For a period of time, Jennifer Lopez somehow managed to be both one of the biggest movie stars and musicians in the world. She succeeded at everything she did for a while. Lately, she’s been focused much more on her acting career, but now that her latest album has arrived on the Billboard charts, she’s returned to No. 1 after a lengthy absence.
Lopez’s new album This Is Me… Now debuts at No. 1 on a handful of Billboard charts this week. The most important of the bunch is the Top Album Sales ranking, which lists the EPs and full-lengths in the U.S. that actually sold the most copies in the prior tracking period.
This week, This Is Me… Now opens in first place on the competitive Top Album Sales chart. The title launches in first place with 14,356 copies sold. That’s not a massive sum, but it’s enough to give her control of the tally this frame.
This Is Me… Now marks Lopez’s third No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. It’s been more than two decades since she saw the highest rung on this ranking. She was last sitting atop the tally in 2002 with J To Tha L-O! The Remixes. A year prior, she earned her first winner with J.Lo.
Lopez last controlled any of Billboard’s albums charts back in 2014. That year, her A.K.A. reached No. 1 on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top R&B Albums rankings. That set produced singles like "I Luh Ya Papi,” “First Love,” and “Booty,” which all reached the Hot 100.
In between her No. 1s on the Top Album Sales chart and A.K.A., Lopez also managed to score a leader on two of Billboard’s Spanish-language rankings. Her Spanish set Como Ama una Mujer reached the highest rung on the Top Latin Albums and Top Latin Pop Albums tallies in 2007.
This Is Me… Now serves as a sequel of sorts to This Is Me... Then, which was released in 2002. The new project was paired with a film that premiered on Amazon Prime, using the music featured on the full-length. The title may be a sales win, but it didn’t fare nearly as well on other rankings. On this week’s Billboard 200, This Is Me... Now launches at No. 38, marking her lowest-charting album yet.