BILLBOARD 200 Week ending April 16, 2022

 

TW LW Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak)

 

1 ** 1 Unlimited Love ‒ Red Hot Chili Peppers ( 1 ) (97,500 (82,500 sales))

2 2 4 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 ) (51,000)

3 3 19 Encanto ‒ Soundtrack ( 1 ) (50,000)

4 4 65 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (44,500)

5 5 46 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 ) (40,000)

6 6 60 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 ) (34,000)

7 69 7 2 Alive ‒ Yeat ( 6 ) (93,000 (31,500 sales))

8 7 31 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 ) (31,000)

9 1 2 Mainstream Sellout ‒ Machine Gun Kelly ( 1 ) (30,500)

10 9 41 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 ) (30,000)

11 ** 1 DJ Drama & Dreamville Presents: D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape ‒ Various Artists ( 11 )

12 ** 1 Where We Started ‒ Thomas Rhett ( 12 )

13 10 13 DS4EVER ‒ Gunna ( 1 )

14 19 110 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 )

15 22 110 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

16 14 17 Fighting Demons ‒ Juice WRLD ( 2 )

17 31 36 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

18 17 6 Back For Everything ‒ Kodak Black ( 2 )

19 55 121 Fine Line ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

20 35 55 Justice ‒ Justin Bieber ( 1 )

21 27 203 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

22 28 89 F*ck Love ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 1 )

23 33 92 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 )

24 30 126 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

25 RE 2 We Are ‒ Jon Batiste ( 25 )

26 32 135 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

27 26 105 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )

28 79 73 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

29 36 21 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

30 111 21 An Evening With Silk Sonic ‒ Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) ( 2 )

31 34 493 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

32 43 13 Dawn FM ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

33 25 570 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

34 37 23 = ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

35 23 71 El Ultimo Tour del Mundo ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

36 38 43 Hall Of Fame ‒ Polo G ( 1 )

37 40 253 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

38 39 91 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

39 41 471 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

40 45 29 Montero ‒ Lil Nas X ( 2 )

41 29 20 30 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

42 42 485 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

43 24 22 Still Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 1 )

44 44 54 SoulFly ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

45 15 2 777 ‒ Latto ( 15 )

46 47 130 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

47 48 184 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

48 46 230 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

49 63 343 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

50 53 475 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

51 18 176 Greatest Hits ‒ Foo Fighters ( 11 )

52 56 161 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

53 67 417 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

54 58 74 Dreamland ‒ Glass Animals ( 7 )

55 54 341 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

56 68 158 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

57 66 89 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

58 64 32 Donda ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

59 11 3 Stray Kids Mini Album: Oddinary (EP) ‒ Stray Kids ( 1 )

60 8 2 LEGENDADDY ‒ Daddy Yankee ( 8 )

61 62 50 A Gangsta's Pain ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 1 )

62 71 11 Country Stuff: The Album ‒ Walker Hayes ( 9 )

63 72 260 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

64 78 218 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

65 70 197 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

66 74 18 Who Is Nardo Wick? ‒ Nardo Wick ( 19 )

67 60 103 The College Dropout ‒ Kanye West ( 2 )

68 76 584 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

69 75 241 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

70 93 30 The Melodic Blue ‒ Baby Keem ( 5 )

71 20 6 Yellow Tape 2 ‒ Key Glock ( 7 )

72 82 383 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

73 73 252 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

74 113 69 Thats What They All Say ‒ Jack Harlow ( 5 )

75 89 566 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

76 86 206 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

77 57 5 What It Means To Be King ‒ King Von ( 2 )

78 84 44 The Voice Of The Heroes ‒ Lil Baby & Lil Durk ( 1 )

79 83 109 Eternal Atake ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

80 59 11 Colors ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 2 )

81 85 221 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day ‒ Kid Cudi ( 4 )

82 88 308 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

83 81 57 Currents ‒ Tame Impala ( 4 )

84 80 13 Up 2 Me ‒ Yeat ( 58 )

85 90 192 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

86 96 17 Mercury - Act 1 ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 9 )

87 91 725 Legend: The Best Of... ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

88 129 35 Call Me If You Get Lost ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

89 99 707 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )

90 97 99 The GOAT ‒ Polo G ( 2 )

91 95 131 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

92 102 456 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

93 101 105 Pray 4 Love ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 )

94 94 212 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )

95 92 174 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

96 13 2 I Know NIGO ‒ Nigo ( 13 )

97 106 382 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

98 104 137 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

99 109 127 Hot Pink ‒ Doja Cat ( 9 )

100 110 569 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

101 21 2 Humble Quest ‒ Maren Morris ( 21 )

102 103 274 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

103 123 69 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

104 125 510 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

105 117 75 Positions ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

106 108 265 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

107 112 389 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )

108 115 47 The Off-Season ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

109 114 278 Stoney ‒ Post Malone ( 4 )

110 107 176 Dr. Dre -- 2001 ‒ Dr. Dre ( 2 )

111 87 4 Turning Red ‒ Soundtrack ( 87 )

112 98 80 Tickets To My Downfall ‒ Machine Gun Kelly ( 1 )

113 ** 1 Immutable ‒ Meshuggah ( 113 )

114 116 250 More Life ‒ Drake ( 1 )

115 105 28 Sincerely, Kentrell ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 )

116 ** 1 Microdosis ‒ Mora ( 116 )

117 119 74 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )

118 RE 114 Harry Styles ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

119 127 272 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

120 122 33 Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band ‒ Green Day ( 39 )

121 152 98 Flower Boy ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 2 )

122 126 83 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

123 130 416 Nothing Was The Same ‒ Drake ( 1 )

124 124 266 American Teen ‒ Khalid ( 4 )

125 128 61 Whole Lotta Red ‒ Playboi Carti ( 1 )

126 132 41 Vice Versa ‒ Rauw Alejandro ( 17 )

127 121 81 Top ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 )

128 131 61 Shiesty Season ‒ Pooh Shiesty ( 3 )

129 149 247 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )

130 134 225 17 ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 2 )

131 147 168 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )

132 148 224 Dont Smile At Me ‒ Billie Eilish ( 14 )

133 136 123 Die Lit ‒ Playboi Carti ( 3 )

134 ** 1 The Unraveling Of PUPTheBand ‒ PUP ( 134 )

135 145 187 Swimming ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 )

136 138 516 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

137 133 177 The Life Of Pablo ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

138 140 57 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 115 )

139 141 310 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

140 173 15 Sing 2 ‒ Soundtrack ( 41 )

141 146 457 Abbey Road ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

142 151 421 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

143 150 150 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent ‒ Lewis Capaldi ( 20 )

144 142 187 DS2 ‒ Future ( 1 )

145 143 404 The Eminem Show ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

146 154 155 X 100PRE ‒ Bad Bunny ( 11 )

147 162 92 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

148 155 121 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )

149 139 22 Human: The Double Album ‒ Cody Johnson ( 19 )

150 153 272 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

151 157 56 When It's All Said And Done... Take Time ‒ Giveon ( 5 )

152 161 112 Ghetto Gospel ‒ Rod Wave ( 10 )

153 144 536 21 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

154 160 246 Evolve ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 2 )

155 65 3 Crash ‒ Charli XCX ( 7 )

156 166 91 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 106 )

157 174 292 Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys ‒ The Beach Boys ( 16 )

158 12 2 Higher ‒ Michael Buble ( 12 )

159 176 654 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

160 165 68 The Voice ‒ Lil Durk ( 2 )

161 167 209 Invasion Of Privacy ‒ Cardi B ( 1 )

162 170 216 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

163 164 329 Greatest Hits So Far... ‒ Zac Brown Band ( 20 )

164 RE 20 Heaux Tales ‒ Jazmine Sullivan ( 4 )

165 118 5 Better Than You ‒ DaBaby & YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 10 )

166 171 114 Music To Be Murdered By ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

167 168 45 Free Dem Boyz ‒ 42 Dugg ( 8 )

168 163 194 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

169 194 183 24K Magic ‒ Bruno Mars ( 2 )

170 180 81 Ready To Die ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 15 )

171 175 515 1 ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

172 186 208 Number One Hits ‒ Tim McGraw ( 27 )

173 158 212 25 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

174 RE 172 The Marshall Mathers LP ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

175 RE 98 Dreamville & J. Cole: Revenge Of The Dreamers III ‒ Various Artists ( 1 )

176 137 69 Greatest Hits ‒ Blink-182 ( 6 )

177 179 271 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )

178 RE 157 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 )

179 156 4 Candydrip ‒ Lucky Daye ( 69 )

180 RE 178 Tha Carter III ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 )

181 178 117 AI YoungBoy 2 ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 )

182 187 372 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 ‒ Eagles ( 1 )

183 189 70 Good News ‒ Megan Thee Stallion ( 2 )

184 159 257 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )

185 183 89 High Off Life ‒ Future ( 1 )

186 184 192 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )

187 185 122 Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial ‒ Roddy Ricch ( 1 )

188 182 185 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

189 188 427 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

190 181 24 The Lockdown Sessions ‒ Elton John ( 10 )

191 RE 206 Unorthodox Jukebox ‒ Bruno Mars ( 1 )

192 192 98 Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 ‒ Lil Durk ( 2 )

193 193 103 Chilombo ‒ Jhene Aiko ( 2 )

194 197 164 Thank U, Next ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

195 200 338 Blurryface ‒ twenty one pilots ( 1 )

196 195 126 Born Sinner ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

197 RE 275 [Hybrid Theory] ‒ Linkin Park ( 2 )

198 120 3 Motomami ‒ Rosalia ( 33 )

199 RE 30 Back Of My Mind ‒ H.E.R. ( 6 )

200 RE 351 In The Lonely Hour ‒ Sam Smith ( 2 )

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ‘Unlimited Love’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

By Keith Caulfield | 04/10/2022

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Unlimited Love leaps onto the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 16) at No. 1, marking the band’s second leader and first chart-topping effort since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. The new set was released on April 1 and bows with 97,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 7, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. In total, the group has tallied eight top 10 albums on the Billboard 200.

 

Unlimited Love replaces Machine Gun Kelly’s Mainstream Sellout atop the chart (the latter falls to No. 9 in its second week), giving the list back-to-back rock albums at No. 1 for the first time in over four years. It last happened when The Killers’ Wonderful Wonderful debuted at No. 1 on the Oct. 14, 2017 chart, a week after Foo Fighters’ Concrete and Gold opened at No. 1. (Rock albums are defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart.)

 

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, compiled by Luminate. 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 Unlimited Love’s 97,500 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 82,500 (it’s the top-selling album of the week); SEA units comprise 14,500 (equaling 18.96 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs); and TEA units comprise 500.

 

Notably, Unlimited Love is Red Hot Chili Peppers’ first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in nearly 16 years — since Stadium Arcadium spent its first two weeks atop the list (May 27-June 3, 2006 charts). The last act to go longer between No. 1 albums was Celine Dion, who waited 17 years and nearly eight months between A New Day Has Come (one week at No. 1 on April 13, 2002) and Courage (one week at No. 1 on Nov. 30, 2019).

 

Unlimited Love notches the largest week, by equivalent album units and album sales, for any rock album in over a year. The last larger week by a rock set was registered by Paul McCartney’s McCartney III when it debuted at No. 2 on the Jan. 2, 2021-dated chart with 107,000 units — of which album sales comprised 104,000.

 

Unlimited Love’s first-week sales were boosted by its availability across multiple color vinyl LP variants and special editions (including versions for Target, Walmart, Amazon, independent record stores and the band’s official webstore). All told, the set sold 38,500 copies on vinyl — the largest sales week for an album on vinyl in 2022, and the second-biggest sales week for a rock album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991. Only the debut frame of Jack White’s Lazaretto (40,000) posted a larger week for a rock album on vinyl (June 28, 2014 chart) since 1991. Thus, Unlimited Love claims the largest week on a vinyl for a rock album by a group in that 31-year span.

 

Unlimited Love was ushered in by the No. 1 hit “Black Summer” on the Alternative Airplay chart — the band’s 14th leader on the tally. The new album is the group’s first with guitarist John Frusciante since Stadium Arcadium in 2006. The new set’s release was celebrated with some Los Angeles-specific celebrations — appropriate, since the band formed in L.A. The group received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 31, staged a surprise show at the Fonda Theater on April 1 and played an in-store performance at Amoeba Music in Hollywood on April 7 (the store’s first in-store performance in over two years, and first at its new location). The group’s Flea even played “The Star-Spangled Banner” on bass guitar at the Los Angeles Lakers’ home game against the Denver Nuggets on April 3. (No doubt Lakers fans were also delighted to know that Unlimited Love was also pressed on limited edition purple and gold vinyl.)

 

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Lil Durk’s chart-topping 7220 holds in the runner-up spot with 51,000 equivalent album units earned (down 18%). A trio of other former No. 1s is next, with the Encanto soundtrack steady at No. 3 (50,000; down 14%), Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album stationary at No. 4 (44,500; down less than 1%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour a non-mover at No. 5 (40,000; up 20% following her multiple Grammy Award wins on April 3, as well as her performance of “Drivers License” on the CBS-TV awards broadcast).

 

The Weeknd’s compilation The Highlights is likewise steady at No. 6 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned (up 2%).

 

Yeat’s 2 Alive returns to the top 10, bolting from No. 69 to No. 7 with 31,500 units (up 141%), following its deluxe reissue on April 1 with additional bonus tracks. The album debuted and peaked at No. 6 on the March 5-dated chart.

 

Drake’s former leader Certified Lover Boy falls 7-8 with nearly 31,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%), Machine Gun Kelly’s Mainstream Sellout falls 1-9 in its second week (30,500; down 67%) and Doja Cat’s Planet Her is pushed down 9-10 (30,000; up 4% following her televised Grammy Award win on April 3 for best pop duo/group performance for the album’s “Kiss Me More,” featuring SZA).