BILLBOARD 200 Week ending July 18, 2020

 

TW LW 2W Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak) Label

1 ** 1 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 ) Victor Victor Worldwide (251,000 (59,000 sales))

2 14 45 250 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 ) Atlantic, Hamilton Uptown (102,000 (32,000 sales))

3 1 1 19 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 ) Motown, Quality Control (62,000)

4 3 4 12 BLAME IT ON BABY ‒ DaBaby ( 1 ) Interscope, SouthCoast (36,000)

5 4 5 44 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 ) Republic (36,000)

6 5 11 16 After Hours ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 ) XO (29,000)

7 6 13 30 Fine Line ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 ) Erskine (29,000)

8 7 10 8 The GOAT ‒ Polo G ( 2 ) Columbia (28,000)

9 8 9 18 Eternal Atake ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 ) Atlantic, Generation Now (27,000)

10 2 56 9 Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 ‒ Lil Durk ( 2 ) Geffen, Alamo (27,000)

11 9 7 10 Dark Lane Demo Tapes ‒ Drake ( 2 ) OVO Sound

12 10 12 8 High Off Life ‒ Future ( 1 ) Freebandz

13 12 14 7 Wunna ‒ Gunna ( 1 ) 300, Young Stoner Life

14 16 18 31 Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial ‒ Roddy Ricch ( 1 ) Atlantic, Bird Vision

15 18 16 19 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 ) Rimas

16 19 20 35 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 ) Columbia Nashville, River House

17 26 28 112 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 ) Interscope, Grade A

18 11 6 6 Chromatica ‒ Lady Gaga ( 1 ) Interscope, Streamline

19 21 23 93 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 18 ) Big Loud

20 33 35 14 Pray 4 Love ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 ) Alamo

21 24 24 162 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 ) Columbia Nashville, River House

22 20 57 17 Sweet Action ‒ Jack Harlow ( 20 ) Atlantic, Generation Now

23 22 21 67 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 ) Interscope, Darkroom

24 28 26 394 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 11 ) Hollywood

25 17 3 21 Artist 2.0 ‒ A Boogie Wit da Hoodie ( 2 ) Atlantic, Highbridge The Label

26 27 37 6 Emmanuel ‒ Anuel AA ( 8 ) Real Hasta La Muerte

27 25 25 18 Suga ‒ Megan Thee Stallion ( 7 ) 300, 1501 Certified

28 23 30 22 Meet The Woo, V.2 ‒ Pop Smoke ( 7 ) Victor Victor Worldwide

29 ** 1 Gucci Mane Presents: So Icy Summer ‒ Gucci Mane & Various Artists ( 29 ) Atlantic, Guwop

30 32 32 115 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 ) Republic

31 30 34 60 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent ‒ Lewis Capaldi ( 20 ) Vertigo

32 41 50 70 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 ) Interscope, Grade A

33 29 31 15 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 4 ) Warner

34 35 36 36 Hot Pink ‒ Doja Cat ( 9 ) Kemosabe

35 34 33 101 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 ) Grand Hustle, Cactus Jack

36 36 44 40 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 ) Interscope, LVRN

37 39 41 14 SOUTHSIDE ‒ Sam Hunt ( 5 ) MCA Nashville

38 47 39 634 Legend: The Best Of... ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 ) Island, Tuff Gong

39 44 38 139 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 ) Island, Rocket

40 38 54 34 Frozen II ‒ Soundtrack ( 1 ) Walt Disney

41 40 48 26 Time Served ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 3 ) Interscope, N-Less

42 45 51 106 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 ) Cash Money, Young Money

43 51 55 479 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 22 ) Fantasy

44 43 47 46 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) Republic

45 46 46 18 Chilombo ‒ Jhene Aiko ( 2 ) ARTclub, ARTium, 2 Fish

46 42 42 21 Changes ‒ Justin Bieber ( 1 ) SchoolBoy, Raymond Braun

47 49 53 187 Stoney ‒ Post Malone ( 4 ) Republic

48 52 59 41 KIRK ‒ DaBaby ( 1 ) Interscope, SouthCoast

49 ** 1 First Rose Of Spring ‒ Willie Nelson ( 49 ) Legacy

50 56 63 36 Ghetto Gospel ‒ Rod Wave ( 10 ) Alamo

51 54 62 32 Certified Hitmaker ‒ Lil Mosey ( 12 ) Interscope, Mogul Vision

52 76 74 365 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 ) MCA, Geffen

53 67 69 624 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 ) Columbia

54 72 81 380 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 ) Warner Bros.

55 62 49 20 MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 ‒ BTS ( 1 ) BigHit Entertainment

56 55 61 28 JACKBOYS ‒ JACKBOYS ( 1 ) Cactus Jack

57 53 60 16 Collection One ‒ SAINt JHN ( 50 ) Godd Complexx

58 59 65 121 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 ) Bad Vibes Forever

59 66 66 252 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 ) Mercury Nashville

60 63 64 133 Dont Smile At Me ‒ Billie Eilish ( 14 ) Interscope, Darkroom

61 57 67 64 Cuz I Love You ‒ Lizzo ( 4 ) Atlantic, Nice Life

62 61 68 47 So Much Fun ‒ Young Thug ( 1 ) Atlantic, 300, Young Stoner Life

63 103 110 265 Greatest Hits So Far... ‒ Zac Brown Band ( 20 ) Atlantic, ROAR, Southern Ground

64 71 75 70 GIRL ‒ Maren Morris ( 4 ) Columbia Nashville

65 64 70 9 It Was Good Until It Wasn't ‒ Kehlani ( 2 ) Atlantic, Tsunami Mob

66 68 71 175 American Teen ‒ Khalid ( 4 ) Right Hand

67 65 72 25 Manic ‒ Halsey ( 2 ) Capitol

68 69 76 66 Free Spirit ‒ Khalid ( 1 ) Right Hand

69 58 27 3 Goldmine ‒ Gabby Barrett ( 27 ) Warner Music Nashville

70 80 91 189 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 ) Walt Disney

71 85 93 10 Slime & B ‒ Chris Brown & Young Thug ( 24 ) CBE, 300

72 37 8 3 The Album ‒ Teyana Taylor ( 8 ) G.O.O.D.

73 82 90 54 Indigo ‒ Chris Brown ( 1 ) CBE

74 86 78 428 1 ‒ The Beatles ( 1 ) Apple, Capitol

75 81 87 175 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 ) Atlantic

76 74 82 39 AI YoungBoy 2 ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 ) Atlantic, Never Broke Again

77 ** 1 FWA ‒ Lil Wayne ( 77 ) Young Money

78 114 115 88 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 ) MCA, Geffen

79 79 73 6 Golden Hour ‒ Kygo ( 18 ) Kygo AS

80 78 85 74 Thank U, Next ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 ) Republic

81 83 77 332 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 ) Interscope, Death Row, Amaru

82 70 84 30 Fully Loaded: God's Country ‒ Blake Shelton ( 2 ) Warner Music Nashville

83 73 86 25 Music To Be Murdered By ‒ Eminem ( 1 ) Interscope, Aftermath, Shady

84 77 83 17 Heaven Or Hell ‒ Don Toliver ( 7 ) Atlantic, Cactus Jack

85 109 95 218 Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys ‒ The Beach Boys ( 16 ) Capitol

86 94 155 199 The Essential Billy Joel ‒ Billy Joel ( 15 ) Columbia

87 87 96 150 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 ) Atlantic, Generation Now

88 99 101 419 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 ) Columbia

89 88 52 3 Translation ‒ Black Eyed Peas ( 52 ) BEP

90 110 108 53 Dreamville & J. Cole: Revenge Of The Dreamers III ‒ Various Artists ( 1 ) Interscope, Dreamville

91 96 103 118 Invasion Of Privacy ‒ Cardi B ( 1 ) Atlantic, The KSR Group

92 127 125 334 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 ‒ Eagles ( 1 ) Elektra, Asylum

93 90 80 19 PTSD ‒ G Herbo ( 7 ) Epic

94 100 102 169 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 ) Interscope, Aftermath, Top Dawg

95 95 106 6 Chapter I: Snake Oil ‒ Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley ( 50 ) Mad Decent

96 97 98 31 Romance ‒ Camila Cabello ( 3 ) SYCO

97 102 100 402 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 ) Interscope, Aftermath, Top Dawg

98 98 94 9 Las Que No Iban A Salir ‒ Bad Bunny ( 7 ) Rimas

99 60 29 3 City On Lock ‒ City Girls ( 29 ) Motown, Quality Control

100 106 107 52 No.6 Collaborations Project ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 ) Atlantic

101 119 97 235 Appetite For Destruction ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 1 ) Geffen

102 89 92 33 A Love Letter To You 4 ‒ Trippie Redd ( 1 ) TenThousand Projects

103 111 88 369 Abbey Road ‒ The Beatles ( 1 ) Apple, Capitol

104 108 104 384 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 ) Cash Money, Young Money

105 ** 1 16 Biggest Hits ‒ Charlie Daniels ( 105 ) Columbia Nashville

106 113 117 135 The Greatest Showman ‒ Soundtrack ( 1 ) Atlantic, Fox, 20th Century Fox

107 136 139 20 Wildcard ‒ Miranda Lambert ( 4 ) RCA Nashville, Vanner

108 92 89 9 Good Intentions ‒ NAV ( 1 ) XO

109 121 116 219 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 ) Cash Money, Young Money

110 105 99 11 38 Baby 2 ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 ) Atlantic, Never Broke Again

111 160 161 37 Old Dominion ‒ Old Dominion ( 9 ) RCA Nashville

112 107 109 50 The Search ‒ NF ( 1 ) NF Real Music

113 104 113 4 I'm Gone ‒ iann dior ( 45 ) TenThousand Projects

114 122 120 55 7 (EP) ‒ Lil Nas X ( 2 ) Columbia

115 50 2 3 Rough And Rowdy Ways ‒ Bob Dylan ( 2 ) Columbia

116 RE -- 7 Ones ‒ Selena ( 116 ) Capitol Latin

117 118 105 292 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 ) Roc Nation, Dreamville

118 117 111 20 Where The Light Is ‒ Surfaces ( 104 ) Surfaces

119 132 128 107 Dan + Shay ‒ Dan + Shay ( 6 ) Warner Music Nashville

120 116 114 200 Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 ) Grand Hustle

121 120 118 54 Perfect Ten ‒ Mustard ( 8 ) Interscope, 10 Summers

122 123 119 230 Greatest Hits ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 1 ) Bad Boy

123 128 112 25 Circles ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 ) Warner

124 131 130 189 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 ) XO

125 93 79 4 Ungodly Hour ‒ Chloe X Halle ( 16 ) Parkwood

126 129 134 332 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 ) Epic

127 133 126 253 Beauty Behind The Madness ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 ) XO

128 126 127 111 Shawn Mendes ‒ Shawn Mendes ( 1 ) Island

129 124 121 81 Hoodie SZN ‒ A Boogie Wit da Hoodie ( 1 ) Atlantic, Highbridge The Label

130 154 180 26 9 ‒ Jason Aldean ( 2 ) Broken Bow, BMG, Macon

131 141 149 39 True 2 Myself ‒ Lil Tjay ( 5 ) Columbia

132 138 137 159 Evolve ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 2 ) Interscope, KIDinaKORNER

133 134 129 150 17 ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 2 ) Bad Vibes Forever

134 150 154 247 Greatest Hits ‒ Red Hot Chili Peppers ( 18 ) Warner

135 139 157 57 Die A Legend ‒ Polo G ( 6 ) Columbia

136 142 138 291 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) Big Machine

137 151 148 10 Here And Now ‒ Kenny Chesney ( 1 ) Blue Chair, Warner Music Nashville

138 148 133 87 Experiment ‒ Kane Brown ( 1 ) RCA Nashville, Zone 4

139 152 141 172 More Life ‒ Drake ( 1 ) Cash Money, Young Money

140 147 143 161 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 ) Top Dawg

141 159 142 337 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 ) Capitol, Hideout

142 144 145 385 The Eminem Show ‒ Eminem ( 1 ) Interscope, Web, Aftermath

143 155 159 188 Kane Brown ‒ Kane Brown ( 5 ) RCA Nashville, Zone 4

144 156 123 426 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 ) Epic

145 157 158 81 X 100PRE ‒ Bad Bunny ( 11 ) Rimas

146 137 144 19 Funeral ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 ) Young Money

147 140 147 92 Drip Harder ‒ Lil Baby & Gunna ( 4 ) Motown, Quality Control, 300, Young Stoner Life

148 161 -- 8 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 120 ) Hickman Holler

149 130 122 13 The New Toronto 3 ‒ Tory Lanez ( 2 ) Interscope

150 178 173 93 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 ) RCA

151 153 151 6 Poems Of The Past (EP) ‒ Powfu ( 134 ) Robots And Humans

152 146 152 96 Look Up Child ‒ Lauren Daigle ( 3 ) Centricity

153 149 136 20 Still Flexin, Still Steppin ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 2 ) Atlantic, Never Broke Again

154 158 160 71 Baby On Baby ‒ DaBaby ( 7 ) Interscope, SouthCoast

155 165 169 40 The Kids Are Coming (EP) ‒ Tones And I ( 30 ) Elektra, Bad Batch

156 145 150 128 Cry Baby ‒ Melanie Martinez ( 6 ) Atlantic

157 15 -- 2 6pc Hot (EP) ‒ 6LACK ( 15 ) Interscope, LVRN

158 162 163 478 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 ) Elektra

159 RE -- 46 Greatest Hits ‒ Bruce Springsteen ( 1 ) Columbia

160 RE -- 237 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 ) Capitol

161 RE -- 153 Number One Hits ‒ Tim McGraw ( 27 ) Curb

162 164 162 76 Victory Lap ‒ Nipsey Hussle ( 2 ) Atlantic, All Money In No Money Out

163 182 186 158 Frozen ‒ Soundtrack ( 1 ) Walt Disney

164 101 40 9 NCT #127: Neo Zone, The 2nd Album ‒ NCT 127 ( 5 ) SM

165 173 166 54 The Essential Elvis Presley ‒ Elvis Presley ( 42 ) RCA, Sony Strategic Marketing Group

166 125 58 4 Young & Turnt, Vol. 2 ‒ 42 Dugg ( 58 ) 4PF

167 188 178 147 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 ) MCA Nashville

168 174 187 14 TROLLS: World Tour ‒ Soundtrack ( 15 ) DreamWorks, Villa 40

169 RE -- 106 Greatest Hits 2 ‒ Toby Keith ( 3 ) DreamWorks Nashville

170 169 164 57 Center Point Road ‒ Thomas Rhett ( 1 ) Valory

171 RE 183 28 The Essential Johnny Cash ‒ Johnny Cash ( 35 ) Columbia Nashville

172 186 185 172 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 ) Island

173 RE -- 12 kelsea ‒ Kelsea Ballerini ( 12 ) Black River

174 167 165 84 Championships ‒ Meek Mill ( 1 ) Atlantic, Maybach

175 179 167 132 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day ‒ Kid Cudi ( 4 ) G.O.O.D., Dream On

176 ** 1 The Things That Got Us Here ‒ Sidewalk Prophets ( 176 ) Curb-Word

177 176 176 123 A Decade Of Destruction ‒ Five Finger Death Punch ( 29 ) Prospect Park

178 192 194 193 Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits ‒ Blake Shelton ( 5 ) Warner Music Nashville

179 166 168 92 A Star Is Born (Soundtrack) ‒ Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper ( 1 ) Interscope

180 172 170 47 Quality Control: Control The Streets, Volume 2 ‒ Various Artists ( 3 ) Motown, Quality Control

181 177 175 186 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 ) Boys Don't Cry

182 RE -- 2 The Way It Feels ‒ Maddie & Tae ( 74 ) Mercury Nashville

183 181 171 269 Blurryface ‒ twenty one pilots ( 1 ) Fueled By Ramen

184 171 172 100 Harder Than Ever ‒ Lil Baby ( 3 ) Motown, Quality Control

185 91 22 3 The Smartest ‒ Tee Grizzley ( 22 ) 300, Grizzley Gang

186 185 156 481 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 ) Geffen, DGC, Sub Pop

187 200 -- 166 Sublime ‒ Sublime ( 13 ) MCA, Geffen, Gasoline Alley

188 183 179 140 H.E.R. ‒ H.E.R. ( 23 ) MBK

189 RE -- 105 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 ) Interscope, Aftermath, Shady

190 48 -- 2 The Product III: stateofEMERGEncy ‒ August Alsina ( 48 ) Snaake The World

191 190 196 473 21 ‒ Adele ( 1 ) XL

192 RE -- 186 California Sunrise ‒ Jon Pardi ( 11 ) Capitol Nashville

193 198 -- 99 The Definitive Collection ‒ Stevie Wonder ( 35 ) Motown, UTV

194 184 181 45 We Love You Tecca ‒ Lil Tecca ( 4 ) Galactic

195 194 188 227 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 ) Westbury Road

196 191 124 79 Love Yourself: Answer ‒ BTS ( 1 ) BigHit Entertainment

197 RE -- 34 Greatest Hits 1974-78 ‒ The Steve Miller Band ( 18 ) Capitol

198 193 193 144 Perception ‒ NF ( 1 ) Capitol, NF Real Music

199 RE -- 400 Night Visions ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 2 ) Interscope, KIDinaKORNER

200 RE -- 40 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 ) RCA, Arista

Pop Smoke's 'Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

7/12/2020 by Keith Caulfield

 

Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, giving the late rapper his first chart-topping effort. The set was released on July 3 via Victor Victor Worldwide/Republic Records and bows with 251,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 9, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

 

Shoot for the Stars is billed as Pop Smoke’s first studio album, following a pair of mixtapes: Meet the Woo, V.1 and Meet the Woo, V.2. The latter became his first top 10 when it debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the Feb. 22-dated chart.

 

News of Shoot for the Stars’ No. 1 arrival comes shortly after five people were arrested on July 9 in connection with Pop Smoke’s murder on Feb. 19. The 20-year-old Brooklyn artist (real name: Bashar Barakah Jackson) died at his Hollywood Hills home of a gunshot wound after suspects with masks entered the residence and shot him.

 

Shoot for the Stars’ launch of 251,000 equivalent album units is powered by 190,000 SEA units (equating to 268.44 million on-demand streams of the 19 tracks on the album), 59,000 in album sales (supported by an array of merchandise/album bundle offers) and 3,000 in TEA units.

 

Sixth Biggest Week of 2020: All told, Shoot for the Stars’ haul of 251,000 units marks the sixth-biggest week of 2020 for any album, and the third-largest for a hip-hop album. It trails the debut weeks of The Weeknd’s After Hours (April 4-dated chart; 444,000 units), BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7 (March 7; 422,000), Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake (March 21; 288,000), Eminem’s Music to Be Murdered By (Feb. 1; 279,000) and Lady Gaga’s Chromatica (June 13; 274,000).

 

Fourth Largest Streaming Week of 2020: Shoot for the Stars’ bow of 190,000 SEA units -- and 268.44 million streams -- is the fourth-largest streaming week of 2020. It’s surpassed only by the debut week of Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake (March 21-dated chart; 278,000 SEA units; 400.42 million streams), the second week of Eternal (March 28; 239,000 SEA units; 348.72 million streams) and the debut frame of Drake’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes (May 16; 201,000 SEA units; 269.10 million streams).

 

First Posthumous No. 1 Album Since December 2018: Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon is the first posthumous album to reach No. 1 since XXXTentacion’s Skins opened atop the chart dated Dec. 22, 2018 (with 132,000 equivalent album units). The hip-hop artist died on June 18 of that year. Pop Smoke and XXXTentacion are two of four hip-hop artists with posthumous No. 1s. They follow The Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac, who each have three posthumous leaders.

 

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical surges to a new peak, as the album vaults from No. 14 with 102,000 equivalent album units earned (up 294 percent). Of that sum, 32,000 are in album sales (up 592 percent).

 

The album is basking in the glow of the July 3 Disney+ streaming premiere of the filmed version of the Broadway stage show, with most of the original Broadway cast.

 

Of Hamilton’s unit haul of 102,000 for the week, 67,000 are in SEA units (equating to 90.41 million on-demand streams for the set’s tracks -- easily the biggest streaming week ever for a cast recording), 32,000 are in album sales, and 4,000 are in TEA units.

 

The set previous peaked at No. 3 on the July 2, 2016-dated chart, following the 2016 Tony Awards, where the show won 11 trophies, including best musical.

 

With Hamilton’s rush back up the chart, it sets a couple new personal bests, as well as an eye-popping feat for cast recordings.

 

Highest-Charting Cast Album Since 1969: With Hamilton surging to No. 2, and surpassing its previous high of No. 3, the cast album is the highest charting cast album since the original cast recording of Hair spent 13 weeks at No. 1 in 1969 (on the April 26 through July 19-dated charts). Until this week, Hamilton was tied with the original Broadway cast recording of The Book of Mormon as the highest charting cast album since 1969, as Mormon peaked at No. 3 in 2011.

 

250 Weeks on the Chart: Hamilton celebrates its 250th week on the Billboard 200 chart. The set has never left the tally since its debut at No. 12 on the Oct. 17, 2015-dated list. That’s the longest run by any cast album since the highlights edition of the original London cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera, which has logged 331 weeks on the list between 1990 and 1996.

 

A Long, Long Climb to the Top Two: Hamilton reaches No. 2 in its 250th chart week (all consecutive) -- the slowest climb to the top two ever on the chart in terms of weeks on chart.

 

Hamilton was released on Sept. 15, 2015, so it reaches the top two (and a new peak) just shy of the fifth anniversary of the album’s release.

 

The last album to take longer to reach the top two, in terms of counting between release date and peak date, is Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ Greatest Hits. The album re-entered at its peak of No. 2 on the Oct. 21, 2017-dated chart following Petty’s death on Oct. 2, 2017. The album was released on Nov. 16, 1993. When it re-entered at No. 2, it was the 235th week on the chart for the album, as it had not been charting consistently since 1993.

 

Largest Week, by Units, for a Cast Album: With 102,000 equivalent album units earned, Hamilton tallies the biggest week for any cast recording since Billboard and Nielsen Music/MRC Data began tracking albums by units in December 2014. Hamilton beats its own record, as it previously held the biggest week, by units, for a cast album since December 2014 -- when it net 62,000 units on the July 2, 2016-dated chart.

 

Biggest Sales Week for a Cast Recording Since … Hamilton: With 32,000 copies of the album sold in the latest tracking week, Hamilton tallies the largest sales week for a traditional cast album since Hamilton itself moved 37,000 copies over the Christmas week of 2016 (reflected on the Jan. 14, 2017-dated charts). (Since then, one album categorized as a cast album sold more, but it’s not a traditional musical show recording: Bruce Springsteen’s one-man Broadway show Springsteen on Broadway saw its album open with 38,000 copies sold on the Dec. 29, 2018-dated chart.)

 

Hamilton - A Rare Hot-Selling Cast Album: Since Nielsen Music/MRC Data began electronically tracking sales in 1991, only five traditional musical cast recordings (six if you count Springsteen on Broadway) have ever sold at least 32,000 copies in a single week. Hamilton has now done it six times, the original Broadway cast recording of The Book of Mormon did it twice in 2011, the original Broadway cast recording of Rent managed it once (with its debut week of 43,000 in 1996), the original London cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera did it twice (once in 1992 and once in 1993) and then the Highlights edition of the original London cast recording of Phantom did it eight times between 1992 and 1996. (And then there’s Springsteen on Broadway, which opened with 38,000 sold in 2018.)

 

So far, Hamilton has sold 1.97 million copies in the U.S.

 

Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, Lil Baby’s My Turn falls from No. 1 to No. 3 with 62,000 equivalent album units earned (down 11 percent), while DaBaby’s former No. 1 Blame It On Baby slips from No. 3 to No. 4 with 36,000 units (down 8 percent).

 

Post Malone’s previous leader Hollywood’s Bleeding dips 4-5 with just under 36,000 units (down 8 percent).

 

The Weeknd’s chart-topping After Hours shifts down 5-6 with a little more than 29,000 equivalent album units (down 7 percent), Harry Styles’ former No. 1 Fine Line backtracks 6-7 with 29,000 units (down 7 percent) and Polo G’s The Goat falls 7-8 with 28,000 units (down 8 percent).

 

Lil Uzi Vert’s former leader Eternal Atake descends 8-9 with 27,000 equivalent album units earned (down 11 percent), and Lil Durk’s Just Cause Y’all Waited 2 closes out the top 10, tumbling 2-10 with 27,000 units (down 36 percent, after its surge back up the chart a week ago, from No. 56, following its deluxe reissue with bonus tracks).