{"id":389912,"date":"2026-04-21T05:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389912\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:11:08","slug":"justin-biebers-12-year-old-journals-album-debuts-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389912\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber’s 12-Year-Old ‘Journals’ Album Debuts on Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA little more than 12 years after its release, Justin Bieber<\/a>\u2019s Journals album debuts on the Billboard 200<\/a> chart (dated April 25). It\u2019s one of seven albums (including five re-entries) from the entertainer on the chart \u2013 the most he\u2019s ever had on the chart at once.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe flurry in activity comes after his headlining turn during the first weekend of the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (on Saturday, April 11), which was also livestreamed on YouTube. He also headlined the following Saturday (April 18), which was livestreamed too.<\/p>\n

\n\tJournals debuts at No. 111 with nearly 13,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending April 16, according to Luminate (that\u2019s a gain of 192% as compared to the previous week).<\/p>\n

\n\tJournals was originally released exclusively for purchase only in the iTunes Store on Dec. 23, 2013. However, sales from the iTunes Store were not reported<\/a> to Luminate (then-named Nielsen SoundScan), and in turn, the title did not debut on the Billboard 200<\/a>. The album eventually became widely available to all digital download and streaming services (and eventually iTunes began reporting the album\u2019s weekly sales), and on CD and vinyl, but this week marks the first week the album had enough activity to chart in a single week.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Bieber\u2019s most recent album, SWAG, zooms 55-7 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned (up 160%), while five more titles re-enter: Purpose (No. 32 with 22,000 units; up 173%), Believe (No. 34 with 21,000, up 241%), My World 2.0 (No. 38 with 20,000, up 268%), Justice (No. 110 with 13,000, up 100%) and My World (No. 147 with 12,000, up 563%).<\/p>\n

\n\tWith seven albums on the Billboard 200 at the same time, that marks the most titles Bieber has placed on the tally concurrently. The most he\u2019s ever had on the chart at once is four, last achieved in January 2012.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe May 1-dated Billboard 200 will reflect any additional gains gleaned by Bieber\u2019s catalog from the second weekend of Coachella, as that chart\u2019s tracking week runs from April 17-23.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new April 25, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0Billboard\u2018s website on April 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A little more than 12 years after its release, Justin Bieber\u2019s Journals album debuts on the Billboard 200…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[11578,11579,156,3295,157,3296,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-389912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-billboard-200","9":"tag-chart-beat","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-genre-pop","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-music-news","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}