based on the total streams across all of the album\u2019s songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, even if the album were trimmed down to the 18\u00a0least-streamed tracks (in the week ending Jan. 14), their sum of 105.08 million would still beat Combs\u2019 former record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Third-Largest Streaming Week for a Non-R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Album:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;clocks the third-biggest streaming week ever for a non-R&amp;B\/hip-hop album, trailing only&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Thank U, Next<\/em>&nbsp;(307.07 million in its debut week) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;(289.85 million, debut week). Overall,&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;has the 22nd-largest streaming week for an album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biggest Week for a Country Album in Over Two Years<\/strong>: The last country album to have a bigger week, by equivalent album units, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/carrie-underwood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carrie Underwood<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Cry Pretty<\/em>, which launched with 266,000 units on the Sept. 19, 2018-dated chart. Unlike&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Cry Pretty<\/em>\u2019s first week was bolstered by sales generated from a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer. (Such offers no longer contribute sales to&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s charts.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;also has the ninth-biggest week for any album, of any genre, by units, in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Only the 11th Country Album to Reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 In the Last Five Years:<\/strong>&nbsp;Wallen brings a rare sight to the top of the Billboard 200, as&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is only the 11th country set to reach No. 1 since January of 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strikingly, out of the 178 No. 1 albums since the Jan. 23, 2016-dated chart, only 11 were country titles (just 6.2%). Those 11 country No. 1s:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jason-aldean\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Aldean<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>They Don\u2019t Know<\/em>\u00a0(2016);\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/thomas-rhett\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Rhett<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Life Changes<\/em>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/shania-twain\" target=\"_blank\">Shania Twain<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Now<\/em>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/kenny-chesney\" target=\"_blank\">Kenny Chesney<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Live in No Shoes Nation<\/em>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/luke-bryan\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Bryan<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>What Makes You Country<\/em>\u00a0(2017); Aldean\u2019s\u00a0<em>Rearview Town<\/em>, Underwood\u2019s\u00a0<em>Cry Pretty<\/em>\u00a0(2018), Rhett\u2019s\u00a0<em>Center Point Road<\/em>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/luke-combs\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a>\u2019\u00a0<em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>\u00a0(2018; the latter had one weeks at No. 1 in both 2018 and 2019); Chesney\u2019s\u00a0<em>Here and Now<\/em>\u00a0(2020); and now Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u00a0(2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Taylor Swift\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>&nbsp;slips one spot after three nonconsecutive weeks in the lead, with 55,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%).&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<\/em>&nbsp;Moon is steady at No. 3 with 47,000 units (up 5%). Both titles were released by Republic Records, like&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>. In turn, Republic holds the top three for the third time in less than three months, and remains the only label to monopolize the top three since 2003, when Interscope pulled off the feat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jazmine-sullivan\" target=\"_blank\">Jazmine Sullivan<\/a>\u00a0hits a career-high on the Billboard 200 as\u00a0<em>Heaux Tales<\/em>\u00a0bows at No. 4 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned. It beats her previous chart high of No. 6, achieved in the opening week of her debut set, and only other top 10,\u00a0<em>Fearless<\/em>\u00a0(Oct. 11, 2008 chart).\u00a0<em>Heaux Tales<\/em>\u00a0is the singer\u2019s fourth charting effort, and first since 2015\u2019s\u00a0<em>Reality Show<\/em>\u00a0debuted and peaked at No. 12 (Jan. 31, 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-durk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lil Durk<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Voice<\/em>&nbsp;falls from its No. 2 high to No. 5 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (down 12%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>&nbsp;charges 14-6 with 35,000 units (up 34%). The latter benefits from the popularity of its latest single, and its new official video (released Jan. 5), for \u201cSave Your Tears,\u201d as well as The Weeknd\u2019s widely-seen commercial touting his halftime performance at the upcoming Super Bowl (Feb. 7). Ariana Grande\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>&nbsp;falls 4-7 with 34,000 units (down 4%). Both&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>&nbsp;were released via Republic Records, giving the label a stunning five of the top 10 albums \u2013 the first time a label group has claimed half of the top 10 in nearly a year (since the Feb. 1, 2020-dated chart when Interscope Geffen A&amp;M achieved the distinction). Republic last had half of the top 10 on the Nov. 9, 2013-dated chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing out the top 10 on the new Billboard 200 are Luke Combs\u2019\u00a0<em>What You See Is What You Get\u00a0<\/em>(7-8 with a little over 31,000 units; down 3%),\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/juice-wrld\" target=\"_blank\">Juice WRLD<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Legends Never Die<\/em>\u00a0(holding at No. 9 with 31,000 units; up 4%) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/megan-thee-stallion\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Good News<\/em>\u00a0(6-10 with just under 31,000 units; down 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2119\" data-postid=\"2119\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2119 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Jazmine Sullivan starts at a career-best No. 4 with \u201cHeaux Tales.\u201d Morgan Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;Dangerous: The Double Album&nbsp;debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in record-setting fashion, as it garners the largest streaming week ever for a country album. 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