{"id":3524,"date":"2022-11-20T22:20:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T22:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2022-11-20T22:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T22:20:02","slug":"taylor-swifts-midnights-returns-to-no-1-on-billboard-200-for-third-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3524","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018Midnights\u2019 Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 for Third\u00a0Week"},"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: Louis Tomlinson, Bruce Springsteen and Nas debut in top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Midnights<\/em>\u00a0returns to No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0albums chart (dated Nov. 26) for a third nonconsecutive week on top, as the set rebounds 2-1 in its fourth week on the list. It earned 204,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 17 (down 32%), according to Luminate. The album spent its first two weeks\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-midnights-number-one-billboard-200-2nd-week-1235167312\/#:~:text=Taylor%20Swift%27s%20Midnights%20easily,in%20the%20week%20ending%20Nov.\">atop the list<\/a>, then stepped aside for one week when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\/\">Drake<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/21-savage\/\">21 Savage<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Her Loss<\/em>\u00a0bowed at No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Midnights<\/em>\u00a0is the first album to earn at least 200,000 units in each of its first four weeks of release since Adele\u2019s\u00a0<em>25<\/em>\u00a0saw its first six weeks reach 200,000-plus (Dec. 12, 2015\u2013Jan. 16, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard\/\">Billboard<\/a>&nbsp;200\u2019s top 10:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/louis-tomlinson\/\">Louis Tomlinson<\/a>&nbsp;lands his highest charting album with the No. 5 debut of&nbsp;<em>Faith in the Future<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/bruce-springsteen\/\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a>&nbsp;achieves his 22nd top 10-charting effort with the No. 8 arrival of&nbsp;<em>Only the Strong Survive<\/em>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/nas\/\">Nas<\/a>&nbsp;captures his 16th top 10 with&nbsp;<em>King\u2019s Disease III<\/em>\u2019s bow at No. 10.<\/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 Nov. 26, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Tuesday (Nov. 22). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Midnights<\/em>\u2019 204,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 140,000 (down 19%, equaling 184.04 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 60,000 (down 36%) and SEA units comprise 4,000 (down 88%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/drake-21-savage-her-loss-debut-number-one-billboard-200-album-chart-1235170474\/\">debuting at No. 1<\/a>, Drake and 21 Savage\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Her Loss<\/em>&nbsp;falls to No. 2 in its second week with 170,000 equivalent album units earned (down 58%). Two fellow former No. 1s are next on the list, as Bad Bunny\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Un Verano Sin Ti<\/em>&nbsp;rises 4-3 (56,000; down 3%) and Lil Baby\u2019s&nbsp;<em>It\u2019s Only Me<\/em>&nbsp;dips 3-4 (52,000; down 15%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomlinson\u2019s second solo album,\u00a0<em>Faith in the Future<\/em>, debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, securing the pop artist his highest-charting effort and his best week yet in terms of both equivalent album units earned (43,000) and traditional album sales (37,500). It surpasses his previous high-water mark, logged with the No. 9 debut and peak of his first album\u00a0<em>Walls<\/em>\u00a0(Feb. 15, 2020, chart; 39,000 units \u2014 of which album sales comprised 35,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As album sales comprise 37,500 of&nbsp;<em>Faith<\/em>\u2019s total first-week units, the remainder consists of SEA units (5,500; equaling 7.27 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks) and a negligible amount of TEA units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Faith<\/em>\u2019s first-week sales figure was bolstered by its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/taylor-swift-drake-nas-springsteen-no-1-album-1235172252\/\">availability<\/a>&nbsp;across multiple collectible physical variants of the album. The set was preceded by the single \u201cBigger Than Me,\u201d which became Tomlinson\u2019s fourth solo hit on the Pop Airplay chart (outside his tenure in One Direction).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morgan Wallen\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover on the Billboard 200 at No. 6 (41,000 equivalent album units earned; down 1%) while The Weeknd\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;is also steady at No. 7 (40,000; up 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Springsteen achieves his 22 nd top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 as his new covers set,&nbsp;<em>Only the Strong Survive<\/em>, debuts at No. 8 with 39,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise 36,500, SEA units comprise 2,000 (equaling 2.87 million on-demand streams of the set\u2019s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000. The soul and R&amp;B covers collection includes Springsteen\u2019s takes on such oldies as The Commodores\u2019 \u201cNight Shift,\u201d Jimmy Ruffin\u2019s \u201cWhat Becomes of the Brokenhearted\u201d and Diana Ross &amp; The Supremes\u2019 \u201cSomeday We\u2019ll Be Together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a 22nd top 10 album on the Billboard 200, Springsteen now solely has the eighth-most top 10s overall and the sixth-most top 10s among solo artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s an updated look at all the acts with at least 20 top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 from March 24, 1956, when the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis, through the latest chart, dated Nov. 26, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Billboard 200 Top 10s:<br>37, The Rolling Stones<br>34, Barbra Streisand<br>32, The Beatles<br>32, Frank Sinatra<br>27, Elvis Presley<br>23, Bob Dylan<br>23, Madonna<br>22, Bruce Springsteen<br>21, Elton John<br>21, Paul McCartney\/Wings<br>21, George Strait<br>20, Prince<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Notably, the Kidz Bop Kids&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/music\/\">music<\/a>&nbsp;brand has collected 24 top 10s, in 2005-16, with its series of kid-friendly covers of hit singles. The franchise\u2019s early albums were performed by mostly anonymous studio singers, although later releases focused on branding named talent.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry Styles\u2019 former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Harry\u2019s House<\/em>&nbsp;drops 8-9 on the new Billboard 200 with 30,000 equivalent album units (down less than 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nas rounds out the top 10 as his latest release&nbsp;<em>King\u2019s Disease III<\/em>&nbsp;starts at No. 10 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 20,000 (equaling 26.47 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 8,500 and TEA units comprise 500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>King\u2019s Disease III<\/em>&nbsp;is the third in the&nbsp;<em>King\u2019s Disease<\/em>&nbsp;series \u2014 the first two albums debuted and peaked at Nos. 5 and 3 in 2020 and 2021, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>King\u2019s Disease III<\/em>\u00a0marks Nas\u2019 16th top 10 on the Billboard 200, tying him with Jay-Z for the most top 10s among rap artists. Nas\u2019 first top 10 came with\u00a0<em>It Was Written<\/em>\u00a0in 1996 (No. 1 for four weeks). Jay-Z logged his first top 10 in 1997 with\u00a0<em>In My Lifetime, Vol. 1<\/em>\u00a0(No. 3) and last notched a new top 10 set with\u00a0<em>4:44<\/em>\u00a0in 2017 (No. 1 for two weeks).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3524\" data-postid=\"3524\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3524 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Louis Tomlinson, Bruce Springsteen and Nas debut in top 10. Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a0Midnights\u00a0returns to No. 1 on the\u00a0Billboard 200\u00a0albums chart (dated Nov. 26) for a third nonconsecutive week on top, as the set rebounds 2-1 in its fourth week on the list. 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