Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide scores a third week atop the Billboard 200 (dated May 23), making it the first rock album with three weeks at No. 1 in more than a decade. The last rock set with as many weeks at No. 1 was Mumford & Sons’ Babel, with five, nonconsecutively, in 2012-13.
The last rock set by a soloist to spend at least three weeks at No. 1 was Jack Johnson’s Sleep Through the Static, with three total in 2008. Rock albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart.
The Great Divide earned 132,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending May 14 (down 19%), according to Luminate.
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, CORTIS clocks its first top 10 as GREENGREEN debuts at No. 3, while Chris Brown lands his 13th top 10 as BROWN bows at No. 7.
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 May 23, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 19. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of The Great Divide’s 132,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 109,000 (down 20%, equaling 111.46 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks; it spends a third week at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 22,000 (down 85%; it holds at No. 2 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise the remainder (up 18%).
Ella Langley’s former leader Dandelion is a non-mover at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 100,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).
CORTIS earns its first top 10 with the No. 3 debut of GREENGREEN, starting with 87,000 equivalent album units, the group’s best week by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 81,500 (the quintet’s best sales week; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 5,500 (equaling 5.91 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. First-week album sales were bolstered by the set’s availability across more than 20 physical variants on CD and vinyl, all containing collectible items such as photocards and stickers, with some items randomized.
GREENGREEN was preceded by the act’s first Pop Airplay hit, “REDRED,” which climbed 31-30 (a new peak) on the latest chart (dated May 23).
CORTIS charted one earlier album on the Billboard 200, COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES, which peaked at No. 15 last year.
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping I’m the Problem is steady at No. 4 on the latest Billboard 200 with 85,000 equivalent album units earned (up 2%).
Michael Jackson has the Nos. 5 and 6 albums, as his former No. 1 Thriller is steady at No. 5 (66,000 equivalent album units, up 6%) and Number Ones is also stationary at No. 6 (just more than 65,000, up 6%). Both titles continue to bask in the glow of the success of the Michael biopic film.
Chris Brown’s new studio effort, BROWN, bows at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, earning the singer-songwriter his 13th top 10-charted project. The new set launches with 65,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 60,000 (equaling 60.31 million on-demand official streams of the sets tracks; it debuts at No. 4 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 5,000 (it debuts at No. 19 on Top Album Sales, and was only available to purchase as a digital download) and TEA units comprise the remainder.
The BROWN album was preceded by four hits on the Hot R&B Songs chart: “Holy Blindfold” (No. 8), “It Depends,” featuring Bryson Tiller (No. 3), “Obvious” (No. 5) and “Fallin’,” featuring Leon Thomas (No. 12). All four also reached the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
Brown’s co-headlining stadium tour with Usher launches June 26 at Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High and continues through Dec. 12 at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium.
Rounding out the rest of the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200: BTS’s former leader ARIRANG (falling 7-8 with 44,000 equivalent album units, down 10%), Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time (holding at No. 9 with 41,000, up 3%) and Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving (8-10 with nearly 41,000, down 3%).
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