Five Usher Albums Shake Up Billboard 200 After Super Bowl

Following Usher's 2024 Super Bowl halftime performance on February 11, four of the albums in his catalog climb the Billboard 200 chart (dated February 24), alongside the debut of his new release, I'm coming homeat No. 2.

I'm coming home reaches a chart of 91,000 equivalent albums earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 15, according to Luminate. Of that amount, album sales totaled 53,000 – making it the week's best-selling album and the biggest sales week for any R&B album in more than four years.

Four more Usher albums charted on the Billboard 200: his former No. 1; Confessionsreleased in 2004, flies 92-15 with 33,500 units (up 199%), topping the 2010 chart Raymond V Raymond re-enters at No. 68 (14,000, up 154%), 2001 8701 re-enters at No. 122 (10,000, up 187%) and in 1997 My way re-enters at No. 197 (8,000, up 175%). The four albums include songs performed by Usher during his halftime show.

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, compiled by Luminate. Units include album sales, track album equivalents (TEA) and streaming album equivalents (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 official paid/subscription audio and video streams generated from songs from an album.

In total, Usher's album catalog, including I'm coming home, earned 145,000 equivalent album units in the week ending February 15 – up 428% from the previous week (27,500 units). Subtraction I'm coming home Out of the equation, his albums gained 54,500 units for the week – up 98% from the previous week (27,500 units).

Meanwhile, Usher's halftime looms, “Yeah!,” featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, re-enters the Billboard Hot 100 Songs chart at No. 20 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at No. 8. It's the single's first appearance on both. chart from 2004, when the ConfessionsThe smash spent 12 weeks atop the Hot 100 and eight weeks atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In the week ending February 15, “Yes!” earned 13.4 million official streams (up 142%), 8.7 million in shared airplay (up 66%) and sold 11,000 downloads (up 636%).