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Noah Kahan<\/a>\u2019s The Great Divide<\/em> spends a second week atop the Billboard 200<\/a> (dated May 16) following its debut a week ago. The set earned 163,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending May 7 (down 58% compared to its opening of 389,000), according to Luminate.<\/p>\n The Great Divide<\/em> is the first rock album to spend at least two weeks at No. 1 in nearly three years. Zach Bryan\u2019s self-titled set was the last rock set with two weeks at No. 1, in September 2023. (Rock albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Top Rock Albums chart.)<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Kacey Musgraves<\/a> collects her sixth top 10 \u2014 all of which have debuted in the top five \u2014 as Middle of Nowhere<\/em> starts at No. 3. Plus, the success of the Michael Jackson<\/a> biopic Michael<\/em> continues to shine on the chart, as Jackson has two albums in the top 10. His former No. 1 Thriller<\/em> rises 7-5 and the hits collection Number Ones<\/em> jumps 13-6.<\/p>\n The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 16, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on May 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.<\/p>\n Of The Great Divide<\/em>\u2019s 163,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 137,000 (down 35%, equaling 139.5 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks; it spends a second week at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 26,000 (down 85%; it falls 1-2 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise the remainder (down 66%).<\/p>\n Ella Langley<\/a>\u2019s former leader Dandelion<\/em> holds at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 103,000 equivalent album units earned (down 8%).<\/p>\n Kacey Musgraves\u2019 Middle of Nowhere<\/em> debuts at No. 3 with 100,000 equivalent album units earned, her best week ever by units. It\u2019s the singer-songwriter\u2019s sixth top 10, all of which have debuted in the top five. Of the album\u2019s starting figure, album sales comprise 64,500 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 35,000 (equaling 35.54 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs, it debuts at No. 10 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 500.<\/p>\n Middle of Nowhere<\/em> is Musgrave\u2019s sixth studio album and was announced<\/a> in early March. The project \u2014 which features collaborations with Gregory Alan Isakov, Miranda Lambert, Willie Nelson and Billy Strings \u2014 was led by the single \u201cDry Spell\u201d (peaking at No. 15 on Hot Country Songs in March) and released on May 1. Musgraves\u2019 Middle of Nowhere arena tour launches on Aug. 21 in Chicago and continues through the end of October.<\/p>\n The new album\u2019s first-week sales were aided by its availability across 16 physical variants (including signed editions) and a deluxe download edition with two bonus tracks.<\/p>\n Chart-watchers take note: This is the second top 10-charted album with the exact title Middle of Nowhere<\/em>. Brother trio Hanson reached No. 2 with their album of their same name in 1997.<\/p>\n Morgan Wallen\u2019s former No. 1 I\u2019m the Problem<\/em> falls 3-4 on the latest Billboard 200 with 83,000 equivalent album units earned (up 3%).<\/p>\n Michael Jackson has a pair of albums in the top 10 as the buzz generated from the Michael<\/em> biopic continues to resonate on the chart. His chart-topping Thriller<\/em> climbs 7-5 (62,000 equivalent album units, up 36%) and best-of set Number Ones<\/em>, released in 2003, reaches the top 10 for the first time, rising 13-6 (62,000 units, up 65%), becoming his 11th top 10.<\/p>\n With Number Ones<\/em>\u2019 ascent, Jackson, who died in 2009, has now claimed at least one new top 10 album in every decade from the 1970s onwards as a soloist. And, he\u2019s only the fifth act overall to do so, joining Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and James Taylor.<\/p>\n Jackson found two new top 10s in the 1970s (first with Ben<\/em> peaking at No. 5 in 1972 and then with Off the Wall<\/em>, which reached the top 10 in September 1979 and peaked at No. 3 in February 1980); two in the \u201980s (Thriller<\/em>, No. 1 for 37 weeks in 1983-84; Bad<\/em>, No. 1 for six weeks in 1987); two in the \u201990s (Dangerous<\/em>, No. 1 for four weeks in 1991-92, and HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book 1<\/em>, No. 1 for two weeks in 1995); two in the 2000s (Invincible<\/em>, No. 1 for one week in 2001, and his first posthumous top 10, the soundtrack to Michael Jackson\u2019s This Is It<\/em>, No. 1 for one week in 2009); two in the \u201910s (Michael<\/em>, No. 3 in 2011 and Xscape<\/em>, No. 2 in 2014); and now one in the \u201920s with Number Ones<\/em>.<\/p>\n BTS\u2019 chart-topping ARIRANG<\/em> falls 5-7 on the latest Billboard 200 (49,000 equivalent album units earned, down 13%), Olivia Dean\u2019s The Art of Loving<\/em> is steady at No. 8 (42,000, down 3%), Wallen\u2019s former leader One Thing at a Time<\/em> is a non-mover at No. 9 (40,000, up 3%), and Bad Bunny\u2019s former No. 1 DeB\u00cd TiRAR M\u00e1S FOToS<\/em> climbs 12-10 (37,000, down 3%).<\/p>\n Luminate, the independent data provider to the\u00a0<\/em>Billboard\u00a0charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with\u00a0<\/em>Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a> Billboard VIP Pass<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Noah Kahan\u2019s The Great Divide spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 (dated May 16) following its debut a week ago. 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