Nick Jonas' newly-released album "Last Year Was Complicated" soars to No. 2 on the Billboard 200, debuting the singer on the second highest chart position. The album, which was released on June 10, is a sexy and ambitious urban pop record featuring guest appearances by Tove Lo, Ty Dolla $ign and Big Sean.
Several lyrics of the album's songs talk about the lost love and the artist's split from Olivia Culpo, according to MetroLyrics. The tracks are "Voodoo," "Champagne Problems," "Close (feat. Tove Lo)," "Chainsaw," "Touch," "Bacon (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)," "Good Girls (feat. Big Sean)," The Difference," "Don't Make Me Choose," "Under You," "Unhinged" and "Comfortable."
Jonas' new album which has "Close" as its lead featuring Tove Lo gives the 23-year-old singer a third top 40-charting single on Billboard Hot 100, Billboard reported. The sibling trio Jonas Brothers placed five albums in the top 10. Two songs, "Vines and Trying Times" and "A Little Bit Longer and Lines" were in No. 1.
Jonas' latest album brings the singer to second place as his highest so far. The largest week sales the singer earned for his "Who I Am" in 2010 was 82,000.
Jonas' album follows "Views" by Drake which has been holding to the top place for seven straight weeks. The Hamilton cast album enters the top 10 for the first time, rising from No. 13 to No. 3. As of end of June 16, "Views" earned 121,000 equivalent album units, Nielsen Music data shows.
Billboard 200 weekly ranks the famous albums in the United States with multi-metric consumption as the basis, like track equivalent albums, streaming equivalent albums and traditional album sale. Currently, "Views" has 74,000 SEA, equivalent to 110.5 million streams of the album's tracks since each SEA unit is 1,500 streams. Its TAS is 27,000 and TEA 21,000.
For an album by a male, "Views" is the first album to sit at No. 1 for seven consecutive weeks in almost 16 years. On June 10 to July 29, 2000, "The Marshall Mathers" LP by Eminem was No. 1 in the chart for eight total weeks.
The Missouri rapper's "Recovery" in 2010 was also at the top for seven non-consecutive weeks. Adele's "25" is the last album that was No. 1 for seven straight weeks on the Dec. 12, 2015 chart after its debut.
Watch Jonas' lead single "Close" from his newest album.