Travis Scott’s ‘Utopia’ Notches Third Straight Week Atop Billboard 200 – Billboard

Travis Scott’s Utopia scores a 3rd whole and consecutive week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Aug. 26), because the album earned 185,000 equal album items within the U.S. within the week ending Aug. 18 (up 26%), in response to Luminate. With three whole weeks at No. 1 (the set debuted atop the tally), Utopia has essentially the most weeks at No. 1 for a rap album in practically two years, since Drake’s Certified Lover Boy spent 5 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 (Sept. 18-Nov. 6, 2021, charts). Plus, Scott ties his longest Billboard 200 reign, amongst his three No. 1s; Astroworld led for 3 weeks in 2018.  

Also within the high 10 of the Billboard 200, Karol G logs her second high five-charting set of 2023 (and of her profession), as Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season) launches at No. 3. The new effort follows the equally titled Mañana Será Bonito, which debuted at No. 1 on the March 11-dated checklist. (Though they’ve practically the identical title, the albums’ tracklists are totally different.)

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 items, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Each 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 new Aug. 26, 2023-dated chart might be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Aug. 22. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.

Of Utopia’s 185,000 equal album items earned within the week ending Aug. 17, album gross sales comprise 99,000 (up 169%), SEA items comprise 86,000 (down 22%, equaling 124.13 million on-demand official streams of the streaming set’s 19 songs) and TEA items comprise a negligible sum (down 38%).

Utopia’s album gross sales grew within the set’s third week thanks partly to a promotional provide in Scott’s official webstore, which discounted the Utopia vinyl LP from $50 to solely $5 for a restricted time. Of Utopia’s 99,000 gross sales for the week, vinyl accounted for 93,000. That sum marks Utopia’s finest week on vinyl but, the seventh-largest gross sales week on vinyl for any album since Luminate started monitoring gross sales in 1991, and the largest week for an R&B/hip-hop or rap album on vinyl in that very same interval.

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time is a non-mover at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, with 94,000 equal album items earned (up 2%).

Karol G collects her second high five-charting album of 2023, as Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season) debuts at No. 3 with 67,000 equal album items earned. Of that sum, SEA items comprise 49,000 (equaling 68.26 million on-demand official streams of the streaming set’s 10 tracks), album gross sales comprise 17,000 (it was accessible as a digital obtain album, CD and vinyl LP) and TEA items comprise 1,000.

The Barbie soundtrack dips 3-4 on the Billboard 200 with 65,000 equal album items earned (down 12%).

Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) falls 4-5 with 61,000 equal album items earned (up 1%). It’s the primary of 4 Swift albums within the high 10. It’s joined by former leaders Midnights (5-6 with 58,000; up 3%), Lover (6-7 with 54,000; up 6%) and 1989 (13-9 with 45,000; up 13%). The lattermost album, which debuted at No. 1 in 2014, returns to the highest 10 for the primary time since early 2016. It surges up the checklist due to publicity and consumption generated by Swift’s announcement on Aug. 9 that 1989 can be her subsequent re-recorded album, and that it will likely be launched on Oct. 27. Swift holds 4 albums within the high 10 for a fourth time, having change into the primary residing artist to attain the feat in practically 60 years final month.

Rounding out the highest 10 of the brand new Billboard 200, Peso Pluma’s Génesis is stationary at No. 8 (46,000 items; down 1%), whereas Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album sits nonetheless at No. 10 (practically 44,000 items; up 2%).

Luminate, the impartial information supplier to the Billboard charts, completes an intensive evaluation of all information submissions utilized in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate critiques and authenticates information. In partnership with Billboard, information deemed suspicious or unverifiable is eliminated, utilizing established standards, earlier than closing chart calculations are made and revealed.