SZA’s SOS claims a ninth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Feb. 25) — essentially the most weeks atop the listing for an album by a lady in practically seven years. The final set by a feminine artist to spend a minimum of 9 weeks at No. 1 was Adele’s 25, which dominated for 10 nonconsecutive weeks between Dec. 12, 2015, and March 12, 2016.
SOS earned 93,000 equal album models within the U.S. within the week ending Feb. 16 (down 7%), in accordance with Luminate.
Additionally within the prime 10 of the brand new Billboard 200: Paramore’s This Is Why debuts at No. 2 — the best charting different album in eight months, whereas Rihanna’s former No. 1 Anti returns to the highest 10 for the primary time since 2016, following her halftime show performance on the Super Bowl on Feb. 12.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most well-liked albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album models, compiled by Luminate. Models comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks bought 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. The brand new Feb. 25, 2023-dated chart will probably be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Wednesday (Feb. 22), someday later than regular, owed to Presidents’ Day vacation on Monday (Feb. 20) within the U.S. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
Of SOS’ 93,000 equal album models earned within the week ending Feb. 16, SEA models comprise 92,000 (down 7%, equaling 126.73 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album gross sales comprise 500 (down 1%) and TEA models comprise 500 (up 2%).
Within the final 10 years, solely three albums by girls have spent a minimum of 9 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 final R&B/hip-hop album with a minimum of eight weeks atop the listing was Drake’s Views, which 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 (Might 21-Oct. 8, 2016). SOS has essentially the most weeks at No. 1 for an R&B/hip-hop album by a lady, or an R&B album by a lady, since Mariah Carey’s self-titled debut spent 11 weeks, all consecutively, at No. 1 in 1991. (Honorable point out 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 6 songs by different artists.) SOS has essentially the most weeks at No. 1 for an R&B album by any act since Usher’s Confessions dominated for 9 nonconsecutive weeks in 2004. (R&B/hip-hop and R&B albums are outlined as those who have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s High R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and High R&B Albums charts, respectively.)
Paramore scores its highest-charting album in practically a decade, as This Is Why debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. It’s additionally the highest-charting different album in nearly a 12 months. This Is Why is the band’s first album since After Laughter was launched in Might 2017; it debuted and peaked at No. 6. The group’s final album to go increased was its self-titled 2013 launch, which debuted at No. 1 on the April 27, 2013-dated listing.
This Is Why begins with 64,000 equal album models earned. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 47,000, SEA models comprise 17,000 (equaling 21.3 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA models comprise a negligible sum. The album was ushered in by the album’s title monitor, which grew to become the act’s first No. 1 on the Different Airplay chart (in February) after 11 earlier entries going again to 2007.
This Is Why is the highest-charting different album on the Billboard 200 since Purple Sizzling Chili Peppers’ Limitless Love debuted at No. 1 on the April 16, 2022-dated chart. (Different albums are outlined as those who have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s High Different Albums chart.)
Swift’s former No. 1 Midnights falls 2-3 on the Billboard 200 with 60,000 equal album models earned (down 3%).
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Harmful: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 4 with 44,000 equal album models earned (down 4%). Harmful has now gathered 107 nonconsecutive weeks within the prime 10 on the Billboard 200. It now solely has the third-most weeks within the prime 10 amongst all albums for the reason that chart started publishing on a daily, weekly foundation in March of 1956, surpassing the 106 weeks tallied by the soundtrack to the movie West Facet Story. Harmful continues to have essentially the most weeks within the prime 10 for an album by a single artist. The all-time prime 10 record-holder is the unique forged recording of My Honest Girl, with 173 weeks within the prime 10 between 1956-60. See listing, under.
Albums With Most Weeks in High 10 on Billboard 200 Chart (March 24, 1956-onwards)
Weeks in High 10, Artist, Title, 12 months First Reached High 10
173, Unique Forged, My Honest Girl, 1956
109, Soundtrack, The Sound of Music, 1965
107, Morgan Wallen, Harmful: The Double Album, 2021
106, Soundtrack, West Facet Story, 1962
105, Unique Forged, The Sound of Music, 1960
90, Soundtrack, South Pacific, 1958
87, Unique Forged, 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 usA., 1984
(by the Feb. 25, 2023-dated chart)
Unhealthy Bunny’s chart-topping Un Verano Sin Ti rises 7-5 with practically 44,000 equal album models (down 4%); Metro Boomin’s former chief Heroes & Villains falls 5-6 with 43,000 models (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 again into the highest 10 for the primary time since its launch 12 months, 2016, because the set vaults 50-8 with 36,000 equal album models earned (up 166%). The album, Rihanna’s most up-to-date studio effort, surges again up the listing following Rihanna’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present efficiency on Feb. 12, the place her setlist included the album’s hit single “Work.” (She additionally wove in components of the album’s “Pose” and “Kiss It Higher” into the performances of “All the Lights” and “Impolite Boy,” respectively.)
Anti was launched a bit of over seven years in the past, on Jan. 28, 2016, and spent two nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 (Feb. 20 and April 2, 2016-dated charts). It was final within the prime 10 on the Oct. 16, 2016 chart (No. 9) and final at No. 8 or increased on the Sept. 24, 2016-dated listing (when it was additionally at No. 8).
Anti is Rihanna’s longest-charting album on the Billboard 200, with 355 weeks on the listing. That additionally marks essentially the most weeks ever on the chart for an R&B/hip-hop album by a lady or R&B album by a lady.
Closing out the highest 10 of the brand new Billboard 200 are a pair of former No. 1s: Harry Kinds’ Harry’s Home is stationary at No. 9 with 33,000 equal album models earned (down 13%) and TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Identify Chapter: TEMPTATION falls 3-10 with 32,000 models (down 33%).
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