Eminem achieves his eleventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated July 27) as his newest studio album, The Dying of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), debuts atop the record. The set launches with 281,000 equal album models earned within the U.S. within the week ending July 18, in keeping with Luminate. It scores the most important week for any rap album in 2024.
With an eleventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, Eminem ties Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand and Ye (previously Kanye West) for the fifth-most No. 1s on the Billboard 200. Forward of them are The Beatles (a report 19 No. 1s), Jay-Z and Taylor Swift (every with 14) and Drake (13).
Additionally within the prime 10 of the brand new Billboard 200, three acts all debut with their highest-charting albums ever, as ENHYPEN, Clairo and Megan Moroney’s newest releases enter at Nos. 2, 8 and 9, respectively. Plus, after 12 consecutive weeks at No. 1, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division spends its first week exterior the highest slot, falling to No. 4 in its thirteenth week on the record.
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Of The Dying of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)’s 281,000 first-week models, SEA models comprise 164,500 (equaling 220.08 million on-demand official streams of the tracks on the streaming version of the album; Dying additionally debuts at No. 1 on Prime Streaming Albums), album gross sales comprise 114,000 (all from digital downloads; it wasn’t out there as a bodily album) and TEA models comprise 2,500.
Dying’s first-week gross sales mark the most important gross sales week in 2024 for a rap album. It additionally nets the second-largest gross sales week this yr for a digital obtain album, behind solely the debut of Swift’s Poets with 274,000 downloads offered in its opening week.
Dying was out there to buy solely as a digital obtain and was issued broadly in each clear and specific editions, along with three additional variants offered solely in Eminem’s official webstore. Of the latter three, two had been offered as a pre-order for a restricted time earlier than the set’s launch, and every got here with their very own unique bonus monitor — one with “Kyrie & Luka,” that includes 2 Chainz, and one with “Like My Shit,” that includes FIFTEENAFTER. A 3rd webstore variant dropped on Wednesday (July 17), carrying each bonus tracks and an unique “Steve Berman” skit. The CD and vinyl editions of The Dying of Slim Shady are due for launch on Sept. 13 and Oct. 25, respectively.
Eminem’s new album was preceded by two prime 40-charting hits on the Billboard Sizzling 100, “Houdini,” which debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the June 15 chart, and “Tobey,” with Massive Sean and BabyTron, which climbed to No. 27 on the July 20 chart.
ENHYPEN captures its highest-charting album ever, and fourth prime 10, as Romance: Untold debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 124,000 equal album models earned — the act’s largest week ever by models. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 117,000 (the group’s finest gross sales week ever; the set debuts at No. 1 on Prime Album Gross sales), SEA models comprise 7,000 (equaling 9.53 million on-demand official streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA models comprise a negligible sum. The album’s gross sales had been bolstered by its availability throughout 17 totally different CD variants, all containing collectible paper ephemera like photocards, stickers and a poster, in addition to two vinyl editions.
Zach Bryan’s The Nice American Bar Scene slips 2-3 in its third week on the record (88,000 equal album models; down 36%) whereas Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division falls 1-4 (82,000; down 50%). The latter spent its first 12 weeks on the chart at No. 1.
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time dips 3-5 on the Billboard 200 with 66,000 equal album models earned (down 5%), Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Onerous and Comfortable descends 4-6 with 57,000 models (down 2%) and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess falls 5-7 with 54,000 models (down lower than 1%).
Clairo scores her highest-charting album ever, and first prime 10, as Allure enters at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 with 47,000 equal album models earned — her finest week ever by models. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 32,000 (her finest gross sales week ever), SEA models comprise 15,000 (equaling 19.78 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA models comprise a negligible sum. The set’s first-week gross sales was amplified by the album’s availability throughout eight vinyl variants and 4 deluxe boxed units (containing branded merchandise and a CD). Vinyl gross sales comprise 15,000 of the album’s first week – Clairo’s finest week ever on vinyl.
The album was preceded by the one “Attractive to Somebody,” which has reached the highest 20 of the Grownup Different Airplay chart, and the highest 30 of the Different Airplay and Sizzling Rock & Different Songs rankings.
Megan Moroney lands her first prime 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 as her second full-length studio album Am I Okay? bows at No. 9 with 43,000 equal album models earned — the singer-songwriter’s largest week by models. Of that sum, SEA models comprise 30,000 (equaling 38.05 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album gross sales comprise 13,000 and TEA models comprise lower than 500. The album was preceded by a trio of entries on the Sizzling Nation Songs chart: “No Caller ID,” “twenty eighth of June” and “Detached.” The brand new album’s success follows Moroney’s chart breakthrough in 2023 with the one “Tennessee Orange,” from her debut full-length, Fortunate (peaking at No. 38 on the Billboard 200 in 2023). “Tennessee” climbed to No. 10 on Sizzling Nation Songs and garnered tune of the yr nominations at each the Nation Music Affiliation Awards and the Academy of Nation Music Awards.
Closing out the highest 10 of the brand new Billboard 200 is Noah Kahan’s Stick Season, slipping 7-10 with 40,000 equal album models earned (although up 4%).
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