Noah Kahan's The Great Divide hits third week at No. 1 on Billboard 200

Three weeks and counting

Noah Kahan's The Great Divide has earned a third consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated May 23), a milestone that makes it the first rock album to reach that mark in more than a decade. According to Billboard, the last rock record with as many weeks at the top was Mumford and Sons' Babel, which spent five nonconsecutive weeks there in 2012 and 2013. Among rock soloists specifically, the last to manage three weeks at No. 1 was Jack Johnson with Sleep Through the Static back in 2008.

The album earned 132,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending May 14, a drop of 19% from the prior week. Streaming carried the bulk of that figure: SEA units accounted for 109,000 of the total, equal to roughly 111.46 million on-demand streams of the set's tracks.

The rest of the top 10

Ella Langley's Dandelion holds at No. 2 with 100,000 equivalent album units. The biggest debut of the week belongs to CORTIS, whose GREENGREEN enters at No. 3 with 87,000 units. Album sales drove that number hard: 81,500 of the 87,000 units were pure sales, pushed by more than 20 physical variants on CD and vinyl loaded with collectible photocards and stickers.

Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem is steady at No. 4 with 85,000 units. Michael Jackson occupies both No. 5 (Thriller, 66,000 units) and No. 6 (Number Ones, just over 65,000), both titles still riding the momentum from the Michael biopic.

Chris Brown's new studio album BROWN bows at No. 7 with 65,000 equivalent album units, giving him his 13th top-10 charted project. The set was preceded by four entries on the Hot R&B Songs chart and was only available as a digital download at launch. Brown's co-headlining stadium tour with Usher kicks off June 26 in Denver and runs through December 12 in Tampa.

Rounding out the top 10: BTS's ARIRANG falls to No. 8 (44,000 units), Wallen's One Thing at a Time holds at No. 9 (41,000 units), and Olivia Dean's The Art of Loving slips to No. 10 with nearly 41,000 units.

Why it matters

Noah Kahan achieving this kind of chart longevity as a rock act is genuinely rare in an era dominated by pop and hip-hop streaming numbers. Three weeks at No. 1 is not just a personal best, it is a structural anomaly, and the data behind it, mostly streams rather than sales, suggests the album has found a broad, habitual audience rather than a burst of first-week buyers.