{"id":2180,"date":"2021-03-07T12:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T20:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","slug":"morgan-wallens-dangerous-hits-eighth-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2180","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen&#8217;s &#8216;Dangerous&#8217; Hits Eighth 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;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 an eighth week, all consecutively, after having bowed atop the tally seven weeks ago (chart dated Jan. 23).&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is now one of only six country albums that have spent at least eight weeks in total at No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;earned 82,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 4 (down 7%), 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 March 13, 2021-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u00a0is No. 1 for an eighth week) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on March 9. 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 82,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Feb. 25, SEA units comprise 75,000 (down 7%, equaling 103.33 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 6,000 (down 4%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 13%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;now ties&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s 2020 album&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;for the second-most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in the last five years &#8212; among albums of all genres. Each has tallied eight weeks at No. 1.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Views<\/em>&nbsp;has the most weeks at No. 1 in the last five years, with 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 (all in 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;continues to move up the list of country albums with the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, since the chart 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 also the only country set to spend its&nbsp;<em>first eight<\/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:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Artist, Title, Weeks at No. 1 (Year[s])<\/em><br>Garth Brooks,\u00a0<em>Ropin\u2019 the Wind<\/em>, 18 (1991-92)<br>Billy Ray Cyrus,\u00a0<em>Some Gave All<\/em>, 17 (1992)<br>Taylor Swift,\u00a0<em>Fearless<\/em>, 11 (2008-09)<br>Garth Brooks,\u00a0<em>The Hits<\/em>, eight (1995)<br>Eagles,\u00a0<em>Hotel California<\/em>, eight (1977)<br>Morgan Wallen,\u00a0<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>, eight to-date (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the third week in a row, no albums debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. The chart last housed top 10 arrivals on the Feb. 20-dated list, when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/foo-fighters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Foo Fighters<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>Medicine at Midnight<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pooh-sheisty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pooh Shiesty<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Sheisty Season<\/em>&nbsp;debuted at Nos. 3 and 4, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time the chart went without top 10 debuts for three straight weeks in January of 2019 on the Jan. 12, 19 and 26-dated charts (thanks to a quiet post-Christmas release schedule). The last time the top 10 was absent of debuts for three weeks in a row&nbsp;<em>outside<\/em>&nbsp;<em>of the post-Christmas period<\/em>&nbsp;was on the charts dated Dec. 16, 23 and 30, 2000 (when the chart ranked titles only by album sales, before it transitioned to a multi-metric consumption ranking in December 2014). In 2000, the only album released&nbsp;<em>after<\/em>&nbsp;Thanksgiving (Nov. 23) to bow in the top 10 was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/snoop-dogg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Snoop Dogg<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Tha Last Meal<\/em>, which was released on Dec. 19 and debuted at No. 9 on the Jan. 6, 2001-dated chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s compilation album&nbsp;<em>The Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;rises 12-2, matching its peak, with 52,000 equivalent album units earned (up 96%). The set includes many of the artist\u2019s best-known hits, including \u201cBlinding Lights\u201d and \u201cSave Your Tears\u201d &#8212; both of which are also on his last studio album, 2020\u2019s&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the latest chart, the TEA and SEA units for both songs contribute to\u00a0<em>The Highlights<\/em>, as a song\u2019s activity is assigned to the artist\u2019s album with the most sales in a week. (<em>The Highlights<\/em>\u00a0sold 3,000 copies in the latest tracking week, while\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>\u00a0sold 2,000.) A week ago, the TEA and SEA for both songs were directed to\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>\u00a0(which in that frame outsold\u00a0<em>The Highlights<\/em>\u00a03,000 to 2,000). In turn, with the songs\u2019 activity moving to\u00a0<em>The Highlights<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>\u00a0album moves 6-163.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><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;is a non-mover at No. 3 with 42,000 (down 1%), Pooh Sheisty\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Sheisty Season<\/em>&nbsp;climbs 5-4 with 36,000 (down 4%) and&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;dips 4-5 with 36,000 (down 7%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pair of former No. 1s are next, as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Positions<\/em>\u00a0falls 2-6 with 32,000 units (down 34%) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-baby\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Baby<\/a>\u00a0<em>My Turn<\/em>\u00a0rises 10-7 with 30,000 units (up 4%).\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\">Dua Lipa<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>\u00a0is steady at No. 8 with 29,000 units (down 2%),\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/luke-combs\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Combs<\/a>\u2019 former chart-topper\u00a0<em>What You See Is What You Get<\/em>\u00a0is stationary at No. 9 with 28,000 units (down 2%) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/juice-wrld\" target=\"_blank\">Juice WRLD<\/a>\u2019s former leader\u00a0<em>Legends Never Die<\/em>\u00a0is up 11-10 with 27,000 units (down 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2180\" data-postid=\"2180\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2180 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;continues to rule the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart for an eighth week, all consecutively, after having bowed atop the tally seven weeks ago (chart dated Jan. 23).&nbsp;Dangerous&nbsp;is now one of only six country albums that have spent at least eight weeks in total at No. 1. 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