The Billboard 200 is a record chart published weekly by Billboard that ranks the best-performing albums in the U.S. The data is compiled by Luminate based on multi-metric consumption as measured in album-equivalent units, which comprise album sales, digital song sales, and streams on music platforms. Each unit equals one album, or 10 individual digital tracks, or 3,750 ad-supported streams, or 1,250 paid/subscription streams generated by songs from an album.

There were 26 albums that topped the Billboard 200 during the chart's 52 issue weeks. The top-performing album of the year was Un Verano Sin Ti by Puerto Rican rapper-singer Bad Bunny. It topped the chart for 13 non-consecutive weeks and registered the most weeks at number one since Drake's Views (2016). Un Verano Sin Ti became the first album in chart history to spend its first 24 weeks (6 months) in the top two and the first Latin album to top the Billboard Year-End chart. The soundtrack of Disney's 2021 animated musical film, Encanto, marked the sixth time in history an animated film's soundtrack reached number one on the Billboard 200, following The Lion King (1994), Pocahontas (1995), Curious George (2006), Frozen and Frozen II (2019).

American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's album Midnights marked the year's biggest opening week with 1.578 million first-week units, the largest in the last seven years. It instantly became the fastest and best-selling album of 2022, and the biggest selling since Swift's own Reputation (2017); Swift also became the first artist in history to score 11 consecutive number-one debuts on the Billboard 200 chart. Born Pink, the second studio album by South Korean girl group Blackpink, marked the first number-one album on the Billboard 200 by a female group since Danity Kane's second album, Welcome to the Dollhouse (2008). South Korean boy group Stray Kids garnered two number ones on the chart this year, with their EPs Oddinary and Maxident; they became the first act to do so in 2022.

Chart history

Number-one artists

See also 
 List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2022
 List of Billboard Global 200 number ones of 2022
 2022 in American music

References

United States Albums
2022