Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits shoots like a firecracker back to the top 10 on the Billboard 200, rallying from No. 43 to No. 9 with 26,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 10, according to Luminate (up 56%).
The collection jumps up the list following streaming gains for its songs generated by Independence Day celebrations. The album, released in 2008, hit No. 1 on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated chart in the wake of Keith’s death that Feb. 5.
Of 35 Biggest Hits’ 26,000 units earned, streaming equivalent-album units comprise 24,000 (up 59%, equaling 32.9 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it vaults 43-11 on Top Streaming Albums).
About one-third of the album’s streams for the week were generated by Keith’s 2002 No. 1 Hot Country Songs hit “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),” which was also his most streamed song of the week.
The patriotic anthem also reenters Country Digital Song Sales at No. 1, as it surged 121% to 3,000 sold. It concurrently reenters Hot Country Songs at No. 8.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric 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.
Additional reporting by Jim Asker.
