Billboard 200: 06/02/2018 - BTS #1

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13 Things to Know About the Charts This Week: BTS Blasts to Record-Breaking Bows on Billboard 200, Hot 100 & More
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By Xander Zellner | June 02, 2018 9:00 AM EDT


You can't spell "Billboard charts" without B-T-S.
Billboard's charts can be summed up in three letters this week: BTS.

The superstar South Korean group dominates, as its Love Yourself: Tear debuts as the first K-pop album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The set also sparks BTS' rise to No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart for the first time.
Meanwhile, Drake returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Nice for What," while Lil Baby ("Yes Indeed," with Drake), Ella Mai ("Boo'd Up") and BTS ("Fake Love") all score their first top 10s on the chart.



Here are 13 other things to know about the charts this week:

1. On the latest Chart Beat Podcast, Gary Trust and Trevor Anderson discuss BTS' historic week with JJ Ryan, program director of KJYO (KJ103) Oklahoma City, a champion of several of the group's singles, including "Fake Love." "It's BTS' world and we're just living in it," Ryan muses. Click here to listen.
2. BTS also earns its first No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, as "Fake Love" launches at the top spot. Click here to read about the feat.
3. "Fake Love" further marks BTS' first top 10 on the Streaming Songs chart. Click here to read the story.
4. More BTS: As "Fake Love" debuts at No. 10 on the Hot 100, the track becomes just the 17th primarily non-English-language song to have hit the chart's top 10. Click here for the full list.
5. Even more BTS: With an assist from selfies that the group snapped with John Legend, Backstreet Boys and The Chainsmokers, BTS continues to rule the Social 50 chart. Click here to read the story and see the photos.

6. Looking ahead to next week's Billboard 200, Shawn Mendes' new self-titled album is expected to debut at No. 1, earning him his third straight leader. Click here to read the Billboard 200 forecast.
7. On the Pop Shop Podcast, Keith Caulfield and Katie Atkinson chat with Jessie Ware about tips for festival-goers, what it's like to host a podcast with her mom and more. Click here to listen.
8. Maluma notches his second consecutive No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums chart, with F.A.M.E. Click here to read about the bow.
9. Darius Rucker scores his eighth No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart with "For the First Time." Plus, Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line's "Meant to Be" has now ruled Hot Country Songs for six months. Click here to read the story.
10. As "Chun-Li" hits the top 10 of the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, Nicki Minaj passes Beyoncé and Mary J. Blige for the most top 10s among women. Click here for the post.

11. Following his performance at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal wedding, Sheku Kanneh-Mason helps boost classical music sales to their highest totals in over a year. Plus, the cellist earns his first No. 1 on Classical Albums. Click here for details.
12. After its first five stops, Taylor Swift's Reputation Tour earned $54 million and leads the latest Hot Tours tally. Click here for more touring totals.
13. As Billboard celebrates 1998 Week, Gary Trust looks back at an important rule change that year that allowed Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris," Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn," Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody?" and other radio hits not released as commercially-available singles to chart on the Hot 100 at last. Click here for the deep dive.

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'Mean Girls' Musical Earns Highest Debut for a Cast Album in Over a Year on Billboard 200 Chart
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By Keith Caulfield | June 01, 2018 8:35 PM EDT


The original Broadway cast recording of Mean Girls takes a bow at No. 1 on the Cast Albums chart (dated June 2) and at No. 42 on the all-genre Billboard 200. On the latter list, Mean Girls logs the highest debut for a cast album in over a year.
Mean Girls launches with 14,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 24, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 10,000 were in traditional album sales. The last cast recording to debut higher on the Billboard 200 was Dear Evan Hansen, which started at No. 8 on the Feb. 25, 2017-dated list.

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).

Mean Girls also tallies the largest debut week in terms of total units earned since Hansen’s opening frame (29,000), and the biggest debut sales week since the July 1, 2017-dated list, when Anastasia: The New Broadway Musical bowed with slightly more than Mean Girls (though both numbers round to 10,000)

Over on the pure album sales-ranked Cast Albums chart, Mean Girls debuts at No. 1, displacing Hamilton: An American Musical after 48 weeks straight weeks at the top. Since Hamilton debuted atop the chart 139 weeks ago (Oct. 17, 2015), it has earned a total of 133 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, yielding the top slot for only six weeks (to six other recordings, each with just one week at No. 1).

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Billboard 200 Chart Moves: '13 Reasons Why' Season 2 & 'Deadpool 2' Soundtracks Debut in Top 40
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By Keith Caulfield | June 01, 2018 8:14 PM EDT

Plus: Ziggy Marley, Joe Bonamassa & Courtney Barnett make waves.

On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 2), BTS made K-pop history with the No. 1 debut of their album Love Yourself: Tear. The set, which is the first chart-topper for the K-pop genre, launched with 135,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 24, according to Nielsen Music.

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 rest of the Billboard 200:


— Soundtrack, Deadpool 2 – No. 18 & Soundtrack, 13 Reasons Why: Season 2 – No. 34 — The soundtracks to the superhero sequel Deadpool 2 and the second season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why arrive in the top 40 on the Billboard 200 as the titles bow at Nos. 18 and 34, respectively. Both albums surpass the peaks of their original soundtracks: The companion album to the first Deadpool film topped out at No. 30 in 2016, while the one for the first season of 13 Reasons Why peaked at No. 111 in 2017. Deadpool 2 starts with 21,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 24, according to Nielsen Music. Traditional album sales drove 13,000 of that sum. Meanwhile, streaming powers 13 Reasons Why, as the set enters with 16,000 units (11,000 in streaming-equivalent album units). Seventy-four percent of the album’s on-demand audio streams came from two of its songs: Selena Gomez’s “Back to You” and Billie Eilish and Khalid’s “Lovely.”

— Courtney Barnett, Tell Me How You Really Feel – No. 22 — The album starts with 19,000 units, of which 17,000 were in traditional album sales. And, of that latter sum, vinyl album sales comprise a robust 37 percent (or, slightly more than 6,000 copies). In turn, Tell Me How You Really Feel opens atop the Vinyl Albums chart, marking the second No. 1 on the list for Barnett (following 2015’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit).

— Sam Smith, The Thrill of It All – No. 43 — A number of albums perk up on the list thanks to continued sales generated from concert ticket/album sale redemption offers, including Smith, Robert Plant’s Carry Fire (No. 123) and Kenny Chesney’s Live in No Shoes Nation (No. 169).

— Joe Bonamassa, British Blues Explosion: Live – No. 83 — This is the 19th charting album on the Billboard 200 for the singer-guitarist, and it’s also his record-extending 20th No. 1 on the Blues Albums chart. On Top Rock Albums, the set enters at No. 11.

— BTS, Love Yourself: Her – No. 68 — BTS’ former top 10 album Love Yourself: Her zooms from No. 159 to No. 68 with an 80 percent gain in units (rising to 9,000), thanks to publicity generated by the release of their new No. 1 album, Love Yourself: Tear.

— Ziggy Marley, Rebellion Rises – No. 193— Ziggy Marley’s Rebellion Rises starts at No. 193 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Reggae Albums chart -- the sixth leader on the latter tally for the artist. Overall, members of the Marley family have earned 33 No. 1s on the 24-year-old Reggae Albums chart, which accounts for 15 percent of its 222 total No. 1s. Other Marleys with No. 1s: Ziggy’s brothers Stephen (four), Damian (three) and Ky-Mani (two). Their father, Bob, owns a record 18 chart-toppers.