{"id":4660,"date":"2025-08-24T19:12:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:12:27","slug":"morgan-wallens-im-the-problem-makes-it-a-dozen-weeks-at-no-1-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4660","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u2018I\u2019m the Problem\u2019 Makes It a Dozen Weeks 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>Plus: Conan Gray scores his highest-charting album, while Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift surge back into 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;notches its 12th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>&nbsp;chart (dated Aug. 30). The set earned 121,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Aug. 21 (down 4%), according to Luminate.&nbsp;<em>I\u2019m the Problem<\/em>&nbsp;debuted at No. 1 on the May 31-dated chart, spent it first eight weeks in the pole position, stepped away from the top for two weeks and then returned to No. 1 for four weeks running.<\/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\/conan-gray\/\">Conan Gray<\/a>&nbsp;scores his highest-charting album yet as&nbsp;<em>Wishbone<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 3,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/billie-eilish\/\">Billie Eilish<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hit Me Hard and Soft<\/em>&nbsp;jumps back into the top 10 after a new one-year anniversary vinyl variant was released, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/taylor-swift\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em><em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em><\/em>&nbsp;returns to the top 10 following the buzz surrounding the announcement of her upcoming&nbsp;<em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>&nbsp;album.<\/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 Aug. 30, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Aug. 26. 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 121,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 21, SEA units comprise 116,000 (down 4%, equaling 154.02 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs \u2014 it leads Top Streaming Albums for a 13th nonconsecutive week), album sales comprise 4,000 (up 1%; it moves 21-17 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 1%).<\/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 41 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. That puts him in second place for the most weeks at No. 1 this century, surpassing Adele\u2019s 40 weeks on top. Only Taylor Swift, with 86 weeks at No. 1 since 2000, has more. Before<em>&nbsp;I\u2019m the Problem<\/em>\u2019s 12 weeks at No. 1,&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;ruled for 19 nonconsecutive weeks in 2023-34 and&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;was tops for 10 straight weeks in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;soundtrack holds at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 108,000 equivalent album units earned (up 3%). The album debuted at No. 8 nine weeks ago and has never left the top 10. The last soundtrack to spend its first nine weeks in the top 10 was&nbsp;<em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>&nbsp;in 2015, which spent its first 14 weeks in the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further,&nbsp;<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;has spent five nonconsecutive weeks at No. 2 \u2014 its peak to date. The last soundtrack to spend at least five weeks at No. 2, without reaching No. 1, was&nbsp;<em>Forrest Gump<\/em>&nbsp;in 1994, which notched five straight frames in the runner-up spot (behind another soundtrack,&nbsp;<em>The Lion King). KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>&nbsp;is likely to sport further gains on next week\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/charts\/\">charts<\/a>, with the Netflix film getting a wide release in movie theaters for a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/kpop-demon-hunters-sing-along-box-office-first-netflix-win-1236352043\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sing-a-long<\/a>&nbsp;event this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conan Gray scores his highest-charting album ever on the Billboard 200 as&nbsp;<em>Wishbone<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 3. It launches with 71,000 equivalent album units earned \u2014 his best week by units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 53,000 (his best sales week yet \u2014 it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 18,000 (equaling 23.71 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs; it debuts at No. 27 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The set\u2019s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across seven CD variants (including signed editions) and seven vinyl editions (some signed) and a standard digital download edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gray previously hit the top 10 of the Billboard 200 twice, with&nbsp;<em>Superache<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 9 in 2022) and&nbsp;<em>Kid Krow<\/em>&nbsp;(No. 5 in 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Wishbone<\/em>&nbsp;was preceded by its single \u201cVodka Cranberry,\u201d which peaked at No. 38 on the Pop Airplay chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/gunna\/\">Gunna<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Last Wun<\/em>&nbsp;falls one spot to No. 4 on its second week on the Billboard 200 (48,000 equivalent album units, down 40%), while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/alex-warren\/\">Alex Warren<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>You\u2019ll Be Alright, Kid&nbsp;<\/em>is steady at its No. 5 high for a second week (nearly 40,000 units, down 6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Billie Eilish\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hit Me Hard and Soft<\/em>&nbsp;rallies 24-6 after the release of a one-year anniversary vinyl edition of the album. The set, counting all versions of the album, including the new vinyl variant, earned 38,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week (up 64%). Of that sum, vinyl sales accounted for nearly 18,000. The anniversary edition of the vinyl was pressed on bio-vinyl dark blue and orange splatter with its cover printed on silver mirror foil board and contains a poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hit Me Hard and Soft<\/em>, which peaked at No. 2 in its debut week (chart dated June 1, 2024), was last in the top 10 on the June 7, 2025-dated list (at No. 9) and last ranked as high on the Feb. 22, 2025, chart (when it was also at No. 6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morgan Wallen\u2019s chart-topping&nbsp;<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>&nbsp;rises a spot to No. 7 on the latest Billboard 200 (nearly 38,000 equivalent album units, down 1%), SZA\u2019s former leader&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;is up two spots to No. 8 (35,000, down 1%) and Justin Bieber\u2019s&nbsp;<em>SWAG<\/em>&nbsp;falls 7-9 (nearly 33,000, down 15%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing out the top 10 is Taylor Swift\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>The Tortured Poets Department<\/em>, which jumps 18-10 with 30,500 equivalent album units earned (up 18%). Swift\u2019s most recent studio album, which led the chart for 17 nonconsecutive weeks beginning in May 2024, returns to the top 10 for the first time since the Feb. 15-dated list (No. 9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Poets<\/em>\u2019 vault back into the top 10 comes after Swift\u2019s Aug. 12&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-new-album-the-life-of-a-showgirl-1236041467\/\">announcement<\/a>&nbsp;of her forthcoming new studio album,&nbsp;<em>The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>&nbsp;(due Oct. 3). On Aug. 13, Swift provided further details about the album, including its tracklist and producers, and appeared on her boyfriend Travis Kelce\u2019s podcast,&nbsp;<em>New Heights<\/em>, to chat about the project. YouTube announced that the pod&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/taylor-swift-new-heights-breaks-youtube-podcast-record-1236045668\/\">peaked at 1.3 million concurrent livestream viewers<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 more than any other podcast has garnered since the platform launched a \u201cdedicated podcast experience in 2023,\u201d per the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4660\" data-postid=\"4660\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4660 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Conan Gray scores his highest-charting album, while Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift surge back into top 10. Morgan Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;I\u2019m the Problem&nbsp;notches its 12th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the&nbsp;Billboard 200&nbsp;chart (dated Aug. 30). 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