Bulletin YOUR DAILY ENTERTAINMENT NEWS UPDATE FEBRUARY 24, 2020 Page 1 of 25 INSIDE Justin Bieber Earns Seventh • Roddy Ricch’s No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart ‘The Box’ Tops Hot 100 For Seventh With ‘Changes’ Week; Dua Lipa Hits Top 5; Justin Bieber, BY KEITH CAULFIELD The Weeknd Go Top 10 Justin Bieber scores his seventh No. 1 album on the years, since Purpose debuted at No. 1 on the Dec. 5, • Paul Rosenberg to Billboard 200 chart as Changes debuts atop the tally. 2015-dated chart with 649,000 units (with 522,000 of Step Down as Def The set, which was released on Feb. 14 via SchoolBoy/ that sum in album sales). Jam Chairman/CEO: Exclusive Raymond Braun/Def Jam Recordings, earned 231,000 Of Changes’ first-week sum, 126,000 are in album equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending sales, 101,000 are in SEA units (equating to 135 million • JYP Entertainment Feb. 20, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. on-demand streams of the songs on the album) and & Republic Records Bieber leads a busy top 10, where A Boogie Wit 4,000 are in TEA units. The album’s sales were bol- Enter Strategic stered by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer Partnership For da Hoodie, Tame Impala and Monsta X also arrive Girl Group Twice: with their latest efforts. with Bieber’s upcoming tour, and many merchandise/ Exclusive The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular album bundle offers sold via Bieber’s official webstore. albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric Notably, at 25, Bieber is the youngest solo artist to • TEG Acquires consumption as measured in equivalent album units. achieve seven No. 1 albums. (He turns 26 on March Australian Concert Promoter Van Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums 1.) Previously, the youngest soloist to land seven No. Egmond Group (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The 1s was Elvis Presley, who logged his seventh leader new Feb. 29-dated chart, where Changes enters at No. 1, (of 10 total) when he was 26 years and 11 months old • Warner Records will be posted in full on Billboard’s website on Feb. 25. (with Blue Hawaii on Dec. 11, 1961). Elevates Norva Changes’ 231,000 first-week units represent the If one included groups in our calculation, all four Denton to SVP of A&R third-largest week of 2020 for an album, behind the members of The Beatles were younger than Bieber on debut frames of Eminem’s Music to Be Murdered the occasion of the band’s seventh No. 1. The Fab Four By (279,000; chart dated Feb. 1) and Halsey’s Manic achieved their seventh leader (of a record 19) with (239,000; also Feb. 1). Rubber Soul on Jan. 8, 1966. At the time, the oldest Changes is Bieber’s first album in more than four (continued) Republic_05_022920.indd 1 2/21/20 2:00 PM Page 3 of 25 IN BRIEF member of the group was Ringo Starr, who Tame Impala achieves its highest chart- language album, All About Luv. The set was only 25 years and six months old, while ing album ever on the Billboard 200, as launches with 52,000 equivalent album the youngest member, George Harrison, The Slow Rush bows at No. 3 with 110,000 units earned, with 50,000 of that sum com- was just 22 years and 10 months old. equivalent album units (with 80,000 of prising album sales. All About Luv is Monsta Changes marks not only Bieber’s seventh that in album sales). The act previously X’s first album for Epic Records sincesign - No. 1, but his ninth top 10 effort — the en- topped out at No. 4 in 2015 with Currents. ing with the label in 2019. tirety of his charting albums. Here’s a look Further, The Slow Rush logs Tame Impala All About Luv’s first week was bolstered at all nine of his albums on the Billboard its best sales week for an album, trumping by sales generated from a concert ticket/ 200: Changes (No. 1), Purpose (No. 1; Dec. the 45,000 first-week sales of Currents. (The album sale redemption offer, a bevy of mer- 5, 2015), Believe: Acoustic (No. 1; Feb. 16, Slow Rush’s sales were goosed by a concert chandise/album bundles, in-store appear- 2013), Believe (No. 1; July 7, 2012), Under ticket/album sale redemption offer with the ances during street week, and more than a the Mistletoe (No. 1; Nov. 19, 2011), Never act’s upcoming tour, as well as a handful of dozen different variants of the album avail- Say Never: The Remixes EP (No. 1; March merchandise/album sale bundles sold via its able for fans to purchase (such as multiple 5, 2011), My Worlds Acoustic (No. 7; Dec. 11, webstore.) CD editions, each with a different cover for 2010), My World 2.0 (No. 1 for four weeks; The Slow Rush was also a hot seller on one of the group’s members). April 10, 2010) and My World EP (No. 5; vinyl LP, as 32% of the album’s first-week While All About Luv is Monsta X’s first April 10, 2010). sales were generated by its vinyl configura- Billboard 200 entry, the act has charted on At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, A Boo- tion. The set sold just under 26,000 vinyl other Billboard tallies since 2015 following gie Wit da Hoodie’s Artist 2.0 debuts with copies — the seventh-biggest sales week for its formation on a TV competition show in 111,000 equivalent album units — nearly all a vinyl album since Nielsen Music/MRC its home country that same year. Among from streaming activity. Of the set’s starting Data began tracking music data in 1991. those charting efforts were nine top 10s on sum, 106,000 are in SEA units (equaling (The largest week for a vinyl album in the the World Albums chart between 2016 and 149 million in on-demand streams of songs Nielsen era was logged by the debut week of 2019 (all released via Starship Entertain- from the album), making it the No. 1 most- Jack White’s Lazaretto in 2014, with 40,000 ment). The World Albums chart ranks the streamed album of the week. The remainder sold.) week’s most popular albums in the U.S. that of the album’s units were driven by album Roddy Ricch ’s Please Excuse Me for Be- are, generally speaking, titles that contain sales (3,000) and TEA units (1,000). Artist ing Antisocial falls from No. 1 to No. 4 on native music or native-language music from 2.0 is A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s sixth chart- the new Billboard 200 chart with 70,000 countries outside the U.S. ing album and third top 10 effort, following equivalent album units earned (down 11%). Back on the new Billboard 200, Post Hoodie SZN (No. 1 on Jan. 19, 2019) and The The set has logged four total weeks on top. Malone’s former No. 1 Hollywood’s Bleeding Bigger Artist (No. 4 on Oct. 21, 2017). Of Monsta X rounds out the new arrivals in descends from No. 2 to No. 6 with 50,000 note, the rapper’s last album, Hoodie SZN, the top 10, as the six-member South Korean equivalent album units earned (down 4%), also debuted at No. 2 (on Jan. 5, 2019), but vocal group makes its Billboard 200 chart while Billie Eilish ’s former leader When We waited until Jan. 19 to ascend to No. 1. debut at No. 5 with its first all-English- All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? dips from DECISIVE INTELLIGENCE. DELIVERED DIGITALLY. CLICK HERE FOR FREE DELIVERY DIGITAL NEWSLETTERS Page 5 of 25 IN BRIEF No. 5 to No. 7 with 44,000 units (down 4%). MRC Data. It pushes 8-7 on Digital Song Lipa’s second No. 1 on the Pop Songs air- Pop Smoke’s Meet the Woo, V.2 is pushed Sales, down 3% to 11,000 sold in the week play ranking, after “Rules” reigned for four down one spot to No. 8, though with an 11% ending Feb. 20, and 13-10 on Radio Songs, weeks, also in February 2018. increase in units (to 40,000) in its second gaining by 12% to 59.3 million all-format Arizona Zervas’ “Roxanne” bumps 7-6 on week on the list. The album gains in the airplay audience impressions in the week the Hot 100, after reaching No. 4; Maroon wake of fan reaction to the rapper’s death ending Feb. 23, as it leads the Mainstream 5’s “Memories” drops 4-7, after hitting No. 2; on Feb. 19. R&B/Hip-Hop and Rhythmic Songs format and Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” Rounding out the new top 10 are Emi- airplay charts for a second week each. keeps at No. 8, after it spent three weeks at nem’s former chart-topper Music to Be Mur- “The Box” concurrently tops the Hot No. 1. dered By, slipping from No. 3 to No. 9 with R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs Bieber’s “Intentions,” featuring Quavo, 39,000 equivalent album units earned (down charts, which employ the same multi-metric rises 11-9 on the Hot 100, as parent album 23%), and Halsey’s Manic, falling from No. 8 formula as the Hot 100, for an eighth week Changes launches as Bieber’s seventh No.