
BTS & Ye Dominate Billboard 200
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BTSs ARIANG album maintains its top spot on the Billboard 200 for a second week, with 187,000 equivalent album units sold in the US. Despite a significant drop from its debut, it still outperforms other number one albums this year. Ye, formerly Kanye West, debuts at number two with BULLY, while Melanie Martinezs HADES and Yeats ADL follow at numbers three and five, respectively. Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs slip to four and six, respectively, with holdovers rounding out the top ten.
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Music News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! — BTS & Ye Dominate Billboard 200. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
On April 5, BTS's Orioning album stays at number 1 on the Billboard 200 for a second straight week. It racked up 187,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. for the tracking period ending April 2nd. That's a 71% drop from its massive debut of 641,000 units, which was the biggest opening week of 20. 26 so far? Breaking it down, album sales made up 114,000 units, holding number 1 on the top album sales chart again. Streaming brought in 65,000 units from about 68 million on-demand streams, while track sales added 8,000. This marks BTS's longest run at the top among their 7 number 1 albums, beating out the others that each lasted just one week. Meanwhile, Y-A-Y, formerly Kanye West, lands his 14th top 10 album with bully debuting at number 2. It scored 152,000 units, mostly from 96,000 streaming equivalents off nearly 98 million streams.
He dropped the project with colorful vinyl variants, merch bundles, and even a music video for the track father featuring Travis Scott. Melanie Martinez hits number 3 with her 4th top 10 entry, H-A-D's, pulling in 84,000 units driven by 63,000 in sales. Thanks to varying ineditions and sign copies. Y-Aid follows at number 5 with ADL and 57,000 units, boosted by similar physical bundles and 31,000 from streams. Other spots see Morgan Wallen slip to 4, Luke combs down to 6, and holdovers like Olivia Dean, Don Tolliver, Bad Bunny, and Harry Styles rounding. Out the top 10, these charts blend sales, streams, and track equivalents all verified by Luminate for the April 11th edition. I'm Corey with the story. That's your music news today update. AI powered and always on.
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