{"id":2383,"date":"2021-08-15T13:46:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:34","slug":"billie-eilishs-happier-than-ever-spends-second-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2383","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish\u2019s \u2018Happier Than Ever\u2019 Spends Second 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<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plus: Nas\u2019 &#8216;King\u2019s Disease II&#8217; debuts in the top five and George Harrison\u2019s 1971 No. 1 &#8216;All Things Must Pass&#8217; returns to the top 10 after its 50th anniversary reissue.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billie Eilish<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Happier Than Ever<\/em>&nbsp;holds atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week on top, as the set earned 85,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 12 (down 64%), according to MRC Data. The album debuted at No. 1 a week ago with 238,000 units \u2013 the fifth-largest week of 2021 for an album.&nbsp;<em>Happier Than Ever<\/em>&nbsp;is the second album released in 2021 to spend its first two weeks at No. 1, following&nbsp;<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;(which spent 10 weeks at No. 1, all consecutive, from its debut on the Jan. 23-dated chart).<\/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 Aug. 21, 2021-dated chart (where&nbsp;<em>Happier Than Ever<\/em>&nbsp;holds at No. 1) will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Aug. 17. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of\u00a0<em>Happier Than Ever<\/em>\u2019s 85,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Aug. 12, SEA units comprise 49,000 (down 42%, equaling 66.1 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 36,000 (the top-selling album of the week; down 76%) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 (down 55%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/olivia-rodrigo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>&nbsp;is up one spot to No. 2 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned (down 6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/nas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nas<\/a>&nbsp;scores his 15th top 10 album on the Billboard 200, and highest charting effort since 2012, as&nbsp;<em>King\u2019s Disease II<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 3. The set, released on Aug. 6, earned 56,000 equivalent album units in its first week. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 35,000 (equaling 47.44 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 19,000 and TEA units comprise a little over 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>King\u2019s Disease II<\/em>&nbsp;was announced only a week before its release, on July 29, and is the sequel to&nbsp;<em>King\u2019s Disease<\/em>, which was released in 2020 and debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 (dated Sept. 5, 2020). The new album is Nas\u2019 highest-charting set since 2012\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Life Is Good<\/em>&nbsp;debuted at No. 1 on the Aug. 4, 2012-dated list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nas landed his first top 10 album 25 years ago, when his second studio album,&nbsp;<em>It Was Written<\/em>, bowed at No. 1 on the July 20, 1996, chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-kid-laroi\" target=\"_blank\">The Kid LAROI<\/a>\u2019s former chart-topper\u00a0<em>F*ck Love<\/em>\u00a0falls 2-4 with nearly 56,000 equivalent album units (down 15%),\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/doja-cat\" target=\"_blank\">Doja Cat<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Planet Her<\/em>\u00a0is steady at No. 5 with 55,000 units (up 2%) and Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>\u00a0is a non-mover at No. 6 with 44,000 units (down 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/george-harrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">George Harrison<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1 album&nbsp;<em>All Things Must Pass<\/em>&nbsp;returns to the top 10 for the first time since 1971, as the set re-enters at No. 7 following its 50th anniversary reissue on Aug. 6. The album was newly mixed and reissued in a variety of formats for its re-release. All versions of the album, including the original 1970 release, are combined for tracking and charting purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All together, the set earned 32,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the tracking week ending Aug. 12 &#8212; up 1,401% (from about 2,000 in the week previous). Of its 32,000 units earned, album sales comprise 28,000, SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 3.96 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000.&nbsp;The album, Harrison\u2019s third solo studio effort and first No. 1 album, topped the Billboard 200 chart for seven consecutive weeks in 1971 (Jan. 2-Feb. 13, 1971-dated charts). It launched a pair of top 10 hits on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart: his first No. 1, the double-sided hit \u201cMy Sweet Lord\u201d \/ \u201cIsn\u2019t It a Pity,\u201d and the No. 10 hit \u201cWhat Is Life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With&nbsp;<em>All Things Must Pass<\/em>\u2019 return to the top 10, it marks Harrison\u2019s first time in the region since 1988, when&nbsp;<em>Cloud Nine<\/em>&nbsp;peaked at No. 8. It\u2019s also Harrison\u2019s highest rank since&nbsp;<em>Dark Horse<\/em>&nbsp;galloped to No. 4 on Jan. 25, 1975. (Harrison died in 2001.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the new Billboard 200 top 10 are\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-baby\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Baby<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-durk\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Durk<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>The Voice of the Heroes<\/em>\u00a0(holding at No. 8 with 28,000 equivalent album units earned; down 6%),\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\">Dua Lipa<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>\u00a0(stationary at No. 9 with 27,000 units; down 6%) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/polo-g\" target=\"_blank\">Polo G<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>Hall of Fame<\/em>\u00a0(a non-mover at No. 10 with 24,000 units; down 4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2383\" data-postid=\"2383\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2383 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Nas\u2019 &#8216;King\u2019s Disease II&#8217; debuts in the top five and George Harrison\u2019s 1971 No. 1 &#8216;All Things Must Pass&#8217; returns to the top 10 after its 50th anniversary reissue. 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