{"id":2189,"date":"2021-03-14T18:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:37","slug":"morgan-wallens-dangerous-spends-ninth-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-most-since-2016-by-keith-caulfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u2018Dangerous\u2019 Spends Ninth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200, Most Since 2016 by Keith Caulfield"},"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;logs a ninth week 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, all consecutively, after having arrived atop the list eight weeks ago (chart dated Jan. 23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;now has the most weeks at No. 1 among all albums since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Views<\/em>&nbsp;scored 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2016.&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is also one of just four country albums ever to spend at least nine weeks in the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>\u00a0earned 78,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 11 (down 6%), 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&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 20, 2021-dated chart (where&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is No. 1 for a ninth week) will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on March 16. 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 78,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending March 11, SEA units comprise 71,000 (down 5%, equaling 98.10 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 6,000 (down 10%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 14%).\u00a0<em>Dangerous<\/em>\u00a0is also the first album to string together nine weeks in a row at No. 1 since Drake\u2019s\u00a0<em>Views<\/em>\u00a0also notched its first nine weeks atop the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is now one of only four country albums to spend at least nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 &#8212; 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 nine<\/em>&nbsp;weeks on the chart at No. 1.&nbsp;Ahead of&nbsp;<em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;among country sets with the most weeks at No. 1:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/garth-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Garth Brooks<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>Ropin\u2019 the Wind<\/em>&nbsp;(18 weeks, 1991-92),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billy-ray-cyrus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billy Ray Cyrus<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>Some Gave All<\/em>&nbsp;(17, 1992) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;(11, 2008-09).<\/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;rises 3-2 on the latest Billboard 200 with 40,000 equivalent album units earned (down 4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pooh-shiesty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pooh Shiesty<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Shiesty Season<\/em>&nbsp;hits a new chart peak, as the set climbs 4-3 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned (down 10%). It surpasses its previous high of No. 4, first achieved in its debut week (chart dated Feb. 20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>\u00a0moves 163-4 with just under 32,000 equivalent album units earned (up 331%). Meanwhile, his best-of compilation\u00a0<em>The Highlights<\/em>\u00a0falls 2-16 with 24,000 units (down 54%). 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\u00a0<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>\u00a0sold 3,000 copies in the latest tracking week, while\u00a0<em>The Highlights<\/em>\u00a0sold 2,000.) A week ago, the TEA and SEA for both songs was directed to\u00a0<em>The Highlights<\/em>\u00a0(which in that frame outsold\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>). In turn, with the songs\u2019 activity reverting back to\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>, the album rises 163-4.<\/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;is steady at No. 5 with 31,000 equivalent album units earned (down 12%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dua Lipa<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>&nbsp;rises 8-6 with 29,500 units (up 1%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-baby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lil Baby<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>My Turn<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover at No. 7 with 29,000 units (down 2%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>Positions<\/em>&nbsp;dips 6-8 with just over 28,000 units (down 13%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rock act&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chevelle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chevelle<\/a>&nbsp;scores its fifth Billboard 200 top 10 album as&nbsp;<em>Niratias<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 9 with 28,000 equivalent album units earned. Of the album\u2019s starting sum, a little over 24,000 comprise album sales, a little more than 3,000 comprise SEA units (equaling 4.45 million on-demand streams of the songs) and a negligible sum comprises TEA units. Chevelle previously hit the top 10 with&nbsp;<em>The North Corridor<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 8 in 2016),&nbsp;<em>La Gargola<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 3, 2014),&nbsp;<em>Sci-Fi Crimes<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 6, 2009) and&nbsp;<em>This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 8, 2004).&nbsp;The new album was led by the single \u201cSelf Destructor,\u201d which rose 3-2 on the most recently published&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-mainstream-rock-tracks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mainstream Rock Airplay<\/a>&nbsp;chart (dated March 13). It\u2019s the act\u2019s 15th top 10.&nbsp;<em>Niratias<\/em>&nbsp;gives the Billboard 200\u2019s top 10 its first debut after a three-week drought of new arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the latest top 10 is\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>, shifting 9-10 with nearly 28,000 units (down less than 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2189\" data-postid=\"2189\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2189 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;logs a ninth week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart, all consecutively, after having arrived atop the list eight weeks ago (chart dated Jan. 23). Dangerous&nbsp;now has the most weeks at No. 1 among all albums since&nbsp;Drake\u2019s&nbsp;Views&nbsp;scored 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2016.&nbsp;Dangerous&nbsp;is also one of just four country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-now","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","no-post-comment","no-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/04-morgan-wallen-2021-billboard-1548-1612384214-compressed1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}