Last week’s Billboard charts were inundated with Christmas music. It was to be the last tracking period that saw millions of Americans streaming and buying holiday music–at least for several months. Now, the charts are free of those jolly compositions, which means there’s plenty of room for non-seasonal projects to find their way back to the weekly tallies.
This week’s Billboard 200 is flush with dozens of returning titles as Christmas compilations and albums fade away. A total of 56 efforts return to the list of the most-consumed albums in the U.S. this frame after missing the ranking last time around.
The list of albums that find their way back to the Billboard 200 this week includes a bevy of beloved artists. The returning champions span decades, genres, and include both those musicians who are still with us and a number of favorites who departed this world years ago.
The Weeknd earns the top return of the week on the Billboard 200. The R&B powerhouse’s Beauty Behind the Madness reappears on the list at No. 83. Just one other title, Journey’s Greatest Hits, also manages to bounce back onto the chart inside the upper half of the Billboard 200. That compilation is back at No. 89. Those two projects shifted 10,668 and 10,454 equivalent units, respectively, according to Luminate.
The full list of artists who return to the Billboard 200 this week is too large to print in its entirety. It includes dozens of acts, and a handful actually see more than one project find space on the chart that wasn’t able to last period. The roundup includes stars like Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Linkin Park, Eminem, Whitney Houston, Hall & Oates, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ed Sheeran, and plenty of others.
Somewhat shockingly, there isn’t a single debut on this week’s Billboard 200. The chart almost always features at least a few new arrivals that hit the tally for the first time. January is known as a particularly quiet period for new music to drop, but it’s still noteworthy that no major artists decided to share anything that performed well enough to hit the ranking. The lack of exciting new releases also helped free up space for returning hits.
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