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Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” was already a chart monster. The album, launched final March, spent its first 12 weeks at No. 1, then notched one other 4 by the autumn, and two extra early this 12 months. Thanks to constantly large streaming numbers, it was the most well-liked album of 2023.
Now Wallen has one other feather in his cap. “One Thing” has hit No. 1 for the nineteenth time, breaking Billboard’s document for many weeks on the high for a rustic album — surpassing Garth Brooks’s 1991 traditional “Ropin’ the Wind,” which had era-defining nation hits like “Shameless,” “What She’s Doing Now” and “The River.” (At least 11 non-country albums have logged extra weeks at No. 1 within the 68-year historical past of Billboard’s all-genre chart, together with Adele’s “21,” with 24 weeks, and the “West Side Story” soundtrack, with 54.)
In its newest week, Wallen’s “One Thing” had the equal of 68,000 gross sales within the United States, together with 90 million streams and a pair of,000 copies offered as a whole album, in keeping with the monitoring service Luminate.
That is a modest take for a No. 1 album, nevertheless it was sufficient in an in any other case sluggish week. With Ariana Grande’s long-awaited new album “Eternal Sunshine” already posting huge numbers, and positive hits by Beyoncé and Taylor Swift on the best way in coming weeks, this may appear Wallen’s final shot on the high. But it additionally appeared that method final June, when he posted his fifteenth week at No. 1. Or in October, for his sixteenth.
Also this week, Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season” climbs to No. 2, a brand new peak; launched a 12 months and a half in the past, the folk-pop-y “Stick Season” — with banjo, mandolin and catchy hooks — went to No. 3 final summer season and has been effervescent via the Top 10 for months.
“Vultures 1,” by Ye (previously often called Kanye West) and Ty Dolla Sign, holds at No. 3; followers proceed to attend for the promised launch of a second quantity. SZA’s “SOS” is No. 4 and Drake’s “For All the Dogs” is No. 5.
