Billboard 200: Chart Update

 For the October 3, 2020 dated Billboard chart, these are the top-ten albums in ranking. 

Taylor Swift’s Folklore album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, collecting a seventh nonconsecutive week atop the tally. In doing so, Swift surpasses Whitney Houston’s longstanding record, among women, for the most cumulative weeks at No. 1, across all of her chart-topping albums. Swift’s total weeks at No. 1 now stands at 47, one more than Houston’s tally of 46.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Pop Smoke’s former leader, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon. YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Top falls from No. 1 to No. 3 in its second week on the list.  

Alicia Keys collects her eighth top 10 album, as her latest studio effort, Alicia, bows at No. 4. Alicia is Keys’ first studio set since 2016’s Here debuted and peaked at No. 2. All seven of Keys’ studio albums have reached the top four on the Billboard 200. She additionally logged a top 10 with the No. 1 live set Unplugged in 2005.

Juice WRLD’s former leader Legends Never Die slips from No. 3 to No. 5.

Rappers Moneybagg Yo and Blac Youngsta team up for the No. 6 arrival of their collaborative album Code Red. Code Red is Moneybagg Yo’s second top 10 of 2020 (following the No. 3 peak of Time Served in January) and fourth top 10 overall. It’s the first top 10 for Blac Youngsta, who had previously gone as high as No. 42 with 223 in 2018. 

Keith Urban nabs his eighth top 10 album on the Billboard 200, as The Speed of Now, Part 1 arrives at No. 7. 

The original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical, falls from No. 5 to No. 8. Lil Baby’s former No. 1 My Turn slides from No. 6 to No.9.

The fourth and final debut in the top 10 is Lil Tecca’s Virgo World at No. 10.  It’s the rapper’s second chart entry and second top 10, following We Love You Tecca (No. 4 in 2019).