Billboard 200 - 7/25/20 - Juice WRLD is #1

[Gary]

Juice WRLD's 'Legends Never Die' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With Biggest Week of 2020

7/19/2020 by Keith Caulfield


Set also launches with fourth-largest streaming week ever.

Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die makes a smashing debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, capturing the largest week of 2020 for any album, as it earned 497,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending July 16, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

The set registers the largest streaming week of 2020, and the fourth-largest streaming frame ever for an album.

Legends Never Die is the late artist’s second No. 1 album, following 2019’s Death Race for Love, which opened atop the list dated March 23, 2019, with 165,000 units earned.Legends Never Die was released via Grade A/Interscope Records on July 10. It’s Juice WRLD’s first release since his death on Dec. 8, 2019.

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 July 25-dated chart (where Legends Never Die starts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard's website on July 21.

Legends Never Die’s debut of 497,000 equivalent album units is powered by 283,000 SEA units (equating to 422.63 million on-demand streams of the tracks on the album), 209,000 in album sales (supported largely by over 100 merchandise/album bundle offers) and 3,000 in TEA units.

Biggest Week of 2020 for an Album by Units: With 497,000 units earned, Legends Never Die captures 2020’s biggest week for an album, by equivalent album units earned. It beats the previous high, logged by the arrival of The Weeknd’s After Hours, when it bowed at No. 1 with 444,000 units on the chart dated April 4. The last album to notch a larger week than Legends was Taylor Swift’s Lover, when it entered at No. 1 on the Sept. 7, 2019-dated list with 867,000 units.

Biggest Week for a Hip-Hop Album or by a Male Artist in Nearly Two Years: The last hip-hop album, or effort by a male artist, to capture a bigger week than Legends Never Die, was Travis Scott’s Astroworld, when it debuted at No. 1 on the Aug. 18, 2018-dated chart with 537,000 units.

Since January 2018, the only albums, of any genre, that logged a week as large as Legends were Swift’s Lover, Astroworld, and Drake’s Scorpion (732,000; July 14, 2018), and all in their debut weeks.

Biggest Streaming Week of 2020 & Fourth Largest Streaming Week Ever: Legends Never Die’s first week was led by blockbuster streaming figures, as the album’s tracks logged 422.63 million on-demand streams in the U.S. in the week ending July 16. That’s the largest streaming week of 2020 for any album, and the fourth-biggest streaming week ever for an album.

Legends’ streaming launch surpasses 2020’s previous record, earned by the arrival of Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake, when it started with 400.42 million streams (No. 1; March 21). In terms of the all-time streaming records, the only weeks that are larger than Legends are the debut frames of Drake’s Scorpion (745.92 million; July 14, 2018), Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V (433.02 million; Oct. 13, 2018) and Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys (431.34 million; May 12, 2018). L

Legends Never Die replaces Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The latter title – another posthumously released effort -- slips to No. 2 in its second week with 110,000 equivalent album units earned (down 56 percent). With Juice WRLD following Pop Smoke at No. 1, it’s the first time two acts have gone back-to-back at No. 1 on the chart with posthumous releases. It’s also the first time the top two on the tally are occupied by posthumously released albums.

At No. 3 on the new Billboard 200, the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical falls one spot with 95,000 equivalent album units earned (down 7 percent). The album posts a gain in streaming activity for the week (72,000 SEA units earned; up 8 percent), as the filmed version of the Broadway show continues to stream on Disney+ (following its July 3 premiere on the service).

Four former No. 1s are next up on the chart, as Lil Baby’s My Turn dips 3-4 (58,000 equivalent album units earned; down 7 percent), Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding is steady at No. 5 (34,000; down 5 percent), DaBaby’s Blame It On Baby descends 4-6 (33,000; down 8 percent) and Harry Styles’ Fine Line is a non-mover at No. 7 (28,000 units; down 4 percent).

Summer Walker collects her second top 10 album, as Life On Earth debuts at No. 8 with just under 28,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 24,000 are in SEA units, 3,000 are in album sales and a negligible figure is in TEA units. The five-track Life On Earth project, billed as an EP, follows her previous top 10, the 18-track Over It, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Oct. 19, 2019-dated chart.

Closing out the new top 10, The Weeknd’s former No. 1 After Hours falls 6-9 with 27,000 equivalent album units earned (down 8 percent) and Polo G’s The Goat slips 8-10 with nearly 27,000 units (down 6 percent).

[starlord]

Billboards seriously have some issues rounding numbers up.

[Gary]

1. Juice WRLD - 497,000 -- 283K SEA, 209K sales, 3K TEA (over 100 different bundles driving sales #'s)
2. Pop Smoke - 110,000
3. Hamilton 95,000
4. Lil Baby 58,000
5. Post Malone 34,000
6. DaBaby 33,000
7. Harry Styles 28,000
8. Summer Walker 28,000 --- 24K SEA, 3K sales
9. The Weeknd 27K
10. Polo G 27,000

[Gary]

Posthumous top 2 - back to back #1's -- first time this has happened

[fridayteenage]

Jul 19, 2020 16:12:26 GMT -5 starlord said:

Billboards seriously have some issues rounding numbers up.

Yeah, even if it were somehow just missing rounding in the components, we'd have
283.499+209.499+3.499=496.497 which should not be rounded to 497.000.

[shaz196]

Of course Billboard has it under 500k lol

[strongerq]

Welp 42.8% of total streaming came from Spotify (it needed 41.5% or less to be #2).


But hopefully 'Legends Never Die' will become the 7th album to have 200M+ streams in the second week (it will be close).

[areyoureadytojump]

Link: www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9420910/juice-wrld-legends-never-die-tops-billboard-200

[HolidayGuy]

Close enough to 500K.

[aussie1]

Hamilton holding strong and good numbers for Summer Walkers EP.

[Gary]

Hollywood's Bleeding - 43rd week in the top 10 , 6 weeks shy of a Post Malone high---- (Beerbongs & Bentley's was on for 49 weeks)

Hamilton is now in its 25th week in the top 10
Lil Baby is now in week 20

[Gary]

Juice WRLD Is Just the Ninth Artist to Top the Billboard 200 Both When Alive & Posthumously
7/20/2020 by Paul Grein

As previously reported, Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die enters the Billboard 200 at No. 1 this week. It’s his second No. 1 album. He landed his first, Death Race for Love, in March 2019—nine months before he died of a seizure.

This makes Juice WRLD just the ninth artist in the 64-year history of the Billboard 200 to top the chart both while they were alive and after their death.

Here’s a complete list of the artists who have achieved this feat:

John Lennon: The ex-Beatle had two No. 1 solo albums before his death (Imagine in 1971 and Walls and Bridges in 1974) and one since (Double Fantasy, a collab with wife Yoko Ono, in 1980). Lennon was shot to death on Dec. 8, 1980. He was 40.

2Pac: The rapper had two No. 1 albums before his death (Me Against the World in 1995 and All Eyez on Me in 1996) and three since (The Don Killuminati—The 7 Day Theory in 1996, Until the End of Time in 2001 and Loyal to the Game in 2005). 2Pac was billed as Makaveli on The Don Killuminati album. 2Pac was shot on Sept. 7, 1996. He died six days later. He was 25.

Elvis Presley: The king of rock and roll had nine No. 1 albums, including four film soundtracks, before his death and one since (the hit-studded compilation Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits in 2002). Presley died following a heart attack on Aug. 16, 1977. He was 42.

Ray Charles: The musician often called the Genius (and it was no hype) had one No. 1 album before his death (Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music in 1962) and one since (the star-studded Genius Loves Company in 2005). He died on June 10, 2004 of complications from liver failure. He was 73.

Johnny Cash: The country legend had one No. 1 album before his death (Johnny Cash at San Quentin in 1969) and one since (American V: A Hundred Highways in 2006, his last in a series of collabs with producer Rick Rubin). Cash died on Sept. 12, 2003 of complications from diabetes. He was 71.

Michael Jackson: The king of pop had five No. 1 albums before his death, including the best-selling studio album of all time, Thriller, and one since (Michael Jackson’s This Is It in 2009). Note: Jackson would have had two posthumous No. 1 albums, with Number Ones also making it, but catalog albums were not eligible to appear on the Billboard 200 in 2009. (The rule changed later that year.) Jackson died on June 25, 2009 of cardiac arrest. He was 50.

Prince: The gifted artist had four No. 1 albums before his death, including two albums he recorded with his band, the Revolution, and one since (The Very Best of Prince in 2016). Prince died on April 21, 2016 of an overdose. He was 57.

XXXTentacion: The rapper had one No. 1 album before his death (? in 2018) and one since (Skins in 2018). XXXTentacion was shot to death on June 18, 2018. He was just 20.

Juice WRLD: The hip-hop artist had one No. 1 album before his death (Death Race for Love in 2019) and one since (Legends Never Die in 2020). Juice WRLD died of a drug-related seizure on Dec. 8, 2019. He was 21.

Kurt Cobain and Janis Joplin also qualify if you count group releases. Nirvana had two No. 1 albums before Cobain’s death in 1994 and two after. Joplin hit No. 1 as the leader singer of Big Brother & the Holding Company in 1968, while she was alive, and also posthumously, in 1971, with her solo album Pearl.

Five other artists reached No. 1 posthumously but never did so while they were alive. They were Jim Croce (You Don’t Mess Around with Jim in 1974), Selena (Dreaming of You in 1995), The Notorious B.I.G. (Life After Death in 1997, Born Again in 1999 and Greatest Hits in 2007), Aaliyah (Aaliyah in 2001) and David Bowie (Blackstar in 2016). Bowie’s album was released two days before his death, but only reached No. 1 following his death.

And if you go back to the pre-Billboard 200 era, Glenn Miller had three posthumous No. 1 albums from 1945-54 on an early Billboard album chart. The beloved big-bandleader disappeared on a flight over the English Channel on Dec. 15, 1944. He was 40.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

‘Queen’s Greatest Hits’ Logs 55th Week at No. 1 on Catalog Albums & Just One Album Has Had a Longer Run

7/21/2020 by Paul Grein 

The film 'Bohemian Rhapsody' has turbocharged Queen’s popularity.

Queen’s Greatest Hits logs its 55th week at No. 1 on Billboard’s Catalog Albums chart -- a tally topped by just one album in the chart’s 29-year history. Bob Marley & the Wailers’ Legend has headed the catalog chart for a whopping 126 weeks.

Both of these compilations were released prior to the introduction of Catalog Albums in the Billboard issue dated May 25, 1991. Queen’s album was released in in the U.K. in October 1981. Marley’s album was released worldwide in May 1984.

Queen’s album first hit No. 1 on Catalog Albums on June 2, 2018, five months before the U.S. release of the film Bohemian Rhapsody, which has turbocharged Queen’s popularity.

The Catalog Albums chart ranks the most popular catalog albums of the week in the U.S. Catalog albums are generally titles that are at least 18 months old -- or holiday albums in their second holiday season.

Here are the 20 albums with the longest runs at No. 1 on Catalog Albums. Each entry includes the album’s release date, the date the album first reached No. 1 on Catalog Albums and the album’s peak position on the Billboard 200.

1.Bob Marley & the Wailers, Legend, 126 weeks at No. 1: This compilation was released three years after Marley’s death on May 11, 1981. Released: May 8, 1984; First reached No. 1: May 22, 1993; Billboard 200 peak: No. 5.

2. Queen, Greatest Hits, 55 weeks: This is the rock album with the longest run at No. 1. Released in the U.K.: Oct. 26, 1981; First reached No. 1: June 2, 2018; Billboard 200 peak: No. 11.

3. Creed, My Own Prison, 54 weeks: This is the regular studio album with the longest run at No. 1. It is also the debut album with the longest run at No. 1. Released: Aug. 26, 1997; First reached No. 1: Jan. 22, 2000; Billboard 200 peak: No. 22.

4. Various Artists, Grease soundtrack, 52 weeks: This is the soundtrack with the longest run at No. 1. It is also the pop album with the longest run at No. 1. This is the only album to log 10 or more weeks at No. 1 on both Catalog Albums and the Billboard 200. This album spawned four top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 -- the Olivia Newton-John/John Travolta collabs “You’re the One That I Want” and “Summer Nights,” Newton-John’s solo smash “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and Frankie Valli’s “Grease.”

This is the first of two albums on this list that received a Grammy nomination for album of the year. Newton-John received a second nod for best pop vocal performance, female, for “Hopelessly...” Released: April 14, 1978; First reached No. 1: Nov. 2, 1996; Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (12 weeks).

5. Metallica, Metallica, 43 weeks: This album spawned the band’s first top 20 hit on the Hot 100, “Enter Sandman.” Metallica won a Grammy for best metal performance for this album. Released: Aug. 12, 1991; First reached No. 1: Jan. 17, 1998; Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (four weeks).

6. Adele, 19, 41 weeks: This is the album by a female solo artist with the longest run at No. 1. 19 brought Adele her first two Grammys -- best new artist and best female pop vocal performance for “Chasing Pavements,” which was her first top 30 hit on the Hot 100. Released: Jan. 28, 2008; First reached No. 1: March 5, 2011; Billboard 200 peak: No. 4.

7. Eric Clapton, Time Pieces/The Best of Eric Clapton, 37 weeks: This is the album by a male solo artist with the longest run at No. 1. Released: May 14, 1982; First reached No. 1: Feb. 22, 1992; Billboard 200 peak: No. 101.

8. Michael Bublé, Christmas, 34 weeks: This is the Christmas album with the longest run at No. 1. It was Grammy-nominated for best traditional pop vocal album, but, surprisingly, didn’t win. Released: Oct. 25, 2011; First reached No. 1: Nov. 17, 2012; Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (five weeks).

9. Michael Jackson, Number Ones, 31 weeks: This is the R&B/pop crossover album with the longest run at No. 1. This topped the catalog chart for the first time in the issue dated July 11, 2009, the week following Jackson’s death on June 25, 2009. It was the best-selling album in the U.S. for six weeks following Jackson’s death, but catalog albums were not eligible to appear on the Billboard 200 at the time. That rule was changed later in 2009. Released: Nov. 18, 2003; First reached No. 1: July 11, 2009; Billboard 200 peak: No. 13.

10. Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill, 27 weeks: This is the hip-hop album with the longest run at No. 1. The album spawned the trio’s only top 10 hit on the Hot 100, “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!).” Released: Nov. 15, 1986; First reached No. 1: June 24, 1995; Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (seven weeks).

10. Kenny G, Miracles: The Holiday Album, 27 weeks: This is the instrumental album with the longest run at No. 1. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” received a Grammy nomination for best pop instrumental performance. Released: Nov. 1, 1994; First reached No. 1: Nov. 11, 1995; Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (three weeks).

12. Johnny Cash, 16 Biggest Hits, 26 weeks: This is the country album with the longest run at No. 1. The album topped the catalog chart for the first time in the issue dated Sept. 27, 2003, the week following Cash’s death on Sept. 12, 2003. Released: February 1999; First reached No. 1: Sept. 27, 2003; Billboard 200 peak: No. 65.

13. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon, 24 weeks: This rock classic spawned the band’s first top 20 hit on the Hot 100, “Money.” Pink Floyd did not receive a single Grammy nomination for this album, if you can believe that. The album’s only nomination was best engineered recording (non-classical). Alan Parsons got the nod. Released: March 1, 1973; First reached No. 1: April 17, 1993; Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (one week).

14. Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell, 22 weeks: This album spawned Meat Loaf’s first top 20 hit on the Hot 100, “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad.” This was his first solo album. He had previously teamed with female singer Shaun Murphy in Stoney & Meatloaf, which released an eponymous album in 1971. Released: Oct. 21, 1977; First reached No. 1: Aug. 24, 1991; Billboard 200 peak: No. 14.

15. The Righteous Brothers, The Best of the Righteous Brothers, 19 weeks: This album was released three months after the release of the box-office smash Ghost, which featured “Unchained Melody” over the famous pottery wheel scene. Released: Oct. 2, 1990; First reached No. 1: May 25, 1991; Billboard 200 peak: No. 161.

16. Prince, The Very Best of Prince, 18 weeks: This is the only album to simultaneously rank No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and the Catalog Albums chart. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the first time (and returned to No. 1 on Catalog Albums) in the issue dated May 7, 2016, the week following Prince’s death on April 21, 2016. Released: July 31, 2001; First reached No. 1: April 10, 2004; Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (one week).

17. Journey, Journey’s Greatest Hits, 17 weeks: This album first topped Catalog Albums in the issue dated July 7, 2007, shortly after the final episode of HBO’s The Sopranos, which aired on June 10, 2007. The episode’s use of the band’s hit “Don’t Stop Believin’” gave the song a huge boost. Released: Nov. 15, 1988; First reached No. 1: July 7, 2007; Billboard 200 peak: No. 10.

17. Mannheim Steamroller, A Fresh Aire Christmas, 17 weeks: Released: Sept. 15, 1988; First reached No. 1: Dec. 7, 1991; Billboard 200 peak: No. 36.

17. Enya, Watermark, 17 weeks: This album spawned a top 30 hit on the Hot 100, “Orionco Flow (Sail Away).” The hit received two Grammy nominations -- best new age performance and best music video -- short form. Released: Sept. 19, 1988; First reached No. 1: March 28, 1992; Billboard 200 peak: No. 25.

17. Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, 17 weeks: This album spawned three top 10 hits on the Hot 100: “Just the Way You Are,” “Grenade” and “The Lazy Song.” “Just the Way You Are” brought Mars a Grammy for best male pop vocal performance. This is the second of two albums on this list that received a Grammy nomination for album of the year. Mars received eight Grammy nominations (over two years) for his work on the album. Released: Oct. 4, 2010; First reached No. 1: Jan. 19, 2013; Billboard 200 peak: No. 3.

[Naos]

Debuts outside Top 10:
42. Brett Eldredge - Sunday Drive
48. Static X - Project: Regeneration, Vol. 1
56. Quinn XCII - A Letter to My Younger Self
115. BTS - Map Of The Soul: 7 - The Journey
134. The Midnight - Monsters
151. Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started
192. Jimmie Allen - Bettie James
198. 100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs And The Tree Of Clue

[areyoureadytojump]

Can you please add the chart date and the #1 total to the subject line? Thanks!

[WolfSpear]

So... BTS was effected by the new policies?

(Oh, I see. It dropped late in the tracking week)

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Plus it was an album in Japanese. They haven't done as well with those.