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

+KeyIndicates the best-performing album of 2022 Issue date Album Artist(s) Album-equivalent units 30 Adele 212,000 99,000 Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Soundtrack 72,000 DS4Ever Gunna 150,300 Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Soundtrack 104,000 115,000 113,000 110,000 98,000 90,000 80,000 72,500 7220 Lil Durk 120,500 Oddinary Stray Kids 110,000 Mainstream Sellout Machine Gun Kelly 93,000 Unlimited Love Red Hot Chili Peppers 97,500 7220 Lil Durk 47,000 Call Me If You Get Lost Tyler, the Creator 59,000 It's Almost Dry Pusha T 55,000 I Never Liked You Future 222,000 Un Verano Sin Ti Bad Bunny 274,000 Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers Kendrick Lamar 295,500 Harry's House Harry Styles 521,500 160,500 Un Verano Sin Ti Bad Bunny 137,000 Proof BTS 314,000 Honestly, Nevermind Drake 204,000 Un Verano Sin Ti Bad Bunny 115,000 111,000 105,500 103,000 98,000 Renaissance Beyoncé 332,000 Un Verano Sin Ti Bad Bunny 108,800 Beautiful Mind Rod Wave 115,000 Un Verano Sin Ti Bad Bunny 105,000 God Did DJ Khaled 107,500 Un Verano Sin Ti Bad Bunny 99,500 97,000 Born Pink Blackpink 102,000 Un Verano Sin Ti Bad Bunny 87,000 84,000 Maxident Stray Kids 117,000 It's Only Me Lil Baby 216,000 Midnights Taylor Swift 1,578,000 342,000 Her Loss Drake and 21 Savage 404,000 Midnights Taylor Swift 204,000 177,000 151,000 Heroes & Villains Metro Boomin 185,000 SOSSZA318,000 180,000

Number-one artists + List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one Position Country Artist Weeks at No. 1 1 () Bad Bunny 13 2 / Various artists (Encanto) 9 3 Taylor Swift 5 4 Adele 2 Lil Durk Harry Styles Stray Kids Drake SZA 10 Gunna 1 Machine Gun Kelly Red Hot Chili Peppers Tyler, the Creator Pusha T Future Kendrick Lamar BTS Beyoncé Rod Wave DJ Khaled Blackpink Lil Baby 21 Savage Metro Boomin

See also List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 2022 List of Billboard Global 200 number ones of 2022 List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of the 2020s 2022 in American music

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