Drake’s ‘For All the Dogs’ is back at the top of the Billboard 200 after the Deluxe Release of ‘Scary Hours’
The country music icon’s latest album, which has a rock theme, debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s all-genre Top 200 and is now her best charting album.
Under an extraterrestrial spaceship stage prop, Drake stands onstage and looks up into a greenish glow.
With six new tracks, Drake’s “Scary Hours Edition” of his most recent album, “For All the Dogs,” helped the record come back to No. 1.Give credit…For The New York Times, Jeenah Moon
This week, an enhanced version of Drake’s most recent album, “For All the Dogs,” vaults it back to the top of Billboard’s album list, while Dolly Parton achieves her highest-ever chart position.
“For All the Dogs” debuted at number one on the streaming charts six weeks ago and has been in the Top 5 ever since. According to the monitoring firm Luminate, Drake re-released the album last week with six additional tracks, dubbed the “Scary Hours Edition.” This sent the album back to No. 1 with the equivalent of 145,000 sales in the US, including 190 million streams.
This was sufficient to maintain Taylor Swift’s “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” at the top of the chart. Parton, 77, opens in third place with “Rockstar,” the double album with a rock theme that she recorded after her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year—an accolade that she had first refused. Songs like “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Stairway to Heaven,” and “Let It Be” are included, along with Paul and Ringo, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, Joan Jett, and Elton John as guests.
Amazingly, “Rockstar” rises to become Parton’s highest charting album and only her third in her illustrious career to get in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 list, which is for all genres. “Blue Smoke,” released in 2014, and “Trio,” her 1987 duet with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, both peaked at No. 6. Several of Parton’s solo albums and her albums with her former vocal partner Porter Wagoner have reached the Top 10 of the Billboard country chart, with eight of them ranking as No. 1s.
This week, “Orange Blood,” the opening song by the K-pop septet Enhypen, debuts at No. 4, while “One Thing at a Time,” by Morgan Wallen, remains at No. 5. In its second week out, Stray Kids, another K-pop group, drops to No. 7 with its best seller from last week, “Rock-Star.”
Ben Sisario writes about the music business. Since 1998, he has contributed articles to The Times. Additional information on Ben Sisario