AceShowbiz - Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide continues its impressive run by securing a third consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated May 23. This achievement marks the first time in over ten years that a rock album has remained atop the chart for three weeks.

The last rock album to accomplish a similar feat was Mumford & Sons’ Babel, which held the No. 1 spot for five nonconsecutive weeks during 2012-13. Additionally, the most recent solo rock artist to spend three weeks at No. 1 was Jack Johnson with Sleep Through the Static back in 2008.

The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums in the United States each week, based on multi-metric consumption. This includes album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA), all compiled by Luminate. One album unit is equal to one album sale, 10 individual track sales, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription streams of songs from the album.

For the tracking week ending May 14, The Great Divide earned 132,000 equivalent album units in the U.S., a 19% decrease from the previous week. Of these units, streaming accounted for 109,000 SEA units, which is a 20% drop and represents 111.46 million on-demand official streams of the album’s tracks. This sustained streaming success also allowed The Great Divide to spend its third week at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart.

Album sales for The Great Divide were 22,000 units, down 85%, but it maintained the No. 2 position on the Top Album Sales chart. Meanwhile, TEA units grew by 18%, making up the remainder of its total units.

Following The Great Divide on the Billboard 200, Ella Langley’s former leader Dandelion holds steady at No. 2 with 100,000 equivalent album units, a slight 3% decline.

The band CORTIS debuts strongly with their album GREENGREEN entering the chart at No. 3, marking their first top-10 appearance. The album started with 87,000 equivalent album units, the highest for the quintet to date. Of these, 81,500 units were album sales—also a career high—while SEA units contributed 5,500, equaling 5.91 million on-demand official streams. TEA units were minimal.

The strong sales for GREENGREEN were boosted by the album’s release in over 20 physical variants on CD and vinyl, many containing collectible items like photocards and stickers, some of which were randomized for fans.

The album’s lead single, “REDRED,” became CORTIS’s first Pop Airplay hit, climbing from No. 31 to a new peak of No. 30 on the chart dated May 23. Prior to this, CORTIS had charted with their album COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES, which peaked at No. 15 last year.

At No. 4, Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping album I’m the Problem remains steady with 85,000 equivalent album units, a 2% increase from the previous week.

Pop icon Michael Jackson holds both the No. 5 and No. 6 spots with his albums Thriller and Number Ones, respectively. Thriller earned 66,000 equivalent album units, up 6%, while Number Ones garnered just over 65,000 units, also up 6%. The ongoing popularity of these albums is fueled in part by the success of the recent Michael Jackson biopic film.

Rounding out the top 10 on the Billboard 200, Chris Brown’s new album BROWN debuts at No. 7, marking his 13th project to enter the top 10. The set launched with 65,000 equivalent album units, of which 60,000 were SEA units, equating to 60.31 million on-demand official streams. Album sales for BROWN were 5,000 units, debuting at No. 19 on the Top Album Sales chart; the album was only available as a digital download. TEA units made up the remainder.

BROWN was preceded by four hits on the Hot R&B Songs chart: “Holy Blindfold” at No. 8, “It Depends” featuring Bryson Tiller at No. 3, “Obvious” at No. 5, and “Fallin’” featuring Leon Thomas at No. 12. All four songs also appeared on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.

In addition to the album release, Brown will launch a co-headlining stadium tour with Usher starting June 26 at Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High. The tour will continue through December 12 at Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium.

The remainder of the top 10 includes BTS’s former leader ARIRANG, which slipped from No. 7 to No. 8 with 44,000 equivalent album units, down 10%. Wallen’s previous chart-topper One Thing at a Time holds steady at No. 9 with 41,000 units, up 3%, while Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving falls from No. 8 to No. 10 with nearly 41,000 units, down 3%.

Luminate, the independent data provider for the Billboard charts, conducts a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling weekly chart rankings. Suspicious or unverifiable data is removed before final calculations are made and published, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the charts.