{"id":4488,"date":"2025-02-23T20:27:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T20:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2025-02-23T20:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T20:27:49","slug":"partynextdoor-drakes-ome-exy-ongs-4-u-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4488","title":{"rendered":"PARTYNEXTDOOR &amp; Drake\u2019s \u2018$ome $exy $ongs 4 U\u2019 Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard\u00a0200"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>It&#8217;s the first No. 1 for PARTYNEXTDOOR and 14th for Drake, tying him for the most among soloists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/partynextdoor\">PARTYNEXTDOOR<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s first collaborative album,\u00a0<em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U,<\/em>\u00a0debuts atop the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0chart (dated March 1), earning 246,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 20, according to Luminate. It\u2019s the first leader for PARTYNEXTDOOR and fourth top 10 charting set. It\u2019s 14th No. 1 for Drake among 17 top 10s. Drake now ties\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/jay-z\">JAY-Z<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u00a0for the most No. 1s among soloists in the nearly-69-year\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/happy-birthday-billboard-200-chart-album\/\">history<\/a>\u00a0of the chart. Overall, only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/the-beatles\">The Beatles<\/a>, with 19 No. 1s, have more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A collaborative project from PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake had been teased for months, but was only officially&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/drake-partynextdoor-album-sexy-songs-for-u-release-date-1235891233\/\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;on Feb. 3, in advance of its release on Feb. 14.<\/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 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 March 1, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Feb. 25. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U<\/em>\u2019s 246,000 first-week equivalent album units, SEA units comprise 219,000 (equaling 287.04 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 25,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 2,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 287.04 million on-demand official streams generated of its songs,<em>&nbsp;$ome $exy $ongs 4 U&nbsp;<\/em>nets the largest streaming week for an album in 2025. It\u2019s the largest streaming week for any album since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/kendrick-lamar\/\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>GNX<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=kendrick+lamar%2C+no.+1+billboard+200%2C+billboard.com&amp;oq=kendrick+lamar%2C+no.+1+billboard+200%2C+billboard.com&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjIICAQQABgWGB4yCggFEAAYChgWGB4yCAgGEAAYFhgeMg0IBxAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0ICBAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0ICRAAGIYDGIAEGIoF0gEJMTIwMjRqMGo3qAIAsAIA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debuted at No. 1<\/a>&nbsp;on the Dec. 7, 2024, chart with 379.72 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of Lamar,&nbsp;<em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U&nbsp;<\/em>is Drake\u2019s first album since the feud between him and Lamar escalated in March 2024 with the release of \u201cLike That\u201d by Future, Metro Boomin and Lamar. A flurry of diss tracks followed from each artist, with Lamar\u2019s \u201cNot Like Us\u201d finding the most commercial success, spending three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (including a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/kendrick-lamar-not-like-us-hot-100-number-one-third-week\/\">return to the top a week ago<\/a>&nbsp;after he performed the track during his Super Bowl LIX halftime show on Feb. 9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U\u00a0<\/em>replaces Lamar\u2019s<em>\u00a0GNX\u00a0<\/em>atop the Billboard 200, as the latter falls to No. 3 after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/kendrick-lamar-gnx-returns-number-one-billboard-200-super-bowl-1235903744\/\">returning to No. 1<\/a>\u00a0a week ago in the wake of the halftime show. It\u2019s the first time Lamar and Drake have swapped the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200. This is also only the third time Lamar and Drake have been in the top three at the same time on the Billboard 200. They previously shared space in the top three on the May 13, 2017, chart, when Lamar\u2019s\u00a0<em>DAMN.<\/em>\u00a0was in its second week at No. 1 and Drake\u2019s former leader\u00a0<em>More Life<\/em>\u00a0was No. 2, and on the May 6, 2017, chart, when\u00a0<em>DAMN.<\/em>\u00a0debuted at No. 1 and\u00a0<em>More Life<\/em>\u00a0was No. 3. (<em>DAMN.<\/em>\u00a0spent four nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in May-August 2017 and\u00a0<em>More Life<\/em>\u00a0had three weeks at No. 1, consecutively, in April 2017.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U&nbsp;<\/em>is the first collaborative No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2025. There were three collab No. 1s in 2024, none in 2023, one in 2022, one in 2021 and one in 2020. Of Drake\u2019s 14 leaders, three are collaborative sets. He previously led with the collab projects&nbsp;<em>Her Loss<\/em>&nbsp;(with 21 Savage in 2022) and&nbsp;<em>What a Time to Be Alive&nbsp;<\/em>(with Future in 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the new Billboard 200 chart,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/sabrina-carpenter\/\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>&nbsp;surges 7-2 with 156,000 equivalent album units earned (up 208%) following its reissue with five additional tracks on Feb. 14. The set was reissued on streamers, as well as at retail as a digital download, CD, cassette and two vinyl variants. One of the additional cuts on the reissue is a reworked version of Carpenter\u2019s solo No. 1 Hot 100 hit \u201cPlease Please Please,\u201d now rerecorded as a collaboration featuring Dolly Parton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 156,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week,&nbsp;<em>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>&nbsp;snags its biggest week since it debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated Sept. 7, 2024, with 362,000. Of the album\u2019s 156,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 83,000 (up 108%, equaling 111.95 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs; it climbs 7-4 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 71,000 (up 616%; it rises 6-1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 2,000 (up 198%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SZA\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;falls 2-4 on the Billboard 200 with 93,000 equivalent album units earned (down 14%); Bad Bunny\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos&nbsp;<\/em>dips 4-5 with 67,000 units (down 14%); and The Weeknd\u2019s chart-topping<em>&nbsp;Hurry Up Tomorrow&nbsp;<\/em>descends 3-6 with 58,000 units (down 42%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chappell Roan\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess<\/em>&nbsp;slips 5-7 on the Billboard 200 (49,000 equivalent album units earned; down 17%); Billie Eilish\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hit Me Hard and Soft<\/em>&nbsp;drops 6-8 (46,000; down 18%); Morgan Wallen\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;dips 8-9 (39,000; down 5%); and Lamar\u2019s&nbsp;<em>DAMN.&nbsp;<\/em>falls 9-10 (33,000; down 14%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4488\" data-postid=\"4488\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4488 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the first No. 1 for PARTYNEXTDOOR and 14th for Drake, tying him for the most among soloists. 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