{"id":3556,"date":"2022-12-04T21:52:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T21:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2022-12-04T21:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T21:52:20","slug":"taylor-swifts-midnights-no-1-on-billboard-200-for-fifth-week-holiday-albums-jingle-into-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3556","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018Midnights\u2019 No. 1 on Billboard 200 for Fifth Week, Holiday Albums Jingle into Top\u00a010"},"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\">Nat King Cole&#8217;s &#8216;The Christmas Song&#8217; and Vince Guaraldi Trio&#8217;s &#8216;A Charlie Brown Christmas&#8217; return to top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/midnights\/\">Midnights<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;logs a fifth week atop the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;albums chart (dated Dec. 10), while a flurry of holiday albums jingles in the top 10.&nbsp;<em>Midnights<\/em>&nbsp;earned 151,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week ending Dec. 1 in the U.S. (down 15%), according to Luminate. The last Swift album with more weeks at No. 1 is&nbsp;<em>Folklore<\/em>, which notched eight nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2020. Since then, she\u2019s claimed four more chart-topping albums:&nbsp;<em>Evermore<\/em>&nbsp;(four weeks at No. 1 in 2020-21),&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;(two weeks, 2021),&nbsp;<em>Red (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;(one week in 2021) and&nbsp;<em>Midnights<\/em>&nbsp;(five weeks so far).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the top 10, catalog holiday albums powered by streaming activity make waves as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/michael-buble\/\">Michael Bubl\u00e9\u2019<\/a>s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Christmas<\/em>&nbsp;rises 10-4,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/nat-king-cole\/\">Nat King Cole<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Christmas Song<\/em>&nbsp;vaults 18-8 and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/vince-guaraldi-trio\/\">Vince Guaraldi<\/a>&nbsp;Trio\u2019s&nbsp;<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack jumps 17-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard\/\">Billboard<\/a>&nbsp;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 Dec. 10, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Tuesday (Dec. 6). 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 151,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 89,000 (down 24%, equaling 117.93 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 60,000 (up 5%) and SEA units comprise 2,000 (down 6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five former No. 1s are Nos. 2-6 on the latest Billboard 200 chart. Drake and 21 Savage\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Her Loss<\/em>&nbsp;holds at No. 2 (93,000 equivalent album units earned; down 22%), Bad Bunny\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Un Verano Sin Ti<\/em>&nbsp;is stationary at No. 3 (52,000 units; down 7%), Bubl\u00e9\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Christmas<\/em>&nbsp;climbs 10-4 (47,000 units; up 55%), Lil Baby\u2019s&nbsp;<em>It\u2019s Only Me<\/em>&nbsp;falls 4-5 (43,000 units; down 10%) and Morgan Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album&nbsp;<\/em>dips 5-6 (40,000 units; down 3%). The Weeknd\u2019s compilation<em>&nbsp;The Highlights<\/em>&nbsp;descends 6-7 with 40,000 units (up 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cole\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Christmas Song<\/em>&nbsp;rises 18-8 with 36,000 equivalent album units (up 58%). The album, which includes such seasonal favorites like the title track and \u201cO Holy Night,\u201d peaked at No. 6 two holiday seasons ago, on the Jan. 2, 2021-dated chart. Harry Styles\u2019 chart-topping&nbsp;<em>Harry\u2019s House<\/em>&nbsp;falls 8-9 with 35,000 units (up 5%). Guaraldi Trio\u2019s&nbsp;<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack jumps 17-10 with 33,000 units (up 45%). The seasonal set peaked at No. 6 nearly a year ago on the Jan. 1, 2022-dated list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3556\" data-postid=\"3556\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3556 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nat King Cole&#8217;s &#8216;The Christmas Song&#8217; and Vince Guaraldi Trio&#8217;s &#8216;A Charlie Brown Christmas&#8217; return to top 10. Taylor Swift\u2019s&nbsp;Midnights&nbsp;logs a fifth week atop the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;albums chart (dated Dec. 10), while a flurry of holiday albums jingles in the top 10.&nbsp;Midnights&nbsp;earned 151,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week ending Dec. 1 in the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-now","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","no-post-comment","no-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/02-taylor-swift-midnights-cr-Beth-Garrabrant-billboard-15481.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}