{"id":2167,"date":"2021-02-28T12:36:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","slug":"morgan-wallens-dangerous-becomes-only-country-album-to-spend-first-seven-weeks-at-no-1-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen&#8217;s &#8216;Dangerous&#8217; Becomes Only Country Album to Spend First Seven Weeks at No. 1 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<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;makes chart history as the only country album to spend its first seven weeks at No. 1 in the 64-year history of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard 200<\/a>. The set rules the list for a seventh total week, all consecutive, after having debuted atop the list six weeks ago (chart dated Jan. 23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;earned 89,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 25 (down 5%), according to MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only other country set to tally its\u00a0<em>first six<\/em>\u00a0weeks at No. 1 was Garth Brooks\u2019\u00a0<em>The Chase<\/em>. It debuted at No. 1 on the Oct. 10, 1992-dated list and spent six weeks in the lead (through Nov. 14, 1992). It then slipped from the top slot for two weeks, returning for one more week at No. 1 (Nov. 28, 1992). <br><em>Dangerous<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Chase<\/em>\u00a0are two of only eight country albums that have spent at least seven weeks in\u00a0<em>total<\/em>\u00a0at No. 1. <\/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 March 6, 2021-dated chart (where&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is No. 1 for a seventh week) will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on March 2. 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 89,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Feb. 25, SEA units comprise 80,000 (down 1%, equaling 110.79 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 7,000 (down 31%) and TEA units comprise 2,000 (down 22%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is one of just eight country albums that have spent at least seven weeks in&nbsp;<em>total<\/em>&nbsp;at No. 1 since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular weekly basis in March of 1956. (Country albums are defined as those that have charted on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-albums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Top Country Albums<\/a>&nbsp;chart.)&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is the only country set to spend its&nbsp;<em>first seven<\/em>&nbsp;weeks on the chart at No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Country Albums With Most Weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200:<br><\/strong><em>Artist, Title, Weeks at No. 1 (Year[s])<\/em><br>Garth Brooks,&nbsp;<em>Ropin\u2019 the Wind<\/em>, 18 (1991-92)<br>Billy Ray Cyrus,&nbsp;<em>Some Gave All<\/em>, 17 (1992)<br>Taylor Swift,&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>, 11 (2008-09)<br>Garth Brooks,&nbsp;<em>The Hits<\/em>, eight (1995)<br>Eagles,&nbsp;<em>Hotel California<\/em>, eight (1977)<br>Morgan Wallen,&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>, seven to-date (2021)<br>Taylor Swift,&nbsp;<em>Red<\/em>, seven (2012-13)<br>Garth Brooks,&nbsp;<em>The Chase<\/em>, seven (1992)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last album to spend seven weeks in a row at No. 1, regardless of genre, was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\" target=\"_blank\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Views<\/em>, which spent its first nine weeks at No. 1 in 2016 (May 21-July 16-dated charts).\u00a0<em>Views<\/em>\u00a0spent a total of 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, all in 2016.\u00a0Only three albums of any genre have spent at least seven weeks at No. 1 in the last five years:\u00a0<em>Dangerous<\/em>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Folklore<\/em>\u00a0(eight nonconsecutive weeks, 2020) and Drake\u2019s\u00a0<em>Views<\/em>\u00a0(13 nonconsecutive weeks, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>&nbsp;rises seven spots with 49,000 equivalent album units earned (up 66%). The album was reissued on Feb. 19 with five additional tracks.&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;rises 4-3 with 43,000 units (up 13%).<\/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 3-4 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pooh-shiesty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pooh Shiesty<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Sheisty Season<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover at No. 5 with 37,000 units (up less than 1%) and&nbsp;<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;falls 2-6 with just under 37,000 units (down 13%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BTS<\/a>\u2019 former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Be<\/em>&nbsp;bounds 74-7 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned (up 254%) after the album was issued on Feb. 19 in a new deluxe CD package, dubbed the \u201cessential edition.\u201d Of the album\u2019s units earned in the week ending Feb. 25, album sales comprise 28,000 (up 888%). No additional tracks were added to the essential edition of the album, which sells for $30.98 on BTS\u2019 official U.S. webstore. The essential edition offers different packaging and internal paper goods (including one randomized collectible photocard) as compared to&nbsp;<em>Be<\/em>\u2019s original CD release, which sold for $50.98 and had more paper goods (though none were randomized).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\">Dua Lipa<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>\u00a0slips 7-8 on the latest Billboard 200 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned (down 7%),\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/luke-combs\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a>\u2019 former No. 1\u00a0<em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>\u00a0climbs 11-9 with just over 28,000 units (up 4%) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-baby\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Baby<\/a>\u2019s former leader\u00a0<em>My Turn<\/em>\u00a0bumps 13-10 with 28,000 units (up 11%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2167\" data-postid=\"2167\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2167 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;makes chart history as the only country album to spend its first seven weeks at No. 1 in the 64-year history of the&nbsp;Billboard 200. The set rules the list for a seventh total week, all consecutive, after having debuted atop the list six weeks ago (chart dated Jan. 23). 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