Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Downside guidelines the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated July 12) for a seventh consecutive, and whole, week. The set earned 173,000 equal album models in the US within the week ending July 3 — down a scant 3% in comparison with the earlier week. The album opened at No. 1 on the Could 31 chart.
With 173,000 models earned, Downside lands the biggest whole for an album in its seventh week on the chart since Adele’s 25 earned 194,000 in its seventh week practically a decade in the past (on the Jan. 23, 2016-dated chart).
Additionally within the prime 10 of the internet Billboard 200, Lorde’s Virgin debuts at No. 2, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack surges 8-3, KATSEYE’s BEAUTIFUL CHAOS bows at No. 4, Playboi Carti’s chart-topping MUSIC vaults 28-8 after its vinyl launch and Russ’ W!LD begins at No. 10.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album models, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every 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 brand new July 12, 2025-dated chart can be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on July 8. For all chart news, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of I’m the Downside’s 173,000 equal album models earned within the week ending July 3, SEA models comprise 164,000 (down 3%, equaling 215 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it leads Prime Streaming Albums for a seventh week), album gross sales comprise 7,500 (up 2% — it falls 7-11 on Prime Album Gross sales) and TEA models comprise 1,500 (up 6%).
Lorde achieves her fourth prime 10 album on the Billboard 200 as her internet studio undertaking, Virgin, debuts at No. 2. All 4 of her prime 10s have additionally debuted inside the highest 5 (as Virgin follows Photo voltaic Energy, with a No. 5 debut and peak, 2021; Melodrama, No. 1, 2017, and Pure Heroine, No. 3, 2013). Virgin bows with 71,000 equal album models earned. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 42,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Prime Album Gross sales), SEA models comprise 29,000 (equaling 37.07 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it debuts at No. 6 on Prime Streaming Albums) and TEA models comprise a negligible sum.
Virgin’s first-week gross sales had been aided by its availability throughout eight vinyl variants (together with two signed editions), a regular CD and a digital obtain. All variations contained the identical tracklist. Lorde’s vinyl gross sales added as much as 31,000 — her finest week ever on vinyl.
The album was announced on April 30 and preceded by the Billboard Sizzling 100-charting monitor “What Was That,” which debuted and peaked at No. 36 on the Could 10-dated chart (her highest charting track since 2017’s “Inexperienced Mild” hit No. 19). Lorde’s Ultrasound Tour of North America and Europe launches on Sept. 17 in Austin, Texas.
The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack surges 8-3 on the Billboard 200 in its second week on the chart — incomes 62,000 equal album models (up 97%). Of that sum, SEA models comprise 56,000 (up 108%, equaling 77.42 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it jumps 10-2 on Prime Streaming Albums), album gross sales comprise 4,500 (up 31%, it’s pushed down 18-22 on Prime Album Gross sales) and TEA models comprise 1,500 (up 24%).
The set’s haul of 77.42 million streams for its songs is the biggest streaming week for a soundtrack in practically two years, for the reason that Barbie soundtrack claimed 79.32 million on the Aug. 19, 2023-dated chart (its third week on the chart).
With KPop Demon Hunters’ 8-3 climb on the Billboard 200, it turns into the highest-charting soundtrack of 2025, and the highest-charting soundtrack to an animated movie since Encanto spent 9 weeks at No. 1 in 2022. (Beforehand amongst soundtracks in 2025, Depraved reached a No. 4 excessive in January, after debuting and peaking at No. 2 in December 2024.)
KPop Demon Hunters premiered on June 20 on Netflix alongside its soundtrack. Within the monitoring week ending June 29, KPop Demon Hunters jumped 6-2 in its second week on Netflix’s Top 10 Movies in United States chart.
KATSEYE claims its first prime 10 album on the Billboard 200 with the No. 4 debut of its second undertaking, BEAUTIFUL CHAOS. The pop group’s five-song set opens with 44,000 equal album models earned. Of that sum, album gross sales comprise 30,000 (it debuts at No. 2 on Prime Album Gross sales), SEA models comprise 14,000 (equaling 21.36 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it bows at No. 47 on Prime Streaming Albums) and TEA models comprise a negligible sum.
The album’s first-week gross sales had been bolstered by its availability throughout 9 CD variants and 4 vinyl variants (one signed), all with the identical audio however with packaging variations. All contained collectible paper ephemera, some randomized. It was additionally issued as a regular digital obtain album for buy.
BEAUTIFUL CHAOS was announced on Could 7 and the album’s launch was preceded by a pair of charting entries on the Sizzling 100: “Gnarly” (No. 90) and “Gabriela” (No. 94).
Karol G’s Tropicoqueta falls 3-5 on the Billboard 200 in its second week (40,000 equal album models earned; down 29%), Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time is pushed down 5-6 (practically 40,000; up 7%) and SZA’s former No. 1 SOS descends 4-7 (39,000; down 17%). Playboi Carti’s former chief MUSIC jumps 28-8 with 35,000 (up 83%), following its launch on vinyl (pressed on two variants). The album offered 16,500 copies within the monitoring week (up 12,593%), largely from vinyl purchases.
Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Brief n’ Candy slides 6-9 on the Billboard 200 with 33,000 equal album models earned (down 5%).
Russ closes out the highest 10 with the No. 10 debut of his internet album, W!LD, coming into at No. 10 with 32,000 equal album models earned. The set marks his fourth prime 10-charted effort. Of the brand new album’s 32,000 models, album gross sales comprise 25,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Prime Album Gross sales), SEA models comprise 7,000 (equaling 9.15 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA models comprise a negligible sum.
W!LD was introduced on March 18 and preceded by the radio-promoted monitor “Loopy,” which has reached the highest 30 on the Rhythmic Airplay chart. The album’s first-week gross sales had been aided by its availability throughout three vinyl variants, three CD variants and three cassette variants (some signed), in addition to a regular digital obtain. All contained the identical tracklist, and the entire bodily editions had been completely offered by way of Russ’ official webstore. There was additionally an expanded version of the obtain album, offered by way of the webstore, that features narration from the artist.
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