{"id":2143,"date":"2021-02-07T12:54:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T20:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","slug":"morgan-wallens-dangerous-spends-fourth-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen&#8217;s &#8216;Dangerous&#8217; Spends Fourth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart"},"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<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;holds 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 for a fourth consecutive week. The set earned 149,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 4 (up 14%), according to MRC Data. The album arrived atop the list three weeks ago, on the chart dated Jan. 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&nbsp;multi-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 Feb. 13, 2021-dated chart (where&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;holds at No. 1) will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Feb. 9. 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 149,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Feb. 4, SEA units comprise 118,000 (up 3%, equaling 159.76 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 25,000 (up 102%) and TEA units comprise 6,000 (up 67%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album\u2019s across-the-board gains came during the same tracking week in which TMZ published a video showing Wallen using a racial slur. As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/country\/9520214\/morgan-wallen-apologizes-n-word-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">previously reported<\/a>,&nbsp;TMZ posted a video on Feb. 2 of Wallen, who was positioned to be the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/country\/9510855\/morgan-wallen-dangerous-billboard-cover-story-interview-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">next global country star<\/a>, yelling expletives, including the N-word. He subsequently issued an apology, while his record label, Big Loud Records,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/country\/9520461\/morgan-wallen-recording-contract-suspended-after-racial-slur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspended<\/a>&nbsp;his recording contract indefinitely. The news broke with two full days left in the chart\u2019s tracking week (which ended on Feb. 4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Feb. 6,&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9522537\/morgan-wallen-airplay-streams-sales-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that Wallen\u2019s airplay had collapsed to a nominal amount through Feb. 5, after multiple radio groups&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/country\/9520243\/morgan-wallen-removed-iheartradio-cumulus-racial-slur-fallout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dropped his music<\/a>. Concurrently, his songs were removed from over 30 influential playlists across Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Pandora (though his music remained available on all services). Also, though Big Loud suspended Wallen\u2019s recording contract indefinitely, his music was not removed from any digital retailers (like iTunes), and remains available in brick-and-mortar retail stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;having spent its&nbsp;first four&nbsp;weeks at No. 1, it\u2019s the first country album to do so since January 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last album to log its first four weeks at No. 1 that also appeared on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-albums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Top Country Albums<\/a>&nbsp;chart was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/shania-twain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shania Twain<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Up!<\/em>&nbsp;It spent its first five (and total) weeks at No. 1 (Dec. 7, 2002 through Jan. 4, 2003). The last album by a male artist to spend its first four weeks at No. 1 that also appeared on Top Country Albums was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/garth-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Garth Brooks<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>Double Live<\/em>&nbsp;in late 1998 and early 1999, which spend its first five (and total) weeks at No. 1 (Dec. 5, 1998 \u2013 Jan. 2, 1999).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last country album to spend at least four\u00a0total\u00a0weeks at No. 1 was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Red<\/em>, with seven nonconsecutive weeks in the lead in late 2012 and early 2013.\u00a0<em>Red<\/em>\u00a0spent its first\u00a0three\u00a0weeks at No. 1 (Nov. 10-24, 2012), then stepped away from the top slot for three weeks and then returned for four more weeks in a row (Dec. 22, 2012 \u2013 Jan. 12, 2013). The last country album by a male artist to spend at least four\u00a0total\u00a0weeks at No. 1 was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/alan-jackson\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Jackson<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Drive<\/em>, which notched four nonconsecutive weeks in the lead (Feb. 2-16, and March 2, 2002).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-durk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lil Durk<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Voice<\/em>&nbsp;jumps 5-2, matching its peak first reached four weeks ago, following its deluxe reissue on Jan. 29 with 14 additional tracks. The set, originally released Dec. 24, earned 86,000 equivalent album units (up 167%) in the week ending Feb. 4. All versions of the album, new and old, are combined for tracking purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next eight albums on the chart are all former No. 1s.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop-smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pop Smoke<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon<\/em>&nbsp;dips 2-3 (43,000 equivalent album units earned; down 4%),&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;is a non-mover at No. 4 (34,000; down 1%) and&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;rises 6-5 (just over 30,000; down 3%).<\/p>\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;pushes 8-6 (30,000 equivalent album units earned; down 2%), Taylor Swift\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>&nbsp;falls 3-7 (29,500; down 15%),&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;rises 9-8 (29,000; down 3%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>&nbsp;dips 7-9 (28,000; down 9%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing the Billboard 200\u2019s top tier,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/megan-thee-stallion\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a>\u2019s No. 2-peaking\u00a0<em>Good News<\/em>\u00a0bumps back into the top 10 (12-10) with 26,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2143\" data-postid=\"2143\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2143 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;Dangerous: The Double Album&nbsp;holds at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart for a fourth consecutive week. The set earned 149,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 4 (up 14%), according to MRC Data. The album arrived atop the list three weeks ago, on the chart dated Jan. 23. 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