{"id":2127,"date":"2021-01-24T16:33:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T00:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:38","slug":"morgan-wallens-dangerous-the-double-album-no-1-for-second-week-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2127","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen&#8217;s &#8216;Dangerous: The Double Album&#8217; No. 1 for Second Week 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\">It\u2019s the first country set to spend two weeks in a row at No. 1 since 2015. Plus: Why Don\u2019t We logs career-high rank with debut of &#8216;The Good Times and the Bad Ones.&#8217;<\/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;spends a second straight 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;chart, earning 159,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 21 (down 40%), according to MRC Data. The album arrived atop the list a week ago with 265,000 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is the first country album to spend two weeks in a row at No. 1 since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chris-stapleton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chris Stapleton<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Traveller<\/em>&nbsp;in 2015 (charts dated Nov. 21-28 that year), and the first country set to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/luke-bryan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luke Bryan<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Kill the Lights<\/em>&nbsp;that year (Aug. 29-Sept. 5, 2015).&nbsp;<em>Traveller<\/em>&nbsp;debuted on the chart dated May 23, 2015 at No. 14, and was off the chart by October. It then re-entered at No. 1 on Nov. 21, 2015, after Stapleton\u2019s multiple wins and well-received performance on the Country Music Association Awards on Nov. 4.<\/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. 30, 2021-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u00a0holds at No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Jan. 26. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u2019 159,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Jan. 21, SEA units comprise 133,000 (down 26%, equaling 177.11 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 22,000 (down 70%) and TEA units comprise 4,000 (down 39%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the Billboard 200 began ranking albums by equivalent album units in December of 2014,&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is the first country set to log two weeks of at least 150,000 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, in the last 12 months,&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is just the fourth album, among all genres, to log at least two weeks of 150,000-plus units. It follows&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>,&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;and&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;&#8212; all with two weeks each of 150,000-plus units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop-smoke\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Smoke<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon<\/em>\u00a0rises 3-2 on the new Billboard 200 with 47,000 equivalent album units earned (up less than 1%). In the album\u2019s 29 weeks on the chart, it has been absent from the top 10 for only one week (Jan. 2-dated chart, No. 11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/why-dont-we\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Don\u2019t We<\/a>&nbsp;nets a career-high chart rank as the group\u2019s latest album&nbsp;<em>The Good Times and the Bad Ones<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 3. The set starts with 46,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 38,000 comprise album sales (making it the top-selling album of the week), 7,500 comprise SEA units (equating to 11.34 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs) and a little under 500 comprise TEA units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why Don\u2019t We\u2019s previous high on the Billboard 200 came with the quintet\u2019s last album,&nbsp;<em>8 Letters<\/em>, which debuted and peaked at No. 9 on the Sept. 15, 2018-dated chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new album was led by the single \u201cFallin\u2019,\u201d which marked the act\u2019s first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;hit, when it peaked at No. 37 on the Oct. 17, 2020, list. The track also marked the group\u2019s fifth hit on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/pop-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pop Airplay<\/a>&nbsp;chart, reaching No. 22 in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>Evermore<\/em>\u00a0dips 2-4 on the new Billboard 200 (41,000 equivalent album units earned; down 26%) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s previous leader\u00a0<em>Positions<\/em>\u00a0climbs 7-5 (39,000; up 17%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Republic Records is the distributing label for&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Shoot for the Stars \u2026,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>, the company has four of the top five albums of the week. It\u2019s the first time a label has claimed four-fifths of the top five since Republic itself did it on the Sept. 1, 2018-dated chart.<\/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 5-6 on the new Billboard 200 with 37,000 equivalent album units earned (down 11%).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/eminem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eminem<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Music to Be Murdered By<\/em>&nbsp;jumps 19-7 with 33,000 units (up 51%) following the Jan. 15 release of the album\u2019s deluxe reissue on CD. The deluxe edition, dubbed&nbsp;<em>Music to Be Murdered By &#8211; Side B<\/em>, added extra tracks to the year-old album and first dropped on digital retail and streamers on Dec. 18, 2020. A vinyl release of the deluxe package is due in August. (All versions of the album are tracked together on the chart.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trio of former No. 1s closes out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200, as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>\u00a0falls 6-8 (33,000 equivalent album units; down 6%), Juice WRLD\u2019s\u00a0<em>Legends Never Die<\/em>\u00a0is steady at No. 9 (32,000; up 3%) and\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>\u00a0descends 8-10 (just under 32,000; up 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2127\" data-postid=\"2127\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2127 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the first country set to spend two weeks in a row at No. 1 since 2015. 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