Ken Carson’s “More Chaos” debuted at No. 1 on the “Billboard” 200 this week. It’s his first Top 10 and first No. 1 album. His 2022 album “X” peaked at No. 115 and 2023’s “A Great Chaos” climbed all the way to No. 11. He’s one of three artists, alongside Tate McRae and PARTYNEXTDOOR, to earn their first No. 1 in 2025 so far. Carson is signed to Opium, a label founded by Playboi Carti, who himself held the No. 1 spot just last week. This made for the unusual situation of an artist pulling No. 1 out from under the founder of their own label.

“More Chaos” moved 59,000 units during the week—quite a low figure for a chart-topping album. The last time a No. 1 album sold so few copies was when Pusha T’s album “It’s Almost Dry” sold 55,000 in May 2022. Looking deeper, 48,000 units for “More Chaos” came from 67 million streams, putting it at No. 3 on the Top Streaming Albums chart. Album sales reached 11,000 copies, placing it at No. 4 on the Top Album Sales chart.

All nine of the other albums in the Top 10 previously peaked at No. 1. Notably, both Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX” and SZA’s “SOS” climbed the chart, from No. 5 to 2 and from 4 to 3, respectively. The uptick is likely due to their joint “Grand National Tour,” which kicked off in April. The Lady Gaga album “MAYHEM” jumped from No. 12 to No. 10, which can be attributed to her headlining Coachella. In fact, several artists who played Coachella saw gains on the chart for the week. Charlie xcx’s album “BRAT” made an especially impressive jump, going from No. 63 to No. 31 in one week.

Meanwhile, “SOS” by SZA has now spent 85 weeks in the Top 10 following its release in late 2022. The longest-running Top 10 albums on the “Billboard” 200 tend to be original cast recordings of musicals or movie soundtracks, but among albums by individual artists, “SOS” has been on the chart longer than all but two other albums. It’s also tied with Peter, Paul and Mary’s 1962 self-titled album and has since surpassed Adele’s “21,” which spent 84 weeks in the Top 10, meaning SZA is now the woman with the longest-running Top 10 album in history. Morgan Wallen claims both the longest- and second-longest-running albums in the Top 10 among individual artists. His album “Dangerous: The Double Album” holds the record with 158 weeks, while “One Thing at a Time” has spent 106 weeks in the Top 10.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s duet “luther” has sat at No. 1 for nine consecutive weeks. It’s the longest-charting rap No. 1 since Roddy Ricch’s song “The Box” ruled for 11 weeks in 2020. As with Lamar’s strong performance on the “Billboard” 200 with “GNX,” the song’s traction can be attributed to the pair’s joint tour, which has also helped it widen the gap between itself and No. 2. Streaming numbers rose 10%, allowing the song to reclaim the No. 1 spot on the Streaming Songs chart for a seventh week. Airplay increased by 7%, keeping it atop the Radio Songs chart for a third week.

Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” climbed from No. 5 to No. 4 this week. This matches her previous peak at No. 4 with “Good Luck, Babe!” Could “Pink Pony Club” go on to become Roan’s biggest hit yet? The song hit No. 11 on streaming and No. 3 on radio, and that increase in airplay makes it seem as though the song’s likely to stay near the top of the chart for a while.

Alex Warren’s single “Ordinary” surged from No. 14, to No. 7, to No. 5 over the past three weeks. It’s his first Top 5 hit. Warren owes much of that climb to his song’s strong performance on the Digital Song Sales chart, where it claimed the No. 1 spot. It took No. 4 in streaming, while it’s only just beginning to find traction on the radio, where the song recently hit No. 49. Although Warren started as an influencer, he’s far past the point where he can simply be called a surprise one-hit wonder, and he’s now got the numbers to start eying the top of the chart.

Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” achieved a historic milestone during the week when, charting at No. 7, it marked its 58th week in the Top 10. The song has fallen out of the Top 10 only eight times since first entering in January 2024. This breaks the record previously held by the Weeknd’s single “Blinding Lights,” which spent 57 weeks in the Top 10. Third by the same metric is “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey with 48 weeks. Considering “Bar Song” held No. 1 for 19 of those weeks, it seemed unlikely that the Weeknd’s record would be broken so quickly. Notably, “Lose Control” only topped the chart once, versus the four times “Blinding Lights” did so. As for the song that stayed in the Top 10 the longest without ever reaching No. 1, that distinction belongs to “Levitating” by Dua Lipa, which spent 41 weeks in the Top 10 and peaked at No. 2. On top of that, “Lose Control” has been on the Hot 100 for 87 whole weeks. This ties it with the Imagine Dragons song “Radioactive” for the third longest time spent on the chart. Ahead of that are “Blinding Lights” at 90 weeks and “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals at 91 weeks. If the trend holds, Swims seems poised to set a new record for the longest-charting song in Hot 100 history.

There’s many ways to describe Lana Del Rey, but they all seem to overlap with some key themes: melancholy and nostalgia, romanticized tragedy, cinematic mystery. At times she plays on these almost too much, leading, for example, to controversy when she first showed up in the early 2010s around if she was an authentically “indie” artist. At the time, she faced baseless accusations of merely being packaged as one, riding the wave of the genre’s mainstream popularity. But well-received albums like “Ultraviolence” and “Norman F—ing Rockwell!” solidified her place as one of the artists with the most dedicated fanbases of her time.

Her new single “Henry, come on” dropped on April 11 and debuted on the Hot 100 at No. 90 and the Global 200 at No. 72. A week later, she released another single, “Bluebird,” to great streaming reception. Both tracks are expected to be part of a new album slated for release sometime this year. Details about the album’s title and release date remain unknown, however. The back-to-back releases gave fans two singles to listen to but little insight around the album. It’s not a surprise drop, and not typical of any other promotional angle, so what exactly is going on?

In early 2024, Del Rey announced plans for a 10th studio album, titled “Lasso,” then scheduled for a September 2024 release. From its earliest days, the album was positioned as having a country music influence. But by November, the album’s title had changed to “The Right Person Will Stay,” and its release date was pushed back to May 21. With the release of “Henry, come on,” though, both the title and release date of the album were rendered uncertain once again. We’ve got singles now, but no news on an album.

Both singles lean more into the Americana sound Del Rey has consistently embraced, with Southern influences showing through, as opposed to sounding like country songs. One talks about “country singers” who aren’t the “settle-down type,” while the other has a line that goes, “We both shouldn’t be dealing with him / Find a way to fly.” Images like these keep listeners yearning to know the name and release date of Del Rey’s elusive new album.

ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ duet “APT.” is in its 26th week on the Hot 100, holding at No. 13. It’s No. 16 on Streaming Songs, No. 10 on Digital Song Sales, and No. 15 on Radio Songs. ROSÉ’s album “rosie” is in its 19th week on the “Billboard” 200, at No. 98. The BLACKPINK member is No. 72 on the Artist 100.

JENNIE’s single “like JENNIE” returns to the Hot 100 at No. 96. Her album “Ruby” is at No. 81 on the “Billboard” 200.

ZEROBASEONE’s EP “BLUE PARADISE” is No. 23 on the Top Album Sales chart, and the group is No. 4 on the Emerging Artists chart.

“HOP” by Stray Kids is No. 47 on the Top Album Sales chart, while xikers comes in at No. 39 on the Emerging Artists chart.

Finally, here’s a full roundup of how K-pop is doing on the Global 200.