Foo Fighters (photo: Danny Clinch)
Morgan Wallen‘s Dangerous: The Double Album spends an impressive fifth week at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, while the Country star’s previous album If I Know Me, climbs into the top 10 at #10. Wallen is still dealing with the fallout from video of him using a racial slur that led to his music being dropped from radio stations across the country and his record label “suspended” him, though it has seemingly not affected his popularity on the charts.
At #2 is a debut of sorts from The Weeknd, who released a new best-of collection titled The Highlights, timed with his Super Bowl halftime show performance. The Highlights earned 89,000 units in its first week, and due to the way Billboard now tracks digital songs, spins from his hits “Blinding Lights” and “Save Your Tears” counted towards The Highlights and not his latest studio album, After Hours. This caused After Hours to fall out of the top 10.
Foo Fighters earned their ninth top 10 release with Medicine at Midnight. The veteran rockers’ new album comes in at #3 with 70,000 equivalent album units earned. Out of that total, 64,000 comprised album sales, making Medicine at Midnight the top-selling album of the week.
The third debut of the week in the top 10 is 21-year-old rapper Pooh Shiesty with Shiesty Season. Lil Durk‘s The Voice is at #5, followed by Pop Smoke (#6), Ariana Grande (#7), Juice WRLD (#8) and Luke Combs (#9).
