Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE AUGUST 9, 2021 Page 1 of 29 INSIDE Billie Eilish Earns Second • The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber’s No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart ‘Stay’ Hits No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 With ‘Happier Than Ever’ • Music Venues Are Now on the Frontline BY KEITH CAULFIELD of America’s Vaccination Effort Billie Eilish earns her second No. 1 album on the Bill- after When We All Fall Asleep and her debut chart board 200 chart, as her latest release, Happier Than entry Don’t Smile at Me (No. 14 peak in 2019). She also • Shara Senderoff Is Transforming the Ever, debuts atop the list with 238,000 equivalent hit the chart with Live at Third Man Records (No. 55 Music Biz, One Tech album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. in 2020) and Prime Day Show x Billie Eilish (No. 87 Startup at a Time 5, according to MRC Data. Happier launches with the earlier this year). fifth-largest week of 2021 by equivalent album units The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular • Ariana Grande Is Taking Over ‘Fortnite’ earned. The year’s biggest week belongs to Olivia albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric This Weekend: Inside Rodrigo’s Sour, which charged in at No. 1 on the June consumption as measured in equivalent album units. The Rift Tour 5 chart with 295,000 units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums Happier is Eilish’s first studio effort since (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each • Live Nation Says Artists Can Require 2019’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks Vaccination Proof which also launched at No. 1 (April 13, 2019-dated sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 at Concerts chart), and spent a total of three nonconsecutive paid/subscription on-demand official audio and weeks at No. 1. The set finished 2019 as the year-end video streams generated by songs from an album. • Liberty Media Revenue Gains on Top Billboard 200 Album and went on to win the The new Aug. 14, 2021-dated chart (where Hap- SiriusXM Strength Grammy Award for album of the year, and the 2020 pier Than Ever bows at No. 1) will be posted in full Billboard Music Award for Top Billboard 200 Al- on Billboard’s website on Aug. 10. For all chart news, • Major Labels bum. So far, the album has earned just over 5 million follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Hit Charter Communications equivalent album units in the U.S., with 1.2 million of Twitter and Instagram. With Second that in album sales. Of Happier Than Ever’s 238,000 equivalent album Copyright Suit All told, Happier is Eilish’s fifth charting effort units earned in the tracking week ending Aug. 5, on the Billboard 200, and third top 40-charting set, (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 album sales comprise 153,000 (making it the and even multiple cassette tape variants teenager at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, top-selling album of the week as well), SEA (including a deluxe boxed set). as Happier bumps F*ck Love, by the 17-year- units comprise 84,000 units (equaling 113.87 All those different configurations added old The Kid LAROI, down to No. 2 after one million on-demand streams of the album’s up. Of the 153,000 Happier sold across all week in the lead. F*ck Love earned 65,000 16 songs) and TEA units comprise a little its permutations, physical sales comprise equivalent album units (down 23%). more than 1,000. 129,000 (with a whopping 73,000 on vinyl, The top three of the Billboard 200 albums Happier was preceded by five top 46,000 on CD and nearly 10,000 on cassette) chart is ruled by teens, as 18-year-old Olivia 40-charting songs on the Billboard Hot and 24,000 via digital download. Rodrigo is No. 3 with her former No. 1 Sour. 100 chart: “My Future,” “Therefore I Am,” Happier’s vinyl sales of 73,000 were so It dips 2-3 in its 11th week on the list. “Your Power,” “Lost Cause” and “NDA.” Of large, the album would have been No. 1 Prince’s archival studio album Welcome those, “My Future” was first out of the gate, on the Billboard 200 this week from just 2 America debuts at No. 4, marking the 20th hitting the Hot 100 on the Aug. 15, 2020-dat- vinyl sales alone, as the No. 2 title, The Kid top 10 for the legend and his highest chart- ed chart. LAROI’s F*ck Love, earned 65,000 equiva- ing new release since 2009. (Prince died in Happier’s first week was supported by lent album units (down 23%). Happier’s 2016.) Recorded in 2010, but not released sturdy sales, with its 153,000 sold marking vinyl sales start of 73,000 marks both the until July 30 of this year, Welcome starts the third-biggest sales week of 2021, and second-largest sales week, and debut week, with 55,000 equivalent album units earned. the second-largest debut sales week of the for a vinyl album since MRC Data began Of that sum, album sales comprise just over year. Only Taylor Swift managed bigger tracking sales in 1991. The only larger week 50,000 (bolstered by an array of available sales weeks, when her 2020 album Ever- was registered by the arrival of Swift’s Ev- configurations), SEA units comprise 4,000 more was released on vinyl in May, causing ermore on vinyl earlier this year (102,000; (equaling 5.9 million on-demand streams of a huge surge in total sales (rising to 192,000 chart dated June 12). the set’s 12 songs) and TEA units comprise on the chart dated June 12) and when Fear- Evermore’s vinyl release on May 28 trailed less than 1,000. less (Taylor’s Version) was released, selling the wide digital release of the album by five Welcome 2 America is the late legend’s 179,000 copies in its first week (April 24). months, as the digital and streaming edi- highest charting new album since 2009’s Lo- Happier was available in a great number tions were released on Dec. 11, 2020. Ever- tus Flow3r/MPLSound/Elix3r (with Bria of physical album formats. They include more’s vinyl debut was aided by five months Valente) debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the eight different colored vinyl LPs (including of banked pre-orders (the vinyl went up for April 18, 2009-dated chart. (Prince charted retail-exclusives for Amazon, independent sale in mid-December), while Eilish had higher since then, but only with previously record stores, Target, Urban Outfitters three months of pre-orders (her pre-order released titles following his death in 2016, and Walmart), 10 CD variants (including a went live at the end of April). And lastly, Ev- including the No. 1 The Very Best of Prince.) signed CD for indie stores, a version with ermore was initially available in three vinyl Doja Cat’s Planet Her falls 3-5 on the new alternative packaging hand-painted by Eil- variants for its May 28 release, as compared Billboard 200 (55,000 equivalent album units ish, three premium boxed sets and a Target- to Eilish’s eight vinyl variants. earned; down 4%) and Morgan Wallen’s for- exclusive edition packaged with a poster) The 19-year-old Eilish replaces another mer No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album dips 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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