BigXthaPlug Ties His Career Best as ‘Better Over Time’ Lands at No. 7 on the Billboard 200

Summary

BigXthaPlug earns his third top 10 as 'Better Over Time' debuts at No. 7 on the November 14-dated chart, matching his highest-charting album to date

Olivia Rodrigo’s 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love' returns to No. 1 for a fourth nonconsecutive week

A Halloween-week reissue lifts Michael Jackson’s 'Thriller' to No. 2, while ILLIT and Queens of the Stone Age also debut in the top 10

BigXthaPlug’s Better Over Time debuts at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, giving the rapper his third top 10 album and tying his best placement on the chart. The new project opened with 35,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the tracking week ending November 5, per Luminate. It matches the No. 7 peak of 2025’s I Hope You’re Happy and edges past the No. 8 finish of 2024’s Take Care.

Streaming drove nearly all of the debut. Streaming equivalent albums made up 29,000 of the album’s units, the equivalent of 29.06 million on-demand official streams, which also placed it at No. 7 on Top Streaming Albums. Album sales contributed another 6,000 units for a No. 12 entry on Top Album Sales, while track equivalent albums added a negligible amount. Two charting singles helped set up the release on Hot Rap Songs: “Burn” featuring Ava Max reached No. 16, and “Lite” featuring Belly Gang Kushington peaked at No. 25.

Above him, Olivia Rodrigo moves back to the top as you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love rises 2-1 for its fourth total week at No. 1. The album has stayed inside the top five for all 21 weeks since it debuted at No. 1 on the June 27-dated chart. Its 57,000 units this week (down 10 percent) were the smallest total for a No. 1 album in over a year, the lowest since SZA’s SOS led with 52,000 on the May 3, 2025-dated list. Streaming accounted for 49,500 of those units, enough to keep the record at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for a seventh week.

The week’s biggest jump belongs to Michael Jackson, whose Thriller leaps 13-2 for its highest position since spring 1984. Back then, the album logged its 37th and final week at No. 1, a record that still stands as the most weeks at the top for an album by a single artist. A tracking window that included Halloween boosted streams of the title track, and an October 30 reissue across three new vinyl variants and a cassette brought in a wave of physical buyers. The album earned 55,000 units, up 89 percent, including 22,000 in sales, its biggest sales week in nearly four years. Vinyl made up 19,000 of those sales, the album’s best vinyl week since Luminate began electronic tracking in 1991. The climb also gives Jackson his highest Billboard 200 rank since 2014’s posthumous Xscape debuted at No. 2. Thriller has stayed in the top 20 every week since early May, a run fueled by the success of the biopic Michael.

Three former No. 1s round out the top five without moving. Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem holds at No. 3 with 49,000 units, Ella Langley’s Dandelion stays at No. 4 with 45,000, and Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide remains at No. 5 with 40,000.

ILLIT secures its first top 10 as BREAK EVEN debuts at No. 6 with 37,000 units, the group’s best week yet. Physical demand powered the result. Album sales reached 32,500, sending the project to No. 1 on Top Album Sales for the act’s first time at the top of that chart. The rollout included more than 24 CD editions, each packaged with collectibles such as photocards, stickers and posters. It’s ILLIT’s fifth entry on the Billboard 200, a big step up from the No. 26 peak of Mamihlapinatapai in May.

Further down the top 10, Kahan’s Stick Season holds at No. 8 with 33,000 units, while Taylor Swift’s former chart-topper The Life of a Showgirl slips 6-9 with 30,000. Queens of the Stone Age close out the list with Perfecth, which debuts at No. 10 with 29,000 units for the rock band’s fifth top 10. Sales accounted for 25,000 of that total, helped by several vinyl and CD editions, and earned the album a No. 2 debut on Top Album Sales.