Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ Guidelines at No. 1 for 2nd 7 days on Billboard 200 Chart

As well as: Beyoncé’s “The Lion King: The Gift” returns to top 10 immediately after “Black Is King” premiere on Disney+.

Taylor Swift’s Folklore holds atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for a next 7 days, earning 135,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 6, in accordance to Nielsen Audio/MRC Knowledge. The established is down 84% from its opening of 846,000 models – the major week for any album in 2020.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most well-known albums of the 7 days in the U.S. based on multi-metric use as calculated in equal album models. Units comprise album revenue, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each individual device equals one particular album sale, or 10 specific tracks marketed from an album, or 3,750 advert-supported or 1,250 compensated/membership on-demand from customers official audio and video clip streams produced by songs from an album. The new Aug. 15-dated chart (where Folklore continues to be at No. 1) will be posted in total on Billboard‘s web site on Aug. 11.

Of Folklore’s next-week units, SEA models comprise 102,000 (down 53%), album revenue whole 30,000 (down 95%) and TEA models equal 3,000 (down 81%).

A pair of former No. 1s are upcoming on the Billboard 200, as Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Goal for the Moon climbs 4-2 with 97,000 equivalent album units (however down 9%) and Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die is continuous at No. 3 with 88,000 models (down 18%). The authentic Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical rises 1 spot to No. 4 with 66,000 units (down 7%). Lil Little one’s former leader My Flip ascends 7-5 with 50,000 units (down 5%).

DaInfant’s Blame It on Newborn returns to the leading 10, skipping 11-6 with 43,000 equivalent album models (up 47%), soon after the album was reissued on Aug. 4 with 10 added tracks. The LP debuted at No. 1 on the Might 2-dated tally.

Blame It on Toddler is a single of at least 10 R&B and hip-hop albums released in 2020 that have been reissued in a deluxe format with added tracks. It most lately follows reissues of Lil Durk’s Just Trigger Y’all Waited 2 (launched May perhaps 8 reissued June 26 with 7 further tracks), Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Goal for the Moon (released July 3 reissued July 20 with 15 extra tracks), Jhené Aiko’s Chilombo (released March 6 reissued July 17 with 9 more tracks) and Gunna’s Wunna (introduced on May well 22 reissued on July 24 with 8 extra tracks).

Back again on the new Billboard 200, Harry Variations’ previous No. 1 Fine Line captures its 3rd straight weekly unit obtain, as it climbs 10-7 with 39,000 equal album models acquired (up 26%). The rise is concurrent with concentrated marketing around the album’s present strike single “Watermelon Sugar.”

Gunna’s preceding leader Wunna slips 6-8 with just less than 39,000 equivalent album models (down 42%) and Write-up Malone’s previous No. 1 Hollywood’s Bleeding is a non-mover at No. 9 with 33,000 models (down 1%).

Beyoncé closes out the major 10, as her album The Lion King: The Reward re-enters the chart at No. 10 with 27,000 equal album models gained (up 1,462%). The album initially debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Aug. 3, 2019-dated chart.

The Lion King: The Reward surges back again onto the chart following the July 31 premiere of Black Is King on Disney+.

Black Is King is dependent on the songs of The Lion King: The Present, and was created, directed and executive developed by Beyoncé.

The Lion King: The Present album also advantages from its reissue on July 31 with a few more tracks. The Lion King: The Reward album was initial unveiled on July 19, 2019, as a companion project to very last year’s movie remake of The Lion King (in which Beyoncé voices the character Nala).