{"id":491848,"date":"2019-11-04T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=907676"},"modified":"2019-11-04T10:12:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:12:32","slug":"rs-charts-kanye-wests-jesus-is-king-coasts-to-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/rs-charts-kanye-wests-jesus-is-king-coasts-to-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"RS Charts: Kanye West\u2019s \u2018Jesus Is King\u2019 Coasts to Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Kanye.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kanye-west\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kanye-west\" data-tag=\"kanye-west\">Kanye West<\/a> coasted to Number One on the latest <\/span><i><span>RS 200<\/span><\/i><span>: <\/span><i><span>Jesus Is King <\/span><\/i><span>earned nearly 270,000 album-equivalent units, more than three times as many as the second place album, Post Malone\u2019s <\/span><i><span>Hollywood\u2019s Bleeding.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>West\u2019s total was well-balanced between streams and sales. The 11 tracks on <\/span><i><span>Jesus Is King <\/span><\/i><span>amassed more than 188 million streams, and a series of bundling deals connected with both merchandise and tickets to upcoming live events helped boost West\u2019s sales over 100,000 copies. These numbers represent a commercial resurgence of sorts for West after 2018\u2019s <\/span><i><span>Ye<\/span><\/i><span>, <\/span><span>the worst-selling album of his career.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/charts\/albums\/\"><i><span>Rolling Stone<\/span><\/i><\/a><span> 200 Albums chart tracks the most popular releases of the week in the United States. Entries are ranked by album units, a number that combines digital and physical album sales, digital song sales, and audio streams using a custom weighting system. The chart does not include passive listening such as terrestrial radio or digital radio. The <\/span><i><span>Rolling Stone<\/span><\/i><span> 200 Albums chart is updated daily, and each week <\/span><i><span>Rolling Stone <\/span><\/i><span>finalizes and publishes an official version of the chart, covering the seven-day period ending with the previous Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Two other albums debuted in the top ten this week alongside <\/span><i><span>Jesus Is King<\/span><\/i><span>: Rex Orange County\u2019s <\/span><i><span>Pony <\/span><\/i><span>and Old Dominion\u2019s <\/span><i><span>Old Dominion<\/span><\/i><span>. <\/span><i><span>Pony <\/span><\/i><span>marks Rex Orange County\u2019s major-label debut album after he amassed impressive streaming totals as an independent act. He earned close to 75,000 album-equivalent units opening week, with bundle deals helping him sell nearly 59,000 copies.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Old Dominion arrived at Number Nine thanks to roughly 30,000 album-equivalent units. In addition to 17,000 sales and 13.5 million streams, <\/span><i><span>Old Dominion <\/span><\/i><span>also benefited from close to 16,000 song sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rs-charts-top-200-kanye-west-jesus-is-king-907676\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West coasted to Number One on the latest RS 200: Jesus Is King earned nearly 270,000 album-equivalent units, more than three times as many as the second place album, Post Malone\u2019s Hollywood\u2019s Bleeding.&nbsp; West\u2019s total was well-balanced between streams and sales. The 11 tracks on Jesus Is King amassed more than 188 million streams, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 06:04:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}