BILLBOARD 200 Week ending May 28, 2022

 

TW LW Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak)

 

1 ** 1 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 ) (295,500 (35,500 sales))

2 1 2 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 ) (182,000)

3 2 3 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 ) (89,500)

4 ** 1 Minisode 2: Thursday's Child (EP) ‒ TOMORROW X TOGETHER ( 4 ) (68,500 (65,500 sales))

5 4 71 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (55,500)

6 3 2 Come Home The Kids Miss You ‒ Jack Harlow ( 3 ) (55,000)

7 ** 1 Dance Fever ‒ Florence + The Machine ( 7 ) (54,000 (42,500 sales))

8 ** 1 Dropout Boogie ‒ The Black Keys ( 8 ) (33,000 (27,500 sales))

9 5 52 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 ) (32,000)

10 7 10 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 ) (29,000)

11 10 37 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )

12 8 25 Encanto ‒ Soundtrack ( 1 )

13 11 47 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )

14 56 66 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

15 13 499 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

16 12 116 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

17 23 266 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

18 14 19 DS4EVER ‒ Gunna ( 1 )

19 20 141 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

20 18 132 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

21 22 190 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

22 19 259 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

23 17 29 = ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

24 29 127 Fine Line ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

25 26 98 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 )

26 27 477 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

27 30 209 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

28 33 111 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )

29 32 491 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

30 28 95 F*ck Love ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 1 )

31 24 61 Justice ‒ Justin Bieber ( 1 )

32 16 67 Shiesty Season ‒ Pooh Shiesty ( 3 )

33 31 27 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

34 21 19 Dawn FM ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

35 35 42 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

36 37 116 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 )

37 39 23 Fighting Demons ‒ Juice WRLD ( 2 )

38 40 236 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

39 42 97 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

40 45 49 Hall Of Fame ‒ Polo G ( 1 )

41 44 60 SoulFly ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

42 49 79 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

43 47 481 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

44 48 12 Back For Everything ‒ Kodak Black ( 2 )

45 60 242 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

46 46 35 Montero ‒ Lil Nas X ( 2 )

47 50 347 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

48 43 423 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

49 53 143 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

50 52 349 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

51 25 580 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

52 65 136 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

53 55 17 Country Stuff: The Album ‒ Walker Hayes ( 9 )

54 9 2 Nostalgia ‒ Eslabon Armado ( 9 )

55 51 590 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

56 62 203 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

57 61 224 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

58 54 576 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

59 71 212 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

60 58 167 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

61 ** 1 El Mocambo 1977 ‒ The Rolling Stones ( 61 )

62 73 389 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

63 67 80 Dreamland ‒ Glass Animals ( 7 )

64 34 3 Mr. Crawford ‒ NoCap ( 8 )

65 124 174 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )

66 59 388 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

67 63 258 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

68 74 247 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

69 68 164 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

70 78 713 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )

71 64 95 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

72 82 731 Legend: The Best Of... ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

73 75 133 Hot Pink ‒ Doja Cat ( 9 )

74 69 13 2 Alive ‒ Yeat ( 6 )

75 77 462 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

76 57 26 30 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

77 86 36 The Melodic Blue ‒ Baby Keem ( 5 )

78 76 24 Who Is Nardo Wick? ‒ Nardo Wick ( 19 )

79 80 28 Still Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 1 )

80 83 575 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

81 66 75 Thats What They All Say ‒ Jack Harlow ( 5 )

82 90 27 An Evening With Silk Sonic ‒ Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) ( 2 )

83 88 198 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

84 92 56 A Gangsta's Pain ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 1 )

85 87 314 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

86 94 300 Greatest Hits ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 1 )

87 41 3 Palomino ‒ Miranda Lambert ( 4 )

88 85 8 777 ‒ Latto ( 15 )

89 107 284 Stoney ‒ Post Malone ( 4 )

90 89 572 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

91 79 77 El Ultimo Tour del Mundo ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

92 ** 1 Esquemas ‒ Becky G ( 92 )

93 95 8 Mainstream Sellout ‒ Machine Gun Kelly ( 1 )

94 98 198 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )

95 81 38 Donda ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

96 91 115 Eternal Atake ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

97 93 109 The College Dropout ‒ Kanye West ( 2 )

98 84 19 Up 2 Me ‒ Yeat ( 58 )

99 96 105 The GOAT ‒ Polo G ( 2 )

100 100 111 Pray 4 Love ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 )

101 97 227 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day ‒ Kid Cudi ( 4 )

102 101 137 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

103 104 516 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

104 15 2 Heart On My Sleeve ‒ Ella Mai ( 15 )

105 105 50 The Voice Of The Heroes ‒ Lil Baby & Lil Durk ( 1 )

106 ** 1 So Far So Good ‒ The Chainsmokers ( 106 )

107 106 271 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

108 RE 66 FOUR ‒ One Direction ( 1 )

109 103 132 Cuz I Love You ‒ Lizzo ( 4 )

110 123 427 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

111 112 280 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

112 110 218 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )

113 114 256 More Life ‒ Drake ( 1 )

114 125 53 The Off-Season ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

115 121 63 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 115 )

116 163 132 To Pimp A Butterfly ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

117 116 222 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

118 113 23 Mercury - Act 1 ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 9 )

119 111 180 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

120 135 335 Greatest Hits So Far... ‒ Zac Brown Band ( 20 )

121 70 4 It's Almost Dry ‒ Pusha T ( 1 )

122 128 81 Positions ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

123 108 88 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

124 117 6 Familia ‒ Camila Cabello ( 10 )

125 122 522 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

126 134 63 Currents ‒ Tame Impala ( 4 )

127 RE 4 Motomami ‒ Rosalia ( 33 )

128 130 34 Sincerely, Kentrell ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 )

129 133 87 Top ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 )

130 132 182 Dr. Dre -- 2001 ‒ Dr. Dre ( 2 )

131 129 422 Nothing Was The Same ‒ Drake ( 1 )

132 120 253 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )

133 109 4 Georgia ‒ Jason Aldean ( 8 )

134 142 28 Human: The Double Album ‒ Cody Johnson ( 19 )

135 RE 18 Iowa ‒ Slipknot ( 3 )

136 6 2 We ‒ Arcade Fire ( 6 )

137 149 214 Number One Hits ‒ Tim McGraw ( 27 )

138 131 17 Colors ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 2 )

139 136 193 DS2 ‒ Future ( 1 )

140 144 298 Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys ‒ The Beach Boys ( 16 )

141 72 2 Serotonin Dreams ‒ BoyWithUke ( 72 )

142 147 153 Cry Baby ‒ Melanie Martinez ( 6 )

143 152 316 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

144 138 463 Abbey Road ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

145 143 278 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

146 155 272 American Teen ‒ Khalid ( 4 )

147 153 86 Tickets To My Downfall ‒ Machine Gun Kelly ( 1 )

148 139 80 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )

149 156 252 Evolve ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 2 )

150 176 120 Harry Styles ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

151 169 47 Vice Versa ‒ Rauw Alejandro ( 17 )

152 151 129 Die Lit ‒ Playboi Carti ( 3 )

153 158 38 KG0516 ‒ Karol G ( 20 )

154 160 97 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 106 )

155 RE 15 Long Term Effects Of Suffering ‒ $uicideBoy$ ( 7 )

156 137 75 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

157 159 91 "Awaken, My Love!" ‒ Childish Gambino ( 5 )

158 148 67 Whole Lotta Red ‒ Playboi Carti ( 1 )

159 154 182 Greatest Hits ‒ Foo Fighters ( 11 )

160 RE 103 The Black Parade ‒ My Chemical Romance ( 2 )

161 170 191 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

162 RE 126 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )

163 RE 409 The Eminem Show ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

164 140 6 B.I.B.L.E. ‒ Fivio Foreign ( 9 )

165 145 46 Late Registration ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

166 150 98 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

167 162 231 17 ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 2 )

168 197 432 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

169 161 660 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

170 167 156 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent ‒ Lewis Capaldi ( 20 )

171 180 377 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 ‒ Eagles ( 1 )

172 168 6 Stereotype ‒ Cole Swindell ( 48 )

173 165 193 Swimming ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 )

174 181 277 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )

175 164 183 The Life Of Pablo ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

176 174 521 1 ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

177 157 118 Ghetto Gospel ‒ Rod Wave ( 10 )

178 184 200 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

179 177 189 24K Magic ‒ Bruno Mars ( 2 )

180 171 62 When It's All Said And Done... Take Time ‒ Giveon ( 5 )

181 179 122 The Greatest Hits Collection ‒ Brooks & Dunn ( 4 )

182 196 14 A Rock ‒ HARDY ( 24 )

183 175 59 Hey World ‒ Lee Brice ( 45 )

184 173 230 Dont Smile At Me ‒ Billie Eilish ( 14 )

185 178 74 The Voice ‒ Lil Durk ( 2 )

186 146 6 Last Ones Left ‒ 42 Dugg & EST Gee ( 7 )

187 187 215 Invasion Of Privacy ‒ Cardi B ( 1 )

188 RE 378 Hot Rocks 1964-1971 ‒ The Rolling Stones ( 4 )

189 192 161 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 )

190 115 41 Call Me If You Get Lost ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

191 195 109 35 Biggest Hits ‒ Toby Keith ( 2 )

192 191 123 AI YoungBoy 2 ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 )

193 188 263 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )

194 193 121 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits ‒ Elvis Presley ( 1 )

195 RE 181 Tha Carter III ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 )

196 186 278 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

197 182 120 Music To Be Murdered By ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

198 183 104 Flower Boy ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 2 )

199 141 270 The Essential Billy Joel ‒ Billy Joel ( 15 )

200 RE 341 Blurryface ‒ twenty one pilots ( 1 )

Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ Debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart

By Keith Caulfield | 05/22/2022

 

Kendrick Lamar lands his fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as his latest release, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, launches atop the list (dated May 28). He’s debuted at No. 1 with each of his last four albums.

 

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers charges in with 295,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 19, according to Luminate — the largest week of the year for any album. It’s the third straight week in which that benchmark has been crushed. A week ago, Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti did the trick with its No. 1 debut of 274,000, and in the week before that, Future’s I Never Liked You bowed at No. 1 with 222,000.

 

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers was announced on April 18 and released on May 13. It’s Lamar’s first album in just over five years. His last project was DAMN., released in April 2017. DAMN. spent four weeks atop the Billboard 200 (his longest run at No. 1), was 2017’s year-end No. 1 album on the tally and was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Music.

 

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ 18 tracks are split evenly on the album into two parts, each with nine tracks. The first half is named Big Steppers and the second half is named Mr. Morale. The album was not preceded by any pre-release singles (though, Lamar did drop the non-album track “The Heart Part 5” on May 8, along with an eye-catching music video). Following the album’s arrival, Lamar released the official music video for “N95,” a song that is on the album.

 

Also in the Billboard 200’s new top 10, TOMORROW X TOGETHER notches its highest-charting album yet with the No. 4 debut of Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child, Florence + The Machine captures its fourth top 10 album with the No. 7 arrival of Dance Fever and The Black Keys land their sixth top 10 effort with the No. 8 start of Dropout Boogie.

 

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 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ 295,500 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 258,500 (equating to 343.02 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 18 tracks), album sales comprise 35,500 and TEA units comprise 1,500.

 

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers claims the biggest week, by equivalent album units, for any album since Adele’s 30 debuted with 839,000 units in the week ending Nov. 25, 2021 (chart dated Dec. 4, 2021).

 

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers logs 2022’s largest streaming week for an R&B/hip-hop album, and the second-biggest streaming week of 2022 for any album. The year’s largest streaming week is currently owned by the debut frame of Bad Bunny’s 23-track Un Verano Sin Ti: 261,000 SEA units; equating to 356.55 million on-demand official streams of its tracks.

 

Notably, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers claims the year’s highest weekly equivalent album units total over Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti, despite having five fewer tracks (18 vs. 23) to contribute to its SEA unit sum. (Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ overall unit total jumped past Un Verano Sin Ti thanks largely its traditional album sales.)

 

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ starting sales figure of 35,000 came solely from digital album sales, as the set won’t be issued on CD until May 27. That sales sum marks the largest sales week for a digital album in 2022, and the biggest for any album since Adele’s 30 bowed with 205,000 digital albums sold in its first week (chart dated Dec. 4, 2021).

 

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti falls from the No. 1 slot in its second week (182,000 equivalent album units earned; down 34%). Future’s former No. 1 I Never Liked You slips from No. 2 to No. 3 with 89,500 units (down 23%).

 

TOMORROW X TOGETHER scores its second top 10 album and highest-charting effort yet on the Billboard 200, as Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child bows at No. 4. It surpasses the No. 5 debut and peak of The Chaos Chapter: Freeze, in June 2021. (In total, Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child is the sixth charting effort on the Billboard 200 for the South Korean pop quintet.)

 

Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child starts with 68,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 65,500; SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 4.37 million on-demand official streams of the set’s five tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

 

Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child enters at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart with the third-largest sales week of any album in 2022 — 65,500 sold. Effectively all of that sum was sold through CDs while only about 500 were sold via digital download. The album was not available on any other configuration (such as vinyl LP or cassette).

 

Like many K-pop releases, the CD configuration of the album was issued in collectible packages (eight total, including exclusive versions for Target and Barnes & Noble), each with a standard set of internal paper items and randomized elements (such as photocards and post cards).

 

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album is pushed down one spot to No. 5 despite a 5% gain (55,500 equivalent album units earned). Jack Harlow’s Come Home the Kids Miss You falls three rungs to No. 6 in its second week with 55,000 units (down 51%).

 

Florence + The Machine collects its fourth top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as Dance Fever debuts at No. 7 with 54,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 42,500, SEA units comprise 11,000 (equaling 14.5 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 14 tracks) and TEA units comprise 500 units.

 

Dance Fever was ushered in by single “My Love,” which spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Adult Alternative Airplay chart (the group’s sixth No. 1) and climbed into the top 10 on the Alternative Airplay tally on the most recently published chart (dated May 21). On the latter chart, “My Love” is the act’s fourth top 10 and first since 2015’s “Ship to Wreck.”

 

The Black Keys round out the week quartet of debuts in the Billboard 200’s top 10, as Dropout Boogie bows at No. 8. The set starts with 33,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 27,500; SEA units comprise 5,000 (equaling 6.5 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 10 tracks) and TEA units comprise 500 units. In total, Dropout Boogie is the duo’s sixth top 10 album on the Billboard 200 and comes only a year after its last release, Delta Kream, which debuted and peaked at No. 6 on the May 29, 2021-dated chart.

 

Dropout Boogie was preceded by the single “Wild Child,” which topped both the Adult Alternative Airplay and Alternative Airplay charts, and reached the top 15 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay tally.

 

Closing out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are two former No. 1s: Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour falls 5-9 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned (though up less than 1%) and Lil Durk’s 7220 slips 7-10 with 29,000 units (down 7%).