Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE APRIL 19, 2021 Page 1 of 27 INSIDE Taylor Swift’s Re-Recorded ‘Fearless’ • Polo G Scores Album Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard First Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 With Debut 200 Chart With Year’s Biggest Week of ‘Rapstar’ BY KEITH CAULFIELD • Billboard Parent P-MRC Strikes Deal to Invest In SXSW More than 12 years after Taylor Swift notched her released until now. first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart in 2008 Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is the only No. 1 album of • Bad Bunny’s 2022 Tour Sells Out In with her second studio set Fearless, she’s back atop its kind: a re-recording of an artist’s (own or anoth- Record Time the list with a re-recorded version of the album, er’s) previously released album. titled Fearless (Taylor’s Version). The new set is her The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular • Gene Smith, Upbeat Billboard ninth No. 1 and scores the biggest week of 2021 for albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric Ad Executive and any album. It launches with 291,000 equivalent album consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Champion of Latin units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 15, Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums Music, Dies at 88 according to MRC Data. (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each • Shuttered Venue The original Fearless album debuted at No. 1 on the unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks Operator Grant Billboard 200 chart dated Nov. 29, 2008, and spent 11 sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 Applications nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart. paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video Expected to Relaunch Next Week On Feb. 11, 2021, Swift announced she had re- streams generated by songs from an album. The new recorded the 2008 album Fearless as Fearless (Taylor’s April 24, 2021-dated chart (where Fearless [Taylor’s • Beats Music Version). The new 26-track album has re-recordings Version] debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Bill- Co-Founder Ian Rogers on NFTs: ‘This of all 13 songs on Fearless, along with the six bonus board’s website on April 20. For all chart news, follow Is the Wild West’ songs added to a 2009 reissue of Fearless (dubbed the @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Platinum Edition) and the 2010 single “Today Was Instagram. • DMX’s ‘The Best of DMX’ Soars 73-2 a Fairytale.” Beyond those 20 re-recordings, Fear- Of Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’s 291,000 equivalent on Billboard 200 less (Taylor’s Version) also boasts six newly recorded album units earned in the tracking week ending April Albums Chart “from the vault” songs that were written for the 15, album sales comprise 179,000 (making it the top- original Fearless album, but were never recorded and (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 27 IN BRIEF selling album of the week), SEA units com- sion) scores the largest week for any album Dec. 13, 2014, survey. prise 109,000 units (equaling 142.98 million in 2021. It jumps past the previous high-wa- Strong Sales: With 179,000 copies sold in on-demand streams of the album’s tracks) ter mark, set when Morgan Wallen’s Dan- its first week, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) logs and TEA units comprise 3,000. gerous: The Double Album bowed at No. 1 the largest sales week for an album since Re-recordings of older songs or albums with 265,000 units (chart dated Jan. 23). Swift’s own Folklore sold 615,000 copies in are treated separately from their originals, The Three Largest Weeks for an Album its first week (chart dated Aug. 8, 2020). with independent chart histories for each in the Last Eight Months All Belong to Largest Streaming Week for a Country version. Thus, Fearless (Taylor’s Ver- Swift: Since August of 2020, Swift has Album by a Woman: Fearless (Taylor’s Ver- sion) charts separately from the original not only claimed three No. 1s, but also sion) bows with 109,000 SEA units — total- album. The 2008 Fearless album falls off the the three biggest weeks among albums in ing 142.98 million on-demand streams of new chart, after having re-entered a week units earned. On the Aug. 8, 2020-dated the album’s tracks. That hefty sum marks earlier at No. 157 (chart dated April 17). In chart, Folklore debuted at No. 1 with the biggest streaming week for a country the latest tracking week, the 2008 Fear- 846,000 units. Evermore arrived at No. 1 on album by a woman. It surpasses the previous less album earned 6,200 equivalent album the Dec. 26, 2020, chart with 329,000 units. record of 44.67 million streams tallied by units (down 19%). Of that 6,200 sum, SEA And now Fearless (Taylor’s Version) starts songs on the Brenda Lee collection Rockin’ units comprise 5,700 (down 21%, equal- with 291,000 units. Around the Christmas Tree: The Decca ing 7.71 million on-demand streams of its Biggest Week for a Country Album Christmas Recordings (Jan. 2, 2021, chart). tracks), album sales comprise 400 (up 15%) Since 2015: As Fearless (Taylor’s Ver- The album was powered by Lee’s evergreen and TEA units comprise 100 (down 8%). sion) bows with 291,000 units, it logs the holiday track “Rockin’ Around the Christ- Let’s take a look at some of notable feats largest week for a country album since 2015. mas Tree.” Swift achieves with the debut of Fearless The last country set to post a bigger frame Swift also scores the biggest debut stream- (Taylor’s Version): was Luke Bryan’s Kill the Lights, which ing week for a country album by a woman, Ninth No. 1 Album: As Fearless (Taylor’s debuted at No. 1 with 345,000 units (Aug. blowing past Maren Morris’ former Version) marks Swift’s ninth Billboard 200 29, 2015-dated chart). (Country albums high-water mark of 23.96 million streams No. 1, she ties Madonna for the second- are defined as those that have charted earned by Girl on the March 23, 2019-dated most No. 1 albums among women. Swift is on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. chart. (Morris had a hand in helping Swift closing in on Barbra Streisand’s all-time Both the original Fearless album and the to her record — she’s featured on the Fear- record among women of 11 No. 1 albums. new Fearless [Taylor’s Version] are charting less [Taylor’s Version] song “You All Over Me Among all artists, The Beatles have the on Top Country Albums.) [Taylor’s Version] [From the Vault].) most No. 1s, with 19. Among all soloists, Jay- Fearless (Taylor’s Version) has the biggest The biggest streaming week registered Z leads with 14. week for a country album by a female artist by any country album remains Wal- Biggest Week of 2021 by Units since the Billboard 200 chart transitioned len’s Dangerous, with 240.18 million streams Earned: With 291,000 equivalent album from an album-sales only ranking to an registered in its debut frame (chart dated units earned, Fearless (Taylor’s Ver- equivalent album units-based chart on the Jan. 23). AUTHORITATIVE INTELLIGENCE. DELIVERED DIGITALLY. CLICK HERE FOR FREE DELIVERY DIGITAL NEWSLETTERS 2021 NOEL SCHAJRIS 20TH ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE Latin Grammy winner, singer, songwriter and pianist Noel CONTACTS Schajris, has sold more than 25 million records and 1 million tickets since his first solo album 20 years ago, some Joe Maimone of his songs and albums had been appeared at the 201.301.5933 | [email protected] Billboard’s top ten charts. 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