Billboard reports that the diva’s Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart this week with 149,000 equivalent album units, beating out Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots for the top spot.
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Streisand is now only second to Madonna when it comes to chart-topping albums in the United Kingdom amongst female solo artists, with seven number one albums under her belt. The album is an all-star collaboration, with Streisand singing Broadway hits with musical artists and celebs like Ann Hathaway, Daisy Ridley, Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Chris Pine, Antonio Banderas, and Jamie Foxx. Glory is Spears’ fifth number two album in the United Kingdom following Baby One More Time in 1999, 2000’s Oops!
Encore is her first number one since Partners in 2014. The record is Spears’s ninth studio album. “Encore – Movie Partners Sing Broadway”, out now on Columbia/Sony, entered today’s new countdown at the top with combined units of 20,000, according to the Official Charts Company. Drake was in fourth place with his album, Views, which sold 72,000 units.
With her latest venture, Streisand becomes the woman with the most chart-topping albums and the third overall, tying with Bruce Springsteen.
Head on over to Billboard for more information about this week’s Billboard 200 chart.
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Beyonce’s Lemonade was bolstered by her VMA domination, jumping up six spots to #7 with 26,000 copies sold in pure album sales, up 106% (album units were not dislocsed). Twenty One Pilots close out the top 10, as the duo’s Blurryface falls 6-10 with 30,000 units (down 8 percent).
