List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2019

This is a list of the albums ranked number one in the United States during 2019. The top-performing albums and EPs in the United States are ranked on the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of their individual tracks.

Taylor Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, earned the biggest sales week of 2019, and became the best-selling album of the year.

Multiple artists received their first number-one album in 2019, including: 21 Savage, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Hozier, Juice Wrld (which would be his last released during his lifetime following his death later in the year), Nav, Billie Eilish, Khalid, Tyler, the Creator, The Raconteurs, Young Thug, Luke Combs, DaBaby, SuperM, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Trippie Redd, and Roddy Ricch.

The year also featured many artists return to the number-one spot after years of absence: the band Tool released their first number-one album in 13 years, the Jonas Brothers released their first in 10 (becoming the third consecutive number-one for both artists), the Backstreet Boys released their first album in 6 years, and their first number-one since 2000, and Celine Dion had her first number-one since 2002. Billie Eilish's debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was the best performing album of 2019. Taylor Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, was the best-selling album of 2019, and had the year's biggest sales week with 867,000 units.^[1]

Chart history

Billie Eilish's debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, was the best performing album of 2019. Eilish became the first artist born in the 21st century to have a number-one album on the Billboard 200.

Post Malone had the longest-running number-one album of the year, with his album Hollywood's Bleeding topping the chart for five non-consecutive weeks.

Rapper A Boogie Wit da Hoodie topped the chart for three weeks with his second studio album, Hoodie SZN.

English singer Ed Sheeran scored his third number one album with his fourth studio album, No.6 Collaborations Project.

Juice Wrld had his first number-one album with his second studio album Death Race for Love. It would be the last album released during his lifetime, as he died on December 8, 2019.

Fear Inoculum by Tool topped the chart with the highest debut for a rock/metal band in 2019. (pictured is frontman Maynard James Keenan).

Key

†	Indicates best-performing album of 2019[2]

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Album- equivalent units	Ref.
January 5	I Am > I Was	21 Savage	131,000	[3][4]
January 12			65,000	[5][6]
January 19	Hoodie SZN	A Boogie wit da Hoodie	58,000	[7][8]
January 26			56,000	[9][10]
February 2	Future Hndrxx Presents: The Wizrd	Future	126,000	[11][12]
February 9	DNA	Backstreet Boys	234,000	[13][14]
February 16	Hoodie SZN	A Boogie wit da Hoodie	47,000	[15][16]
February 23	Thank U, Next	Ariana Grande	360,000	[17][18]
March 2			151,000	[19][20]
March 9	A Star Is Born	Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper / Soundtrack	129,000	[21][22]
March 16	Wasteland, Baby!	Hozier	89,000	[23][24]
March 23	Death Race for Love	Juice Wrld	165,000	[25][26]
March 30			74,000	[27][28]
April 6	Bad Habits	Nav	82,000	[29][30]
April 13	When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? †	Billie Eilish	313,000	[31][32]
April 20	Free Spirit	Khalid	202,000	[33][34]
April 27	Map of the Soul: Persona	BTS	230,000	[35][36]
May 4	When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? †	Billie Eilish	88,000	[37][38]
May 11	Hurts 2B Human	Pink	115,000	[39][40]
May 18	Father of the Bride	Vampire Weekend	138,000	[41][42]
May 25	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Logic	80,000	[43][44]
June 1	Igor	Tyler, the Creator	165,000	[45][46]
June 8	When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? †	Billie Eilish	62,000	[47][48]
June 15	Center Point Road	Thomas Rhett	76,000	[49][50]
June 22	Happiness Begins	Jonas Brothers	414,000	[51][52]
June 29	Madame X	Madonna	95,000	[53][54]
July 6	Help Us Stranger	The Raconteurs	88,000	[55][56]
July 13	Indigo	Chris Brown	108,000	[57][58]
July 20	Revenge of the Dreamers III	Dreamville / Various Artists	115,000	[59][60]
July 27	No.6 Collaborations Project	Ed Sheeran	173,000	[61][62]
August 3			78,000	[63][64]
August 10	The Search	NF	130,000	[65][66]
August 17	Care Package	Drake	109,000	[67][68]
August 24	We Are Not Your Kind	Slipknot	118,000	[69][70]
August 31	So Much Fun	Young Thug	131,000	[71][72]
September 7	Lover	Taylor Swift	867,000	[73][74]
September 14	Fear Inoculum	Tool	270,000	[75][76]
September 21	Hollywood's Bleeding	Post Malone	489,000	[77][78]
September 28			198,000	[79][80]
October 5			149,000	[81][82]
October 12	Kirk	DaBaby	146,000	[83][84]
October 19	SuperM – The 1st Mini Album	SuperM	168,000	[85][86]
October 26	AI YoungBoy 2	YoungBoy Never Broke Again	110,000	[87][88]
November 2	Hollywood's Bleeding	Post Malone	93,000	[89][90]
November 9	Jesus Is King	Kanye West	264,000	[91][92]
November 16	Hollywood's Bleeding	Post Malone	78,000	[93][94]
November 23	What You See Is What You Get	Luke Combs	172,000	[95][96]
November 30	Courage	Celine Dion	113,000	[97][98]
December 7	A Love Letter to You 4	Trippie Redd	104,000	[99][100]
December 14	Frozen II	Soundtrack	80,000	[101][102]
December 21	Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial	Roddy Ricch	101,000	[103][104]
December 28	Fine Line	Harry Styles	478,000	[105][106]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Country	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	US	Post Malone	5
2	US	A Boogie wit da Hoodie	3
	US	Billie Eilish
3	UK	21 Savage	2
	US	Ariana Grande
	US	Juice Wrld
	UK	Ed Sheeran
4	US	Future	1
	US	Backstreet Boys
	US	Lady Gaga
	US	Bradley Cooper
	UK	Hozier
	Canada	Nav
	US	Khalid
	Korea	BTS
	US	Pink
	US	Vampire Weekend
	US	Logic
	US	Tyler, the Creator
	US	Thomas Rhett
	US	Jonas Brothers
	US	Madonna
	US	The Raconteurs
	US	Chris Brown
	US/ France	Various Dreamville artists
	US	NF (rapper)
	Canada	Drake
	US	Slipknot
	US	Young Thug
	US	Taylor Swift
	US	Tool
	US	DaBaby
	Korea	SuperM
	US	YoungBoy Never Broke Again
	US	Kanye West
	US	Luke Combs
	Canada	Celine Dion
	US	Trippie Redd
	US	Various artists
	US	Roddy Ricch
	UK	Harry Styles

See also

• 2019 in American music
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2019