TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )

1 New 1 30 ‒ Adele ( 1 ) (839,000 (692,000 sales))

2 1 2 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (159,000)

3 5 12 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 ) (53,000)

4 2 2 An Evening With Silk Sonic ‒ Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) ( 2 ) (50,000)

5 6 46 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (48,000)

6 4 3 Still Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 1 ) (48,000)

7 New 1 Raise The Roof ‒ Robert Plant / Alison Krauss ( 7 ) (40,000 (38,000 sales))

8 11 27 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 ) (40,000)

9 22 95 Christmas ‒ Michael Buble ( 1 ) (39,000)

10 ReEntry 41 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 ) (37,000 (6,000 sales))

11 7 4 = ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

12 10 22 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )

13 16 17 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

14 9 13 Donda ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

15 ReEntry 9 Scaled And Icy ‒ twenty one pilots ( 3 )

16 3 2 Formula Of Love: O+T=<3 ‒ TWICE ( 3 )

17 14 9 Sincerely, Kentrell ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 )

18 15 70 F*ck Love ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 1 )

19 17 10 Montero ‒ Lil Nas X ( 2 )

20 18 107 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

21 51 94 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack) ‒ Vince Guaraldi Trio ( 10 )

22 49 103 Merry Christmas ‒ Mariah Carey ( 3 )

23 21 35 SoulFly ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

24 33 102 Fine Line ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

25 37 466 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

26 28 73 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 )

27 78 60 The Christmas Song ‒ Nat King Cole ( 6 )

28 26 91 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

29 31 50 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

30 25 31 A Gangsta's Pain ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 1 )

31 23 193 25 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

32 19 32 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

33 New 1 The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts ‒ Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band ( 33 )

34 43 118 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

35 24 70 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

36 32 517 21 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

37 135 18 A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector ‒ Various Artists ( 12 )

38 36 36 Justice ‒ Justin Bieber ( 1 )

39 75 22 The Best Of Pentatonix Christmas ‒ Pentatonix ( 7 )

40 35 116 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

41 34 72 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

42 8 2 Macon ‒ Jason Aldean ( 8 )

43 41 86 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )

44 50 452 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

45 29 54 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

46 38 184 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

47 112 38 Christmas Classics ‒ Bing Crosby ( 19 )

48 47 234 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

49 53 211 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

50 126 15 Rich Slave ‒ Young Dolph ( 4 )

51 42 11 The Melodic Blue ‒ Baby Keem ( 5 )

52 162 16 The Andy Williams Christmas Album ‒ Andy Williams ( 40 )

53 57 322 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

54 20 324 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

55 52 474 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

56 70 56 Positions ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

57 58 165 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

58 48 25 The Voice Of The Heroes ‒ Lil Baby & Lil Durk ( 1 )

59 New 1 They Got Amnesia ‒ French Montana ( 59 )

60 62 55 Dreamland ‒ Glass Animals ( 7 )

61 46 8 Expensive Pain ‒ Meek Mill ( 3 )

62 12 551 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

63 65 139 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

64 27 3 Voyage ‒ ABBA ( 2 )

65 56 42 Whole Lotta Red ‒ Playboi Carti ( 1 )

66 61 556 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

67 45 24 Hall Of Fame ‒ Polo G ( 1 )

68 134 4 When Christmas Comes Around... ‒ Kelly Clarkson ( 63 )

69 39 143 Speak Now ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

70 71 80 The GOAT ‒ Polo G ( 2 )

71 111 438 Abbey Road ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

72 66 4 Something For Thee Hotties: From Thee Archives ‒ Megan Thee Stallion ( 5 )

73 193 27 Ultimate Christmas ‒ Frank Sinatra ( 12 )

74 55 6 Punk ‒ Young Thug ( 1 )

75 68 364 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

76 63 112 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

77 104 17 My Gift ‒ Carrie Underwood ( 5 )

78 80 91 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 )

79 74 90 Eternal Atake ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

80 137 67 Let It Be (Soundtrack) ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

81 73 142 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

82 82 187 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

83 89 222 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

84 96 10 Sticker: The 3rd Album ‒ NCT 127 ( 3 )

85 67 363 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

86 118 241 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

87 92 565 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

88 New 1 Never Broke Again: The Compilation, Volume One ‒ Various Artists ( 88 )

89 69 173 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

90 ReEntry 84 Destroyer ‒ KISS ( 11 )

91 85 247 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

92 91 28 The Off-Season ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

93 ReEntry 44 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer ‒ Burl Ives ( 16 )

94 ReEntry 157 Greatest Hits ‒ Foo Fighters ( 11 )

95 ReEntry 14 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree: The Decca Christmas Recordings ‒ Brenda Lee ( 17 )

96 101 5 The Lockdown Sessions ‒ Elton John ( 10 )

97 124 706 Legend: The Best Of... ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

98 97 178 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

99 100 86 Pray 4 Love ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 )

100 116 437 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

101 New 1 The Bridge ‒ Sting ( 101 )

102 107 398 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

103 59 3 Yellow Tape 2 ‒ Key Glock ( 7 )

104 95 233 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

105 86 456 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

106 99 259 Stoney ‒ Post Malone ( 4 )

107 110 108 Hot Pink ‒ Doja Cat ( 9 )

108 88 61 Circles ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 )

109 102 193 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )

110 115 52 El Ultimo Tour del Mundo ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

111 ReEntry 52 Wrapped In Red ‒ Kelly Clarkson ( 3 )

112 98 63 Top ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 )

113 131 6 Music Of The Spheres ‒ Coldplay ( 4 )

114 103 61 Tickets To My Downfall ‒ Machine Gun Kelly ( 1 )

115 13 2 Blockchain ‒ Money Man ( 13 )

116 105 50 Thats What They All Say ‒ Jack Harlow ( 5 )

117 120 37 When It's All Said And Done... Take Time ‒ Giveon ( 5 )

118 30 155 Purple Rain (Soundtrack) ‒ Prince And The Revolution ( 1 )

119 106 547 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

120 117 49 The Voice ‒ Lil Durk ( 2 )

121 132 23 Country Stuff (EP) ‒ Walker Hayes ( 32 )

122 125 107 Harry Styles ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

123 119 42 Shiesty Season ‒ Pooh Shiesty ( 3 )

124 128 19 Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits ‒ Fall Out Boy ( 77 )

125 127 491 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

126 121 27 Free Dem Boyz ‒ 42 Dugg ( 8 )

127 ReEntry 21 The Dean Martin Christmas Album ‒ Dean Martin ( 36 )

128 139 205 Dont Smile At Me ‒ Billie Eilish ( 14 )

129 108 14 Trip At Knight ‒ Trippie Redd ( 2 )

130 ReEntry 3 Paper Route iLLUMINATi ‒ Young Dolph ( 22 )

131 136 197 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

132 129 132 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent ‒ Lewis Capaldi ( 20 )

133 123 26 Still Sleep? ‒ Sleepy Hallow ( 16 )

134 ReEntry 268 [Hybrid Theory] ‒ Linkin Park ( 2 )

135 ReEntry 20 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other Christmas Classics ‒ Gene Autry ( 21 )

136 122 104 Die Lit ‒ Playboi Carti ( 3 )

137 ReEntry 6 The House Is Burning ‒ Isaiah Rashad ( 7 )

138 177 72 Goldmine ‒ Gabby Barrett ( 27 )

139 140 187 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )

140 54 635 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

141 138 550 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

142 ReEntry 8 Dum And Dummer 2 ‒ Young Dolph & Key Glock ( 8 )

143 130 202 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day ‒ Kid Cudi ( 4 )

144 142 289 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

145 150 190 Invasion Of Privacy ‒ Cardi B ( 1 )

146 147 222 19 ‒ Adele ( 4 )

147 152 8 La 167 ‒ Farruko ( 26 )

148 166 175 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

149 159 146 Thank U, Next ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

150 143 199 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

151 144 103 Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial ‒ Roddy Ricch ( 1 )

152 64 7 Life Of A DON ‒ Don Toliver ( 2 )

153 ReEntry 15 Last Christmas (Soundtrack) ‒ George Michael & Wham! ( 43 )

154 175 500 1 ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

155 ReEntry 43 White Christmas ‒ Bing Crosby ( 45 )

156 153 254 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

157 164 53 Good News ‒ Megan Thee Stallion ( 2 )

158 146 498 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

159 ReEntry 44 The Classic Christmas Album ‒ Elvis Presley ( 28 )

160 148 259 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

161 93 5 Blue Banisters ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 8 )

162 151 247 American Teen ‒ Khalid ( 4 )

163 149 167 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

164 160 343 In The Lonely Hour ‒ Sam Smith ( 2 )

165 44 2 Back On My Baby Jesus Sh!t Again (EP) ‒ DaBaby ( 44 )

166 New 1 Snoop Dogg Presents: Algorithm ‒ Snoop Dogg & Various Artists ( 166 )

167 155 22 Vice Versa ‒ Rauw Alejandro ( 17 )

168 114 78 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

169 157 81 Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 ‒ Lil Durk ( 2 )

170 ReEntry 68 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

171 141 168 Swimming ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 )

172 154 66 9 ‒ Jason Aldean ( 2 )

173 180 403 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

174 173 94 Ghetto Gospel ‒ Rod Wave ( 10 )

175 156 111 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

176 ReEntry 29 Ones ‒ Selena ( 42 )

177 ReEntry 2 Evergreen ‒ Pentatonix ( 109 )

178 167 96 Music To Be Murdered By ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

179 ReEntry 5 Bulletproof ‒ Young Dolph ( 36 )

180 178 23 Back Of My Mind ‒ H.E.R. ( 6 )

181 188 296 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

182 181 7 Human: The Double Album ‒ Cody Johnson ( 19 )

183 184 43 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 115 )

184 183 154 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )

185 170 11 The Anxiety ‒ THE ANXIETY: WILLOW & Tyler Cole ( 103 )

186 192 72 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 106 )

187 ReEntry 86 MAP OF THE SOUL : 7 ‒ BTS ( 1 )

188 ReEntry 15 Buy Dirt (EP) ‒ Jordan Davis ( 86 )

189 179 320 Blurryface ‒ twenty one pilots ( 1 )

190 New 1 Sniper Gang Presents Syko Bob & SnapKatt: Nightmare Babies ‒ Various Artists ( 190 )

191 174 402 Nothing Was The Same ‒ Drake ( 1 )

192 ReEntry 408 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

193 172 34 Destined 2 Win ‒ Lil Tjay ( 5 )

194 New 1 A Different Christmas ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 194 )

195 186 22 Made In Lagos ‒ Wizkid ( 28 )

196 ReEntry 10 Jose ‒ J Balvin ( 12 )

197 168 255 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

198 ReEntry 64 Ready To Die ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 15 )

199 ReEntry 274 Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys ‒ The Beach Boys ( 16 )

200 169 209 17 ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 2 )

Adele’s ‘30’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With Biggest Week of the Year

By Keith Caulfield | 11/28/2021

 

Adele’s new album 30 blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, debuting with the largest week of 2021 for any album, while the set is already the biggest-selling album of the year. It’s the third No. 1 for the superstar, following 25 (10 weeks on top in 2015-16) and 21 (24 weeks in 2011-12).

 

30 is Adele’s first album in six years, since she released 25 on Nov. 20, 2015.

 

30 starts with 839,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 25, according to MRC Data. That’s by far the largest week of the year for any album by units earned, surpassing the debut of Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, which earned 613,000 units in the week ending Sept. 9.

 

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 30’s 839,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 25, album sales comprise 692,000, SEA units comprise 141,000 (equaling 185.39 million on-demand streams of the set’s 12 tracks) and TEA units comprise 6,000 units.

 

30’s 692,000 album sales’ total is easily the largest sales week of the year for any album. It nearly doubles the year’s previous biggest sales week, when Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) sold 369,000 in the week ending Nov. 18.

 

Further, 30’s sales of 692,000 immediately make the set the biggest-selling album of the entire year, surpassing the total sales of any album over the past 11 months combined. The year’s previous biggest-selling album was Swift’s 2020 release Evermore, which has sold 471,000 in 2021.

 

Of 30’s total album sales (692,000), physical album sales account for 487,000 of that figure (378,000 in CDs; 108,000 in vinyl LPs; and just under 2,000 in cassette tapes) and digital album sales comprise 205,000. (30 has the second-largest sales week for a vinyl album since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991. Only Swift’s Red [Taylor’s Version] has sold more copies on vinyl in a single week since 1991, with 114,000 sold in the week ending Nov. 18, as reflected on the charts dated Nov. 27.)

 

The standard 12-track edition of the 30 album was available as a CD, digital album and black vinyl LP widely in the U.S. Adele’s official webstore exclusively sold the cassette tape edition of the album, as well as two deluxe boxed sets.

 

Beyond the standard widely available editions of the album, and Adele’s webstore offerings, the only other variants of the album available in the U.S. were a 15-track CD exclusive to Target and two vinyl LP variants – one exclusive to Amazon (a white-colored vinyl LP) and the other solely available through Walmart (a clear-colored LP). The Target CD contains three exclusive audio tracks, including a version of the album’s lead single “Easy on Me” featuring Chris Stapleton; the song is by Adele solo on all other versions of the set. Target is the only U.S. retailer with any bonus audio tracks for 30.

 

30’s first-week sales of 692,000 not only mark the single-largest sales frame of 2021, but the largest sales week for any album since 2017. The last time an album sold more copies in a single week was when Taylor Swift’s Reputation debuted with 1.216 million copies sold in the week ending Nov. 16, 2017 (reflected on the Dec. 2, 2017-dated charts).

 

In its debut week, Reputation was not available in full on streaming services, and its digital album was exclusively sold via the Apple iTunes Store and Swift’s webstore. The album was also available in two Target-exclusive zine/CD editions, but not on vinyl or cassette. No bonus tracks were featured on any version of the album in its release week. First-week sales of Reputation were also likely enhanced by fan participation in the Taylor Swift Tix powered by Ticketmaster Verified Fan program, where the purchase of an album would help secure greater access to Swift’s then-upcoming stadium tour. (Such a promotion is no longer eligible to count toward charted sales, as of Oct. 9, 2020.)

 

In terms of streams, 30 debuts with 141,000 SEA units – totaling 185.39 million on-demand streams of the album’s 12 tracks. That’s the fourth-largest streaming debut of 2021 for an album by a woman, after the opening weeks of Red (Taylor’s Version) (303.23 million), Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (300.73 million) and Summer Walker’s Still Over It (201.07 million). (Each of those figures is a weekly total of streams for each album’s songlist. The sum of Red [Taylor’s Version] reflected 30 tracks in its debut week, Sour had 11, Still Over It had 20 and 30 has 12.)

 

Comparably, Adele’s last album, 25, was not available to listen to in full on streaming services in its first week of release. 25 didn’t arrive in full on streamers until seven months later, in June of 2016.

 

30 was ushered in by the single “Easy on Me,” which has spent four weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart (through the most recently published list, dated Nov. 27). The album was also supported by a 90-minute CBS TV special on Nov. 14, in which Adele performed songs in concert and sat down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Adele has also recently graced the magazine covers of American Vogue and Rolling Stone.

 

Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) falls from No. 1 to No. 2 in its second week, with 159,000 equivalent album units earned (down 74%).

 

Drake’s former No. 1 Certified Lover Boy climbs 5-3 with 53,000 units (though down 7%), Silk Sonic’s An Evening With Silk Sonic dips 2-4 in its second week with 50,000 (down 52%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album rises 6-5 with 48,000 units (up 6%) and Summer Walker’s former leader Still Over It falls 4-6 with just under 48,000 (down 25%).

 

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ second collaborative album, Raise the Roof, debuts at No. 7 on the Billboard 200. It’s the ninth top 10 for Plant as a solo artist, and the fifth for Krauss (including her work with Union Station). Raise the Roof follows Plant and Krauss’ first teaming, on the 2007 album Raising Sand, which debuted and peaked at No. 2. The set later won the Grammy Award for album of the year. (Legendary rock band Led Zeppelin, with Plant as a member, has banked 13 top 10s on the tally, including seven No. 1s, beginning in 1969.)

 

Raise the Roof starts with a little over 40,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 38,000, SEA units comprise 2,000 (equaling 2.17 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000.

 

Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour climbs 11-8 with 40,000 equivalent album units earned (up 23%).

 

Michael Bublé’s chart-topping Christmas album jingles its way back to the top 10, as the album, first released in 2011, bolts 22-9 with 39,000 equivalent album units earned (up 77%). The set gets a boost courtesy of promotion around a 10th anniversary deluxe reissue that was released on Nov. 19, which includes additional tracks.

 

Christmas spent five weeks at No. 1 in late 2011 and early 2012 and has returned to the top 10 in every Christmas season since.

 

Closing out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 is The Weeknd’s hits compilation The Highlights, which re-enters the chart at No. 10 with 37,000 equivalent album units earned (up 724%). The album debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Feb. 20-dated chart. The Highlights was sparked in the latest tracking week by its release on vinyl LP, as 91% of the album’s sales for the week were on vinyl (a little over 5,000 of a nearly 6,000 sold).