Zach Bryan earns his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Jan. 24) as With Heaven on Top opens in the pole position with 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Jan. 15, according to Luminate. The 25-song set is the second leader for the singer-songwriter, who previously led the tally with his 2023 self-titled release. In total, Heaven marks the sixth top 40 set for Bryan, with five of those reaching the top 10.
In early 2025, Bryan announced With Heaven on Top as a forthcoming EP. Then in July, he shared the project’s release date of Jan. 9, 2026.
The set was issued via streaming services and as a widely available download for purchase, while a CD and vinyl release are expected in March. The album’s first-week was bolstered by its midweek deluxe reissue on Jan. 12 with 24 bonus acoustic tracks.
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, The Kid LAROI nabs his second top 10-charting effort, as Before I Forget enters at No. 6.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. 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 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Jan. 24, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 21 (one day later than usual due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday in the U.S. on Jan. 19). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.
Of With Heaven On Top’s 134,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 127,000 (equaling 130.32 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 6,000 (it debuts at No. 7 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 1,000.
With Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem slipping a spot to No. 2 (with 82,000 equivalent album units earned, down 4%), the Nos. 1 and 2 albums on the Billboard 200 are country sets for the first time in nearly two years. It last happened on the Feb. 17, 2024-dated chart, when Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits reentered the chart at No. 1 following his death, and Wallen’s One Thing at a Time fell to No. 2. (Country albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. The genre-blending Bryan typically charts his projects on Billboard’s country, rock and Americana/folk charts.)
Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving holds at its peak of No. 3 (64,000 equivalent album units earned, down 3%), Taylor Swift’s chart-topping The Life of a Showgirl falls 2-4 (63,000, down 13%) and the former No. 1 soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters is down a rung to No. 5 (56,000, down 1%).
The Kid LAROI lands his second top 10 on the Billboard 200 as Before I Forget bows at No. 6 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 30,000 (equaling 30.83 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 13 on Top Streaming Albums), 11,000 comprise album sales (aided by the availability of a signed CD, it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The artist previously visited the top 10 with the chart-topping F*ck Love in 2021.
Four former No. 1s round out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, as SZA’s SOS dips 6-7 (40,000 equivalent album units, down less than 1%), Tate McRae’s So Close To What falls 5-8 (nearly 40,000, down 2%), Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is down 8-9 (36,000, down less than 1%) and Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend descends 7-10 (33,000, down 12%).
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