{"id":2451,"date":"2021-10-17T12:50:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T19:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:27","slug":"drakes-certified-lover-boy-bounces-back-to-no-1-on-billboard-200-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"Drake\u2019s \u2018Certified Lover Boy\u2019 Bounces Back to No. 1 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\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plus: Don Toliver scores highest-charting album yet with No. 2 debut of \u201cLife of a Don.\u201d<\/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;rebounds to 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 (dated Oct. 23) for a fourth nonconsecutive week in the lead, as the set bumps up from No. 2 with 94,000 equivalent album units earned (down 14%) in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 14, according to MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>&nbsp;spent its first three weeks at No. 1 (Sept. 18-Oct. 2-dated charts), and then stepped aside to the No. 2 slot for the past two weeks, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/youngboy-never-broke-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YoungBoy Never Broke Again<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Sincerely, Kentrell<\/em>&nbsp;debuted at No. 1 (Oct. 9-dated chart) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;returned to No. 1 (Oct. 16 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\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 Oct. 23, 2021-dated chart (where<em>\u00a0Certified Lover Boy<\/em>\u00a0returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Oct. 19. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>\u2019s 94,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 14, SEA units comprise 92,000 (down 14%, equaling 125.77 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 1,000 (down 9%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 10%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/don-toliver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Don Toliver<\/a>&nbsp;lands his highest-charting album yet, as&nbsp;<em>Life of a Don<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 68,000 equivalent album units. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 49,000 (equaling 64.13 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 18,000 (all from a digital download, as no physical product is available) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Life of a Don<\/em>\u00a0surpasses the No. 7 debut and peak of his one earlier charting album,\u00a0<em>Heaven or Hell<\/em>\u00a0(March 28, 2020 chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>YoungBoy Never Broke Again\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Sincerely, Kentrell<\/em>&nbsp;climbs 4-3 with 51,000 equivalent album units earned (down 28%) while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/meek-mill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meek Mill<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Expensive Pain<\/em>&nbsp;falls 3-4 with 46,000 units (down 51%).&nbsp;<em>Life of a Don<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Sincerely<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Expensive Pain<\/em>&nbsp;were all released through Atlantic Records, giving the label three of the top four on the Billboard 200 for the first time since the Jan. 20, 2018, chart. That week, Atlantic held the Nos. 1, 2 and 4 slots with the soundtrack to&nbsp;<em>The Greatest Showman<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ed-sheeran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ed Sheeran<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>\u00f7 (Divide)<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bruno-mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bruno Mars<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>24K Magic<\/em>, respectively. (<em>Life of a Don<\/em>&nbsp;was released via Cactus Jack\/WeRunIt\/Atlantic,&nbsp;<em>Sincerely<\/em>&nbsp;via Never Broke Again\/Atlantic and&nbsp;<em>Expensive Pain<\/em>&nbsp;via Maybach\/Atlantic.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/olivia-rodrigo\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>Sour<\/em>\u00a0climbs 6-5 with a little more than 43,000 equivalent album units earned (up less than 1%),\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/lil-nas-x\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Nas X<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Montero<\/em>\u00a0dips 5-6 with 43,000 (down 5%) and\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 a non-mover at No. 7 with 42,000 units (down 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><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<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Album<\/em>&nbsp;rises 9-8 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (up 6%). The album debuted atop the chart 40 weeks ago, and has yet to depart the top 10. It has the fifth-most weeks in the top 10 among country albums all-time (with country albums defined as those that are eligible for&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Top Country Albums chart). Ahead of it are Swift\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>&nbsp;(58 weeks),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/shania-twain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shania Twain<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Come On Over<\/em>&nbsp;(53),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/garth-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Garth Brooks<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>Ropin\u2019 the Wind<\/em>&nbsp;(50) and Billy Ray Cyrus\u2019&nbsp;<em>Some Gave All&nbsp;<\/em>(43).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dangerous<\/em>&nbsp;is only the third country album to spend its first 40 weeks on the chart in the top 10, after&nbsp;<em>Ropin\u2019 the Wind<\/em>&nbsp;spent its first 50 in the region (Sept. 28, 1991-Sept. 5, 1992-dated charts) and&nbsp;<em>Some Gave All<\/em>&nbsp;held in the top 10 for its first 43 weeks (June 6, 1992-March 27, 1993-dated charts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are a pair of former No. 1s:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/kanye-west\" target=\"_blank\">Kanye West<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Donda<\/em>\u00a0rises 10-9 (33,000 equivalent album units earned; down 12%) and\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>\u00a0climbs 12-10 (32,000 units; down 4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2451\" data-postid=\"2451\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2451 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Don Toliver scores highest-charting album yet with No. 2 debut of \u201cLife of a Don.\u201d Drake\u2019s&nbsp;Certified Lover Boy&nbsp;rebounds to No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;albums chart (dated Oct. 23) for a fourth nonconsecutive week in the lead, as the set bumps up from No. 2 with 94,000 equivalent album units earned (down 14%) in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2452,"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-2451","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\/10\/05-drake-press-2021-billboard-1548-1630682751-compressed1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","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=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}