K-Pop boy band BTS have earned their fifth #1 album on the Billboard 200, as Be lands atop this week’s chart. It earned 242,000 equivalent album units to give BTS their second #1 album this year alone, as Map of the Soul: 7 debuted at #1 back in March. Album sales specifically totaled 177,000 units, as the group only released Be as a digital album and as a special edition physical CD in a deluxe packaging.
At #2 is Megan Thee Stallion‘s first proper full-length album, Good News, with 100,500 equivalent album units. Good News was the most-streamed album of the week and includes her #1 hit remix of “Sugar,” featuring Beyoncé. The original “Sugar” appeared on this year’s Suga EP.
Reaching #3 this week is Positions from Ariana Grande, followed by Pop Smoke at #4 and Future and Lil Uzi Vert’s collaboration Pluto x Baby Pluto at #5.
Taylor Swift‘s latest Folklore flies back up the chart to #6. Billboard notes that the vinyl edition of Folklore was released at Target and a new digital deluxe edition of the album was released in conjunction with her Disney+ special Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, featuring live versions of each song recorded for the special.
Luke Combs is at #7, with Chris Stapleton at #8 and Juice WRLD at #9. Carrie Underwood‘s recent holiday album My Gift returns to the Top 10 at #10, the first of many Christmas albums to surely appear in the top of the Billboard chart in the coming weeks.
