Billboard 200 9/17/16 - Barbra Streisand #1

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Barbra Streisand Earns 11th No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Encore'

9/4/2016 by Keith Caulfield


The icon extends her record as the woman with the most No. 1 albums in chart history.

Barbra Streisand achieves her 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as her latest release, Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, enters atop the list.

Her newest leader extends her record for the most No. 1 albums among women, and ties her with Bruce Springsteen for the third-most among all acts. The only artists with more No. 1s are The Beatles, with a record 19 chart-toppers, and Jay Z, with 13.

Among women, Streisand outpaces Madonna, the runner-up with eight Billboard 200 No. 1s.

Encore was released on Aug. 26 through Columbia Records, and starts with 149,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 1, according to Nielsen Music. That’s a stronger-than-expected launch for the set, which was forecast by industry sources to start in the No. 2 slot, behind Florida Georgia Line’s new Dig Your Roots. The latter album enters in the runner-up position, with 145,000 units.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Sept. 17-dated chart (where Encore debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Wednesday, Sept. 7 (one day later than normal, due to the Sept. 5 Labor Day holiday in the U.S).

Encore follows Streisand’s previous No. 1 albums: Partners (2014), Love Is the Answer (2009), Higher Ground (1997), Back to Broadway (1993), The Broadway Album (1986), Guilty (1980), Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2 (1979), A Star Is Born (1977), The Way We Were (1974), and People (1964).


Further, Streisand surpasses her own record for the longest span between No. 1s on the Billboard 200. Encore arrives 51 years, 10 months and 17 days after her first No. 1, People, spent its initial week at No. 1 (Oct. 31, 1964). People ruled the tally for five consecutive weeks. Streisand previously set the record for the longest span between No. 1s when she topped the chart in 2014 with Partners -- 49 years, 11 months and 14 days after People.

One more fun fact: Streisand continues to be the only act to have achieved No. 1 albums in the last six decades -- the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.

Encore is an all-star collaborative affair, and pairs Streisand with a range of actors to cover songs from Broadway. For example, Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) team up with Streisand for “At the Ballet,” from A Chorus Line; Jamie Foxx guests on “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” (from The Sound of Music) and Melissa McCarthy duets on “Anything You Can Do” (from Annie Get Your Gun).

Nearly all of Encore’s first-week unit total was comprised of traditional album sales -- 148,000. And of that figure, physical album sales (CDs and vinyl LPs) equated to 126,000 -- the largest sales week for a physical album in 2016. Previously, Blink-182’s California held the biggest physical week for an album this year, when it started with 107,000 sold.

Encore’s physical sales were bolstered by the availability of a deluxe edition of the set sold through Target, which came with four bonus solo Streisand performances.


In addition, the album benefits from a promotion with Streisand’s recent concert tour, where tickets purchased online were bundled with an offer for a CD copy of Encore.

For ticket/album bundle offers where the purchase price of a ticket includes an album, only those albums that are actively redeemed by a customer count towards the charts. (The redemption rate is usually low for these offers, but can vary depending on the type of artist and how effectively they promote the ticket/album offer to their fans.)

Streisand is one of many acts that have employed a ticket/album bundle offer to sell music. Others include Kanye West (who sold The Life of deleted with tickets to his Yeezy Season 3 fashion show), Justin Bieber, Duran Duran, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Michael Buble, Cyndi Lauper, Tom Petty, Bon Jovi and many more.

Streisand supported Encore by doing a number of big media appearances, including a sit-down chat and two performances on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Aug. 25. She was joined by one of her Encore partners, Alec Baldwin, on the show, and also did a humorous duet with Fallon (who impersonated Donald Trump). In addition, Streisand was interviewed on NPR’s Weekend Edition (Aug. 20), CBS Sunday Morning (Aug. 28) and CNN (Aug. 29).

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Florida Georgia Line, Britney Spears & Young Thug Debut in Top 10 on Billboard 200

9/4/2016 by Keith Caulfield  


As previously reported, Encore extends her record for the most No. 1 albums among women, and ties her with Bruce Springsteen for the third-most among all acts. The only artists with more No. 1s are The Beatles, with a record 19 chart-toppers, and Jay Z, with 13.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Sept. 17-dated chart (where Encore debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Wednesday, Sept. 7 (one day later than normal, due to the Sept. 5 Labor Day holiday in the U.S).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, country duo Florida Georgia Line bows with Dig Your Roots (145,000 units; 126,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the third top five-charting album for the pair, which saw its last set, 2014’s Anything Goes, open at No. 1 with 197,000 copies sold. The duo’s debut full-length album, Here’s to the Good Times, debuted at No. 10 in 2012, and rose to its No. 4 peak the following year.

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The lead single from Dig Your Roots, "H.O.L.Y.," has led the Hot Country Songs chart for 17 weeks and counting, tying for the third-longest reign in the chart's history; FGL holds the mark with "Cruise" (24 weeks at No. 1 in 2012-13).

Pop diva Britney Spears collects her 10th top five Billboard 200 album, as her latest studio effort, Glory, enters at No. 3 (111,000 units; 88,000 in traditional album sales). Spears’ last studio set, 2013’s Britney Jean, debuted and peaked at No. 4 with 107,000 sold. The new album was led by the single “Make Me,” featuring G-Eazy, which has so far peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 20 on the Pop Songs airplay chart.

With Streisand, Florida Georgia Line and Spears each bowing with at least 100,000 units, it’s the first time that at least three new releases have launched with more than 100,000 since November of 2015. In the tracking week ending Nov. 19, 2015, Justin Bieber’s Purpose launched at No. 1 with 649,000 units, followed by the arrivals of One Direction’s Made in the A.M. (No. 2 with 460,000), Logic’s The Incredible True Story (No. 3 with 135,000) and Jeezy’s Church in These Streets (No. 4 with 107,000).

Back on the new Billboard 200, Drake’s former No. 1 Views slips two rungs to No. 4 (72,000 units; down 7 percent), Frank Ocean’s Blonde falls from No. 1 to No. 5 in its second week (67,000; down 78 percent) and the soundtrack to Suicide Squad dips 3-6 (63,000; down 17 percent).

Beyonce’s Lemonade leaps back into the top 10 -- rising 13-7 -- following her performance and multiple wins on the MTV Video Music Awards (Aug. 28). The diva performed a number of songs from Lemonade and she won video of the year for the album’s title track video. The Lemonade album sold 26,000 copies during the week -- up 106 percent.

Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' Bows at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With Third-Largest Debut of 2016

At No. 8, rapper Young Thug clocks his third top 40 debut on the Billboard 200 of 2016 as Jeffery starts with 37,000 units (18,000 in traditional album sales). He previously notched a top 10 set with Slime Season 3 (No. 7 on the April 16-dated chart) and another top 40 title with I’m Up (No. 22 on Feb. 27).

Rihanna’s Anti moves 8-9 in the latest top 10 (32,000 units; up 18 percent) after her multiple performances on the VMAs, where she was honored with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Twenty One Pilots close out the top 10, as the duo’s Blurryface falls 6-10 with 30,000 units (down 8 percent).

[Gary]

1. Barbra Streisand 148K/149K
2. Florida Georgia Line 126K/145K
3. Britney Spears 88K/111K
4. Drake 72K
5. Frank Ocean 67K
6. Suicide Squad 63K
7. Beyoncé
8. Young Thug 37K
9. Rihanna 32K
10. 21 Pilots - 32K

[Gary]

Album History for Barbra Streisand


Peak Album Year
8 THE BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM, BARBRA STREISAND 1963
2 THE SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM, BARBRA STREISAND 1963
5 BARBRA STREISAND / THE THIRD ALBUM, BARBRA STREISAND 1964
1 PEOPLE, BARBRA STREISAND 1964
2 MY NAME IS BARBRA, BARBRA STREISAND 1965
4 COLOR ME BARBRA, BARBRA STREISAND 1966
5 JE M'APPELLE BARBRA, BARBRA STREISAND 1967
12 SIMPLY STREISAND, BARBRA STREISAND 1968
30 A HAPPENING IN CENTRAL PARK, BARBRA STREISAND 1968
31 WHAT ABOUT TODAY, BARBRA STREISAND 1969
32 GREATEST HITS, BARBRA STREISAND 1970
10 STONEY END, BARBRA STREISAND 1971
11 BARBRA JOAN STREISAND, BARBRA STREISAND 1971
19 LIVE IN CONCERT AT THE FORUM, BARBRA STREISAND 1973
64 BARBRA STREISAND AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, BARBRA STREISAND 1973
1 THE WAY WE WERE, BARBRA STREISAND 1974
13 BUTTERFLY, BARBRA STREISAND 1975
6 FUNNY LADY [SOUNDTRACK], BARBRA STREISAND 1975
12 LAZY AFTERNOON, BARBRA STREISAND 1975
46 CLASSICAL BARBRA, BARBRA STREISAND 1976
1 A STAR IS BORN, SOUNDTRACK/BARBRA STREISAND & KRIS KRISTOFFERSON 1977
3 STREISAND SUPERMAN, BARBRA STREISAND 1977
12 SONGBIRD, BARBRA STREISAND 1978
1 GREATEST HITS, VOL. II, BARBRA STREISAND 1979
7 WET, BARBRA STREISAND 1979
1 GUILTY, BARBRA STREISAND 1980
108 A CHRISTMAS ALBUM, BARBRA STREISAND 1982
10 MEMORIES, BARBRA STREISAND 1982
9 Yentl , BARBRA STREISAND 1984
19 Emotion , BARBRA STREISAND 1984
1 The Broadway Album, Barbra Streisand   1986
9 One Voice, Barbra Streisand   1987
10 Till I Loved You, Barbra Streisand   1988
26 A Collection: Greatest Hits...And More, Barbra Streisand   1989
38 Just For The Record..., Barbra Streisand   1991
1 Back To Broadway, Barbra Streisand   1993
10 The Concert, Barbra Streisand   1994
81 The Concert Highlights, Barbra Streisand   1995
1 Higher Ground, Barbra Streisand   1997
6 A Love Like Ours, Barbra Streisand   1999
21 Timeless: Live In Concert, Barbra Streisand   2000
15 Christmas Memories, Barbra Streisand   2001
15 The Essential Barbra Streisand, Barbra Streisand   2002
38 Duets, Barbra Streisand   2002
5 The Movie Album, Barbra Streisand   2003
5 Guilty Pleasures, Barbra Streisand   2005
7 Live In Concert 2006, Barbra Streisand   2007
1 Love Is The Answer, Barbra Streisand  2009
4 What Matters Most, Barbra Streisand 2011
7 Release Me, Barbra Streisand 2012
150 Classic Christmas Album, Barbra Streisand 2013
1 Partners, Barbra Streisand 2014
1 Encore, Barbra Streisand 2016

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Nice numbers for Streisand, especially for physical albums. I can see her adding to that 11 total, as long as she keeps recording. The duets road has worked quite well with the last two albums - will she keep it going?

Looking at the Nielsen era and the pure album-sales chart (May 1991-present), Madonna, Britney Spears and Beyonce have the most No. 1s among females (six each*); with Encore hitting No. 1, Streisand is now part of a four-way tie among females with five No. 1s in the Nielsen era, with the other three being Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys.

*Miley Cyrus has three No. 1s to her credit, while three Hannah Montana titles hit No. 1. If combined, her total would also be six (some well may count them for her, similar to other acts and soundtracks on which they performed a bulk of the material).

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This week in Billboard article mistake watch: calling "Formation" Lemonade's "title track"

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Babs better work!

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Sept 4, 2016 17:34:54 GMT -5 Gary said:

Album History for Barbra Streisand


Peak Album Year
8 THE BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM, BARBRA STREISAND 1963
2 THE SECOND BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM, BARBRA STREISAND 1963
5 BARBRA STREISAND / THE THIRD ALBUM, BARBRA STREISAND 1964
1 PEOPLE, BARBRA STREISAND 1964
2 MY NAME IS BARBRA, BARBRA STREISAND 1965
4 COLOR ME BARBRA, BARBRA STREISAND 1966
5 JE M'APPELLE BARBRA, BARBRA STREISAND 1967
12 SIMPLY STREISAND, BARBRA STREISAND 1968
30 A HAPPENING IN CENTRAL PARK, BARBRA STREISAND 1968
31 WHAT ABOUT TODAY, BARBRA STREISAND 1969
32 GREATEST HITS, BARBRA STREISAND 1970
10 STONEY END, BARBRA STREISAND 1971
11 BARBRA JOAN STREISAND, BARBRA STREISAND 1971
19 LIVE IN CONCERT AT THE FORUM, BARBRA STREISAND 1973
64 BARBRA STREISAND AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, BARBRA STREISAND 1973
67 BARBRA STREISAND AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, BARBRA STREISAND 1973
1 THE WAY WE WERE, BARBRA STREISAND 1974
13 BUTTERFLY, BARBRA STREISAND 1975
6 FUNNY LADY [SOUNDTRACK], BARBRA STREISAND 1975
12 LAZY AFTERNOON, BARBRA STREISAND 1975
46 CLASSICAL BARBRA, BARBRA STREISAND 1976
1 A STAR IS BORN, SOUNDTRACK/BARBRA STREISAND & KRIS KRISTOFFERSON 1977
3 STREISAND SUPERMAN, BARBRA STREISAND 1977
12 SONGBIRD, BARBRA STREISAND 1978
1 GREATEST HITS, VOL. II, BARBRA STREISAND 1979
7 WET, BARBRA STREISAND 1979
1 GUILTY, BARBRA STREISAND 1980
108 A CHRISTMAS ALBUM, BARBRA STREISAND 1982
10 MEMORIES, BARBRA STREISAND 1982
9 Yentl , BARBRA STREISAND 1984
19 Emotion , BARBRA STREISAND 1984
1 The Broadway Album, Barbra Streisand   1986
9 One Voice, Barbra Streisand   1987
10 Till I Loved You, Barbra Streisand   1988
26 A Collection: Greatest Hits...And More, Barbra Streisand   1989
38 Just For The Record..., Barbra Streisand   1991
1 Back To Broadway, Barbra Streisand   1993
10 The Concert, Barbra Streisand   1994
81 The Concert Highlights, Barbra Streisand   1995
1 Higher Ground, Barbra Streisand   1997
6 A Love Like Ours, Barbra Streisand   1999
21 Timeless: Live In Concert, Barbra Streisand   2000
15 Christmas Memories, Barbra Streisand   2001
15 The Essential Barbra Streisand, Barbra Streisand   2002
38 Duets, Barbra Streisand   2002
5 The Movie Album, Barbra Streisand   2003
5 Guilty Pleasures, Barbra Streisand   2005
7 Live In Concert 2006, Barbra Streisand   2007
1 Love Is The Answer, Barbra Streisand  2009
4 What Matters Most, Barbra Streisand 2011
7 Release Me, Barbra Streisand 2012
150 Classic Christmas Album, Barbra Streisand 2013
1 Partners, Barbra Streisand 2014
1 Encore, Barbra Streisand 2016

I own them all.

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Top 10 Country Albums Chart: September 6, 2016
Posted By Matt Bjorke on Tuesday September 06, 2016 at 04:06PM PST

Copying and pasting doesn't work this week

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Young Thug's "No, My Name Is Jeffery" Lands In Top 10 Of Billboard 200
September 5, 2016 | 3:55 PM
by Victoria Hernandez

Young Thug has a solid debut on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart with No, My Name is Jeffery. De La Soul also debuts on the chart with and the Anonymous Nobody. This is the first time in 18 weeks that a Hip Hop album has not been in the Top 3 as Barbra Streisand earns her 11th #1 album and Flordia Georgia Line and Britney Spears debut projects at the #2 and #3 slots respectively.

Young Thug’s Name Is Winning

Young Thug scores his second project in the Top 10 with No, My Name is Jeffery landing at #8. The LP, which will probably be known more for the rapper wearing a dress on the cover than its album sales, pushed 37,342 total units. It was streamed nearly 27 million times. Thugger’s Slime Season 3 is his highest-charting album to date, landing at #7 upon its release.

De La Soul Is Back

De La Soul’s and the Anonymous Nobody charts at #12 in its first week with 23,202 album equivalent units. The project was the trio’s first ever to be available for streaming and it was played 2 million times. This was De La’s first LP in 12 years since The Grind Date dropped in 2004. The group’s highest-charting album was 2000’s Art Official Intelligence, which landed at #9.

Drake’s VIEWS Not So High Up

Drake’s VIEWS lands at #4 this week, its lowest chart position since its April release. It still has 12 weeks at the #1 spot, but might have to wait longer to tally any more as Travis Scott’s Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight is already projected to take next week’s crown.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 09/01/2016

Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.

#4 Drake – VIEWS – 71,526 (18,406) [65,644,180]

#5 Frank Ocean – Blonde – 67,387 (44,104) [34,924,987]

#6 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 62,908 (27,160) [28,466,230]

#7 Beyonce — LEMONADE — 37,750 (25,796) [1,982,772]

#8 Young Thug — No, My Name is Jeffery — 37,342 (17,748) [26,736,554]

#9 Rihanna – ANTI – 32,100 (6,537) [27,700,330]

#12 De La Soul — and the Anonymous Nobody — 23,202 (21,332) [2,072,439]

#13 DJ Khaled – Major Key – 23,159 (5,280) [20,116,665]

#16 Tory Lanez – I Told You – 20,696 (7,207) [16,902,576]

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Chart Watch



Chart Watch: 11 Diva-Worthy Facts About Barbra Streisand's 11th #1 Album

Paul Grein
Writer

September 6, 2016



Barbra Streisand lands her 11th #1 album as Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway enters the Billboard 200 in the top spot. It beats out new albums by Florida Georgia Line (whose “H.O.L.Y.” is the year’s biggest country hit) and Britney Spears (whose “Make Me…” returns to the top 20 this week). To mark the achievement, here are 11 quick facts about Streisand’s album.

1. Streisand has the longest span of #1 albums in chart history, just shy of 52 years. She first topped the chart in October 1964 with People. Elvis Presley is in second place, with a 46-year span of #1 albums (May 1956 to October 2002).
2. Only three other artists have had 11 or more #1 albums: The Beatles (19), Jay Z (13), and Bruce Springsteen (11). Streisand and Jay Z were both born in Brooklyn. There must be something in the water.
3. Streisand expands her lead over Madonna as the female artist with the most #1 albums. Madonna has had eight. Madonna has twice come within one #1 album of catching Streisand, but Streisand will simply not be caught. Babs has added landed two more #1s to her total since Madonna last topped the chart (with 2012’s MDNA).
4. This is Streisand’s second studio album in a row to reach #1. She also topped the chart with 2014’s Partners. This marks only the second time in Streisand’s long career that she has reached #1 with back-to-back studio albums. She first accomplished the feat with 1993’s Back to Broadway and 1997’s Higher Ground.
5. Streisand, 74, is the second-oldest artist ever to notch a #1 album in the U.S. Tony Bennett was 85 when he topped the chart in October 2011 with Duets II.
6. Streisand has now had more #1 albums in the 2010s than she did in the 2000s — or the 1960s, the decade in which she soared to stardom. You probably know that Streisand has had at least one #1 album in every decade since the 1960s. She had one #1 album in the ’60s, three in the ’70s, two in the ’80s, two in the ’90s, one in the 2000s, and now has had two in the 2010s.
7.Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway is Streisand’s third album devoted to Broadway songs. All three have reached #1. The Broadway Album logged three weeks at #1 in early 1986. Back to Broadway debuted at #1 in July 1993. Only two other artists have hit #1 with a trilogy of albums linked by a common word in their title. The Beatles hit #1 with all three of their Anthology albums. Jay Z has hit #1 all three of his The Blueprint albums. (Lil Wayne has hit #1 with two of his four Tha Carter albums.)
8. This is the third time out of her past four studio albums that Streisand has beat out strong — seemingly unstoppable — competition to debut at #1. Love Is the Answer beat out albums Paramore and Mariah Carey (whose two most recent studio albums had debuted at #1). Partners edged out albums by Chris Brown (whose two most recent studio albums had debuted at #1) and Tim McGraw. Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway edges out albums by Florida Georgia Line (whose most recent studio album had debuted at #1) and Britney Spears.
9. The album also debuts at #1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart. It’s Streisand’s fifth album to reach #1 in both the U.S. and the U.K., following A Star Is Born, Barbra Streisand’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2, Guilty, and Love Is the Answer.
10.This is Streisand’s 34th top 10 album. Since March 1956, when the album chart became a weekly feature in Billboard, only one artist has had as many or more top 10 albums. That’s the Rolling Stones, with 36. (Interestingly, the Stones haven’t added to their top 10 tally since late 2005. In that time, Streisand has amassed six top 10 albums — four studio albums, a compilation, and a live album. Who would have thought that, at this stage of their careers, the Stones would rest on their laurels, while Streisand would show some hustle?)
11. Streisand’s latest Broadway album arrives in what has been a very strong year for Broadway. Two Broadway albums, Hamilton and Sara Bareilles’s What’s Inside: Songs From Waitress, have made the top 10 in the past year. Hamilton, of course, has been a phenomenon. In June, it won 11 Tony Awards. The top award, Best Musical, was presented by… Barbra Streisand.

Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots debuts at #2. It just missed becoming the duo’s second #1 album in a row, following 2014’s Anything Goes. Dig Your Roots enters Top Country Albums at #1, displacing Dolly Parton’s Pure & Simple. (The cover of Dig Your Roots features childhood photos of Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard, the members of the duo. Streisand has already done this. The cover of 1965’s My Name Is Barbra was a photo of her at age five.)

Britney Spears’s Glory debuts at #3. It’s Spears’s 10th top five album. Glory debuted a bit higher than Spears’s previous studio album, Britney Jean, which debuted and peaked at #4 in 2013.

Top Songs

The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” tops the Hot 100 for the third straight week. “Closer” also moves up to #1 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart. It displaces Major Lazer’s “Cold Water” (featuring Justin Bieber and MØ), which spent five weeks on top. “Closer” is the first song by a duo to reach #1 in both the U.S. and the U.K. since Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s “Thrift Shop” (featuring Wanz) in 2013.

“Closer” heads Top Digital Songs for the fourth week, having sold 208K copies in the past week. That’s the heftiest weekly total since Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” debuted with sales of 379K in May. “Closer” and “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” are the only two songs to log four or more weeks at #1 on the digital sales chart so far in 2016. Timberlake’s smash headed the chart for 10 weeks.

“Cold Water” holds at #2 in its sixth week on the Hot 100. This is its fourth week at #2. Will it ever reach #1? Stay tuned.

The Chainsmokers’ previous hit, “Don’t Let Me Down” (featuring Daya), rebounds from #7 to #5 in its 29th week. This gives the Chainsmokers two songs in the top five simultaneously. The Chainsmokers are just the third duo to put two songs in the top five simultaneously. They follow Outkast, who doubled up for 14 weeks in 2003-04 with “Hey Ya!” and “The Way You Move”; Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, who scored for three weeks in 2013 with “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us”; and twenty one pilots, who scored just last week with “Heathens” and “Ride.” (This week, “Heathens” jumps from #4 to #3 in its 11th week, while “Ride” drops from #5 to #7 in its 25th week.)

The Chainsmokers and twenty one pilots aren’t the only acts with two songs in the top 10 this week. Rihanna also rejoins the club. Calvin Harris’s “This Is What You Came For” holds at #6 in its 18th week, while her solo hit, “Needed Me,” returns to the top 10 by jumping from #11 to #10 in its 31st week.

Adele’s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)” drops out of the top 10 this week.

Britney Spears’s “Make Me…” (featuring G-Eazy) rebounds from #58 to #17 in tis seventh week in the wake of their performance of the song on the VMAs. This equals the song’s debut position.

Ariana Grande’s “Side to Side” (featuring Nicki Minaj) is this week’s top new entry at #31. The two stars performed the song at the VMAs. They previously teamed for the smash “Bang Bang” (which also featured Jessie J). That song reached #3 in 2014.

Lukas Graham land their all-important second top 40 hit as “Mama Said” jump from #47 to #36 in its seventh week. “7 Years” logged four weeks at #2 earlier this year.

The Weeknd’s “The Hills” tops the 3 million mark in digital sales this week. The song topped the Hot 100 for six weeks in the fall of 2015. Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” tops the 2 million mark in digital sales this week. The song entered the Hot 100 at #1 in May.

Top Albums

Young Thug’s JEFFERY debuts at #7. It’s his second mixtape in a row to reach the top 10. Slime Season 3 hit #7 earlier this year.

Beyoncé’s Lemonade rebounds from #13 to #8 in its 19th week in the wake of her performance and awards sweep at the VMAs.

Five albums drop out of the top 10 this week: Tory Lanez’s I Told You, Lindsey Stirling’s Brave Enough, Adele’s 25, DJ Khaled’s Major Key, and the Hamilton cast album.

Travis Scott’s sophomore album, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, is expected to debut at #1 next week.

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Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Ariana Grande's 'Dangerous' VMA Gain, Carly Rae Jepsen's 'B-Side' Set Debuts
9/8/2016 by Keith Caulfield

On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Sept. 17), Barbra Streisand scored her 11th No. 1 album with the chart-topping debut of Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway. The all-star set earned 149,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 1, according to Nielsen Music. Elsewhere in the top 10, Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots kicked in at No. 2, while Britney Spears’ Glory debuted at No. 3.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the week’s most popular albums based on their overall consumption. That overall unit figure combines pure album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

Now, let’s take a closer look at some of the action on the latest Billboard 200 chart:

— Ariana Grande, Dangerous Woman - No. 14 — Following Ariana Grande's performance of the album’s “Side to Side” on the MTV Video Music Awards (Aug. 28), the set scoots 15-14 with a 32 percent unit gain, rising to 23,000 units earned during the week. It’s the largest percentage gain for a title on the chart. The album, which debuted and peaked at No. 2, has yet to depart the top 20 of the chart in its entire 15-week chart run.

Other VMA performers who see at least 10 percent gains for their albums include: Nick Jonas (Last Year Was Complicated, rising 132-107 with 6,000 units; up 19 percent), Rihanna (Anti, 8-9 with 32,000 units; up 18 percent), The Chainsmokers (Bouquet, 140-123 with 6,000 units; up 16 percent) and G-Eazy (When It’s Dark Out, 37-32 with 13,000 units; up 10 percent).

VMA pre-show performers Lukas Graham, Troye Sivan and Alessia Cara also gain: Lukas Graham’s self-titled album climbs 48-31 (13,000 units; up 24 percent), Sivan’s Blue Neighbourhood jumps 130-117 (6,000 units; up 11 percent) and Cara’s Know-It-All rises 90-78 (8,000 units; up 12 percent).

— Ingrid Michaelson, It Doesn’t Have To Make Sense - No. 19 — Ingrid Michaelson collects her sixth entry on the Billboard 200 with her latest album. It bows with 17,000 units (14,000 in pure album sales). Her last album, Lights Out, debuted and peaked at No. 5 (37,000 sold first week).

The new set was led by the single “Hello No,” which has so far peaked at No. 14 on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart -- her sixth charting effort on the list.

— Juan Gabriel, Mis Numero 1… 40 Aniversario - No. 28 — Late Latin superstar Juan Gabriel​, who died Aug. 28, earns his second top 40-charting album with this greatest-hits compilation. The 2015 release, which reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums chart that year, enters the all-genre Billboard 200 in the wake of his death, earning 14,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 1 (9,000 from traditional album sales). Gabriel -- who notched 5 No. 1s on the Top Latin Albums chart in his lifetime -- visited the top 40 of the Billboard 200 just once before, with the 2015 collaborations set Los Duo (No. 25).

Gabriel also re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 56 with Los Duo 2 (the sequel to his first Duo collaborative album), at No. 88 with Los Duo, and bows at No. 128 with the last album his released while alive, Vestido de Etiqueta: Por Eduardo Magallanes.

— Carly Rae Jepsen, E*MO*TION: Side B - No. 62 — Carly Rae Jepsen’s E*MO*TION album, which arrived one year ago (Sept. 17, 2015-dated chart) at No. 16 spawns a second set, as E*MO*TION: Side B, debuts at No. 62. The new nine-song effort features tracks that didn’t make the first album. Side B bows with 9,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 1, according to Nielsen Music, and enters mostly off the strength of traditional album sales (just over 7,000 copies sold).

— Banks & Steelz, Anything But Words - No. 186 — Interpol’s Paul Banks and rapper RZA pair up for this alt-rock-meets-hip-hop set, which bows with 4,000 units (mostly from pure album sales). It also debuts at No. 15 on Alternative Albums and No. 11 on Rap Albums. The unlikely collaboration came to fruition after the pair bonded over drinks at a New York club in 2011. The set also sports guests like Ghostface Killah, Kool Keith, Florence Welch and Method Man.

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Sept 4, 2016 17:44:54 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Nice numbers for Streisand, especially for physical albums. I can see her adding to that 11 total, as long as she keeps recording. The duets road has worked quite well with the last two albums - will she keep it going?

Looking at the Nielsen era and the pure album-sales chart (May 1991-present), Madonna, Britney Spears and Beyonce have the most No. 1s among females (six each*); with Encore hitting No. 1, Streisand is now part of a four-way tie among females with five No. 1s in the Nielsen era, with the other three being Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys.

*Miley Cyrus has three No. 1s to her credit, while three Hannah Montana titles hit No. 1. If combined, her total would also be six (some well may count them for her, similar to other acts and soundtracks on which they performed a bulk of the material).

Technically, Mariah has 6 inside Nielsen's era since Mariah Carey(the album) was number one close to a year after its debut for 11 straight weeks from March 2 to May 11 of 1991. The Nielsen era had already begun.