Morgan Wallen’s ‘One Thing at a Time’ Spends Second Week at No. 1 – Billboard

Morgan Wallens One after the other spends a second week at the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart (dating March 25) as the set earned 259,000 album equivalent units in the US in the week ended March 16, according to Luminate. That’s down 48% from the first week of 501,000 units a week ago.

One after the other records the biggest second week for an album since Taylor Swift midnight amassed 342,000 units in the week ended November 3, 2022 (chart as of November 12), after debuting 1.578 million units a week earlier.

One after the other‘s second week is almost as big as the opening week of Wallen’s last album, Dangerous: The double albumwhich started with 265,000 units (week ended January 14, 2021, chart from January 23).

One after the other is the first album by a male act to have spent its first two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since Harry Styles. Harry’s house topped the charts for June 4 and 11, 2022 for its first two weeks. It is also the first country album to have peaked at No. 1 for its first two weeks since Dangerous spent its first 10 weeks at number 1 (charts from January 21 to March 27, 2021). (Country albums are those that have been successful or are eligible for billboard‘s Top Country Albums Chart.)

Also in the top 10 on the new Billboard 200 albums chart, TWICE and Miley Cyrus debut their latest efforts at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. To be ready And Endless summer vacation. Both acts are earning their biggest weeks by earned units since the chart began measuring by units in December 2014.

The Billboard 200 chart lists the week’s most popular albums in the United States based on multimetric consumption measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. The units include album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equates to one album sale, or 10 album tracks sold, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscribed official on-demand audio and video streams generated from tracks on an album. The new chart, dated March 25, 2023, will be published in full on billboard‘s website on March 21. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

From One after the otherThe 259,000 equivalent album units of earned in the week ended March 16, SEA units comprise 234,000 (down 39%, representing 308.06 million official on-demand streams of the 36 songs in the set), album sales comprise 21,000 (down 81%) and TEA units comprise 4,000 (down 53%). Notably, the album represents the second-biggest streaming week ever for a country album, with 308.06 million streams for its songs, behind the set’s debut frame (498.28 million).

TWICE hits the Billboard 200 as a career highlight as the pop ensemble’s new album To be ready debuts at No. 2 with 153,000 earned album equivalent units – the act’s biggest week ever. It is the fourth top 10 chart result for the South Korean group. Prior to that, the act had peaked at number 3 in their last two chart sets. Between 1&2: 11th mini album And Formula of Love: O+T=<3, the 3rd complete albumboth in 2021.

From To be readyThe 153,000 earned equivalent album units, album sales are 145,500, SEA units are 7,000 (equivalent to 10.28 official on-demand streams of the seven tracks in the set), and TEA units are 500.

Like many K-pop releases, To be ready was released in collectible physical format packs (11 different CDs [including exclusives for Barnes & Noble, Target and the group’s official webstore] and two vinyl LPs [one exclusive to Target and one exclusive to the act’s webstore). 86% of the album’s first-week sales came from its CD editions. CD variants of Ready contain a standard set of items and randomized elements (such as a postcards, photo cards, etc.).

Unusually, Ready to Be had a vinyl version of the album available on the same wide release date as the CD edition of the album, as most major K-pop titles in the past were initially available only as a physical album on CD – on no other physical formats (like vinyl or cassette).

TWICE recently scored its second charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, with the new album’s “Moonlight Sunrise,” spending one week on the list at No. 84 (Feb. 4, 2023 dated chart).

Miley Cyrus’ Endless Summer Vacation debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 119,000 equivalent album units earned – her biggest week since the chart began measuring by units in December of 2014. Endless Summer Vacation marks Cyrus’ 14th top 10-charting effort, including her releases billed to her Disney Channel character Hannah Montana.

Of Endless Summer Vacation’s 119,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 61,000 (equaling 80.61 on-demand official streams of the set’s 13 tracks – Cyrus’ biggest streaming week ever for an album), album sales comprise 55,000, and TEA units comprise 3,000. Aiding first-week sales for Endless Summer Vacation were four vinyl LP variants (including one exclusive to Target and two exclusive to her webstore) and two deluxe boxed sets (one with a puzzle and a CD, the other with a beach towel and a CD) sold exclusively through her webstore. 44% of Endless’ first week sales came from its vinyl editions.

Endless Summer Vacation was ushered in by the smash single “Flowers,” which has spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (through the most recently published chart, dated March 18). It marks her second No. 1 on the list, following 2013’s “Wrecking Ball.”

As Ready to Be and Endless Summer Vacation both launch with over 100,000 units, it’s the first time the chart has housed two debuting albums each with over 100,000 units since the Sept. 10, 2022-dated chart – when TWICE also factored in. That week, DJ Khaled’s God Did debuted at No. 1 with 107,000, while TWICE’s Between 1&2 debuted at No. 3 with just over 100,000.

Both Ready to Be and Endless Summer Vacation arrive with first weeks so significant that had either arrived on the chart in the four weeks before Wallen’s One Thing at a Time debuted (March 18-dated chart), and posted the same opening-numbers, either could have been No. 1. Here are the five weeks at No. 1 leading up to One Thing at a Time’s arrival: March 11-dated chart: 94,000 units (the debut week of Karol G’s Mañana Sera Bonito); March 4: 87,000 (SZA’s 10th week at No. 1 with SOS); Feb. 24: 93,000 (SOS’ ninth week at No. 1) and Feb. 18: 100,000 (SOS’ eighth week at No. 1).

The rest of the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 consists entirely of former No. 1s. SOS falls 2-4 (76,000 equivalent album units earned; down 8%), Mañana dips 3-5 (52,000; down 13%), Midnights descends 5-6 (47,000; down 3%), Dangerous is down a spot to No. 7 (39,000; a decline of 6%), Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains moves 7-8 (39,000; down 4%), Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti falls 8-9 (36,000; down 5%) and Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss is a non-mover at No. 10 (34,000; down less than 1%).

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.