Of Dangerous159,000 equivalent album units earned in the follow-up week ending January 21, SEA units comprise 133,000 (down 26%, equaling 177.11 million streams on demand for the album’s songs), album sales comprise 22,000 (reduction 70%) and TEA units comprise 4,000 (down 39%).
Since the Billboard 200 started classifying albums by equivalent units in December 2014, Dangerous it is the first country set to record two weeks of at least 150,000 units.
Notably, in the past 12 months, Dangerous it is only the fourth album, of all genres, to record at least two weeks of more than 150,000 units. Follow Taylor Swift’s Ever, Juice WRLD’s Legends never die and Lil Uzi Vert Eternal Atake – all with two weeks each with more than 150,000 units.
Ex-No. 1 of Pop Smoke Shoot the stars aim the moon rises 3 to 2 on the new Billboard 200 with 47,000 equivalent album units won (less than 1% increase). In the album’s 29 weeks on the chart, he was absent from the top 10 for just a week (January 2, No. 11 chart).
Why didn’t we reach a prominent career position as the group’s last album The good and the bad times bows at No. 3. The set starts with 46,000 equivalent album units won. Of this amount, 38,000 are album sales (making it the best-selling album of the week), 7,500 include SEA units (equivalent to 11.34 million streams on demand for the songs on the album) and slightly less than 500 include TEA units.
The previous record for Why Don’t We on the Billboard 200 came with the quintet’s last album, 8 letters, which debuted and reached the 9th position in the table dated September 15, 2018.
The new album was led by the single “Fallin ‘”, which marked the first hit of the Billboard Hot 100, when it reached 37th position on the list of October 17, 2020. The track also marked the group’s fifth success on the Pop Airplay chart, reaching 22nd position in November.
Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Ever falls 2 to 4 on the new Billboard 200 (41,000 equivalent album units won; down 26%) and on Ariana Grande’s previous leader Positions rises from 7 to 5 (39,000; 17% increase).
Since Republic Records is the record label distributor of Dangerous, Dream big …, Ever and Positions, the company has four of the five best albums of the week. It is the first time that a label has claimed four-fifths of the top five since Republic itself did so on the September 1, 2018 chart.
Lil Durk’s The voice drops 5-6 on the new Billboard 200 with 37,000 equivalent album units won (down 11%). Eminem’s former number 1 Music to be murdered jumps 19-7 with 33,000 units (51% increase) after the January 15 release of the album’s deluxe reissue on CD. The deluxe edition, dubbed Music to be murdered – side B, added extra tracks to the one-year album and was first released in digital retail and streamers on December 18, 2020. The vinyl release of the deluxe package is scheduled for August. (All versions of the album are tracked in the chart.)
A trio of ex-No. 1 closes the new top 10 of the Billboard 200, like The Weeknd’s After hours drops 6-8 (33,000 equivalent album units; down 6%), Juice WRLD’s Legends never die is stable at No. 9 (32,000; 3% increase) and Luke Combs’ What you see is what you get it goes down 8-10 (just under 32,000; an increase of 1%).