{"id":226,"date":"2016-09-18T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:49:39","slug":"jason-alden-achieves-third-straight-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Jason Alden Achieves Third Straight No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 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<h2 class=\"article__deck\">Plus: a quartet of rockin&#8217; new top 10 debuts from Bastille, The Head and the Heart, The Beatles and Jack White.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/304236\/jason-aldean\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Aldean<\/a> earns his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with arrival of<em>They Don\u2019t Know<\/em>. The set, which was released on Sept. 9 through Macon\/Broken Bow Records, earned 138,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 15, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 131,000 were in traditional album sales.<\/p>\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6320099\/billboard-200-makeover-streams-digital-tracks\">multi-metric consumption<\/a>, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Oct. 1-dated chart (where Aldean enters at No. 1) will be posted in full to <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s websites on Tuesday, Sept. 20.<\/p>\n<p><em>They Don\u2019t Know<\/em> is also Aldean\u2019s third consecutive No. 1 on the chart. His last two chart entries, which also happen to be his last two studio albums, likewise opened atop the list. His last album, 2014\u2019s <em>Old Boots, New Dirt<\/em>, launched at No. 1 with 278,000 copies sold. Two years before that, <em>Night Train<\/em> rolled in at No. 1 with 409,000 sold.<\/p>\n<p>In total, <em>They Don\u2019t Know<\/em> is Aldean\u2019s sixth top 10 effort, and seventh charting album. He previously hit the top 10 with <em>My Kinda Party<\/em> (No. 2 in 2010), <em>Wide Open<\/em> (No. 4 in 2009) and <em>Relentless<\/em> (No. 4 in 2007). His self-titled debut album peaked at No. 37 in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><em>They Don\u2019t Know<\/em> is the first country album to rule the Billboard 200 late 2015, when<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/1487121\/chris-stapleton\/chart?sort=position\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Stapleton<\/a>\u2019s <em>Traveller<\/em> spent two weeks atop the list on the Nov. 21 and Nov. 28-dated charts. (<em>Traveller<\/em> reentered the chart, straight in at No. 1 on the Nov. 21-dated list, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6754084\/chris-stapleton-soars-to-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart\">following his big night on last year\u2019s Country Music Association Awards<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><em>They Don\u2019t Know<\/em> is the first country album to <em>debut<\/em> at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in over a year &#8212; since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/308556\/luke-bryan\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke Bryan<\/a>\u2019s <em>Kill the Lights<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6663966\/luke-bryan-billboard-200-albums-chart-dr-dre\">bowed in the penthouse<\/a> on Aug. 29, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the first since 2001 that we&#8217;ve waited until a chart dated in October for a country album top the Billboard 200. That year, one country set reigned: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/302597\/garth-brooks\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Garth Brooks<\/a>&#8216; <em>Scarecrow<\/em>, on the Dec. 1, 2001, chart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/301284\/drake\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1, <em>Views<\/em>, rises one rung to No. 2 with 59,000 units. Streams of the set\u2019s songs continue to drive the album\u2019s high rank on the chart. In the latest tracking week, <em>Views\u2019<\/em> streaming equivalent units totaled 43,000. (That equals 63.8 million streams of <em>Views\u2019<\/em> songs.) <em>Views<\/em> was the most-streamed album of the week, by total streams of its songs. Comparably, Aldean\u2019s <em>They Don\u2019t Know<\/em> logged only 1.5 million streams for its tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Suicide Squad<\/em> soundtrack also rises a notch, to No. 3, with 52,000 units. Unlike<em>Views<\/em>, the <em>Suicide Squad<\/em> soundtrack\u2019s units are evenly distributed across traditional album sales (19,000 copies sold), track equivalent albums (16,000), and streaming equivalent albums (17,000).<\/p>\n<p>At No. 4 is the second of five debuts in the top 10, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/1554163\/bastille\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bastille<\/a>\u2019s <em>Wild World<\/em> enters with 43,000 units (35,000 copies sold). It\u2019s the band\u2019s highest charting album, first top 10, and best sales week yet. It trumps the No. 11 debut and peak of its first album, <em>Bad Blood<\/em>, which arrived with 34,000 sold in its first week, back in 2013. Bastille also charted a pair of EPs, with <em>Haunt<\/em> (No. 104 in 2013) and <em>Vs.: Other People\u2019s Heartache Pt. III <\/em>(No. 87 in 2014).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/413223\/head-and-heart\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Head and the Heart<\/a> also score its highest-charting album yet, as <em>Signs of Light<\/em>bows at No. 5 with 40,000 units (37,000 in traditional album sales). The group previously hit the top 10 once, at No. 10, with its last album, <em>Let\u2019s Be Still<\/em> in 2013 (42,000 sold in its first week &#8212; still the act\u2019s best sales frame).<\/p>\n<p>On the Top Rock Albums chart, which ranks the week\u2019s best-selling rock albums, The Head and the Heart debut at No. 1 with <em>Signs of Light<\/em>, while Bastille\u2019s <em>Wild World<\/em>enters at No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200, last week\u2019s No. 1, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/1561929\/travi-scott\/chart\">Travis Scott<\/a>\u2019s <em>Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight<\/em>, falls to No. 6 with 38,000 units (down 57 percent).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/383540\/beatles\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Beatles<\/a> notch their 32nd top 10 album, as <em>Live at the Hollywood Bowl <\/em>debuts at No. 7 with 36,000 units (35,000 in traditional album sales). The group last hit the top 10 in 2013 with <em>On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2<\/em> (No. 7).<\/p>\n<p>The Beatles boast the third-most top 10s in the Billboard 200&#8217;s history. The Rolling Stones lead with 36, followed by Barbra Streisand, with 34.<\/p>\n<p>The new album &#8212; like its 1977 predecessor, <em>The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl<\/em> &#8212; features songs from The Beatles\u2019 three Hollywood Bowl performances in 1964 and 1965. The 1977 album peaked at No. 2, and eventually fell out of print.<\/p>\n<p>The 1977 album\u2019s 13 songs are on the new 2016 album, along with four bonus tracks. The 2016 set was newly mixed and remastered, and directly sourced from the original three track tapes of the concerts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/303980\/jack-white\/chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack White<\/a>\u2019s new archival compilation, <em>Acoustic Recordings: 1998-2016<\/em>, enters at No. 8 with 32,000 copies sold (30,000 in traditional album sales). The 26-song set includes alternative versions, mixes and previously unreleased recordings from White and his bands The White Stripes and The Raconteurs. <em>Acoustic Recordings<\/em> is the third top 10 set for White, following a pair of No. 1s: <em>Lazaretto<\/em> in 2014 and<em>Blunderbuss<\/em> in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The new set was a hot seller on vinyl LP, with 12,000 copies sold on the format, and a debut at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. <em>Acoustic\u2019s<\/em> vinyl sales mark the biggest week for a vinyl set since Blink-182\u2019s <em>California<\/em> started with 20,000 LPs sold back in July.<\/p>\n<p>The sizable vinyl sales are usual for White, who is a fan of the format and set a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/6121606\/jack-white-lazaretto-debuts-billboard-200-sets-vinyl-sales-record\">vinyl sales record in 2013 with <em>Lazaretto<\/em><\/a>. That album launched with 40,000 vinyl LPs sold &#8212; the largest sales week for a vinyl LP since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking sales in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are Ariana Grande\u2019s <em>Dangerous Woman<\/em> (rising 11-9 with 30,000 units; up 19 percent) and Florida Georgia Line\u2019s <em>Dig Your Roots<\/em> (dipping 5-10 with 30,000 units; down 29 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-226\" data-postid=\"226\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-226 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: a quartet of rockin&#8217; new top 10 debuts from Bastille, The Head and the Heart, The Beatles and Jack White. Jason Aldean earns his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with arrival ofThey Don\u2019t Know. 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