Cowboy Carter was expected to hit No. 1 after attracting impressive streaming numbers following its release, and it lived up to the hype. It hit no. 1 with 407,000 equivalent album units, becoming Beyoncé’s eighth solo studio album to top the Billboard 200 chart.

SEA units made up 232,000 album units, equaling 300.41 million official streams, which marks the largest streaming week of Beyoncé’s career. Cowboy Carter also earned 168,000 units in pure album sales, helping Beyoncé top Billboard’s Album Sales charts and net the largest vinyl week of her career, since vinyl copies amounted to 62,000 of the units sold.

Beyoncé’s decision to put her own twist on country with Cowboy Carter also helped her make history on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. She became the first Black woman to ever rise to the top, after setting a similar record on the Hot Country Songs chart with the album’s lead single “Texas Hold ‘Em”.

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With 227,000 equivalent album units earned following its release on March 8, Eternal Sunshine easily soared to the top of the Billboard 200 chart. It’s Grande’s sixth studio album to do so, and it scored the largest week of 2024 for any album so far.

“We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” was released as the album’s second single, and it hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week with 32.6 million streams, 4.6 million radio airplay audience impressions, and 9,000 in sales, setting several records along the way.

Grande managed to surpass Taylor Swift as the female artist with the most Hot 100 debut with seven. “We Can’t Be Friends” is her second single from Eternal Sunshine to debut at No. 1, following the success of “Yes, And?”, helping her become the first female artist that managed to produce multiple No. 1 debuting singles on the Hot 100 with two different albums.

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With 98,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending on December 28, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for its fifth non-consecutive week. Album sales comprise 61,000, SEA units comprise 36,000 (48.5 million official streams of the set’s songs), while TEA units make up for 1,000 equivalent album units.

This brings Swift’s total of weeks spent atop the Billboard 200 to 68, helping her surpass Elvis Presley for the most weeks at No. 1 by a soloist. She’s still not close to breaking the all-time record, which is held by The Beatles with 132 weeks at No. 1 across 19 albums.

Swift reached this number across all 13 of her chart-topping releases, starting with Fearless, which spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200 following its release in 2008. Folklore came close, with eight weeks at No. 1, followed by Red with seven and Speak Now and Midnights with six each.

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1989 (Taylor’s Version) earned 136,000 equivalent album units during its latest week on the chart, dethroning Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday 2, which fell to No. 2 with 100,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s one of Swift’s three albums in the top 10 this week, alongside former No. 1s Midnights and Lover.

Several holiday albums also managed to make it to the top ten this week, starting with Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas at No. 4 with 70,000 units. It’s followed by Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song at no. 8 and Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas at no. 10.

Swift is ending the year at No. 1 after breaking countless records throughout 2023 and being named Time’s “Person of the Year”. She told the magazine that she’s not taking her success for granted and that she’ll deal with it by doing what she does best—making new music.

“I’m very careful to be grateful every second that I get to be doing this at this level because I’ve had it taken away from me before. There is one thing I’ve learned: My response to anything that happens, good or bad, is to keep making things. Keep making art,” Swift told Time.

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With 228,000 equivalent album units earned during its first week, Pink Friday 2 topped the Billboard 200 chart, becoming Minaj’s third album to do so. Pink Friday and Pink Friday: Reloaded achieved the same feat, helping Minaj become the only female rapper with three No. 1 albums in the US.

Pink Friday 2 also earned the largest streaming week of Minaj’s career, with 129,000 SEA units earned, equaling 169.87 million on-demand official streams. The album also earned 92,000 equivalent album units in pure album sales, including 25,000 vinyl copies sold, for the largest vinyl week for a rap album by a female artist in history.

Pink Friday 2 was released on December 8, and it serves as the sequel to her debut album from 2010. It was preceded by singles “Super Freaky Girl” and “Last Time I Saw You” and features a total of 22 tracks on the standard edition, including collaborations with J. Cole, Lil Wayne, Drake, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, and 50 Cent.

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Swift’s most recent LP 1989 (Taylor’s Version) returned to No. 1, with 141,000 equivalent album units earned during its latest week on the chart. Four more of her former No. 1s also charted in the top 10, including Midnights at No. 3, Folklore at No. 5, Lover at No. 6, and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) at No. 10.

There are several reasons behind Swift’s recent Billboard 200 domination. Like many titles on the chart this week, Swift’s albums experienced major gains due to retail promotions associated with Black Friday and holiday campaigns. The lack of major album releases around Thanksgiving also helped Swift’s old records climb up the charts.

Taylor Swift is the only artist after Prince to chart five albums in the top ten on the Billboard 200. He achieved this milestone following his death in 2016 when his albums The Very Best of Prince, the Purple Rain soundtrack, The Hits/The B-Sides, Ultimate Prince, and 1999 all made it to the top ten.

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1989 (Taylor’s Version) soared to No. 1 with 1.653 million equivalent album units earned, including 1.359 million in traditional sales alone. By doing so, it set the record for the largest sales week for any of Swift’s albums, surpassing 1.287 million sold by the original 1989 in 2014.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) is Swift’s sixth album to have sold at least a million in a single week, joining Midnights, Reputation, the original 1989, Red, and Speak Now. She’s the only act since Billboard started tracking album sales in 1991 to achieve this Billboard 200 milestone.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) is also the year’s top-selling album, and it scored the largest week for any album since 2015 when Adele’s 25 launched at No. 1.

It also scored the sixth largest week for any album overall, behind Adele’s 25 (3.378 million), *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached (2.416 million, in 2000) and Celebrity (1.878 million, 2001), Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP (1.76 million, 2000), Backstreet Boys’ Black & Blue (1.591 million, 2000).

1989 (Taylor’s Version) hit the shelves on October 27, the ninth anniversary of the original album, and it produced five “from the vault” tracks including the smash hit “Is It Over Now?”.

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With 184,000 equivalent album units earned during its first week on the chart, Nadie Sabe was the strongest contender for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 this week. The album’s strong streaming activity is the main reason why it topped the charts, with SEA units comprising 176,000 of the album units, equaling 239.56 million on-demand official streams.

Bad Bunny scored his first No. 1 album in the US with El Último Tour Del Mundo in 2020, which made history as the first all-Spanish-language album to top the Billboard 200 chart. Its follow-up Un Verano Sin Ti spent 11 weeks at No. 1 following its release, setting several records along the way and becoming the first all-Spanish-language album to top the Billboard 200 Year-End Chart.

Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana was released October 13, just a few days after Bad Bunny’s surprise announcement, and it produced singles “Where She Goes”, “Un Preview”, and “Monaco”.

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Following its release on October 6, For All the Dogs easily debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart with 402,000 album-equivalent units, becoming his 13th album to do so. He’s only one album away from surpassing Jay-Z, but the all-time record is still held by The Beatles with 19 No. 1 albums in the US.

Drake also made quite a splash on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with all 23 songs from his latest album debuting on the Billboard Hot 100. Seven of them managed to make it to the top ten, including “First Person Shooter” ft. J. Cole, which became his 13th chart-leader.

Drake is now tied with Michael Jackson for the most No. 1 hits among solo male artists, but The Beatles (20), Mariah Carey (19), and Rihanna (14) are still ahead of them. For All the Dogs also helped Drake become the first artist with over 300 Billboard Hot 100 entries with a total of 320.

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Guts soared to No. 1 with 302,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States, including 150,000 in pure album sales—powered by 94,000 in vinyl sales alone! SEA units comprise 151,000, equaling to 199.59 million on-demand official streams across the album’s 12 songs.

Guts is Rodrigo’s second album to debut at No. 1 following her first studio album Sour, and it even managed to surpass it by approximately 7,000 more units in its first week. Rodrigo is also the first female artist since Ariana Grande to debut at No. 1 with their two first chart entries.

To make the whole thing even more impressive, Guts also found a huge success in the UK. It debuted atop the Official U.K. Albums Chart with 60,300 chart units. It’s Rodrigo’s second album to hit No. 1 in this country and it managed to outsell the rest of the top ten combined during its debut week on the chart.

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Cowboy Carter was expected to hit No. 1 after attracting impressive streaming numbers following its release, and it lived up to the hype. It hit no. 1 with 407,000 equivalent album units, becoming Beyoncé’s eighth solo studio album to top the Billboard 200 chart.

SEA units made up 232,000 album units, equaling 300.41 million official streams, which marks the largest streaming week of Beyoncé’s career. Cowboy Carter also earned 168,000 units in pure album sales, helping Beyoncé top Billboard’s Album Sales charts and net the largest vinyl week of her career, since vinyl copies amounted to 62,000 of the units sold.

Beyoncé’s decision to put her own twist on country with Cowboy Carter also helped her make history on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. She became the first Black woman to ever rise to the top, after setting a similar record on the Hot Country Songs chart with the album’s lead single “Texas Hold ‘Em”.

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With 227,000 equivalent album units earned following its release on March 8, Eternal Sunshine easily soared to the top of the Billboard 200 chart. It’s Grande’s sixth studio album to do so, and it scored the largest week of 2024 for any album so far.

“We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” was released as the album’s second single, and it hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week with 32.6 million streams, 4.6 million radio airplay audience impressions, and 9,000 in sales, setting several records along the way.

Grande managed to surpass Taylor Swift as the female artist with the most Hot 100 debut with seven. “We Can’t Be Friends” is her second single from Eternal Sunshine to debut at No. 1, following the success of “Yes, And?”, helping her become the first female artist that managed to produce multiple No. 1 debuting singles on the Hot 100 with two different albums.

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With 98,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending on December 28, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for its fifth non-consecutive week. Album sales comprise 61,000, SEA units comprise 36,000 (48.5 million official streams of the set’s songs), while TEA units make up for 1,000 equivalent album units.

This brings Swift’s total of weeks spent atop the Billboard 200 to 68, helping her surpass Elvis Presley for the most weeks at No. 1 by a soloist. She’s still not close to breaking the all-time record, which is held by The Beatles with 132 weeks at No. 1 across 19 albums.

Swift reached this number across all 13 of her chart-topping releases, starting with Fearless, which spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard 200 following its release in 2008. Folklore came close, with eight weeks at No. 1, followed by Red with seven and Speak Now and Midnights with six each.

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1989 (Taylor’s Version) earned 136,000 equivalent album units during its latest week on the chart, dethroning Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday 2, which fell to No. 2 with 100,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s one of Swift’s three albums in the top 10 this week, alongside former No. 1s Midnights and Lover.

Several holiday albums also managed to make it to the top ten this week, starting with Michael Bublé’s former No. 1 Christmas at No. 4 with 70,000 units. It’s followed by Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song at no. 8 and Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas at no. 10.

Swift is ending the year at No. 1 after breaking countless records throughout 2023 and being named Time’s “Person of the Year”. She told the magazine that she’s not taking her success for granted and that she’ll deal with it by doing what she does best—making new music.

“I’m very careful to be grateful every second that I get to be doing this at this level because I’ve had it taken away from me before. There is one thing I’ve learned: My response to anything that happens, good or bad, is to keep making things. Keep making art,” Swift told Time.

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With 228,000 equivalent album units earned during its first week, Pink Friday 2 topped the Billboard 200 chart, becoming Minaj’s third album to do so. Pink Friday and Pink Friday: Reloaded achieved the same feat, helping Minaj become the only female rapper with three No. 1 albums in the US.

Pink Friday 2 also earned the largest streaming week of Minaj’s career, with 129,000 SEA units earned, equaling 169.87 million on-demand official streams. The album also earned 92,000 equivalent album units in pure album sales, including 25,000 vinyl copies sold, for the largest vinyl week for a rap album by a female artist in history.

Pink Friday 2 was released on December 8, and it serves as the sequel to her debut album from 2010. It was preceded by singles “Super Freaky Girl” and “Last Time I Saw You” and features a total of 22 tracks on the standard edition, including collaborations with J. Cole, Lil Wayne, Drake, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, and 50 Cent.

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Swift’s most recent LP 1989 (Taylor’s Version) returned to No. 1, with 141,000 equivalent album units earned during its latest week on the chart. Four more of her former No. 1s also charted in the top 10, including Midnights at No. 3, Folklore at No. 5, Lover at No. 6, and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) at No. 10.

There are several reasons behind Swift’s recent Billboard 200 domination. Like many titles on the chart this week, Swift’s albums experienced major gains due to retail promotions associated with Black Friday and holiday campaigns. The lack of major album releases around Thanksgiving also helped Swift’s old records climb up the charts.

Taylor Swift is the only artist after Prince to chart five albums in the top ten on the Billboard 200. He achieved this milestone following his death in 2016 when his albums The Very Best of Prince, the Purple Rain soundtrack, The Hits/The B-Sides, Ultimate Prince, and 1999 all made it to the top ten.

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1989 (Taylor’s Version) soared to No. 1 with 1.653 million equivalent album units earned, including 1.359 million in traditional sales alone. By doing so, it set the record for the largest sales week for any of Swift’s albums, surpassing 1.287 million sold by the original 1989 in 2014.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) is Swift’s sixth album to have sold at least a million in a single week, joining Midnights, Reputation, the original 1989, Red, and Speak Now. She’s the only act since Billboard started tracking album sales in 1991 to achieve this Billboard 200 milestone.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) is also the year’s top-selling album, and it scored the largest week for any album since 2015 when Adele’s 25 launched at No. 1.

It also scored the sixth largest week for any album overall, behind Adele’s 25 (3.378 million), *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached (2.416 million, in 2000) and Celebrity (1.878 million, 2001), Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP (1.76 million, 2000), Backstreet Boys’ Black & Blue (1.591 million, 2000).

1989 (Taylor’s Version) hit the shelves on October 27, the ninth anniversary of the original album, and it produced five “from the vault” tracks including the smash hit “Is It Over Now?”.

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With 184,000 equivalent album units earned during its first week on the chart, Nadie Sabe was the strongest contender for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 this week. The album’s strong streaming activity is the main reason why it topped the charts, with SEA units comprising 176,000 of the album units, equaling 239.56 million on-demand official streams.

Bad Bunny scored his first No. 1 album in the US with El Último Tour Del Mundo in 2020, which made history as the first all-Spanish-language album to top the Billboard 200 chart. Its follow-up Un Verano Sin Ti spent 11 weeks at No. 1 following its release, setting several records along the way and becoming the first all-Spanish-language album to top the Billboard 200 Year-End Chart.

Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana was released October 13, just a few days after Bad Bunny’s surprise announcement, and it produced singles “Where She Goes”, “Un Preview”, and “Monaco”.

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Following its release on October 6, For All the Dogs easily debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart with 402,000 album-equivalent units, becoming his 13th album to do so. He’s only one album away from surpassing Jay-Z, but the all-time record is still held by The Beatles with 19 No. 1 albums in the US.

Drake also made quite a splash on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with all 23 songs from his latest album debuting on the Billboard Hot 100. Seven of them managed to make it to the top ten, including “First Person Shooter” ft. J. Cole, which became his 13th chart-leader.

Drake is now tied with Michael Jackson for the most No. 1 hits among solo male artists, but The Beatles (20), Mariah Carey (19), and Rihanna (14) are still ahead of them. For All the Dogs also helped Drake become the first artist with over 300 Billboard Hot 100 entries with a total of 320.

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Guts soared to No. 1 with 302,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States, including 150,000 in pure album sales—powered by 94,000 in vinyl sales alone! SEA units comprise 151,000, equaling to 199.59 million on-demand official streams across the album’s 12 songs.

Guts is Rodrigo’s second album to debut at No. 1 following her first studio album Sour, and it even managed to surpass it by approximately 7,000 more units in its first week. Rodrigo is also the first female artist since Ariana Grande to debut at No. 1 with their two first chart entries.

To make the whole thing even more impressive, Guts also found a huge success in the UK. It debuted atop the Official U.K. Albums Chart with 60,300 chart units. It’s Rodrigo’s second album to hit No. 1 in this country and it managed to outsell the rest of the top ten combined during its debut week on the chart.

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