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Toby Keith, the boisterous, unapologetically patriotic nation star who died final week at 62, has a posthumous No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart, as a 16-year-old hits assortment narrowly edged out Morgan Wallen’s newest — and simply topped releases by the rapper 21 Savage and the Grammy winners Taylor Swift and SZA — to achieve the highest of the chart.
Keith’s “35 Biggest Hits,” with tracks like “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” “Who’s Your Daddy?,” “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” and the Willie Nelson duet “Beer for My Horses” — all of them No. 1 nation smashes — re-entered the Billboard 200 chart at No. 1. It had the equal of 66,000 gross sales within the United States, together with 64 million streams and 11,000 copies offered as an entire package deal, based on the monitoring service Luminate.
“35 Biggest Hits,” which got here out in 2008 on two CDs and beforehand reached as excessive as No. 2, turns into Keith’s fifth album to go to No. 1, and the primary since “Bullets within the Gun” in 2010.
“35 Biggest Hits” is the primary posthumous No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since “Faith” by Pop Smoke, in early 2021, a few 12 months after the Brooklyn rapper was killed in a capturing at age 20. Billboard notes that Keith’s assortment can also be the primary retrospective album to hit No. 1 since “The Very Best of Prince,” shortly after Prince’s dying in 2016.
The 66,000 equal gross sales for “35 Biggest Hits” barely beat out Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time,” a streaming blockbuster for a lot of the final 12 months that has logged a complete of 18 weeks at No. 1 and had the equal of 65,000 gross sales in its most up-to-date week, touchdown at No. 2.
Also this week, SZA’s “SOS” is No. 3, 21 Savage’s “American Dream” is No. 4 and Swift’s “Midnights” — the album of the 12 months winner on the Grammy Awards on Feb. 4 — rises 4 spots to No. 5.
