Beyoncé’s The Lion King: The Gift album reappears in the Billboard 200 chart at no. 10, after the July 31 premiere of Black Is King at Disney +.
The set earned 27,000 equivalent album units in the US in the week ending August 6 (up 1.462%), according to Nielsen Music / MRC Data.
The album originally debuted and came out at no. 2 on the August 3, 2019-dated card.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the US based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units include album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit is equal to one album sale, as 10 individual tracks sold from an album, as 3,750 ad support as 1,250 paid / subscription on demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new August 15-dated card (where The Lion King: The Gift comes in again at no. 10) will be fully placed on Billboard‘s website on August 11th.
Black Is King is based on the music of The Lion King: The Gift, and was written, directed and executive produced by Beyoncé. The Lion King: The Gift album also benefits from its July 31 release with three additional tracks.
The Lion King: The Gift album was first released on July 19, 2019, as a companion project to the remake of last year’s film The Lion King (in which Beyoncé voices the character Nala).
