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TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )

1 New 1 Utopia ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 ) (477,000 (252,000 sales))

2 New 1 Austin ‒ Post Malone ( 2 ) (113,000 (34,000 sales))

3 3 22 One Thing At A Time ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (96,000)

4 2 2 Barbie: The Album ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 ) (91,000)

5 4 4 Speak Now (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (66,000)

6 1 2 2nd EP 'Get Up' ‒ NewJeans ( 1 ) (55,000)

7 5 6 Genesis ‒ Peso Pluma ( 3 ) (50,000)

8 6 41 Midnights ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (49,000)

9 7 134 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (49,000)

10 10 206 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (43,000)

11 9 34 SOS ‒ SZA ( 1 )

12 12 158 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

13 13 63 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )

14 11 7 A Gift & A Curse ‒ Gunna ( 3 )

15 15 19 Gettin' Old ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

16 20 451 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

17 14 36 Stick Season ‒ Noah Kahan ( 3 )

18 18 65 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

19 21 254 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

20 17 5 Been One ‒ Rylo Rodriguez ( 10 )

21 16 5 Pink Tape ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

22 19 12 Religiously. The Album. ‒ Bailey Zimmerman ( 7 )

23 23 90 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

24 22 10 Almost Healed ‒ Lil Durk ( 3 )

25 24 35 Heroes & Villains ‒ Metro Boomin ( 1 )

26 25 39 Her Loss ‒ Drake & 21 Savage ( 1 )

27 New 1 Dave's Picks, Volume 47: Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO, 12/9/79 ‒ Grateful Dead ( 27 )

28 34 138 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

29 30 53 Renaissance ‒ Beyonce ( 1 )

30 27 23 Manana Sera Bonito ‒ Karol G ( 1 )

31 28 322 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

32 29 9 Whitsitt Chapel ‒ Jelly Roll ( 3 )

33 32 204 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

34 35 108 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

35 36 299 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

36 31 253 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

37 37 115 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

38 38 100 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )

39 26 27 Like..? (EP) ‒ Ice Spice ( 15 )

40 40 540 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

41 41 300 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

42 43 179 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

43 42 554 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

44 39 63 Harry's House ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

45 46 643 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

46 44 544 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

47 47 653 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

48 45 195 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

49 48 495 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

50 51 9 I Am Music ‒ Lil Wayne ( 25 )

51 33 9 5-Star: The 3rd Album ‒ Stray Kids ( 1 )

52 54 562 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

53 63 261 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

54 56 321 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

55 58 329 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

56 55 41 Queen Radio: Volume 1 ‒ Nicki Minaj ( 10 )

57 53 266 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

58 50 28 The Mockingbird & The Crow ‒ HARDY ( 4 )

59 61 272 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

60 49 9 Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse: Metro Boomin Presents (Soundtrack) ‒ Metro Boomin ( 5 )

61 ReEntry 49 Forty Licks ‒ The Rolling Stones ( 2 )

62 57 9 Hard To Love ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 10 )

63 65 42 It's Only Me ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

64 62 66 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )

65 64 794 Legend: The Best Of... ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

66 60 377 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

67 70 452 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

68 59 14 Desvelado ‒ Eslabon Armado ( 6 )

69 68 412 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

70 66 24 Bluebird Days ‒ Jordan Davis ( 19 )

71 88 160 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 71 )

72 67 287 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

73 71 106 After Hours ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

74 73 174 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )

75 123 105 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

76 79 275 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

77 83 142 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

78 74 47 Different Man ‒ Kane Brown ( 5 )

79 75 21 Endless Summer Vacation ‒ Miley Cyrus ( 3 )

80 New 1 Truth Killer ‒ Sevendust ( 80 )

81 77 37 Bell Bottom Country ‒ Lainey Wilson ( 51 )

82 76 525 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

83 82 773 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )

84 81 486 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

85 118 161 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 )

86 86 56 Wasteland ‒ Brent Faiyaz ( 2 )

87 143 418 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 ‒ Eagles ( 1 )

88 84 199 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

89 85 316 More Life ‒ Drake ( 1 )

90 91 379 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

91 80 58 Growin' Up ‒ Luke Combs ( 2 )

92 106 248 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )

93 69 6 Business Is Business ‒ Young Thug ( 2 )

94 89 5 Nata Montana ‒ Natanael Cano ( 35 )

95 95 636 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

96 ReEntry 147 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

97 93 113 Savage Mode II ‒ 21 Savage & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

98 104 341 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

99 98 325 Greatest Hits ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 1 )

100 97 73 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 )

101 100 347 Stoney ‒ Post Malone ( 4 )

102 90 110 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )

103 78 5 Data ‒ Tainy ( 11 )

104 112 333 ÷ (Divide) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

105 113 285 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

106 New 1 Lonestar Luchador ‒ That Mexican OT ( 106 )

107 122 635 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

108 99 150 Flower Boy ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 2 )

109 96 9 Naujour ‒ Toosii ( 19 )

110 108 277 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )

111 109 585 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

112 111 121 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 107 )

113 105 190 Fine Line ‒ Harry Styles ( 1 )

114 101 230 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )

115 102 92 = ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

116 110 410 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

117 ReEntry 293 Beauty Behind The Madness ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

118 116 335 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )

119 120 440 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )

120 132 12 Elisabeth ‒ Zach Bryan ( 120 )

121 121 330 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

122 115 123 SoulFly ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

123 114 629 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

124 133 20 Summertime Blues ‒ Zach Bryan ( 34 )

125 126 262 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

126 103 374 Greatest Hits So Far... ‒ Zac Brown Band ( 20 )

127 139 227 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

128 134 5 Hood Hottest Princess ‒ Sexyy Red ( 128 )

129 119 310 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )

130 117 18 Portals ‒ Melanie Martinez ( 2 )

131 124 96 Call Me If You Get Lost ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

132 129 160 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

133 125 484 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

134 138 160 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

135 128 223 Greatest Hits ‒ Foo Fighters ( 11 )

136 127 119 Currents ‒ Tame Impala ( 4 )

137 136 30 Rave & Roses ‒ Rema ( 81 )

138 131 59 Honestly, Nevermind ‒ Drake ( 1 )

139 149 326 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )

140 142 137 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )

141 137 206 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 )

142 153 310 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )

143 148 184 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )

144 146 230 Death Race For Love ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

145 162 14 Nate Smith ‒ Nate Smith ( 30 )

146 147 237 Swimming ‒ Mac Miller ( 3 )

147 155 17 Hope ‒ NF ( 2 )

148 140 99 The Melodic Blue ‒ Baby Keem ( 5 )

149 163 200 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

150 157 333 Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys ‒ The Beach Boys ( 16 )

151 130 19 Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 3 )

152 158 301 The Essential Billy Joel ‒ Billy Joel ( 15 )

153 151 479 Nothing Was The Same ‒ Drake ( 1 )

154 160 338 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

155 145 31 Pa Que Hablen.: I. ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 60 )

156 166 247 Number One Hits ‒ Tim McGraw ( 27 )

157 164 136 Meteora ‒ Linkin Park ( 1 )

158 150 51 Beautiful Mind ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

159 8 2 Starcatcher ‒ Greta Van Fleet ( 8 )

160 173 579 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

161 169 306 [Hybrid Theory] ‒ Linkin Park ( 2 )

162 165 170 Indigo ‒ Chris Brown ( 1 )

163 167 13 Lucky ‒ Megan Moroney ( 38 )

164 156 64 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

165 141 206 California Sunrise ‒ Jon Pardi ( 11 )

166 168 179 YHLQMDLG ‒ Bad Bunny ( 2 )

167 New 1 Joni Mitchell At Newport ‒ Joni Mitchell Featuring The Joni Jam ( 167 )

168 182 165 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits ‒ Elvis Presley ( 1 )

169 154 61 Twelve Carat Toothache ‒ Post Malone ( 2 )

170 178 281 Taylor Swift ‒ Taylor Swift ( 5 )

171 176 97 Thank Me Later ‒ Drake ( 1 )

172 175 173 Pray 4 Love ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 )

173 184 723 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

174 183 131 35 Biggest Hits ‒ Toby Keith ( 2 )

175 181 206 Sublime ‒ Sublime ( 13 )

176 135 4 Playa Saturno ‒ Rauw Alejandro ( 29 )

177 172 305 Evolve ‒ Imagine Dragons ( 2 )

178 185 255 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 14 )

179 177 158 F*ck Love ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 1 )

180 186 280 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )

181 197 4 La Vida Es Una ‒ Myke Towers ( 173 )

182 159 48 Stereotype ‒ Cole Swindell ( 48 )

183 191 289 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day ‒ Kid Cudi ( 4 )

184 188 211 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent ‒ Lewis Capaldi ( 20 )

185 179 13 - ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 2 )

186 195 575 21 ‒ Adele ( 1 )

187 171 25 Tyler Hubbard ‒ Tyler Hubbard ( 40 )

188 190 178 Confessions ‒ Usher ( 1 )

189 187 283 Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

190 199 233 Dr. Dre -- 2001 ‒ Dr. Dre ( 2 )

191 ReEntry 2 Amar ‒ BigXthaPlug ( 181 )

192 196 22 Red Moon In Venus ‒ Kali Uchis ( 4 )

193 ReEntry 47 Danado ‒ Ivan Cornejo ( 28 )

194 194 191 Speak Now ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

195 198 164 The GOAT ‒ Polo G ( 2 )

196 87 3 Grandson ‒ King Von ( 14 )

197 107 3 222 ‒ Lil Tjay ( 24 )

198 189 82 DS4EVER ‒ Gunna ( 1 )

199 193 230 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

200 200 125 Whole Lotta Red ‒ Playboi Carti ( 1 )

Travis Scott Lands Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘Utopia’

By Keith Caulfield | 8/7/2023

 

Travis Scott’s Utopia blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Aug. 12), capturing the third-biggest week of 2023 for any album and the largest for any R&B/hip-hop or rap release.

 

The star-laden hip-hop effort bows with 496,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 3, according to Luminate. Among the guests featured on Utopia are 10 acts who have all topped the Billboard 200 on their own: 21 Savage, Bad Bunny, Beyoncé, Drake, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, SZA, The Weeknd and Young Thug.

 

Utopia is Scott’s third No. 1 and first solo album since 2018’s Astroworld, which started atop the chart. In between Astroworld and Utopia, the Jackboys supergroup – led by Scott – notched a No. 1 with its self-titled release in early 2020. Utopia has been teased for years, as Scott first shared the album title in a series of social media posts in the summer and fall of 2020.

 

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Post Malone clocks his fifth consecutive top five-charting effort as Austin bows at No. 2.

 

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 Utopia’s 477,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 3, SEA units comprise 243,000 (equaling 330.68 million on-demand official streams of the streaming set’s 19 total songs – the second-biggest streaming week of 2023), album sales comprise 252,000 (the second-largest sales week of 2023) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

 

Streaming activity comprises nearly half (49%) of Utopia’s first-week activity, with almost all of the remainder generated by album sales. The set’s streaming activity was so robust that the album would have been No. 1 from only its SEA units (and still have twice the total units of the No. 2 album on the chart, Post Malone’s Austin). The most-streamed song on the Utopia album, by official on-demand streams, is “Meltdown,” featuring Drake. It accounted for nearly 10% of the album’s streams during the week.

 

Utopia was preceded by its first single, “K-POP,” with The Weeknd and Bad Bunny, which debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Aug. 5.

 

Utopia is available with three different track lists: a standard 18-song edition through all major digital retailers (including the iTunes Store and Amazon), a 19-song set at digital retail and streamers (which includes the song “Meltdown,” featuring Drake), and a 19-song version available on CD, vinyl and a “First Edition” digital album sold through Scott’s webstore (that includes the song “Aye” with Lil Uzi Vert). All of the standard digital retail release’s 18 songs are on both 19-song expanded versions. The “First Edition” digital album was released at the end of the tracking week, in the closing hours of Aug. 3, and sold for just $4.99. The “First Edition” variant sold exceptionally well, due to fan speculation as to the set’s track list, which was not advertised by Scott’s webstore.

 

Utopia’s sales were also enhanced by its availability across five CD variants (each with a different cover), five vinyl LP variants (with different covers and color vinyl), 15 deluxe boxed sets – each containing a piece of branded clothing and a copy of the album on CD or vinyl, six zine/CD deluxe editions (where a copy of the CD is housed inside a magazine-like package branded to the album), and two Fan Pack offers in which customers could choose to purchase a copy of the CD or vinyl LP with a piece of branded merchandise for a discounted price. Initially, the assorted CD and vinyl album cover art was not displayed to customers on Scott’s webstore. When fans placed orders, they selected one of five covers, not knowing what the final design would look like. Eventually, closer to street date, the cover art for all variants was revealed.

 

All physical formats of the album are exclusively sold through Scott’s official webstore. It has not been announced when, or if, any of the physical versions of the album will be released wide to any other retailers.

 

Scott drove customers to his webstore during Utopia’s pre-order campaign and during its first-week thanks to frequent new merchandise releases. Alongside merch drops, the webstore promoted discounted pricing on the Utopia album – going as low as $4.99 for its digital album.

 

In total, Utopia sold 252,000 copies in its first week. Of that sum, digital downloads comprise 111,000 (with 79% of that sum from the “First Edition” variant), CD sales comprise 63,000 (80% of that figure were CDs housed in boxed sets and zine packages) and vinyl sales comprise 79,000 (30.5% were vinyl housed in boxed sets). Of the album’s 252,000 sold across all formats (digital download, CD and vinyl), deluxe boxed sets and zine packages combined to sell 30% of that figure (about 75,000 of 252,000).

 

Utopia’s vinyl sales were so big, they mark the largest sales week for an R&B/hip-hop or rap album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. Notably, Scott sold 55,000 copies of the vinyl edition of Utopia as individual purchases – those not contained inside a deluxe boxed set with merch. That figure would still represent the largest week for an R&B/hip-hop or rap set on vinyl in the Luminate era.

 

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Post Malone scores his fifth consecutive and total top five-charting set as Austin launches with 113,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 78,000 (equaling 101.14 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 18 songs), album sales comprise 34,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000.

 

Austin was led by a trio of charting songs on the Hot 100: “Chemical” (No. 13 peak in April), “Mourning” (No. 36 in June) and “Overdrive” (debuted at No. 47 on the July 29-dated chart).

 

Austin is absent any guest stars and presents a sonic shift for Post Malone, focusing more on pop and alternative sounds and guitar-based tunes instead of hip-hop. (Post Malone’s four previous albums all hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.)

 

The set was available to purchase across five CD variants (four with alternative covers, one of which includes a bonus track), three vinyl LPs (including a Target-exclusive color variant), a cassette tape, four digital download variants (each with a different cover, exclusive to his official webstore), and two Fan Pack offers. In addition, the album was issued in a deluxe version in the middle of its first tracking week, with a new bonus track added, “Joy.”

 

Austin sold about 11,500 copies on vinyl – marking Post Malone’s biggest week ever on vinyl.

 

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time is a non-mover at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, shifting 96,000 equivalent album units (down 7%). It’s the first time the album has fallen below 100,000 units in a single week, in its 22nd week on the chart. The set earned in excess of 100,000 equivalent album units in its first 21 chart weeks, the most weeks of 100,000-plus units since the Billboard 200 began ranking titles by units in December of 2014.

 

The Barbie film soundtrack dips 2-4 in its second week with 91,000 equivalent album units (down 28%), Taylor Swift’s former leader Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) falls 4-5 with 66,000 units (down 16%), NewJeans’ 2nd EP ‘Get Up’ falls 1-6 in its second week with 55,000 units (down 56%) and Peso Pluma’s Génesis slips 5-7 with 50,000 units (down 6%).

 

Three former No. 1s round out the top 10: Taylor Swift’s Midnights backtracks 6-8 with 49,000 (up less than 1%), Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album falls 7-9 with nearly 49,000 (down 5%) and Taylor Swift’s Lover holds steady at No. 10 with 43,000 (up 2%).