TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )

1 2 4 Midnights ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (204,000 (60,000 sales))

2 1 2 Her Loss ‒ Drake & 21 Savage ( 1 ) (170,000)

3 4 28 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 ) (56,000)

4 3 5 It's Only Me ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 ) (52,000)

5 New 1 Faith In The Future ‒ Louis Tomlinson ( 5 ) (43,000 (37,500 sales))

6 6 97 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (41,000)

7 7 92 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 ) (40,000)

8 New 1 Only The Strong Survive ‒ Bruce Springsteen ( 8 ) (39,500 (36,500 sales))

9 8 26 Harry's House ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 ) (30,000)

10 New 1 King's Disease III ‒ Nas ( 10 ) (29,000 (8,500 sales))

11 New 1 Anyways, Life’s Great... ‒ GloRilla ( 11 )

12 62 2 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: Music From And Inspired By ‒ Soundtrack ( 12 )

13 9 26 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )

14 10 18 Gemini Rights ‒ Steve Lacy ( 7 )

15 12 16 Renaissance ‒ Beyonce ( 1 )

16 11 6 Only Built For Infinity Links ‒ Quavo & Takeoff ( 7 )

17 34 262 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

18 5 2 Smithereens ‒ Joji ( 5 )

19 48 102 Christmas ‒ Michael Buble ( 1 )

20 19 121 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

21 17 14 Beautiful Mind ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

22 13 5 Leave The Light On ‒ Bailey Zimmerman ( 9 )

23 16 29 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )

24 23 53 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

25 New 1 Saturno ‒ Rauw Alejandro ( 25 )

26 14 63 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )

27 22 21 Growin' Up ‒ Luke Combs ( 2 )

28 20 78 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

29 41 606 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

30 25 169 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

31 26 142 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

32 21 525 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

33 27 167 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

34 30 235 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

35 35 414 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

36 32 503 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

37 31 285 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

38 28 517 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

39 33 284 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

40 85 110 Merry Christmas ‒ Mariah Carey ( 3 )

41 24 62 The Melodic Blue ‒ Baby Keem ( 5 )

42 29 15 Curtain Call 2 ‒ Eminem ( 6 )

43 90 101 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack) ‒ Vince Guaraldi Trio ( 6 )

44 50 101 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

45 51 27 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

46 38 36 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 )

47 39 133 Indigo ‒ Chris Brown ( 1 )

48 37 216 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

49 40 158 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

50 15 3 Kutthroat Bill: Vol. 1 ‒ Kodak Black ( 8 )

51 47 73 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )

52 36 22 Honestly, Nevermind ‒ Drake ( 1 )

53 ReEntry 397 Hot Rocks 1964-1971 ‒ The Rolling Stones ( 4 )

54 49 124 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 )

55 18 88 Revolver ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

56 43 24 Twelve Carat Toothache ‒ Post Malone ( 2 )

57 45 50 Who Is Nardo Wick? ‒ Nardo Wick ( 16 )

58 44 4 Takin' It Back ‒ Meghan Trainor ( 16 )

59 New 1 More Love, Less Ego ‒ Wizkid ( 59 )

60 58 616 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

61 70 217 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

62 69 375 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

63 52 55 = ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

64 55 292 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

65 53 142 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 )

66 63 507 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

67 46 10 Different Man ‒ Kane Brown ( 5 )

68 54 123 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

69 68 23 Proof ‒ BTS ( 1 )

70 59 19 Wasteland ‒ Brent Faiyaz ( 2 )

71 65 105 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

72 75 153 Fine Line ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

73 67 415 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

74 76 86 SoulFly ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

75 56 8 This Is What ____ Feels Like (Vol.1-4) ‒ JVKE ( 56 )

76 61 229 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

77 182 67 The Christmas Song ‒ Nat King Cole ( 6 )

78 71 137 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )

79 105 71 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

80 72 449 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

81 66 250 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

82 74 238 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

83 83 162 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

84 87 68 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

85 186 113 The Black Parade ‒ My Chemical Romance ( 2 )

86 79 193 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

87 81 190 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

88 ReEntry 28 The Best Of Pentatonix Christmas ‒ Pentatonix ( 7 )

89 80 373 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

90 60 5 Stick Season ‒ Noah Kahan ( 14 )

91 84 76 Savage Mode II ‒ 21 Savage & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

92 91 225 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

93 92 163 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

94 73 49 Mercury - Act 1 ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 9 )

95 88 273 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

96 82 121 F*ck Love ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 1 )

97 64 17 Danado ‒ Ivan Cornejo ( 64 )

98 ReEntry 14 Gangsta Art ‒ Various Artists ( 11 )

99 New 1 TANTRA ‒ Yung Bleu ( 99 )

100 95 304 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

101 89 15 The Last Slimeto ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 2 )

102 93 224 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

103 101 123 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 98 )

104 102 45 Dawn FM ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

105 86 739 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )

106 96 3 Encanto (Highlights) ‒ Soundtrack ( 19 )

107 94 3 The Essential Foo Fighters ‒ Foo Fighters ( 42 )

108 77 25 A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector ‒ Various Artists ( 10 )

109 98 598 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

110 99 49 Fighting Demons ‒ Juice WRLD ( 2 )

111 ReEntry 44 Christmas Classics ‒ Bing Crosby ( 18 )

112 177 21 The Hits 2 ‒ Prince ( 54 )

113 ReEntry 22 The Andy Williams Christmas Album ‒ Andy Williams ( 14 )

114 ReEntry 96 The Essential Elvis Presley ‒ Elvis Presley ( 42 )

115 120 548 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

116 100 542 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

117 103 340 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

118 112 243 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )

119 106 458 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

120 111 601 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

121 57 25 Top Gun: Maverick ‒ Soundtrack ( 17 )

122 New 1 Louis Wishes You A Cool Yule ‒ Louis Armstrong ( 122 )

123 113 75 Hall Of Fame ‒ Polo G ( 1 )

124 116 310 Stoney ‒ Post Malone ( 4 )

125 104 412 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )

126 107 342 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

127 78 4 Ma' I Got A Family (A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition Hosted By DJ Drama) ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 7 )

128 118 45 DS4EVER ‒ Gunna ( 1 )

129 108 18 Special ‒ Lizzo ( 2 )

130 109 221 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )

131 130 52 30 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

132 124 158 Speak Now ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

133 115 488 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

134 119 87 Justice ‒ Justin Bieber ( 1 )

135 110 5 Being Funny In A Foreign Language ‒ The 1975 ( 7 )

136 129 137 Pray 4 Love ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 )

137 137 248 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

138 117 297 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

139 126 282 More Life ‒ Drake ( 1 )

140 165 6 Maxident ‒ Stray Kids ( 1 )

141 144 294 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

142 140 289 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )

143 143 256 17 ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 2 )

144 138 141 Eternal Atake ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

145 148 31 Stereotype ‒ Cole Swindell ( 48 )

146 159 62 Call Me If You Get Lost ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

147 142 131 The GOAT ‒ Polo G ( 2 )

148 145 757 Legend: The Best Of... ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

149 139 103 El Ultimo Tour del Mundo ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

150 170 52 An Evening With Silk Sonic ‒ Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) ( 2 )

151 New 1 Where The Shooters Be ‒ SleazyWorld Go ( 151 )

152 133 303 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )

153 152 124 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

154 ReEntry 50 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer ‒ Burl Ives ( 16 )

155 135 79 I Am > I Was ‒ 21 Savage ( 1 )

156 128 113 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

157 134 16 Sing Me A Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation ‒ $uicideBoy$ ( 7 )

158 ReEntry 5 A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra ‒ Frank Sinatra ( 23 )

159 154 240 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )

160 141 9 Born Pink ‒ BLACKPINK ( 1 )

161 158 93 Whole Lotta Red ‒ Playboi Carti ( 1 )

162 149 89 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 108 )

163 199 198 Tha Carter III ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 )

164 161 106 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )

165 ReEntry 20 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree: The Decca Christmas Recordings ‒ Brenda Lee ( 17 )

166 125 14 Traumazine ‒ Megan Thee Stallion ( 4 )

167 97 600 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

168 178 686 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

169 155 364 In The Lonely Hour ‒ Sam Smith ( 2 )

170 151 28 Come Home The Kids Miss You ‒ Jack Harlow ( 3 )

171 180 41 Human: The Double Album ‒ Cody Johnson ( 19 )

172 169 448 Nothing Was The Same ‒ Drake ( 1 )

173 181 12 Cigarettes After Sex ‒ Cigarettes After Sex ( 158 )

174 New 1 Past Lives ‒ L.S. Dunes ( 174 )

175 162 253 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day ‒ Kid Cudi ( 4 )

176 160 182 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent ‒ Lewis Capaldi ( 20 )

177 166 306 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

178 176 54 Still Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 1 )

179 ReEntry 26 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other Christmas Classics ‒ Gene Autry ( 21 )

180 189 93 Shiesty Season ‒ Pooh Shiesty ( 3 )

181 121 110 Culture II ‒ Migos ( 1 )

182 188 83 Currents ‒ Tame Impala ( 4 )

183 172 21 Breezy ‒ Chris Brown ( 4 )

184 146 12 God Did ‒ DJ Khaled ( 1 )

185 153 11 Realer 2 ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 6 )

186 183 135 The College Dropout ‒ Kanye West ( 2 )

187 174 152 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )

188 ReEntry 2 Bell Bottom Country ‒ Lainey Wilson ( 100 )

189 164 96 Greatest Hits ‒ Blink-182 ( 6 )

190 190 264 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

191 168 279 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )

192 198 125 Ghetto Gospel ‒ Rod Wave ( 10 )

193 157 219 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 14 )

194 156 6 Charlie ‒ Charlie Puth ( 10 )

195 187 115 "Awaken, My Love!" ‒ Childish Gambino ( 5 )

196 196 206 Swimming ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 )

197 42 3 Stranger Things: Soundtrack From The Netflix Series, Season 4 ‒ Soundtrack ( 42 )

198 171 453 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

199 191 207 Dr. Dre -- 2001 ‒ Dr. Dre ( 2 )

200 193 101 Positions ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 for Third Week

By Keith Caulfield | 11/20/2022

 

Taylor Swift’s Midnights returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Nov. 26) for a third nonconsecutive week on top, as the set rebounds 2-1 in its fourth week on the list. It earned 204,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 17 (down 32%), according to Luminate. The album spent its first two weeks atop the list, then stepped aside for one week when Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss bowed at No. 1.

 

Midnights is the first album to earn at least 200,000 units in each of its first four weeks of release since Adele’s 25 saw its first six weeks reach 200,000-plus (Dec. 12, 2015–Jan. 16, 2016).

 

Also in the new Billboard 200’s top 10: Louis Tomlinson lands his highest charting album with the No. 5 debut of Faith in the Future, Bruce Springsteen achieves his 22nd top 10-charting effort with the No. 8 arrival of Only the Strong Survive, and Nas captures his 16th top 10 with King’s Disease III’s bow at No. 10.

 

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 Midnights’ 204,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 140,000 (down 19%, equaling 184.04 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 60,000 (down 36%) and SEA units comprise 4,000 (down 88%).

 

After debuting at No. 1, Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss falls to No. 2 in its second week with 170,000 equivalent album units earned (down 58%). Two fellow former No. 1s are next on the list, as Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti rises 4-3 (56,000; down 3%) and Lil Baby’s It’s Only Me dips 3-4 (52,000; down 15%).

 

Tomlinson’s second solo album, Faith in the Future, debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200, securing the pop artist his highest-charting effort and his best week yet in terms of both equivalent album units earned (43,000) and traditional album sales (37,500). It surpasses his previous high-water mark, logged with the No. 9 debut and peak of his first album Walls (Feb. 15, 2020, chart; 39,000 units — of which album sales comprised 35,000).

 

As album sales comprise 37,500 of Faith’s total first-week units, the remainder consists of SEA units (5,500; equaling 7.27 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and a negligible amount of TEA units.

 

Faith’s first-week sales figure was bolstered by its availability across multiple collectible physical variants of the album. The set was preceded by the single “Bigger Than Me,” which became Tomlinson’s fourth solo hit on the Pop Airplay chart (outside his tenure in One Direction).

 

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover on the Billboard 200 at No. 6 (41,000 equivalent album units earned; down 1%) while The Weeknd’s The Highlights is also steady at No. 7 (40,000; up 2%).

 

Springsteen achieves his 22 nd top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 as his new covers set, Only the Strong Survive, debuts at No. 8 with 39,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise 36,500, SEA units comprise 2,000 (equaling 2.87 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000. The soul and R&B covers collection includes Springsteen’s takes on such oldies as The Commodores’ “Night Shift,” Jimmy Ruffin’s “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” and Diana Ross & The Supremes’ “Someday We’ll Be Together.”

 

With a 22nd top 10 album on the Billboard 200, Springsteen now solely has the eighth-most top 10s overall and the sixth-most top 10s among solo artists.

 

Here’s an updated look at all the acts with at least 20 top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 from March 24, 1956, when the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis, through the latest chart, dated Nov. 26, 2022.

 

Most Billboard 200 Top 10s:

37, The Rolling Stones

34, Barbra Streisand

32, The Beatles

32, Frank Sinatra

27, Elvis Presley

23, Bob Dylan

23, Madonna

22, Bruce Springsteen

21, Elton John

21, Paul McCartney/Wings

21, George Strait

20, Prince

 

(Notably, the Kidz Bop Kids music brand has collected 24 top 10s, in 2005-16, with its series of kid-friendly covers of hit singles. The franchise’s early albums were performed by mostly anonymous studio singers, although later releases focused on branding named talent.)

 

Harry Styles’ former No. 1 Harry’s House drops 8-9 on the new Billboard 200 with 30,000 equivalent album units (down less than 1%).

 

Nas rounds out the top 10 as his latest release King’s Disease III starts at No. 10 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 20,000 (equaling 26.47 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 8,500 and TEA units comprise 500.

 

King’s Disease III is the third in the King’s Disease series — the first two albums debuted and peaked at Nos. 5 and 3 in 2020 and 2021, respectively.

 

King’s Disease III marks Nas’ 16th top 10 on the Billboard 200, tying him with Jay-Z for the most top 10s among rap artists. Nas’ first top 10 came with It Was Written in 1996 (No. 1 for four weeks). Jay-Z logged his first top 10 in 1997 with In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (No. 3) and last notched a new top 10 set with 4:44 in 2017 (No. 1 for two weeks).

Great result for Louis!

Where did Walls get to?

It's mentioned in the article! (#9, he's sold nearly the same first week with this album - a very small increase - but charted higher due to less competition).

 

Love to see Bad Bunny back ahead of Lil Baby. Very interested to see how long Taylor ends up staying ahead of him. Though having said that the margin between Bunny himself and Morgan Wallen seems to be steadily narrowing <_<

Ah, I bypassed that because I was keyword searching "Louis" in the article :lol: