For the primary time in eight years, two albums earned over 300,000 equal album models in a single week within the U.S., in keeping with Luminate. On the newest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 1), Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division holds atop the checklist for a fifth straight and complete week with 378,000 models earned within the week ending Could 23 (up 45%) and Billie Eilish’s new Hit Me Exhausting and Tender debuts at No. 2 with a career-best 339,000 models.
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The final time two albums every cleared 300,000 models in per week was on the chart dated Could 21, 2016, when Drake’s Views debuted at No. 1 with 1.039 million models, whereas Beyoncé’s Lemonade fell 1-2 in its second week with 321,000 models.
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 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 offered 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 June 1, 2024-dated chart will likely be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Could 29, in the future later than standard, owed to the Memorial Day vacation within the U.S. on Could 27. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.
Because the Billboard 200 started rating albums by equal album models, beginning with the Dec. 13, 2014-dated checklist, there have solely been 5 cases in which not less than two albums have exceeded 300,000 models every in a single week. (Earlier than that date, the chart was ranked by weekly conventional album gross sales.)
Listed below are the opposite 3 times not less than two albums surpassed 300,000 models in a single week, with Swift additionally concerned within the first such pairing:
On the Could 14, 2016-dated chart, Beyoncé’s Lemonade bowed at No. 1 with 653,000 models, whereas Prince’s The Very Better of Prince fell 1-2 with 391,000 (after re-entering the checklist the week earlier than, following his loss of life).
The Dec. 5, 2015, chart noticed a one-two punch of famous person debuts, when Justin Bieber’s Goal began at No. 1 with 649,000 and One Route’s closing studio album, Made within the A.M., entered at No. 2 with 459,000.
On the Dec. 27, 2014, chart, J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive launched at No. 1 with 375,000 models, whereas Swift’s 1989 slipped 1-2 with 324,000.
