{"id":2258,"date":"2021-05-09T14:17:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T21:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:35","slug":"dj-khaled-lands-third-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-khaled-khaled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"DJ Khaled Lands Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart with \u2018Khaled Khaled\u2019"},"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: Thomas Rhett\u2019s \u201cCountry Again (Side A)\u201d debuts in the top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dj-khaled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DJ Khaled<\/a>&nbsp;nets his third No. 1 album on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart as&nbsp;<em>Khaled Khaled<\/em>&nbsp;debuts atop the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 14-track album was released on April 30 via We the Best\/Epic Records and features a galaxy of guest stars, ranging from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drake<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jay-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jay-Z<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-timberlake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justin Timberlake<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justin Bieber<\/a>.&nbsp;<em>Khaled Khaled<\/em>&nbsp;starts with 93,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 6, according to MRC Data.<em>Khaled Khaled<\/em>&nbsp;follows DJ Khaled\u2019s previous leaders,&nbsp;<em>Grateful<\/em>&nbsp;(in 2017) and&nbsp;<em>Major Key<\/em>&nbsp;(2016), both of which also boasted a bevy of A-list collaborators.<\/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 May 15-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Khaled Khaled\u00a0<\/em>debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on May 11. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Khaled Khaled<\/em>\u2019s 93,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending May 6, SEA units comprise 76,000 (equaling 106.87 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 14,000 and TEA units comprise 3,000.&nbsp;<em>Khaled Khaled<\/em>&nbsp;was preceded by a pair of top 10-charting songs on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;chart, both featuring Drake: \u201cPopstar\u201d and \u201cGreece,\u201d which reached Nos. 3 and 8, respectively, on the Aug. 1, 2020-dated chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next five albums on the Billboard 200 are all former No. 1s.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/moneybagg-yo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moneybagg Yo<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>A Gangsta\u2019s Pain<\/em>&nbsp;slips 1-2 in its second week (70,000 equivalent album units earned; down 37%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double<\/em>&nbsp;Album is a non-mover at No. 3 (53,000; down 2%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justin Bieber<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Justice<\/em>&nbsp;rises 5-4 (42,000; down 12%), the<em>&nbsp;Slime Language 2&nbsp;<\/em>project led by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/young-thug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Young Thug<\/a>&nbsp;falls 2-5 (40,000; down 34%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rod-wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rod Wave<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>SoulFly<\/em>&nbsp;is steady at No. 6 (a little more than 35,000; down 11%).<\/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;rises 8-7 for its 12th straight week in the top 10, earning nearly 35,000 units (down less than 1%). The album debuted at No. 4 on the April 11, 2020-dated chart, then spent two more weeks in the top 10 (April 18-25) before falling out of the region until the Feb. 27, 2021-dated chart, when it began its current top 10 streak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>\u00a0is the only album by a woman in the top 10 this week. It\u2019s just the second time in 2021 where the top 10 has held just one album by a woman. On the Feb. 20-dated list,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Positions<\/em>\u00a0was the only set by a leading lady in the top 10. (The last time the top 10 did not have an album credited to a woman was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/2020-11-07\" target=\"_blank\">the Nov. 7, 2020 chart<\/a>. It\u2019s worth noting that week\u2019s top 10 did feature the multi-artist original Broadway cast recording of\u00a0<em>Hamilton: An American Musical<\/em>, which boasted a number of female performers.) <br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop-smoke\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Smoke<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon<\/em>\u00a0rises 10-8 on the new Billboard 200 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned (down 2%).\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s previous leader\u00a0<em>After Hours<\/em>\u00a0dips 7-9 with nearly 32,000 units (down 18%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/thomas-rhett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thomas Rhett<\/a>&nbsp;rounds out the new top 10 with the No. 10 debut of his latest studio album&nbsp;<em>Country Again (Side A)<\/em>. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 15,000 (equaling 19.34 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 14,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000. The album was led by the single \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Country Song?\u201d which marked his 16th No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-airplay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Country Airplay<\/a>&nbsp;chart (dated March 27) and his second leader on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot Country Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Country Again (Side A)<\/em>&nbsp;is the fifth top 10 album for Rhett, all consecutive, from his debut full-length project&nbsp;<em>It Goes Like This<\/em>&nbsp;in 2013 (which peaked at No. 6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 11-track\u00a0<em>Country Again (Side A)<\/em>\u00a0project is the first of a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9565314\/thomas-rhett-interview-country-again-side-a\/\" target=\"_blank\">two-part project<\/a>\u00a0from Rhett, with\u00a0<em>Country Again (Side B)<\/em>\u00a0set to arrive later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2258\" data-postid=\"2258\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2258 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Thomas Rhett\u2019s \u201cCountry Again (Side A)\u201d debuts in the top 10. DJ Khaled&nbsp;nets his third No. 1 album on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart as&nbsp;Khaled Khaled&nbsp;debuts atop the list. The 14-track album was released on April 30 via We the Best\/Epic Records and features a galaxy of guest stars, ranging from&nbsp;Drake&nbsp;and&nbsp;Jay-Z&nbsp;to&nbsp;Justin Timberlake&nbsp;and&nbsp;Justin Bieber.&nbsp;Khaled Khaled&nbsp;starts with 93,000 equivalent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2259,"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-2258","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\/05\/DJ-Khaled-bet-awards-2019-billboard-1548-1611247025-compressed1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","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=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2765,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}