Sabrina Carpenter ’s Short n’ Sweet stays steady atop the Billboard 200 (dated Sept. 14) for a second week, after opening at No. 1 a week ago. In its second frame, the album earned nearly 156,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 5 (down 57%), according to Luminate.
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That 156,000-unit sum is substantial for an album’s second week in recent times. In the last 12 months, only three other albums have logged a second week as big as Short n’ Sweet ’s. Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department tallied 439,000 units in its second week (chart dated May 11; down from its 2.61 million-unit debut), Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) earned 245,000 in its second week (Nov. 18, 2023; down from 1.653 million) and Drake’s For All the Dogs earned 164,000 in its second week (Oct. 28, 2023; down from 402,000).
Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, LE SSERAFIM captures it third top 10-charting effort with the No. 7 arrival of CRAZY , while Destroy Lonely achieves his first top 10 as Love Lasts Forever enters at No. 10.
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 Sept. 14, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard ‘s website on Tuesday, Sept. 10. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Short n’ Sweet ’s nearly 156,000 equivalent album units earned in its second week, SEA units comprise a little more than 126,000 (down 28%, equaling 168.45 million on-demand official streams of the album’s 12 songs; it holds at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart, as well), album sales comprise just over 28,000 (down 85%) and TEA units comprise a bit more than 1,000 (down 38%).
Post Malone’s former leader F-1 Trillion rises one rung to No. 2 with 85,000 equivalent album units earned (down 24%), Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is up a spot to No. 3 with 61,000 (down 15%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time steps 5-4 with 55,000 (down 5%) and Swift’s former No. 1 The Tortured Poets Department climbs 6-5 with 53,000 (down 7%).
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft rises one rung to No. 6 on the latest Billboard 200, earning 48,000 equivalent album units (down 9%).
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LE SSERAFIM’s CRAZY debuts at No. 7 with 46,500 equivalent album units earned, landing the Korean pop ensemble its third top 10-charting effort – and largest week by units earned. Of its starting sum, album sales comprise 37,500 (it’s No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 9,000 (equaling 12.08 million on-demand official streams of the set’s five songs; with over half of that sum driven by the title track) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. CRAZY ’s first-week was bolstered by its availability across more than 20 CD variants, all containing collectible branded paper ephemera such as photocards, postcards, stickers, and posters.
Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene rises 9-8 on the new Billboard 200 with 39,000 equivalent album units earned (down 6%). Noah Kahan’s Stick Season climbs 10-9, with nearly 39,000 equivalent album units earned (up 5%) in the week ending Sept. 5. The set’s gain is concurrent with the Aug. 30 arrival of Kahan’s new album, Live From Fenway Park .
Rapper Destroy Lonely lands his first top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 as his second studio album, Love Lasts Forever , bows at No. 10 with 37,500 equivalent album units earned – his best week by units. Of its starting sum, album sales comprise 19,000, SEA units comprise 18,500 (equaling 25.19 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The album’s first week was bolstered by its availability in a signed CD edition and two digital download album variants – all exclusive to the artist’s webstore. The latter two were each sold for $5 and each included five additional bonus songs (five different songs per variant).
UPDATE (Sept. 9): This article has been updated to reflect newly processed data from Luminate, including a rank change for the titles at Nos. 8 and 9.
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.
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