{"id":2414,"date":"2021-09-12T13:42:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T20:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:33","slug":"drakes-certified-lover-boy-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-chart-with-biggest-week-for-an-album-in-over-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"Drake\u2019s \u2018Certified Lover Boy\u2019 Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart with Biggest Week for an Album in Over a Year"},"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\">The set\u2019s songs generate blockbuster 743.7 million on-demand streams in the U.S.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>&nbsp;album makes a spectacular debut atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart with the biggest week for any album in over a year. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/9621904\/drake-release-date-certified-lover-boy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9624327\/drake-certified-lover-boy-reaction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">awaited<\/a>&nbsp;set, which was released on Sept. 3, is Drake\u2019s 10th No. 1 and starts with 613,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 9, according to MRC Data. That\u2019s the biggest week for an album since the Aug. 8, 2020-dated chart, when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;launched at No. 1 with 846,000 units.<\/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 Sept. 18, 2021-dated chart (where&nbsp;<em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Sept. 14. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of\u00a0<em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>\u2019s 613,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 9, SEA units comprise 562,000 units (equaling 743.67 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s 21 tracks), album sales comprise 46,000 (all from digital album sales; a CD release is due on Oct. 1) and TEA units comprise 5,000 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at some of the feats that Drake achieves with the debut of<em>&nbsp;Certified Lover Boy<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10th No. 1 Album:<\/strong>&nbsp;Drake is now one of only eight artists with at least 10 No. 1 albums in the 65-year history of the Billboard 200 chart.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-beatles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Beatles<\/a>&nbsp;have the most No. 1s, with 19. They are followed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jay-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jay-Z<\/a>&nbsp;(14),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bruce-springsteen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/barbra-streisand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barbra Streisand<\/a>&nbsp;(11 each), Drake,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/eminem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eminem<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/elvis-presley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elvis Presley<\/a>&nbsp;and Kanye West (10 each). Drake first topped the Billboard 200 dated July 3, 2010, with&nbsp;<em>Thank Me Later<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biggest Week for an Album in Over a Year:<\/strong>&nbsp;With 613,000 equivalent album units earned,&nbsp;<em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>&nbsp;logs the largest week for any album since Swift\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>&nbsp;launched at No. 1 on the Aug. 8, 2020-dated chart with 846,000 units.&nbsp;<em>Certified<\/em>&nbsp;also easily scores 2021\u2019s biggest week, blowing past the previous high, logged just a week earlier (Sept. 11 chart), when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/kanye-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">West<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Donda<\/em>&nbsp;bowed at No. 1 with 309,000 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Largest Week for a Rap Album Since Drake\u2019s Own \u2018Scorpion\u2019 Two Years Ago:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s rare for an album to post as large a week as\u00a0<em>Certified<\/em>. So rare, that in the last five years (going back to September 2016), only albums by Drake and Swift have been as big or bigger in a single week. Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>Reputation<\/em>\u00a0debuted with 1.24 million units on the Dec. 2, 2017-dated chart, followed by Drake\u2019s\u00a0<em>Scorpion<\/em>\u00a0(732,000; July 14, 2018) and Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lover<\/em>\u00a0(867,000; Sept. 7, 2019) and\u00a0<em>Folklore<\/em>\u00a0(846,000; Aug. 8, 2020).\u00a0Thus, Drake\u2019s\u00a0<em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>\u00a0snares the biggest week for an R&amp;B\/hip-hop album, a rap album, an album by a male artist, and any album by someone not named Taylor Swift since Drake\u2019s own\u00a0<em>Scorpion<\/em>\u00a0in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blockbuster Streams:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Certified<\/em>\u2019s start of 562,000 SEA units equals a whopping 743.67 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s 21 tracks. Of that sum, audio on-demand streams comprise 714.83 million, while video on-demand streams comprise 28.84 million. Only one album has ever scored a larger streaming week by on-demand audio streams: Drake\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Scorpion<\/em>, with 745.92 million for its 25 tracks during its debut week. (When&nbsp;<em>Scorpion<\/em>&nbsp;launched, SEA units only included on-demand audio streams, not on-demand video. Video streams did not join the Billboard 200\u2019s methodology until the Jan. 18, 2020-dated chart.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>\u00a0was not preceded by any pre-release singles.\u00a0<em>Scorpion<\/em>, however, was led by a trio of hits on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart: \u201cGod\u2019s Plan,\u201d \u201cNice for What\u201d (both No. 1s, leading the list for 11 and eight weeks, respectively) and \u201cI\u2019m Upset.\u201d (<em>Scorpion<\/em>\u00a0ultimately housed seven Hot 100 top 10s, including another No. 1: the 10-week leader \u201cIn My Feelings.\u201d)\u00a0At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, West\u2019s\u00a0<em>Donda<\/em>\u00a0falls to No. 2 in its second week with 141,000 equivalent album units earned (down 54%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/iron-maiden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Iron Maiden<\/a>&nbsp;earns its highest charting album ever on the Billboard 200, as its latest studio effort,&nbsp;<em>Senjutsu<\/em>, debuts at No. 3. The veteran hard rock band previously peaked at No. 4 with its last two studio releases:&nbsp;<em>The Book of Souls<\/em>&nbsp;(in 2015) and&nbsp;<em>The Final Frontier<\/em>&nbsp;(2010). In total,&nbsp;<em>Senjutsu<\/em>&nbsp;is Iron Maiden\u2019s 15th top 40-charting album (dating to its first,&nbsp;<em>The Number of the Beast<\/em>, in 1982), of which four have hit the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Senjutsu<\/em>\u2019s 64,000 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 61,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 3.57 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s 10 tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Senjutsu<\/em>\u00a0logs the second-largest week of 2021 for a hard rock album in both equivalent album units earned and in traditional album sales. It trails only\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/foo-fighters\" target=\"_blank\">Foo Fighters<\/a>\u2019\u00a0<em>Medicine at Midnight<\/em>, which debuted on the Feb. 20 chart with 70,000 units (of which 64,000 were in album sales). (Hard rock albums are defined as those that have charted on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hard-rock-albums\" target=\"_blank\">Hard<\/a>\u00a0Rock Albums chart.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 4 on the Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/olivia-rodrigo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2019s former chart-topper&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>&nbsp;falls one spot with 61,000 equivalent album units earned (down 18%).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/doja-cat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doja Cat<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Planet Her&nbsp;<\/em>dips 4-5 (49,000 units; down 7%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover at No. 6 (40,000; down less than 1%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/billie-eilish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Billie Eilish<\/a>\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>Happier Than Ever<\/em>&nbsp;is also steady at No. 7 (just over 39,000; down 1%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-kid-laroi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Kid LAROI<\/a>\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>F*ck Love<\/em>&nbsp;falls 5-8 (39,000; down 10%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/imagine-dragons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Imagine Dragons<\/a>&nbsp;claim their fifth top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as the rock band\u2019s latest studio set,&nbsp;<em>Mercury \u2013 Act 1<\/em>, debuts at No. 9. The effort launches with 31,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 17,000; SEA units comprise 13,000 (equaling 17.04 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rod-wave\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Wave<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>SoulFly<\/em>\u00a0closes out the new top 10, dipping 8-10 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned (down 21%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2414\" data-postid=\"2414\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2414 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The set\u2019s songs generate blockbuster 743.7 million on-demand streams in the U.S. Drake\u2019s&nbsp;Certified Lover Boy&nbsp;album makes a spectacular debut atop the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart with the biggest week for any album in over a year. 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