{"id":3325,"date":"2022-06-26T19:32:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T19:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2022-06-26T19:32:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T19:32:18","slug":"drake-achieves-11th-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-honestly-nevermind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3325","title":{"rendered":"Drake Achieves 11th No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart with \u2018Honestly, Nevermind\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\">He&#8217;s one of only five acts with more than 10 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Honestly, Nevermind<\/em>\u00a0debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated July 2), giving the superstar his 11th No. 1 on the chart. The surprise release was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/drake-new-album-honestly-nevermind-announcement-1235089312\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0on June 16, and the album dropped at midnight on June 17. The set is a sonic left-turn from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/hip-hop\/\">hip-hop<\/a>\u00a0giant, as it is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/drake-honestly-nevermind-dance-producers-1235089896\/\">almost entirely composed of moody electronic atmospherics and body-moving dancefloor heat<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/ranking-drake-honestly-nevermind-album-1235089387\/\">leans on the house music scene<\/a>\u201d with collaborations from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/drake-honestly-nevermind-dance-producers-1235089896\/\">seven house music producers with varying degrees of mainstream fame<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drake becomes the fifth act with more than 10 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 since the chart began regularly publishing on a weekly basis in 1956. He joins\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/the-beatles\">The Beatles<\/a>\u00a0(who lead with a record 19 No. 1s),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/jay-z\">Jay-Z<\/a>\u00a0(14),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bruce-springsteen\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/barbra-streisand\">Barbra Streisand<\/a>\u00a0(each with 11).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Honestly, Nevermind<\/em>&nbsp;launches with 204,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending June 23, according to Luminate. Streaming activity powered 94% of the album\u2019s first week sum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the new top 10,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/kevin-gates\">Kevin Gates<\/a>&nbsp;collects his fifth top 10 on the Billboard 200, as&nbsp;<em>Khaza<\/em>&nbsp;arrives 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 July 2, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on June 28. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Honestly, Nevermind\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;204,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 191,000 (equaling 250.23 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 11,000 and TEA units comprise 2,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 14-track<em>\u00a0Honestly, Nevermind<\/em>\u00a0bows with the fourth-largest streaming week for an album in 2022, by on-demand official streams: 250.23 million. Notably, the three larger weeks this year were all scored by albums with a longer tracklist (all in their debuts weeks):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bad-bunny\">Bad Bunny<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Un Verano Sin Ti<\/em>\u00a0(356.55 million from 23 tracks),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/kendrick-lamar\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Mr. Morale &amp; The Big Steppers<\/em>\u00a0(343.02 million; 18 tracks) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/future\">Future<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>I Never Liked You<\/em>\u00a0(283.75 million; 22 tracks).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the last time an album as short (or shorter) as&nbsp;<em>Honestly, Nevermind<\/em>&nbsp;had a larger streaming week was over a year ago, when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/olivia-rodrigo\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2019s 11-track&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>&nbsp;bowed with 300.73 million on-demand official streams (chart dated June 5, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most-streamed cut on&nbsp;<em>Honestly, Nevermind<\/em>, by on-demand official streams, is its closing track \u201cJimmy Cooks,\u201d featuring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/21-savage\">21 Savage<\/a>, with 39.59 million. The second-and-third-most streamed tracks are the album\u2019s opening song \u201cFalling Back\u201d (27.05 million) and \u201cSticky\u201d (26.16 million). \u201cFalling\u201d is the only song from the album with an official music video, and 3.03 million of its streams came from video plays. (Looking only at on-demand official&nbsp;<em>audio<\/em>&nbsp;streams, the two most-streamed tracks on the set are \u201cJimmy Cooks,\u201d with 37.93 million and \u201cSticky,\u201d with 25.37 million.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJimmy Cooks\u201d and \u201cSticky\u201d are the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/ranking-drake-honestly-nevermind-album-1235089387\/\">most rap-forward cuts<\/a>&nbsp;on the album. Combined, the two songs accounted for 26% of the album\u2019s first-week on-demand official streams (65.75 million of 250.23 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total,&nbsp;<em>Honestly, Nevermind<\/em>&nbsp;is Drake\u2019s 14th top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200. From 2009, when he first charted, onwards, he\u2019s logged at least one new top 10 in every year except for 2012 and 2014.&nbsp;<em>Honestly<\/em>&nbsp;gives Drake an eighth consecutive year with a new top 10 album (stretching back to 2015\u2019s&nbsp;<em>What a Time to Be Alive<\/em>, with Future, and&nbsp;<em>If You\u2019re Reading This It\u2019s Too Late<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 both No. 1s). No other act has notched a new top 10 in every year since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Bad Bunny\u2019s chart-topping\u00a0<em>Un Verano Sin Ti<\/em>\u00a0is a non-mover with 121,000 equivalent album units (down 8%).\u00a0<em>Un Verano Sin Ti<\/em>\u00a0has tallied over 100,000 in each of its first seven weeks on the chart. The last title to do so was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Scorpion<\/em>, which saw its first seven weeks all exceed 100,000 units (July 28-Aug 25. 2018, charts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/harry-styles\">Harry Styles<\/a>\u2019 former leader&nbsp;<em>Harry\u2019s House<\/em>&nbsp;is stationary at No. 3 with 79,000 equivalent album units (down 13%),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bts\">BTS<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>Proof<\/em>&nbsp;falls 1-4 in its second week with 75,000 units (down 76%) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/morgan-wallen\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;rises 6-5 with 52,000 units (up less than 1%). Future\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>I Never Liked You<\/em>&nbsp;dips 5-6 with 49,000 units (down 11%), and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/post-malone\/\">Post Malone<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Twelve Carat Toothache<\/em>&nbsp;descends 4-7 with 44,000 units (down 26%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin Gates nabs his fifth top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as&nbsp;<em>Khaza<\/em>&nbsp;arrives at No. 8 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 34,000 (equaling 47.05 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 3,000 and TEA units comprise less than 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing out the new top 10 are two former No. 1s: Kendrick Lamar\u2019s\u00a0<em>Mr. Morale &amp; The Big Steppers\u00a0<\/em>(7-9 with 36,000 equivalent album units; down 14%) and Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s\u00a0<em>Sour<\/em>\u00a0(8-10 with 32,000 units; up 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3325\" data-postid=\"3325\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3325 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s one of only five acts with more than 10 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart. 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