Billboard’s Top Streaming Albums Chart Launches: Bad Bunny’s ‘Nadie’ Leads Inaugural List

Top Streaming Albums joins Billboard’s portfolio of weekly album charts, commencing with the chart dated Oct. 28, reflecting activity in the week ending Oct. 19. Bad Bunny’s Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana is the chart’s inaugural No. 1, with 176,000 streaming equivalent album units (equaling 239.56 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) earned in the U.S. in the tracking week, according to Luminate.

Top Streaming Albums, like Top Album Sales (also 50-positions deep), is a component chart to the overall Billboard 200 albums chart. Top Album Sales tallies the top-selling titles of the week, by traditional album sales.

Rounding out the top five of the first Top Streaming Albums chart is Drake’s For All the Dogs, Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, Rod Wave’s Nostalgia and Zach Bryan’s self-titled album at Nos. 2-5, respectively.

The 50-position chart lists the most-streamed albums of the week in the U.S., as compiled by Luminate. Titles are ranked by streaming equivalent album (SEA) units, where each SEA unit equals 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. If an artist has multiple albums with the same song, SEA units for that song are generally assigned to whichever album sells the most by traditional album sales in a given week.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.