
4 the Weeknd’s greatest hits album “The Highlights” at No. Other returning mainstays on the chart include Gunna, dropping two spots to No. If it can hold on to the top spot for three weeks, it will surpass Morgan Wallen’s mark for the most number of weeks at No. Love Sux finds Avril Lavigne returning to the early 00s pop-punk roots that made her name and produced MTV-saturating hits. Which, thanks to the pandemic, feels like yesterday and a decade ago all at once. She also got most of that number from full-album sales, though the figure wasn’t quite as disproportionate as it was for Tears for Fears her actual sales were at 19,000, with another 10,000 units coming from streams.Īt the top of the chart, “Encanto” had 80,000 units, an amount that was down a modest 11% from the week before. The last album from everyone’s favourite tie-over-T-shirt pioneer was 2019’s underwhelming, dreich Head Above Water. 1 for five weeks.Īvril Lavigne didn’t spend quite as long away from the top 10 as Tears for Fears - she’d only been away for nine years, as opposed to TFF’s three decades - but it was still a well-played comeback.

The act was at its most behemoth back in 1985, when “Songs From the Big Chair” stood at No. The last time the duo actually had an album reach the top 10 was more than 30 years ago, Billboard reports. Of those 31,000 units, 29,000 were in actual full-album sales, making it the biggest-selling album of the week, with most of the others in the top 10 dependent on streams. Tears for Fears’ first album since 2004, “The Tipping Point,” bowed at No. The rapper’s album only sold 3,000 copies, but his track streams were at an astronomical 84 million. It’s his fifth album to make the chart’s top 5.

1 on the Billboard 200 chart, but the real enchantment this week may be in the form of three debuting albums that arrived to add some fresh air to the staleness of the chart in recent weeks.Īlthough nothing was remotely in danger of dethroning the Disney soundtrack from a run that keeps breaking records, Kodak Black had a particularly respectable bow on the chart with “Back for Everything,” which entered at No. “ Encanto” is spending its eighth week at No.
