Nick Jonas Just Misses #1 Album Chart Debut With ‘Last Year Was Complicated’

Robbie Daw | June 20, 2016 12:19 pm

Last year may have been complicated for Nick Jonas, but his personal anguish has resulted in a career triumph. The 23 year old’s third album since departing the Jonas Brothers, Last Year Was Complicated, is now his highest-charting of the three after debuting this week at #2 on the Billboard 200. The LP sold 47,000 copies, and earned a total of 66,000 album units altogether.

Previously, Nick’s self-titled 2014 LP, which contained his hit singles “Jealous” and “Chains,” peaked at #6 on the main album chart. His 2010 Nick Jonas & The Administration effort Who I Am landed at #3.

As he’s done with all the competition for the past seven weeks, Drake and his latest release Views kept Nick Jonas from hitting the top spot on the Billboard 200. The Canadian rapper has so far had the longest non-consecutive stretch at #1 for a male solo artist since Eminem‘s The Marshall Mathers LP spent eight weeks at the top, in summer 2000.

Another impressive chart feat: Following its multiple Tony wins last week, Hamilton jumps 10 spots up to #3 this week, marking only the third time in the past 50 years a Broadway cast album has cracked the Top 10. (The other two were Hair, which reached #1 in 1969, and the #3-peaking The Book Of Mormon in 2011.)

The Top 10 of the Billboard 200:

1. Drake, Views *7 weeks*
2. Nick Jonas, Last Year Was Complicated *new*
3. Cast, Hamilton
4. Beyonce, Lemonade
5. Jon Bellion, The Human Condition *new*
6. Rihanna, Anti
7. Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface
8. Adele, 25
9. Blake Shelton, If I’m Honest
10. Chris Stapleton, Traveller

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