Five Usher Albums Shake Up Billboard 200 After 2024 Super Bowl Show

Following Usher’s 2024 Tremendous Bowl halftime present on Feb. 11, 4 of his catalog albums surge on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Feb. 24), alongside the debut of his new launch, Coming Residence, at No. 2.

Coming Residence arrives on the record with 91,000 equal album models earned within the U.S. within the week ending Feb. 15, in accordance with Luminate. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 53,000 – making it the top-selling album of the week, and the most important gross sales week for any R&B album in additional than 4 years.

4 extra Usher albums dot the Billboard 200: his former No. 1 Confessions, launched in 2004, flies 92-15 with 33,500 models (up 199%), 2010’s chart-topping Raymond V Raymond re-enters at No. 68 (14,000; up 154%), 2001’s 8701 re-enters at No. 122 (10,000; up 187%) and 1997’s My Method re-enters at No. 197 (8,000; up 175%). The 4 albums home songs that Usher carried out throughout his halftime present.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. primarily based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album models, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, observe equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

In whole, Usher’s catalog of albums, together with Coming Residence, earned 145,000 equal album models within the week ending Feb. 15 – up 428% in comparison with the earlier week (27,500 models). Eradicating Coming Residence from the equation, his albums earned 54,500 models for the week – up 98% in comparison with the earlier week (27,500 models).

In the meantime, Usher’s halftime nearer, “Yeah!,” that includes Lil Jon and Ludacris, re-enters the Billboard Sizzling 100 songs chart at No. 20 and Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at No. 8. It’s the only’s first look on both chart since 2004, when the Confessions’ smash spent 12 weeks atop the Sizzling 100 and eight weeks main the Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs tally. Within the week ending Feb. 15, “Yeah!” earned 13.4 million official streams (up 142%), 8.7 million in airplay viewers (up 66%) and bought 11,000 downloads (up 636%).