Billboard 200 12/7/2019: #1 Celine Dion 113k, Tory Lanez 83k

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Celine Dion's 'Courage' Aiming for No. 1 Debut on Billboard 200 Chart

11/21/2019 by Keith Caulfield 

Celine Dion’s new album Courage is aiming for a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 chart, according to industry forecasters. Those in the know suggest the set, which was released Nov. 15 via Columbia Records, could launch with around 120,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 21.

If Courage starts at No. 1, it will garner Dion her fifth No. 1, and her first since 2002’s A New Day Has Come.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The top 10 of the Nov. 30-dated Billboard 200 chart (where Courage could debut at No. 1) is scheduled to be revealed on Billboard’s websites on Sunday, Nov. 24.

Also heading for a high debut on the next Billboard 200 is Tory Lanez’s new Chixtape 5 album. Forecasters suggest it could possibly bow at No. 2 with around 90,000 equivalent album units earned. If it starts as expected, it would secure Lanez is fourth consecutive top 5-charting effort.

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www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/8544604/celine-dion-first-no-1-album-in-over-17-years

Celine Dion Scores First No. 1 Album in Over 17 Years on Billboard 200 Chart
11/24/2019 by Keith Caulfield

“Courage” bows at No. 1, earning the pop superstar her fifth chart-topping album.

Pop superstar Celine Dion debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with her new studio album Courage. The set, which was released on Nov. 15 via Columbia Records, earned 113,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 20 in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music.

Courage marks Dion’s fifth No. 1 album, and her first chart-topper in over 17 years. She was last at No. 1 with 2002’s A New Day Has Come.

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. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Nov. 30-dated chart, where Courage bows at No. 1, will be posted in full on Billboard's websites on Nov. 26.

Of Courage’s total unit start of 113,000, album sales comprise 109,000, SEA units equal 3,000 and TEA units total 1,000. Courage’s first week got a boost from album sales generated by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with Dion’s Courage World Tour.

Courage is Dion’s first English-language studio album since 2013’s Loved Me Back to Life, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 (dated Nov. 23, 2013).

Here are some notable achievements for Dion with the arrival of Courage:

Five No. 1s: Courage is Dion’s fifth No. 1 on the Billboard 200. She has previously hit the top with Falling Into You (No. 1 for three weeks in 1996), Let’s Talk About Love (one week in 1998), All the Way… A Decade of Song (three weeks total, two in 1999 and one in 2000) and A New Day Has Come (one week in 2002).

No. 1s in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s: Dion has now collected No. 1 albums in each of the last three decades. She’s just the 13th act, and fourth woman, to achieve the feat. The others: Backstreet Boys, Garth Brooks, Dave Matthews Band, Janet Jackson, Jay-Z, Metallica, Nas, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears and U2.

Over 17 Years Between No. 1s: Dion had to wait over 17 years for her latest No. 1 between A New Day Has Come’s lone week at No. 1 on April 13, 2002 through Courage’s premiere. That’s the longest spell between No. 1s for a woman ever on the chart. She surpasses the 16-year and nearly four-month gap tallied by Whitney Houston between the final week at No. 1 for the Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard (May 29, 1993) and the debut of I Look To You (Sept. 19, 2009).

While Dion’s gap between No. 1s is extensive, it’s actually not the longest wait in 2019 for a new No. 1. On the Feb. 9-dated chart, Backstreet Boys returned to No. 1 for the first time in 18 years and nearly two months, as DNA debuted atop the chart. It was the group’s first week at No. 1 since Black & Blue spent its second and final week in charge on Dec. 16, 2000.

A solo artist waited longer than Dion for a No.1, but topped the chart a little over a year ago: Paul McCartney’s Egypt Station premiered at No. 1 on the Sept. 22, 2018-dated list. It was his first No. 1 in 36 years.

13 Top 10 Albums: Dion now has a lucky 13 top 10-charting albums on the Billboard 200. Her first title to visit the region was The Colour of My Love, which climbed to the top 10 on Feb. 25, 1994, when it rose 14-10 after debuting on the list dated Nov. 27, 1993. Colour was Dion’s third chart entry, following Unison (which peaked at No. 74 in 1991) and a self-titled album (No. 34 in 1992).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Tory Lanez collects his fourth consecutive top five effort (the entirety of his charting albums), as Chixtape 5 debuts with 83,000 equivalent album units earned (with 9,000 of that sum in album sales). Chixtape 5 follows Love Me Now? (No. 4 in 2018), Memories Don’t Die (No. 3, 2018) and I Told You (No. 4, 2016).

The hip-hop artist’s set is the most-streamed album of the week, as it earned 73,000 in SEA units, which equates to 94 million on-demand audio streams for the album’s songs in its release week.

A quartet of former No. 1s are next on the new Billboard 200. First up, Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding dips 2-3 with 69,000 equivalent album units (down 4%)

while Taylor Swift’s Lover climbs 5-4 with 56,000 units (up 48%, in large part due to sales generated by the set’s release on vinyl LP). The vinyl set, which hit retail on Nov. 15, sold 18,000 copies in the week ending Nov. 20. That’s also the biggest sales week for a vinyl album by a woman in 2019, and the largest for a woman since Jan. 9, 2016, when Adele’s 25 blew through 31,000 copies over Christmas week of 2015. (The biggest sales week of 2019 for any vinyl album belongs to The Raconteurs’ Help Us Stranger, which launched with 25,000 sold on the list dated July 6.)

Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get falls 1-5 in its second week with 55,000 units (down 68%)

and YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s AI YoungBoy 2 slips 3-6 with 44,000 units (down 13%).

Summer Walker’s Over It continues its sturdy run in the top 10, as the album spends its seventh straight week in the region, moving 4-7 with 42,000 units earned (down 12%).

DaBaby’s Kirk dips 7-8 with 37,000 units (down 14%),

Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? shifts 8-9 with 35,000 units (up 12%)

and Kanye West’s Jesus Is King falls 6-10 with 30,000 units (down 21%).

[Caviar]

Awesome for Tory!

[HolidayGuy]

Always nice to see a veteran come out on top with a new album.

Also, strong vinyl numbers for Lover.

[ddlz]

Really good numbers for Tory.

[deepston]

Lover might start surging now due to the Black Friday and Xmas soon.
Also great numbers for Céline, gave the album a listen and it's really good work 

[Enigma.]

Taylor is gonna kill it in the coming weeks!

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^I do hope so!

[Naos]

Debuts below Top 10:
11. Lady Antebellum - Ocean
14. Lil Peep - Everybody's Everything
15. Various Artists - Frozen 2 OST
42. Ninja Sex Party - Under The Covers, Vol. III
59. Fall Out Boy - Believers Never Die, Vol. 2: Greatest Hits
82. Madeon - Good Faith
97. Kidz Bop Kids - 40
98. NoCap - The Hood Dictionary
122. Various Artists - Queen & Slim OST
171. Trevor Daniel - Homesick (EP)
188. Luh Kel - Mixed Emotions

[thegreatdivine]

Drake's Nothing Was the Same has now spent 312 weeks (6 years) charting on the Billboard 200.

[tanooki]

can someone change the date to say 11/30 this is really bugging me lol

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Pure album sales:

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Top 10 Country Albums Pure Sales Chart: November 24, 2019
Posted By Matt Bjorke

Place Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Lady Antebellum Ocean 21,000 21,000
2 Luke Combs What You See Is What You Get 18,900 127,800
3 Miranda Lambert Wildcard 6,700 61,900
4 Old Dominion Old Dominion 4,000 32,200
5 Hootie & The Blowfish Imperfect Circle 2,700 23,300
6 Luke Combs This One's For You (Too) 2,600 545,200
7 Blackberry Smoke Homecoming/Live In Atlanta 2,500 2,500
8 Various Artists Now Country Christmas 2019 2,400 8,900
9 Chris Stapleton Traveller 2,200 2,555,100
10 Brantley Gilbert Fire & Brimstone 2,200 47,800
11 The Highwomen The Highwomen 2,100 63,900
12 Carrie Underwood Cry Pretty 2,100 521,000
13 Sturgill Simpson SOUND & FURY 1,800 50,900
14 Toby Keith Greatest Hits: Show Dog Years 1,700 9,700
15 Garth Brooks Legacy (Vinyl LP Bundle) 1,600 7,700

-- Thomas Rhett Center Point Road 1,400 90,300
-- Maren Morris Girl 1,300 78,300
-- Dan + Shay Dan + Shay 1,300 165,600
-- Zac Brown Band The Owl 1,100 122,400
-- Jon Pardi Heartache Medication 1,000 37,900
-- Tyler Childers Country Squire 1,000 47,200
-- Various Artists Country Music: Film by Ken Burns 900 24,100
-- Eric Church Desperate Man 900 236,600
-- Trisha Yearwood Every Girl 800 27,300
-- Josh Turner I Serve A Savior 700 135,300
-- Tanya Tucker While I'm Livin' 700 26,500
-- The Mavericks Play The Hits 700 4,800
-- George Strait Honky Tonk Time Machine 700 134,700
-- Morgan Wallen IF I Know Me 700 40,300
-- Florida Georgia Line The Acoustic Sessions 600 4,900
-- Midland Let It Roll 600 32,700
-- Cody Jinks The Wanting 600 18,700
-- Various Artists Now Country 12 600 57,800
-- Vince Gill Okie 600 25,300
-- Sheryl Crow Threads 600 40,400
-- Kane Brown Experiment 600 230,700
-- Oak Ridge Boys Down Home Christmas 600 2,500
-- Riley Green Different 'Round Here 600 6,600
-- Cody Johnson Ain't Nothin' To It 500 57,900
-- Willie Nelson Ride Me Back Home 500 50,300
-- Florida Georgia Line Can't Say I Ain't Country 400 100,000
-- Baylee Littrell 770-Country 400 400
-- Cody Jinks After The Fire 400 19,400
-- Whiskey Myers Whiskey Myers 400 43,600
-- Justin Moore Late Nights And Longnecks 300 31,800
-- Chris Janson Real Friends 300 6,000
-- The Lacs Rise And Shine 300 3,200
-- Reba McEntire Stronger Than The Truth 300 53,000
-- Montgomery Gentry Outskirts 300 3,000
-- Blanco Brown Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs 300 3,000
-- Allison Moorer Blood 200 2,100
-- Home Free Dive Bar Saints 300 16,300
-- Haley & Michaels Hail Mary 200 200
-- Ned LeDoux Next In Line 200 2,100
-- Colt Ford We The People 200 23,600

[Caviar]

When’s the last time two Canadians held the top 2 spot?