BILLBOARD 200 Week ending February 25, 2023

 

TW LW Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak)

 

1 1 10 SOS ‒ SZA ( 1 ) (93,000 (500 sales))

2 ** 1 This Is Why ‒ Paramore ( 2 ) (64,000 (47,000 sales))

3 2 17 Midnights ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (60,000)

4 4 110 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (44,000)

5 7 41 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 ) (44,000)

6 5 11 Heroes & Villains ‒ Metro Boomin ( 1 ) (43,000)

7 8 15 Her Loss ‒ Drake & 21 Savage ( 1 ) (40,000)

8 50 355 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 ) (36,000)

9 9 39 Harry's House ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 ) (33,000)

10 3 3 The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION (EP) ‒ TOMORROW X TOGETHER ( 1 ) (32,000)

11 12 39 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )

12 11 29 Renaissance ‒ Beyonce ( 1 )

13 13 18 It's Only Me ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

14 ** 1 The Jaws Of Life ‒ Pierce The Veil ( 14 )

15 137 104 Good Girl Gone Bad ‒ Rihanna ( 2 )

16 107 276 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

17 16 42 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )

18 197 68 Unapologetic ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

19 17 275 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

20 19 34 Growin' Up ‒ Luke Combs ( 2 )

21 18 18 Leave The Light On ‒ Bailey Zimmerman ( 9 )

22 22 297 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

23 21 155 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

24 37 619 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

25 14 3 Gloria ‒ Sam Smith ( 7 )

26 RE 76 Loud ‒ Rihanna ( 3 )

27 20 76 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )

28 24 538 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

29 15 4 The Mockingbird & The Crow ‒ HARDY ( 4 )

30 35 28 Curtain Call 2 ‒ Eminem ( 6 )

31 6 105 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

32 23 91 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

33 26 516 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

34 RE 96 After Hours ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

35 25 134 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

36 29 182 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

37 30 305 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

38 28 180 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

39 34 298 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

40 61 388 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

41 32 530 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

42 31 248 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

43 33 229 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

44 42 520 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

45 38 171 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

46 99 37 Twelve Carat Toothache ‒ Post Malone ( 2 )

47 36 427 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

48 43 242 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

49 RE 56 Talk That Talk ‒ Rihanna ( 3 )

50 27 66 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

51 60 175 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

52 89 31 Special ‒ Lizzo ( 2 )

53 41 86 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )

54 39 40 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

55 45 629 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

56 44 428 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

57 71 137 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 )

58 100 118 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

59 57 353 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

60 47 49 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 )

61 69 23 Different Man ‒ Kane Brown ( 5 )

62 79 4 Like..? (EP) ‒ Ice Spice ( 37 )

63 49 27 Beautiful Mind ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

64 53 462 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

65 52 21 This Is What ____ Feels Like (Vol.1-4) ‒ JVKE ( 40 )

66 48 166 Fine Line ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

67 51 150 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )

68 63 89 Savage Mode II ‒ 21 Savage & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

69 59 561 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

70 67 611 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

71 54 52 All I Want Is You ‒ Miguel ( 37 )

72 46 31 Gemini Rights ‒ Steve Lacy ( 7 )

73 55 136 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

74 62 75 The Melodic Blue ‒ Baby Keem ( 5 )

75 72 15 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: Music From And Inspired By ‒ Soundtrack ( 12 )

76 78 237 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

77 56 134 F*ck Love ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 1 )

78 65 32 Wasteland ‒ Brent Faiyaz ( 2 )

79 77 770 Legend: The Best Of... ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

80 75 251 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

81 74 146 Indigo ‒ Chris Brown ( 1 )

82 82 263 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

83 83 471 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

84 73 155 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 )

85 66 230 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

86 70 30 Danado ‒ Ivan Cornejo ( 28 )

87 76 386 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

88 92 749 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )

89 88 323 Stoney ‒ Post Malone ( 4 )

90 64 238 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

91 86 614 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

92 80 99 SoulFly ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

93 90 68 = ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

94 87 286 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

95 85 206 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

96 81 317 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

97 84 13 Bell Bottom Country ‒ Lainey Wilson ( 51 )

98 RE 7 The Essential Foo Fighters ‒ Foo Fighters ( 42 )

99 95 22 Queen Radio: Volume 1 ‒ Nicki Minaj ( 10 )

100 101 292 More Life ‒ Drake ( 1 )

101 94 114 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

102 96 63 Who Is Nardo Wick? ‒ Nardo Wick ( 16 )

103 102 419 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )

104 98 58 Dawn FM ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

105 172 288 [Hybrid Theory] ‒ Linkin Park ( 2 )

106 115 302 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )

107 117 309 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

108 106 612 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

109 97 81 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

110 ** 1 Foregone ‒ In Flames ( 110 )

111 105 261 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

112 113 256 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )

113 104 203 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

114 110 160 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )

115 93 65 30 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

116 108 14 Saturno ‒ Rauw Alejandro ( 25 )

117 103 35 Honestly, Nevermind ‒ Drake ( 1 )

118 119 501 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

119 114 62 Mercury - Act 1 ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 9 )

120 118 176 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

121 111 142 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits ‒ Elvis Presley ( 1 )

122 120 136 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 89 )

123 116 16 Encanto (Highlights) ‒ Soundtrack ( 19 )

124 RE 211 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

125 109 19 Only Built For Infinity Links ‒ Quavo & Takeoff ( 7 )

126 122 306 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

127 126 265 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day ‒ Kid Cudi ( 4 )

128 135 311 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )

129 121 125 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

130 125 149 Pray 4 Love ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 )

131 124 152 Eternal Atake ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

132 144 971 The Dark Side Of The Moon ‒ Pink Floyd ( 1 )

133 131 88 Hall Of Fame ‒ Polo G ( 1 )

134 58 2 My 21st Century Blues ‒ RAYE ( 58 )

135 175 126 Flower Boy ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 2 )

136 128 62 Fighting Demons ‒ Juice WRLD ( 2 )

137 RE 36 The Blueprint ‒ JAY-Z ( 1 )

138 130 58 DS4EVER ‒ Gunna ( 1 )

139 140 84 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

140 139 142 The GOAT ‒ Polo G ( 2 )

141 RE 16 Collide With The Sky ‒ Pierce The Veil ( 12 )

142 142 214 Dr. Dre -- 2001 ‒ Dr. Dre ( 2 )

143 133 105 Whole Lotta Red ‒ Playboi Carti ( 1 )

144 147 97 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 108 )

145 134 113 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )

146 164 699 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

147 136 17 Stick Season ‒ Noah Kahan ( 14 )

148 68 4 Mansion Musik ‒ Trippie Redd ( 3 )

149 127 7 Sigan Hablando.: II. ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 65 )

150 138 253 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )

151 91 36 Proof ‒ BTS ( 1 )

152 145 98 Justice ‒ Justin Bieber ( 1 )

153 146 7 Pa Que Hablen.: I. ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 109 )

154 152 314 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

155 129 3 Tyler Hubbard ‒ Tyler Hubbard ( 40 )

156 155 455 Nothing Was The Same ‒ Drake ( 1 )

157 141 551 21 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

158 40 3 Let’s Start Here. ‒ Lil Yachty ( 9 )

159 148 28 The Last Slimeto ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 2 )

160 143 88 I Am > I Was ‒ 21 Savage ( 1 )

161 154 95 Currents ‒ Tame Impala ( 4 )

162 ** 1 Drowning ‒ Jessie Murph ( 162 )

163 181 6 Rave & Roses ‒ Rema ( 163 )

164 165 555 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

165 168 138 To Pimp A Butterfly ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

166 10 2 Queen Of Me ‒ Shania Twain ( 10 )

167 156 218 25 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

168 RE 2 Flower Shops: The Album ‒ ERNEST ( 150 )

169 160 101 Shiesty Season ‒ Pooh Shiesty ( 3 )

170 166 207 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )

171 153 267 17 ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 2 )

172 162 219 Unorthodox Jukebox ‒ Bruno Mars ( 1 )

173 159 14 Anyways, Life’s Great... ‒ GloRilla ( 11 )

174 167 460 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

175 150 168 Speak Now ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

176 161 152 Harry Styles ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

177 157 372 In The Lonely Hour ‒ Sam Smith ( 2 )

178 180 154 Confessions ‒ Usher ( 1 )

179 169 213 Swimming ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 )

180 170 286 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )

181 171 149 Die Lit ‒ Playboi Carti ( 3 )

182 173 75 Call Me If You Get Lost ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

183 174 189 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent ‒ Lewis Capaldi ( 20 )

184 163 16 Lyfe ‒ Yeat ( 10 )

185 132 137 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

186 ** 1 Rolling Up The Welcome Mat (EP) ‒ Kelsea Ballerini ( 186 )

187 177 112 Top ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 )

188 192 168 Thank U, Next ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

189 190 85 A Gangsta's Pain ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 1 )

190 RE 212 DS2 ‒ Future ( 1 )

191 RE 102 Greatest Hits ‒ Blink-182 ( 6 )

192 RE 286 The Essential Billy Joel ‒ Billy Joel ( 15 )

193 ** 1 GRRR Live! ‒ The Rolling Stones ( 193 )

194 176 132 Ghetto Gospel ‒ Rod Wave ( 10 )

195 RE 531 1 ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

196 189 231 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 14 )

197 185 124 "Awaken, My Love!" ‒ Childish Gambino ( 5 )

198 187 111 El Ultimo Tour del Mundo ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

199 191 184 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 )

200 151 206 Tha Carter III ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 )

SZA’s ‘SOS’ Has Most Weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Among Albums by Women in Seven Years

By Keith Caulfield | 02/19/2023

 

SZA’s SOS claims a ninth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Feb. 25) — the most weeks atop the list for an album by a woman in nearly seven years. The last set by a female artist to spend at least nine weeks at No. 1 was Adele’s 25, which ruled for 10 nonconsecutive weeks between Dec. 12, 2015, and March 12, 2016.

 

SOS earned 93,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 16 (down 7%), according to Luminate.

 

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200: Paramore’s This Is Why debuts at No. 2 — the highest charting alternative album in eight months, while Rihanna’s former No. 1 Anti returns to the top 10 for the first time since 2016, following her halftime show performance at the Super Bowl on Feb. 12.

 

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 SOS’ 93,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 16, SEA units comprise 92,000 (down 7%, equaling 126.73 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 500 (down 1%) and TEA units comprise 500 (up 2%).

 

In the last 10 years, only three albums by women have spent at least nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200: SOS, Adele’s 25 (10 in 2015-16) and Taylor Swift’s 1989 (11, 2014-15).

 

The last R&B/hip-hop album with at least eight weeks atop the list was Drake’s Views, which 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 (May 21-Oct. 8, 2016). SOS has the most weeks at No. 1 for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman, or an R&B album by a woman, since Mariah Carey’s self-titled debut spent 11 weeks, all consecutively, at No. 1 in 1991. (Honorable mention to the Whitney Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard, which logged 20 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1992-93. The 12-track album has six songs by Houston and six songs by other artists.) SOS has the most weeks at No. 1 for an R&B album by any act since Usher’s Confessions ruled for nine nonconsecutive weeks in 2004. (R&B/hip-hop and R&B albums are defined as those that have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top R&B Albums charts, respectively.)

 

Paramore scores its highest-charting album in nearly a decade, as This Is Why debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. It’s also the highest-charting alternative album in almost a year. This Is Why is the band’s first album since After Laughter was released in May 2017; it debuted and peaked at No. 6. The group’s last album to go higher was its self-titled 2013 release, which debuted at No. 1 on the April 27, 2013-dated list.

 

This Is Why begins with 64,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 47,000, SEA units comprise 17,000 (equaling 21.3 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The album was ushered in by the album’s title track, which became the act’s first No. 1 on the Alternative Airplay chart (in February) after 11 previous entries going back to 2007.

 

This Is Why is the highest-charting alternative album on the Billboard 200 since Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Unlimited Love debuted at No. 1 on the April 16, 2022-dated chart. (Alternative albums are defined as those that have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s Top Alternative Albums chart.)

 

Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Midnights falls 2-3 on the Billboard 200 with 60,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).

 

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 4 with 44,000 equivalent album units earned (down 4%). Dangerous has now accumulated 107 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. It now solely has the third-most weeks in the top 10 among all albums since the chart began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March of 1956, surpassing the 106 weeks tallied by the soundtrack to the film West Side Story. Dangerous continues to have the most weeks in the top 10 for an album by a single artist. The all-time top 10 record-holder is the original cast recording of My Fair Lady, with 173 weeks in the top 10 between 1956-60. See list, below.

 

Albums With Most Weeks in Top 10 on Billboard 200 Chart (March 24, 1956-onwards)

Weeks in Top 10, Artist, Title, Year First Reached Top 10

173, Original Cast, My Fair Lady, 1956

109, Soundtrack, The Sound of Music, 1965

107, Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album, 2021

106, Soundtrack, West Side Story, 1962

105, Original Cast, The Sound of Music, 1960

90, Soundtrack, South Pacific, 1958

87, Original Cast, Camelot, 1961

87, Soundtrack, Oklahoma!, 1956

85, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Paul and Mary, 1962

84, Adele, 21, 2011

84, Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A., 1984

(through the Feb. 25, 2023-dated chart)

 

Bad Bunny’s chart-topping Un Verano Sin Ti rises 7-5 with nearly 44,000 equivalent album units (down 4%); Metro Boomin’s former leader Heroes & Villains falls 5-6 with 43,000 units (down 5%); and Drake and 21 Savage’s former No. 1 Her Loss climbs 8-7 with 40,000 (down 7%).

 

Rihanna’s chart-topping Anti roars back into the top 10 for the first time since its release year, 2016, as the set vaults 50-8 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned (up 166%). The album, Rihanna’s most recent studio effort, surges back up the list following Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show performance on Feb. 12, where her setlist included the album’s hit single “Work.” (She also wove in elements of the album’s “Pose” and “Kiss It Better” into the performances of “All of the Lights” and “Rude Boy,” respectively.)

 

Anti was released a little over seven years ago, on Jan. 28, 2016, and spent two nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 (Feb. 20 and April 2, 2016-dated charts). It was last in the top 10 on the Oct. 16, 2016 chart (No. 9) and last at No. 8 or higher on the Sept. 24, 2016-dated list (when it was also at No. 8).

 

Anti is Rihanna’s longest-charting album on the Billboard 200, with 355 weeks on the list. That also marks the most weeks ever on the chart for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman or R&B album by a woman.

 

Closing out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 are a pair of former No. 1s: Harry Styles’ Harry’s House is stationary at No. 9 with 33,000 equivalent album units earned (down 13%) and TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Name Chapter: TEMPTATION falls 3-10 with 32,000 units (down 33%).