{"id":984,"date":"2018-04-22T12:31:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T19:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=984"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:45:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:45:52","slug":"jason-aldean-scores-fourth-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart-with-rearview-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Jason Aldean Scores Fourth No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart With &#8216;Rearview Town&#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\">The set is the first country album to reach No. 1 in 2018.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/jason-aldean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Aldean<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Rearview Town<\/em>\u00a0debuts at No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0albums chart, securing the country star his\u00a0fourth consecutive, chart-topping set and the first country No. 1 in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rearview Town<\/em>,\u00a0released on April 13 via Macon\/Broken Bow Records,\u00a0launches with 183,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music, of which 162,000 were in traditional album sales. The set starts with the biggest week in terms of overall units\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0album sales for any country title this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6320099\/billboard-200-makeover-streams-digital-tracks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=\/articles\/columns\/chart-beat\/6320099\/billboard-200-makeover-streams-digital-tracks&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1524494711871000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFqFJKyW_m2dlfmGoV3Qly3wLla5g\">multi-metric consumption<\/a>, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new\u00a0<span tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_242613609\">April 28<\/span>-dated chart (where Aldean bows at No. 1) will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s websites on\u00a0<span tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_242613610\">Tuesday, April 24<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rearview Town<\/em>\u00a0marks Aldean\u2019s fourth consecutive chart entry to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It follows his three previous studio albums:\u00a0<em>They Don\u2019t Know<\/em>\u00a0(2016),\u00a0<em>Old Boots, New Dirt<\/em>\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0<em>Night Train<\/em>\u00a0(2012).\u00a0<em>Rearview<\/em>\u00a0is his seventh top 10 set overall, as he also collected top 10 efforts with\u00a0<em>My Kinda Party<\/em>\u00a0(No. 2 in 2010),\u00a0<em>Wide Open<\/em>\u00a0(No. 4, 2009) and\u00a0<em>Relentless<\/em>\u00a0(No. 4, 2007). Only his self-titled debut album missed the top 10, peaking at No. 27 in 2005. (Aldean has only charted with studio albums;\u00a0he has yet to visit the list with any compilations, greatest hits, live packages, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Aldean is just the second country act to send four consecutive studio releases to the top. Rascal Flatt\u200bs also claimed four No. 1 studio sets\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0row\u00a0between 2004 and 2009:\u00a0<em>Feels Like Today<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Me and My Gang<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Still Feels Good<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Unstoppable<\/em>. (Between\u00a0<em>Still\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Unstoppable<\/em>, the trio clocked a No. 6-peaking set with the best-of package\u00a0<em>Greatest Hits Volume 1<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Rearview Town<\/em>\u00a0is the first country album to lead the Billboard 200 in 2018, and the first since Luke Bryan\u2019s\u00a0<em>What Makes You Country<\/em>\u00a0topped the Dec. 30, 2017-dated tally.<\/p>\n<p>Aldean\u2019s new set also logs the largest week, both in terms of total units and traditional album sales, for a country title since Kenny Chesney\u2019s live effort\u00a0<em>Live in No Shoes Nation\u00a0<\/em>launched at No. 1 with 219,000 units (of which 217,000 were in album sales) on the Nov. 18, 2017 chart. Like Chesney\u2019s album, Aldean\u2019s release was boosted by sales generated from a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer with his upcoming tour, which starts on\u00a0<span tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_242613611\">May 10<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Aldean also nets the largest week for a country\u00a0<em>studio<\/em>\u00a0album \u2014 in units and in sales \u2014 since Chris Stapleton\u2019s\u00a0<em>From A Room: Volume 1,<\/em>\u00a0nearly a year ago, when it bowed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 219,000 units (of which 202,000 were in album sales).<\/p>\n<p>At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Cardi B\u2019s\u00a0<em>Invasion of Privacy<\/em>\u00a0moves down to the runner-up slot after bowing at No. 1 a week earlier. The set earned 129,000 units in its second week, down 49 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Rock band Breaking Benjamin earn its fourth top 10 effort with\u00a0<em>Ember<\/em>, as it debuts at No. 3 with 88,000 units (of which 80,000 were in traditional album sales). The band\u2019s last release, 2015\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dark Before Dawn<\/em>, opened at No. 1 with 141,000 units (135,000 in album sales),\u00a0securing the group its first leader on the list. (Like\u00a0<em>Rearview Town<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Ember<\/em>\u00a0benefits from a ticket\/album sale redemption offer.)<\/p>\n<p>The soundtrack to\u00a0<em>The Greatest Showman<\/em>\u00a0holds at No. 4 with 77,000 \u2013 but with a big 53 percent gain, as the album continues to benefit from the hit movie\u2019s DVD and Blu-ray release on April 10. The former No. 1 album sold 54,000 copies in the latest tracking week \u2013 up 63 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Singer-songwriter John Prine logs his highest-charting album ever, and first top 10, as\u00a0<em>The Tree of Forgiveness<\/em>\u00a0bows at No. 5 with 54,000 units (53,000 in traditional album sales). The album is his first release album of his own new songs since 2005\u2019s\u00a0<em>Fair and Square<\/em>. The new set got a big boost from sales driven by a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer, which helps yield the two-time Grammy Award winner his best sales week since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. (Prine has been charting on the Billboard 200 since 1972.)<\/p>\n<p>Prine earned his previous best on the Billboard 200 with his last album, 2016\u2019s\u00a0<em>For Better, Or Worse<\/em>, which debuted and peaked at No. 30.<\/p>\n<p>The Weeknd\u2019s\u00a0<em>My Dear Melancholy<\/em>\u00a0dips 3-6 with 44,000 units (down 14 percent), XXXTENTACION\u2019s\u00a0<em>?<\/em>\u00a0slips 5-7 with 40,000 units (down 13 percent), Migos\u2019\u00a0<em>Culture II<\/em>\u00a0falls 6-8 with 36,000 units (down 3 percent) and\u00a0<em>Black Panther: The Album\u00a0<\/em>descends 7-9 with 34,000 units (down 7 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Pentatonix rounds out the new top 10 with the arrival of its latest release,\u00a0<em>PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. 1<\/em>. The covers set\u00a0launches at No. 10 with 34,000 units (29,000 in traditional album sales), which garners the vocal group its eighth top 10 effort. Like Aldean, Breaking Benjamin and Prine,\u00a0<em>PTX<\/em>\u2019s sales were also goosed by a concert ticket\/album sale redemption offer.<\/p>\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-984\" data-postid=\"984\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-984 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The set is the first country album to reach No. 1 in 2018. Jason Aldean\u2019s\u00a0Rearview Town\u00a0debuts at No. 1 on the\u00a0Billboard 200\u00a0albums chart, securing the country star his\u00a0fourth consecutive, chart-topping set and the first country No. 1 in 2018. 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