{"id":4500,"date":"2025-03-02T20:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T20:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2025-03-02T20:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T20:37:32","slug":"tate-mcrae-earns-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-so-close-to-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4500","title":{"rendered":"Tate McRae Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 \u2018So Close to\u00a0What\u2019"},"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>The set launches with the biggest debut week for a studio album by a woman in five months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/tate-mcrae\">Tate McRae<\/a>\u00a0scores her first No. 1 album on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0chart as her third full-length studio set,\u00a0<em>So Close to What<\/em>, debuts atop the list dated March 8. It arrives with 177,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 27, according to Luminate \u2014 marking the biggest debut week, by units, for a studio album by a woman in five months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the second top 10-charting effort for the singer-songwriter, who previously visited the region with the No. 4-peaking\u00a0<em>Think Later<\/em>\u00a0in December 2023. The album generated a trio of charted songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including the No. 3-peaking \u201cGreedy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>So Close to What<\/em>\u00a0was announced in November 2024 and its release was preceded by three charted titles on the Hot 100, including a pair of top 40 hits: \u201cIt\u2019s OK I\u2019m OK\u201d (No. 20, September 2024) and \u201cSports Car\u201d (No. 21 in February).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0chart 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 8, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on March 4. 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>So Close to What<\/em>\u2019s 177,000 first-week equivalent album units, SEA units comprise 105,000 (equaling 137.30 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs; McRae\u2019s biggest streaming week ever, and it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 71,000 (her best sales week ever, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With&nbsp;<em>So Close to What<\/em>\u2019s launch of 177,000 equivalent album units, the set tallies the biggest debut week for a studio album by a woman since Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>&nbsp;bowed at No. 1 with 362,000 units on the Sept. 7, 2024-dated chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>So Close to What<\/em>\u2019s streaming activity was led by the tracks \u201cSports Car,\u201d \u201cRevolving Door,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s OK I\u2019m OK\u201d and \u201cDear God,\u201d which collectively comprise a little more than a third of the album\u2019s total streams for the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>So Close to What<\/em>&nbsp;was released across an array of permutations and variants. It was issued as a standard 11-song digital download album, a 13-song physical set (on CD, cassette and vinyl), a 15-song digital download and streaming edition, a 16-song digital download and streaming set, and an 18-song digital download sold exclusively in McRae\u2019s webstore. Each variation of the album beyond the 11-song set contained the core 11 songs found on the standard edition, as well as additional tracks (which varied depending on the version).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album\u2019s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across four download variants (three widely available, and one exclusive to the artist\u2019s webstore), three CD variants (including one signed), seven vinyl variants (including two signed editions) and a cassette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McRae ushered in the release of the new album with an appearance on NBC\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em>, along with interviews with Apple Music\u2019s Zane Lowe, iHeartRadio and&nbsp;<em>Allure<\/em>, among other outlets. The performer\u2019s Miss Possessive Tour kicks off on March 18 in Mexico City and has dates scheduled through Nov. 8 in Inglewood, Calif. McRae will play more than 80 dates in over 20 countries on three continents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the rest of the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 chart, it\u2019s a quiet week, as McRae\u2019s set is the lone new arrival in the region.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/partynextdoor\/\">PARTYNEXTDOOR<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\/\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U<\/em>&nbsp;falls to No. 2 in its second week, earning 119,000 equivalent album units (down 52%). The next five titles on the Billboard 200 are all former No. 1s: Kendrick Lamar\u2019s&nbsp;<em>GNX<\/em>&nbsp;holds at No. 3 (106,000 units; down 22%); SZA\u2019s&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover at No. 4 (82,000; down 13%); Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>&nbsp;slips 2-5 (76,000; down 51%); Bad Bunny\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos&nbsp;<\/em>falls 5-6 (63,000; down 6%); and The Weeknd\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hurry Up Tomorrow&nbsp;<\/em>drops 6-7 (50,000; down 14%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chappell Roan\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess<\/em>\u00a0dips 7-8 (46,000 equivalent album units; down 5%), Morgan Wallen\u2019s chart-topping\u00a0<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>\u00a0is stationary at No. 9 (41,000; up 4%), and Billie Eilish\u2019s\u00a0<em>Hit Me Hard and Soft<\/em>\u00a0falls 8-10 (nearly 41,000; down 11%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4500\" data-postid=\"4500\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4500 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The set launches with the biggest debut week for a studio album by a woman in five months. 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