{"id":2151,"date":"2021-02-14T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T21:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","slug":"morgan-wallens-dangerous-no-1-for-fifth-week-on-billboard-200-while-if-i-know-me-hits-top-10-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen&#8217;s &#8216;Dangerous&#8217; No. 1 for Fifth Week on Billboard 200 while &#8216;If I Know Me&#8217; Hits Top 10 for First Time"},"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 Weeknd, Foo Fighters and Pooh Shiesty debut in top 10.<\/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;continues to rule the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart for a fifth straight week, while Wallen\u2019s previous set, 2018\u2019s&nbsp;<em>If I Know Me<\/em>, reaches the top 10 for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;earned 150,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 11 (up 1%), according to MRC Data.&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;bowed atop the list four weeks ago, on the chart dated Jan. 23. It\u2019s just the third album to spend five weeks at No. 1 in the last 12 months, following Taylor Swift\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;(eight weeks) and Lil Baby\u2019s&nbsp;<em>My Turn<\/em>&nbsp;(five weeks).&nbsp;<em>My Turn<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;were also the two most&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/index.php\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9508037\/mrc-data-2020-recap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">popular<\/a>&nbsp;albums of 2020, 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 Feb. 20, 2021-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u00a0is steady at No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Feb. 17 (one day later than usual, owed to the Presidents\u2019 Day holiday in the U.S. on Feb. 15). 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 150,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Feb. 11, SEA units comprise 107,000 (down 9%, equaling 146.38 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 37,000 (up 49%) and TEA units comprise 5,000 (down 6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the new chart\u2019s tracking week, on Feb. 10, Wallen&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/country\/9524724\/morgan-wallen-apology-video-racial-slur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued a five-minute video<\/a>&nbsp;via social media addressing the Feb. 2&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/country\/9520214\/morgan-wallen-apologizes-n-word-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emergence<\/a>&nbsp;of an earlier video showing him using the N-word. Reaction to the Feb. 2 clip was swift \u2013 he was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigLoud\/status\/1357011516080484352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspended<\/a>\u201d from his recording contract with Big Loud Records, his music was removed from dozens of high profile playlists on streamers such as Apple Music and Spotify, and 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>. In the tracking week that captured the initial fallout from the Feb. 2 video,&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;spent a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9522648\/morgan-wallen-dangerous-tops-billboard-200-fourth-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fourth<\/a>&nbsp;week at No. 1 (with a 14% gain in units earned in the week ending Feb. 4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among albums that charted on both Top Country Albums and the Billboard 200, the last to notch five total weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 was Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>Red<\/em>, with seven nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2012-13. The last country set to log its\u00a0<em>first five<\/em>\u00a0weeks at No. 1 was Shania Twain\u2019s\u00a0<em>Up<\/em>\u00a0(Dec. 7, 2002 through Jan. 4, 2003). The last country album by a male artist to score five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 \u2013 and its first five weeks in the lead \u2013 was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/garth-brooks\" target=\"_blank\">Garth Brooks<\/a>\u2019\u00a0<em>Double Live<\/em>\u00a0in late 1998 and early 1999, which spent its first five (and total) weeks at No. 1 (Dec. 5, 1998 \u2013 Jan. 2, 1999).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;remains at No. 1, Wallen\u2019s previous album, 2018\u2019s&nbsp;<em>If<\/em>&nbsp;<em>I Know Me<\/em>, reaches the top 10 for the first time, as it climbs 17-10 \u2013 surpassing its previous high of No. 13 (reached on the chart dated Aug. 20, 2020).&nbsp;<em>If I Know Me<\/em>&nbsp;rises with 29,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 11 (up 33%) \u2013 which also marks the album\u2019s best weeks, in terms of units earned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>If I Know Me<\/em>\u2019s 29,000-unit sum, 17,000 comprise SEA units (up 12%, equaling 24.95 million on-demand streams of the songs), 10,000 comprise album sales (up 101%, the album\u2019s best sales week yet) and 2,000 comprise TEA units (up 16%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back up near the top of the chart, The Weeknd\u2019s new 18-song retrospective compilation\u00a0<em>The Highlights<\/em>\u00a0debuts at No. 2 (89,000 equivalent album units earned) \u2014 the highest charting greatest hits set in over a year. The last best-of to see such great heights on the chart was Blake Shelton\u2019s\u00a0<em>Fully Loaded: God\u2019s Country<\/em>, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Dec. 28, 2019-dated list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;was released on Feb. 5, two days before The Weeknd&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/9522805\/the-weeknd-super-bowl-halftime-2021-blinding-lights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">played the Super Bowl halftime show<\/a>&nbsp;on Feb. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>The Highlights<\/em>\u2019 89,000-unit sum, 70,000 comprise SEA units (equaling 101.94 million on-demand streams of the songs), 10,000 comprise album sales and 9,000 comprise TEA units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;boasts 11 of The Weeknd\u2019s 12 top 10-charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Among the album\u2019s songs are two that are also on his most recent studio album, 2020\u2019s&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>: \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d and \u201cSave Your Tears.\u201d The TEA and SEA units for both songs contribute to&nbsp;<em>The Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;on the chart as a song\u2019s activity is assigned to the artist\u2019s album with the most sales in a week. (<em>After Hours<\/em>&nbsp;sold 6,000 copies in the latest tracking week, while&nbsp;<em>The Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;sold 10,000. Due to the track reassignment,&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>&nbsp;moves 4-37 on the Billboard 200, with 15,000 units earned \u2013 down 57%.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total,&nbsp;<em>The Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;is The Weeknd\u2019s seventh top 10 album, the entirety of his charting efforts \u2013 and all of them have reached the top five of the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foo Fighters fly in at No. 3 with the band\u2019s new studio album\u00a0<em>Medicine at Midnight<\/em>, marking the group\u2019s ninth top 10. The set launches with 70,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 64,000 comprise album sales (it\u2019s the No. 1-selling album of the week), 6,000 comprise SEA units (equaling 7.66 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s songs) and a negligible number comprise TEA units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third and final debut in the top 10 is Pooh Shiesty\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Shiesty Season<\/em>, which bows at No. 4 with 62,000 equivalent album units earned. It\u2019s the rapper\u2019s first album release, and was led by his first Hot 100 hit, the top 40-charting \u201cBack in Blood,\u201d featuring Lil Durk. The 21-year-old Pooh Shiesty was previously named as one of&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/9516213\/hip-hop-rb-artists-to-watch-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2021 Artists to Watch<\/a>, and also deemed February\u2019s Hip-Hop and R&amp;B&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/9524499\/pooh-shiesty-rookie-of-the-month-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rookie of the Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Durk\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Voice<\/em>&nbsp;falls 2-5 with 49,000 equivalent album units earned (down 43%), while Pop Smoke\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon<\/em>&nbsp;dips 3-6 with 41,000 units (down 4%). Three more previous chart-toppers are next in the top 10, as Ariana Grande\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>&nbsp;climbs 9-7 with 32,000 units (up 14%), Juice WRLD\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Legends Never Die<\/em>&nbsp;descends 5-8 with 30,000 units (down 2%) and Luke Combs\u2019&nbsp;<em>What You See Is What You<\/em>&nbsp;Get drops 6-9 with nearly 30,000 units (down 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As previously noted, Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<em>If I Know Me<\/em>\u00a0closes out the top 10, jumping 17-10 with 29,000 units (up 33%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2151\" data-postid=\"2151\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2151 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: The Weeknd, Foo Fighters and Pooh Shiesty debut in top 10. 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