Drake’s ‘HABIBTI’ Returns to Its Peak No. 2 on the Billboard 200

Summary

Drake’s HABIBTI jumps from No. 116 to No. 2, matching its peak, after a four-song expansion

Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine climbs 149 spots to No. 10 following its 10th anniversary reissue

The Beatles’ Rubber Soul re-enters at No. 4, giving the band its biggest week in seven years

Drake’s HABIBTI surges from No. 116 to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 dated October 17, tying its highest position on the chart. The rebound follows the album’s October 2 reissue with four new songs, which drove 71,000 equivalent album units in the United States during the tracking week ending October 8, per Luminate.

Streaming did nearly all the work for Drake’s climb. Of the album’s 71,000 units, a 506% jump from the previous week, almost 70,000 came from streaming equivalent albums, up 497%. The expanded version, titled HABIBTI (FOMO), adds “Solar Eclipse” featuring Don Toliver, “Quebec,” “Cold Shoulder” featuring Toliver and Yebba, and “Classic PT2.” Every edition of the album counts toward a single combined chart entry.

Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine rounds out the top 10, rising from No. 159 to No. 10 after a 10th anniversary reissue on October 2 that added three tracks. The album originally debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the chart dated October 8, 2016. It pulled 32,000 equivalent album units this week, up 218%. Album sales made up 18,000 of that total, a 2,995% increase that returned it to Top Album Sales at No. 4. Streaming equivalent albums contributed 14,000 units, or 14.68 million official on-demand streams, while track equivalent albums added a negligible amount.

The Beatles’ Rubber Soul makes its first Billboard 200 appearance in more than a decade, re-entering at No. 4 after an expansive reissue landed on October 2 across multiple formats and editions. The 1966 chart-topper, which spent six weeks at No. 1, last charted on the list dated January 16, 2016, and last sat in the top 10 on the April 9, 1966 chart. This week it earned 58,000 equivalent album units, up 1,626%. Pure sales accounted for 50,000, enough to send it back onto Top Album Sales at No. 1. Streaming added 7,000 units from 7.4 million on-demand official streams (up 144%), and track equivalent albums supplied the rest.

The reissue wave produced a historic overlap at the top of the chart. With Taylor Swift at No. 1, Drake at No. 2 and The Beatles at No. 4, the three acts share the top 10 in the same week for the first time. They also hold the most No. 1 albums of any artists, with The Beatles leading at 19 and Drake and Swift tied at 15 apiece.

Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl holds the top spot for a 14th nonconsecutive week, earning 93,000 equivalent album units, down 46%. Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love slips one place to No. 3 with 66,000 units (down 2%). Three former No. 1s follow: Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem moves from No. 4 to No. 5 (55,000, down 2%), Ella Langley’s Dandelion falls from No. 3 to No. 6 (54,000, down 7%) and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide goes from No. 5 to No. 7 (46,000, up 2%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving drops from No. 6 to No. 8 (35,000, down 1%), and Kahan’s Stick Season holds steady at No. 9 (33,000, up less than 1%).