Tyler Benz
This week’s Billboard 200 albums chart was determined by one of many narrowest margins of the 12 months. Only 500 equal album models separated number-one from number-two primarily based on the mix of album gross sales, particular person monitor gross sales and on-line streams. Read all about this week’s chart here at Billboard.com.
Rod Wave‘s “Nostalgia” stayed at the top of the list with 88,000 units, making this his first album to spend multiple weeks at number-one. It’s the bottom variety of models for a number-one album since SZA‘s “SOS” led with 87,000 models on March 4. But it was simply sufficient to carry off Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Guts,” which achieved 87,500 models. Morgan Wallen‘s former 15-week chart-topper “One Thing at a Time” got here in third with 73,000 models.
In fourth place was Doja Cat‘s new hip-hop album “Scarlet,” which achieved 72,000 units. That’s considerably decrease than her final pop album, 2021’s “Planet Her,” which launched at number-two with 109,000 album models. But “Planet Her” had an extended life on the chart, spending 33 weeks within the high 10, so it wasn’t nearly first-week efficiency for her then. Time will inform if “Scarlet” has the identical endurance.
Rounding out the highest 5 was Zach Bryan‘s self-titled album with 66,000 models. There was extra excellent news for the country-rock artist down in eighth place, the place he debuted together with his new EP “Boys of Faith.” It achieved 43,500 models regardless of solely consisting of 5 tracks.
In our weekly Billboard 200 predictions contest, actually nobody predicted “Nostalgia” to retain the number-one spot. We anticipated “Scarlet” for number-two (zero individuals wager on her for number-four), although greater than two dozen customers have been proper about “Guts.” Only one consumer thought that “One Thing at a Time” would find yourself in third place. And solely six accurately positioned “Zach Bryan” at number-five. It was a troublesome week; solely 4 customers managed to get even two out of six predictions right. How did you do?
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