Future and Metro Boomin’s collaborative album We Don’t Belief You debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated April 6) with 2024’s largest week by equal album items earned, in addition to streams generated by a set’s songs. It lands Future his ninth No. 1 and Metro Boomin his fourth.
The set launches with 251,000 equal album items earned within the U.S. within the week ending March 28, in keeping with Luminate, almost fully pushed by streaming exercise. That marks the most important week of 2024 by any album, Future’s second-largest week ever and Metro Boomin’s largest week.
Additionally within the prime 10 of the brand new Billboard 200, Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping Guts zooms 18-2 following a deluxe reissue with further tracks, and Hozier’s new four-song EP Unheard begins at No. 10, largely powered by its streaming-driven hit “Too Candy.”
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, observe equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks bought 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 brand new April 6, 2024-dated chart shall be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on April 2. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of We Don’t Belief You’s first-week unit sum of 251,000, SEA items comprise 245,000 (equaling 324.31 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 17 songs), conventional album gross sales comprise 4,500 (the album was solely accessible to buy as a digital obtain by means of conventional digital retailers together with iTunes and the Amazon Digital Music Retailer) and TEA items comprise 1,500.
With 251,000 items earned, the album yields the biggest week of 2024, Metro Boomin’s largest week ever, and Future’s second-largest week ever. For the latter, he logged a much bigger week solely with one other joint effort, when his team-up with Drake on What a Time to Be Alive scored 375,000 items in its opening week (Oct. 10, 2015-dated chart), largely powered by conventional album gross sales.
Additional, We Don’t Belief You’s SEA sum of 245,000 interprets to 324.31 million on-demand official streams for the set’s songs — the most important streaming week for any album since Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Model) racked up 375.49 million clicks for its 21 songs on the Nov. 11, 2023 chart. We Don’t Belief You additionally claims the most important streaming week for any album by Future or Metro Boomin.
We Don’t Belief You was introduced on March 8 as the primary of a two-album venture, with its sequel, We Nonetheless Don’t Belief You, due April 12.
We Don’t Belief You boasts featured artists Kendrick Lamar, Playboi Carti, Rick Ross, Travis Scott and The Weeknd. Nevertheless, the set was initially unveiled on March 22 by means of digital platforms with out revealing the featured artists. A couple of days later, the set’s tracklist was up to date to show the visitor stars.
The album’s most-streamed track of the week is “Like That,” a co-billed observe with Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar, which despatched “social media into an absolute tizzy.” On the observe, Lamar “throws a number of volleys, suggestively focusing on Drake and J. Cole.”
Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping Guts flies 18-2 on the Billboard 200 with 73,000 equal album items earned (up 155%). The set surges again up the listing following its deluxe reissue on March 22 (dubbed the Guts [Spilled] version) with 5 further tracks. The Spilled version of Guts was issued as a digital obtain album and through streaming providers. It’s not accessible as a deluxe bodily album presently, however shall be issued on vinyl on July 19.
Of the 5 added songs, 4 of them (“Obsessed,” “Lady I’ve At all times Been,” “Frightened of My Guitar” and “Stranger”) had been beforehand issued as bonus tracks on vinyl editions of the unique Guts launch final yr, after which collected for a four-song vinyl EP, Guts: The Secret Tracks, that was issued for File Retailer Day Black Friday final November. The fifth added track to the brand new Guts deluxe is “So American,” a beforehand unreleased observe.
On the Billboard 200, Guts vaults to its highest rank for the reason that Oct. 7, 2023-dated listing, when it additionally positioned at No. 2 in its third week on the chart.
A pair of former No. 1s is subsequent up on the Billboard 200, as Ariana Grande’s Everlasting Sunshine falls 1-3 in its third week (72,000 equal album items; down 29%) and Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time dips 3-4 (68,000; down 3%). Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is regular at No. 5 with 44,000 (down 3%).
Former chart-toppers populate Nos. 6-9 on the most recent chart, and all are non-movers from the earlier week. SZA’s SOS is No. 6 (41,000; down 6%), Taylor Swift’s Lover is No. 7 (40,000; down 1%), Zach Bryan’s self-titled album is No. 8 (39,000; down 3%) and Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Model) is No. 9 (38,000; down 4%).
Hozier rounds out the highest 10 on the brand new Billboard 200 as his four-song EP Unheard debuts at No. 10. The set earned almost 38,000 equal album items, principally from streaming exercise. Of that beginning sum, SEA items comprise 34,000 (equaling 44.15 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 4 songs), album gross sales comprise 3,000 and TEA items comprise a negligible sum. Unheard marks Hozier’s fourth prime 10-charting effort, following Unreal Unearth (No. 3, 2023), Wasteland, Child! (No. 1, 2019) and his self-titled set (No. 2, 2014).
Unheard collects 4 songs that had been recorded for, however not included on, Unreal Unearth. Among the many 4 tracks is the gone-viral “Too Candy,” which drives a lot of the streaming exercise of Unheard. The track was first heard by means of a teaser snippet throughout Hozier’s March 6 look on the How Lengthy Gone podcast. The clip swiftly went viral by means of the artist’s fanbase, adopted by recognition on TikTok after which a heat embrace on streaming providers.
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