Toby Keith’s 35 Greatest Hits re-enters the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Feb. 17) at No. 1, following the nation celebrity’s dying on Feb. 5 of abdomen most cancers. It’s the fifth chart-topper for Keith on the all-genre chart, and first since 2010.
The most effective-of assortment earned 66,000 equal album models within the monitoring week ending Feb. 8 (up 953%). The album was initially launched in 2008 and initially peaked at its debut rank of No. 2 on the checklist dated Could 24, 2008. It accommodates 31 of Keith’s 42 prime 10 hits on Billboard’s Scorching Nation Songs chart, together with 15 of his 20 No. 1s.
35 Greatest Hits is Keith’s first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since 2010’s Bullets within the Gun. He additionally topped the tally with Huge Canine Daddy (2007), Shock’N Y’all (2003) and Unleashed (2002). Throughout his lifetime, he logged 14 prime 10-charting albums (inclusive of his 5 No. 1s).
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multimetric consumption as measured in equal album models, compiled by Luminate. Models comprise album gross sales, monitor 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 Feb. 17, 2024-dated chart shall be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Feb. 13. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X and Instagram.
Of 35 Greatest Hits’ 66,000 models earned within the monitoring week ending Feb. 8, SEA models comprise 46,000 (up 689%, equaling 64.04 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 35 songs), album gross sales comprise 11,000 (up 3,251%) and TEA models comprise 9,000 (up 6,966%).
35 Greatest Hits is the primary posthumous No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since Pop Smoke’s Religion debuted at No. 1 on the July 31, 2021, chart, following his dying on Feb. 19, 2020. The final retrospective album to hit No. 1 posthumously was Prince’s The Very Finest Of, which topped the chart dated Could 7, 2016, following his dying on April 21 of that 12 months. 35 Greatest Hits is the primary retrospective album to succeed in No. 1 since BTS’ Proof opened at No. 1 on the June 25, 2002 chart.
Additionally, as 35 Greatest Hits replaces one other nation album at No. 1 — Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at Time, which dips to No. 2 — it’s first time in additional than 9 years that one nation album has changed one other at No. 1. It final occurred in late October and early November of 2014, when three nation albums every debuted at No. 1 and spent one week in succession: Blake Shelton’s Bringing Again the Sunshine (Oct. 18), Jason Aldean’s Previous Boots, New Grime (Oct. 25) and Florida Georgia Line’s Something Goes (Nov. 1).
Again on the brand new Billboard 200, One Factor at a Time slips one spot to No. 2 with 65,000 equal album models (down 2%). 4 extra former No. 1s observe Wallen’s, as SZA’s SOS steps 6-3 (53,000; up 28%), 21 Savage’s American Dream falls 2-4 (51,000; down 16%), Taylor Swift’s Midnights rises 9-5 (51,000; up 35%) and Drake’s For All of the Canines descends 3-6 (49,000; down 4%). SZA and Swift each acquire thanks partially to publicity throughout the Grammy Awards’ CBS-TV broadcast (Feb. 4). The previous carried out and received greatest R&B tune (for SOS single “Snooze”), whereas the latter received two trophies (each for Midnights: album of the 12 months and greatest pop vocal album).
Noah Kahan’s Stick Season slips 4-7 on the Billboard 200 with 49,000 equal album models earned (although up 4%), Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Model) is pushed down 5-8 with 48,000 models (up 7%) and Swift’s former chief Lover can also be squeezed down regardless of a acquire, falling 7-9 with 45,000 models (up 13%). Zach Bryan’s self-titled chart-topper rounds out the highest 10, falling 8-10 with 42,000 models (whereas up 5%).
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