BILLBOARD 200 Week ending December 3, 2022

 

TW LW Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak)

 

1 1 5 Midnights ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (177,000 (57,000 sales))

2 2 3 Her Loss ‒ Drake & 21 Savage ( 1 ) (119,000)

3 3 29 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 ) (56,000)

4 4 6 It's Only Me ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 ) (48,000)

5 6 98 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (42,000)

6 7 93 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 ) (39,000)

7 115 549 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 ) (37,000 (27,500 sales))

8 9 27 Harry's House ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 ) (33,000)

9 ** 1 Jupiter's Diary: 7 Day Theory ‒ Rod Wave ( 9 ) (31,000 (<1,000 sales))

10 19 103 Christmas ‒ Michael Buble ( 1 ) (31,000)

11 17 263 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

12 13 27 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )

13 ** 1 Divisive ‒ Disturbed ( 13 )

14 ** 1 Feed Tha Streets III ‒ Roddy Ricch ( 14 )

15 ** 1 The Family ‒ BrockHampton ( 15 )

16 15 17 Renaissance ‒ Beyonce ( 1 )

17 43 102 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack) ‒ Vince Guaraldi Trio ( 6 )

18 77 68 The Christmas Song ‒ Nat King Cole ( 6 )

19 40 111 Merry Christmas ‒ Mariah Carey ( 3 )

20 20 122 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

21 24 54 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

22 28 79 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

23 12 3 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: Music From And Inspired By ‒ Soundtrack ( 12 )

24 14 19 Gemini Rights ‒ Steve Lacy ( 7 )

25 16 7 Only Built For Infinity Links ‒ Quavo & Takeoff ( 7 )

26 23 30 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )

27 ** 1 Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection ‒ Dolly Parton ( 27 )

28 22 6 Leave The Light On ‒ Bailey Zimmerman ( 9 )

29 30 170 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

30 ** 1 Get Rollin' ‒ Nickelback ( 30 )

31 27 22 Growin' Up ‒ Luke Combs ( 2 )

32 36 504 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

33 21 15 Beautiful Mind ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

34 29 607 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

35 26 64 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )

36 11 2 Anyways, Life’s Great... ‒ GloRilla ( 11 )

37 ** 1 Me / And / Dad ‒ Billy Strings ( 37 )

38 88 29 The Best Of Pentatonix Christmas ‒ Pentatonix ( 7 )

39 38 518 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

40 32 526 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

41 35 415 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

42 44 102 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

43 RE 33 Ultimate Christmas ‒ Frank Sinatra ( 12 )

44 18 3 Smithereens ‒ Joji ( 5 )

45 31 143 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

46 111 45 Christmas Classics ‒ Bing Crosby ( 18 )

47 33 168 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

48 62 376 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

49 37 286 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

50 34 236 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

51 45 28 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

52 113 23 The Andy Williams Christmas Album ‒ Andy Williams ( 14 )

53 42 16 Curtain Call 2 ‒ Eminem ( 6 )

54 60 617 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

55 131 53 30 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

56 39 285 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

57 48 217 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

58 47 134 Indigo ‒ Chris Brown ( 1 )

59 46 37 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 )

60 154 51 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer ‒ Burl Ives ( 16 )

61 49 159 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

62 72 154 Fine Line ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

63 51 74 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )

64 165 21 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree: The Decca Christmas Recordings ‒ Brenda Lee ( 17 )

65 58 5 Takin' It Back ‒ Meghan Trainor ( 16 )

66 63 56 = ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

67 61 218 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

68 41 63 The Melodic Blue ‒ Baby Keem ( 5 )

69 79 72 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

70 69 24 Proof ‒ BTS ( 1 )

71 108 26 A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector ‒ Various Artists ( 10 )

72 54 125 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 )

73 8 2 Only The Strong Survive ‒ Bruce Springsteen ( 8 )

74 25 2 Saturno ‒ Rauw Alejandro ( 25 )

75 ** 1 Sonder ‒ Dermot Kennedy ( 75 )

76 84 69 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

77 65 143 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 )

78 75 9 This Is What ____ Feels Like (Vol.1-4) ‒ JVKE ( 56 )

79 56 25 Twelve Carat Toothache ‒ Post Malone ( 2 )

80 52 23 Honestly, Nevermind ‒ Drake ( 1 )

81 64 293 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

82 57 51 Who Is Nardo Wick? ‒ Nardo Wick ( 16 )

83 87 191 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

84 68 124 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

85 71 106 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

86 66 508 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

87 RE 14 The Best Of Bobby Helms ‒ Bobby Helms ( 27 )

88 85 114 The Black Parade ‒ My Chemical Romance ( 2 )

89 67 11 Different Man ‒ Kane Brown ( 5 )

90 106 4 Encanto (Highlights) ‒ Soundtrack ( 19 )

91 RE 58 Wrapped In Red ‒ Kelly Clarkson ( 3 )

92 70 20 Wasteland ‒ Brent Faiyaz ( 2 )

93 76 230 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

94 80 450 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

95 73 416 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

96 109 599 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

97 53 398 Hot Rocks 1964-1971 ‒ The Rolling Stones ( 4 )

98 ** 1 The Original: Gene Autry Sings Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer & Other... ‒ Gene Autry ( 98 )

99 78 138 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )

100 112 22 The Hits 2 ‒ Prince ( 54 )

101 50 4 Kutthroat Bill: Vol. 1 ‒ Kodak Black ( 8 )

102 89 374 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

103 167 601 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

104 74 87 SoulFly ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

105 5 2 Faith In The Future ‒ Louis Tomlinson ( 5 )

106 83 163 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

107 RE 50 The Classic Christmas Album ‒ Elvis Presley ( 28 )

108 103 124 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 98 )

109 82 239 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

110 81 251 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

111 ** 1 And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow ‒ Weyes Blood ( 111 )

112 RE 20 Creatures Of The Night ‒ KISS ( 45 )

113 129 19 Special ‒ Lizzo ( 2 )

114 98 15 Gangsta Art ‒ Various Artists ( 11 )

115 RE 19 Elvis (Soundtrack) ‒ Elvis Presley & Various Artists ( 26 )

116 10 2 King's Disease III ‒ Nas ( 10 )

117 86 194 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

118 55 89 Revolver ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

119 90 6 Stick Season ‒ Noah Kahan ( 14 )

120 94 50 Mercury - Act 1 ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 9 )

121 ** 1 SEN2 KBRN, Vol. 2 ‒ Eladio Carrion ( 121 )

122 92 226 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

123 116 543 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

124 93 164 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

125 102 225 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

126 95 274 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

127 96 122 F*ck Love ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 1 )

128 104 46 Dawn FM ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

129 133 489 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

130 150 53 An Evening With Silk Sonic ‒ Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) ( 2 )

131 107 4 The Essential Foo Fighters ‒ Foo Fighters ( 42 )

132 RE 49 White Christmas ‒ Bing Crosby ( 34 )

133 168 687 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

134 91 77 Savage Mode II ‒ 21 Savage & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

135 137 249 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

136 132 159 Speak Now ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

137 125 413 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )

138 101 16 The Last Slimeto ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 2 )

139 RE 27 The Dean Martin Christmas Album ‒ Dean Martin ( 36 )

140 110 50 Fighting Demons ‒ Juice WRLD ( 2 )

141 183 22 Breezy ‒ Chris Brown ( 4 )

142 121 26 Top Gun: Maverick ‒ Soundtrack ( 17 )

143 120 602 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

144 119 459 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

145 130 222 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )

146 100 305 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

147 153 125 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

148 117 341 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

149 97 18 Danado ‒ Ivan Cornejo ( 64 )

150 142 290 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )

151 118 244 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )

152 RE 41 Piano Man ‒ Billy Joel ( 27 )

153 128 46 DS4EVER ‒ Gunna ( 1 )

154 126 343 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

155 RE 20 TwentyFive ‒ George Michael ( 12 )

156 146 63 Call Me If You Get Lost ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

157 124 311 Stoney ‒ Post Malone ( 4 )

158 138 298 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

159 123 76 Hall Of Fame ‒ Polo G ( 1 )

160 134 88 Justice ‒ Justin Bieber ( 1 )

161 148 758 Legend: The Best Of... ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

162 RE 34 Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits ‒ Fall Out Boy ( 77 )

163 177 307 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

164 ** 1 Los Angeles Forum - April 26, 1969 ‒ The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( 164 )

165 RE 281 [Hybrid Theory] ‒ Linkin Park ( 2 )

166 160 10 Born Pink ‒ BLACKPINK ( 1 )

167 135 6 Being Funny In A Foreign Language ‒ The 1975 ( 7 )

168 141 295 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

169 197 4 Stranger Things: Soundtrack From The Netflix Series, Season 4 ‒ Soundtrack ( 42 )

170 136 138 Pray 4 Love ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 )

171 156 114 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

172 RE 286 Led Zeppelin IV ‒ Led Zeppelin ( 2 )

173 152 304 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )

174 RE 480 Abbey Road ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

175 RE 2 Greatest Christmas Songs ‒ Perry Como ( 68 )

176 170 29 Come Home The Kids Miss You ‒ Jack Harlow ( 3 )

177 149 104 El Ultimo Tour del Mundo ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

178 144 142 Eternal Atake ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

179 159 241 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )

180 163 199 Tha Carter III ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 )

181 139 283 More Life ‒ Drake ( 1 )

182 147 132 The GOAT ‒ Polo G ( 2 )

183 RE 6 2 Baddies ‒ NCT 127 ( 3 )

184 162 90 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 108 )

185 143 257 17 ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 2 )

186 200 102 Positions ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

187 145 32 Stereotype ‒ Cole Swindell ( 48 )

188 RE 200 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )

189 161 94 Whole Lotta Red ‒ Playboi Carti ( 1 )

190 ** 1 PRE5L (EP) ‒ Key Glock ( 190 )

191 157 17 Sing Me A Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation ‒ $uicideBoy$ ( 7 )

192 178 55 Still Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 1 )

193 114 97 The Essential Elvis Presley ‒ Elvis Presley ( 42 )

194 172 449 Nothing Was The Same ‒ Drake ( 1 )

195 169 365 In The Lonely Hour ‒ Sam Smith ( 2 )

196 RE 244 Dont Smile At Me ‒ Billie Eilish ( 14 )

197 187 153 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )

198 180 94 Shiesty Season ‒ Pooh Shiesty ( 3 )

199 175 254 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day ‒ Kid Cudi ( 4 )

200 RE 37 Exile On Mainstream ‒ matchbox twenty ( 3 )

Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Spends Fourth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200

By Keith Caulfield | 11/27/2022

 

Taylor Swift’s Midnights spends a fourth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Dec. 3) as it holds atop the list with 177,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 24 (down 13%), according to Luminate.

 

Also in the new Billboard 200’s top 10: Michael Jackson’s former No. 1 Thriller returns to the region after its 40th anniversary reissue, vaulting 115-7; Rod Wave’s new Jupiter’s Diary: 7 Day Theory bows at No. 9; and Michael Bublé’s chart-topping Christmas jingles its way back to the top 10 with a 19-10 climb.

 

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’ 177,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 118,000 (down 16%, equaling 155.8 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 57,000 (down 4%) and SEA units comprise 2,000 (down 49%).

 

Four former No. 1’s follow Swift on the new Billboard 200, as Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss is a non-mover at No. 2 (119,000 equivalent album units; down 30%), Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti is steady at No. 3 (56,000; up less than 1%), Lil Baby’s It’s Only Me is also stationary at No. 4 (48,000; down 9%) and Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album rises 6-5 (42,000; up 2%).

 

Next up, The Weeknd’s The Highlights lifts 7-6 (39,000; down 2%).

 

Jackson’s former No. 1 Thriller returns to the top 10, jumping from No. 115 to No. 7 after it was reissued in celebration of its 40th anniversary. It earned 37,000 equivalent album units (up 283%). Of that sum, album sales comprise 27,500 (up 820%), SEA units comprise 9,000 (equaling 13.17 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 500.

 

Thriller spent 37 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1983-84 — the most weeks at No. 1 for an album by a singular artist. The only album with more weeks at No. 1 is the soundtrack to the film West Side Story, with 54 weeks in 1962-63.

 

Thriller was last in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 on the June 30, 1984-dated chart, when it ranked at No. 8. During its initial chart run, its last week on the list was April 20, 1985. It didn’t return to the list until Dec. 5, 2009, when the chart began allowing catalog (older) albums to chart again. (From May of 1991 through November 2009, catalog albums were generally not allowed to chart on the Billboard 200.)

 

For its 40th anniversary, Thriller was reissued in a variety of new configurations and formats, some with additional bonus tracks. All versions of the album, old and new, are combined together for tracking and charting purposes. Thriller has seen a few high-profile reissues in the past, including a remastered “special edition” in 2001 with previously unreleased bonus tracks and a 25th anniversary edition in 2008 with an unreleased song and new remix collaborations with Akon, Fergie, Kanye West and will.i.am.

 

Harry Styles’ former leader Harry’s House rises 9-8 on the new Billboard 200 with 33,000 equivalent album units (up 10%).

 

Rod Wave’s new eight-song Jupiter’s Diary: 7 Day Theory debuts at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 with nearly 31,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise a little more than 30,000 (equaling 43.32 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), while album sales and TEA units comprise the remaining units. It’s the fifth consecutive and total top 10-charting album for the artist, and follows a pair of No. 1s in Beautiful Mind (2022) and SoulFly (2021).

 

Rounding out the new top 10 is Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas, which rises 19-10 with 31,000 equivalent album units (up 51%%). The set was originally released in 2011 and spent five weeks at No. 1 in late 2011 and early 2012. It has returned to the top 10 in every Christmas season since.

Was a bit surprised to see Weyes Blood as low as #111 considering she went top 40 in the UK but just checked and I see her last album didn't chart at all in the US (#68 in the UK).