{"id":2391,"date":"2021-08-22T22:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T05:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:33","slug":"billie-eilishs-happier-than-ever-tops-billboard-200-chart-for-third-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2391","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish&#8217;s &#8216;Happier Than Ever&#8217; Tops Billboard 200 Chart for Third Week"},"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: Dan + Shay, $uicideboy$ and The Killers debut in top 10.<\/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;stands at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;albums chart for a third straight week. The set earned 60,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 19 (down 29%), according to MRC Data. The album opened atop the list two weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the second album of 2021 to spend its first three 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>) and the first set by a woman to do so since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;spent its first six weeks atop the list on the Aug. 8-Sept. 19, 2020 charts (of its eventual eight total nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Happier<\/em>\u00a0now has as many weeks atop the chart as Eilish\u2019s last album,\u00a0<em>When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/em>\u00a0The latter logged three individual nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, in 2019 (April 13-dated chart, its debut; May 4 and June 8).<\/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 Aug. 28, 2021-dated chart (where\u00a0<em>Happier Than Ever<\/em>\u00a0is No. 1 for a third week) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Aug. 24. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Happier Than Ever<\/em>\u2019s 60,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Aug. 19, SEA units comprise 36,000 (down 25%, equaling 49.6 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 23,000 (it\u2019s the top-selling album of the week; down 35%) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000 (down 27%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably,&nbsp;<em>Happier<\/em>\u2019s third-week sum of 60,000 units is the lowest for a No. 1 album since the Jan. 16-dated chart (reflecting the traditionally sleepy post-New Year\u2019s tracking week ending Jan. 7), when Taylor Swift\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>&nbsp;spent its third nonconsecutive week at No. 1 with 56,000 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/doja-cat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doja Cat<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Planet Her<\/em>&nbsp;rises 5-2 with 59,000 equivalent album units (up 6%). The set has remained in the top five for all of its eight chart weeks. It returns to its peak, first achieved when it debuted at No. 2 on the July 10-dated chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three former No. 1s are next up on the Billboard 200, as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/olivia-rodrigo\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Sour<\/em>\u00a0slips 2-3 (57,000 equivalent album units; down 6%),\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-kid-laroi\" target=\"_blank\">The Kid LAROI<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>F*ck Love<\/em>\u00a0is a non-mover at No. 4 (52,000; down 7%) and Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>\u00a0rises 6-5 (43,000; down 3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dan-shay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dan + Shay<\/a>&nbsp;arrive at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 with the duo\u2019s latest studio album,&nbsp;<em>Good Things<\/em>. It\u2019s the fourth consecutive top 10 for the act \u2013 the entirety of their charting efforts.&nbsp;<em>Good Things<\/em>&nbsp;bows with 33,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 19,000 (equaling 25.6 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 12,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Good Things<\/em>&nbsp;contains a trio of top 10-charting hits on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-songs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hot Country Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart: \u201c10,000 Hours\u201d (No. 1 for 21 weeks), with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Justin Bieber<\/a>; \u201cI Should Probably Go to Bed\u201d (No. 4) and \u201cGlad You Exist\u201d (No. 2 as of the most recently published chart dated Aug. 21). Both \u201c10,000 Hours\u201d and \u201cGlad\u201d also topped the weekly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/country-airplay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Country Airplay<\/a>&nbsp;chart, while \u201cI Should\u201d topped out at No. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dan + Shay previously visited the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with their self-titled album (No. 6 in 2018),&nbsp;<em>Obsessed<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 8, 2016) and&nbsp;<em>Where It All Began<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 6, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rap duo $uicideboy$ logs the act\u2019s second top 10 and highest charting album, as\u00a0<em>Long Term Effects of Suffering<\/em>\u00a0starts at No. 7 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 26,000 (equaling 36.5 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 6,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.\u00a0<em>Long Term<\/em>\u00a0is the pair\u2019s third charting effort, following\u00a0<em>Stop Staring at the Shadows<\/em>\u00a0(No. 30 in 2020) and\u00a0<em>I Want to Die in New Orleans<\/em>\u00a0(No. 9, 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><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>\u00a0is a non-mover at No. 8 with 28,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-killers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Killers<\/a>&nbsp;capture their seventh top 10 effort as their seventh studio album,&nbsp;<em>Pressure Machine<\/em>, debuts at No. 9 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 22,000, SEA units comprise 4,000 (equaling 5 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. All seven of the band\u2019s studio albums have reached the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pressure Machine<\/em>&nbsp;was announced on July 19 and comes slightly less than a year after the band\u2019s last studio effort,&nbsp;<em>Imploding the Mirage<\/em>, debuted and peaked at No. 9 on the Sept. 5, 2020-dated chart. (<em>Pressure<\/em>&nbsp;was released on Aug. 13, 2021;&nbsp;<em>Imploding<\/em>&nbsp;was released on Aug. 21, 2020.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\">Dua Lipa<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>\u00a0rounds out the Billboard 200\u2019s top 10, as the set moves 9-10 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned (down 4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2391\" data-postid=\"2391\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2391 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Dan + Shay, $uicideboy$ and The Killers debut in top 10. Billie Eilish\u2019s&nbsp;Happier Than Ever&nbsp;stands at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;albums chart for a third straight week. 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