Billie Eilish’s long-awaited sophomore album, Happier Than Ever, debuts at number one on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart for the first time. Happier Than Ever sold over 271,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, making it the fourth greatest debut of the year. Fourteen of the album’s sixteen tracks made the RS 100, with the title single coming in at number three.
Welcome 2 America, Prince’s posthumous album, achieves a new peak on the RS 200 at Number Two. Last week’s No. 1 album, Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love, dropped to No. 3, with Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour coming in fourth and TK spending 11 weeks in the top five, a new record for a female artist. Planet Her by Doja Cat rounds out the top five.
The Rolling Stone 200 Albums chart tracks the best-selling albums in the United States each week. Album units, a number calculated by combining digital and physical album sales, digital song sales, and audio streams using a custom weighting system, are used to rank entries. Passive listening, such as terrestrial or digital radio, is not included in the chart. The Rolling Stone 200 Albums chart is updated every day, and Rolling Stone publishes an official edition of the chart every week that covers the seven-day period ending the previous Thursday.
