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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Mar 10, 2020 2:22:19 GMT -5
3/9/2020 by Keith Caulfield
Plus: Jhené Aiko and NCT 127 heading for top 10 debuts.
Lil Uzi Vert is on course for his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, according to industry forecasters. Those in the know suggest his latest release, Eternal Atake, could launch atop next week’s chart with perhaps over 275,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending March 12. That number could soar even higher, if the set continues to perform strongly through the week.
The new set, released on March 6 via Generation Now/Atlantic Records, is the hip-hop star’s first release in more than two years. His last album, Luv Is Rage 2, debuted at No. 1 on the Sept. 16, 2017-dated list. It’s likely Eternal Atake could also post the year’s biggest streaming week for an album, beating the record just set on the latest chart, when Lil Baby’s My Turn blasted in with 261.6 million on-demand streams for its songs.
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 March 21-dated Billboard 200 chart (where Eternal Atake may debut at No. 1) is scheduled to be revealed on Billboard’s website on Sunday, March 15.
Elsewhere on next week’s chart, watch for Jhené Aiko’s Chilombo and NCT 127’s Neo Zone – The 2nd Album to likely start in the top 10 with perhaps 125,000 and 80,000 units earned, respectively.
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Post by Gary on Mar 15, 2020 16:28:08 GMT -5
Lil Uzi Vert’s ‘Eternal Atake’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart With Biggest
Streaming Week Since 2018
3/15/2020 by Keith Caulfield
Lil Uzi Vert photographed on Nov. 7, 2017 at Carondelet House in Los Angeles.
Plus: Jhené Aiko, NCT 127 and Megan Thee Stallion debut in top 10.
Lil Uzi Vert blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with Eternal Atake, marking his second No. 1 and the biggest streaming week for an album since 2018.
The set was released on March 6 via Generation Now/Atlantic, and starts with 288,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 12, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It’s the rapper’s first release in nearly two-and-a-half years, since his first leader, Luv Is Rage 2, bowed at No. 1 on the Sept. 17, 2017-dated chart with 135,000 units.
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 March 21-dated chart, where Eternal Atake bows at No. 1, will be posted in full on Billboard's website on March 17.
Of Eternal Atake’s first-week units, 278,000 are in SEA units, a little under 9,000 are in album sales and 2,000 are in TEA units. That 278,000 SEA-unit figure translates to a whopping 400 million on-demand streams for the set’s 18 tracks during the tracking week. That’s the fourth-largest streaming week ever for an album, and the largest week for any album since Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V started with 433 million clicks (Oct. 13, 2018-dated chart). (Note: since January, streams on the Billboard 200 now include both on-demand audio and video streams. Before that, streams were audio only. That said, Eternal Atake would still have the biggest streaming week since Tha Carter V’s arrival, even if only audio streams were counted.)
The streaming high-water mark among all albums is owned by Drake’s Scorpion, which opened with 746 million streams in its first week (July 14, 2018).
As Eternal Atake starts with a total of 288,000 units, it also logs the second-biggest week of 2020 for any album. It trails behind the opening week of BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7, which launched with 422,000 units (powered by a robust album sales figure of 347,000).
Eternal Atake will likely continue to earn big streaming numbers and units in the coming days, as the set was quickly reissued in a deluxe edition on March 13, just a week after its release. The deluxe album was bolstered with an additional 14 tracks, boasting many guest artists, including Future, Young Thug and Gunna. (All versions of the album will be combined together for tracking and charting purposes.)
Big news for Lils: As Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake bumps Lil Baby’s My Turn from the No. 1 slot (the latter falls to No. 4), it’s the first time a Lil artist has replaced another Lil act at No. 1. In fact, Lil Uzi Vert is the third Lil act to reach No. 1 in 2020, following Lil Baby and Lil Wayne (Funeral; Feb. 15, 2020). Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Baby and Lil Wayne are the only three Lil acts with a No. 1 album. My Turn was Lil Baby’s first, while Funeral was Lil Wayne’s fifth No. 1.
Outside of the Lil acts, there is one Little artist that hit No. 1: Little Stevie Wonder. Back in 1963, Stevie Wonder, then known as Little Stevie Wonder, topped the Billboard 200 with his live album The 12 Year Old Genius (featuring the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit “Fingertips”). It was the only album credited to Little Stevie Wonder. The legend later notched two more No. 1 albums with Fullfillingness’ First Finale (1974) and Songs in the Key of Life (1976).
Honorable mentions go to the Lil and Little acts that have peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200: Little Big Town, Lil Yachty and Lil Nas X.
Back on the new Billboard 200, Jhené Aiko scores her highest charting album ever, as Chilombo debuts at No. 2. The set starts with 152,000 equivalent album units earned, her best week since the chart began measuring by units in December of 2014. Of its starting sum, 112,000 are in SEA units, 38,000 are album sales and 2,000 are TEA units. (Some of the set’s album sales were generated by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with her upcoming tour.)
Chilombo is Aiko’s fourth top 10 effort as a soloist, following Trip (No. 5, 2017), Souled Out (No. 3, 2014) and Sail Out (No. 8, 2013). She also visited the top 10 as one-half of the Twenty88 duo, alongside Big Sean, reaching No. 5 with the act’s self-titled album in 2016.
Bad Bunny’s YHLQMDLG slips from No. 2 to No. 3 in its second week (111,000 equivalent album units; down 38%), while Lil Baby’s My Turn, as noted above, falls from No. 1 to No. 4 in its second stanza (104,000; down 47%).
Korean pop group NCT 127 lands its first top 10 effort, as NCT #127: Neo-Zone, The 2nd Album debuts at No. 5. The act’s previous high was claimed with its last release, 2019’s NCT #127 We Are Superhuman: The 4th Mini Album, which debuted and peaked at No. 11.The new release earned 87,000 equivalent album units in its first week, with album sales comprising 83,000 of that sum. Its sales got a boost from an array of merchandise/album bundles sold through the act’s webstore, as well as a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with its upcoming tour.
A quartet of former No. 1s trail NCT 127 on the new Billboard 200: Roddy Ricch’s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial descends 5-6 (57,000 equivalent album units; down 10%), Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding climbs 9-7 (51,000; up 2%), BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7 falls 3-8 (50,000; down 40%) and Justin Bieber’s Changes dips 6-9 (47,000; down 23%).
Closing out the top 10 is Megan Thee Stallion, who scores her second top 10 effort with Suga. The set opens at No. 10 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned, with 36,000 of that sum derived from SEA units. The new release follows the rapper’s previous top 10 entry, Fever, which also debuted (and peaked) at No. 10 (June 1, 2019-dated chart).
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Mar 15, 2020 16:29:43 GMT -5
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Post by thegreatdivine on Mar 15, 2020 16:32:18 GMT -5
Wow. Only 288K SPS. I really thought he'd reach 300K SPS.
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Post by violentdreams on Mar 15, 2020 16:34:05 GMT -5
Wow, that's a whole 22k off from HDD's numbers. I wonder what they counted that Billboard didn't.
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Post by Gary on Mar 15, 2020 16:35:18 GMT -5
1. Lil Uzi 288,000K ---9000 sales, 278,000 SEA---2000 TEA
2. Jhene Aiko ----152,000 --- 112,000 SEA, 38000 sales, 2000 TEA
3. Bad Bunny 111,000
4. Lil Baby 104,000
5. NCT 127 87,000 --- 83,000 sales (ticket bundles)
6. Roddy Ricch 57,000
7. Post Malone 51,000
8. BTS 50,000
9. Justin Bieber 47,000
10. Megan Thee Stallion 41,000,--- 36,000 SEA
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Post by Gary on Mar 15, 2020 16:38:44 GMT -5
The just released deluxe version will be combined with this one
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Post by shaz196 on Mar 15, 2020 16:39:08 GMT -5
Billboard's numbers are odd, only 143 million of his 400 million streams came from Spotify, the overwhelming majority if his streams came from paid streaming. How could BB's SEA be off by over 20k compared to HDD?
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Post by thegreatdivine on Mar 15, 2020 16:43:31 GMT -5
Billboard's numbers are odd, only 143 million of his 400 million streams came from Spotify, the overwhelming majority if his streams came from paid streaming. How could BB's SEA be off by over 20k compared to HDD? Well, odd or not, these are their final numbers and they're the numbers we'll be sticking with. I'm surprised as well. |
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Post by fhas on Mar 15, 2020 16:44:44 GMT -5
I'm not sure, but maybe it has something to do with That Way/Futsal Shuffle's bonus album track streams. Billboard is counting only the bonus album track streams and HDD is counting both versions for both songs. I don't know really lol.
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Post by fhas on Mar 15, 2020 16:47:31 GMT -5
Billboard's numbers are odd, only 143 million of his 400 million streams came from Spotify, the overwhelming majority if his streams came from paid streaming. How could BB's SEA be off by over 20k compared to HDD? I think the Spotify number is ~147M. The weekly chart still haven't been updated, but in the first week the weekly numbers are always 1-3% higher than the sum of the first seven days. |
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Mar 15, 2020 16:54:12 GMT -5
It has been a while, but for once the top 10 projected by HITS is actually the one for the Billboard 200 even if some of the actual equivalent album numbers are somewhat different.
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Post by violentdreams on Mar 15, 2020 16:58:56 GMT -5
I'm not sure, but maybe it has something to do with That Way/Futsal Shuffle's bonus album track streams. Billboard is counting only the bonus album track streams and HDD is counting both versions for both songs. I don't know really lol. That would explain the streaming discrepancy, but, if true, would be seriously dumb on Billboard's part. They're literally the same songs, why would one version not count because it doesn't have "Bonus Track" in the name. |
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Mar 15, 2020 19:26:11 GMT -5
#1 Albums on the Billboard 200 in 2020
1/18 Roddy Ricch, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial 97,000
1/25 Selena Gomez, Rare 112,000
2/01 Eminem, Music To Be Murdered By 279,000
2/08 Roddy Ricch, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial 95,000
2/15 Lil Wayne, Funeral 139,000
2/22 Roddy Ricch, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial 79,000
2/28 Justin Bieber, Changes 231,000
3/07 BTS, MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 422,000
3/14 Lil Baby, My Turn 197,000
3/21 Lil Uzi Vert, Eternal Atake 288,000
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Post by shaz196 on Mar 15, 2020 19:53:41 GMT -5
What are Jhene's actual streaming numbers? It seems like BB only gave her SEA
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Mar 16, 2020 0:39:31 GMT -5
Three of the last six #1s in the Billboard 200 have been by "Lil" artists. I wonder if we'll get any more of them this year.
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Post by tuna on Mar 16, 2020 0:56:27 GMT -5
Three of the last six #1s in the Billboard 200 have been by "Lil" artists. I wonder if we'll get any more of them this year. 2020 should be the year we bring back Big artists |
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Post by willapted33 on Mar 16, 2020 1:40:52 GMT -5
Three of the last six #1s in the Billboard 200 have been by "Lil" artists. I wonder if we'll get any more of them this year. that's probably the 3 biggest Lil artists our best bet would be a Lil Nas X album, maybe Lil Mosey or Lil Skies could pull it off too |
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Post by Naos on Mar 16, 2020 1:51:04 GMT -5
Three of the last six #1s in the Billboard 200 have been by "Lil" artists. I wonder if we'll get any more of them this year. that's probably the 3 biggest Lil artists our best bet would be a Lil Nas X album, maybe Lil Mosey or Lil Skies could pull it off too Next we'll see Lil Dicky with a Billboard 200 #1 lol. |
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Post by higilo on Mar 16, 2020 3:44:21 GMT -5
Next we'll see Lil Dicky with a Billboard 200 #1 lol. Lil Dicky has stopped calling himself Lil Dicky though right? Its Dave something now iirc |
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Post by Naos on Mar 16, 2020 12:48:27 GMT -5
Next we'll see Lil Dicky with a Billboard 200 #1 lol. Lil Dicky has stopped calling himself Lil Dicky though right? Its Dave something now iirc Might be only for his TV show. |
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Post by iggyamo on Mar 16, 2020 21:05:55 GMT -5
Lil Dicky has stopped calling himself Lil Dicky though right? Its Dave something now iirc Might be only for his TV show. Ya, it’s for the TV show, and in the show (which is pretty ok tbh, not good) they were transitioning him into Lil Dickey. |
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Post by nekotuo on Mar 17, 2020 7:19:46 GMT -5
What are Jhene's actual streaming numbers? It seems like BB only gave her SEA Anything new on this? I was interested in her streaming performance on apple/Spotify... |
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Post by fhas on Mar 17, 2020 9:37:25 GMT -5
What are Jhene's actual streaming numbers? It seems like BB only gave her SEA Anything new on this? I was interested in her streaming performance on apple/Spotify... 112,000 SEA units is ~160M streams. |
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Post by nekotuo on Mar 17, 2020 13:01:40 GMT -5
^that's similar to summer walkers streams first week right? happy for both of them!
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Post by Naos on Mar 17, 2020 13:11:13 GMT -5
Debuts outside Top 10:
16. Lauv - ~how i'm feeling~
31. Jadakiss - Ignatius
63. King Von - Levon James
75. Phantogram - Ceremony
121. Money Man - Epidemic
122. Silverstein - A Beautiful Place to Drown
134. Mandy Moore - Silver Landings
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Post by Enigma. on Mar 18, 2020 4:32:23 GMT -5
Seems that most of the rap albums dropped a lot (perhaps thanks to Uzi stealing all the streams) but Post Malone and The Beatles were on the rise. Interesting to watch how the album chart changes when people are spending time home due to corona: will classic albums like Rumours benefit?
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Post by Baby Yoda Hot100Fan on Mar 18, 2020 10:06:02 GMT -5
^On the latter point, the question to me is whether people would be more willing to pay to have the vinyl of said classics?
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