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\n\tFollowing Usher<\/a>\u2019s 2024 Super Bowl halftime show<\/a> on Feb. 11, four of his catalog albums surge on the Billboard 200<\/a> chart (dated Feb. 24), alongside the debut of his new release, Coming Home<\/em>, at No. 2.<\/p>\n \n\tComing Home<\/em> arrives on the list with 91,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 15, according to Luminate. Of that sum, album sales comprise 53,000 \u2013 making it the top-selling album of the week<\/a>, and the largest sales week for any R&B album in more than four years<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tFour more Usher albums dot the Billboard 200: his former No. 1 Confessions<\/em>, released in 2004, flies 92-15 with 33,500 units (up 199%), 2010\u2019s chart-topping Raymond V Raymond<\/em> re-enters at No. 68 (14,000; up 154%), 2001\u2019s 8701<\/em> re-enters at No. 122 (10,000; up 187%) and 1997\u2019s My Way<\/em> re-enters at No. 197 (8,000; up 175%). The four albums house songs that Usher performed during his halftime show.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Billboard 200<\/a> chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0multi-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 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.<\/p>\n \n\tIn total, Usher\u2019s catalog of albums, including Coming Home<\/em>, earned 145,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Feb. 15 \u2013 up 428% compared to the previous week (27,500 units). Removing Coming Home<\/em> from the equation, his albums earned 54,500 units for the week \u2013 up 98% compared to the previous week (27,500 units).<\/p>\n \n\tMeanwhile, Usher\u2019s halftime closer, \u201cYeah!,\u201d featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, re-enters the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> songs chart at No. 20 and Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs<\/a> at No. 8. It\u2019s the single\u2019s first appearance on either chart since 2004, when the Confessions<\/em>\u2019 smash spent 12 weeks atop the Hot 100 and eight weeks leading the Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs tally. In the week ending Feb. 15, \u201cYeah!\u201d earned 13.4 million official streams (up 142%), 8.7 million in airplay audience (up 66%) and sold 11,000 downloads (up 636%).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n