Post Malone Scores Second No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With 'Hollywood's Bleeding

Post Malone charges in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with Hollywood’s Bleeding. The set opens with 489,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 12 in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music -- the second-biggest week of 2019 for any album. Of that total unit sum, 200,000 were in album sales.
Further, the album racked up 365.4 million on-demand audio streams for its tracks in its first week, delivering 2019’s biggest streaming week for an album.

Hollywood’s Bleeding is Post Malone’s second No. 1, following 2018’s beerbongs & bentleys, which debuted with 461,000 units (of which 153,000 were in album sales). The new album was released on Sept. 6 via Republic Records.

Hollywood’s Bleeding was preceded by four smash singles on the Billboard Hot 100: “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)” with Swae Lee (No. 1), “Wow.” (No. 2), “Goodbyes,” featuring Young Thug (No. 3) and “Circles” (No. 7, through the most recently published chart, dated Sept. 14). 

Republic Rules: Notably, both Hollywood’s Bleeding and Lover were released via Republic Records. Republic now holds the four biggest weeks of 2019 for an album: the debut frames of Lover (867,000), Hollywood’s Bleeding (489,000), Jonas Brothers’ Happiness Begins (414,000; chart dated June 22) and Grande’s Thank U, Next (360,000; chart dated Feb. 23).

Hooray for Hollywood: Hollywood’s Bleeding is the second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with the word Hollywood in its title. Previously, Wiz Khalifa’s Blacc Hollywood topped the list for one week on Sept. 6, 2014.

Back on the new Billboard 200, Taylor Swift’s Lover holds in the runner-up slot for a second week, with 104,000 equivalent album units earned (down 42%). Lover is in its third week on the list, and bowed at No. 1 with 867,000. Thus, Lover has earned over 100,000 in its first three weeks on the list, making it just the second album to tally 100,000-plus units in three weeks in 2019 after Grande’s Thank U, Next (which claimed 100,000-plus in its first three weeks as well).

Melanie Martinez earns her second top 10 album and highest charting set yet, as K-12 debuts at No. 3 on the new Billboard 200 with 57,000 equivalent album units (with 30,000 of that sum in album sales). K-12 is Martinez’s second full-length studio set, following 2015’s Cry Baby, which debuted and peaked at No. 6 on the Sept. 5, 2015-dated list with 40,000 units in its first week (32,000 in album sales). Cry Baby went on to earn 1.4 million units, and has collected 1.1 billion on-demand audio streams for its tracks.

Young Thug’s former No. 1 So Much Fun rises one spot to No. 4 on the new Billboard 200, with 53,000 equivalent album units (down 14%). Lil Tecca’s We Love You Tecca dips 4-5 with 49,000 units (down 28%) and Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You is steady at No. 6 with 39,000 units (down 14%).  

Courtesy: Billboard.com