The country singer and songwriter Morgan Wallen has the No. 1 album for a third week in a row, the first time in eight years that a country LP has pulled a hat trick at the top of the Billboard album chart.
Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” had the equivalent of 130,000 sales in the United States, according to MRC Data, the tracking service formerly known as Nielsen Music, which is now owned by Billboard’s parent company. “Dangerous” is a rare country streaming smash; about 88 percent of the album’s consumption this week came through streaming, with 154 million clicks. It also sold 12,000 copies as a full package.
According to Billboard, “Dangerous” is the first country album since Taylor Swift’s “Red” in late 2012 to top the magazine’s overall Billboard 200 ranking for three weeks. (“Red,” which had pop hits like “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and “I Knew You Were Trouble,” was No. 1 on the Billboard 200 a total of seven times and also topped the country album chart.)
Also this week, the rapper Pop Smoke’s posthumous “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon” holds at No. 2 in its 30th week out, and Swift’s “Evermore” is No. 3. “After Hours” by the Weeknd — who is set to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show this Sunday — rose four spots to No. 4. Lil Durk’s “The Voice” is No. 5.
The only new release in the Top 10 is “Los Dioses” by the Puerto Rican rapper-singers Anuel AA and Ozuna, which opened at No. 10.
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