{"id":2572,"date":"2022-02-13T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T21:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:25","slug":"encanto-no-1-on-billboard-200-chart-for-fifth-week-most-for-a-soundtrack-since-frozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2572","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Encanto\u2019 No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart for Fifth Week, Most for a Soundtrack Since \u2018Frozen\u2019"},"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: Yo Gotti and Mitski score their highest charting albums ever on the Billboard 200 with their latest releases. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Walt Disney Records\u2019\u00a0<em>Encanto<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack spends its fifth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0albums chart, becoming the soundtrack with the most weeks atop the chart since Disney\u2019s own\u00a0<em>Frozen<\/em>\u00a0ruled for 13 nonconsecutive weeks in 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With their totals at No. 1 (so far),&nbsp;<em>Frozen<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Encanto<\/em>&nbsp;boast the most, and second-most, weeks at No. 1, respectively, among soundtracks in the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Encanto<\/em>\u00a0earned 110,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 10 (down 2%), according to MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the top 10, both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/yo-gotti\">Yo Gotti<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/mitski\">Mitski<\/a>\u00a0land their highest-charting albums ever on the Billboard 200, as the former\u2019s\u00a0<em>CM10: Free Game<\/em>\u00a0debuts at No. 3 and the latter\u2019s\u00a0<em>Laurel Hell<\/em>\u00a0arrives at No. 5. <\/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, compiled by MRC Data. 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 Feb. 19, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Feb. 15. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Encanto<\/em>\u2019s 110,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 91,000 (down 3%, equaling 134.82 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 17,000 (up 5%) and TEA units comprise 2,000 (down 28%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Encanto<\/em>&nbsp;continues to be powered largely by streaming activity for its songs, including its five top 40-charting hits on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>: \u201cWe Don\u2019t Talk About Bruno\u201d (which spent its second week atop the most recently published list, dated Feb. 12), \u201cSurface Pressure,\u201d \u201cThe Family Madrigal,\u201d \u201cWhat Else Can I Do?\u201d and the Academy Award-nominated \u201cDos Oruguitas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably,\u00a0<em>Encanto<\/em>\u00a0is one of only six soundtracks to spend at least five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in the last 30 years. Before\u00a0<em>Encanto<\/em>, there was\u00a0<em>Frozen<\/em>\u00a0(13 weeks, 2014),\u00a0<em>Titanic<\/em>\u00a0(16, 1998),\u00a0<em>Waiting to Exhale<\/em>\u00a0(five, 1996),\u00a0<em>The Lion King<\/em>\u00a0(10, 1994-95) and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/whitney-houston\">Whitney Houston<\/a>-led\u00a0<em>The Bodyguard<\/em>\u00a0(20, 1992-93). (Before that, the last soundtrack with at least five weeks at No. 1 was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/prince\">Prince<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Batman<\/em>\u00a0in 1989, with six weeks at No. 1.) The soundtrack \u2014 and overall album \u2014 with the most weeks at No. 1 is\u00a0<em>West Side Story<\/em>, with 54 weeks atop the list in 1962-63.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back on the new Billboard 200,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/gunna\">Gunna<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>DS4Ever<\/em>&nbsp;rises 3-2 with 47,000 equivalent album units earned (though down 13%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yo Gotti achieves his highest charting album ever on the Billboard 200, as&nbsp;<em>CM10: Free Game<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 3 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned. It\u2019s the rapper\u2019s fifth top 10 on the chart and surpasses his previous high of No. 4 with&nbsp;<em>The Art of the Hustle<\/em>&nbsp;in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>CM10: Free Game<\/em>\u2019s 46,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 30,000 (equaling 43.06 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs), album sales comprise 15,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. On Feb. 4,&nbsp;<em>CM10: Free Game<\/em>&nbsp;was initially released in two versions: an 11-song edition and a 22-song version (both containing the same core 11 songs). On Feb. 7, a 25-song deluxe edition of the album was released with three bonus tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/morgan-wallen\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitski\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Laurel Hell<\/em>&nbsp;arrives at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, marking the highest-charting album ever for the singer-songwriter, and first to reach the top 40. The new album is Mitski\u2019s sixth full-length studio set and first since she became&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/mitski-hiatus-streaming-popular\/\">wildly popular on TikTok<\/a>. (Mitski\u2019s last album was released in 2018.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Laurel Hell<\/em>\u00a0was released on Feb. 4 via the record label Dead Oceans, and launches with 36,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 24,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 12,000 (equaling 15.63 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.\u00a0<em>Laurel Hell<\/em>\u00a0also captures career-high weeks for Mitski, both in terms of units earned and album sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably,&nbsp;<em>Laurel Hell<\/em>&nbsp;sold nearly 17,000 copies on vinyl LP \u2014 the largest vinyl sales week for any album released in 2022, and largest vinyl debut for an album by a female artist since Adele\u2019s&nbsp;<em>30<\/em>&nbsp;launched with 35,000 (Dec. 4, 2021-dated chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitski previously charted just one album on the Billboard 200, with&nbsp;<em>Be the Cowboy<\/em>&nbsp;spending one week at No. 52 in 2018. (It also peaked at No. 6 on Top Alternative Albums and No. 7 on Top Rock Albums.) Mitski made her&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;album chart debut in 2016 with&nbsp;<em>Puberty 2<\/em>&nbsp;on a range of charts, including Top Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums (peaking at Nos. 19 and 32, respectively).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitski also recently snared her first top 10 any&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;song chart, as the new album\u2019s \u201cThe Only Heartbreaker\u201d has hit No. 8 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/triple-a\/\">Adult Alternative Airplay<\/a>&nbsp;chart (on the lists dated Feb. 5 and 12).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Laurel Hell<\/em>&nbsp;is also the first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 for Dead Oceans, and the fourth to reach the top 40. The label\u2019s previous high came in 2020 with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/khruangbin\">Khruangbin<\/a>\u2019s No. 31-peaking&nbsp;<em>Mordechai<\/em>&nbsp;(released via Night Time Stories\/Dead Oceans).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/the-weeknd\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dawn FM<\/em>&nbsp;(falling 2-6 with 35,000 equivalent album units; down 49%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/drake\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>&nbsp;(holding at No. 7 with nearly 35,000; up 1%), The Weeknd\u2019s compilation&nbsp;<em>The Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;(steady at No. 8 with 34,000; up 2%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/adele\">Adele<\/a>\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>30<\/em>&nbsp;(6-9 with 32,000; down 7%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/doja-cat\">Doja Cat<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Planet Her<\/em>&nbsp;(9-10 with 32,000; down 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Weeknd has now gone five straight weeks with two albums concurrently in the top 10. He\u2019s the first to do so since early 2017, when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pentatonix\">Pentatonix<\/a>\u00a0strung together five weeks in a row with a pair of albums in the top 10 (Dec. 17, 2016 \u2014 Jan. 14, 2017; with two holiday efforts \u2014\u00a0<em>That\u2019s Christmas To Me<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>A Pentatonix Christmas<\/em>). Excluding Christmas\/holiday albums,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\">Justin Bieber<\/a>\u00a0was the last to manage the feat, with five straight weeks in the top 10 from April 10-May 8, 2010, with\u00a0<em>My World<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>My World 2.0<\/em>. (In 2010, the Billboard 200 was ranked solely by traditional album sales. 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