Sleep Token Scores First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With 'Even in Arcadia'

 

Plus: Kali Uchis' Sincerely, debuts at No. 2.

 

Sleep Token scores its first No. 1 album, and first top 10, on the Billboard 200 with the chart-topping arrival of its fourth full-length studio release, Even in Arcadia.

 

The set, which is the English rock band's major-label debut, bows atop the list dated May 24 with 127,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending May 15, according to Luminate — marking the act's best week by units ever. It's also the biggest week by units for any rock album in nearly a year, and the biggest for any hard rock album in two years. Further, the set's streaming numbers are so big that it scores the largest streaming week ever for a hard rock album.

 

Sleep Token released its first single in 2016 and made its overall Billboard chart debut in 2019. The band previously scored one entry on the Billboard 200 with Take Me Back to Eden in 2023, debuting and peaking at No. 16. That set has earned 819,000 units in the U.S. to date, and its dozen songs (six of which were top 10 hits on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs chart) have generated 935 million on-demand official streams in the U.S. The band was among Billboard's year-end top 10 on Top Hard Rock Artists in both 2024 (No. 8) and 2023 (No. 5).

 

In early 2024, the act signed to RCA Records after previously releasing music on the indie label Spinefarm. The masked band — whose members have remained anonymous through the group's career — made its debut on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart in March with the new album's "Emergence." Two more pre-release songs from the set debut on the tally: "Caramel" (a career-best No. 34 high for the band) and "Damocles."

 

Sleep Token's No. 1 debut coincidentally comes just two weeks after another masked hard rock band from Europe, the Swedish act Ghost, landed its first leader with the chart-topping debut of Skeletá (May 10 chart).

 

Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Kali Uchis achieves her third top 10-charting set with the debut of Sincerely, at No. 2.

 

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 May 24, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard's website on May 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/sleep-token-even-in-arcadia-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235974933/

 

 

Kendrick Lamar & SZA's 'Luther' Rules Billboard Hot 100 for 13th Week

 

The song is now among the 15 longest-leading hits of all time.

 

Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "Luther" logs a lucky 13th total and consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The single is one of just 15 to have led for at least that long dating to the survey's Aug. 4, 1958, start.

 

"Luther," whose title is a tribute late R&B legend Luther Vandross, who is sampled on it, became Lamar's sixth Hot 100 No. 1 and SZA's third.

 

Elsewhere, Teddy Swims' "Lose Control," at No. 7, adds a 91st week on the on the Hot 100 overall – tying Glass Animals' "Heat Waves" for the longest run on the chart all-time.

 

Plus, Doechii's "Anxiety," at No. 10 on the Hot 100, ascends to No. 1 on the all-format Radio Songs chart as the week's most-heard airplay hit.

 

Browse the full rundown of this week's top 10 below.

 

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated May 24, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 20. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

 

https://www.billboard.com/lists/kendrick-lamar-sza-luther-hot-100-number-one-13th-week/

Edited May 19, 20251 yr by Renan90

I could understand wanting to snatch these threads if there was an interesting chart battle. But girl no one is gonna move for Sleep Token and also luther being #1 for the 50th week

What's this??

1. SLEEP TOKEN | EVEN IN ARCADIA - 127,000 units
2. KALI UCHIS | SINCERELY, -  62,000 units
3. SZA | SOS - 51,000 units
4. MORGAN WALLEN | ONE THING AT A TIME - 48,000 units
5. PARTYNEXTDOOR & DRAKE | $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U - 47,000 units
6. FUERZA REGIDA | 111XPANTIA - 43,000 units
7. KENDRICK LAMAR | GNX - 43,000 units
8. SABRINA CARPENTER | SHORT N' SWEET - 40,000  units
9. THE WEEKND | HURRY UP TOMORROW - 38,000 units
10. BAD BUNNY | DEBI TIRAR MAS FOTOS -  38,000  units

Abel back to the Top 10 & above 1 million

 

 

You couldn't wait 30 minutes? 

Sleep Token are only gonna keep growing I fear. 

Great result for Kali

damn, Kali really deserved that #1

4 hours ago, Peak Now said:

You couldn't wait 30 minutes? 

guessing her wasn't really sorry.

 

https://www.billboard.com/lists/kendrick-lamar-sza-luther-hot-100-number-one-13th-week/

 

"Anxiety" topping the Airplay chart while down to #10 on Hot 100 is lowkey a kii.

same old **** nothing new

Weeks in Top 10

 

62: Lose Control

53: A Bar Song (Tipsy)

38: Die With a Smile; Beautiful Things

23: luther

13: Pink Pony Club

11: NOKIA

8: I'm the Problem

6: Ordinary

4: Anxiety

Do Americans just not ever get sick of listening to the same 5 songs? 

Petition for @Nefertiti0 to get these threads instead since she ACTUALLY puts in the work. @Renan90 we've had it. Put the friggin top 10 when they update in the OP or don't open these threads. We will be contacting the mods again if u dont' do this the right way each time. 

Edited May 19, 20251 yr by IBeMe

This was the chart when my mom was born:

 

May 16, 1960 (For the week ending May 21)

01 01 Stuck On You - Elvis Presley (4th and final week at #1)
02 03 Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers
03 02 Greenfields - The Brothers Four
04 04 Night - Jackie Wilson
05 13 Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones
06 05 Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens
07 10 Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland
08 08 Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston
09 06 Sink The Bismark - Johnny Horton
10 21 He'll Have To Stay - Jeanne Black

14. Timeless (+23)

15. Blue Strips (=)

16. Superman (HOT SHOT DEBUT)

17. MUTT (-4)

28. Burning Blue (-3)

30. Sorry I'm Here for Someone Else (+2) *New peak* 

37. undressed (+7) *New peak* 

39. Am I Okay? (+14) *New peak* 

43. Love Me Not (-2)

45. back to friends (+2) *New peak* 

99. Ribs (RE-ENTRY)

i didnt know Alex Warren is that high, I happy for him