BILLBOARD 200 Week ending April 28, 2018

 

TW LW 2W Wks Title - Artist - Label

1 ** 1 Rearview Town - Jason Aldean - Macon/Broken Bow/BMG | BBMG (183,000 (162,000 sales))

2 1 – 2 Invasion Of Privacy - Cardi B - The KSR Group/Atlantic | AG (129,000)

3 ** 1 Ember - Breaking Benjamin - Hollywood (88,000 (80,000 sales))

4 4 5 19 The Greatest Showman - Soundtrack - Fox/20th Century Fox/Atlantic | AG (77,000 (54,000 sales))

5 ** 1 The Tree Of Forgiveness - John Prine - Oh Boy (54,000 (153,000 sales))

6 3 1 3 My Dear Melancholy, (EP) - The Weeknd - XO | Republic (44,000)

7 5 3 5 ? - XXXTENTACION - Bad Vibes Forever (40,000)

8 6 7 12 Culture II - Migos - Quality Control/Motown | Capitol (36,000)

9 7 6 10 Black Panther: The Album, Music From And Inspired By - Soundtrack - Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA (34,000)

10 ** 1 PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. I - Pentatonix - RCA (34,000 (29,000 sales))

11 8 2 3 The World Is Yours - Rich The Kid - Rich Forever/300/Interscope | IGA

12 9 8 71 Stoney - Post Malone - Republic

13 20 15 53 DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar - Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA

14 35 – 2 Cosmic - Bazzi - ZZZ/iamcosmic | AG

15 14 9 59 ÷ (Divide) - Ed Sheeran - Atlantic | AG

16 15 11 43 Evolve - Imagine Dragons - KIDinaKORNER/Interscope | IGA

17 RE 47 Hardwired...To Self-Destruct - Metallica - Blackened

18 RE 31 The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited - Metallica - Blackened

19 27 19 72 Kane Brown - Kane Brown - Zone 4/RCA Nashville | SMN

20 17 10 6 Bobby Tarantino II - Logic - Visionary | Def Jam

21 12 – 2 Dex Meets Dexter - Famous Dex - Rich Forever/300 | AG

22 21 17 59 American Teen - Khalid - Right Hand | RCA

23 22 14 134 Hamilton: An American Musical - Original Broadway Cast Recording - Hamilton Uptown/Atlantic | AG

24 24 16 23 reputation - Taylor Swift - Big Machine | BMLG

25 19 13 14 Camila - Camila Cabello - SYCO | Epic

26 23 20 34 Luv Is Rage 2 - Lil Uzi Vert - Generation Now/Atlantic | AG

27 28 21 15 Life Of A Dark Rose - Lil Skies - All We Got | AG

28 34 29 57 More Life - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

29 30 18 74 24K Magic - Bruno Mars - Atlantic | AG

30 52 37 32 Life Changes - Thomas Rhett - Valory | BMLG

31 39 25 45 Ctrl - SZA - Top Dawg | RCA

32 47 32 136 Traveller - Chris Stapleton - Mercury Nashville | UMGN

33 54 39 31 All Your Fault, Pt. 2 (EP) - Bebe Rexha - Warner Bros.

34 41 26 34 17 - XXXTENTACION - Bad Vibes Forever | EMPIRE Recordings

35 43 42 103 Views - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

36 38 22 6 Lil Boat 2 - Lil Yachty - Quality Control/Motown | Capitol

37 37 72 23 Diamonds - Elton John - Rocket/Island | UMe

38 42 24 8 DAY69 - 6ix9ine - ScumGang | TenThousand Projects

39 45 31 25 Heartbreak On A Full Moon - Chris Brown - RCA

40 ** 1 Bless Yo Trap - Smokepurpp & Murda Beatz - Alamo/Interscope | IGA

41 48 33 42 Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa - Warner Bros.

42 53 28 73 Starboy - The Weeknd - XO | Republic

43 49 35 25 Without Warning - 21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin - Boominati/Quality Control/Motown/Slaughter Gang | Republic/Capitol/Epic

44 25 23 7 I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best Of MercyMe - MercyMe - Fair Trade | PLG

45 44 30 29 Tell Me You Love Me - Demi Lovato - Hollywood/Safehouse | Island

46 71 55 50 From A Room: Volume 1 - Chris Stapleton - Mercury Nashville | UMGN

47 65 47 19 What Makes You Country - Luke Bryan - Capitol Nashville | UMGN

48 51 34 18 The Beautiful & Damned - G-Eazy - G-Eazy/RVG/BPG | RCA

49 50 27 11 Man Of The Woods - Justin Timberlake - RCA

50 56 45 46 This One's For You - Luke Combs - River House/Columbia Nashville | SMN

51 57 46 35 Project Baby Two - Kodak Black - Dollaz N Dealz/Atlantic | AG

52 58 44 28 Perception - NF - NF Real Music/Capitol | Caroline

53 55 41 24 Red Pill Blues - Maroon 5 - 222/Interscope | IGA

54 29 4 3 Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves - MCA Nashville | UMGN

55 60 53 268 Take Care - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

56 63 51 34 Odisea - Ozuna - DimeloVi/VP Entertainment | Sony Music Latin

57 67 60 62 Brett Young - Brett Young - BMLG

58 ** 1 Joyride - Tinashe - RCA

59 62 48 74 Moana - Soundtrack - Walt Disney

60 61 52 46 hopeless fountain kingdom - Halsey - Astralwerks

61 10 – 2 Total Xanarchy - Lil Xan - Columbia

62 117 57 3 Just Cause Y'all Waited - Lil Durk - Only The Family

63 ** 1 Ledger (EP) - Ledger - Hear It Loud/Atlantic | AG

64 77 64 290 Night Visions - Imagine Dragons - KIDinaKORNER/Interscope | IGA

65 40 40 24 The Thrill Of It All - Sam Smith - Capitol

66 74 61 26 H.E.R. - H.E.R. - RCA

67 100 96 176 2014 Forest Hills Drive - J. Cole - Dreamville/Roc Nation | Columbia

68 72 54 5 Love, Simon - Soundtrack - Fox | RCA

69 73 66 64 Culture - Migos - Quality Control/300 | AG

70 78 56 138 Beauty Behind The Madness - The Weeknd - XO | Republic

71 11 – 2 Vacation In Hell - Flatbush Zombies - Glorious Dead

72 2 – 2 America - Thirty Seconds To Mars - Interscope | IGA

73 76 63 200 x - Ed Sheeran - Atlantic | AG

74 81 67 18 Revival - Eminem - Web/Shady/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA

75 70 50 7 Memories Don't Die - Tory Lanez - Mad Love/Interscope | IGA

76 69 58 20 A Decade Of Destruction - Five Finger Death Punch - Prospect Park

77 89 79 94 California Sunrise - Jon Pardi - Capitol Nashville | UMGN

78 97 80 153 Blurryface - twenty one pilots - Fueled By Ramen | AG

79 83 77 50 There's Really A Wolf - Russ - Diemon/Russ My Way | Columbia

80 79 70 29 The Bigger Artist - A Boogie Wit da Hoodie - Highbridge The Label/Atlantic | AG

81 82 73 85 Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight - Travis Scott - Grand Hustle | Epic

82 96 102 32 Freudian - Daniel Caesar - Golden Child

83 80 71 27 Beautiful Trauma - P!nk - RCA

84 90 84 286 good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar - Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA

85 85 88 11 Drip Season 3 - Gunna - YSL

86 108 109 263 Greatest Hits - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - MCA/Geffen | UMe

87 32 – 2 Isolation - Kali Uchis - Rinse/Interscope | IGA

88 13 – 2 Revamp: Reimagining The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin - Various Artists - HST Global/Rocket | Island

89 75 68 50 Everybody - Logic - Visionary | Def Jam

90 130 106 20 From A Room: Volume 2 - Chris Stapleton - Mercury Nashville | UMGN

91 RE 73 Lemonade - Beyonce - Parkwood | Columbia

92 86 78 518 Legend: The Best Of... - Bob Marley And The Wailers - Tuff Gong/Island | UMe

93 84 82 284 Greatest Hits - Queen - Hollywood

94 RE 20 Texoma Shore - Blake Shelton - Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN

95 36 – 2 Restoration: Reimagining The Songs Of Elton John And Bernie Taupin - Various Artists - HST Global/MCA Nashville | UMGN

96 95 94 479 Metallica - Metallica - Blackened | Rhino

97 94 110 233 Nothing Was The Same - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

98 92 76 82 Trolls - Soundtrack - Villa 40/DreamWorks | RCA

99 113 89 182 Montevallo - Sam Hunt - MCA Nashville | UMGN

100 137 131 44 Woodstock - Portugal. The Man - Atlantic | AG

101 93 75 30 Trip - Jhene Aiko - ARTclub/ARTium | Def Jam

102 99 92 353 The Eminem Show - Eminem - Web/Aftermath/Interscope | UMe

103 98 91 117 ANTI - Rihanna - Westbury Road | Roc Nation

104 110 105 389 Curtain Call: The Hits - Eminem - Shady/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA

105 125 103 85 Dig Your Roots - Florida Georgia Line - BMLG

106 118 99 313 1 - The Beatles - Apple/Capitol | UMe

107 106 98 35 A Love Letter To You - Trippie Redd - EG

108 112 97 19 Quality Control: Control The Streets, Vol. 1 - Various Artists - Quality Control/Motown | Capitol

109 114 95 20 War & Leisure - Miguel - ByStorm | RCA

110 121 125 101 Coloring Book - Chance The Rapper - Chance The Rapper

111 122 93 175 1989 - Taylor Swift - Big Machine | BMLG

112 131 119 104 The Life Of Pablo - Kanye West - G.O.O.D. | Def Jam

113 109 81 81 Illuminate - Shawn Mendes - Island

114 107 101 17 Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho - Huncho Jack - Grand Hustle/Cactus Jack/Quality Control/Motown | Epic/Capitol

115 101 69 118 Death Of A Bachelor - Panic! At The Disco - DCD2/Fueled By Ramen | AG

116 91 65 21 From The Fires - Greta Van Fleet - Lava | Republic

117 87 85 266 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - Warner Bros. | Rhino

118 120 143 221 Icon: Greatest Hits - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Hideout/Capitol | UMe

119 124 104 508 Journey's Greatest Hits - Journey - Columbia | Legacy

120 167 155 395 Nevermind - Nirvana - Sub Pop/DGC/Geffen | UMe

121 105 87 201 In The Lonely Hour - Sam Smith - Capitol

122 126 111 53 The Fate Of The Furious: The Album - Soundtrack - Universal Studios/Artist Partners Group/Atlantic | AG

123 116 123 165 If You're Reading This It's Too Late - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

124 115 107 37 AI YoungBoy - YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Never Broke Again | AG

125 RE 114 All Eyez On Me - 2Pac - Death Row

126 26 – 2 There Is More - Hillsong Worship - Hillsong/Sparrow | Capitol CMG

127 168 157 205 [Hybrid Theory] - Linkin Park - Warner Bros.

128 129 118 110 The Essential Billy Joel - Billy Joel - Columbia | Legacy

129 133 114 223 The Essential Michael Jackson - Michael Jackson - Epic | Legacy

130 111 86 17 No_One Ever Really Dies - N*E*R*D - N.E.R.D/i am OTHER | Columbia

131 ** 1 Wasted Talent - Jim Jones - Vamplife | EMPIRE Recordings

132 127 121 134 T R A P S O U L - Bryson Tiller - TrapSoul | RCA

133 173 180 30 Happy Endings - Old Dominion - RCA Nashville | SMN

134 132 116 41 Issa Album - 21 Savage - Slaughter Gang | Epic

135 RE 79 Hero - Maren Morris - Columbia Nashville | SMN

136 136 115 363 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits - Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty - Fantasy | Concord

137 180 170 102 Ripcord - Keith Urban - Hit Red/Capitol Nashville | UMGN

138 RE 183 Beyonce - Beyonce - Parkwood | Columbia

139 140 130 54 Memories...Do Not Open - The Chainsmokers - Disruptor | Columbia

140 RE 43 The Weight Of These Wings - Miranda Lambert - Vanner/RCA Nashville | SMN

141 59 – 2 The Color Of You - Alina Baraz - Mom + Pop

142 143 120 39 Flower Boy - Tyler, The Creator - Odd Future | Columbia

143 128 138 185 Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses - Geffen | UMe

144 134 124 35 Still Striving - A$AP Ferg - A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds | RCA

145 119 83 10 Fifty Shades Freed - Soundtrack - Universal Studios | Republic

146 139 128 27 Mr. Davis - Gucci Mane - Guwop/Atlantic | AG

147 102 59 5 Seasons Change - Scotty McCreery - Triple Tigers | RED

148 151 164 128 Tangled Up - Thomas Rhett - Valory | BMLG

149 147 129 371 Doo-Wops & Hooligans - Bruno Mars - Elektra | AG

150 142 136 124 Greatest Hits - The Notorious B.I.G. - Bad Boy | Rhino

151 156 137 160 Greatest Hits So Far... - Zac Brown Band - ROAR/Southern Ground/Atlantic | AG

152 178 108 27 Precious Memories Collection - Alan Jackson - ARC/EMI Nashville | UMGN

153 RE 64 4 Your Eyez Only - J. Cole - Dreamville | Roc Nation

154 148 144 126 25 - Adele - XL | Columbia

155 152 135 28 Lil Pump - Lil Pump - Lyfetime/Tha Lights Global | Warner Bros.

156 144 140 44 Pretty Girls Like Trap Music - 2 Chainz - The Real University | Def Jam

157 68 159 42 Melodrama - Lorde - Lava | Republic

158 RE 5 Decades - Nightwish - Nuclear Blast

159 138 112 10 2 Heartless - Moneybagg Yo - N-Less/Interscope | IGA

160 RE 171 I Am...Sasha Fierce - Beyonce - Music World | Columbia

161 150 145 61 FUTURE - Future - A-1/Freebandz | Epic

162 161 141 330 Thriller - Michael Jackson - Epic | Legacy

163 154 158 126 Purpose - Justin Bieber - SchoolBoy/Raymond Braun | Def Jam

164 135 62 4 Boarding House Reach - Jack White - Third Man | Columbia

165 146 – 27 Love Yourself: Her - BTS - BigHit Entertainment | Loen Entertainment

166 170 174 107 Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits - Blake Shelton - Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN

167 153 149 43 Grateful - DJ Khaled - We The Best | Epic

168 199 – 127 Greatest Hits: Decade #1 - Carrie Underwood - 19/Arista Nashville | SMN

169 179 173 89 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection - Bon Jovi - Island | UMe

170 160 150 18 Too Hard - Lil Baby - Quality Control

171 159 163 19 The Click - AJR - AJR | BMG

172 163 153 68 FREE 6LACK - 6LACK - LVRN/Interscope | IGA

173 157 152 17 Dont Smile At Me - Billie Eilish - Darkroom/Interscope | IGA

174 RE 11 Unapologetically - Kelsea Ballerini - Black River

175 123 – 12 Lifer - MercyMe - Fair Trade | PLG

176 169 166 81 Blonde - Frank Ocean - Boys Don't Cry

177 RE 218 Crash My Party - Luke Bryan - Capitol Nashville | UMGN

178 155 122 4 Home State - Jordan Davis - MCA Nashville | UMGN

179 162 139 26 Flicker - Niall Horan - Neon Haze | Capitol

180 177 172 53 Playboi Carti - Playboi Carti - AWGE/Interscope | IGA

181 183 – 35 Wins And Losses - Meek Mill - Maybach/Atlantic | AG

182 166 146 30 GEMINI - Macklemore - Bendo

183 145 – 2 Elvis Presley: The Searcher (Soundtrack) - Elvis Presley - HBO/Sony Pictures/RCA | Legacy

184 176 161 248 Mothership - Led Zeppelin - Swan Song/Atlantic | Rhino

185 181 178 21 Current Mood - Dustin Lynch - Broken Bow | BBMG

186 RE 123 The Pinkprint - Nicki Minaj - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

187 175 177 373 21 - Adele - XL | Columbia

188 195 192 312 Recovery - Eminem - Web/Shady/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA

189 RE 5 On The Rocks - Midland - Big Machine | BMLG

190 186 183 166 Greatest Hits - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Warner Bros.

191 149 117 9 Victory Lap - Nipsey Hussle - All Money In No Money Out/Atlantic | AG

192 184 – 129 Greatest Hits... So Far!!! - P!nk - LaFace/Jive | RCA

193 200 – 6 Chain Breaker - Zach Williams - Essential | PLG

194 104 38 3 Kolorblind - DJ ESCO - Freebandz | Epic

195 RE 118 Meteora - Linkin Park - Warner Bros.

196 185 162 6 Only Human - Calum Scott - Capitol

197 174 167 138 Badlands - Halsey - Astralwerks

198 193 200 102 Smoke + Mirrors - Imagine Dragons - KIDinaKORNER/Interscope | IGA

199 196 195 143 Graduation - Kanye West - Roc-A-Fella | Def Jam

200 182 185 19 All Time Greatest Hits - Lynyrd Skynyrd - MCA/Geffen | UMe

Jason Aldean Scores Fourth No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart With 'Rearview Town'

4/22/2018 by Keith Caulfield

 

Jason Aldean’s Rearview Town debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, securing the country star his fourth consecutive, chart-topping set and the first country No. 1 in 2018.

 

Rearview Town, released on April 13 via Macon/Broken Bow Records, launches with 183,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music, of which 162,000 were in traditional album sales. The set starts with the biggest week in terms of overall units and album sales for any country title this year.

 

Rearview Town marks Aldean’s fourth consecutive chart entry to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It follows his three previous studio albums: They Don’t Know (2016), Old Boots, New Dirt (2014) and Night Train (2012). Rearview is his seventh top 10 set overall, as he also collected top 10 efforts with My Kinda Party (No. 2 in 2010), Wide Open (No. 4, 2009) and Relentless (No. 4, 2007). Only his self-titled debut album missed the top 10, peaking at No. 27 in 2005. (Aldean has only charted with studio albums; he has yet to visit the list with any compilations, greatest hits, live packages, etc.)

 

Aldean is just the second country act to send four consecutive studio releases to the top. Rascal Flatt​s also claimed four No. 1 studio sets in a row between 2004 and 2009: Feels Like Today, Me and My Gang, Still Feels Good and Unstoppable. (Between Still and Unstoppable, the trio clocked a No. 6-peaking set with the best-of package Greatest Hits Volume 1.)

 

Rearview Town is the first country album to lead the Billboard 200 in 2018, and the first since Luke Bryan’s What Makes You Country topped the Dec. 30, 2017-dated tally.

 

Aldean’s new set also logs the largest week, both in terms of total units and traditional album sales, for a country title since Kenny Chesney’s live effort Live in No Shoes Nation launched at No. 1 with 219,000 units (of which 217,000 were in album sales) on the Nov. 18, 2017 chart. Like Chesney’s album, Aldean’s release was boosted by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with his upcoming tour, which starts on May 10.

 

Aldean also nets the largest week for a country studio album — in units and in sales — since Chris Stapleton’s From A Room: Volume 1, nearly a year ago, when it bowed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 219,000 units (of which 202,000 were in album sales).

 

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy moves down to the runner-up slot after bowing at No. 1 a week earlier. The set earned 129,000 units in its second week, down 49 percent.

 

Rock band Breaking Benjamin earn its fourth top 10 effort with Ember, as it debuts at No. 3 with 88,000 units (of which 80,000 were in traditional album sales). The band’s last release, 2015’s Dark Before Dawn, opened at No. 1 with 141,000 units (135,000 in album sales), securing the group its first leader on the list. (Like Rearview Town, Ember benefits from a ticket/album sale redemption offer.)

 

The soundtrack to The Greatest Showman holds at No. 4 with 77,000 – but with a big 53 percent gain, as the album continues to benefit from the hit movie’s DVD and Blu-ray release on April 10. The former No. 1 album sold 54,000 copies in the latest tracking week – up 63 percent.

 

Singer-songwriter John Prine logs his highest-charting album ever, and first top 10, as The Tree of Forgiveness bows at No. 5 with 54,000 units (53,000 in traditional album sales). The album is his first release album of his own new songs since 2005’s Fair and Square. The new set got a big boost from sales driven by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer, which helps yield the two-time Grammy Award winner his best sales week since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. (Prine has been charting on the Billboard 200 since 1972.)

 

Prine earned his previous best on the Billboard 200 with his last album, 2016’s For Better, Or Worse, which debuted and peaked at No. 30.

 

The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy dips 3-6 with 44,000 units (down 14 percent)

 

XXXTENTACION’s ? slips 5-7 with 40,000 units (down 13 percent)

 

Migos’ Culture II falls 6-8 with 36,000 units (down 3 percent)

 

Black Panther: The Album descends 7-9 with 34,000 units (down 7 percent)

 

Pentatonix rounds out the new top 10 with the arrival of its latest release, PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. 1. The covers set launches at No. 10 with 34,000 units (29,000 in traditional album sales), which garners the vocal group its eighth top 10 effort. Like Aldean, Breaking Benjamin and Prine, PTX’s sales were also goosed by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer.

Four new entries in the top 10 and literally every single one of them is heavily boosted by concert ticket bundles :')