BILLBOARD 200 Week ending November 28, 2020
TW LW 2W Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak) Label
1 ** 1 Power Up ‒ AC/DC ( 1 ) Columbia (117,000 (111,000 sales))
2 ** 1 Pluto x Baby Pluto ‒ Future & Lil Uzi Vert ( 2 ) Atlantic, Epic, Freebandz, Generation Now (105,000 (5,500 sales))
3 ** 1 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 ) Mercury Nashville (103,000 (75,000 sales))
4 1 1 3 Positions ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 ) Republic (75,000)
5 2 3 20 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 ) Victor Victor Worldwide (53,000)
6 4 4 54 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 ) Columbia Nashville, River House (42,000)
7 7 6 19 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 ) Interscope, Grade A (37,000)
8 36 44 413 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 ) Hollywood (36,000 (24,000 sales))
9 3 81 17 F*ck Love ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 3 ) Columbia (35,000)
10 ** 1 Until I Return ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 10 ) Atlantic, Artist Partner Group, Never Broke Again (31,000 (500 sales))
11 8 8 38 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 ) Motown, Quality Control
12 23 23 399 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 ) Warner
13 12 17 49 Fine Line ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 ) Erskine
14 5 13 3 Welcome To O'Block ‒ King Von ( 5 ) Only The Family
15 ** 1 So Help Me God! ‒ 2 Chainz ( 15 ) Gamebread
16 9 10 269 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 ) Atlantic, Hamilton Uptown
17 13 12 63 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 ) Republic
18 65 60 498 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 ) Fantasy
19 79 83 653 Legend: The Best Of... ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 ) Island, Tuff Gong
20 61 111 7 A Holly Dolly Christmas ‒ Dolly Parton ( 16 ) Butterfly Records
21 16 15 31 BLAME IT ON BABY ‒ DaBaby ( 1 ) Interscope, SouthCoast
22 15 11 7 Savage Mode II ‒ 21 Savage & Metro Boomin ( 1 ) Boominati, Slaughter Boomin
23 54 131 85 Christmas ‒ Michael Buble ( 1 ) Reprise, 143
24 11 16 8 Tickets To My Downfall ‒ Machine Gun Kelly ( 1 ) Interscope, Bad Boy, EST19XX
25 29 39 8 My Gift ‒ Carrie Underwood ( 8 ) Capitol Nashville
26 ** 1 Believe ‒ Andrea Bocelli ( 26 ) Decca, Sugar
27 31 33 86 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 ) Interscope, Darkroom
28 24 24 35 After Hours ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 ) XO
29 10 27 17 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) Republic
30 ** 1 We Need A Little Christmas ‒ Pentatonix ( 30 ) RCA
31 19 20 33 Pray 4 Love ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 ) Alamo
32 21 26 131 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 ) Interscope, Grade A
33 20 21 27 The GOAT ‒ Polo G ( 2 ) Columbia
34 27 28 181 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 ) Columbia Nashville, River House
35 22 22 38 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 ) Rimas
36 RE -- 38 Nirvana ‒ Nirvana ( 3 ) Geffen, DGC
37 18 14 10 Top ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 ) Atlantic, Artist Partner Group, Never Broke Again
38 17 5 3 Love Goes ‒ Sam Smith ( 5 ) Capitol
39 60 100 94 Merry Christmas ‒ Mariah Carey ( 3 ) Columbia
40 14 2 3 Pegasus ‒ Trippie Redd ( 2 ) 1400
41 30 36 112 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 13 ) Big Loud
42 52 -- 2 Bill Israel ‒ Kodak Black ( 42 ) Atlantic, Dollaz N Dealz
43 6 -- 2 Emergency Tsunami ‒ NAV ( 6 ) XO
44 28 29 12 B4 The Storm ‒ Internet Money ( 10 ) Internet Money
45 68 170 13 The Best Of Pentatonix Christmas ‒ Pentatonix ( 7 ) RCA
46 35 35 89 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 ) Interscope, Grade A
47 32 40 28 Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 ‒ Lil Durk ( 2 ) Geffen, Alamo
48 93 89 512 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 ) Geffen
49 37 47 33 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 4 ) Warner
50 38 37 79 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent ‒ Lewis Capaldi ( 20 ) Vertigo
51 33 31 37 Eternal Atake ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 ) Atlantic, Generation Now
52 59 68 271 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 ) Mercury Nashville
53 51 56 158 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 ) Island, Rocket
54 ** 1 Spirit World Field Guide ‒ Aesop Rock ( 54 ) Rhymesayers
55 84 198 83 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack) ‒ Vince Guaraldi Trio ( 13 ) Fantasy
56 46 49 120 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 ) Grand Hustle, Cactus Jack
57 48 51 59 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 ) Interscope, LVRN
58 43 45 134 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 ) Republic
59 71 79 152 Dont Smile At Me ‒ Billie Eilish ( 14 ) Interscope, Darkroom
60 49 57 44 Manic ‒ Halsey ( 2 ) Capitol
61 162 164 497 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 ) Elektra
62 50 52 37 Chilombo ‒ Jhene Aiko ( 2 ) ARTclub, ARTium, 2 Fish
63 44 43 50 Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial ‒ Roddy Ricch ( 1 ) Atlantic, Bird Vision
64 137 -- 51 The Christmas Song ‒ Nat King Cole ( 7 ) Capitol
65 34 110 13 Papi Juancho ‒ Maluma ( 34 ) Sony Music Latin
66 42 34 9 Code Red ‒ Moneybagg Yo & Blac Youngsta ( 6 ) Epic, Interscope, CMG, N-Less, Heavy Camp
67 56 54 125 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 ) Cash Money, Young Money
68 47 41 26 Wunna ‒ Gunna ( 1 ) 300, Young Stoner Life
69 45 42 7 The Album ‒ BLACKPINK ( 2 ) Interscope, YG
70 178 176 49 Fully Loaded: God's Country ‒ Blake Shelton ( 2 ) Warner Music Nashville
71 40 -- 4 Levon James ‒ King Von ( 40 ) Only The Family
72 58 55 206 Stoney ‒ Post Malone ( 4 ) Republic
73 74 73 643 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 ) Columbia
74 39 9 3 Missunderstood ‒ Queen Naija ( 9 ) Queen Naija
75 ** 1 Afrodisiaco ‒ Rauw Alejandro ( 75 ) Duars
76 57 53 27 High Off Life ‒ Future ( 1 ) Freebandz
77 63 64 503 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 ) Interscope, Aftermath, Shady
78 83 67 438 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 ) Columbia
79 104 137 388 Abbey Road ‒ The Beatles ( 1 ) Apple, Capitol
80 64 66 140 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 ) Bad Vibes Forever
81 69 63 93 Thank U, Next ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 ) Republic
82 76 72 421 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 ) Interscope, Aftermath, Top Dawg
83 41 18 4 Letter To You ‒ Bruce Springsteen ( 2 ) Columbia
84 72 74 65 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) Republic
85 RE -- 138 Boston ‒ Boston ( 3 ) Epic
86 73 71 53 Frozen II ‒ Soundtrack ( 1 ) Walt Disney
87 152 -- 29 Christmas Classics ‒ Bing Crosby ( 19 ) Capitol
88 67 61 14 Mixtape, Vol. 1 (EP) ‒ Kane Brown ( 15 ) RCA Nashville
89 91 107 447 1 ‒ The Beatles ( 1 ) Apple, Capitol
90 66 62 29 Dark Lane Demo Tapes ‒ Drake ( 2 ) OVO Sound
91 86 96 384 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 ) MCA, Geffen
92 77 76 194 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 ) Atlantic
93 75 91 22 Goldmine ‒ Gabby Barrett ( 27 ) Warner Music Nashville
94 112 38 445 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 ) Epic
95 53 -- 4 Grandson, Vol. 1 ‒ King Von ( 53 ) Only The Family
96 103 94 169 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 14 ) Warner
97 95 106 311 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 ) Columbia, Roc Nation, Dreamville
98 70 59 8 Nectar ‒ Joji ( 3 ) 88rising
99 89 98 154 The Greatest Showman ‒ Soundtrack ( 1 ) Atlantic, Fox, 20th Century Fox
100 98 101 194 American Teen ‒ Khalid ( 4 ) Right Hand
101 88 95 180 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 ) Top Dawg
102 92 84 403 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 ) Cash Money, Young Money
103 78 75 25 Emmanuel ‒ Anuel AA ( 8 ) Real Hasta La Muerte
104 87 78 169 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 ) Atlantic, Generation Now
105 62 32 4 Featuring Ty Dolla $ign ‒ Ty Dolla $ign ( 4 ) Atlantic
106 80 70 45 Time Served ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 3 ) Interscope, N-Less
107 RE -- 369 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 ) Polydor, Interscope
108 RE -- 27 Love Gun ‒ KISS ( 4 ) Mercury, Casablanca
109 101 108 85 Free Spirit ‒ Khalid ( 1 ) Right Hand
110 82 77 41 Meet The Woo, V.2 ‒ Pop Smoke ( 7 ) Victor Victor Worldwide
111 ** 1 Inlet ‒ Hum ( 111 ) Earth Analog
112 25 -- 2 Minisode1: Blue Hour (EP) ‒ TOMORROW X TOGETHER ( 25 ) BigHit Entertainment
113 90 82 55 Hot Pink ‒ Doja Cat ( 9 ) Kemosabe
114 100 119 39 MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 ‒ BTS ( 1 ) BigHit Entertainment
115 RE -- 20 Ultimate Christmas ‒ Frank Sinatra ( 12 ) Capitol, Frank Sinatra Enterprises
116 94 92 208 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 ) Walt Disney
117 145 148 149 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day ‒ Kid Cudi ( 4 ) G.O.O.D., Dream On
118 105 179 246 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 ) Westbury Road
119 138 120 492 21 ‒ Adele ( 1 ) XL
120 RE -- 169 Back To Black ‒ Amy Winehouse ( 2 ) Republic
121 RE -- 36 Smash Hits ‒ The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( 6 ) Experience Hendrix
122 113 116 272 Beauty Behind The Madness ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 ) XO
123 106 114 208 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 ) XO
124 97 90 349 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 ) Interscope, Death Row, Amaru
125 96 85 55 Ghetto Gospel ‒ Rod Wave ( 10 ) Alamo
126 99 93 188 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 ) Interscope, Aftermath, Top Dawg
127 RE -- 10 A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector ‒ Various Artists ( 12 ) Phil Spector, EMI Blackwood
128 ** 1 Star Wars: The Mandalorian: Music From The Original Series ‒ Soundtrack ( 128 ) Lucasfilm
129 195 -- 115 Swimming ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 ) Warner
130 150 165 63 Harry Styles ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 ) Erskine
131 120 130 249 Greatest Hits ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 1 ) Bad Boy
132 118 124 83 Cuz I Love You ‒ Lizzo ( 4 ) Atlantic, Nice Life
133 108 103 137 Invasion Of Privacy ‒ Cardi B ( 1 ) Atlantic, The KSR Group
134 134 139 310 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) Big Machine
135 102 86 36 Sweet Action ‒ Jack Harlow ( 20 ) Atlantic, Generation Now
136 116 121 164 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 ) MCA Nashville
137 110 102 73 Indigo ‒ Chris Brown ( 1 ) CBE
138 RE -- 951 The Dark Side Of The Moon ‒ Pink Floyd ( 1 ) Pink Floyd
139 129 149 178 Evolve ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 2 ) Interscope, KIDinaKORNER
140 180 184 73 The Essential Elvis Presley ‒ Elvis Presley ( 42 ) RCA, Sony Strategic Marketing Group
141 107 113 60 KIRK ‒ DaBaby ( 1 ) Interscope, SouthCoast
142 166 177 130 Ultimate Sinatra ‒ Frank Sinatra ( 32 ) Capitol, Frank Sinatra Enterprises
143 ** 1 F*ck Everybody 3 ‒ Blac Youngsta ( 143 ) CMG, Heavy Camp
144 130 154 205 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 ) Boys Don't Cry
145 RE -- 5 Kiss 5 ‒ K Camp ( 29 ) Interscope, RARE Sound
146 147 158 169 17 ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 2 ) Bad Vibes Forever
147 122 125 69 The Search ‒ NF ( 1 ) NF Real Music
148 124 126 100 X 100PRE ‒ Bad Bunny ( 11 ) Rimas
149 127 140 76 Die A Legend ‒ Polo G ( 6 ) Columbia
150 123 134 33 SOUTHSIDE ‒ Sam Hunt ( 5 ) MCA Nashville
151 114 99 58 AI YoungBoy 2 ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 ) Atlantic, Never Broke Again
152 RE -- 60 Facelift ‒ Alice In Chains ( 42 ) Columbia
153 128 127 238 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 ) Cash Money, Young Money
154 126 123 58 True 2 Myself ‒ Lil Tjay ( 5 ) Columbia
155 117 104 66 So Much Fun ‒ Young Thug ( 1 ) Atlantic, 300, Young Stoner Life
156 109 87 15 Top Shotta ‒ NLE Choppa ( 10 ) NLE Choppa
157 121 118 11 A Rock ‒ HARDY ( 24 ) Big Loud
158 135 128 47 JACKBOYS ‒ JACKBOYS ( 1 ) Cactus Jack
159 RE -- 37 The Classic Christmas Album ‒ Elvis Presley ( 90 ) RCA
160 RE -- 45 Wrapped In Red ‒ Kelly Clarkson ( 3 ) 19
161 136 173 89 GIRL ‒ Maren Morris ( 4 ) Columbia Nashville
162 148 159 66 Back From The Edge ‒ James Arthur ( 39 ) Columbia
163 171 181 284 Greatest Hits So Far... ‒ Zac Brown Band ( 20 ) Home Grown
164 RE -- 74 Pink Friday ‒ Nicki Minaj ( 1 ) Cash Money, Young Money
165 131 136 25 Chromatica ‒ Lady Gaga ( 1 ) Interscope, Streamline
166 RE -- 31 The Essential Johnny Cash ‒ Johnny Cash ( 35 ) Columbia Nashville
167 149 150 313 In The Lonely Hour ‒ Sam Smith ( 2 ) Capitol
168 139 132 40 Artist 2.0 ‒ A Boogie Wit da Hoodie ( 2 ) Atlantic, Highbridge The Label
169 140 129 11 ENOC ‒ Ozuna ( 17 ) Aura
170 ** 1 A Better Time ‒ DaVido ( 170 ) DaVido
171 161 117 52 A Love Letter To You 4 ‒ Trippie Redd ( 1 ) TenThousand Projects
172 200 196 355 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 ) Capitol, Hideout
173 151 162 23 Kid Krow ‒ Conan Gray ( 5 ) Republic
174 156 161 107 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 ) MCA, Geffen
175 164 171 27 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 106 ) Hickman Holler
176 125 122 45 9 ‒ Jason Aldean ( 2 ) Broken Bow, BMG, Macon
177 RE -- 155 The Wall ‒ Pink Floyd ( 1 ) Pink Floyd
178 159 155 44 Music To Be Murdered By ‒ Eminem ( 1 ) Interscope, Aftermath, Shady
179 157 147 40 Changes ‒ Justin Bieber ( 1 ) SchoolBoy, Raymond Braun
180 141 141 9 Heaven & Hell ‒ Ava Max ( 27 ) Atlantic, Artist Partner Group, Max Cut
181 170 146 353 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 ‒ Eagles ( 1 ) Elektra, Asylum
182 154 138 29 Slime & B ‒ Chris Brown & Young Thug ( 24 ) CBE, 300
183 163 152 37 Suga ‒ Megan Thee Stallion ( 7 ) 300, 1501 Certified
184 155 153 219 Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 ) Grand Hustle
185 189 -- 43 Circles ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 ) Warner
186 187 -- 97 Love Yourself: Answer ‒ BTS ( 1 ) BigHit Entertainment
187 167 -- 147 Greatest Hits ‒ Foo Fighters ( 11 ) RCA, Roswell
188 173 156 156 H.E.R. ‒ H.E.R. ( 23 ) MBK
189 RE -- 8 Last Christmas (Soundtrack) ‒ George Michael & Wham! ( 43 ) Universal Studios
190 153 135 9 Poetic Pain ‒ Toosii ( 17 ) SouthCoast
191 177 190 266 Greatest Hits ‒ Red Hot Chili Peppers ( 18 ) Warner
192 165 163 229 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 ) TrapSoul
193 144 142 239 [Hybrid Theory] ‒ Linkin Park ( 2 ) Warner
194 RE -- 584 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 ) Blackened
195 RE -- 281 Blurryface ‒ twenty one pilots ( 1 ) Fueled By Ramen
196 168 167 72 Dreamville & J. Cole: Revenge Of The Dreamers III ‒ Various Artists ( 1 ) Interscope, Dreamville
197 RE -- 21 Classic Christmas Album ‒ Andy Williams ( 23 ) Columbia
198 RE -- 67 7 (EP) ‒ Lil Nas X ( 2 ) Columbia
199 143 115 11 Detroit 2 ‒ Big Sean ( 1 ) G.O.O.D.
200 RE -- 14 The Classic Christmas Album ‒ Perry Como ( 18 ) RCA
https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9488073/acdc-power-up-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart
By Keith Caulfield | 11/22/2020
AC/DC’s Power Up debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, giving the legendary rock band its third chart-topping set.
The new studio effort was released via Columbia Records on Nov. 13 and starts with 117,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 19, according to Nielsen Music. AC/DC previously hit No. 1 with 2008’s Black Ice and 1981’s For Those About to Rock (We Salute You). All told, Power Up is AC/DC’s 26th charting album, and 10th top 10.
The 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. 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.
Of Power Up’s 117,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Nov. 19, album sales comprise 111,000, SEA units comprise 5,000 (equaling 7.8 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and 1,000 comprise TEA units.
AC/DC ‘Power Up’ With 17th Album: ‘We Waited Until the World Hit a Misery Level’
Power Up charges in with the largest sales week of 2020 for a rock album. The last rock set to log a larger sales frame was Tool’s Fear Inoculum (248,000; chart dated Sept. 14, 2019).
Power Up’s sales were assisted by some retailer exclusive editions, vinyl variants and an elaborate limited edition deluxe CD package that retails for $49. (The track list across all versions of the album -- CD, vinyl and digital download -- is identical.)
The limited edition deluxe CD package is a pricey affair because the CD is housed in a box that features a red light-up AC/DC logo on its cover and has a built-in speaker that plays the opening bars of the album’s lead single, “Shot in the Dark.” (The company that made this deluxe set also made the similarly priced limited edition CD package for Tool’s Fear Inoculum, which was released with a 4-inch HD screen, exclusive video footage and a speaker.)
Overall, Power Up sold 71,000 on CD across all of its editions, 23,000 as a digital download album and 16,000 on vinyl LP. Power Up is the first hard rock album to hit No. 1 in over a year, since Tool’s Fear Inoculum bowed at No. 1 on the Sept. 14, 2019-dated chart.
Further, Power Up is the first Columbia release of 2020 to reach No. 1. The label last held court atop the list with Harry Styles’ Fine Line, which was released in December 2019. It ruled for two weeks (charts dated Dec. 28, 2019 and Jan. 4, 2020).
Power Up is the band’s 17th studio album and its first since 2014’s Rock or Bust and the death of founding member Malcolm Young in 2017. Power Up also brings singer Brian Johnson, drummer Phil Rudd and bassist Cliff Williams all back to the fold, alongside lead guitarist Angus Young and rhythm guitarist Stevie Young (who replaced his uncle, Malcolm, in 2014). Johnson was sidelined in 2016 (during the Rock or Bust World Tour) due to hearing loss issues, Rudd served a home-detention sentence in 2015 for methamphetamine possession and threatening to kill a former staff member and Williams announced his retirement in 2016.
Power Up was announced on Oct. 6 and was led by the single “Shot in the Dark.” The track raced to No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart dated Nov. 14 -- marking the group’s fifth leader, and first No. 1 since 2008. The tune has also climbed to No. 13 on the airplay-, sales- and streaming-based Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart.
The album was ushered in with interviews with an array of press and media outlets, including Apple Music’s Zane Lowe (Nov. 10), Associated Press (Nov. 12), USA Today (Nov. 13) and NPR’s Morning Edition (Nov. 18).
Lastly, with Power Up bowing at No. 1, AC/DC has now claimed top 10-charting albums in the 1980s, '90s, '00s, '10s and '20s. The band is the fifth act to achieve top 10s in each of the last five decades (alongside Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Bruce Springsteen and James Taylor) and second band or group to do so (after Metallica).
At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Future and Lil Uzi Vert’s first collaborative album, the surprise release Pluto x Baby Pluto, bows with 105,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, 99,000 comprise SEA units (equaling 136.11 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), 5,500 comprise album sales and a little over 500 comprise TEA units. The set was announced and released on Nov. 13, and got a mid-week bounce by the release of a deluxe edition on Nov. 17 with eight additional tracks, bringing its total track count to 24.
Pluto x Baby Pluto is the second top 10 album for Future in 2020, following his No. 1 High Off Life (May 30). As for Lil Uzi Vert, he too clocks his second top 10 of 2020, as he bowed at No. 1 with Eternal Atake on March 21.
Pluto x Baby Pluto is Future’s fourth collaborative set to chart, following joint efforts with Juice WRLD (Future & Juice WRLD Present… WRLD on Drugs, No. 2 in 2018), Young Thug (Super Slimey, No. 2 in 2017) and Drake (What a Time to Be Alive, No. 1 in 2015). Lil Uzi Vert has never released a collaborative album until now.
All told, Future has now tallied 14 top 10 albums -- the most among all acts in the span since his first, Pluto, in May 2012 -- while Lil Uzi Vert has three.
Chris Stapleton’s new studio album Starting Over debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 103,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the fourth top 10 album for the singer-songwriter, and all four have reached the top three on the tally.
Of Starting Over’s first-week units, 75,000 comprise album sales, 25,000 comprise SEA units (equaling 33.01 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and 3,000 comprise TEA units. The 33 million streaming number represents the second-biggest debut streaming week for a country album in 2020, following Sam Hunt’s start of 36.82 million with Southside (April 18 chart).
Outside of debut weeks in 2020, Luke Combs’ 2019 release What You See Is What You Get logged five streaming weeks larger than Stapleton in 2020, and four bigger than Hunt. What You See Is What You Get tallied 34.15 million on the May 16 chart, and then surged to a genre-record of 102.26 million on Nov. 7 (following its deluxe reissue with bonus tracks). It then continued to post big streaming numbers in the following chart weeks: 59.95 million, Nov. 14; 52.87 million, Nov. 21 and 47.93 million, Nov. 28 (the current chart).
With Power Up, Pluto x Baby Pluto and Starting Over all clearing 100,000 units in their debut frames, this is the first week in which three albums have bowed with at least 100,000 units since the Feb. 29-dated chart. That week, Justin Bieber’s Changes (231,000), A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Artist 2.0 (111,000) and Tame Impala’s The Slow Rush (110,000) all launched with at least 100,000 (also at Nos. 1-3, respectively).
A quartet of former No. 1s follows on the new Billboard 200, as Ariana Grande’s Positions falls 1-4 in its third week (75,000 equivalent album units; down 10%), Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon dips 2-5 (53,000; down 6%), Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get descends 4-6 (42,000; down 8%) and Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die is steady at No. 7 (37,000; down 7%).
With Stapleton’s Starting Over and Combs’ What You See Is What You Get Both in the top 10 at the same time, it’s the first time since Dec. 7, 2019 that two country albums have occupied the top 10 concurrently. That week, Jason Aldean’s 9 debuted at No. 2, while What You See Is What You Get sat at No. 9.
Nearly 40 years after its initial release, Queen’s Greatest Hits reaches the top 10, as the set bolts from No. 36 to No. 8 with a 133% gain in units earned (rising to 36,000). The surge is largely owed to massive vinyl sale on Nov. 14 at Walmart, where all vinyl albums in-store were marked down to $15.
In the week ending Nov. 19, Greatest Hits sold 24,000 copies across all formats (up 737%), with vinyl LPs accounting for 23,000 (up 1,006%) of that sum.
The vinyl sales were so big for Greatest Hits, it’s the top selling vinyl album in the U.S. for the week (and jumps 20-1 on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart) and has the second-largest sales week of 2020 for any vinyl release. It’s runner-up only to the debut frame of Tame Impala’s The Show Rush, which sold 26,000 vinyl copies on the chart dated Feb. 29.
Greatest Hits was first released in October of 1981 and has been reissued multiple times over the ensuing decades. Before this week, a 1992 edition of Greatest Hits brought the album closest to the top 10, peaking at No. 11 on Oct. 10, 1992.
Greatest Hits includes songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody” (a No. 9 Billboard Hot 100 hit in 1976, later peaking at No. 2 in 1992 thanks to its revival from its inclusion in the box office hit Wayne’s World), “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (No. 1, 1980) and “Another One Bites the Dust” (No. 1 in 1980). Greatest Hits marks the ninth top 10 album for the band, joining the Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack (No. 2 in 2019), Greatest Hits I, II & III: The Platinum Collection (No. 6, 2019), Classic Queen (No. 4, 1992), The Game (No. 1, 1980), Jazz (No. 6, 1979), News of the World (No. 3, 1978), A Day at the Races (No. 5, 1977) and A Night at the Opera (No. 4, 1976).
Back on the new Billboard 200, The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love slides from its high of No. 3 to No. 9 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned (down 32%).
Closing out the top 10 is YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s new surprise mixtape Until I Return, which bows at No. 10 with 31,000 equivalent album units earned. Of Until I Return’s first-week units, 31,000 comprise SEA units (equaling 47.49 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs), 500 comprise album sales and a negligible sum comprises TEA units.
Until I Return, announced and released on Nov. 13, is YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s fourth top 10 of 2020, and sixth top 10 overall. He previously hit the region with Top (No. 1; Sept. 26), 38 Baby 2 (No. 1, May 9), Still Flexin, Still Steppin (No. 2, March 7), AI YoungBoy 2 (No. 1; Oct. 26, 2019) and Until Death Call My Name (No. 7; May 12, 2018).
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