SZA’s ‘SOS’ Spends Second Week Atop Billboard 200 Albums Chart

SZA’s SOS spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Dec. 31), because the album earned 180,000 equal album models within the U.S. within the week ending Dec. 22 (down 43% from its opening body every week in the past), in keeping with Luminate. The set debuted atop the listing with 318,000 models.

Additionally within the high 10, BTS member RM scores his first high 10-charting album, as Indigo re-enters the listing at No. 3 following its CD launch on Dec. 16. The set debuted on the Dec. 17-dated chart at No. 15 after its preliminary launch through streaming providers and as a digital obtain album. RM turns into the primary member of BTS to earn a solo high 10 album on the Billboard 200.

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 models, compiled by Luminate. Models comprise album gross sales, observe 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 Dec. 31, 2022-dated chart will probably be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Dec. 28 (in the future later than common, as a result of Christmas Day vacation on Dec. 25). For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.

Of SOS’ 180,000 equal album models earned, SEA models comprise 179,000 (down 42%, equaling 236.52 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), album gross sales comprise 1,000 (down 87% and TEA models comprise lower than 1,000 (down 49%).

Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 Midnights is a non-mover at No. 2 — although up 12% to 155,000 equal album models earned. The set’s gross sales had been up 31% to 97,000, owed to vacation procuring because the chart displays the gross sales week ending Dec. 22. (We’ll nonetheless see vacation gift-giving purchases impacting subsequent week’s chart, dated Jan. 7, 2023, as that chart will replicate the monitoring week of Dec. 23-29.) The majority of Midnights’ gross sales had been vinyl-driven, with 68,000 on vinyl offered for the week — up 41%. That additionally marks the third-largest gross sales week for any vinyl album in 2022, following the debut weeks of Midnights (575,000) and Harry Types’ Harry’s Home (182,000). Midnights continues to revenue from its availability throughout 5 vinyl variants — all coloured vinyl editions, together with one unique to Goal.

RM’s Indigo re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 3 with 83,000 equal album models earned (up 1,290%) following its CD launch on Dec. 16. It’s a brand new excessive for the set, and RM’s first high 10 album as a soloist. (The seven-member group BTS, of which RM is a member, has logged seven high 10s, six of which reached No. 1.)

RM is the primary member of BTS to earn a solo high 10 album on the Billboard 200, and the second to succeed in the chart in 2022 with a solo undertaking, following the No. 17 debut and peak of J-Hope’s Jack within the Field (July 30 chart).

Indigo debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard 200 dated Dec. 17 with 31,000 equal album models, following the set’s preliminary launch through streaming providers and as a digital obtain album for buy. It slipped off the chart the next week, solely to return on the brand new listing after its CD launch.

Of the album’s 83,000 equal album models earned within the week ending Dec. 22, album gross sales comprise 79,000 (up from lower than 500 gross sales the week earlier), whereas SEA models comprise 4,000 (down 28%; equaling 5.3 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) and TEA models comprise a negligible sum (down 32%).

CDs comprise 77,500 of Indigo’s gross sales for the week, whereas digital album purchases comprise 1,500. Like many Ok-pop releases, the CD configuration of Indigo was issued in collectible deluxe packages (three, together with unique variations for Goal and the Weverse webstore), every with an ordinary set of things and one randomized component (a photocard).

A trio of former No. 1s is subsequent on the Billboard 200, as Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains falls 3-4 with 76,000 equal album models earned (down 25%), Michael Bublé’s Christmas is a non-mover at No. 5 with 72,000 (up 16%), and Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss dips 4-6 with 60,000 (down 10%).

Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Track jingles 8-7 (59,000 equal album models earned; up 24%), Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack glows 9-8 (56,000; up 20%) and Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas dashes 11-9 (53,000; up 18%).

Unhealthy Bunny’s former No. 1 Un Verano Sin Ti closes out the brand new high 10, because it falls 7-10 with 52,000 equal album models earned (although up 2%).

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