Billboard 200 - 01/07/23

[Gary]

[Gary]

SZA’s ‘SOS’ Tops Billboard 200 for Third Week in a Row
Plus: Half of the top 10 are holiday albums, led by Michael Bublé's former No. 1 'Christmas'

www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/sza-sos-billboard-200-number-one-third-week-1235192860/
By Keith Caulfield

01/2/2023


SZA’s SOS rules the Billboard 200 chart (dated Jan. 7) for a third straight and total week as the set earned 128,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 29 (down 29%), according to Luminate. Plus, five holiday albums populate the top 10 — the most in a year — led by Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold 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 Jan. 7, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 4 (one day later than usual, due to the New Year’s Day holiday on Jan. 1). For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.


Of SOS’ 128,000 equivalent album units earned, SEA units comprise 126,500 (down 29%, equaling 168.73 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 1,000 (down 20%) and TEA units comprise 500 (up 3%).

SOS is the first R&B album by a woman to spend three weeks at No. 1 since Beyoncé’s self-titled effort also spent its first three weeks atop the list in 2013. (R&B albums are defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart.)

Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Midnights is a non-mover at No. 2 with 106,000 equivalent album units (down 32%), while Bublé’s Christmas rises 5-3 with 62,000 units (down 14%). Christmas is one of five holiday albums in the top 10, the most in the region since the chart dated Jan. 2, 2022, when the top 10 also housed five festive sets.

Metro Boomin’s chart-topping Heroes & Villains is stationary at No. 4 with 58,000 equivalent album units earned (down 24%). Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song hits a new peak, rising 7-5 with 57,000 units. It previously topped out at No. 6, first achieved on the Jan. 2, 2021-dated list.

Drake and 21 Savage’s former leader, Her Loss, holds at No. 6 with 50,000 equivalent album units earned (down 16%) and Bad Bunny’s former No. 1 Un Verano Sin Ti climbs 10-7 with 48,000 (down 9%). A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector climbs to a new chart high, rising 11-8 with 47,000 units (down 1%). The set had earlier plateaued at No. 10 on the Jan. 8, 2022-dated tally. Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas is a non-mover at No. 9 with 47,000 units (down 10%) and Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack falls 8-10 with 45,000 units (down 20%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

[Gary]

1. SZA 128,000 (sales 1000)
2. Taylor Swift 106,000
3. Michael Bube 62,000
4. Metro Boomin 58,000
5. Nat King Cole 57,000
6. Drake/21 50,000
7. Bad Bunny 48,000
8. Phil Spector 47,000
9. Mariah Carey 47,000
10. Vince Guaraldi 45,000

[Caviar]

SZA should easily get a 4th week. How exciting!

[rnb]

she needs to release physicals asap

[areyoureadytojump]

Obligatory "no Morgan Wallen" post.

He'll be back next week!

[WolfSpear]

Taylor denied for what for the 3rd week now? But she's posting some relatively strong numbers. I'm quite happy for SZA; this album is 5 years in the making well worth it the wait. Seems like a while that an "alternative" R&B artist has topped for this long.

[jdanton2]

good to see the Phil Spector album finally made the top 10 . it should have been higher over the years since it has been so influential on alot of modern Christmas music.

[thegreatdivine]

Jan 2, 2023 14:19:52 GMT -5 WolfSpear said:

Taylor denied for what for the 3rd week now? But she's posting some relatively strong numbers. I'm quite happy for SZA; this album is 5 years in the making well worth it the wait. Seems like a while that an "alternative" R&B artist has topped for this long.

Taylor wasn't "denied" anything because she doesn't own the charts, especially after her own album already spent 5 weeks at #1. She'll most likely go back to #1 at some point later this year but while it lasts, it's a very refreshing feeling seeing a woman not named Taylor Swift own the #1 spot on a major music chart.

[areyoureadytojump]

The last chart for 2022

#1 Albums on the Billboard 200 in 2022

01/15 72,000 ENCANTO Soundtrack
01/22 150,300 DS4EVER Gunna
01/29 104,000 ENCANTO Soundtrack

02/05 115,000 ENCANTO Soundtrack
02/12 113,000 ENCANTO Soundtrack
02/19 110,000 ENCANTO Soundtrack
02/26 98,000 ENCANTO Soundtrack

03/05 90,000 ENCANTO Soundtrack
03/12 80,000 ENCANTO Soundtrack
03/19 72,500 ENCANTO Soundtrack
03/26 120,500 7220 Lil Durk

04/02 110,000 ODDINARY Stray Kids
04/09 93,000 MAINSTREAM SELLOUT Machine Gun Kelly
04/16 97,500 UNLIMITED LOVE Red Hot Chili Peppers
04/23 47,000 7220 Lil Durk
04/30 59,000 CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST Tyler The Creator

05/07 55,000 IT'S ALMOST DRY Pusha T
05/14 222,000 I NEVER LIKED YOU Future
05/21 274,000 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny
05/28 295,500 MR MORALE AND THE BIG STEPPERS Kendrick Lamar

06/04 521,500 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles
06/11 160,500 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles
06/18 137,000 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny
06/25 314,000 PROOF BTS

07/02 204,000 HONESTLY, NEVERMIND Drake
07/09 115,000 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny
07/16 111,000 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny
07/23 105,000 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny
07/30 103,000 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny

08/06 98,000 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny
08/13 332,000 RENAISSANCE Beyonce
08/20 108,800 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny
08/27 115,000 BEAUTIFUL MIND Rod Wave

09/03 105,000 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny
09/10 107,500 GOD DID DJ Khaled
09/17 99,500 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny
09/24 97,000 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny

10/01 102,000 BORN PINK Blackpink
10/08 87,000 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny
10/15 84,000 UN VERANO SIN TI Bad Bunny
10/22 117,000 MAXIDENT Stray Kids
10/29 216,999 IT'S ONLY ME Lil Baby

11/05 1,578,000 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift
11/12 342,000 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift
11/19 404,000 HER LOSS Drake & 21 Savage
11/26 204,000 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift

12/03 177,000 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift
12/10 151,000 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift
12/17 185,000 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin
12/24 318,000 SOS SZA
12/31 180,000 SOS SZA

01/07 128,000 SOS SZA

[rnb]

Jan 2, 2023 17:00:51 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Jan 2, 2023 14:19:52 GMT -5 WolfSpear said:

Taylor denied for what for the 3rd week now? But she's posting some relatively strong numbers. I'm quite happy for SZA; this album is 5 years in the making well worth it the wait. Seems like a while that an "alternative" R&B artist has topped for this long.

Taylor wasn't "denied" anything because she doesn't own the charts, especially after her own album already spent 5 weeks at #1. She'll most likely go back to #1 at some point later this year but while it lasts, it's a very refreshing feeling seeing a woman not named Taylor Swift own the #1 spot on a major music chart.

we are tired 

[👑 Eloquent ™]

I'm pretty sure Taylor's doing fine given Midnights, her 10th studio album in the 16th year of her commercial career, has shifted 3.3 million units domestically in a matter of months and has accumulated 5 weeks at #1. lol SZA is on fire at the moment, accumulating her achievements, and has an amazing 2nd album that is going to propel her career into the next level commercially speaking. I am sure she only hopes to have a career that will mimick Taylor's in a multitude of fashions. No need to bring down one woman to uplift another in my opinion.

[Gary]

‘A Philly Special Christmas’ Hits No. 1 on Compilations Chart, Top 10 on Album Sales
The charity set led by Philadelphia Eagles' players Jason Kelce, Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata benefits Children's Crisis Treatment Center.


By Keith Caulfield
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/philly-special-christmas-tops-billboard-compilations-chart-1235194056/
01/4/2023

The charity album A Philly Special Christmas hits the top 10 on four Billboard album charts, including a No. 1 re-entry on the Compilation Albums tally and a No. 9 debut on Top Album Sales. Led by Philadelphia Eagles players Jason Kelce, Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata, the seven-track set includes renditions of holiday favorites such sa “White Christmas” and “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.” All profits from the album benefit Philadelphia’s Children’s Crisis Treatment Center.

A Philly Special Christmas was released as a digital download album for purchase and through streaming services on Dec. 23. In the week ending Dec. 29, 2022, the album sold nearly 11,000 copies in the U.S. according to Luminate – the largest sales week for a non-soundtrack compilation album in over two years. Nearly all of those 11,000 sales were digital downloads. The album previously was available on vinyl, and sold 3,000 copies between the weeks ending Dec. 1 and Dec. 22.

A Philly Special Christmas re-enters the Compilation Albums chart at No. 1 and re-enters Top Current Album Sales at No. 4 (also its first week in the top 10), and debuts at No. 8 on Independent Albums and No. 9 on Top Album Sales. It also bows at No. 26 on Top Holiday Albums and No. 80 on the Billboard 200. (All charts dated Jan. 7, 2023, reflecting the tracking week ending Dec. 29, 2022.)

The last time a non-soundtrack compilation album sold more in a single week was two years ago, when the last Good Music charity album, Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Volume 2 debuted at No. 1 on Compilation Albums and No. 10 on Top Album Sales with 13,500 sold (Oct. 17, 2020, chart).

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.


Compilation Albums ranks the week’s top-selling compilation albums and Top Current Album Sales lists the week’s overall top-selling current albums (excluding catalog, or older, titles). Independent Albums reflects the week’s most popular albums, by units, released by independent record labels. Top Holiday Albums ranks the most popular seasonal albums of the week, by units.

At No. 1 on Top Album Sales, Taylor Swift’s Midnights rules the list for a 10th week – the entirety of its chart run – with 55,000 copies sold (down 44%). It’s the first album with 10 weeks at No. 1 since Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack strung together 10 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list in 2018-19. The last album with 10 straight weeks at No. 1 was Adele’s 21, which linked together 10 weeks in a row (of its total 24) in 2012.

RM’s Indigo is a non-mover at No. 2 with 15,000 (down 81%), Michael Jackson’s Thriller rises 5-3 with 14,000 (down 37%), Harry Styles’ former No. 1 Harry’s House is steady at No. 4 with 13,000 (down 43%) and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours climbs 7-5 with 12,000 (down 39%).

Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city jumps 9-6 with nearly 12,000 sold (down 22%), Tyler, the Creator’s Igor bumps 12-7 with 11,000 (down 14%), Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack falls 3-8 with 11,000 (down 52%) and A Family Christmas from Matteo, Andrea and Virginia Bocelli descends 10-6 with 10,000 (down 51%).