{"id":2159,"date":"2021-02-21T12:28:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","slug":"morgan-wallens-dangerous-hits-sixth-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-most-for-a-male-artist-since-drakes-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen&#8217;s &#8216;Dangerous&#8217; Hits Sixth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200, Most for a Male Artist Since Drake&#8217;s &#8216;Views&#8217;"},"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: Dua Lipa\u2019s &#8216;Future Nostalgia&#8217; returns to top 10, after 10 months, following deluxe reissue.<\/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;snares a sixth total week, all in a row, 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 (dated Feb. 27), capturing the most weeks atop the list for a male artist\u2019s album since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Views<\/em>&nbsp;logged 13 nonconsecutive weeks in the lead in 2016 (May 21-Oct. 8, 2016-dated charts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;earned 93,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 18 (down 38%), according to MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;bowed atop the list five weeks ago, on the chart dated Jan. 23. Only three albums have spent at least six weeks at No. 1 in the last five years:&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;(eight nonconsecutive weeks, 2020) and Drake\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Views<\/em>&nbsp;(13).ARTIST MENTIONED<\/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. 27, 2021-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u00a0is No. 1 for a sixth week) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Feb. 23. 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 93,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Feb. 18, SEA units comprise 81,000 (down 24%, equaling 112.11 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 10,000 (down 74%) and TEA units comprise 2,000 (down 64%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among albums that have charted on both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-albums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Top Country Albums<\/a>&nbsp;and the Billboard 200 (like&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>), the last to earn six total weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 was Swift\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Red<\/em>, with seven nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2012-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is the first country album by a man with six total weeks at No. 1 since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/garth-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Garth Brooks<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>The Hits<\/em>&nbsp;ruled for eight nonconsecutive weeks in 1995, and the first non-best-of country album by a man with six total weeks at No. 1 since Brooks\u2019&nbsp;<em>The Chase<\/em>&nbsp;net seven total weeks at No. 1 in 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>\u00a0is also the first country album to spend its\u00a0<em>first six weeks\u00a0<\/em>at No. 1 since\u00a0<em>The Chase<\/em>, which ruled the list in its first six weeks.\u00a0<em>The Chase\u00a0<\/em>debuted at No. 1, spent six weeks in charge (Oct. 10-Nov. 14, 1992), then slipped from the top slot for two weeks, returning for one more week at No. 1 (Nov. 28, 1992).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the Billboard 200,&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;surges 37-2 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (up 183%). It\u2019s the first of two albums in the top 10 by The Weeknd, as his best-of package&nbsp;<em>The Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;dips 2-8 in its second week with 31,000 units (down 65%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two albums share a pair of songs, \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d and \u201cSave Your Tears.\u201d On the latest chart, the TEA and SEA units for both songs contribute to&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>, 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 4,000.) A week ago, the TEA and SEA for both songs was directed to&nbsp;<em>The Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;(which in that frame outsold After Hours 10,000 to 6,000). In turn, with the songs\u2019 activity reverting back to&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>, the album vaults from 37-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>\u2019 rise to No. 2, it lands its highest rank since the May 2, 2020-dated chart, when it fell to the runner-up spot after spending its first four weeks at No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-durk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lil Dur<\/a>k\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Voice<\/em>&nbsp;climbs 5-3 on the Billboard 200 with 40,000 equivalent album units earned (down 20%), while&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 Moon<\/em>&nbsp;rises 6-4 with 38,000 units (down 8%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pooh-shiesty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pooh Shiesty<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Shiesty Season<\/em>&nbsp;falls 4-5 in its second week with 37,000 units (down 40%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor Swift\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>&nbsp;bumps back into the top 10 with an 11-6 rise (33,000 equivalent album units earned; up 16%). Of that sum, 12,000 are in album sales &#8212; up 70%. The album had a robust sales bump thanks to the release of the cassette edition of the album, as well as buzz and promotion generated by Swift\u2019s Feb. 10 announcement that she would be re-recording her chart-topping 2008&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dua Lipa<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>&nbsp;surges back into the top 10 for the first time in 10 months, as the album jumps 21-7 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned (up 58%). Its big gain is owed to the album\u2019s deluxe reissue on Feb. 12 with six additional songs, including its new radio hit \u201cWe\u2019re Good.\u201d The cut debuted at No. 31 on the most recently published&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/pop-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pop Airplay<\/a>&nbsp;chart (dated Feb. 20). Among the other newly added songs are two earlier Pop Airplay hits that didn\u2019t previously have a home on a Dua Lipa album: \u201cUn Dia (One Day),\u201d with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/j-balvin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">J Balvin<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bad-bunny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bad Bunny<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/tainy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tainy<\/a>, and her featured turn on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/miley-cyrus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Miley Cyrus<\/a>\u2019 \u201cPrisoner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>&nbsp;debuted and peaked at No. 4 on the April 11, 2020-dated chart, and has now spent a total of four weeks in the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the rest of the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200, below The Weeknd\u2019s The Highlights at No. 8, are two former No. 1s:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Positions<\/em>\u00a0(7-9 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned; down 7%) and\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(8-10 with 28,000 units; down 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2159\" data-postid=\"2159\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2159 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Dua Lipa\u2019s &#8216;Future Nostalgia&#8217; returns to top 10, after 10 months, following deluxe reissue. 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