{"id":3895,"date":"2023-09-11T05:43:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T05:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2023-09-11T05:43:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T05:43:40","slug":"zach-bryan-spends-second-week-atop-billboard-200-with-self-titled-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=3895","title":{"rendered":"Zach Bryan Spends Second Week Atop Billboard 200 with Self-Titled\u00a0Album"},"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<p>Plus, three country albums are in the top four of the chart for the first time in over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/zach-bryan\">Zach Bryan<\/a>\u2019s self-titled album spends a second week atop&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart (dated Sept. 16), as the set earned 115,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 7 (down 42%) according to Luminate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the top 10 of the latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard\/\">Billboard<\/a>\u00a0200 chart, the late\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/jimmy-buffett\/\">Jimmy Buffett<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rock\/jimmy-buffett-dead-margaritaville-singer-songwriter-dies-76-1235333726\/\">died<\/a>\u00a0on Sept. 1 \u2014 returns to the top five as his best-of collection\u00a0<em>Songs You Know by Heart: Jimmy Buffett\u2019s Greatest Hit(s)<\/em>\u00a0re-enters the list at No. 4. It marks the album\u2019s highest rank ever \u2014 and first week in the top 10, or even top 40, dating to its release in 1985 \u2014 and Buffett\u2019s 13th top 10-charting album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;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 Sept. 16, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Sept. 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Zach Bryan<\/em>\u2019s 115,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 7, SEA units comprise 111,000 (down 77%, equaling 144.08 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s 16 songs), album sales comprise 3,000 (down 50%), and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 36%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bryan\u2019s genre-blending album is categorized as country, Americana\/folk and rock on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/charts\/\">charts<\/a>. It is the first rock effort to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in seven years \u2014 since the&nbsp;<em>Suicide Squad<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack logged its first two weeks at No. 1 (Aug. 27-Sept. 3, 2016 charts). It\u2019s the first Americana\/folk project to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 since Chris Stapleton\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Traveller<\/em>&nbsp;also ruled in its first two frames in 2015 (Nov. 21 and 28). Country, Americana\/folk and rock albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on,&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Top Country Albums, Americana\/Folk Albums and Top Rock Albums charts, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pair of former No. 1s trails Bryan, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/morgan-wallen\/\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>\u00a0climbs 3-2 (84,000 equivalent album units; up 1%) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/travis-scott\/\">Travis Scott<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Utopia<\/em>\u00a0dips 2-3 (72,000; down 21%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The late Buffett\u2019s first best-of compilation, the 1985 release&nbsp;<em>Songs You Know by Heart: Jimmy Buffett\u2019s Greatest Hit(s)<\/em>, re-enters the Billboard 200 at a new peak of No. 4. The album initially peaked at No. 100 the year of its release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the tracking week ending Sept. 7,&nbsp;<em>Songs You Know by Heart<\/em>&nbsp;earned 52,000 equivalent album units (up 2,122%) following the singer-songwriter\u2019s death on Sept. 1 at age 76. It marks the 13th top 10-charting album for&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/jimmy-buffett-billboard-magazine-alumnus-interview-1235405539\/\">most famous alumnus<\/a>. Buffett was a Nashville-based reporter for&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;in 1969-70, before the release of his first album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Songs You Know by Heart<\/em>\u00a0contains Buffett\u2019s only Billboard Hot 100 top 10-charting hit, \u201cMargaritaville,\u201d which reached No. 8 in 1977. It also houses the top 40-charting tunes \u201cChanges in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes,\u201d \u201cCheeseburger in Paradise,\u201d \u201cCome Monday\u201d and \u201cFins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Bryan\u2019s latest album, Buffett\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Songs You Know by Heart<\/em>&nbsp;is also categorized as a country, Americana\/folk and rock album. In turn, with Wallen\u2019s own country set&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;at No. 2, there are three country albums in the top four on the Billboard 200 for the first time in over a decade. The feat last happened when the entire top three were country efforts on the Nov. 20, 2010-dated list, with Swift\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Speak Now<\/em>, Jason Aldean\u2019s&nbsp;<em>My Kinda Party<\/em>&nbsp;and Sugarland\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Incredible Machine<\/em>&nbsp;at Nos. 1-3, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s chart-topping\u00a0<em>Midnights<\/em>\u00a0falls 4-5 on the new Billboard 200 (45,000 equivalent album units; down 8%),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/sza\/\">SZA<\/a>\u2019s former leader\u00a0<em>SOS<\/em>\u00a0descends 5-6 (nearly 45,000; down 7%), the\u00a0<em>Barbie<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack drops 6-7 (42,000; down 11%),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/peso-pluma\/\">Peso Pluma<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>G\u00e9nesis<\/em>\u00a0slips 7-8 (42,000; down 3%), Swift\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>Lover<\/em>\u00a0falls 8-9 (41,000; down 3%), and Wallen\u2019s chart-topping\u00a0<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>\u00a0is a non-mover at No. 10 (nearly 41,000; up 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3895\" data-postid=\"3895\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3895 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, three country albums are in the top four of the chart for the first time in over a decade. 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