Billboard 200 - 3/16/24 - Morgan Wallen week 19

[Gary]

Morgan Wallen’s ‘One Thing at a Time’ Breaks Record for Most Weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200 for a Country Album
With a 19th week at No. 1, the set surpasses Garth Brooks' "Ropin' the Wind" for the most weeks at No. 1 among country albums.


By Keith Caulfield

03/10/2024

Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated March 16), rising 2-1, and captures a 19th nonconsecutive week atop the list, breaking the record for the most weeks at No. 1 by a country album. It surpasses Garth Brooks’ Ropin the Wind, which held the record with 18 weeks, earned nonconsecutively, during its run atop the list in 1991-92. (Country albums are defined as those that have appeared on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. The list began in 1964.)

One Thing at a Time earned 68,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 7 (up less than 1%), according to Luminate.

One Thing at a Time continues to have the most weeks at No. 1 among all albums since Adele’s 21 logged 24 nonconsecutive weeks atop the tally in 2011-12. One Thing at a Time debuted atop the chart dated March 18, 2023, and spent its first 12 weeks at No. 1 through early June. It revisited the summit for three weeks in a row last June and July, and then posted single-week runs at No. 1 in October, January and February. In the album’s 53 weeks on the list, it has never dipped below No. 6. One Thing at a Time finished 2023 as both the No. 1 year-end Billboard 200 album and Luminate’s year-end top album.

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, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new March 16, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 12. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of One Thing at a Time’s 68,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending March 7, SEA units comprise 65,000 (down less than 1%, equaling 89.63 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 2,000 (up 15%), and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 24%).

Since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956, only 12 albums have spent at least 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Here’s a recap.

Most Weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200:
Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Year(s)
54, West Side Story, soundtrack, 1962-63)
37, Thriller, Michael Jackson, 1983-84
31, Rumours, Fleetwood Mac, 1977
31, South Pacific, soundtrack, 1958-59
31, Calypso, Harry Belafonte, 1956-57
24, 21, Adele, 2011-12
24, Purple Rain, soundtrack, Prince and The Revolution, 1984-85
24, Saturday Night Fever, soundtrack, 1978
21, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, M.C. Hammer, 1990
20, The Bodyguard, Whitney Houston/soundtrack, 1992-93
20, Blue Hawaii, Elvis Presley/soundtrack, 1961-62
19, One Thing at a Time, Morgan Wallen, 2023-24

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Noah Kahan’s Stick Season hits a new peak, rising 4-2 with 53,000 equivalent album units earned (down 8%). The album previously topped out at No. 3 on the June 24, 2023-dated list, and returned to that rank on the Feb. 24, 2024, tally.

The rest of the top 10 consists of former No. 1s. Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 is a non-mover at No. 3 with nearly 53,000 equivalent album units earned (down 18%), SZA’s SOS rises 5-4 (50,000 units; down 1%) and Drake’s For All the Dogs rounds out the top five, climbing 6-5 (42,000; down 4%).

Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) steps 7-6 (39,000 equivalent album units earned; down 5%), Swift’s Lover bumps 9-7 (38,000; down 3%) and Zach Bryan’s self-titled set rallies 12-8 (38,000; up 3%). Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album ascends 11-9 with nearly 38,000 units (up 1%), for its 138th nonconsecutive week in the top 10. It extends its record for the most weeks in the top 10 among albums by a singular artist. The only album with more weeks in the top 10 is the original cast recording of My Fair Lady, with 173 weeks in the region, beginning in 1956.

Closing out the top 10 on the new Billboard 200 is Travis Scott’s Utopia, which jumps 17-10 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned (up 12%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

[Gary]

1. One Thing At a Time 68,000 (sales 2000)
2. Noah Kahan 53,000
3. Kanye West 53,000
4. SZA 50,000
5. Drake 42,000
6. 1989 39,000
7. Lover 38,000
8. Zach Bryan 38,000
9. Dangerous: Double Album 38,000
10. Travis Scott 36,000

[Gary]

Weeks in the top 10

top 10 TITLE
139 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM
57 SOS
56 LOVER
53 ONE THING AT A TIME
22 FOR ALL THE DOGS
19 1989(TAYLOR'S VERSION)
18 ZACH BRYAN
13 STICK SEASON
12 UTOPIA

[Studio Cart]

Geez why is it so f**king eazy for a stupid album to spend 52+ weeks in tha top 10?! Even in tha streaming era this is way too ridiculous. You have no idea how much I wanna see tha version of Billboard 200 where it’s not too slow-paced.

[fridayteenage]

Mar 10, 2024 16:41:51 GMT -5 Studio Cart said:

Geez why is it so f**king eazy for a stupid album to spend 52+ weeks in tha top 10?! Even in tha streaming era this is way too ridiculous. You have no idea how much I wanna see tha version of Billboard 200 where it’s not too slow-paced.

sales
sos: 2 weeks top 10
one thing: 5 weeks top 10
dangerous: 9 weeks top 10

lover may hit a full year in sales top 10 tho.

[torpedo007]

Mar 10, 2024 16:41:51 GMT -5 Studio Cart said:

Geez why is it so f**king eazy for a stupid album to spend 52+ weeks in tha top 10?! Even in tha streaming era this is way too ridiculous. You have no idea how much I wanna see tha version of Billboard 200 where it’s not too slow-paced.

I think everyone should release albums with +30 tracks and at least 4 singles for more chart competition, only a few artists do that nowadays.



Billboard must separate the chart achievements of the sales and streaming era, it's like apples and oranges.

[Gary]

Still have to have enough 'star power' to get people to stream it

[avamaxstan]

Mar 10, 2024 18:32:14 GMT -5 Gary said:

Well...streaming is a part of this too and Taylor Swift doesn't hold the same power with the streaming crowd as the others on that list

Huh? She is the most streamed artist of all time.

[Gary]

That statement wasn't meant to compare all time stats from one to another, it was more a comment about streaming driven artists vs sales-driven artists and the longevity in the here and now. Rather than go there I will withdraw the comment

[awkwardowl]

Mar 10, 2024 14:15:11 GMT -5 Gary said:

Weeks in the top 10

top 10 TITLE
139 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM

It is a really crazy and weird to realise that one album stays in top 10 longer than Stoney + b&b + Hollywood Bleeding or 21 + 25 + 30 where two or three albums had incredible longetivity. Also it looks that soon if it holds a few weeks more then it should be enough to stay in bb200 top 10 more than all albums combined by any artist in 21st century. Except, of course, Taylor.

[Deleted]

Mar 10, 2024 20:00:35 GMT -5 Gary said:

That statement wasn't meant to compare all time stats from one to another, it was more a comment about streaming driven artists vs sales-driven artists and the longevity in the here and now. Rather than go there I will withdraw the comment

Taylor is currently the most streamed artist in the US and in the world???

[Music Fan]

Glad he was able to get that 19th week on top!!

[Gary]

Billboard 200

TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 2 - 53 One Thing At A Time, Morgan Wallen 1
2 4 - 67 Stick Season, Noah Kahan 2
3 3 - 4 Vultures 1, ¥$: Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign 1
4 5 - 65 SOS, SZA 1
5 6 - 22 For All The Dogs, Drake 1
6 7 - 19 1989 (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
7 9 - 237 Lover, Taylor Swift 1
8 12 - 28 Zach Bryan, Zach Bryan 1
9 11 - 165 Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen 1
10 17 - 32 Utopia, Travis Scott 1
11 10 - 8 American Dream, 21 Savage 1
12 13 - 72 Midnights, Taylor Swift 1
13 - - 1 Blue Lips!, ScHoolboy Q 13
14 15 - 26 Guts, Olivia Rodrigo 1
15 16 - 16 The Diamond Collection, Post Malone 15
16 18 - 189 Folklore, Taylor Swift 1
17 21 - 94 American Heartbreak, Zach Bryan 5
18 24 - 285 reputation, Taylor Swift 1
19 23 - 825 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
20 26 - 37 Genesis, Peso Pluma 3
21 29 - 50 Gettin' Old, Luke Combs 4
22 25 - 21 \\ 1
23 27 - 146 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 1
24 22 - 5 Hazbin Hotel, Season One, Soundtrack 13
25 39 - 22 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I), Teddy Swims 25
26 40 - 13 Pink Friday 2, Nicki Minaj 1
27 28 - 20 Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada, Fuerza Regida 14
28 31 - 575 Take Care, Drake 1
29 30 - 96 Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny 1
30 32 - 13 Think Later, Tate McRae 4
31 34 - 352 Ctrl, SZA 3
32 20 - 3 2093, Yeat 2
33 33 - 35 Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
34 36 - 210 My Turn, Lil Baby 1
35 1 - 2 With YOU-th (EP), TWICE 1
36 43 - 121 Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
37 44 - 169 Evermore, Taylor Swift 1
38 38 - 684 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 18
39 42 - 25 Nostalgia, Rod Wave 1
40 35 - 66 Heroes & Villains, Metro Boomin 1
41 41 - 330 Diamonds, Elton John 7
42 46 - 674 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 1
43 49 - 571 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 1
44 51 - 353 This One's For You, Luke Combs 4
45 45 - 331 Starboy, The Weeknd 1
46 47 - 43 Religiously. The Album., Bailey Zimmerman 7
47 48 - 585 Greatest Hits, Queen 8
48 50 - 360 DAMN., Kendrick Lamar 1
49 37 - 140 35 Biggest Hits, Toby Keith 1
50 8 - 2 Easy (EP), LE SSERAFIM 8
51 52 - 131 Certified Lover Boy, Drake 1
52 55 - 593 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 2
53 53 - 318 Graduation, Kanye West 1
54 54 - 297 Scorpion, Drake 1
55 58 - 372 Blonde, Frank Ocean 1
56 57 - 70 Her Loss, Drake & 21 Savage 1
57 59 - 24 Scarlet, Doja Cat 4
58 62 - 40 Whitsitt Chapel, Jelly Roll 3
59 56 - 33 Barbie: The Album, Soundtrack 2
60 65 - 284 If I Know Me, Morgan Wallen 10
61 61 - 54 Manana Sera Bonito, Karol G 1
62 60 - 408 Views, Drake 1
63 75 - 292 ASTROWORLD, Travis Scott 1
64 - - 1 Texas Technician, That Mexican OT 64
65 19 - 155 The Highlights, The Weeknd 2
66 67 - 526 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
67 68 - 483 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
68 73 - 443 Traveller, Chris Stapleton 1
69 79 - 4 Dolido Pero No Arrepentido (EP), Fuerza Regida 69
70 86 - 226 What You See Is What You Get, Luke Combs 1
71 71 - 303 Goodbye & Good Riddance, Juice WRLD 4
72 69 - 410 ANTI, Rihanna 1
73 63 - 139 Fearless (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
74 64 - 168 Channel Orange, Frank Ocean 2
75 77 - 795 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 10
76 82 - 178 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1, Nickelback 21
77 74 - 131 After Hours, The Weeknd 1
78 87 - 361 T R A P S O U L, Bryson Tiller 8
79 76 - 441 Hamilton: An American Musical, Original Broadway Cast 2
80 66 - 197 Confessions, Usher 1
81 70 - 482 1989, Taylor Swift 1
82 78 - 23 20 Number Ones, Thomas Rhett 22
83 83 - 59 The Mockingbird & The Crow, HARDY 4
84 84 - 17 Higher, Chris Stapleton 3
85 90 - 308 Hozier, Hozier 2
86 81 - 24 Emails I Can't Send, Sabrina Carpenter 23
87 - - 298 Beauty Behind The Madness, The Weeknd 1
88 98 - 192 The Beatles 1962-1966, The Beatles 3
89 95 - 660 Nevermind, Nirvana 1
90 85 - 18 Golden, Jung Kook 2
91 94 - 97 I Never Liked You, Future 1
92 130 - 2 Decide, Djo 92
93 96 - 347 More Life, Drake 1
94 88 - 173 Starting Over, Chris Stapleton 3
95 145 - 233 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates, Daryl Hall John Oates 34
96 111 - 147 Greatest Hits, Pitbull 96
97 93 - 52 Endless Summer Vacation, Miley Cyrus 3
98 89 - 16 Pretty Little Poison, Warren Zeiders 59
99 101 - 464 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 31
100 121 - 144 Savage Mode II, 21 Savage & Metro Boomin 1
101 103 - 50 Bluebird Days, Jordan Davis 19
102 106 - 257 DS2, Future 1
103 113 - 230 IGOR, Tyler, The Creator 1
104 104 - 512 Greatest Hits, 2Pac 3
105 105 - 274 50 Number Ones, George Strait 1
106 102 - 231 Over It, Summer Walker 2
107 97 - 356 The Fame, Lady Gaga 2
108 99 - 30 Manana Sera Bonito (Bichota Season), Karol G 3
109 108 - 666 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 3
110 109 - 16 Leather, Cody Johnson 18
111 118 - 616 Thriller, Michael Jackson 1
112 114 - 68 Bell Bottom Country, Lainey Wilson 51
113 100 - 31 El Comienzo, Grupo Frontera 34
114 116 - 94 Harry's House, Harry Styles 1
115 91 - 8 Orquideas, Kali Uchis 2
116 107 - 363 Teenage Dream, Katy Perry 1
117 135 - 141 Planet Her, Doja Cat 2
118 137 - 154 SoulFly, Rod Wave 1
119 112 - 39 Elisabeth, Zach Bryan 83
120 120 - 556 Greatest Hits, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 2
121 126 - 249 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 11
122 123 - 37 I Am Music, Lil Wayne 25
123 119 - 261 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West 1
124 115 - 316 Gold: Greatest Hits, ABBA 25
125 125 - 293 AM, Arctic Monkeys 6
126 128 - 30 Amar, BigXthaPlug 99
127 124 - 87 Wasteland, Brent Faiyaz 2
128 80 - 4 Coming Home, Usher 2
129 - - 53 Curtain Call 2, Eminem 6
130 131 - 203 Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa 3
131 110 - 666 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 3
132 - - 1 2, (G)I-DLE 132
133 197 - 188 Cry Baby, Melanie Martinez 6
134 127 - 250 All Time Greatest Hits, Lynyrd Skynyrd 56
135 140 - 333 [Hybrid Theory], Linkin Park 2
136 143 - 320 The Essential Billy Joel, Billy Joel 15
137 132 - 22 $ad Boyz 4 Life II, Junior H 14
138 138 - 150 Currents, Tame Impala 4
139 117 - 22 TEC, Lil Tecca 11
140 122 - 19 Larger Than Life, Brent Faiyaz 11
141 141 - 362 Moana, Soundtrack 2
142 133 - 258 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Billie Eilish 1
143 142 - 73 It's Only Me, Lil Baby 1
144 180 - 50 Cigarettes After Sex, Cigarettes After Sex 144
145 149 - 101 7220, Lil Durk 1
146 151 - 511 Greatest Hits, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 8
147 129 - 16 Trolls: Band Together, Soundtrack 43
148 162 - 354 Greatest Hits, The Notorious B.I.G. 1
149 144 - 28 Greatest Hits, Aerosmith 36
150 175 - 35 Hood Hottest Princess, Sexyy Red 62
151 161 - 199 The Beatles 1967-1970, The Beatles 1
152 134 - 13 For Her, Hunxho 84
153 146 - 133 Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna 2
154 - - 1 Heathenism (EP), Meek Mill 154
155 164 - 185 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston 14
156 148 - 187 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon, Pop Smoke 1
157 172 - 17 11:11, Chris Brown 9
158 147 - 191 Legends Never Die, Juice WRLD 1
159 150 - 209 Get Rich Or Die Tryin', 50 Cent 1
160 136 - 84 Renaissance, Beyonce 1
161 169 - 442 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, Eagles 1
162 166 - 122 Greatest Hits, blink-182 6
163 153 - 359 ÷ (Divide), Ed Sheeran 1
164 163 - 197 YHLQMDLG, Bad Bunny 2
165 174 - 51 Summertime Blues, Zach Bryan 34
166 157 - 334 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection, Bon Jovi 5
167 152 - 145 Whole Lotta Red, Playboi Carti 1
168 156 - 239 Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne 1
169 160 - 57 Rodeo, Travis Scott 3
170 154 - 38 A Gift & A Curse, Gunna 3
171 159 - 341 Luv Is Rage 2, Lil Uzi Vert 1
172 168 - 190 Purgatory, Tyler Childers 71
173 167 - 261 Death Race For Love, Juice WRLD 1
174 139 - 200 The Life Of deleted, Kanye West 1
175 170 - 235 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, Lewis Capaldi 20
176 - - 1 The Mandrake Project, Bruce Dickinson 176
177 165 - 425 Hot Rocks 1964-1971, The Rolling Stones 4
178 158 - 7 Rebel Diamonds, The Killers 74
179 173 - 146 The College Dropout, Kanye West 2
180 177 - 503 Nothing Was The Same, Drake 1
181 178 - 41 Almost Healed, Lil Durk 3
182 184 - 257 Number One Hits, Tim McGraw 27
183 171 - 136 Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish 1
184 179 - 185 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits, Elvis Presley 1
185 181 - 307 ?, XXXTENTACION 1
186 191 - 43 Greatest Hits Vol. I, Korn 4
187 - - 215 Fine Line, Harry Styles 1
188 183 - 198 Pray 4 Love, Rod Wave 2
189 185 - 11 THE BIGGEST (EP), BigXthaPlug 135
190 190 - 596 Back In Black, AC/DC 4
191 - - 3 House Of Balloons, The Weeknd 113
192 189 - 181 Flower Boy, Tyler, The Creator 2
193 188 - 112 Freudian, Daniel Caesar 25
194 182 - 602 21, Adele 1
195 - - 343 Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
196 187 - 281 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 14
197 186 - 7 The Family Business, Jonas Brothers 112
198 196 - 745 Metallica, Metallica 1
199 - - 110 I Am > I Was, 21 Savage 1
200 - - 285 Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight, Travis Scott 1

[Gary]

Album sales


TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 1 - 2 With YOU-th (EP), TWICE 1
2 2 - 2 Easy (EP), LE SSERAFIM 2
3 6 - 19 1989 (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
4 - - 1 2, (G)I-DLE 4
5 - - 1 The Mandrake Project, Bruce Dickinson 5
6 - - 1 Blue Lips!, ScHoolboy Q 6
7 7 - 205 Lover, Taylor Swift 1
8 9 - 189 Folklore, Taylor Swift 1
9 16 - 26 Guts, Olivia Rodrigo 1
10 8 - 72 Midnights, Taylor Swift 1
11 10 - 657 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
12 19 - 164 Evermore, Taylor Swift 1
13 - - 1 Doomed Forever Forever Doomed, Zakk Sabbath 13
14 15 - 28 Stick Season, Noah Kahan 4
15 14 - 16 Orange Blood, ENHYPEN 2
16 20 - 35 Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
17 17 - 17 ROCK-STAR, Stray Kids 1
18 - - 89 Cry Baby, Melanie Martinez 5
19 26 - 391 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 2
20 - - 1 Underdressed At The Symphony, Faye Webster 20
21 - - 1 Djesse, Vol. 4, Jacob Collier 21
22 30 - 121 Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
23 23 - 481 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 7
24 28 - 136 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 1
25 - - 1 Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Liam Gallagher & John Squire 25
26 - - 1 Norther, Shane Smith & The Saints 26
27 33 - 391 Thriller, Michael Jackson 2
28 32 - 120 Take Care, Drake 1
29 21 - 4 Killin' It, P1Harmony 2
30 36 - 370 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
31 27 - 119 Fearless (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
32 37 - 527 Greatest Hits, Queen 3
33 - - 1 Hopiumforthemasses, Ministry 33
34 31 - 18 Golden, Jung Kook 1
35 12 - 2 Swing Fever, Rod Stewart With Jools Holland 12
36 41 - 441 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 12
37 38 - 125 Ctrl, SZA 5
38 - - 122 Fallen, Evanescence 3
39 43 - 537 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 10
40 - - 22 Zach Bryan, Zach Bryan 3
41 46 - 721 Metallica, Metallica 1
42 - - 1 I Got Heaven, Mannequin Pussy 42
43 48 - 16 Higher, Chris Stapleton 3
44 - - 1 Live At Shea Stadium 1982, The Who 44
45 - - 2 Moment Of Truth, The Red Clay Strays 40
46 - - 473 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
47 - - 24 Utopia, Travis Scott 1
48 49 - 188 IGOR, Tyler, The Creator 1
49 45 - 29 Whitsitt Chapel, Jelly Roll 3
50 35 - 83 35 Biggest Hits, Toby Keith 2

[Gary]

Current sales

TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 1 - 2 With YOU-th (EP), TWICE 1
2 2 - 2 Easy (EP), LE SSERAFIM 2
3 5 - 19 1989 (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
4 - - 1 2, (G)I-DLE 4
5 - - 1 The Mandrake Project, Bruce Dickinson 5
6 - - 1 Blue Lips!, ScHoolboy Q 6
7 7 - 188 Folklore, Taylor Swift 1
8 13 - 26 Guts, Olivia Rodrigo 1
9 6 - 72 Midnights, Taylor Swift 1
10 - - 1 Doomed Forever Forever Doomed, Zakk Sabbath 10
11 12 - 36 Stick Season, Noah Kahan 4
12 11 - 16 Orange Blood, ENHYPEN 2
13 16 - 35 Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
14 14 - 17 ROCK-STAR, Stray Kids 1
15 - - 1 Underdressed At The Symphony, Faye Webster 15
16 - - 1 Djesse, Vol. 4, Jacob Collier 16
17 23 - 120 Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
18 21 - 145 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 1
19 - - 1 Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Liam Gallagher & John Squire 19
20 - - 1 Norther, Shane Smith & The Saints 20
21 17 - 4 Killin' It, P1Harmony 2
22 - - 1 Hopiumforthemasses, Ministry 22
23 24 - 18 Golden, Jung Kook 1
24 9 - 2 Swing Fever, Rod Stewart With Jools Holland 9
25 41 - 26 Zach Bryan, Zach Bryan 2
26 - - 1 I Got Heaven, Mannequin Pussy 26
27 31 - 17 Higher, Chris Stapleton 3
28 - - 1 Live At Shea Stadium 1982, The Who 28
29 - - 27 Utopia, Travis Scott 1
30 29 - 39 Whitsitt Chapel, Jelly Roll 3
31 32 - 33 2nd EP 'Get Up', NewJeans 1
32 30 - 46 SOS, SZA 3
33 44 - 53 One Thing At A Time, Morgan Wallen 1
34 34 - 50 Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey 2
35 4 - 2 10,000 Volts, Ace Frehley 4
36 - - 1 Parallel Realms, STRFKR 36
37 33 - 14 Snow Angel, Renee Rapp 9
38 35 - 7 Saviors, Green Day 1
39 25 - 3 This Is Me...Now, Jennifer Lopez 1
40 26 - 4 Born To Be, iTZY 5
41 38 - 14 The World EP.Fin : Will, ATEEZ 1
42 - - 1 Gangbusters Melody Club, Caravan Palace 42
43 36 - 14 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I), Teddy Swims 12
44 28 - 19 SEVENTEENTH Heaven: 11th Mini Album (EP), SEVENTEEN 2
45 45 - 16 Rockstar, Dolly Parton 1
46 50 - 439 Traveller, Chris Stapleton 1
47 47 - 8 Orquideas, Kali Uchis 1
48 49 - 43 Portals, Melanie Martinez 1
49 - - 1 Dune: Part Two, Soundtrack 49
50 - - 55 Bell Bottom Country, Lainey Wilson 14

[Gary]

Vinyl

TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 11 - 26 Guts, Olivia Rodrigo 1
2 - - 1 Blue Lips!, ScHoolboy Q 2
3 7 - 19 1989 (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
4 6 - 147 Folklore, Taylor Swift 1
5 9 - 83 Lover, Taylor Swift 1
6 - - 21 Cry Baby, Melanie Martinez 6
7 8 - 11 Stick Season, Noah Kahan 2
8 12 - 332 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
9 10 - 72 Midnights, Taylor Swift 1
10 13 - 93 Evermore, Taylor Swift 1
11 14 - 10 Take Care, Drake 11
12 - - 1 Underdressed At The Symphony, Faye Webster 12
13 16 - 271 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 1
14 21 - 350 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 1
15 - - 1 Doomed Forever Forever Doomed, Zakk Sabbath 15
16 17 - 89 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 1
17 20 - 301 Thriller, Michael Jackson 1
18 18 - 60 Ctrl, SZA 5
19 15 - 343 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 2
20 19 - 35 Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
21 - - 1 The Mandrake Project, Bruce Dickinson 21
22 - - 1 Djesse, Vol. 4, Jacob Collier 22
23 24 - 212 Greatest Hits, Queen 1
24 - - 3 Fallen, Evanescence 4
25 - - 1 Moment Of Truth, The Red Clay Strays 25

[Gary]

Streaming

TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 1 - 21 One Thing At A Time, Morgan Wallen 1
2 2 - 4 Vultures 1, ¥$: Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign 1
3 3 - 21 Stick Season, Noah Kahan 2
4 4 - 21 SOS, SZA 3
5 5 - 21 For All The Dogs, Drake 1
6 7 - 21 Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen 6
7 8 - 21 Zach Bryan, Zach Bryan 5
8 6 - 8 American Dream, 21 Savage 1
9 12 - 21 Utopia, Travis Scott 9
10 9 - 21 Lover, Taylor Swift 7
11 11 - 15 The Diamond Collection, Post Malone 11
12 10 - 19 1989 (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
13 13 - 21 Midnights, Taylor Swift 6
14 15 - 21 Guts, Olivia Rodrigo 11
15 17 - 21 American Heartbreak, Zach Bryan 13
16 - - 1 Blue Lips!, ScHoolboy Q 16
17 20 - 21 Genesis, Peso Pluma 9
18 19 - 21 Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Manana, Bad Bunny 1
19 21 - 21 Folklore, Taylor Swift 16
20 18 - 5 Hazbin Hotel, Season One, Soundtrack 13
21 25 - 16 Gettin' Old, Luke Combs 21
22 23 - 20 Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada, Fuerza Regida 9
23 22 - 21 reputation, Taylor Swift 14
24 24 - 21 Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny 21
25 16 - 3 2093, Yeat 3
26 26 - 15 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 26
27 28 - 13 Think Later, Tate McRae 4
28 30 - 21 My Turn, Lil Baby 25
29 33 - 13 Pink Friday 2, Nicki Minaj 1
30 31 - 17 Take Care, Drake 24
31 29 - 21 Heroes & Villains, Metro Boomin 25
32 32 - 21 Nostalgia, Rod Wave 4
33 40 - 4 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I), Teddy Swims 33
34 36 - 15 Ctrl, SZA 31
35 27 - 4 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 23
36 35 - 20 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 28
37 34 - 21 Diamonds, Elton John 29
38 41 - 16 This One's For You, Luke Combs 38
39 38 - 16 Religiously. The Album., Bailey Zimmerman 24
40 37 - 15 Starboy, The Weeknd 32
41 39 - 5 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty 39
42 42 - 18 Certified Lover Boy, Drake 31
43 44 - 20 Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 20
44 47 - 10 DAMN., Kendrick Lamar 44
45 46 - 18 Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 23
46 45 - 15 Graduation, Kanye West 39
47 48 - 12 Scorpion, Drake 41
48 - - 6 Blonde, Frank Ocean 43
49 49 - 18 Her Loss, Drake & 21 Savage 28
50 - - 19 Scarlet, Doja Cat 16

[Gary]

Catalog

TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 1 - 41 Lover, Taylor Swift 1
2 4 - 121 reputation, Taylor Swift 2
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32 23 - 61 Confessions, Usher 4
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37 38 - 340 Nevermind, Nirvana 1
38 37 - 11 I Never Liked You, Future 24
39 39 - 32 More Life, Drake 23
40 34 - 36 Starting Over, Chris Stapleton 27
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44 - - 58 Savage Mode II, 21 Savage & Metro Boomin 15
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50 40 - 77 The Fame, Lady Gaga 1

[Gary]

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[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Vinyl Sales Keep Growing — So Why Does It Look Like They’ve Dropped?

3/13/2024

By Ed Christman

Luminate changed the way it tracks physical sales, and some stores stopped reporting them. Here's the story behind the numbers.

At many of the more than 1,500 independent record stores in the United States, vinyl sales have been growing at a healthy clip for almost a decade — up 14.2% across all retailers in 2023 alone, according to Billboard’s data provider, Luminate. So why did Luminate track 47.3% fewer vinyl sales in January and February than it did for the same months in 2023?

On its face, such a precipitous drop might appear troubling — and puzzling — given the surge of vinyl sales since the pandemic. In actuality, the decline is mostly a result of Luminate changing the decades-old methodology it had used since Billboard adopted SoundScan’s measurement system in 1991 to count sales at indie retail outlets — a change that Luminate had warned last year would make 2024’s vinyl sales numbers appear significantly lower. But some of the drop reflects a protest by independent retailers against that adjustment, which one indie community executive worries “may put a damper on one of the industry’s high-profile, feel-good stories.”

Frustrated by the methodology change, some of these indie stores have stopped reporting sales to Luminate, and the Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS), the Record Store Day board, the Music Business Association and other organizations have launched an alternative chart to measure physical and vinyl sales.

“There are consequences to every decision,” Music Business Association president Portia Sabin said in a statement.

Until the end of last year, Luminate extrapolated indie retailers’ physical album sales using a methodology that weighted actual sales by a small sample of independent stores — approximately 70 accounts totaling 140 storefronts, Billboard estimates — that represented 1,500 to 2,000 retailers of their ilk that are operating in the United States, according to label and distribution sources.

Last year, physical purchases such as vinyl and CDs at these independent retailers — even with weighting — accounted for less than 3% of total music consumption units in the United States.

Indie retailers say they don’t oppose more accurate measurement of their sales. Rather, they are incensed that Luminate stopped weighting sales just months before it plans to begin the beta phase of its upgraded Connect measurement platform, which it had designed to only count actual indie physical sales. (The final version of the enhanced platform is expected to launch in 2025.) They had wanted Luminate to delay the methodology change until it onboarded hundreds more indie music retailers to report their sales.

Until the Connect beta is launched, Luminate is basing indie physical sales solely on the actual sales retailers report, which due to the protest has been cut in half to about 33 accounts with 70 storefronts, Billboard estimates.

Indie stores say they are protesting because of concerns that they — as well as the indie labels and artists who rely on them for marketing — will lose influence if their sales suddenly appear significantly lower across the board.

Indie-label executives and their distributors say they, too, are worried about the methodology change because it might affect the marketing of developing artists. “We are extremely disappointed that Luminate chose to stop weighting indie retail sales without launching a serious program to enlist store reporting and to count the physical market,” Matador Records president Patrick Amory wrote in an email. “Independent labels and independent artists over index in physical, and especially at indie retail, and we need a level playing field with the majors to measure success. Luminate is penalizing serious, career-building, album-oriented artists on the charts. Their sales are not being counted. Their market share is being allotted to the majors. That is a disaster for independent musicians, labels and retailers.”

An additional concern is that smaller sales numbers and less weight on the Billboard charts, which are based on Luminate data, will “diminish the importance of the physical market to the music business ecosystem,” as four independent record store coalitions and indie retailing giant Amoeba Music put it in a statement issued in October.

The worry is that less music will be released in physical formats, which would financially hurt indie retailers. But a record label executive says given the booming demand for vinyl — a high-margin product for labels — those fears are unwarranted. “Right now,” says one major-label executive, “with the high prices that the growing vinyl format commands, labels are printing dollars with healthy profit margin.”

Indie retailers, many of them iconic local businesses that have served their communities for decades, have panicked ahead of big changes in the past. When the major record companies decided to change the official day for new music releases from Tuesday in the U.S. to a worldwide Friday street date in 2014, “indie stores told labels, ‘You are killing us,’” recalls the major-label executive. “And yet no stores disappeared in the aftermath of that change.”

Some chart mavens say the boycott could be a risky move. By intentionally shrinking their influence on Billboard’s charts, indie stores could drive fans — who, thanks to social media, are much more attuned to the metrics that determine chart positions — to start shopping at sites or stores where they know their purchases will benefit their favorite artist.

Artists and record labels hoping to climb Billboard’s charts, meanwhile, might opt to stage meet-and-greets and other in-store promotions at businesses that report their data, though plenty of acts and record companies still host such events in stores that don’t report to Luminate.

In response to the protest, Luminate says it’s working to lure back stores that stopped reporting and onboard a critical mass of indie merchants that have not reported their data before. Stores that have stopped reporting are now permitted to bypass Luminate’s standard four-week onboarding process if they commit to reporting data for at least a year. For the latter, Luminate offers an instructional video and a written guide to the process, although indie merchants say they have pressed for personalized assistance and simplified reporting requirements.

Luminate also recently hired respected veteran music data executive Chris Muratore as its director for partnerships. Muratore worked for 18 years in various positions at Luminate’s previous iteration, Nielsen SoundScan, and more recently founded Border City Media, the startup behind music consumption data tool BuzzAngle Music (now Alpha Data, and, like Luminate, a subsidiary of Billboard’s parent company, Penske Media Corporation). He will focus on building and maintaining relationships with the independent music retail sector “to ensure physical music sale data collection is as accurate and representative as possible,” according to the release announcing his appointment.

When Billboard began tabulating charts using SoundScan data in May 1991, mass merchant sales, such as those by chain stores and, later, internet or other mail-order operations — were based on actual sales. But the data company used weighted samples of independent store sales because not all stores back then had the point-of-sale (POS) technology, nor the capability to transmit store reports. So, to compensate, stores were assigned weighting depending on how many other non-reporting stores were in their DMA, or designated market area. But over the years, that process became more difficult, and less scientific, as thousands of stores closed, sources say.

Using data from a confidential Luminate report shown to labels, Billboard estimates that last year, the data platform counted each album scanned by 140 indie retailers as 8.54 physical albums. Based on that extrapolation, Luminate reported that an average of close to 72,000 physical album copies — vinyl and CDs — sold each week, totaling 31.9 million copies sold in indie stores for the year.

Overall, in 2023, U.S. physical sales totaled nearly 87 million copies, of which 49.6 million was vinyl while 36.8 million was CDs. Of that total, indie stores, when they were still weighted, accounted for 36.7% of sales; non-traditional, which includes internet, mail order, Christian retailers and stores like Urban Outfitters, comprised 41.5% of physical sales; mass merchants like Target and Walmart, 16.5%; and chains like Barnes & Noble, 5%. As a result of the methodology change and boycott, Luminate reported a 40.2% drop in total physical sales (including vinyl and CDs at indie shops, chains and big-box stores) for the first eight weeks of 2024 compared with the same period in 2023 — from 13.6 million albums to 8.1 million. Within that, indie store sales fell 95.4%, from 5.71 million albums when weighted last year, to 262,000 copies.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

(G)I-DLE Scores Fourth Top 10 on Album Sales Chart With ‘2’

3/13/2024

By Keith Caulfield

Plus: Bruce Dickinson and ScHoolboy Q debut in the top 10.

(G)I-DLE collects its fourth top 10-charting album on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated March 16), as the South Korean pop group’s latest release, 2, debuts at No. 4 with 8,500 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending March 7, according to Luminate. 

Also in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart, Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson lands his first solo top 10 as his new set The Mandrake Project bows at No. 5. Plus, ScHoolboy Q’s new Blue Lips starts at No 6, marking his fourth top 10-charting effort. 

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

TWICE’s With YOU-th holds at No. 1 on Top Album Sales with nearly 17,000 sold (down 82%), after debuting atop the list a week ago. LE SSERAFIM’s Easy is also a non-mover, sitting at No. 2 in its second week with 10,500 (down 69%). Taylor Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Version) rises 6-3 with nearly 9,000 (down 5%).

(G)I-DLE’s 2 debuts at No. 4 with 8,500 sold – essentially all from CD sales. The set was available in four collectible CD editions, including one Target-exclusive variant. All packages contained branded paper merchandise, some of which is randomized.

Dickinson’s The Mandrake Project starts at No. 5 with 8,000 sold, landing the Iron Maiden singer his first solo top 10 effort. The set was available to purchase as a standard digital album, in four CD variations (a standard edition, two with enhanced packaging, and one with a signed insert), and a pair of vinyl LPs (including one with a signed insert).

ScHoolboy Q’s Blue Lips debuts at No. 6 with nearly 8,000 sold – with more than half of that sum from vinyl sales (4,000 – his best week ever on vinyl). The set was issued in just one vinyl edition, pressed on translucent blue-colored vinyl.

Four former No. 1s round out the latest top 10: Swift’s Lover is steady at No. 7 (7,000; down 2%), Swift’s Folklore rises 9-8 (6,000; up 2%), Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts jumps 16-9 (5,500; up 14%) and Swift’s Midnights dips 8-10 (nearly 5,500; down 10%).

In the week ending March 7, there were 1.153 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 9.6% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 850,000 (down 12.9%) and digital albums comprised 304,000 (up 1.4%).

There were 442,000 CD albums sold in the week ending March 7 (down 17.1% week-over-week) and 403,000 vinyl albums sold (down 7.9%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 4.318 million (down 30.3% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 4.601 million (down 47.8%).

Overall year-to-date album sales total 11.936 million (down 36% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 8.963 million (down 40.6%) and digital album sales total 2.973 million (down 16.2%).

[85la]

Mar 10, 2024 16:41:51 GMT -5 Studio Cart said:

Geez why is it so f**king eazy for a stupid album to spend 52+ weeks in tha top 10?! Even in tha streaming era this is way too ridiculous. You have no idea how much I wanna see tha version of Billboard 200 where it’s not too slow-paced.

pmbstaff , Is there a reason this user hasn't been banned yet??? Sorry, but I've reported them MULTIPLE times, but nothing has been done. I really don't want this to turn into another phieagles situation, whose trolling was beyond incessant and legendary for literal YEARS on here, and strangely nothing was done about him and he was somehow allowed to stay.

Among this user's MANY posts that violate Pulse's Trolling Standards and Guidelines, this one from the 3/2/2024 Hot 100 thread on Feb 21 is particularly the most egregious:

"Beyoncé is a bully. Can’t believe that freak demon is gonna hit number 1 on Hot 100.
Pretty sure she’s a bully in Texas, she was harassing me for a while and most black singers are good except for her."

Looking at their posting history, this did not even result in a week-long break, when I would think a blatant and horribly racist post such as should really result in an instant ban. How is that???

[Gary]

LOL

In other news. Morgan Wallens albums. Have serious longevity.

The current album is the longest running number one for a country album in history.

The prior album. Still in the top 10. Trails only one musical from the 1950s for longest running top 10 im history.

[SPRΞΞ]

Mar 10, 2024 19:20:23 GMT -5 torpedo007 said:

Billboard must separate the chart achievements of the sales and streaming era, it's like apples and oranges.

I agree. Pre-streaming comprehensive all-time chart, and post-streaming comprehensive chart. If they can drastically change from preventing airplay-only singles to chart, to letting them chart the following week (which is still the craziest 'before and after' I've seen), then they can do this.

[Gary]

Speaking of the Comprehensive chart - I liked that one. (2003-2009) - an era which extended back to 1991 where catalog albums were ineligible to chart altogether, further distorting album chart stats even more

[WolfSpear]

That’s why I turn to Album Sales for a more realistic comparison, but it’s true that Morgan Wallen is on the same level of popularity as Garth Brooks… just in a slightly different way.

[avamaxstan]

Mar 14, 2024 19:10:47 GMT -5 85la said:

Mar 10, 2024 16:41:51 GMT -5 Studio Cart said:

Geez why is it so f**king eazy for a stupid album to spend 52+ weeks in tha top 10?! Even in tha streaming era this is way too ridiculous. You have no idea how much I wanna see tha version of Billboard 200 where it’s not too slow-paced.

pmbstaff , Is there a reason this user hasn't been banned yet??? Sorry, but I've reported them MULTIPLE times, but nothing has been done. I really don't want this to turn into another phieagles situation, whose trolling was beyond incessant and legendary for literal YEARS on here, and strangely nothing was done about him and he was somehow allowed to stay.

Among this user's MANY posts that violate Pulse's Trolling Standards and Guidelines, this one from the 3/2/2024 Hot 100 thread on Feb 21 is particularly the most egregious:

"Beyoncé is a bully. Can’t believe that freak demon is gonna hit number 1 on Hot 100.
Pretty sure she’s a bully in Texas, she was harassing me for a while and most black singers are good except for her."

Looking at their posting history, this did not even result in a week-long break, when I would think a blatant and horribly racist post such as should really result in an instant ban. How is that???

You might be giving this a bit too much energy.