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Morgan Wallen's ‘I'm the Problem' Spends First Month at No. 1 on Billboard 200

Morgan Wallen's ‘I'm the Problem' Spends First Month at No. 1 on Billboard 200

Yahoo16-06-2025
Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem spends a month at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 21), as the set earned 209,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the tracking week, ending June 12 (down 15%), according to Luminate. The album debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated May 31.
With 209,000 units earned, Problem lands the largest fourth week for an album since Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department earned 260,000 in its fourth week (May 25, 2024-dated chart).
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Problem is also the first album to spend its first four weeks at No. 1 since Poets perched in the top slot for its first 12 weeks, of its total 17 weeks at No. 1.
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Lil Wayne scores his 13 th top 10-charting set with the No. 2 debut of Tha Carter VI, while ENHYPEN logs its fifth top 10 with DESIRE: UNLEASH at No. 3. Addison Rae's debut full-length album, Addison, arrives at No. 4, while My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, released in 2004, hits the top 10 for the first time (reentering at No. 6) after a deluxe reissue. And, rock band Turnstile notches its first top 10 with its fourth full-length studio set, NEVER ENOUGH, debuting at No. 9.
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 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 21, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard's website on June 17. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of I'm the Problem's 209,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 12, SEA units comprise 197,000 (down 14%, equaling 257.9 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs — it leads Top Streaming Albums for a fourth week), album sales comprise 10,500 (down 34% — it falls 3-9 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,500 (down 15%).
Lil Wayne notches his 13th top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as Tha Carter VI debuts at No. 2 with 108,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 73,000 (equaling 97.06 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs — it debuts at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 34,000 (it debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000.
Lil Wayne's long-running Tha Carter series began in 2004 with the release of Tha Carter, which debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the July 17, 2004-dated Billboard 200. He followed it with Tha Carter II (No. 2, 2005), Tha Carter III (No. 1 for three weeks, 2008), Tha Carter IV (No. 1 for two weeks, 2011), Tha Carter V (No. 1 for one week, 2018) and now Tha Carter VI.
Tha Carter VI was issued in a variety of configurations, including a standard digital download edition, a physical set with bonus tracks (on two CD variants [one signed] and three vinyl variants [one signed], and a deluxe CD boxed set with a T-shirt), an expanded digital download album and a streaming edition. During the set's first week of release, two further iterations of the album were issued as download and streaming editions — one with a remix of 'Banned from NO,' with Nicki Minaj, and another with that Minaj remix along with 'Momma Don't Worry,' with Future and Lil Baby.
ENHYPEN collects its fifth consecutive, and total, top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 as DESIRE: UNLEASH arrives at No. 3 with 100,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 95,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 5,000 (equaling 7.29 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
DESIRE: UNLEASH was available in its first week across 19 CD editions, all with the same audio but with packaging variations. Some editions were signed, and all contained collectible paper ephemera, some randomized.
Addison Rae sees her debut full-length album, Addison, launch at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 48,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 25,500 (equaling 32.84 million on-demand official streams of its songs, it debuts at No. 13 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 23,000 (it debuts at No. 5 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The 24-year-old singer-actor got her start on TikTok in 2019 and made her Billboard Hot 100 chart debut with 'Diet Pepsi' in September 2024; the song buzzed to No. 9 on the Pop Airplay chart in February. She also got a high-profile collab in 2024 thanks to her guest turn on the remix of Charli xcx's Brat track 'Von Dutch.'
The Addison album was available across four vinyl variants, a standard and signed CD, and a deluxe CD boxed set with a T-shirt, and a standard download and streaming edition — all containing the same tracklist. Addison includes Rae's three previous Hot 100-charting songs: 'Diet Pepsi,' 'Headphones On' and 'Fame Is a Gun.'
SZA's former No. 1 SOS falls 3-5 on the Billboard 200 with 44,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%).
My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, released in 2004, reaches the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for the first time, as the set reenters at No. 6 following a deluxe reissue. It previously peaked at No. 28 in 2005. In total, Three Cheers marks the fourth top 10-charting effort for the band, and its second-highest-charting set — second only to the No. 2-peaking The Black Parade in 2006. Three Cheers also marks the band's first top 10 since April 2014, when the compilation May Death Never Stop You: The Greatest Hits 2001-2013 reached No. 9.
In the tracking week ending June 12, Three Cheers earned nearly 44,000 equivalent album units (up 809%), with album sales comprising 37,000 (up 2,987% — it reenters at a new peak of No. 2 on Top Album Sales; it's the group's best sales week since Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys debuted with 112,000 in 2010), SEA units comprise 7,000 (equaling 8.88 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The album's 44,000 units earned mark the band's best week by that metric since the Billboard 200 began ranking titles by units in December 2014.
For its new deluxe edition, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge was issued across nine vinyl variants, and a CD, digital download and streaming edition — all with refreshed audio and bonus tracks. All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes.
A sweet album of a different kind, Sabrina Carpenter's chart-topping Short n' Sweet, rises one spot to No. 7 on the latest Billboard 200. It earned 41,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week (up 11%). Morgan Wallen's former leader One Thing at a Time dips 6-8 with 39,000 (down 4%).
Rock band Turnstile nets its second chart entry, and first top 10, with the No. 9 debut of NEVER ENOUGH. It earned 38,000 equivalent album units — of which album sales comprise 27,500 (it debuts at No. 4 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise a little more than 10,000 (equaling 12.8 million on-demand streams of the set's songs) and TEA units comprise less than 500. The set's first-week units and album sales mark career-high frames for the group.
NEVER ENOUGH — Turnstile's fourth full-length studio album — was preceded by its title track, which reached No. 11 on the Alternative Airplay chart in June. The group made its Billboard chart debut 10 years ago, when the album Nonstop Feeling reached No. 22 on the now-discontinued Heatseekers Albums chart in January 2015.
NEVER ENOUGH was issued across more than a dozen vinyl variants and as a standard CD, cassette, digital download and streaming album, all containing the same tracklist.
Rounding out the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 is Kendrick Lamar's chart-topping GNX, which falls 7-10 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned (down 7%).
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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