{"id":4612,"date":"2025-06-23T05:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2025-06-23T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:30:34","slug":"morgan-wallens-im-the-problem-rules-billboard-200-for-fifth-straight-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4612","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u2018I\u2019m the Problem\u2019 Rules Billboard 200 for Fifth Straight\u00a0Weeks"},"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: ATEEZ, Lil Tecca and Brandon Lake debut in the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/morgan-wallen\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>I\u2019m the Problem<\/em>&nbsp;rules the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;albums chart for a fifth consecutive, and total, week, as the set holds atop the chart dated June 28. The album earned 186,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the tracking week ending June 19 (down 11%), according to Luminate. The album debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 186,000 units earned,&nbsp;<em>Problem<\/em>&nbsp;lands the largest fifth week for an album since Taylor Swift\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>&nbsp;earned 378,000 in its fifth week (June 1, 2024-dated chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Problem<\/em>&nbsp;is also the first album to spend its first five weeks at No. 1 since&nbsp;<em>Poets<\/em>&nbsp;perched in the top slot for its first 12 weeks at No. 1 (in May-July of 2024), of its total 17 weeks at No. 1.&nbsp;<em>Problem<\/em>&nbsp;is the first album by a man to spend five weeks at No. 1 (in total, or, from its debut) since Wallen\u2019s last album,&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>, spent its first 12 weeks at No. 1 (in March-June of 2023), of its total 19 weeks at No. 1.<\/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;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ateez\/\">ATEEZ<\/a>&nbsp;notch their seventh top 10 with the No. 2 debut of&nbsp;<em>GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/lil-tecca\/\">Lil Tecca<\/a>&nbsp;scores his highest charting album yet with the No. 3 launch of&nbsp;<em>DOPAMINE<\/em>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/brandon-lake\/\">Brandon Lake<\/a>&nbsp;earns his first top 10 with the No. 7 bow of&nbsp;<em>King of Hearts<\/em>.<\/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 June 28, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on June 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>I\u2019m the Problem<\/em>\u2019s 186,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 19, SEA units comprise 176,000 (down 11%, equaling 229.99 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs \u2014 it leads Top Streaming Albums for a fifth week), album sales comprise 9,000 (down 12% \u2014 it rises 9-7 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ATEEZ achieve their seventh top 10 album on the Billboard 200, as&nbsp;<em>GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 2 with 105,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 101,500 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 4.07 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s five songs) and TEA units comprise 500 units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3<\/em>&nbsp;was available in its first week across 12 CD editions, all with the same audio but with packaging variations. Some editions were signed, and all contained collectible paper ephemera, some randomized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At No. 3 on the Billboard 200, Lil Tecca scores his highest-charting album ever, and fifth top 10, as&nbsp;<em>DOPAMINE<\/em>&nbsp;debuts with 48,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 45,000 (equaling 65.31 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs \u2014 it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 3,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lil Tecca had previously gone as high as No. 4 with&nbsp;<em>We Love You Tecca<\/em>&nbsp;in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>DOPAMINE<\/em>&nbsp;was issued as a standard 17-song album via streaming services, and was available to buy as a download, CD and in five deluxe CD boxed sets (each containing a branded T-shirt and a copy of the album on CD). All of the CD iterations were exclusively sold via the artist\u2019s official webstore. In the midst of its first week, the album was reissued with four bonus tracks, and that iteration was exclusively sold as a download in his webstore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>DOPAMINE<\/em>&nbsp;was preceded by two Billboard Hot 100-charting songs: \u201cDark Thoughts\u201d (which hit No. 28 in April) and \u201cOwa Owa\u201d (No. 50 earlier this month). The former marked the second top 40-charting song for the rapper, and first since \u201cRan$om\u201d hit No. 4 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trio of former No. 1s is next on the Billboard 200, as SZA\u2019s&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;rises 5-4 (nearly 48,000 equivalent album units; up 9%), Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time&nbsp;<\/em>climbs 8-5 (40,000; up 3%), and Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>&nbsp;steps 7-6 (39,000; down 3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandon Lake notches his first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 \u2014 and first top 40-charting set \u2014 as his new project,&nbsp;<em>King of Hearts<\/em>, bows at No. 7 with 37,500 equivalent album units earned. He charted just one album previously, with the No. 135-peaking&nbsp;<em>Coat of Many Colors<\/em>&nbsp;in 2023. The new album boasts his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/brandon-lake-hot-100-debut-hard-fought-hallelujah-1235833317\/\">first Hot 100 hit<\/a>, \u201cHard Fought Hallelujah,\u201d which reached No. 40 on the May 3, 2025, chart. The track has also logged 22 weeks atop the Hot Christian Songs chart, through the most recently published chart, dated June 21. Lake has placed a total of 43 entries on that chart since his debut on the list in 2019, including six No. 1s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>King of Hearts<\/em>&nbsp;earned 37,500 units in its first week (Lake\u2019s best week by units earned). Of that sum, album sales comprise 20,000 (his best sales week ever \u2014 it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 16,500 (equaling 22.06 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs \u2014 it debuts at No. 30 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>King of Hearts<\/em>&nbsp;additionally logs the largest week, by units, for a Christian music-genre album in three-and-a-half years, since Ye\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Donda<\/em>&nbsp;earned 38,000 units on the Oct. 16, 2021-dated chart.&nbsp;<em>King of Hearts<\/em>&nbsp;is the highest-charting Christian music album \u2014 and first top 10 \u2014 since for KING + COUNTRY\u2019s&nbsp;<em>What Are We Waiting For?<\/em>&nbsp;debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the March 26, 2022-dated chart. (Christian music albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on,&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Top Christian Albums chart.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>King of Hearts<\/em>&nbsp;was issued as a standard 16-song album (via streamers, as a widely available digital download album and on CD and vinyl). He also sold a signed CD via his webstore and Walmart carried a version of the album on CD with a bonus track. During the album\u2019s first week, it was issued in a deluxe edition, widely via streamers and digital download services, which added eight bonus tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 are Kendrick Lamar\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>GNX<\/em>&nbsp;(rising 10-8 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned; down 6%), Wallen\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;(bumping 13-9 with 32,000; up 6%) and PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake\u2019s&nbsp;<em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U&nbsp;<\/em>(11-10 with 30,500; down 7%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4612\" data-postid=\"4612\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4612 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: ATEEZ, Lil Tecca and Brandon Lake debut in the top 10. 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