{"id":2670,"date":"2022-05-12T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:24","slug":"future-earns-eighth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-with-i-never-liked-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2670","title":{"rendered":"Future Earns Eighth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 with \u2018I Never Liked\u00a0You\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: Miranda Lambert and NoCap debut in top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/future\">Future<\/a>\u00a0earns his eighth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as\u00a0<em>I Never Liked You<\/em>\u00a0debuts atop the list with the year\u2019s largest week for any album. It earned 222,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 5, according to Luminate. That also marks Future\u2019s largest week for a solo album, by units earned. His only album to post a bigger week was his collaborative set with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\">Drake<\/a>,\u00a0<em>What a Time to Be Alive<\/em>, which bowed at No. 1 with 375,000 units in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total,\u00a0<em>I Never Liked You<\/em>\u00a0is Future\u2019s 15th top 10 album on the Billboard 200. He previously topped the chart with\u00a0<em>High Off Life<\/em>\u00a0(2020),\u00a0<em>Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD<\/em>\u00a0(2019),\u00a0<em>HNDRXX<\/em>\u00a0(2017),\u00a0<em>Future<\/em>\u00a0(2017),\u00a0<em>Evol<\/em>\u00a0(2016),\u00a0<em>What a Time to Be Alive<\/em>\u00a0(2015) and\u00a0<em>DS2<\/em>\u00a0(2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the new top 10:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/the-weeknd\">The Weeknd<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dawn FM<\/em>&nbsp;surges 35-2 after the release of its vinyl LP and boxed sets,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/miranda-lambert\">Miranda Lambert<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Palomino<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 4, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/nocap\">NoCap<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Mr. Crawford<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 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&nbsp;multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. 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 May 14, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on May 10. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>I Never Like You<\/em>\u2019s 222,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 214,000 (equating to 283.75 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 6,500 and TEA units comprise 1,500. (<em>I Never Liked You<\/em>\u2019s standard edition was released on April 29 with 16 tracks, and then expanded in the middle of its first week of release with six additional cuts.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I Never Liked You<\/em>\u2019s starting sum of 222,000 units is the largest week for any album since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/adele\">Adele<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>30<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/adele-30-second-week-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235005997\/\">logged 288,000 units<\/a>\u00a0in the week ending Dec. 2, 2021, and the biggest debut for an album since\u00a0<em>30<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/adele-30-billboard-200-albums-chart-debut-1235003213\/\">launched<\/a>\u00a0with 839,000 a week earlier.\u00a0<em>I Never Liked You\u00a0<\/em>has the biggest week for any R&amp;B\/hip-hop album since Drake\u2019s\u00a0<em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/drake-certified-lover-boy-number-1-second-week-billboard-200-albums-chart\/\">moved 236,000<\/a>\u00a0in its second frame (week ending Sept. 16, 2021), and the biggest R&amp;B\/hip-hop debut since\u00a0<em>Certified<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/drake-certified-lover-boy-number-one-billboard-200-album-chart\/\">launched<\/a>\u00a0with 613,000. In fact, in the last 12 months, only three albums have posted a week as large as\u00a0<em>I Never Liked You<\/em>:\u00a0<em>Certified<\/em>, Ye\u2019s (formerly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/kanye-west\">Kanye West<\/a>)\u00a0<em>Donda<\/em>\u00a0(it debuted with 309,000 in the week ending Sept. 2, 2021) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/j-cole\">J. Cole<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Off-Season<\/em>\u00a0(debuting with 282,000 in the week ending May 20, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I Never Liked You<\/em>&nbsp;boasts guests including Drake, EST Gee, Gunna, Kodak Black, Tems and Ye (all on its standard and expanded editions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Weeknd\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dawn FM<\/em>&nbsp;jumps from No. 35 to No. 2 \u2014 matching its debut and peak position \u2014 following the release of its vinyl LP, cassette and deluxe boxed sets on April 29. The album earned 57,000 equivalent album units (up 241%), of which album sales comprise 44,000 (up 2,282% \u2014 making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 13,000 (equaling 17.72 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. 77% of&nbsp;<em>Dawn FM<\/em>\u2019s sales were from its vinyl LP, which was available in multiple variants, including a Target-exclusive edition pressed on translucent silver vinyl. In total,&nbsp;<em>Dawn FM<\/em>&nbsp;sold nearly 34,000 copies on vinyl \u2014 the largest sales week for an R&amp;B album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/morgan-wallen\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;falls 2-3 with 50,000 equivalent album units (down 3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miranda Lambert notches her seventh top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as&nbsp;<em>Palomino<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 4 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned. The set is the highest-debuting country album of 2022 and gallops in with the year\u2019s largest debut, by units, for a country effort. Of the album\u2019s 36,000 units earned, album sales comprise 24,000; SEA units comprise 11,000 (equaling 14.35 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trio of chart-topping albums is next on the Billboard 200, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/olivia-rodrigo\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>&nbsp;falls 4-5 (34,000 equivalent album units; down 6%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/lil-durk\">Lil Durk<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>7220<\/em>&nbsp;descends 3-6 (33,000; down 15%) and the&nbsp;<em>Encanto<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack dips 5-7 (32,000; down 7%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NoCap nets his first top 10 effort with his debut studio release\u00a0<em>Mr. Crawford<\/em>, as the album debuts at No. 8 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned. Effectively all of that sum was driven by SEA units (equaling 40.07 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks). The rapper (real name: Kobe Vidal Crawford) has charted three previous efforts on the chart, going as high as No. 31 with\u00a0<em>Steel Human<\/em>\u00a0in 2020. Before the release of\u00a0<em>Mr. Crawford<\/em>, NoCap had accumulated 1.48 billion on-demand official streams with his catalog of songs in the U.S., according to Luminate. The\u00a0<em>Steel Human<\/em>\u00a0album accounted for 332 million of those streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are Drake\u2019s\u00a0<em>Certified Lover Boy<\/em>\u00a0(7-9 with 29,000 equivalent album units; down 4%) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/doja-cat\">Doja Cat<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Planet Her<\/em>\u00a0(6-10 with nearly 29,000; down 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2670\" data-postid=\"2670\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2670 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Miranda Lambert and NoCap debut in top 10. Future\u00a0earns his eighth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as\u00a0I Never Liked You\u00a0debuts atop the list with the year\u2019s largest week for any album. It earned 222,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 5, according to Luminate. 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