BILLBOARD 200 Week ending May 5, 2018

 

TW LW 2W Wks Title - Artist - Label

1 ** 1 KOD - J. Cole - Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope | IGA (397,000 (174,000 sales))

2 2 1 3 Invasion Of Privacy - Cardi B - The KSR Group/Atlantic | AG (91,000)

3 ** 1 Eat The Elephant - A Perfect Circle - BMG (68,000 (63,000 sales))

4 4 4 20 The Greatest Showman - Soundtrack - Fox/20th Century Fox/Atlantic | AG (68,000)

5 1 – 2 Rearview Town - Jason Aldean - Macon/Broken Bow/BMG | BBMG (38,000)

6 7 5 6 ? - XXXTENTACION - Bad Vibes Forever (35,000)

7 8 6 13 Culture II - Migos - Quality Control/Motown | Capitol (33,000)

8 6 3 4 My Dear Melancholy, (EP) - The Weeknd - XO | Republic (33,000)

9 ** 1 Vide Noir - Lord Huron - Whispering Pines | Republic (32,000 (29,000 sales))

10 9 7 11 Black Panther: The Album, Music From And Inspired By - Soundtrack - Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA (32,000)

11 12 9 72 Stoney - Post Malone - Republic

12 13 20 54 DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar - Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA

13 11 8 4 The World Is Yours - Rich The Kid - Rich Forever/300/Interscope | IGA

14 15 14 60 ÷ (Divide) - Ed Sheeran - Atlantic | AG

15 ** 1 Port Saint Joe - Brothers Osborne - EMI Nashville | UMGN

16 14 35 3 Cosmic - Bazzi - ZZZ/iamcosmic | AG

17 16 15 44 Evolve - Imagine Dragons - KIDinaKORNER/Interscope | IGA

18 23 22 135 Hamilton: An American Musical - Original Broadway Cast Recording - Hamilton Uptown/Atlantic | AG

19 22 21 60 American Teen - Khalid - Right Hand | RCA

20 19 27 73 Kane Brown - Kane Brown - Zone 4/RCA Nashville | SMN

21 20 17 7 Bobby Tarantino II - Logic - Visionary | Def Jam

22 RE 41 True - Avicii - PRMD | Island

23 25 19 15 Camila - Camila Cabello - SYCO | Epic

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

25 26 23 35 Luv Is Rage 2 - Lil Uzi Vert - Generation Now/Atlantic | AG

26 21 12 3 Dex Meets Dexter - Famous Dex - Rich Forever/300 | AG

27 3 – 2 Ember - Breaking Benjamin - Hollywood

28 27 28 16 Life Of A Dark Rose - Lil Skies - All We Got | AG

29 ** 1 Church Of Scars - Bishop Briggs - Teleport | Island

30 28 34 58 More Life - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

31 29 30 75 24K Magic - Bruno Mars - Atlantic | AG

32 31 39 46 Ctrl - SZA - Top Dawg | RCA

33 67 100 177 2014 Forest Hills Drive - J. Cole - Dreamville/Roc Nation | Columbia

34 30 52 33 Life Changes - Thomas Rhett - Valory | BMLG

35 ** 1 Creeker - Upchurch - Redneck Nation

36 32 47 137 Traveller - Chris Stapleton - Mercury Nashville | UMGN

37 34 41 35 17 - XXXTENTACION - Bad Vibes Forever | EMPIRE Recordings

38 33 54 32 All Your Fault, Pt. 2 (EP) - Bebe Rexha - Warner Bros.

39 35 43 104 Views - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

40 ** 1 44/876 - Sting & Shaggy - Cherrytree/A&M/Interscope | IGA

41 50 56 47 This One's For You - Luke Combs - River House/Columbia Nashville | SMN

42 39 45 26 Heartbreak On A Full Moon - Chris Brown - RCA

43 38 42 9 DAY69 - 6ix9ine - ScumGang | TenThousand Projects

44 43 49 26 Without Warning - 21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin - Boominati/Quality Control/Motown/Slaughter Gang | Republic/Capitol/Epic

45 42 53 74 Starboy - The Weeknd - XO | Republic

46 45 44 30 Tell Me You Love Me - Demi Lovato - Hollywood/Safehouse | Island

47 41 48 43 Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa - Warner Bros.

48 36 38 7 Lil Boat 2 - Lil Yachty - Quality Control/Motown | Capitol

49 ** 1 The Sciences - Sleep - Third Man

50 53 55 25 Red Pill Blues - Maroon 5 - 222/Interscope | IGA

51 48 51 19 The Beautiful & Damned - G-Eazy - G-Eazy/RVG/BPG | RCA

52 RE 7 AVICI (01) (EP) - Avicii - Geffen | IGA

53 ** 1 Sick Boy (EP) - The Chainsmokers - Disruptor | Columbia

54 60 61 47 hopeless fountain kingdom - Halsey - Astralwerks

55 49 50 12 Man Of The Woods - Justin Timberlake - RCA

56 51 57 36 Project Baby Two - Kodak Black - Dollaz N Dealz/Atlantic | AG

57 56 63 35 Odisea - Ozuna - DimeloVi/VP Entertainment | Sony Music Latin

58 55 60 269 Take Care - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

59 52 58 29 Perception - NF - NF Real Music/Capitol | Caroline

60 47 65 20 What Makes You Country - Luke Bryan - Capitol Nashville | UMGN

61 44 25 8 I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best Of MercyMe - MercyMe - Fair Trade | PLG

62 57 67 63 Brett Young - Brett Young - BMLG

63 37 37 24 Diamonds - Elton John - Rocket/Island | UMe

64 59 62 75 Moana - Soundtrack - Walt Disney

65 104 110 390 Curtain Call: The Hits - Eminem - Shady/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA

66 46 71 51 From A Room: Volume 1 - Chris Stapleton - Mercury Nashville | UMGN

67 111 122 176 1989 - Taylor Swift - Big Machine | BMLG

68 54 29 4 Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves - MCA Nashville | UMGN

69 10 – 2 PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. I - Pentatonix - RCA

70 ** 1 Roxy: Tonight's The Night Live - Neil Young - Reprise | Warner Bros.

71 92 86 519 Legend: The Best Of... - Bob Marley And The Wailers - Tuff Gong/Island | UMe

72 153 – 65 4 Your Eyez Only - J. Cole - Dreamville | Roc Nation

73 RE 5 Stories - Avicii - PRMD | Island

74 66 74 27 H.E.R. - H.E.R. - RCA

75 64 77 291 Night Visions - Imagine Dragons - KIDinaKORNER/Interscope | IGA

76 69 73 65 Culture - Migos - Quality Control/300 | AG

77 ** 1 God Damn Evil - Stryper - Frontiers

78 73 76 201 x - Ed Sheeran - Atlantic | AG

79 5 – 2 The Tree Of Forgiveness - John Prine - Oh Boy

80 84 90 287 good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar - Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA

81 77 89 95 California Sunrise - Jon Pardi - Capitol Nashville | UMGN

82 81 82 86 Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight - Travis Scott - Grand Hustle | Epic

83 76 69 21 A Decade Of Destruction - Five Finger Death Punch - Prospect Park

84 68 72 6 Love, Simon - Soundtrack - Fox | RCA

85 74 81 19 Revival - Eminem - Web/Shady/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA

86 78 97 154 Blurryface - twenty one pilots - Fueled By Ramen | AG

87 70 78 139 Beauty Behind The Madness - The Weeknd - XO | Republic

88 79 83 51 There's Really A Wolf - Russ - Diemon/Russ My Way | Columbia

89 85 85 12 Drip Season 3 - Gunna - YSL

90 65 40 25 The Thrill Of It All - Sam Smith - Capitol

91 112 131 105 The Life Of Pablo - Kanye West - G.O.O.D. | Def Jam

92 72 2 3 America - Thirty Seconds To Mars - Interscope | IGA

93 93 84 285 Greatest Hits - Queen - Hollywood

94 80 79 30 The Bigger Artist - A Boogie Wit da Hoodie - Highbridge The Label/Atlantic | AG

95 109 114 21 War & Leisure - Miguel - ByStorm | RCA

96 RE 44 Greatest Hits - Bruce Springsteen - Columbia

97 83 80 28 Beautiful Trauma - P!nk - RCA

98 86 108 264 Greatest Hits - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - MCA/Geffen | UMe

99 75 70 8 Memories Don't Die - Tory Lanez - Mad Love/Interscope | IGA

100 ** 1 Volunteer - Old Crow Medicine Show - Columbia Nashville | SMN

101 117 87 267 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - Warner Bros. | Rhino

102 82 96 33 Freudian - Daniel Caesar - Golden Child

103 116 91 22 From The Fires - Greta Van Fleet - Lava | Republic

104 RE 102 Born Sinner - J. Cole - Roc Nation | Columbia

105 110 121 102 Coloring Book - Chance The Rapper - Chance The Rapper

106 ** 1 Family Tree - Black Stone Cherry - In De Goot | Mascot

107 119 124 509 Journey's Greatest Hits - Journey - Columbia | Legacy

108 97 94 234 Nothing Was The Same - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

109 89 75 51 Everybody - Logic - Visionary | Def Jam

110 181 183 36 Wins And Losses - Meek Mill - Maybach/Atlantic | AG

111 98 92 83 Trolls - Soundtrack - Villa 40/DreamWorks | RCA

112 122 126 54 The Fate Of The Furious: The Album - Soundtrack - Universal Studios/Artist Partners Group/Atlantic | AG

113 103 98 118 ANTI - Rihanna - Westbury Road | Roc Nation

114 99 113 183 Montevallo - Sam Hunt - MCA Nashville | UMGN

115 90 130 21 From A Room: Volume 2 - Chris Stapleton - Mercury Nashville | UMGN

116 101 93 31 Trip - Jhene Aiko - ARTclub/ARTium | Def Jam

117 96 95 480 Metallica - Metallica - Blackened | Rhino

118 105 125 86 Dig Your Roots - Florida Georgia Line - BMLG

119 ** 1 Never Gonna Die - Pennywise - Epitaph

120 113 109 82 Illuminate - Shawn Mendes - Island

121 RE 17 Live In No Shoes Nation - Kenny Chesney - Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville | SMN

122 142 143 40 Flower Boy - Tyler, The Creator - Odd Future | Columbia

123 62 117 4 Just Cause Y'all Waited - Lil Durk - Only The Family

124 136 136 364 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits - Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty - Fantasy | Concord

125 115 101 119 Death Of A Bachelor - Panic! At The Disco - DCD2/Fueled By Ramen | AG

126 107 106 36 A Love Letter To You - Trippie Redd - EG

127 100 137 45 Woodstock - Portugal. The Man - Atlantic | AG

128 125 – 115 All Eyez On Me - 2Pac - Death Row

129 106 118 314 1 - The Beatles - Apple/Capitol | UMe

130 121 105 202 In The Lonely Hour - Sam Smith - Capitol

131 61 10 3 Total Xanarchy - Lil Xan - Columbia

132 129 133 224 The Essential Michael Jackson - Michael Jackson - Epic | Legacy

133 139 140 55 Memories...Do Not Open - The Chainsmokers - Disruptor | Columbia

134 132 127 135 T R A P S O U L - Bryson Tiller - TrapSoul | RCA

135 114 107 18 Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho - Huncho Jack - Grand Hustle/Cactus Jack/Quality Control/Motown | Epic/Capitol

136 128 129 111 The Essential Billy Joel - Billy Joel - Columbia | Legacy

137 164 135 5 Boarding House Reach - Jack White - Third Man | Columbia

138 108 112 20 Quality Control: Control The Streets, Vol. 1 - Various Artists - Quality Control/Motown | Capitol

139 71 11 3 Vacation In Hell - Flatbush Zombies - Glorious Dead

140 118 120 222 Icon: Greatest Hits - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Hideout/Capitol | UMe

141 124 115 38 AI YoungBoy - YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Never Broke Again | AG

142 120 167 396 Nevermind - Nirvana - Sub Pop/DGC/Geffen | UMe

143 123 116 166 If You're Reading This It's Too Late - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

144 173 157 18 Dont Smile At Me - Billie Eilish - Darkroom/Interscope | IGA

145 40 – 2 Bless Yo Trap - Smokepurpp & Murda Beatz - Alamo/Interscope | IGA

146 RE 94 Dangerous Woman - Ariana Grande - Republic

147 151 156 161 Greatest Hits So Far... - Zac Brown Band - ROAR/Southern Ground/Atlantic | AG

148 145 119 11 Fifty Shades Freed - Soundtrack - Universal Studios | Republic

149 127 168 206 [Hybrid Theory] - Linkin Park - Warner Bros.

150 148 151 129 Tangled Up - Thomas Rhett - Valory | BMLG

151 134 132 42 Issa Album - 21 Savage - Slaughter Gang | Epic

152 RE 307 Back In Black - AC/DC - Columbia | Legacy

153 144 134 36 Still Striving - A$AP Ferg - A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds | RCA

154 143 128 186 Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses - Geffen | UMe

155 150 142 125 Greatest Hits - The Notorious B.I.G. - Bad Boy | Rhino

156 RE 135 Greatest Hits - Foo Fighters - Roswell/RCA | Legacy

157 ** 1 Sparrow - Ashley Monroe - Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN

158 149 147 372 Doo-Wops & Hooligans - Bruno Mars - Elektra | AG

159 170 160 19 Too Hard - Lil Baby - Quality Control

160 94 – 21 Texoma Shore - Blake Shelton - Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN

161 156 144 45 Pretty Girls Like Trap Music - 2 Chainz - The Real University | Def Jam

162 162 161 331 Thriller - Michael Jackson - Epic | Legacy

163 ** 1 The Future - From Ashes To New - Better Noise | E7LG

164 146 139 28 Mr. Davis - Gucci Mane - Guwop/Atlantic | AG

165 87 32 3 Isolation - Kali Uchis - Rinse/Interscope | IGA

166 91 – 74 Lemonade - Beyonce - Parkwood | Columbia

167 RE 70 Cole World: The Sideline Story - J. Cole - Roc Nation | Columbia

168 133 173 31 Happy Endings - Old Dominion - RCA Nashville | SMN

169 158 – 6 Decades - Nightwish - Nuclear Blast

170 155 152 29 Lil Pump - Lil Pump - Lyfetime/Tha Lights Global | Warner Bros.

171 147 102 6 Seasons Change - Scotty McCreery - Triple Tigers | RED

172 172 163 69 FREE 6LACK - 6LACK - LVRN/Interscope | IGA

173 RE 69 "Awaken, My Love!" - Childish Gambino - mcDJ | Glassnote

174 RE 255 Fearless - Taylor Swift - Big Machine | BMLG

175 137 180 103 Ripcord - Keith Urban - Hit Red/Capitol Nashville | UMGN

176 166 170 108 Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits - Blake Shelton - Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN

177 154 148 127 25 - Adele - XL | Columbia

178 RE 108 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West - Roc-A-Fella | Def Jam

179 ** 1 Primal Heart - Kimbra - Warner Bros.

180 169 179 90 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection - Bon Jovi - Island | UMe

181 161 150 62 FUTURE - Future - A-1/Freebandz | Epic

182 157 68 43 Melodrama - Lorde - Lava | Republic

183 RE 21 Complete Clapton - Eric Clapton - Duck/Reprise | Warner Bros.

184 165 146 28 Love Yourself: Her - BTS - BigHit Entertainment | Loen Entertainment

185 167 153 44 Grateful - DJ Khaled - We The Best | Epic

186 141 59 3 The Color Of You - Alina Baraz - Mom + Pop

187 163 154 127 Purpose - Justin Bieber - SchoolBoy/Raymond Braun | Def Jam

188 159 138 11 2 Heartless - Moneybagg Yo - N-Less/Interscope | IGA

189 199 196 144 Graduation - Kanye West - Roc-A-Fella | Def Jam

190 176 169 82 Blonde - Frank Ocean - Boys Don't Cry

191 182 166 31 GEMINI - Macklemore - Bendo

192 ** 1 Illmatic: Live From The Kennedy Center - Nas With The National Symphony Orchestra - Mass Appeal

193 RE 196 Trilogy - The Weeknd - XO | Republic

194 160 – 172 I Am...Sasha Fierce - Beyonce - Music World | Columbia

195 191 149 10 Victory Lap - Nipsey Hussle - All Money In No Money Out/Atlantic | AG

196 18 – 32 The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited - Metallica - Blackened

197 135 – 80 Hero - Maren Morris - Columbia Nashville | SMN

198 ** 1 Sonder - TesseracT - kscope | Snapper

199 184 176 249 Mothership - Led Zeppelin - Swan Song/Atlantic | Rhino

200 193 200 7 Chain Breaker - Zach Williams - Essential | PLG

J. Cole Claims Fifth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart & Biggest Week of 2018 With 'KOD'

4/29/2018 by Keith Caulfield

 

J. Cole’s fifth studio album, KOD, roars in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 2018’s biggest week for an album, as the set earned 397,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 26, according to Nielsen Music. It also notches the largest streaming week of the year, and the third-largest streaming week ever.

 

KOD is J. Cole’s fifth consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard 200, following his four previous studio sets: 4 Your Eyez Only (2016), 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014), Born Sinner (2013), and Cole World: The Sideline Story (2011). Four of his five No. 1s opened in the top slot. Only Born Sinner missed a No. 1 debut, as it bowed at No. 2 and then moved to No. 1 in its third week on the list.

 

Here are some fast facts about J. Cole’s debut at No. 1 with KOD:

 

-- Biggest week of 2018 for an album: KOD launches with 397,000 equivalent album units earned. That surpasses 2018’s previous largest week, registered when Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods bowed at No. 1 with 293,000 units on the chart dated Feb. 17. KOD logs the biggest week for any album since Taylor Swift’s reputation started atop the tally dated Dec. 2, 2017 with 1.238 million units.

 

-- Biggest week for a hip-hop album in nearly a year: KOD’s debut of 397,000 units is the biggest week for a hip-hop album since Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. opened at No. 1 with 603,000 units on the chart dated May 6, 2017 (reflecting the tracking week ending April 20).

 

-- Largest streaming week of 2018 for an album: Of KOD’s overall starting unit sum, 215,000 were in SEA units. That figure translates into 322.7 million on-demand audio streams of the album’s tracks in its opening week (each SEA units equals 1,500 on-demand audio streams). That’s by far the largest streaming week of 2018 for an album, surpassing the debut of Migos’ Culture II (149,000 SEA units; 224.6 million on-demand audio streams on the chart dated Feb. 10, reflecting the tracking week ending Feb. 1.)

 

-- Third-largest streaming week ever for an album: KOD’s tally of 322.7 million first-week on-demand audio streams for its tracks is the third-biggest streaming week for an album. The only larger weeks were posted by the debut frames of Lamar’s DAMN. (340.6 million on-demand audio streams of its tracks in the week ending April 20, 2017) and Drake’s More Life (384.8 million, week ending March 30, 2017). (Also impressive: KOD achieved its streaming sum with only a 12-song track list. DAMN. and More Life have 14 and 22 tracks, respectively.)

 

-- Second-largest sales week of 2018: With 174,000 in traditional album sales, KOD has the second-largest sales week of the year, trailing only the debut frame of Man of the Woods (242,000).

 

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Cardi B’s former No. 1, Invasion of Privacy, moves up one spot in its third week on the list with 91,000 units (down 30 percent).

 

A Perfect Circle returns with its first studio album since 2004, and fourth top 10 set, as Eat the Elephant debuts at No. 3 with 68,000 units (of which 63,000 were in traditional album sales). The act was last on the list in 2013 with the hits compilation Three Sixty, which debuted and peaked at No. 38. Before that, the remix album Amotion hit No. 57 in late 2004.

 

A Perfect Circle’s last studio release, Emotive, opened and peaked at No. 2 in 2004 with 142,000 copies sold in its first week (the chart was purely sales-based in 2004). The rock act also hit the top 10 with its two earlier studio sets: Thirteenth Step (No. 2 in 2003) and Mer de Noms (No. 4 in 2000).

 

The Greatest Showman soundtrack continues to hold on strong in the top 10 for an 18th consecutive week, as the album is a non-mover at No. 4 (68,000 units; down 12 percent).

 

Jason Aldean’s Rearview Town falls from No. 1 to No. 5 in its second week, earning 38,000 units (down 79 percent),

 

XXXTENTACION’s ? moves up one position to No. 6 with 35,000 units (down 13 percent)

 

Migos’ Culture II climbs 8-7 with 33,000 units (down 8 percent)

 

The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy dips 6-8 with nearly 33,000 units (down 26 percent) and

 

At No. 9, rock group Lord Huron claims its first top 10 hit as its third studio effort Vide Noir starts with 32,000 units (of which 29,000 were in traditional album sales). The band previously visited the chart with its first two sets, Strange Trails (No. 23 in 2015) and Lonesome Dreams (No. 179 in 2012).

 

Closing out the top 10 is Black Panther: The Album which falls one slot to No. 10 with nearly 32,000 units (down 7 percent).