After reuniting The Beatles with the help of artificial intelligence earlier this year, Paul McCartney is once again succeeding on the Billboard charts. The rocker sees one of his most controversial collections find its way back to a handful of tallies this week, and this time, he’s going solo.
The album McCartney II reappears on a pair of Billboard charts this week. The set isn’t new to either list, as it’s been out for decades and has already spent a fair amount of time on a number of tallies published by the chart company. Fans are clearly still interested in the collection, as they’ve purchased and streamed it back onto the weekly rankings.
The title reappears on the Billboard 200 at No. 177. The tally ranks the most-consumed albums, regardless of style, using a methodology that combines streams and sales. According to Luminate, McCartney II moved another 9,765 equivalent units in the past tracking period.
The same project also finds its way back to the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart. That ranking looks only at those albums labeled by Billboard as some kind of rock or alternative. On that list, McCartney II returns at No. 39.
The legendary musician’s album previously peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. It is one of McCartney’s 21 top 10 efforts–a sum that includes both his solo work and the material he released with Wings. That figure climbs again when the music made by The Beatles becomes involved.
McCartney II served as the former Beatles’ second solo album. It was released in 1980, just after he dissolved Wings, the band he founded shortly after going out on his own. At the time, the effort was met with mixed reviews, as it was highly experimental in nature, and not everyone was ready for that.
