Billboard 200: Weekly Update

 

 

For the week ending October 13th, 2020, here's a recap of the trending albums in the U.S. 

   Machine Gun Kelly scores his very first number-one record on the Billboard 200 charts with Tickets to My Downfall which opened atop the album charts this week. The rock album from the American rapper follows other top-ten efforts as Hotel Diablo (No. 5, 2019), Bloom (No. 8, 2017), General Admission (No. 4, 2015) and Lace Up (No. 4, 2012). 

  
K-pop supergroup SuperM debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with the act’s first full-length album, Super One: The 1st Album. Super One: The 1st Album follows the act’s introductory EP, SuperM: The 1st Mini Album, which debuted at No. 1 in 2019. 

  
Joji notches his second top 10 album, as Nectar debuts at No. 3. Nectar secures Joji’s biggest week, both in terms of equivalent album units earned and album sales, beating his previous high, logged with the debut week of his last release, Ballads 1 (57,000 units; 34,000 sales). Ballads 1 also marked his previous top 10 set, bowing and peaking at No. 3 (Nov. 10, 2018-dated chart).
Rock band Deftones drives in at No. 5 with its new studio album Ohms

   A pair of previous No. 1 albums are next on the new Billboard 200, as Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die and Taylor Swift’s Folklore falls 1-7. 

  
Carrie Underwood rings in the Christmas season early, as her first holiday album, My Gift, debuts at No. 8. My Gift is Underwood’s eighth consecutive top 10 album on the Billboard 200 -- the entirety of her releases. Underwood first visited the Billboard 200 chart nearly 15 years ago, with her debut studio effort Some Hearts (No. 2, Dec. 3, 2005-dated chart). 

  
YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s former No. 1 Top falls from No. 3 to No. 9 in its third week. Tory Lanez wraps up the new top 10, as Daystar debuts at No. 1. Daystar is the artist’s sixth total and consecutive top 10, and his second of 2020, following The New Toronto 3 (debut and peak at No. 2 on the April 25-dated chart).