It becomes just the second song overall to reign for 20 or more weeks.

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” achieves a landmark 20th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — claiming the sole longest run ever atop the chart for a non-holiday song. The smash first led in February, has already set multiple chart records and is just the second title in the Hot 100’s 68-year history to lead for at least 20 weeks.

Here’s an updated look at the longest-leading hits, ranked by most weeks at No. 1 ever on the Hot 100:

• 22 weeks, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey, 2019-26
• 20, “Choosin’ Texas,” Ella Langley, 2026
• 19, “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey, 2024
• 19, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, 2019
• 16, “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen, 2023
• 16, “Despacito,” Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, 2017
• 16, “One Sweet Day,” Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, 1995-96

The only song in the way of the run of “Choosin’ Texas” historically, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has ruled the Hot 100 each Yuletide season since the 1994 carol was first No. 1 in 2019, and could add to its total in the holidays ahead.

“We loved the song when we wrote it, but none of us thought that it would be the song to do everything it’s doing,” Langley told Billboard earlier this year of “Choosin’ Texas,” which she cowrote with Luke Dick, Miranda Lambert and Joybeth Taylor. “It keeps giving us a reason to celebrate new ­milestones.”

Read on for details of the entire top 10 on this week’s Hot 100.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated Sept. 5, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Sept. 1. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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Plus, Phoebe Bridgers earns her first solo top 10 with Lost Weekend bowing at No. 2.

KATSEYE lands its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as WILD debuts atop the list (dated Aug. 29). The set earned 170,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Aug. 20, according to Luminate. WILD marks the group’s second top 10-charted effort, following the No. 4-peaking Beautiful Chaos in 2025.

WILD is the fourth No. 1 album by an all-woman group this decade. It follows TWICE’s With YOU-th (2025), NewJeans’ 2nd EP ‘Get Up’ (2023) and BLACKPINK’s Born Pink (2022). Before Born Pink, the last No. 1 album by an all-woman group was Danity Kane’s Welcome to the Dollhouse in 2008.

WILD also lands KATSEYE its biggest week by equivalent album units earned, and by pure album sales (145,000). Further, WILD tallies the largest week by units for an all-woman group since the Billboard 200 began ranking by units in December 2015. WILD additionally has the largest pure album sales week for an all-woman group in more than three years, since TWICE’s Ready To Be: 12th Mini Album debuted with 146,000 (March 25, 2023).

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Phoebe Bridgers gets her first top 10 as Lost Weekend bows at No. 2 with both her biggest week ever by units and by pure album sales.

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 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 29, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 25. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Of WILD’s 170,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 145,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 24,500 (equaling 26.95 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 19 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise about 500.

WILD’s album sales were largely driven by its availability across more than 30 CD and vinyl variants (all containing collectible items such as photocards, with some items randomized, including signed editions; some editions also contain bonus tracks).

WILD was preceded by a pair of Billboard Hot 100-charting cuts: “Pinky Up” (No. 28 peak in April) and “Animal” (No. 24 on the Aug. 8 chart).

Phoebe Bridgers collects her first top 10-charted set as Lost Weekend debuts at No. 2 with 118,000 equivalent album units earned — the singer-songwriter’s best week ever by units. Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise 77,000 (her largest sales week; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 41,000 (equaling 41.6 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, it debuts at No. 7 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. First-week album sales were bolstered by the set’s availability across 16 physical editions (CD, vinyl and cassette).

Lost Weekend is Bridgers’ first solo studio album since 2020’s Punisher. In the years since, she formed the supergroup Boygenius with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus. The trio released The Record in 2023, which reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200.

The Nos. 3-9 titles on the latest Billboard 200 are all former No. 1s. Stray Kids’ THIS & THAT falls 1-3 in its second week, earning 82,000 equivalent album units (down 78%). Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love dips 3-4 (70,000, down 3%); Ella Langley’s Dandelion descends 4-5 (nearly 70,000, down 1%); Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem shifts down 5-6 (67,000, down 5%); Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide falls 6-7 (56,000, up less than 1%); Ariana Grande’s Petal slides 2-8 (51,000, down 38%); and Drake’s ICEMAN is a non-mover at No. 9 (43,000, down 5%).

Plus, Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving returns to the top 10, up one slot to No. 10 with 41,000 units (up 11%).

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The act ties for the second-most No. 1 albums among groups, trailing only The Beatles.

Stray Kids land their ninth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart as THIS & THAT debuts atop the list dated Aug. 22. The set earned 369,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Aug. 13, according to Luminate, marking the group’s biggest week by units. Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise 357,000, landing the act its best sales week ever.

All nine of the group’s Billboard 200 chart entries have debuted at No. 1, beginning with ODDINARY in 2022. In 2024, when HOP launched at No. 1, Stray Kids became the first act to debut its first six entries all at No. 1. They have since extended that record to nine with the arrival of THIS & THAT. The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.

With a ninth No. 1, Stray Kids extend their record for the most No. 1s among groups this century (since 2000). Further, the act ties The Rolling Stones for the second-most No. 1s on the Billboard 200 among groups. The Beatles lead all acts with 19 No. 1s.

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 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 22, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 18. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Of THIS & THAT’s 369,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 357,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 11,000 (equaling 12.21 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

THIS & THAT nets the sixth-largest week for an album, by units earned, in 2026. In traditional album sales, the album logs the second-largest week of 2026, behind only the debut of BTS’ ARIRANG (532,000).

THIS & THAT’s album sales were aided by its availability across 17 CD and vinyl variants (all containing collectible items such as photocards, posters and stickers, with some items randomized, including signed editions) and eight digital download variants.

Ariana Grande’s petal falls to No. 2 after debuting at No. 1 a week ago. It earned 82,000 equivalent album units in its second week (down 72%). Four more former No. 1s are Nos. 3-6. Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is a non-mover at No. 3 (72,000, down 3%); Ella Langley’s Dandelion is stationary at No. 4 (just over 70,000, down 2%); Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem falls 2-5 (70,000, down 6%); and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide dips 5-6 (56,000, down 4%).

Pooh Shiesty gets his second top 10 on the Billboard 200 as All Eyes on Shiest starts at No. 7. The rapper released the project while in jail, awaiting trial on robbery and kidnapping charges. The set begins with 51,000 equivalent album units. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 49,500 (equaling 51.59 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 6 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 1,500 (it was only available to purchase only as a digital download) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Karol G collects her fourth top 10-charted project on the Billboard 200 as No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto enters at No. 8 with 50,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 48,000 (equaling 49.52 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs; it debuts at No. 7 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 1,500 (it was available to buy only as a digital download) and TEA units comprise about 500.

Drake’s former leader ICEMAN falls 6-9 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%).

Rounding out the top 10 is Role Model’s Chuck Timely & The Hourglass, starting at No. 10 with 38,500 equivalent album units earned. It’s the first top 10 and largest week by units for the singer-songwriter. Of that sum, album sales comprise 24,000 (the act’s best sales week; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 14,500 (equaling 14.73 million on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The album’s first-week sales were aided by its availability across 12 physical variants (CD, vinyl and cassette, including signed editions), alongside a pair of download variations.

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“Choosin’ Texas” is now the sole fourth-longest-leading hit all-time.

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” tallies a 17th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, solely claiming the fourth-longest command in the chart’s history. The single first led the list in February.

Here’s an updated look at the longest-leading hits, ranked by most weeks at No. 1, over the Hot 100’s archives, which date to August 1958:

• 22 weeks, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey, 2019-26
• 19, “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey, 2024
• 19, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, 2019
• 17, “Choosin’ Texas,” Ella Langley, 2026
• 16, “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen, 2023
• 16, “Despacito,” Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, 2017
• 16, “One Sweet Day,” Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, 1995-96

Meanwhile, Ariana Grande has two songs in the Hot 100’s top five from her new album, petal, which launches as her seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “Hate That I Made You Love Me” rebounds 8-2, after it led in its debut week in May, and the set’s title track debuts at No. 4.

Read on for details of the entire top 10, and more honors for Langley and Grande, among others, on this week’s Hot 100.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated Aug. 15, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 11. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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The set scores Grande her biggest week by units earned this decade.

Ariana Grande earns her seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as petal premieres atop the Aug. 15-dated tally. The set launches with 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Aug. 6, marking the singer-songwriter’s biggest week by units in the 2020s. The set also bows with Grande’s biggest week by pure album sales in more than a decade.

With a seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Grande ties for the fifth-most leaders among solo women. Taylor Swift leads with 15, followed by Barbra Streisand (11), Madonna (10), Beyoncé (eight) and Janet Jackson, Lady Gaga and Grande (seven each), dating to the chart’s start as a regularly published ranking in 1956.

Grande previously led with Eternal Sunshine (No. 1 for three weeks in 2024), Positions (two, 2020), Thank U, Next (two, 2019), Sweetener (one, 2018), My Everything (one, 2014) and Yours Truly (2013). Further, the new album marks the entertainer’s 10th top 10 on the chart.

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 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 15, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 11. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Of petal’s 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week, album sales comprise 168,000 (Grande’s second-largest sales week ever — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 126,000 (equaling 128.83 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it also debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and 1,000 TEA units.

Grande’s only larger album sales week was registered when My Everything debuted with 169,000 sold in 2014.

The new set was released in its first week across more than 10 digital download and streaming variants (including six with assorted bonus tracks including live cuts, voice notes, a cappellas and instrumentals), 10 vinyl variants (including a signed edition), five CD variants (including a signed edition) and two cassettes. Its vinyl sales totaled 96,000 for the week — Grande’s best week on vinyl ever, and 2026’s fifth-largest week on vinyl overall.

Grande’s new album was announced on April 28 and preceded by her ninth No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” which debuted atop the list dated June 13.

Grande is in the midst of her The Eternal Sunshine Tour, which launched on June 6 and continues through Sept. 1.

The Nos. 2-7 titles on the latest Billboard 200 are all former No. 1s. Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem falls 1-2 (75,000 equivalent album units, down 6%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love dips 2-3 (74,000, down 7%). The next four titles are all non-movers for the week. Ella Langley’s Dandelion is No. 4 (72,000, down 3%), Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is No. 5 (59,000, down 5%), Drake’s ICEMAN is No. 6 (48,000, down 10%), and Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is No. 7 (38,000, down 4%).

Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is up a spot to No. 8 (37,000 equivalent album units, up 1%), Michael Jackson’s former No. 1 Thriller falls 8-9 (36,000, down 7%), and Kahan’s Stick Season is steady at No. 10 (35,000, up less than 1%).

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Langley’s smash ties for the fourth-longest reign of all time.

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” claims a 16th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, tying for the fourth-longest command in the chart’s history.

The single, which first hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in February, is one of only seven songs to have led for 16 weeks or more. Here’s an updated rundown, ranked by most weeks at No. 1, over the chart’s archives, which date to August 1958:

• 22 weeks, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey, 2019-26
• 19, “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey, 2024
• 19, “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, 2019
• 16, “Choosin’ Texas,” Ella Langley, 2026
• 16, “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen, 2023
• 16, “Despacito,” Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, 2017
• 16, “One Sweet Day,” Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men, 1995-96

Meanwhile, country songs monopolize the Hot 100’s entire top five for the first time ever, thanks to hits by Langley, Morgan Wallen — who debuts at No. 2 with his new single, “Been by Now” — a duet by the pair, Taylor Swift and Stella Lefty, adding to the records being rewritten by the genre.

Read on for details of the entire top 10 on this week’s Hot 100.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated Aug. 8, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Aug. 4. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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Plus, BTS’ ARIRANG surges back into the top 10 after new vinyl release.

Gracie Abrams scores her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as her third full-length studio effort, Daughter From Hell, debuts atop the Aug. 1-dated ranking.

It starts with 124,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 23, according to Luminate — the singer-songwriter’s best week ever by units. Abrams previously hit the top 10 with her last album, The Secret of Us, debuting and peaking at No. 2 in July 2024.

Abrams is the sixth act to land their first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2026, following Noah Kahan, Ella Langley, Megan Moroney, Don Toliver and Megadeth. In the entirety of 2025, there were five acts that got their first No. 1: Ken Carson, Ghost, Tate McRae, PARTYNEXTDOOR and Sleep Token.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, BTS’ former leader ARIRANG jumps back into the region (rising 26-9) after the release of a vinyl picture disc edition of the album.

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 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 1, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on July 28. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Of Daughter From Hell’s 124,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week, album sales comprise 77,000 (her best sales week, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 46,500 (equaling 47.27 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs, it debuts at No. 6 on Top Streaming Albums) and about 500 TEA units. The set was released in its first week across 10 vinyl variants (including a signed edition, and a Target-exclusive variant with a bonus track), four CD variants (including a signed edition, and a Target-exclusive edition with a bonus track), two cassettes and two digital download and streaming editions (including one with two bonus tracks).

Daughter From Hell was announced on May 11 and preceded by a pair of charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100: “Hit the Wall” and “Look at My Life.”

The rest of the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 are populated by former No. 1s, and the Nos. 2-6 titles are all non-movers as compared to a week ago. Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is No. 2 (86,000 equivalent album units, down 11%); Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem is No. 3 (75,000, up 2%); Ella Langley’s Dandelion is No. 4 (72,000, down 1%); Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is No. 5 (63,000, down 7%); and Drake’s ICEMAN is No. 6 (56,000, down 8%).

Future’s The Real Me falls to No. 7 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned (down 65%) after debuting at No. 1 a week ago. Michael Jackson’s Thriller rises 9-8 with 40,000 (down  3%).

BTS’ ARIRANG climbs 26-9 with 40,000 equivalent album units earned (up 62%), following the release of a new vinyl picture disc variant of the album with two bonus tracks. Also helping the album was promotion surrounding its new single “Normal,” and BTS’ co-headlining turn during the FIFA World Cup final halftime show on July 19, where the group performed its 2020 No. 1 Hot 100 hit “Dynamite.”

Closing out the new top 10 is Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, holding steady at No. 10 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (up 3%).

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Plus, Stella Lefty lands her first Hot 100 top 10 and Olivia Dean has the biggest song on radio.

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” tallies a 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — tying a pair of iconic songs for more historic heights.

The single, which first led the Hot 100 in February, matches Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” for the most weeks at No. 1 among non-holiday titles by women with no male-billed acts. Adding in Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” “Choosin’ Texas” ties for the second-longest command among songs by only women.

Here’s an updated rundown, ranked by most weeks at No. 1, of the longest-leading Hot 100 hits billed solely to women over the chart’s archives, which date to August 1958:

• 22 weeks (the overall record), “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey, 2019-26
• 14, “Choosin’ Texas,” Ella Langley, 2026
• 14, “We Belong Together,” Mariah Carey, 2005
• 14, “I Will Always Love You,” Whitney Houston, 1992-93
• 13, “The Boy Is Mine,” Brandy & Monica, 1998
• 11, “Independent Women Part I,” Destiny’s Child, 2000-01
• 11, “Un-Break My Heart,” Toni Braxton, 1996-97

Elsewhere, Stella Lefty achieves her first Hot 100 top 10, as “Boston” bounds to No. 6, and Olivia Dean has the newly-minted biggest song on radio, as “So Easy (To Fall in Love)” tops the Radio Songs chart, while continuing its run in the Hot 100’s top 10.

Read on for details of the entire top 10 on this week’s Hot 100.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts dated July 25, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, July 21. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Plus, for all chart rules and explanations, click here.

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Plus, The Rolling Stones and the Heated Rivalry soundtrack debut in the top 10.

Future achieves his 12th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as his latest studio release, The Real Me, debuts atop the July 25-dated list. With a dozen leaders, Future now solely stands as the rap act with the third-most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.

Among all acts with the most No. 1s, Future pushes ahead of Eminem (with 11), while the only acts with more No. 1s are The Beatles (19), Drake, Taylor Swift (both with 15) and JAY-Z (14).

The Real Me launches with 131,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 16, according to Luminate, with the lion’s share of that sum driven by streaming activity.

The Real Me was announced on June 15, with its release date of July 9 shared 10 days later. It’s lead single, “Radio,” dropped on June 26 and has hit the top 25 on both Hot Rap Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The new set is the hip-hop star’s first project since his pair of No. 1 albums with Metro Boomin in 2024: We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart, The Rolling Stones extend their record for the most top 10s as Foreign Tongues debuts at No. 7, while the Heated Rivalry soundtrack skates in at No. 9 after its release on CD and vinyl.

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 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 25, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on July 21. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Of The Real Me’s 131,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week, SEA units comprise 118,000 (equaling 120.29 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 13,000 (it debuts at No. 9 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The Real Me was initially released as a standard widely available 11-track download edition, a 13-track vinyl (across four variants, including two signed editions), a 21-track CD (two editions, including a signed version) and a 22-track download and streaming edition.

Five former No. 1s follow Future on the Billboard 200. Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is a non-mover at No. 2 (96,000 equivalent album units earned, down 7%); Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem is up one to No. 3 (73,000, down 2%); Ella Langley’s Dandelion is down a spot to No. 4 (nearly 73,000, down 4%); Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide steps 6-5 (67,000, up 8%); and Drake’s ICEMAN falls 5-6 (61,000, down 10%).

The Rolling Stones extend their record for the most top 10s on the Billboard 200 albums chart as the band’s latest studio project, Foreign Tongues, debuts at No. 7, marking the legendary act’s 39th top 10. It starts with 53,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 48,500 (it’s No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 4,000 (equaling 4.48 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The set’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across more than a dozen vinyl variants, four CD editions, two download editions and one cassette.

Foreign Tongues follows the Stones’ last new studio set, Hackney Diamonds, which debuted and peaked at No. 3 in 2023. The new album was preceded the radio-promoted single “In the Stars,” which has reached No. 14 on the Adult Alternative Airplay chart.

After the Stones, Barbra Streisand ranks second with 34 Billboard 200 top 10s, followed by Frank Sinatra with 33.

Michael Jackson’s chart-topping Thriller is a non-mover on the latest Billboard 200, holding at No. 8 with 41,000 equivalent album units (down 3%).

The soundtrack to the hit TV series Heated Rivalry debuts at No. 9 following the release of its CD and vinyl editions on July 9. It debuts with 41,000 equivalent album units earned (all in album sales; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales).

Heated Rivalry marks the first soundtrack from a TV series to debut in the Billboard 200 top 10 in more than a decade. The last was the season-one soundtrack to Fox’s Empire in 2015, which debuted at No. 1. Since Empire, the only other TV series soundtrack to reach the top 10 was the season-two soundtrack of Prime Video’s animated hit Hazbin Hotel, which peaked at No. 8, after debuting at No. 70 a week earlier, in 2025.

Heated Rivalry premiered on Canadian streamer Crave on Nov. 28, 2025, and debuted the same day in the United States on HBO Max. Its six-episode first season concluded on Dec. 26. The show has been renewed for a second season.

The soundtrack was issued physically on two vinyl variants and a two-CD set. The vinyl releases contain songs featured in the show (including t.A.T.u.’s “All the Things She Said,” Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe in Anything” and Feist’s “My Moon My Man”), along with highlights of Peter Peter’s original score for the series. The CD edition expands the tracklist to include Peter Peter’s full score alongside the songs.

Closing out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 is Morgan Wallen’s former leader One Thing at a Time, rising 11-10 with 37,000 equivalent album units earned (down 2%).

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She’s the first act with a No. 1 album in the 2020s and three other decades.

Madonna earns her 10th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as her new studio album, CONFESSIONS II, debuts atop the list dated July 18. With the arrival, the Queen of Pop gets her first No. 1 album of the 2020s and becomes the first act with a No. 1 album in the 2020s to have also topped the chart in three other decades.

Further, Madonna becomes only the fourth act to have achieved at least 10 No. 1s each on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. On the latter, she has 12 leaders.

CONFESSIONS II launches with 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 9, according to Luminate. That marks the largest week for a dance album this year. It also scores Madonna her best week, by units, since the Billboard 200 transitioned to an equivalent album units-ranked list in December 2014. CONFESSIONS II additionally yields Madonna’s biggest streaming week ever for an album, and her largest pure album sales week in more than a decade.

The new album is the sequel to 2005’s chart-topping Confessions on a Dance Floor, and reunites Madonna with her main collaborator from that project, DJ/writer/producer Stuart Price. CONFESSIONS II was announced on April 15, released on July 3 and marks Madonna’s first new studio album since 2019’s No. 1 Madame X. The new set was preceded by its Hot 100 hit “Bring Your Love,” with Sabrina Carpenter.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Ken Carson captures his second top 10-charted title as xperiment debuts at No. 7, Sienna Spiro makes her chart debut with the No. 9 bow of her first full-length studio album, Visitor, and the late Toby Keith returns to the top 10 following the July 4 holiday.

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 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 18, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on July 14. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of CONFESSIONS II’s 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week, album sales comprise 114,000 (Madonna’s best sales week since 2015 — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 19,000 (equaling 20.1 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks, Madonna’s largest streaming week ever for an album; it debuts at No. 32 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

CONFESSIONS II was initially widely released as both a 12-track and 16-track album. The project’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across 15 vinyl variants, four CD editions, one cassette and six digital download editions. Of the album’s opening-week sales, vinyl purchases comprised 59,000 — Madonna’s biggest week on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991).

CONFESSIONS II marks Madonna’s 10th No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and first of the 2020s. She landed three No. 1s in the 1980s, four in the 2000s and two in the ‘10s. (She logged seven top 10s in the ‘90s, including five that peaked at No. 2.)

CONFESSIONS II also marks Madonna’s 24th top 10-charted album. The only acts with more top 10s are The Rolling Stones (38), Barbra Streisand (34), The Beatles, Frank Sinatra (both with 32) and Elvis Presley (27).

Here’s a rundown of Madonna’s 10 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200:

Title, Year, Weeks at No. 1
CONFESSIONS II, 2026, one (to date)
Madame X, 2019, one
MDNA, 2012, one
Hard Candy, 2008, one
Confessions on a Dance Floor, 2005, one
American Life, 2003, one
Music, 2000, one
Like a Prayer, 1989, six
True Blue, 1986, five
Like a Virgin, 1985, three

Here’s a recap of the acts with at least 10 No. 1s on the Billboard 200:

The Beatles, 19
Drake, 15
Taylor Swift, 15
JAY-Z, 14
Eminem, 11
Future, 11
Bruce Springsteen, 11
Barbra Streisand, 11
Ye (formerly Kanye West), 11
Madonna, 10
Elvis Presley, 10

With a 10th No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Madonna joins an elite group of acts that have achieved at least 10 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 and 10 No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

Only The Beatles, Drake and Taylor Swift have also achieved the distinction. The Beatles have 19 No. 1s on the Billboard 200 and 20 No. 1s on the Hot 100 (the record for both charts, among all acts). Drake has 15 No. 1s on the Billboard 200 and 14 No. 1s on the Hot 100. Swift has 15 No. 1s each on the Billboard 200 and Hot 100.

Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is a non-mover at No. 2 with 103,000 equivalent album units earned (down 19%). Four former leaders follow, as Ella Langley’s Dandelion is steady at No. 3 (76,000, down 8%), Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem climbs 5-4 (75,000, down 5%), Drake’s ICEMAN dips 4-5 (68,000, down 15%) and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is stationary at No. 6 (62,000, down 3%).

Ken Carson captures his second top 10-charted album as xperiment debuts at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, earning 42,000 equivalent album units. Essentially all of that sum is driven by SEA units, equaling 44.89 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs (it debuts at No. 6 on Top Streaming Albums). The rapper previously hit the top 10 with his chart-topping More Chaos release in 2025.

With Michael Jackson’s former No. 1 Thriller falling one spot to No. 8 on the latest Billboard 200 (42,000 equivalent album units, down 12%), the King of Pop is joined by the Queen of Pop, Madonna, in the top 10. Jackson and Madonna have shared space in the top 10 only once previously, on the Dec. 1, 2001-dated chart. That week, Jackson’s chart-topping Invincible fell 3-4 in its third week on the list, while Madonna’s compilation GHV2: Greatest Hits Volume 2 debuted at No. 7.

The two icons almost met up once in the 1980s in the top 10, but missed one another by a single week. On the Sept. 19, 1987-dated chart, the Madonna-led Who’s That Girl film soundtrack spent its third and final week in the top 10, at No. 7. The following week (Sept. 26), Who’s That Girl fell to No. 11, while Jackson’s Bad debuted at No. 1. Then, on the Oct. 3-dated chart, Who’s That Girl remained at No. 11, while Bad held at No. 1.

Sienna Spiro scores her first entry on the Billboard 200 with her debut full-length studio album, Visitor, launching at No. 9. The set bows with 39,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 22,000 (equaling 22.6 million on-demand official streams; it debuts at No. 25 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 17,000 (it debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. First-week sales of the album were bolstered by its availability across 10 vinyl variants (including two signed editions), six CD variants (including four signed editions), one cassette and two download editions.

Visitor follows a trio of Hot 100-charting hits from the English singer-songwriter’s album: “The Visitor” (No. 43 peak in March), “You Stole the Show” (No. 55 in February) and “Die on This Hill” (No. 19 in February). The lattermost track is Spiro’s current promoted radio single, which has become a top 10 hit on the Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay charts.

Toby Keith’s chart-topping 35 Biggest Hits returns to the top 10, rising 31-10, following the Independence Day holiday on July 4 in the United States. The set earned nearly 39,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week ending July 9 (up 82%), largely from streaming activity generated by “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” during the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The anthem topped the Hot Country Songs chart in 2002.

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