List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2019

This is a list of the albums ranked number one in the United States during 2019. The top-performing albums and EPs in the United States are ranked on the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of their individual tracks.

Taylor Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, earned the biggest sales week of 2019, and became the best-selling album of the year.

Multiple artists received their first number-one album in 2019, including: 21 Savage, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Hozier, Juice Wrld (which would be his last released during his lifetime following his death later in the year), Nav, Billie Eilish, Khalid, Tyler, the Creator, The Raconteurs, Young Thug, Luke Combs, DaBaby, SuperM, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Trippie Redd, and Roddy Ricch.

The year also featured many artists return to the number-one spot after years of absence: the band Tool released their first number-one album in 13 years, the Jonas Brothers released their first in 10 (becoming the third consecutive number-one for both artists), the Backstreet Boys released their first album in 6 years, and their first number-one since 2000, and Celine Dion had her first number-one since 2002. Billie Eilish's debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was the best performing album of 2019. Taylor Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, was the best-selling album of 2019, and had the year's biggest sales week with 867,000 units.[1]

Chart history

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Billie Eilish's debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, was the best performing album of 2019. Eilish became the first artist born in the 21st century to have a number-one album on the Billboard 200.
 
Post Malone had the longest-running number-one album of the year, with his album Hollywood's Bleeding topping the chart for five non-consecutive weeks.
 
Rapper A Boogie Wit da Hoodie topped the chart for three weeks with his second studio album, Hoodie SZN.
 
English singer Ed Sheeran scored his third number one album with his fourth studio album, No.6 Collaborations Project.
 
Juice Wrld had his first number-one album with his second studio album Death Race for Love. It would be the last album released during his lifetime, as he died on December 8, 2019.
 
Fear Inoculum by Tool topped the chart with the highest debut for a rock/metal band in 2019. (pictured is frontman Maynard James Keenan).
Key
Indicates best-performing album of 2019[2]
Issue date Album Artist(s) Album-
equivalent units
Ref.
January 5 I Am > I Was 21 Savage 131,000 [3][4]
January 12 65,000 [5][6]
January 19 Hoodie SZN A Boogie wit da Hoodie 58,000 [7][8]
January 26 56,000 [9][10]
February 2 Future Hndrxx Presents: The Wizrd Future 126,000 [11][12]
February 9 DNA Backstreet Boys 234,000 [13][14]
February 16 Hoodie SZN A Boogie wit da Hoodie 47,000 [15][16]
February 23 Thank U, Next Ariana Grande 360,000 [17][18]
March 2 151,000 [19][20]
March 9 A Star Is Born Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper / Soundtrack 129,000 [21][22]
March 16 Wasteland, Baby! Hozier 89,000 [23][24]
March 23 Death Race for Love Juice Wrld 165,000 [25][26]
March 30 74,000 [27][28]
April 6 Bad Habits Nav 82,000 [29][30]
April 13 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Billie Eilish 313,000 [31][32]
April 20 Free Spirit Khalid 202,000 [33][34]
April 27 Map of the Soul: Persona BTS 230,000 [35][36]
May 4 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Billie Eilish 88,000 [37][38]
May 11 Hurts 2B Human Pink 115,000 [39][40]
May 18 Father of the Bride Vampire Weekend 138,000 [41][42]
May 25 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Logic 80,000 [43][44]
June 1 Igor Tyler, the Creator 165,000 [45][46]
June 8 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Billie Eilish 62,000 [47][48]
June 15 Center Point Road Thomas Rhett 76,000 [49][50]
June 22 Happiness Begins Jonas Brothers 414,000 [51][52]
June 29 Madame X Madonna 95,000 [53][54]
July 6 Help Us Stranger The Raconteurs 88,000 [55][56]
July 13 Indigo Chris Brown 108,000 [57][58]
July 20 Revenge of the Dreamers III Dreamville / Various Artists 115,000 [59][60]
July 27 No.6 Collaborations Project Ed Sheeran 173,000 [61][62]
August 3 78,000 [63][64]
August 10 The Search NF 130,000 [65][66]
August 17 Care Package Drake 109,000 [67][68]
August 24 We Are Not Your Kind Slipknot 118,000 [69][70]
August 31 So Much Fun Young Thug 131,000 [71][72]
September 7 Lover Taylor Swift 867,000 [73][74]
September 14 Fear Inoculum Tool 270,000 [75][76]
September 21 Hollywood's Bleeding Post Malone 489,000 [77][78]
September 28 198,000 [79][80]
October 5 149,000 [81][82]
October 12 Kirk DaBaby 146,000 [83][84]
October 19 SuperM – The 1st Mini Album SuperM 168,000 [85][86]
October 26 AI YoungBoy 2 YoungBoy Never Broke Again 110,000 [87][88]
November 2 Hollywood's Bleeding Post Malone 93,000 [89][90]
November 9 Jesus Is King Kanye West 264,000 [91][92]
November 16 Hollywood's Bleeding Post Malone 78,000 [93][94]
November 23 What You See Is What You Get Luke Combs 172,000 [95][96]
November 30 Courage Celine Dion 113,000 [97][98]
December 7 A Love Letter to You 4 Trippie Redd 104,000 [99][100]
December 14 Frozen II Soundtrack 80,000 [101][102]
December 21 Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial Roddy Ricch 101,000 [103][104]
December 28 Fine Line Harry Styles 478,000 [105][106]

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 Post Malone 5
2   US A Boogie wit da Hoodie 3
  US Billie Eilish
3   UK 21 Savage 2
  US Ariana Grande
  US Juice Wrld
  UK Ed Sheeran
4   US Future 1
  US Backstreet Boys
  US Lady Gaga
  US Bradley Cooper
  UK Hozier
  Canada Nav
  US Khalid
  Korea BTS
  US Pink
  US Vampire Weekend
  US Logic
  US Tyler, the Creator
  US Thomas Rhett
  US Jonas Brothers
  US Madonna
  US The Raconteurs
  US Chris Brown
  US/  France Various Dreamville artists
  US NF (rapper)
  Canada Drake
  US Slipknot
  US Young Thug
  US Taylor Swift
  US Tool
  US DaBaby
  Korea SuperM
  US YoungBoy Never Broke Again
  US Kanye West
  US Luke Combs
  Canada Celine Dion
  US Trippie Redd
  US Various artists
  US Roddy Ricch
  UK Harry Styles

See also

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References

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