Noah Kahan’s The Nice Divide scores a 3rd week atop the Billboard 200 (dated Might 23), making it the primary rock album with three weeks at No. 1 in additional than a decade. The final rock set with as many weeks at No. 1 was Mumford & Sons’ Babel, with 5, nonconsecutively, in 2012-13.
The final rock set by a soloist to spend a minimum of three weeks at No. 1 was Jack Johnson’s Sleep Via the Static, with three complete in 2008. Rock albums are outlined as these which can be eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s High Rock Albums chart.
The Nice Divide earned 132,000 equal album items in the US within the week ending Might 14 (down 19%), in keeping with Luminate.
Additionally within the prime 10 of the newest Billboard 200, CORTIS clocks its first prime 10 as GREENGREEN debuts at No. 3, whereas Chris Brown lands his thirteenth prime 10 as BROWN bows at No. 7.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. primarily based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The brand new Might 23, 2026-dated chart might be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Might 19. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously often known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of The Nice Divide’s 132,000 equal album items earned within the newest monitoring week, SEA items comprise 109,000 (down 20%, equaling 111.46 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it spends a 3rd week at No. 1 on High Streaming Albums), album gross sales comprise 22,000 (down 85%; it holds at No. 2 on High Album Gross sales) and TEA items comprise the rest (up 18%).
Ella Langley’s former chief Dandelion is a non-mover at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 100,000 equal album items earned (down 3%).
CORTIS earns its first prime 10 with the No. 3 debut of GREENGREEN, beginning with 87,000 equal album items, the group’s finest week by items. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 81,500 (the quintet’s finest gross sales week; it debuts at No. 1 on High Album Gross sales), SEA items comprise 5,500 (equaling 5.91 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA items comprise a negligible sum. First-week album gross sales had been bolstered by the set’s availability throughout greater than 20 bodily variants on CD and vinyl, all containing collectible objects reminiscent of photocards and stickers, with some objects randomized.
GREENGREEN was preceded by the act’s first Pop Airplay hit, “REDRED,” which climbed 31-30 (a brand new peak) on the newest chart (dated Might 23).
CORTIS charted one earlier album on the Billboard 200, COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES, which peaked at No. 15 final yr.
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping I’m the Drawback is regular at No. 4 on the newest Billboard 200 with 85,000 equal album items earned (up 2%).
Michael Jackson has the Nos. 5 and 6 albums, as his former No. 1 Thriller is regular at No. 5 (66,000 equal album items, up 6%) and Quantity Ones can be stationary at No. 6 (simply greater than 65,000, up 6%). Each titles proceed to bask within the glow of the success of the Michael biopic movie.
Chris Brown’s new studio effort, BROWN, bows at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, incomes the singer-songwriter his thirteenth prime 10-charted mission. The brand new set launches with 65,000 equal album items earned. Of that sum, SEA items comprise 60,000 (equaling 60.31 million on-demand official streams of the units tracks; it debuts at No. 4 on High Streaming Albums), album gross sales comprise 5,000 (it debuts at No. 19 on High Album Gross sales, and was solely accessible to buy as a digital obtain) and TEA items comprise the rest.
The BROWN album was preceded by 4 hits on the Scorching R&B Songs chart: “Holy Blindfold” (No. 8), “It Relies upon,” that includes Bryson Tiller (No. 3), “Apparent” (No. 5) and “Fallin’,” that includes Leon Thomas (No. 12). All 4 additionally reached the all-genre Billboard Scorching 100.
Brown’s co-headlining stadium tour with Usher launches June 26 at Denver’s Empower Area at Mile Excessive and continues by way of Dec. 12 at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium.
Rounding out the remainder of the highest 10 on the newest Billboard 200: BTS’s former chief ARIRANG (falling 7-8 with 44,000 equal album items, down 10%), Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time (holding at No. 9 with 41,000, up 3%) and Olivia Dean’s The Artwork of Loving (8-10 with almost 41,000, down 3%).
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