{"id":3379,"date":"2022-08-07T21:53:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T21:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2022-08-07T21:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T21:53:24","slug":"beyonces-renaissance-bows-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-years-biggest-debut-by-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3379","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce\u2019s \u2018Renaissance\u2019 Bows at No. 1 on Billboard 200 with Year\u2019s Biggest Debut By a\u00a0Woman"},"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: ATEEZ, ENHYPEN, $uicideboy$ and Dance Gavin Dance debut in the top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/beyonce\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Renaissance<\/em>\u00a0blasts in at No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0albums chart (dated Aug. 13) with 2022\u2019s biggest week by a woman \u2013 and the second-largest week of the year overall \u2013 as the set launches atop the chart with 332,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 4, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably,\u00a0<em>Renaissance<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s seventh solo No. 1 album \u2013 is the first album released by a woman in 2022 to top the Billboard 200. The last woman at No. 1 was Adele with\u00a0<em>30<\/em>, which ruled for its first six weeks on the list (charts dated Dec. 4, 2021-Jan. 8, 2022). Notably, both\u00a0<em>30<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Renaissance<\/em>\u00a0were released via Columbia Records (with\u00a0<em>Renaissance<\/em>\u00a0issued through Parkwood\/Columbia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Renaissance<\/em>&nbsp;is Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s seventh solo studio album, and first since the chart-topping&nbsp;<em>Lemonade<\/em>&nbsp;in 2016. Since then, she teamed with husband Jay-Z on The Carters\u2019&nbsp;<em>Everything Is Love<\/em>&nbsp;(2018), released&nbsp;<em>Homecoming: The Live Album<\/em>&nbsp;and led&nbsp;<em>The Lion King: The Gift&nbsp;<\/em>soundtrack (both in 2019; all three reached the top five of the Billboard 200). All seven of her solo studio albums have also opened atop the tally (outside of her output as part of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/destinys-child\">Destiny\u2019s Child<\/a>), starting with&nbsp;<em>Dangerously in Love<\/em>&nbsp;in 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s last two solo albums (<em>Lemonade<\/em>&nbsp;and her self-titled set in 2013),&nbsp;<em>Renaissance<\/em>&nbsp;wasn\u2019t a surprise release. The new set was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/beyonce-renaissance-release-1235088619\/\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;in mid-June,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/beyonce-break-my-soul-single-stream-1235090290\/\">preceded by its first single<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cBreak My Soul\u201d on June 20, and was available to purchase on physical formats (both CD and vinyl LP) by street date (July 29). Comparably, her last two solo studio sets before&nbsp;<em>Renaissance<\/em>&nbsp;were both initially available exclusively only through streamers and digital retailers, and their physical release came later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, unlike her last two studio efforts,&nbsp;<em>Renaissance<\/em>&nbsp;was not ushered in alongside a longform visual component \u2013 or, in fact, any official music videos. The&nbsp;<em>Lemonade<\/em>&nbsp;project&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/beyonce-earns-sixth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-lemonade\/\">debuted initially on HBO<\/a>&nbsp;through its same-titled film, while her self-titled effort was initially sold exclusively through iTunes accompanied by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/beyonce-breaks-us-itunes-sales-record-sells-617000-in-three-days\/\">18 music videos<\/a>. As of Aug. 7, no official videos for&nbsp;<em>Renaissance<\/em>&nbsp;have been released \u2013 only lyric videos and visualizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the new top 10 on the Billboard 200:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ateez\">ATEEZ<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/enhypen\">ENHYPEN<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/dance-gavin-dance\">Dance Gavin Dance<\/a>\u00a0all score their first top 10 albums as their latest releases debut in the region, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/uicideboy\">$uicideboy$<\/a>\u00a0collect its third top 10 effort with the No. 7 arrival of\u00a0<em>Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation<\/em>.<\/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 Aug. 13, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Tuesday, Aug. 9. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Renaissance\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;332,000 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 190,000; SEA units comprise 138,000 (equaling 179.06 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks), and TEA units comprise 4,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, the only album with a larger week, by equivalent album units earned, has been the debut frame of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/harry-styles\">Harry Styles<\/a>\u2019&nbsp;<em>Harry\u2019s House<\/em>, which launched with 521,000 on the June 4-dated chart. Thus, Columbia has the two biggest weeks of 2022, as&nbsp;<em>Harry\u2019s House<\/em>&nbsp;was issued through Erskine\/Columbia. (As noted earlier,&nbsp;<em>Renaissance<\/em>&nbsp;has the biggest week of 2022 among albums by women. It surpasses the debut frame of Lizzo\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Special<\/em>, which earned 69,000 units in the week ending July 21, reflected on the July 30-dated chart.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Renaissance<\/em>\u00a0logs the largest streaming week for an album by a woman in 2022 by on-demand official streams earned, with 179.06 million. It\u2019s also the seventh-biggest streaming debut among all albums in 2022, and Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s largest streaming week ever. (Of note, the largest streaming week for an album by a woman in 2022 was when Doja Cat\u2019s\u00a0<em>Planet Her<\/em>\u00a0collected 46.68 million streams for its songs in the tracking week ending Feb. 3, as reflected on the Feb. 12-dated chart. The previous biggest debut streaming week in 2022 for a woman was registered by Lizzo\u2019s\u00a0<em>Special<\/em>, with 37.07 million streams for its songs in the tracking week ending July 21, reflected on the July 30 chart.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of traditional album sales, with 190,000 sold,&nbsp;<em>Renaissance<\/em>&nbsp;posts the third-largest sales week for an album in 2022, and the biggest by a woman. The only bigger sales weeks so far this year were captured by the opening stanzas of&nbsp;<em>Harry\u2019s House<\/em>&nbsp;(330,000) and BTS\u2019&nbsp;<em>Proof<\/em>&nbsp;(266,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Renaissance<\/em>&nbsp;sold 121,000 copies on CD, 43,000 via digital downloads and 26,000 on vinyl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Renaissance<\/em>\u2019s initial album sales figure is largely driven by direct-to-consumer sales of the album through internet retailers, with 72% of its first-week sales coming through web-based sellers (136,000 of 190,000). Those sellers included Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s official webstore (where she sold four limited edition deluxe boxed set editions of the album containing a T-shirt and a CD \u2013 all of which are sold out).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s webstore was also the exclusive seller in the tracking week of the album\u2019s vinyl LP, which had a limited pressing and an alternative cover and sold 26,000 copies. That marks the largest sales week for an R&amp;B\/hip-hop album on vinyl by a woman in the modern era, since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. The vinyl LP sold out on Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s webstore before the album\u2019s release on July 29. On Sept. 16, the album will garner a wide release on vinyl through all retailers, with expanded packaging and its standard album cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While&nbsp;<em>Renaissance<\/em>\u2019s internet-based sales were hefty, the album would have still been No. 1 on the Billboard 200 without any sales from internet sellers. Further, the set would have been No. 1 without selling a single copy, as it still would have perched atop the list from only streaming activity (with streaming equaling 138,000 SEA units).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, as noted earlier,\u00a0<em>Renaissance<\/em>\u00a0is the first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 by a solo woman since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/adele\">Adele<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>30<\/em>\u00a0closed its six-week run atop the list dated Jan. 8. That 30-week gap between No. 1s is the longest the chart has been absent a No. 1 album billed to a solo woman since 2017, when there was a 31-week dry spell between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/lady-gaga\">Lady Gaga<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Joanne<\/em>\u00a0(one week at No. 1 on Nov. 12, 2016) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/halsey\">Halsey<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Hopeless Fountain Kingdom<\/em>\u00a0(June 24, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bad-bunny\">Bad Bunny<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Un Verano Sin Ti<\/em>&nbsp;falls to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 after seven nonconsecutive weeks atop the list (104,000 equivalent album units earned; up 7%). On the Aug. 20-dated chart, the album will benefit from its wide CD release on Aug. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ATEEZ notch their first top 10 as&nbsp;<em>The World EP.1: Movement&nbsp;<\/em>arrives at No. 3 with 50,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 47,000; SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 4.02 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s seven tracks), and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Previously, the South Korean group had gone as high as No. 42 in 2021 with&nbsp;<em>Zero: Fever Part.3<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many K-pop releases, the CD configuration of&nbsp;<em>The World EP.1<\/em>&nbsp;was issued in collectible deluxe packages (eight total, including a version exclusive to indie retailers), each with a standard set of items and randomized elements (such as photocards); 97% of the album\u2019s first-week sales were on CD. The other 3% were digital album sales (a little over 1,000). The set was not released in any other format, such as vinyl or cassette.<\/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;dips 2-4 with 49,000 equivalent album units (up 1%), and Styles\u2019 chart-topping&nbsp;<em>Harry\u2019s House<\/em>&nbsp;falls 3-5 with 46,000 units (down 4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ENHYPEN lands its first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as&nbsp;<em>Manifesto: Day 1<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 6 with 39,000 equivalent album units earned, following the set\u2019s physical release on July 29. The six-song effort was released on July 4 via streaming services and digital retailers. Of its 39,000 units earned, album sales comprise 38,000, while SEA units comprise 1,000 (equaling 1.29 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Manifesto<\/em>\u00a0is the fourth top 20-charting album for the South Korean group, which previously topped out at No. 11 with\u00a0<em>Dimension: Dilemma<\/em>\u00a0in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CD configuration of&nbsp;<em>Manifesto<\/em>&nbsp;was issued in collectible deluxe packages (11 total, including a version exclusively sold through Target), each with a standard set of items and randomized elements (like photocards). Effectively all of its sales for the week were on CD (a negligible number were sold via digital download); the set was not issued on any other physical format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$uicideboy$ score their third top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as&nbsp;<em>Sing Me a Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 7 with 37,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 33,000 (equaling 45.31 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 4,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The rap duo has previously hit the top 10 with&nbsp;<em>Long Term Effects of Suffering&nbsp;<\/em>(No. 7 in 2021) and&nbsp;<em>I Want to Die in New Orleans<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 9, 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dance Gavin Dance claims its first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as&nbsp;<em>Jackpot Juicer<\/em>&nbsp;starts at No. 8 with 33,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 25,500 (the band\u2019s best sales week ever); SEA units comprise 8,000 (equaling 10.37 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks), and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The album\u2019s first-week sales got a boost from its availability across multiple color vinyl variants, and in total, the vinyl edition of the album sold 14,000 copies (the second-biggest selling vinyl set of the week behind&nbsp;<em>Renaissance<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jackpot Juicer<\/em>&nbsp;is Dance Gavin Dance\u2019s 11th charting effort on the Billboard 200 and fifth to reach the top 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the new top 10 of the Billboard 200 are a pair of former No. 1s:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/future\">Future<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>I Never Liked You<\/em>\u00a0(falling 5-9 with 31,000 equivalent album units, down 7%) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Honestly, Nevermind<\/em>\u00a0(6-10; 29,000, down 9%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3379\" data-postid=\"3379\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3379 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: ATEEZ, ENHYPEN, $uicideboy$ and Dance Gavin Dance debut in the top 10. 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