BILLBOARD 200 Week ending May 10, 2025

 

TW LW Wks Title ‒ Artist (Peak)

1 ** 1 Skeleta ‒ Ghost ( 1 ) (86,000 (77,000 sales))

2 1 125 SOS ‒ SZA ( 1 ) (52,000)

3 2 23 GNX ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 ) (48,000)

4 3 113 One Thing At A Time ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (46,000)

5 4 36 Short n' Sweet ‒ Sabrina Carpenter ( 1 ) (44,000)

6 5 11 $ome $exy $ongs 4 U ‒ PARTYNEXTDOOR & Drake ( 1 ) (43,000)

7 6 17 Debi Tirar Mas Fotos ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 ) (38,000)

8 45 48 Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going ‒ Shaboozey ( 5 ) (35,000)

9 7 7 MUSIC ‒ Playboi Carti ( 1 ) (34,000)

10 9 225 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) (33,000)

11 8 8 MAYHEM ‒ Lady Gaga ( 1 )

12 14 50 Hit Me Hard And Soft ‒ Billie Eilish ( 2 )

13 ** 1 Withered ‒ d4vd ( 13 )

14 12 58 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess ‒ Chappell Roan ( 2 )

15 ** 1 What Not To ‒ Tucker Wetmore ( 15 )

16 13 10 So Close To What ‒ Tate McRae ( 1 )

17 11 54 The Tortured Poets Department ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

18 16 127 Stick Season ‒ Noah Kahan ( 2 )

19 17 23 You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1) ‒ Alex Warren ( 17 )

20 15 60 Eternal Sunshine ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )

21 18 37 F-1 Trillion ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

22 21 29 Take Care ‒ BigXthaPlug ( 8 )

23 20 45 The Secret Of Us ‒ Gracie Abrams ( 2 )

24 22 10 Mi Vida Mi Muerte ‒ Neton Vega ( 19 )

25 10 22 Alligator Bites Never Heal ‒ Doechii ( 10 )

26 24 47 Brat ‒ Charli xcx ( 3 )

27 19 13 Hurry Up Tomorrow ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

28 26 75 The Diamond Collection ‒ Post Malone ( 11 )

29 23 56 Fireworks & Rollerblades ‒ Benson Boone ( 6 )

30 25 631 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

31 31 34 Child Of God ‒ Forrest Frank ( 28 )

32 29 29 +-=÷x (Tour Collection) ‒ Ed Sheeran ( 17 )

33 30 156 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )

34 27 29 Beautifully Broken ‒ Jelly Roll ( 1 )

35 ** 1 Dave's Picks Volume 54: Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD - 3/26/73 ‒ Grateful Dead ( 35 )

36 33 653 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )

37 34 154 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )

38 37 420 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

39 35 37 Cold Beer & Country Music ‒ Zach Top ( 31 )

40 40 635 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )

41 28 82 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I) ‒ Teddy Swims ( 17 )

42 41 412 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )

43 32 501 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )

44 36 33 Submarine ‒ The Marias ( 17 )

45 68 390 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )

46 42 432 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )

47 39 36 Incomodo ‒ Tito Double P ( 11 )

48 43 27 CHROMAKOPIA ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

49 48 88 Zach Bryan ‒ Zach Bryan ( 1 )

50 49 413 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

51 44 368 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )

52 53 44 The Great American Bar Scene ‒ Zach Bryan ( 2 )

53 52 297 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

54 58 24 Cosa Nuestra ‒ Rauw Alejandro ( 6 )

55 55 238 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )

56 51 734 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )

57 50 645 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )

58 56 343 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )

59 ** 1 Why Not More? ‒ Coco Jones ( 59 )

60 60 206 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

61 54 26 Restless Mind ‒ Sam Barber ( 48 )

62 59 744 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )

63 65 132 Midnights ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

64 193 44 Cowboy Carter ‒ Beyonce ( 1 )

65 64 249 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

66 57 414 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )

67 63 86 Guts ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

68 79 468 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )

69 83 42 Am I Okay? ‒ Megan Moroney ( 9 )

70 46 5 Deep Thoughts ‒ Lil Durk ( 3 )

71 69 855 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )

72 88 14 The Select ‒ Ty Myers ( 66 )

73 66 17 WHAM ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

74 75 31 Hungover ‒ Ella Langley ( 49 )

75 77 143 Greatest Hits ‒ Creed ( 15 )

76 67 503 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )

77 73 720 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )

78 71 27 Don't Mind If I Do ‒ Riley Green ( 25 )

79 74 228 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )

80 70 79 1989 (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

81 80 14 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) ‒ Teddy Swims ( 4 )

82 72 58 We Don't Trust You ‒ Future & Metro Boomin ( 1 )

83 38 3 More Chaos ‒ Ken Carson ( 1 )

84 61 885 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )

85 78 45 Exodo ‒ Peso Pluma ( 5 )

86 82 270 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )

87 81 97 Genesis ‒ Peso Pluma ( 3 )

88 47 6 I Said I Love You First ‒ Selena Gomez & benny blanco ( 2 )

89 89 205 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 77 )

90 86 98 Religiously. The Album. ‒ Bailey Zimmerman ( 7 )

91 96 11 That Ain't No Man That's The Devil ‒ Jessie Murph ( 24 )

92 76 290 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )

93 84 616 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )

94 90 514 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )

95 93 82 For All The Dogs ‒ Drake ( 1 )

96 ** 1 At The Beach, In Every Life ‒ Gigi Perez ( 96 )

97 92 391 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

98 94 10 Mija No Te Asustes ‒ Clave Especial ( 94 )

99 95 29 Last Lap ‒ Rod Wave ( 2 )

100 87 92 Utopia ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

101 97 110 Gettin' Old ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )

102 101 191 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )

103 108 82 $ad Boyz 4 Life II ‒ Junior H ( 14 )

104 161 109 Pure Heroine ‒ Lorde ( 3 )

105 91 29 Glorious ‒ GloRilla ( 5 )

106 104 157 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )

107 109 586 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )

108 114 421 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )

109 115 345 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

110 113 420 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )

111 111 353 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )

112 116 197 35 Biggest Hits ‒ Toby Keith ( 1 )

113 112 572 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )

114 102 363 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )

115 106 332 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )

116 103 14 The High Road ‒ Kane Brown ( 7 )

117 100 231 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

118 107 78 20 Number Ones ‒ Thomas Rhett ( 22 )

119 85 8 Ruby ‒ JENNIE ( 7 )

120 119 378 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

121 105 41 Twisters: The Album ‒ Soundtrack ( 7 )

122 99 8 Mutt ‒ Leon Thomas ( 96 )

123 118 375 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )

124 123 722 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )

125 121 304 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )

126 125 187 After Hours ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

127 110 21 Rosie ‒ ROSE ( 3 )

128 140 20 Take Me Back To Eden ‒ Sleep Token ( 16 )

129 120 245 Sublime ‒ Sublime ( 13 )

130 128 352 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )

131 133 85 Amar ‒ BigXthaPlug ( 97 )

132 124 543 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )

133 ** 1 Sinners ‒ Soundtrack ( 133 )

134 134 357 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )

135 132 343 Beauty Behind The Madness ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

136 122 289 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 )

137 127 43 Unreal Unearth ‒ Hozier ( 3 )

138 129 726 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )

139 126 676 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )

140 137 193 Meteora ‒ Linkin Park ( 1 )

141 131 68 Leather ‒ Cody Johnson ( 18 )

142 143 360 [Hybrid Theory] ‒ Linkin Park ( 2 )

143 141 284 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )

144 144 126 Heroes & Villains ‒ Metro Boomin ( 1 )

145 138 565 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )

146 130 318 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

147 135 195 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )

148 145 80 Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 14 )

149 139 482 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 ‒ Eagles ( 1 )

150 158 9 About A Woman ‒ Thomas Rhett ( 19 )

151 159 181 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )

152 147 291 Tha Carter III ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 )

153 151 181 Good Girl Gone Bad ‒ Rihanna ( 2 )

154 156 51 One Of Wun ‒ Gunna ( 2 )

155 146 77 Higher ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )

156 153 470 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )

157 148 236 Flower Boy ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 2 )

158 155 72 Think Later ‒ Tate McRae ( 4 )

159 149 333 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 14 )

160 157 198 Currents ‒ Tame Impala ( 4 )

161 150 84 Greatest Hits ‒ Aerosmith ( 36 )

162 160 290 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )

163 152 229 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 71 )

164 162 150 Freudian ‒ Daniel Caesar ( 25 )

165 166 143 Toxicity ‒ System Of A Down ( 1 )

166 RE 67 Tha Carter IV ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 )

167 186 116 The Best Of Sade ‒ Sade ( 9 )

168 165 100 Long.Live.A$AP ‒ A$AP Rocky ( 1 )

169 154 83 Emails I Can't Send ‒ Sabrina Carpenter ( 23 )

170 171 236 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

171 173 167 Greatest Hits ‒ blink-182 ( 6 )

172 170 787 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )

173 172 159 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 )

174 174 390 Greatest Hits ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 1 )

175 176 310 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )

176 168 88 Cigarettes After Sex ‒ Cigarettes After Sex ( 112 )

177 169 418 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )

178 RE 17 Mirada ‒ Ivan Cornejo ( 17 )

179 ** 1 Viagr Aboys ‒ Viagra Boys ( 179 )

180 167 635 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )

181 181 137 The Greatest Hits Collection ‒ Brooks & Dunn ( 4 )

182 ** 1 Everything Must Go ‒ Goose ( 182 )

183 180 9 A Minute... (EP) ‒ Myles Smith ( 120 )

184 178 312 DS2 ‒ Future ( 1 )

185 177 382 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )

186 184 16 Todavia Me Amas: Lo Mejor de Aventura ‒ Aventura ( 156 )

187 185 229 California Sunrise ‒ Jon Pardi ( 11 )

188 189 378 More Life ‒ Drake ( 1 )

189 188 85 Nostalgia ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )

190 164 346 Blurryface ‒ Twenty One Pilots ( 1 )

191 187 122 Thank Me Later ‒ Drake ( 1 )

192 183 252 Confessions ‒ Usher ( 1 )

193 RE 33 Lucky ‒ Megan Moroney ( 38 )

194 182 46 Hardstone Psycho ‒ Don Toliver ( 3 )

195 175 107 Fetty Wap ‒ Fetty Wap ( 1 )

196 136 23 Wicked: The Soundtrack ‒ Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande & Various Artists ( 2 )

197 RE 12 House Of Balloons ‒ The Weeknd ( 113 )

198 163 68 11:11 ‒ Chris Brown ( 9 )

199 190 21 The Greatest Hits ‒ 3 Doors Down ( 94 )

200 RE 50 PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4) ‒ PARTYNEXTDOOR ( 10 )

Ghost Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘Skeletá’

By Keith Caulfield | 5/4/2025

Ghost grabs the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the first time, as the Swedish hard rock band’s new studio effort Skeletá debuts atop the tally (dated May 10) with 86,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending May 1, according to Luminate. Of the album’s starting sum, 89% was driven by traditional album sales — buoyed by a big vinyl sales figure.

Skeletá launches with Ghost’s best week ever by both equivalent album units and traditional album sales.

Skeletá marks the ninth charted effort for the group on the Billboard 200. The band first visited the list in 2013 with its second album, Infestissumam, which also marked the act’s first top 40-charting set, reaching No. 28. Skeletá scores Ghost its eighth top 40 set, and fifth to reach the top 10. The band had previously gone as high as No. 2 with its last full-length studio album, 2022’s Impera.

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 Skeletá’s 86,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 77,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 9,000 (equaling 12.45 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The set’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across more than 15 vinyl variants, three CD variants and four cassette variants (all containing the same tracklist, but in collectible packaging).

With Skeletá scoring 9,000 in SEA units (12.45 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs), the group logs its biggest streaming week ever for an album. It surpasses the opening-week of Impera (7,000 SEA; 9.11 million streams for its songs).

The new album was led by the radio-promoted single “Satanized,” which became the act’s 10th top 10-charting hit on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in April. It’s one of a trio of hits that the album yielded on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart prior to the album’s release. “Satanized” hit No. 3 (March 22 chart), followed by “Lachryma” (No. 3, April 26) and “Peacefield” (No. 13, May 3). (Skeletá is also the first full-length project from the band since the act garnered its first hit on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, when its viral hit “Mary on a Cross” reached No. 90 on the tally in 2022.)

With the No. 1 arrival on the Billboard 200, Skeletá lands a number of milestone achievements for Ghost. Here’s a recap:

Skeletá yields Ghost’s best week ever by both equivalent album units and traditional album sales. The act’s previous high in both metrics came in the debut week of Impera (March 26, 2022), which earned 70,000 units (of which nearly 63,000 were album sales). As noted earlier, Skeletá also garners the largest streaming week for a Ghost album.

Ghost lands the biggest week of 2025, by either equivalent album units or traditional album sales, for any rock, hard rock or alternative album.

Of Skeletá’s first-week album sales, vinyl purchases comprised just over 44,000 copies. That’s not just the largest sales week on vinyl for Ghost, but the biggest week for a hard rock album on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking data in 1991). It’s also the third-largest sales week on vinyl in the modern era for any rock album, trailing only the opening weeks of blink-182’s One More Time… (49,000; 2023) and boygenius’ The Record (45,000; 2023).

Skeletá is the first hard rock album to lead the Billboard 200 in over four years, and the only rock, hard rock or alternative album to be No. 1 in 2025. The last hard rock album at No. 1 was AC/DC’s Power Up, which premiered at No. 1 on the Nov. 28, 2020, chart and spent one week at No. 1. The last rock, or alternative, album to lead the tally was Coldplay’s Moon Music, when it debuted at No. 1 on the Oct. 19, 2024, chart (spending one week at No. 1).

Rock, alternative and hard rock albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts, respectively.

Not only is Skeletá the group’s first No. 1, but it’s the first chart-topper for its label Loma Vista Recordings and the first leader for Concord Label Group in nearly a decade — since James Taylor’s Before This World (on Concord Records) debuted at No. 1 on the July 4, 2015-dated chart. Loma Vista had previously gone as high as No. 2 with Ghost’s last full-length studio album, Impera, in 2022.

Skeletá is the lone debut in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart. The titles at Nos. 2-7 are all former No. 1s: SZA’s SOS slips to No. 2 (52,000 equivalent album units earned; down 1%), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX falls 2-3 (48,000; down 5%), Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is down 3-4 (46,000; down 4%), Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet descends 4-5 (44,000; down 8%), PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U falls 5-6 (43,000; down 6%) and Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos is down 6-7 (38,000; down 3%).

Shaboozey’s Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going gallops 45-8 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned (up 110%) after a deluxe reissue on April 25 that added six additional songs, bringing its total song count to 18. The set debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the June 15, 2024-dated list. (He also played the Stagecoach Festival on April 26.)

Playboi Carti’s chart-topping MUSIC (7-9; 34,000 equivalent album units, down 11%) and Morgan Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album (9-10; 33,000, down 3%) round out the Billboard 200’s top 10.