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Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE AUGUST 16, 2021 Page 1 of 29 INSIDE Billie Eilish’s ‘Happier Than Ever’ • The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber Extend Spends Second Week at No. 1 on ‘Stay’ Atop Hot 100, The Weeknd’s Billboard 200 Albums Chart ‘Take My Breath’ Debuts in Top 10 BY KEITH CAULFIELD • Recording Academy’s Bill Freimuth, Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever holds atop the website on Aug. 17. For all chart news, follow @ Lourdes Lopez Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week, as the billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and and Lisa Farris Depart Following set earned 85,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. Instagram. Restructuring: in the week ending Aug. 12 (down 64%), according to Of Happier Than Ever’s 85,000 equivalent album Exclusive MRC Data. The album debuted at No. 1 a week ago units earned in the tracking week ending Aug. 12, SEA with 238,000 units – the fifth-largest week of 2021 units comprise 49,000 (down 42%, equaling 66.1 mil- • Live Nation Venues to Require for an album. Happier Than Ever is the second album lion on-demand streams of the album’s songs), album Vaccinations or released in 2021 to spend its first two weeks at No. 1, sales comprise 36,000 (the top-selling album of the Negative Test following Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double week; down 76%) and TEA units comprise less than Album (which spent 10 weeks at No. 1, all consecutive, 1,000 (down 55%). • Tencent Music Value Plummets from its debut on the Jan. 23-dated chart). Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour is up one spot Amid Regulatory The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular to No. 2 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned Uncertainty in China albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric (down 6%). consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Nas scores his 15th top 10 album on the Billboard • Madonna and Warner Music Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums 200, and highest charting effort since 2012, as King’s Group Announce (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each Disease II debuts at No. 3. The set, released on Aug. 6, Career-Spanning unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks earned 56,000 equivalent album units in its first week. Global Partnership sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 Of that sum, SEA units comprise 35,000 (equaling • Music Companies paid/subscription on-demand official audio and 47.44 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), Delay Return to Office, video streams generated by songs from an album. The album sales comprise 19,000 and TEA units comprise Mandating Vaccines new Aug. 21, 2021-dated chart (where Happier Than a little over 1,000. Ever holds at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard’s (continued) TOTAL IMMERSION ESSENTIAL ANALYSIS of the latest business topics and trends formulated to give industry players the competitive advantage in a rapidly changing market. EXCLUSIVE QUARTERLY REPORTS that deliver in-depth, holistic reporting; case studies; and custom data designed to serve the industry. A DEEP DIVE LIBRARY stocked with intelligence on fan data, SUBSCRIBE TO BILLBOARD PRO FOR song catalog sales, TV synchs, Africa’s burgeoning music ACCESS TO NEW REPORTS business and the gaming industry’s embrace of artists. AND THE ARCHIVE Page 3 of 29 IN BRIEF King’s Disease II was announced only a ing 3.96 million on-demand streams of the week before its release, on July 29, and is the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise less The Kid LAROI sequel to King’s Disease, which was released than 1,000. The album, Harrison’s third solo in 2020 and debuted and peaked at No. 5 on studio effort and first No. 1 album, topped & Justin Bieber the Billboard 200 (dated Sept. 5, 2020). The the Billboard 200 chart for seven consecu- new album is Nas’ highest-charting set since tive weeks in 1971 (Jan. 2-Feb. 13, 1971-dated Extend ‘Stay’ 2012’s Life Is Good debuted at No. 1 on the charts). It launched a pair of top 10 hits on Aug. 4, 2012-dated list. the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart: his first Atop Hot 100, Nas landed his first top 10 album 25 years No. 1, the double-sided hit “My Sweet Lord” ago, when his second studio album, It Was / “Isn’t It a Pity,” and the No. 10 hit “What The Weeknd’s Written, bowed at No. 1 on the July 20, Is Life.” 1996, chart. With All Things Must Pass’ return to the ‘Take My Breath’ The Kid LAROI’s former chart-top- top 10, it marks Harrison’s first time in the per F*ck Love falls 2-4 with nearly 56,000 region since 1988, when Cloud Nine peaked Debuts in Top 10 equivalent album units (down 15%), Doja at No. 8. It’s also Harrison’s highest rank Cat’s Planet Her is steady at No. 5 with since Dark Horse galloped to No. 4 on Jan. BY GARY TRUST 55,000 units (up 2%) and Wallen’s Danger- 25, 1975. (Harrison died in 2001.) ous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. Rounding out the new Billboard 200 top he Kid LAROI and Justin 6 with 44,000 units (down 2%). 10 are Lil Baby and Lil Durk’s former No. Bieber’s “Stay” spends a second George Harrison’s former No. 1 al- 1 The Voice of the Heroes (holding at No. 8 week at No. 1 on the Billboard bum All Things Must Pass returns to the with 28,000 equivalent album units earned; Hot 100 songs chart, a week af- top 10 for the first time since 1971, as the set down 6%), Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (sta- Tter ascending to the summit. re-enters at No. 7 following its 50th anniver- tionary at No. 9 with 27,000 units; down 6%) Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U,” at No. 2 on sary reissue on Aug. 6. The album was newly and Polo G’s former No. 1 Hall of Fame (a the Hot 100 after a week at No. 1, takes over mixed and reissued in a variety of formats non-mover at No. 10 with 24,000 units; as the most-heard song on U.S. airwaves, for its re-release. All versions of the album, down 4%). as it tops the Radio Songs chart. It also including the original 1970 release, are com- ties for the most weeks totaled in the Hot bined for tracking and charting purposes. 100’s runner-up spot (11), a mark first set by All together, the set earned 32,000 equiva- Whitney Houston’s “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” lent album units in the U.S. in the tracking in 1995-96. week ending Aug. 12 — up 1,401% (from Plus, The Weeknd’s “Take My Breath” about 2,000 in the week previous). Of its enters the Hot 100 at No. 6, arriving as his 32,000 units earned, album sales comprise 13th top 10. 28,000, SEA units comprise 3,000 (equal- The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. stream- AUTHORITATIVE INTELLIGENCE. DELIVERED DIGITALLY. CLICK HERE FOR FREE DELIVERY DIGITAL NEWSLETTERS ON SALE: AUG. 28, 2021 40 UNDER 40 On August 28th, Billboard will publish its annual 40 CONTACTS : Under 40 Issue, celebrating the next generation of leaders in the music industry. 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