In an unprecedented turn of events, Morgan Wallen's "One Thing At A Time," stopped Young Thug's "Business is Business" from debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, effectively breaking the jailed rapper's record.
Despite the expectation that Thugger would debut atop, Wallen's hit country album made it difficult for him.
Morgan Wallen 'One Thing At A Time' Billboard 200
Morgan Wallen's "One Thing At A Time" continues its rule over the Billboard 200 albums chart as it logs its 15th nonconsecutive week. There were only two times that the album bowed out - and it was when Taylor Swift's "Midnights" bounced back to No. 1 and Stray Kids' "5-STAR" launched atop the June 10 and 17 charts.
According to Luminate, the album racked up 110,500 album equivalent units this week, with 104,000 units attributed to streaming. Meanwhile, album sales and track units comprised 4,5000 and 2,000 respectively.
The feat was not also a record for Wallen but for Republic Records too as he logs the label's 17th straight week at No. 1, the longest record for a label since 1992 when Billy Ray Cyrus dominated for 17 weeks with "Some Gave All."
Concurrently, "Last Night," the lead single of the album rules Billboard Hot 100 charts. It is not known yet if the track would again hold the top spot this week.
So far, "One Thing At A Time" spent the most weeks at the top since Adele's "21" reached 24 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 from 2011 to 2012.
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Young Thug 'Business is Business' Billboard 200
Unfortunately, Young Thug fell short of his supposed comeback to the top with "Business is Business." Morgan Wallen effectively stopped Thugger to bounce back, considering all of his previous studio albums have debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts, except this new record.
Billboard reports that the album finished at 89,000 album equivalent units - 80,000 attributed to streaming, 8,500 for album sales, and another 500 for track units. Should Thugger have debuted atop, it would have been the first hip-hop album to debut atop the Billboard 200 charts this year.
The publication also noted that "Business is Business" is the 11th album that "One Thing at A Time" has blocked from debuting at the summit. Among the acts that Wallen has blocked were - Metallica, Ed Sheeran, Niall Horan, NF, Melanie Martinez, and K-POP acts like Jimin, TWICE, Suga, SEVENTEEN, and ATEEZ.
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