{"id":4552,"date":"2025-04-13T21:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T21:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4552"},"modified":"2025-04-13T21:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T21:16:03","slug":"playboi-cartis-music-moves-back-to-no-1-on-billboard-200-for-third-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4552","title":{"rendered":"Playboi Carti\u2019s \u2018MUSIC\u2019 Moves Back 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<p>Plus: Elton John and Brandi Carlile&#8217;s &#8220;Who Believes in Angels?&#8221; and Ethel Cain&#8217;s &#8220;Preacher&#8217;s Daughter&#8221; debut in the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/playboi-carti\">Playboi Carti<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>MUSIC<\/em>\u00a0returns to No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0albums chart (dated April 19), rising one spot, with 64,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 10, according to Luminate. Of that sum, 96% was driven by streaming activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With\u00a0<em>MUSIC<\/em>\u00a0earning 64,000 units in the latest tracking week, that marks the smallest weekly sum for a No. 1 album in over a year, since the Jan. 20, 2024-dated chart, when Morgan Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>\u00a0was tops with 61,000 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the top 10 of the latest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/elton-john\/\">Elton John<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/brandi-carlile\/\">Brandi Carlile<\/a>\u2019s first collaborative album,&nbsp;<em>Who Believes in Angels?<\/em>, debuts at No. 9, while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ethel-cain\/\">Ethel Cain<\/a>\u2019s 2022 set&nbsp;<em>Preacher\u2019s Daughter<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 10 following its vinyl release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 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 April 19, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on April 15. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 64,000 equivalent album units earned by&nbsp;<em>MUSIC<\/em>&nbsp;in the week ending April 10, SEA units comprise 61,500 (down 27%; equaling 84.61 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs; it\u2019s No. 1 for a fourth week on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 2,500 (down 59%; it falls 11-33 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum (down 44%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next seven titles on the Billboard 200 are all former No. 1s. Ariana Grande\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Eternal Sunshine<\/em>&nbsp;falls to No. 2 (56,500 equivalent album units; down 59%); PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake\u2019s&nbsp;<em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U<\/em>&nbsp;rises 5-3 (56,000; down 3%); SZA\u2019s&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;steps 6-4 (54,000; down 4%); Kendrick Lamar\u2019s&nbsp;<em>GNX<\/em>&nbsp;dips 4-5 (53,000; down 9%); Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>&nbsp;rises 7-6 (49,000; down 2%); Morgan Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;climbs 10-7 (44,500; down less than 1%); and Bad Bunny\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos&nbsp;<\/em>is a non-mover at No. 8 (42,500; down 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elton John and Brandi Carlile\u2019s first collaborative album,&nbsp;<em>Who Believes in Angels?<\/em>, debuts at No. 9 on the Billboard 200, marking the 22nd top 10 set for John and the fourth for Carlile. The set earned 40,000 equivalent album units in its opening week. Of that sum, album sales comprise 36,500 (it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 2,500 (equaling 3.54 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs) and TEA units comprise 500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John and Carlile ushered in the release of the album with a flurry of media appearances, including&nbsp;<em>CBS News Sunday Morning<\/em>&nbsp;(CBS, March 30),&nbsp;<em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em>&nbsp;(April 3),&nbsp;<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>&nbsp;(NBC, April 5) and the concert special&nbsp;<em>An Evening With Elton John and Brandi Carlile<\/em>&nbsp;(CBS and Paramount+, April 6), along with interviews with Apple Music\u2019s Zane Lowe, NPR and SiriusXM\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Howard Stern Show<\/em>, among other outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John earned his first Billboard 200 top 10 a little over 54 years ago, when his self-titled album climbed 11-7 on the Jan. 30, 1971-dated chart; it peaked at No. 4 a week later (Feb. 6, 1971).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/breaking\/\">Breaking<\/a>&nbsp;down John\u2019s 22 top 10s by decade: 13 in the 1970s, two in the 1990s, one in the 2000s, four in the 2010s and two in the 2020s.&nbsp;<em>Who Believes in Angels?<\/em>&nbsp;is John\u2019s second album with shared artist billing to reach the top 10, following&nbsp;<em>The Union<\/em>, with Leon Russell, which reached No. 3 in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John continues to be among elite company of acts with at least 20 top 10-charting albums on the Billboard 200, from March 24, 1956, when the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis, through the new, April 19, 2025-dated chart. Here\u2019s an updated leaderboard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most Billboard 200 Top 10s:<\/strong><br>38, The Rolling Stones<br>34, Barbra Streisand<br>33, Frank Sinatra<br>32, The Beatles<br>27, Elvis Presley<br>23, Bob Dylan<br>23, Madonna<br>22, Elton John<br>22, Bruce Springsteen<br>21, Paul McCartney\/Wings<br>21, George Strait<br>20, Prince<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, the Kidz Bop Kids music 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 mostly by anonymous studio singers, although later releases focused on branding named talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 is a debut at No. 10 for singer-songwriter Ethel Cain\u2019s 2022 album&nbsp;<em>Preacher\u2019s Daughter<\/em>. The set jumps onto the list with 39,000 equivalent album units earned (its best week yet), with 37,000 of that sum driven by album sales (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales). SEA units comprise 2,000 of the set\u2019s total for the week (equaling 2.77 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs), while TEA units comprise a negligible sum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album was released on vinyl for the first time on April 4, marking its first release on any physical format. It had previously only been available to purchase as a digital download, and via streaming services. Vinyl sales comprise essentially all of the set\u2019s 37,000 copies sold in the latest tracking week \u2013 the sixth-largest sales week for a vinyl album in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since its release in May 2022, the album\u2019s songs have collected 229.73 million on-demand official streams in the U.S. The No. 10 debut of&nbsp;<em>Preacher\u2019s Daughter<\/em>&nbsp;marks Cain\u2019s second appearance on any&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;chart, following a one-week appearance on the now-defunct TikTok Billboard Top 50 in January with the album\u2019s \u201cStrangers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4552\" data-postid=\"4552\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4552 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Elton John and Brandi Carlile&#8217;s &#8220;Who Believes in Angels?&#8221; and Ethel Cain&#8217;s &#8220;Preacher&#8217;s Daughter&#8221; debut in the top 10. 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