BILLBOARD 200 Week ending January 4, 2025

 

TW LW Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak)

 

1 15 107 SOS ‒ SZA ( 1 ) (178,000 (10,000 sales))

2 5 125 Christmas ‒ Michael Buble ( 1 ) (100,000)

3 6 8 Ultimate Christmas ‒ Bing Crosby ( 3 ) (100,000)

4 11 88 The Christmas Song ‒ Nat King Cole ( 4 ) (84,000)

5 2 5 GNX ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 ) (76,000)

6 10 132 Merry Christmas ‒ Mariah Carey ( 3 ) (76,000)

7 3 36 The Tortured Poets Department ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 ) (74,000)

8 7 5 Wicked: The Soundtrack ‒ Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande & Various Artists ( 2 ) (71,000)

9 16 45 A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector ‒ Various Artists ( 7 ) (70,000)

10 17 52 Ultimate Christmas ‒ Frank Sinatra ( 10 ) (63,000)

11 12 123 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack) ‒ Vince Guaraldi Trio ( 6 )

12 4 18 Short n' Sweet ‒ Sabrina Carpenter ( 1 )

13 1 2 Hop ‒ Stray Kids ( 1 )

14 8 32 Hit Me Hard And Soft ‒ Billie Eilish ( 2 )

15 19 38 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree: The Decca Christmas Recordings ‒ Brenda Lee ( 15 )

16 9 40 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess ‒ Chappell Roan ( 2 )

17 24 42 The Andy Williams Christmas Album ‒ Andy Williams ( 14 )

18 25 35 Last Christmas (Soundtrack) ‒ George Michael & Wham! ( 18 )

19 23 43 The Best Of Pentatonix Christmas ‒ Pentatonix ( 7 )

20 28 6 A Bobby Helms Christmas (EP) ‒ Bobby Helms ( 20 )

21 31 43 The Dean Martin Christmas Album ‒ Dean Martin ( 21 )

22 32 40 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer And Other Christmas Classics ‒ Gene Autry ( 21 )

23 46 65 The Classic Christmas Album ‒ Elvis Presley ( 23 )

24 27 67 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer ‒ Burl Ives ( 15 )

25 13 27 The Secret Of Us ‒ Gracie Abrams ( 2 )

26 43 74 Wrapped In Red ‒ Kelly Clarkson ( 3 )

27 14 9 CHROMAKOPIA ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

28 26 372 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

29 18 95 One Thing At A Time ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 )

30 58 18 Greatest Christmas Songs ‒ Perry Como ( 30 )

31 22 109 Stick Season ‒ Noah Kahan ( 2 )

32 21 3 Rosie ‒ ROSE ( 3 )

33 29 29 Brat ‒ Charli xcx ( 3 )

34 37 61 1989 (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

35 42 5 Fruitcake (EP) ‒ Sabrina Carpenter ( 10 )

36 40 11 Beautifully Broken ‒ Jelly Roll ( 1 )

37 30 6 Cosa Nuestra ‒ Rauw Alejandro ( 6 )

38 35 114 Midnights ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

39 47 613 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

40 91 31 Feliz Navidad ‒ Jose Feliciano ( 38 )

41 34 11 Last Lap ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 )

42 93 26 The Jackson 5 Christmas Album ‒ Jackson 5 ( 36 )

43 70 23 When Christmas Comes Around... ‒ Kelly Clarkson ( 22 )

44 33 207 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 )

45 77 525 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

46 41 19 F-1 Trillion ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

47 44 279 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

48 48 70 Zach Bryan ‒ Zach Bryan ( 1 )

49 76 32 Everyday Is Christmas ‒ Sia ( 27 )

50 51 26 The Great American Bar Scene ‒ Zach Bryan ( 2 )

51 52 272 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

52 45 18 Incomodo ‒ Tito Double P ( 11 )

53 55 394 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

54 110 21 Berry Christmas (EP) ‒ Chuck Berry ( 54 )

55 38 231 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

56 50 11 Glorious ‒ GloRilla ( 5 )

57 103 4 A Very Laufey Holiday: The Santa Baby Edition (EP) ‒ Laufey ( 57 )

58 53 635 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

59 90 196 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )

60 125 7 Dino's Christmas ‒ Dean Martin ( 60 )

61 123 14 Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas ‒ Ella Fitzgerald ( 61 )

62 59 64 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I) ‒ Teddy Swims ( 17 )

63 57 136 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )

64 117 74 Under The Mistletoe ‒ Justin Bieber ( 1 )

65 68 25 Unreal Unearth ‒ Hozier ( 3 )

66 39 4 The Party Never Ends ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

67 54 11 Take Care ‒ BigXthaPlug ( 8 )

68 139 23 The Beach Boys' Christmas Album ‒ The Beach Boys ( 66 )

69 60 68 Guts ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

70 RE 9 The Essential Eartha Kitt ‒ Eartha Kitt ( 70 )

71 20 2 Missionary ‒ Snoop Dogg ( 20 )

72 64 188 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

73 97 658 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

74 72 211 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

75 63 402 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

76 67 716 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

77 36 2 Dlow Curry ‒ BossMan Dlow ( 36 )

78 66 38 Fireworks & Rollerblades ‒ Benson Boone ( 6 )

79 62 30 Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going ‒ Shaboozey ( 5 )

80 171 19 The Best Of Stevie Wonder: 20th Century Masters The Christmas Collection ‒ Stevie Wonder ( 74 )

81 69 617 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

82 74 218 Flower Boy ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 2 )

83 82 350 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )

84 49 5 Arcane League Of Legends: Season Two ‒ Soundtrack ( 24 )

85 56 3 Strategy: 14th Mini Album (EP) ‒ TWICE ( 4 )

86 96 568 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

87 71 74 Utopia ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

88 127 4 It's Officially Christmas: The Double Album ‒ Dan + Shay ( 88 )

89 84 726 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

90 99 11 +-=÷x (Tour Collection) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 28 )

91 79 163 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

92 83 627 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

93 65 345 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

94 61 414 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

95 107 867 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

96 163 7 Home Alone ‒ Soundtrack ( 96 )

97 179 38 McCartney II ‒ Paul McCartney ( 3 )

98 173 3 Holiday Seasoning ‒ Jimmy Fallon ( 84 )

99 78 40 We Don't Trust You ‒ Future & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

100 156 122 = ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 1 )

101 80 27 Exodo ‒ Peso Pluma ( 5 )

102 98 77 Speak Now (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

103 86 19 Cold Beer & Country Music ‒ Zach Top ( 56 )

104 178 33 You Make It Feel Like Christmas ‒ Gwen Stefani ( 16 )

105 94 335 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

106 138 12 The Greatest Christmas Hits ‒ Pentatonix ( 10 )

107 92 300 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

108 73 42 Eternal Sunshine ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

109 186 34 A Legendary Christmas ‒ John Legend ( 22 )

110 165 115 Noel ‒ Josh Groban ( 1 )

111 RE 224 The Very Best Of The Eagles ‒ Eagles ( 3 )

112 85 57 The Diamond Collection ‒ Post Malone ( 11 )

113 150 175 Meteora ‒ Linkin Park ( 1 )

114 75 327 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

115 106 485 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

116 RE 81 These Are Special Times ‒ Celine Dion ( 2 )

117 116 24 The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

118 89 33 One Of Wun ‒ Gunna ( 2 )

119 RE 2 Season's Greetings From Perry Como ‒ Perry Como ( 110 )

120 100 395 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

121 105 702 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

122 192 82 Christmas Eve And Other Stories ‒ Trans-Siberian Orchestra ( 48 )

123 RE 30 The Lockdown Sessions ‒ Elton John ( 10 )

124 81 8 Restless Mind ‒ Sam Barber ( 58 )

125 187 11 Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! ‒ Soundtrack ( 105 )

126 101 125 Greatest Hits ‒ Creed ( 15 )

127 RE 15 Gimme Some Truth. (2020) ‒ John Lennon ( 40 )

128 113 4 Alligator Bites Never Heal ‒ Doechii ( 82 )

129 95 177 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

130 104 138 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

131 RE 10 A Donny Hathaway Collection ‒ Donny Hathaway ( 108 )

132 155 19 A Drummer Boy Christmas ‒ for KING & COUNTRY ( 50 )

133 88 64 For All The Dogs ‒ Drake ( 1 )

134 115 334 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

135 128 837 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )

136 129 44 Bewitched ‒ Laufey ( 18 )

137 126 708 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

138 RE 67 Christmas Portrait ‒ Carpenters ( 56 )

139 RE 32 Cowboy Carter ‒ Beyonce ( 1 )

140 121 450 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

141 111 79 Genesis ‒ Peso Pluma ( 3 )

142 136 23 Muse ‒ Jimin ( 2 )

143 132 373 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

144 108 28 Hardstone Psycho ‒ Don Toliver ( 3 )

145 102 6 From Zero ‒ Linkin Park ( 2 )

146 148 495 Abbey Road ‒ The Beatles ( 1 )

147 RE 32 My Gift ‒ Carrie Underwood ( 5 )

148 119 252 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

149 118 360 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

150 114 210 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )

151 153 322 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 14 )

152 RE 40 Home For Christmas ‒ *NSYNC ( 7 )

153 152 134 Call Me If You Get Lost ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

154 124 220 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

155 130 403 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

156 131 483 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

157 133 139 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )

158 112 15 Submarine ‒ The Marias ( 17 )

159 134 14 Mixtape Pluto ‒ Future ( 1 )

160 140 236 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

161 197 103 The Best Of Sade ‒ Sade ( 9 )

162 162 158 To Pimp A Butterfly ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

163 143 554 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

164 137 50 Leather ‒ Cody Johnson ( 18 )

165 175 124 The Black Parade ‒ My Chemical Romance ( 2 )

166 169 18 Romance : Untold ‒ ENHYPEN ( 2 )

167 RE 178 Back To Black ‒ Amy Winehouse ( 2 )

168 135 173 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )

169 145 23 Twisters: The Album ‒ Soundtrack ( 7 )

170 183 769 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

171 RE 93 The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill ‒ Lauryn Hill ( 1 )

172 151 133 Freudian ‒ Daniel Caesar ( 25 )

173 142 43 A Great Chaos ‒ Ken Carson ( 11 )

174 141 64 $ad Boyz 4 Life II ‒ Junior H ( 14 )

175 146 175 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

176 159 24 Megan ‒ Megan Thee Stallion ( 3 )

177 RE 84 Religiously. The Album. ‒ Bailey Zimmerman ( 7 )

178 RE 12 Wolf ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 3 )

179 190 628 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

180 157 172 After Hours ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

181 170 598 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

182 160 452 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

183 166 59 Higher ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

184 161 62 Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 14 )

185 182 125 Toxicity ‒ System Of A Down ( 1 )

186 174 357 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

187 154 13 A Very Trainor Christmas ‒ Meghan Trainor ( 89 )

188 120 24 Am I Okay? ‒ Megan Moroney ( 9 )

189 144 108 Heroes & Villains ‒ Metro Boomin ( 1 )

190 168 339 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

191 RE 207 Cry Baby ‒ Melanie Martinez ( 6 )

192 RE 23 New World Depression ‒ $uicideboy$ ( 5 )

193 167 67 Nostalgia ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

194 196 241 Unorthodox Jukebox ‒ Bruno Mars ( 1 )

195 RE 153 The College Dropout ‒ Kanye West ( 2 )

196 RE 83 Weezer ‒ Weezer ( 16 )

197 RE 547 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

198 164 92 Gettin' Old ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

199 195 63 Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Manana ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

200 177 219 Legends Never Die ‒ Juice WRLD ( 1 )

SZA’s ‘SOS’ Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 After Deluxe ‘LANA’ Edition Release

By Keith Caulfield | 12/29/2024

 

After 22 months, SZA’s chart-topping SOS returns No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as the set jumps 15-1 on the Jan. 4-dated chart. It bolts back to the top thanks largely from activity generated by the album’s deluxe reissue on Dec. 20 (dubbed SOS Deluxe: LANA) that added 15 additional songs to the album. The set was originally released on Dec. 9, 2022, with 23 tracks. All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes and continue to chart under the title SOS.

 

SOS surges to No. 1 with 178,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 26 (up 297%), according to Luminate. With its return to No. 1, the set collects an 11th nonconsecutive week atop the list, and its first since the March 4, 2023-dated chart. That 22-month gap between weeks at No. 1 is the longest for any album since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.

 

Notably, had the 15 new songs on the LANA deluxe edition of the album been released as a new stand-alone album, its track activity alone would have been enough for that stand-alone set to debut atop the list. (The 15 new songs generated 105,000 in SEA and TEA units. The No. 2 title this week, Michael Bublé’s former leader Christmas, earned 100,000 units from SEA, TEA and traditional album sales combined.)

 

SOS debuted atop the Billboard 200 dated Dec. 24, 2022, and logged 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the list through the March 4, 2023-dated chart. It has never left the weekly top 20 of the chart during the 107 consecutive weeks that it has spent on the list. SOS closed 2024 at No. 6 on the year-end Billboard 200 Albums chart, after it was No. 3 on the year-end list in 2023.

 

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart, Frank Sinatra scores his first top 10-charting in over a decade, as his holiday compilation Ultimate Christmas vaults 17-10.

 

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 SOS’ 178,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 26, SEA units comprise 167,000 (up 341%, equaling 220.22 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it hits No. 1 on the year-old Top Streaming Albums chart for the first time), traditional album sales comprise 10,000 (up 44%, rising 39-23 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 1,744%).

 

A deluxe reissue of SOS had been in the works since at least February of 2023, and SZA first mentioned LANA as the name of the expansion in September 2023. The deluxe reissue was preceded by the Billboard Hot 100-charting hit “Saturn” (one of the 15 added tracks), which debuted and peaked at No. 6 in March.

 

The last R&B/hip-hop album with at least 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200 was Drake’s Views, which notched 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2016 (May 21-Oct. 8). 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 any R&B album since The Bodyguard’s 20-week reign. (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.)

 

At No. 2 on the latest Billboard 200, Michael Bublé’s former leader Christmas jingles 5-2 with 100,000 equivalent album units earned (up 47%). The set spent a total of five weeks atop the list in late 2011 and early 2012, following its release in October of 2011. It has climbed to No. 2 in four of the last six holiday seasons. With 100,000 units earned, Christmas tallies its largest week, by units, since the Billboard 200 began ranking by units in December 2014.

 

The Jan. 4-dated Billboard 200 is set to be the last chart of the holiday season to showcase high-ranking Christmas efforts, as the tracking week for the chart closed on Dec. 26, the day after the Christmas Day holiday.

 

Bing Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas rallies 6-3 on the new Billboard 200, marking the late entertainer’s highest-charting effort since the Jan. 5, 1959-dated chart, when his former No. 1 Merry Christmas ranked at No. 2. Merry Christmas had previously spent a week at No. 1 on Jan. 6, 1958-dated chart.

 

Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song moves 11-4, matching its peak, with 84,000 equivalent album units earned (up 56%). Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX falls 2-5 (76,000; down 24%), Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas rises 10-6 (nearly 76,000; up 36%), and Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 The Tortured Poets Department dips 3-7 (74,000; down 13%).

 

The Wicked film soundtrack falls 7-8 on the Billboard 200 with 71,000 equivalent album units earned (up 9%) and the festive compilation A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector climbs 16-9 with 70,000 units (up 60%).

 

Rounding out the top 10 is Frank Sinatra’s Ultimate Christmas, climbing 17-10 with 63,000 equivalent album units earned (up 55%). The title — which previously peaked at No. 12 and reaches the top 10 in its 52nd week on the chart, dating to its December 2017 debut — is the late legend’s first visit to the top 10 since August 2012, when his 2008 hits package Nothing Best the Best returned to the top 10 (re-entering at No. 3 on the Aug. 25, 2012-dated list after sale pricing and promotion). Nothing had previously debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the May 31, 2008-dated chart.

 

Ultimate Christmas becomes Sinatra’s 33rd top 10-charting effort, the most among solo males. The Rolling Stones have the most top 10s, with 38. They are followed by Barbra Streisand (with 34), Sinatra and The Beatles, whom he passes (32).

With its return to No. 1, the set collects an 11th nonconsecutive week atop the list, and its first since the March 4, 2023-dated chart. That 22-month gap between weeks at No. 1 is the longest for any album since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.

 

Is that really true?! Seems like a shockingly short amount of time to be the record.

 

(And I guess Michael Bublé would have broken that record by a much larger margin instead had SZA not released on this week :P)

Is that really true?! Seems like a shockingly short amount of time to be the record.

 

(And I guess Michael Bublé would have broken that record by a much larger margin instead had SZA not released on this week :P)

It's a little shocking, but this chart had a catalog/recurrent rule for most of its existence, so I feel like it's only been really achievable for the past 15 years:

 

Starting with the issue dated December 5, 2009, however, the catalog limitations – which removed albums over 18 months old that had dropped below No. 100 and had no currently running singles – for the Billboard 200 were lifted, turning the chart into an all-inclusive list of the 200 highest-selling albums in the country

 

Oh yeah of course, I'd forgotten about that, makes a bit more sense then.