Noah Kahan’s The Nice Divide spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 (dated Might 16) following its debut per week in the past. The set earned 163,000 equal album models in the USA within the week ending Might 7 (down 58% in comparison with its opening of 389,000), in accordance with Luminate.
The Nice Divide is the primary rock album to spend at the very least two weeks at No. 1 in almost three years. Zach Bryan’s self-titled set was the final rock set with two weeks at No. 1, in September 2023. (Rock albums are outlined as these which can be eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Prime Rock Albums chart.)
Additionally within the prime 10 of the most recent Billboard 200, Kacey Musgraves collects her sixth prime 10 — all of which have debuted within the prime 5 — as Center of Nowhere begins at No. 3. Plus, the success of the Michael Jackson biopic Michael continues to shine on the chart, as Jackson has two albums within the prime 10. His former No. 1 Thriller rises 7-5 and the hits assortment Quantity Ones jumps 13-6.
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. Items comprise album gross sales, observe 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 16, 2026-dated chart can be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Might 12. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X and Instagram.
Of The Nice Divide’s 163,000 equal album models earned within the newest monitoring week, SEA models comprise 137,000 (down 35%, equaling 139.5 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it spends a second week at No. 1 on Prime Streaming Albums), album gross sales comprise 26,000 (down 85%; it falls 1-2 on Prime Album Gross sales) and TEA models comprise the rest (down 66%).
Ella Langley’s former chief Dandelion holds at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 103,000 equal album models earned (down 8%).
Kacey Musgraves’ Center of Nowhere debuts at No. 3 with 100,000 equal album models earned, her finest week ever by models. It’s the singer-songwriter’s sixth prime 10, all of which have debuted within the prime 5. Of the album’s beginning determine, album gross sales comprise 64,500 (it debuts at No. 1 on Prime Album Gross sales), SEA models comprise 35,000 (equaling 35.54 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, it debuts at No. 10 on Prime Streaming Albums) and TEA models comprise 500.
Center of Nowhere is Musgrave’s sixth studio album and was introduced in early March. The undertaking — which options collaborations with Gregory Alan Isakov, Miranda Lambert, Willie Nelson and Billy Strings — was led by the only “Dry Spell” (peaking at No. 15 on Sizzling Nation Songs in March) and launched on Might 1. Musgraves’ Center of Nowhere area tour launches on Aug. 21 in Chicago and continues by the tip of October.
The brand new album’s first-week gross sales had been aided by its availability throughout 16 bodily variants (together with signed editions) and a deluxe obtain version with two bonus tracks.
Chart-watchers take notice: That is the second prime 10-charted album with the precise title Center of Nowhere. Brother trio Hanson reached No. 2 with their album of their identical title in 1997.
Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 I’m the Downside falls 3-4 on the most recent Billboard 200 with 83,000 equal album models earned (up 3%).
Michael Jackson has a pair of albums within the prime 10 as the thrill generated from the Michael biopic continues to resonate on the chart. His chart-topping Thriller climbs 7-5 (62,000 equal album models, up 36%) and best-of set Quantity Ones, launched in 2003, reaches the highest 10 for the primary time, rising 13-6 (62,000 models, up 65%), turning into his eleventh prime 10.
With Quantity Ones’ ascent, Jackson, who died in 2009, has now claimed at the very least one new prime 10 album in each decade from the Seventies onwards as a soloist. And, he’s solely the fifth act total to take action, becoming a member of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and James Taylor.
Jackson discovered two new prime 10s within the Seventies (first with Ben peaking at No. 5 in 1972 after which with Off the Wall, which reached the highest 10 in September 1979 and peaked at No. 3 in February 1980); two within the ’80s (Thriller, No. 1 for 37 weeks in 1983-84; Dangerous, No. 1 for six weeks in 1987); two within the ’90s (Harmful, No. 1 for 4 weeks in 1991-92, and HIStory: Previous, Current and Future E book 1, No. 1 for 2 weeks in 1995); two within the 2000s (Invincible, No. 1 for one week in 2001, and his first posthumous prime 10, the soundtrack to Michael Jackson’s This Is It, No. 1 for one week in 2009); two within the ’10s (Michael, No. 3 in 2011 and Xscape, No. 2 in 2014); and now one within the ’20s with Quantity Ones.
BTS’ chart-topping ARIRANG falls 5-7 on the most recent Billboard 200 (49,000 equal album models earned, down 13%), Olivia Dean’s The Artwork of Loving is regular at No. 8 (42,000, down 3%), Wallen’s former chief One Factor at a Time is a non-mover at No. 9 (40,000, up 3%), and Dangerous Bunny’s former No. 1 DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS climbs 12-10 (37,000, down 3%).
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