Plus: “Rough” marks Dylan’s highest album in over a decade.
Bob Dylan captures his highest album in over a decade on the Billboard 200 chart, as Rough and noisy ways debuts at n. # 2 with 53,000 equivalent album units earned in the US in the week ending June 25, according to Nielsen Music / MRC Data. RoughDylan’s debut also makes Dylan the first act to have made at least one new album from the top 40 charts in every decade from the 1960s through the 2020s.
Dylan was last highest on the list with 2009 Together through life, which debuted and peaked at n. ° 1 in the graphic dated May 16, 2009. All said, Rough and noisy ways It marks Dylan’s 23rd album of the Top 10 and the 50th set of the Top 40.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the US based on multimetric consumption measured in equivalent album units. The units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and broadcast equivalent albums (SEA). The new July 4th chart (where Rough and noisy ways arcs in number 2) will be published in full in Billboardwebsite June 30.
Of Rough and noisy ways‘Initial sum of 53,000 units, 51,000 are in album sales, 2,000 are in SEA units, and a negligible figure in TEA units.
With Rough and noisy ways‘Debut, Dylan records his seventh consecutive decade on the new Top 40 album chart. He captured eight in the 1960s, 14 in the 1970s, seven in the 1980s, four in the 1990s, seven in the 00s, nine in the 10s, and now one in the 1920s. It is the first act that He has made at least one new top 40 album in every decade from the 1960s through the 1920s. (The 2020s are still young, so several other acts could join him in this achievement.)
Dylan made his debut on the Billboard 200 (and overall Billboard graphic debut) almost 57 years ago with The Freewheelin ‘Bob Dylan, which reached the list dated September 7, 1963 at number 125. It peaked at number 22 on October 5 of that year. Obtained its first top 10 with peak number 6 Bringing everything back home on October 9, 1965. He got his first of five numbers 1 with Planet waves on February 16, 1974.
The new album was led by the 17-minute song “Murder Most Foul,” which debuted and peaked at number 5 on the Hot Rock track list (April 11, 2020). It also topped the Rock Digital Song Sales chart, marking Dylan’s first # 1 song on any Billboard graphic.
