Interscope Records rules the top of the latest Billboard 200 albums chart, as the company holds the top three titles on the list dated March 29. It’s the first time Interscope has held the top three concurrently in over 20 years. Further, Interscope is one of only two labels to have claimed the top three on the chart in the last 30 years.
On the March 29-dated chart, Playboi Carti’s MUSIC (released via AWGE/Interscope) debuts at No. 1, while Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM (Streamline/Interscope) falls to No. 2 and Kendrick Lamar’s former leader GNX (pgLang/Interscope) dips 2-3.
All three titles are from the Interscope Capitol labels group family, which was announced a little over a year ago. It’s the first time it has held the top three.
Interscope last claimed the top three on the May 31, 2003-dated chart, when Nos. 1-3 were Marilyn Manson’s The Golden Age of Grotesque (Nothing/Interscope), 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) and Cold’s Year of the Spider (Flip/Geffen/Interscope).
Interscope captured the top three-plus two other times in the last 30 years. On the Dec. 7, 1996, chart, the label had the top four with Bush’s Razorblade Suitcase (Trauma/Interscope), Snoop Dogg’s Tha Doggfather (Death Row/Interscope), Makaveli’s The Don Killuminati (Death Row/Interscope) and No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom (Trauma/Interscope). On the Nov. 30, 1996, chart, Interscope also had the top three, with Tha Doggfather, The Don Killuminati and Tragic Kingdom at Nos. 1-3.
The only other label to capture the top three in the same week in the last 30 years is Republic, which first claimed the feat in 2018 and has done it a number of times since.
