List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2022

Taylor Swift's Midnights opened with over one million copies sold and became the best-selling album of 2022.

The Billboard 200 is a record chart published weekly by Billboard that ranks the best-performing albums in the U.S. The data is compiled by Luminate based on multi-metric consumption as measured in album-equivalent units, which comprise album sales, digital song sales, and streams on music platforms. Each unit equals one album, or 10 individual digital tracks, or 3,750 ad-supported streams, or 1,250 paid/subscription streams generated by songs from an album.

There were 26 albums that topped the Billboard 200 during the chart's 52 issue weeks. The top-performing album of the year was Un Verano Sin Ti by Puerto Rican rapper-singer Bad Bunny. It topped the chart for 13 non-consecutive weeks and registered the most weeks at number one since Drake's Views (2016).[1] Un Verano Sin Ti became the first album in chart history to spend its first 24 weeks (6 months) in the top two and the first Latin album to top the Billboard Year-End chart.[1] The soundtrack of Disney's 2021 animated musical film, Encanto, marked the sixth time in history an animated film's soundtrack reached number one on the Billboard 200, following The Lion King (1994), Pocahontas (1995), Curious George (2006), Frozen and Frozen II (2019).[2]

American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's album Midnights marked the year's biggest opening week with 1.578 million first-week units, the largest in the last seven years. It instantly became the fastest and best-selling album of 2022, and the biggest selling since Swift's own Reputation (2017); Swift also became the first artist in history to score 11 consecutive number-one debuts on the Billboard 200 chart.[3][4] Born Pink, the second studio album by South Korean girl group Blackpink, marked the first number-one album on the Billboard 200 by a female group since Danity Kane's second album, Welcome to the Dollhouse (2008).[5] South Korean boy group Stray Kids garnered two number ones on the chart this year, with their EPs Oddinary and Maxident; they became the first act to do so in 2022.[6]

Chart history

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Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny topped the chart for 13 weeks and was the best-performing album of 2022.
Lin-Manuel Miranda speaking at the office of the United States Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, DC.
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the original songs for the soundtrack of Encanto, which topped the Billboard 200 for nine weeks.
South Korean boy group Stray Kids garnered two number-one entries with their EPs Oddinary and Maxident.
Key
† Indicates the best-performing album of 2022[1]
Issue date Album Artist(s) Album-
equivalent units 		Ref.
January 1 30 Adele 212,000 [7][8]
January 8 99,000 [9][10]
January 15 Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Various artists 72,000 [2][11]
January 22 DS4Ever Gunna 150,300 [12][13]
January 29 Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Various artists 104,000 [14][15]
February 5 115,000 [16][17]
February 12 113,000 [18][19]
February 19 110,000 [20][21]
February 26 98,000 [22][23]
March 5 90,000 [24][25]
March 12 80,000 [26][27]
March 19 72,500 [28][29]
March 26 7220 Lil Durk 120,500 [30][31]
April 2 Oddinary Stray Kids 110,000 [32][33]
April 9 Mainstream Sellout Machine Gun Kelly 93,000 [34][35]
April 16 Unlimited Love Red Hot Chili Peppers 97,500 [36][37]
April 23 7220 Lil Durk 47,000 [38][39]
April 30 Call Me If You Get Lost Tyler, the Creator 59,000 [40][41]
May 7 It's Almost Dry Pusha T 55,000 [42][43]
May 14 I Never Liked You Future 222,000 [44][45]
May 21 Un Verano Sin Ti † Bad Bunny 274,000 [46][47]
May 28 Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers Kendrick Lamar 295,500 [48][49]
June 4 Harry's House Harry Styles 521,500 [50][51]
June 11 160,500 [52][53]
June 18 Un Verano Sin Ti † Bad Bunny 137,000 [54][55]
June 25 Proof BTS 314,000 [56][57]
July 2 Honestly, Nevermind Drake 204,000 [58][59]
July 9 Un Verano Sin Ti † Bad Bunny 115,000 [60][61]
July 16 111,000 [62][63]
July 23 105,500 [64][65]
July 30 103,000 [66][67]
August 6 98,000 [68][69]
August 13 Renaissance Beyoncé 332,000 [70][71]
August 20 Un Verano Sin Ti † Bad Bunny 108,800 [72][73]
August 27 Beautiful Mind Rod Wave 115,000 [74][75]
September 3 Un Verano Sin Ti † Bad Bunny 105,000 [76][77]
September 10 God Did DJ Khaled 107,500 [78][79]
September 17 Un Verano Sin Ti † Bad Bunny 99,500 [80][81]
September 24 97,000 [82][83]
October 1 Born Pink Blackpink 102,000 [5][84]
October 8 Un Verano Sin Ti † Bad Bunny 87,000 [85][86]
October 15 84,000 [87][88]
October 22 Maxident Stray Kids 117,000 [6][89]
October 29 It's Only Me Lil Baby 216,000 [90][91]
November 5 Midnights Taylor Swift 1,578,000 [3][92]
November 12 342,000 [93][94]
November 19 Her Loss Drake and 21 Savage 404,000 [95][96]
November 26 Midnights Taylor Swift 204,000 [97][98]
December 3 177,000 [99][100]
December 10 151,000 [101][102]
December 17 Heroes & Villains Metro Boomin 185,000 [103][104]
December 24 SOS SZA 318,000 [105][106]
December 31 180,000 [107][108]

Number-one artists

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List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
Position Country Artist Weeks at No. 1
1  US ( PRI) Bad Bunny 13
2  COL/ US Various artists (Encanto) 9
3  US Taylor Swift 5
4  UK Adele 2
 US Lil Durk
 UK Harry Styles
 KOR Stray Kids
 CAN Drake
 US SZA
10  US Gunna 1
 US Machine Gun Kelly
 US Red Hot Chili Peppers
 US Tyler, the Creator
 US Pusha T
 US Future
 US Kendrick Lamar
 KOR BTS
 US Beyoncé
 US Rod Wave
 US DJ Khaled
 KOR Blackpink
 US Lil Baby
 UK 21 Savage
 US Metro Boomin

See also

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References

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