List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2023

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Taylor Swift topped the chart for seven weeks with three different albums in 2023; one of them, 1989 (Taylor's Version), became the best selling album of the year. Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Speak Now Set Era (53109969638) (cropped).jpg
Taylor Swift topped the chart for seven weeks with three different albums in 2023; one of them, 1989 (Taylor's Version) , became the best selling album of the year.

This is a list of the albums ranked number one in the United States during 2023. The top-performing albums and EPs in the U.S. are ranked on the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data is compiled by Luminate Data based on multi-metric consumption as measured in album-equivalent units, which comprise album sales, track sales, and streams on digital music platforms. Each unit equals one album sold or 10 individual digital 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.

Contents

1989 (Taylor's Version) , the fourth re-recorded album by Taylor Swift, surpassed her own Speak Now (Taylor's Version) to garner the largest opening week of 2023, with over 1.65 million album-equivalent units, including 1.35 million album sales. [1] It became the best-selling album of the year, with over 1.9 million copies sold within 2023. [2] Mañana Será Bonito , the fourth studio album by Colombian singer Karol G, became the first-ever Spanish-language album by a female artist to reach the number-one spot, and only the third Spanish-language album to top the chart in its 78-year history. [3]

One Thing at a Time by American country singer Morgan Wallen is the longest-running number-one album of the year. Morgan Wallen performing at Freedom Fest 2019.jpg
One Thing at a Time by American country singer Morgan Wallen is the longest-running number-one album of the year.

One Thing at a Time , the third studio album by American country singer Morgan Wallen, is the longest-running number-one album of the year, topping the chart for 16 non-consecutive weeks. It also became the most consumed album of 2023. The second studio album of SZA, SOS (2022), is 2023's longest reigning number-one on the Billboard 200 by a female artist, topping the chart for eight weeks within the year. [4] [2]

Chart history

SOS (2022) by SZA is the year's longest-running number-one album by a female artist, with eight weeks atop the chart in 2023. SZA CTRL Tour Toronto 2017 8 (cropped).jpg
SOS (2022) by SZA is the year's longest-running number-one album by a female artist, with eight weeks atop the chart in 2023.
Utopia by Travis Scott became the first rap album since Drake's Scorpion (2018) to spend its first four weeks atop the chart. Travi$ Scott 2014 February.jpg
Utopia by Travis Scott became the first rap album since Drake's Scorpion (2018) to spend its first four weeks atop the chart.
Key
Indicates the best-performing album of 2023 [5]
Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)UnitsRef.
January 7 SOS SZA 128,000 [6] [7]
January 14125,000 [8] [9]
January 21125,000 [10] [11]
January 28119,000 [12] [13]
February 4111,000 [14] [15]
February 11 The Name Chapter: Temptation Tomorrow X Together 161,500 [16] [17]
February 18SOSSZA100,000 [18] [19]
February 2593,000 [20] [21]
March 487,000 [4] [22]
March 11 Mañana Será Bonito Karol G 94,000 [3] [23]
March 18 One Thing at a Time Morgan Wallen 501,000 [24] [25]
March 25259,000 [26] [27]
April 1209,500 [28] [29]
April 8197,000 [30] [31]
April 15173,000 [32] [33]
April 22167,000 [34] [35]
April 29166,000 [36] [37]
May 6149,000 [38] [39]
May 13138,000 [40] [41]
May 20141,000 [42] [43]
May 27134,500 [44] [45]
June 3129,000 [46] [47]
June 10 Midnights Taylor Swift 282,000 [48] [49]
June 17 5-Star Stray Kids 249,500 [50] [51]
June 24One Thing at a TimeMorgan Wallen111,500 [52] [53]
July 1110,000 [54] [55]
July 8110,500 [56] [57]
July 15 Pink Tape Lil Uzi Vert 167,000 [58] [59]
July 22 Speak Now (Taylor's Version) Taylor Swift716,000 [60] [61]
July 29121,000 [62] [63]
August 5 Get Up NewJeans 126,500 [64] [65]
August 12 Utopia Travis Scott 496,000 [66] [67]
August 19147,000 [68] [69]
August 26185,000 [70] [71]
September 2161,000 [72] [73]
September 9 Zach Bryan Zach Bryan 200,000 [74] [75]
September 16115,000 [76] [77]
September 23 Guts Olivia Rodrigo 302,000 [78] [79]
September 30 Nostalgia Rod Wave 137,000 [80] [81]
October 788,000 [82] [83]
October 14One Thing at a TimeMorgan Wallen74,500 [84] [85]
October 21 For All the Dogs Drake 402,000 [86] [87]
October 28 Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana Bad Bunny 184,000 [88] [89]
November 4 One More Time... Blink-182 125,000 [90] [91]
November 11 1989 (Taylor's Version) Taylor Swift1,653,000 [1] [92]
November 18245,000 [93] [94]
November 25 Rock-Star Stray Kids224,000 [95] [96]
December 2For All the DogsDrake145,000 [97] [98]
December 91989 (Taylor's Version)Taylor Swift141,000 [99] [100]
December 16 The World EP.Fin: Will Ateez 152,000 [101] [102]
December 23 Pink Friday 2 Nicki Minaj 228,000 [103] [104]
December 301989 (Taylor's Version)Taylor Swift136,000 [105] [106]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
RankArtistWeeks at No. 1
1 Morgan Wallen 16
2 SZA 8
3 Taylor Swift 7
4 Travis Scott 4
5 Zach Bryan 2
Rod Wave
Stray Kids
Drake
9 Tomorrow X Together 1
Karol G
Lil Uzi Vert
NewJeans
Olivia Rodrigo
Bad Bunny
Blink-182
Ateez
Nicki Minaj

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