{"id":612,"date":"2017-06-04T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:49:32","slug":"bryson-tiller-notches-his-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-true-to-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Bryson Tiller Notches His First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With &#8216;True to Self&#8217;"},"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<h2 class=\"article__deck\">Plus: The Beatles&#8217; &#8220;Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band&#8221; returns to the top three, and Lil Yachty debuts in the top five.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/6627423\/bryson-tiller\/chart\">Bryson Tiller<\/a> notches his first No. 1 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a> albums chart, as his second studio effort, <em>True to Self<\/em>, debuts atop the tally. The set, which was released through TrapSoul\/RCA Records on May 26, earned 107,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 1, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 47,000 were in traditional album sales.<\/p>\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6320099\/billboard-200-makeover-streams-digital-tracks\">multi-metric consumption<\/a>, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new June 17, 2017-dated chart (where Tiller debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard\u2019s websites on Tuesday, June 6.<\/p>\n<p><em>True to Self<\/em> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/7816547\/bryson-tiller-true-to-self-interview-new-album\">released a month earlier than its expected June 23 street date<\/a>, and is the follow-up to Tiller\u2019s debut set,\u00a0<em>Trapsoul<\/em>. The latter set peaked at No. 8 on the chart in January of 2016, and helped Tiller finish the year as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/7604339\/adele-top-billboard-artist-2016-justin-bieber\">Billboard\u2019s top new artist<\/a>. <em>Trapsoul<\/em> has earned 1.6 million equivalent album units, of which 441,000 are in traditional album sales.<\/p>\n<p><em>True to Self<\/em> was supported mostly by SEA units (57,000) and traditional album sales. The remainder of its bow came from TEA units (2,000).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/305702\/kendrick-lamar\/chart\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a>\u2019s <em>DAMN.<\/em> holds steady at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, with 84,000 units (down 14 percent).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/383540\/beatles\/chart\">The Beatles<\/a>\u2019 <em>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em> returns to the chart, re-entering at No. 3 with 75,000 units (up 2,062 percent) with 71,000 in traditional album sales (up 3,889 percent). It is the highest rank for the former No. 1 album since the Dec. 30, 1967-dated chart, when the set also placed at No. 3.<\/p>\n<p>The album bounces back to the tally courtesy of its 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary reissue on May 26. The album was reissued in a variety of configurations, including some with a bevy of bonus tracks. It spent a total of 15 weeks atop the list back in 1967 &#8212;\u00a0the most weeks at No. 1 for any of The Beatles\u2019 19 chart-topping albums.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s\u2019<\/em> re-entry also grants The Beatles its highest rank on the chart in more than 16 years. The band has been absent from the top three since the March 10, 2001-dated list, when the greatest hits album <em>1<\/em> was No. 3. (The album had previously spent eight weeks at No. 1.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s<\/em> was last on the Billboard 200 dated Jan. 23, 2016. It notched its last week in the top 10 on the Feb. 3, 1968-dated tally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/1490118\/drake\/chart\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s <em>More Life<\/em> is a non-mover at No. 4 on the new Billboard 200, with 50,000 units (down 13 percent).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/7340155\/lil-yachty\/chart\">Lil Yachty<\/a>\u2019s debut studio album,\u00a0<em>Teenage Emotions<\/em>, arrives at No. 5 with 46,000 units (20,000 in traditional album sales; 24,000 in SEA and 2,000 in TEA). Lil Yachty previously charted a pair of mixtapes with <em>Lil\u2019 Boat<\/em> (No. 106) and <em>Summer Songs 2<\/em>(No. 197), both of which peaked in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/276089\/ed-sheeran\/chart\">Ed Sheeran<\/a>\u2019s <em>\u00f7<\/em> (<em>Divide<\/em>) stays steady at No. 6 with 40,000 units (down 8 percent), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/298455\/bruno-mars\/chart\">Bruno Mars<\/a>\u2019 <em>24K Magic<\/em> is stationary at No. 7 with a little more than 38,000 units (down 2 percent), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/1487121\/chris-stapleton\/chart\">Chris Stapleton<\/a>\u2019s <em>From A Room: Volume 1<\/em> descends 5-8 with 38,000 units (down 25 percent).<\/p>\n<p>The new <em>Summer Latin Hits 2017<\/em> compilation bows at No. 9 with 37,000 units (22,000 in SEA; 15,000 in TEA and a negligible sum of traditional album sales). The set is largely driven by streams and sales of one red-hot song: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/308529\/luis-fonsi\/chart\">Luis Fonsi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/300083\/daddy-yankee\/chart\">Daddy Yankee<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDespacito.\u201d The tune has been No. 1 for three weeks on the Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n<p>Closing out the new top 10 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/7753485\/harry-styles\/chart\">Harry Styles<\/a>\u2019 self-titled effort, which falls from No. 3 to No. 10 with 36,000 units (down 47 percent).<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-612\" data-postid=\"612\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-612 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: The Beatles&#8217; &#8220;Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band&#8221; returns to the top three, and Lil Yachty debuts in the top five. 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