BILLBOARD 200 Week ending March 18, 2023

 

TW LW Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak)

 

1 ** 1 One Thing At A Time ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (501,000 (111,500 sales))

2 2 13 SOS ‒ SZA ( 1 ) (82,000)

3 1 2 Manana Sera Bonito ‒ Karol G ( 1 ) (60,000)

4 ** 1 Red Moon In Venus ‒ Kali Uchis ( 4 ) (55,000 (28,000 sales))

5 5 20 Midnights ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (48,000)

6 6 113 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (46,000)

7 7 14 Heroes & Villains ‒ Metro Boomin ( 1 ) (40,000)

8 10 44 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 ) (39,000)

9 9 279 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 ) (35,000)

10 11 18 Her Loss ‒ Drake & 21 Savage ( 1 ) (34,000)

11 12 108 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

12 14 42 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )

13 ** 1 Ay-Yo: The 4th Album Repackage ‒ NCT 127 ( 13 )

14 8 2 Love Sick ‒ Don Toliver ( 8 )

15 RE 30 3 Feet High And Rising ‒ De La Soul ( 15 )

16 16 21 It's Only Me ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

17 17 42 Harry's House ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

18 ** 1 Ben ‒ Macklemore ( 18 )

19 4 2 AfterLyfe ‒ Yeat ( 4 )

20 18 32 Renaissance ‒ Beyonce ( 1 )

21 23 278 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

22 3 2 Cracker Island ‒ Gorillaz ( 3 )

23 20 300 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

24 22 45 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )

25 25 158 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

26 26 79 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )

27 27 21 Leave The Light On ‒ Bailey Zimmerman ( 9 )

28 29 541 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

29 31 519 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

30 35 533 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

31 28 183 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

32 15 3 Trustfall ‒ P!nk ( 2 )

33 36 232 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

34 24 358 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

35 30 37 Growin' Up ‒ Luke Combs ( 2 )

36 33 94 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

37 34 31 Curtain Call 2 ‒ Eminem ( 6 )

38 37 137 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

39 40 308 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

40 38 301 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

41 41 7 The Mockingbird & The Crow ‒ HARDY ( 4 )

42 39 251 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

43 43 185 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

44 13 2 Glockoma 2 ‒ Key Glock ( 13 )

45 47 632 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

46 42 3 Bluebird Days ‒ Jordan Davis ( 19 )

47 44 622 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

48 49 430 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

49 54 431 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

50 45 174 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

51 48 245 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

52 53 89 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )

53 51 523 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

54 58 35 Wasteland ‒ Brent Faiyaz ( 2 )

55 57 52 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 )

56 55 391 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

57 32 6 The Name Chapter: Temptation (EP) ‒ TOMORROW X TOGETHER ( 1 )

58 78 178 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

59 59 69 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

60 61 465 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

61 72 773 Legend: The Best Of... ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

62 63 92 Savage Mode II ‒ 21 Savage & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

63 75 7 Like..? (EP) ‒ Ice Spice ( 37 )

64 62 30 Beautiful Mind ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

65 65 356 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

66 64 153 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )

67 70 26 Different Man ‒ Kane Brown ( 5 )

68 84 240 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

69 82 752 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )

70 71 139 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

71 66 24 This Is What ____ Feels Like (Vol.1-4) ‒ JVKE ( 40 )

72 67 34 Gemini Rights ‒ Steve Lacy ( 7 )

73 56 140 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 )

74 80 564 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

75 91 233 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

76 93 61 Dawn FM ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

77 68 43 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

78 83 266 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

79 69 121 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

80 86 474 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

81 76 55 All I Want Is You ‒ Miguel ( 37 )

82 100 320 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

83 135 2 Gumbo ‒ Young Nudy ( 83 )

84 60 6 Gloria ‒ Sam Smith ( 7 )

85 88 102 SoulFly ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

86 85 149 Indigo ‒ Chris Brown ( 1 )

87 87 617 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

88 96 78 The Melodic Blue ‒ Baby Keem ( 5 )

89 90 389 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

90 81 254 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

91 92 71 = ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

92 98 615 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

93 170 12 90 Days ‒ Finesse2Tymes ( 57 )

94 46 25 Queen Radio: Volume 1 ‒ Nicki Minaj ( 10 )

95 99 209 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

96 ** 1 Aurora (Soundtrack) ‒ Daisy Jones & The Six ( 96 )

97 94 614 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

98 143 210 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )

99 109 10 The Essential Foo Fighters ‒ Foo Fighters ( 42 )

100 95 137 F*ck Love ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 1 )

101 104 289 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

102 106 158 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 )

103 102 241 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

104 97 169 Fine Line ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

105 74 4 Rolling Up The Welcome Mat (EP) ‒ Kelsea Ballerini ( 48 )

106 133 101 Justice ‒ Justin Bieber ( 1 )

107 101 326 Stoney ‒ Post Malone ( 4 )

108 RE 37 Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band ‒ Green Day ( 39 )

109 110 295 More Life ‒ Drake ( 1 )

110 107 422 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )

111 114 504 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

112 113 66 Who Is Nardo Wick? ‒ Nardo Wick ( 16 )

113 77 71 Unapologetic ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

114 103 33 Danado ‒ Ivan Cornejo ( 28 )

115 105 40 Twelve Carat Toothache ‒ Post Malone ( 2 )

116 116 179 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

117 108 264 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

118 149 17 Saturno ‒ Rauw Alejandro ( 25 )

119 112 117 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

120 117 312 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

121 118 305 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )

122 119 206 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

123 137 256 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )

124 125 145 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits ‒ Elvis Presley ( 1 )

125 21 2 College Park ‒ Logic ( 21 )

126 121 259 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )

127 ** 1 Creed III: The Soundtrack ‒ Soundtrack ( 127 )

128 89 107 Good Girl Gone Bad ‒ Rihanna ( 2 )

129 127 227 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )

130 132 309 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

131 141 9 Rave & Roses ‒ Rema ( 131 )

132 120 139 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 89 )

133 123 974 The Dark Side Of The Moon ‒ Pink Floyd ( 1 )

134 122 128 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

135 128 434 The Eminem Show ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

136 148 139 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

137 134 163 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )

138 138 152 Pray 4 Love ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 )

139 142 268 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day ‒ Kid Cudi ( 4 )

140 129 84 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

141 124 34 Special ‒ Lizzo ( 2 )

142 130 19 Encanto (Highlights) ‒ Soundtrack ( 19 )

143 136 314 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )

144 131 38 Honestly, Nevermind ‒ Drake ( 1 )

145 154 155 Eternal Atake ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

146 152 116 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )

147 172 108 Whole Lotta Red ‒ Playboi Carti ( 1 )

148 146 702 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

149 140 91 Hall Of Fame ‒ Polo G ( 1 )

150 145 65 Mercury - Act 1 ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 9 )

151 150 291 [Hybrid Theory] ‒ Linkin Park ( 2 )

152 115 162 Cry Baby ‒ Melanie Martinez ( 6 )

153 156 100 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 108 )

154 160 217 Dr. Dre -- 2001 ‒ Dr. Dre ( 2 )

155 159 2 Five Seconds Flat ‒ Lizzy McAlpine ( 155 )

156 157 317 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

157 111 16 Bell Bottom Country ‒ Lainey Wilson ( 51 )

158 180 92 Ready To Die ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 15 )

159 153 19 Lyfe ‒ Yeat ( 10 )

160 151 145 The GOAT ‒ Polo G ( 2 )

161 164 289 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )

162 168 463 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

163 158 10 Pa Que Hablen.: I. ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 109 )

164 162 98 Currents ‒ Tame Impala ( 4 )

165 166 209 Tha Carter III ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 )

166 155 61 DS4EVER ‒ Gunna ( 1 )

167 139 192 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent ‒ Lewis Capaldi ( 20 )

168 171 558 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

169 178 554 21 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

170 144 22 Only Built For Infinity Links ‒ Quavo & Takeoff ( 7 )

171 79 4 This Is Why ‒ Paramore ( 2 )

172 161 65 Fighting Demons ‒ Juice WRLD ( 2 )

173 163 91 I Am > I Was ‒ 21 Savage ( 1 )

174 165 214 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

175 179 270 17 ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 2 )

176 195 234 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 14 )

177 167 31 The Last Slimeto ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 2 )

178 187 6 Tyler Hubbard ‒ Tyler Hubbard ( 40 )

179 196 152 Die Lit ‒ Playboi Carti ( 3 )

180 RE 185 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 )

181 173 458 Nothing Was The Same ‒ Drake ( 1 )

182 176 88 A Gangsta's Pain ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 1 )

183 177 216 Swimming ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 )

184 192 129 Flower Boy ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 2 )

185 197 215 DS2 ‒ Future ( 1 )

186 175 24 Cigarettes After Sex ‒ Cigarettes After Sex ( 151 )

187 174 39 Proof ‒ BTS ( 1 )

188 183 157 Confessions ‒ Usher ( 1 )

189 184 115 Top ‒ YoungBoy Never Broke Again ( 1 )

190 186 87 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

191 RE 353 Greatest Hits So Far... ‒ Zac Brown Band ( 20 )

192 182 20 Stick Season ‒ Noah Kahan ( 14 )

193 200 397 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 ‒ Eagles ( 1 )

194 191 104 Shiesty Season ‒ Pooh Shiesty ( 3 )

195 ** 1 5lbs Of Pressure (EP) ‒ Superstar Pride ( 195 )

196 RE 170 Speak Now ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

197 RE 75 The Off-Season ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

198 185 221 25 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

199 RE 403 Hot Rocks 1964-1971 ‒ The Rolling Stones ( 4 )

200 199 284 Evolve ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 2 )

Morgan Wallen’s ‘One Thing at a Time’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With a Half-Million Units

By Keith Caulfield | 03/12/2023

 

Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated March 18) with 501,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending March 9, according to Luminate. It’s the largest week of 2023 for any album by units earned, the biggest since Taylor Swift’s Midnights debut with 1.578 million (week ending Oct. 27, 2022; chart dated Nov. 5, 2022) and the largest week for a country album since Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) opened with 604,500 (week ending Nov. 18, 2021; chart dated Nov. 27, 2021).

 

A hefty 76% of One Thing at a Time’s debut-week total was powered by streaming activity. The set’s 36 tracks collectively generated 498.28 million on-demand official streams in the U.S. in the album’s first week – marking the fifth-largest streaming week ever for any album, and the biggest ever for a country album.

 

One Thing at a Time was released March 3 via Big Loud/Mercury/Republic Records and is the follow-up to Wallen’s chart-topping effort Dangerous: The Double Album, released in January 2021. The latter spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart and ranks at No. 6 on the latest list — its 110th nonconsecutive week in the top 10. It now solely has the second-most weeks in the top 10 in the list’s 67-year history, surpassing 109 weeks for the soundtrack to The Sound of Music. (The original cast recording of My Fair Lady holds the record for the most weeks in the top 10, with 173.)

 

One Thing at a Time was preceded by the release of nine songs from the album as far back as April of 2022. Four of those tunes topped Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart: “Don’t Think Jesus,” “Thought You Should Know,” “You Proof” and “Last Night,” the lattermost of which has reigned for four weeks running (through the most recently published March 11-dated ranking).

 

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 One Thing at a Time’s 501,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 382,000 (equaling 498.28 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 36 tracks), album sales comprise 111,500 and TEA units comprise 7,500. The album’s sales were powered by its digital download option (87,500; available as both a clean and explicit edition) while its double-CD (explicit only) sold 24,000. On the final day of the tracking week, the digital album was also offered in two alternative cover variants in Wallen’s official webstore for a discounted price. The set was not commercially released in any other formats.

 

One Thing at a Time has the second-largest week of 2023 by traditional album sales for an album, after the debut frame of TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Name Chapter: Temptation (152,000; chart dated Feb. 11). One Thing at a Time has the largest sales week for a country album since Red (Taylor’s Version) sold 369,000 in its first week (Nov. 27, 2021, chart).

 

As noted above, One Thing at a Time captures the fifth-largest streaming week ever for an album. The four largest streaming weeks for albums, by total streams earned, were all also debut frames. Drake’s Scorpion leads the pack, as it collected 745.92 million clicks for its 25 tracks in the week ending July 5, 2018. Scorpion is followed by the opening weeks of Drake’s Certified Lover Boy (743.67 million for its 21 tracks, week ending Sept. 9, 2021), Taylor Swift’s Midnights (549.26 million for its 20 tracks across its standard and deluxe editions, week ending Oct. 27, 2022) and Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss (513.56 million for its 16 tracks, week ending Nov. 10, 2022).

 

Certainly, the fact that One Thing at a Time has 36 songs helps its first-week numbers — as streaming activity for the chart is measured by taking the number of streams generated by each song on an album and adding them up to one overall total. Had the album been shortened to a length comparable to Drake’s 25-track Scorpion, it still would have had a big streaming figure. The top 25 most-streamed songs on One Thing at a Time generated 397.93 million on-demand official streams — which would made it the 10th-largest streaming week ever, and still the biggest among all country albums. Had One Thing at a Time’s tracklist been even shorter — as short as Drake and 21 Savage’s 16-track Her Loss, it still would have had a robust, but not quite as eye-popping, streaming start. One Thing at a Time’s top 16 most-streamed tracks collectively generated 294.65 million on-demand official streams — which would have ranked the set among the top 20 biggest streaming weeks of all time, though still the second-largest streaming week for a country album (behind the debut of Swift’s Red [Taylor’s Version], with 303.23 million for its 30 tracks).

 

In the last 12 months, One Thing at a Time has the most songs on its streaming album of any No. 1 on the Billboard 200, save for the 44-track Encanto soundtrack — although most of those 44 tracks are score and instrumental cuts, and the vast majority of the album’s streaming activity has come from the set’s nine focus songs, including the ensemble smash “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.” Including Encanto, in the last 12 months, the average tracklist length for the streaming edition of a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 has been 19. If we remove Encanto from the math, that average falls to 18. In the last 12 months, only four No. 1 albums have had fewer than 12 songs — and all were K-pop projects, powered largely by CD album sales, not streams.

 

A few last notes about Wallen… he is the first male artist with back-to-back country No. 1s on the Billboard 200 since 2019, when Thomas Rhett notched his second No. 1 in a row with Center Point Road, following Life Changes in 2017. Further, Wallen has the largest week for any country album by a male artist since the Billboard 200 began tracking by equivalent album units in December of 2014. In fact, only one country album has posted a bigger week in that span of time — Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version), with 604,500 units in its debut week in 2021. (Country albums are considered those that have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.)

 

Notably, since the Billboard 200 began measuring by equivalent album units in December 2014 (transitioning from an album sales-only methodology to a blend of album sales, SEA and TEA), only nine acts have registered a half-million units in a week for an album (with some having done so with multiple albums). They are: Adele, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift and Wallen.

 

As No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, SZA’s SOS holds in place with 82,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%). The set previously spent 10 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list.

 

Karol G’s Mañana Será Bonito falls 1-3 in its second week with 60,000 units (down 36%).

 

Kali Uchis achieves her first top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 as Red Moon in Venus debuts at No. 4 with 55,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 28,000, SEA units comprise 27,000 (equaling 35.49 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The mostly-English-language project is the artist’s first album release since the breakthrough success of the mostly-Spanish-language single “Telepatía” in 2021 (from her last album, 2020’s Spanish-language Sin Miedo [Del Amor y Otros Demonios]). That track spent eight weeks at No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs (her first leader there) and marked her first top 40-charting hit on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 (peaking at No. 25 and spending 25 weeks on the list). Red Moon in Venus includes guest turns from Omar Apollo, Don Toliver and Summer Walker.

 

Six former No. 1s round out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200: Taylor Swift’s Midnights is stationary at No. 5 (48,000 equivalent album units earned, down 1%); Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 6 (46,000, down less than 1%); Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains is steady at No. 7 (40,000, down 4%); Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti rises 10-8 (39,000, up less than 1%); The Weeknd’s Starboy holds at No. 9 (35,000, down 13%) and Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss rises 11-10 (34,000, down 5%).