For the primary time in eight years, two albums earned over 300,000 equal album items in a single week within the U.S., in keeping with Luminate. On the most recent Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 1), Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department holds atop the listing for a fifth straight and complete week with 378,000 items earned within the week ending May 23 (up 45%) and Billie Eilish’s new Hit Me Hard and Soft debuts at No. 2 with a career-best 339,000 items.

The final time two albums every cleared 300,000 items in per week was on the chart dated May 21, 2016, when Drake’s Views debuted at No. 1 with 1.039 million items, whereas Beyoncé’s Lemonade fell 1-2 in its second week with 321,000 items.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most well-liked albums of the week within the U.S. primarily based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new June 1, 2024-dated chart shall be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on May 29, sooner or later later than ordinary, owed to the Memorial Day vacation within the U.S. on May 27. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.

Since the Billboard 200 started rating albums by equal album items, beginning with the Dec. 13, 2014-dated listing, there have solely been 5 situations in which a minimum of two albums have exceeded 300,000 items every in a single week. (Before that date, the chart was ranked by weekly conventional album gross sales.)

Here are the opposite thrice a minimum of two albums surpassed 300,000 items in a single week, with Swift additionally concerned within the first such pairing:

On the May 14, 2016-dated chart, Beyoncé’s Lemonade bowed at No. 1 with 653,000 items, whereas Prince’s The Very Best of Prince fell 1-2 with 391,000 (after re-entering the listing the week earlier than, following his demise).

The Dec. 5, 2015, chart noticed a one-two punch of celebrity debuts, when Justin Bieber’s Purpose began at No. 1 with 649,000 and One Direction’s closing studio album, Made within the A.M., entered at No. 2 with 459,000.

On the Dec. 27, 2014, chart, J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive launched at No. 1 with 375,000 items, whereas  Swift’s 1989 slipped 1-2 with 324,000.