{"id":4628,"date":"2025-07-13T22:36:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2025-07-13T22:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:36:53","slug":"morgan-wallens-im-the-problem-spends-first-two-months-at-no-1-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4628","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u2018I\u2019m the Problem\u2019 Spends First Two Months 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>Also in the top 10: The\u00a0<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack gains &amp; Toby Keith&#8217;s\u00a0<em>35 Biggest Hits<\/em>\u00a0gets a boost after Independence Day.<\/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;has spent its first two months on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;at No. 1 as the set holds atop the chart dated July 19, earning 151,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending July 10 (down 12%). The album opened at No. 1 on the May 31 chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cumulatively, Wallen\u2019s three No. 1 albums (<em>I\u2019m the Problem<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>) have spent a total of 37 weeks at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>. That sum ties him with Harry Belafonte and Drake for the fifth-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/most-weeks-at-no-1-billboard-200-taylor-swift-the-beatles\/\">most weeks at No. 1 among male artists<\/a>&nbsp;in the history of the Billboard 200 (since it began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956). Among the gents, the leaders are: Elvis Presley (67 weeks), Garth Brooks (52), Michael Jackson (51), Elton John (39), Belafonte, Drake and Wallen (37 each). Among all artists, The Beatles have the most weeks at No. 1, with 132 across 19 No. 1 albums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, the\u00a0<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack hits a new peak,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/kpop-demon-hunters-soundtrack-number-two-billboard-200-1236020272\/\">climbing 3-2 in its third week<\/a>\u00a0on the chart. Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/toby-keith\/\">Toby Keith<\/a>\u2019s chart-topping\u00a0<em>35 Biggest Hits<\/em>\u00a0surges 43-9 in the wake of streaming gains generated by Independence Day festivities.<\/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 July 19, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on July 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&nbsp;<em>I\u2019m the Problem<\/em>\u2019s 151,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 10, SEA units comprise 143,500 (down 12%, equaling 188.69 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs \u2014 it leads Top Streaming Albums for an eighth week), album sales comprise 6,500 (down 12% \u2014 it rises 11-5 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 23%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack climbs 3-2 \u2014 a new peak \u2014 in its third week, earning 75,000 equivalent album units (up 21%). It\u2019s the first soundtrack to debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and then see unit increases in its second and third weeks since the&nbsp;<em>Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2<\/em>&nbsp;album in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2020s, only four soundtracks have reached the top two on the Billboard 200:&nbsp;<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Wicked<\/em>&nbsp;(which debuted and peaked at No. 2 in 2024),&nbsp;<em>Barbie<\/em>&nbsp;(also No. 2 debut and peak, in 2023) and&nbsp;<em>Encanto<\/em>&nbsp;(nine weeks at No. 1 in 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the&nbsp;<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack\u2019s 75,000 units earned in its third week, SEA units comprise 70,000 (up 24%, equaling 96.33 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs \u2014 it holds at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 4,000 (down 6% \u2014 it rises 21-9 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the&nbsp;<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack racked up 96.33 million streams for its songs in its third week, it scores the biggest streaming week for a soundtrack in more three years. The last soundtrack to post a bigger streaming figure was&nbsp;<em>Encanto<\/em>, on the March 12, 2022-dated chart, when it rang up 101.16 million streams for its songs in its eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;premiered on June 20 in a limited theatrical release in the U.S., and on Netflix, alongside its soundtrack. In the tracking week ending July 6,&nbsp;<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;held at No. 2 in its third week on Netflix\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/top10\/united-states?week=2025-07-06\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 10 Movies in United States chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wallen\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;climbs 6-3 on the latest Billboard 200 (with 39,000 equivalent album units earned; down 2%); SZA\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;rises 7-4 (36,000; down 7%); Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>&nbsp;bumps 9-5 (35,000; up 6%); Wallen\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;ascends 11-6 (29,000; down 4%); Bad Bunny\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos&nbsp;<\/em>jumps 16-7 (nearly 29,000; up 3%); and Karol G\u2019s<em>&nbsp;Tropicoqueta&nbsp;<\/em>falls 5-8 (just under 29,000; down 29%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toby Keith\u2019s&nbsp;<em>35 Biggest Hits<\/em>&nbsp;returns to the top 10, rallying 43-9 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned (up 56%) following streaming gains generated by Independence Day celebrations. The album, released in 2008, hit No. 1 on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated chart in the wake of Keith\u2019s death that Feb. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>35 Biggest Hits<\/em>\u2019 26,000 units earned, SEA units comprise 24,000 (up 59%, equaling 32.93 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs \u2014 it jumps 43-11 on Top Streaming Albums). The rest of the album\u2019s 2,000 units were generated by album sales and TEA units. About one-third of the album\u2019s streams for the week were generated by Keith\u2019s 2002 No. 1 Hot Country Songs hit \u201cCourtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),\u201d which was also his most-streamed song of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 is PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U<\/em>, rising 17-10 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4628\" data-postid=\"4628\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4628 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also in the top 10: The\u00a0KPop Demon Hunters\u00a0soundtrack gains &amp; Toby Keith&#8217;s\u00a035 Biggest Hits\u00a0gets a boost after Independence Day. 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