BILLBOARD MAGAZINE'S (BARRY KOWAL) TOP ALBUMS FOR 2021

Pos. Title-Artist-Peak Month
  1 DANGEROUS:THE DOUBLE ALBUM-MORGAN WALLEN-JANUARY                                             7556
  2 SOUR-OLIVIA RODRIGO-June                                                                      3300
  3 THE HIGHLIGHTS-THE WEEKND-February                                                            2662
  4 PLANET HER-DOJA CAT-July                                                                      2378
  5 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY-DRAKE-September                                                           2102
  6 FUTURE NOSTALGIA-DUA LIPA-March                                                               1528
  7 FUCK LOVE-KID LAROI-August                                                                    1200
  8 30-Adele-December                                                                              936
  9 JUSTICE-Justin Bieber-April                                                                    858
 10 HAPPIER THAN EVER-Billie Eilish-August                                                         810
 11 Hall Of Fame-Polo G-June                                                                       792
 12 A Gangsta's Pain-Moneybagg-May                                                                 790
 13 The Voice-Lil Durk-January                                                                     764
 14 Soulfly-Rod Wave-April                                                                         750
 15 Evermore-Taylor Swift-January                                                                  690
 16 The Voice Of The Heroes-Lil Baby & Lil Durk-June                                               614
 17 Donda-Kanye West-September                                                                     606
 18 Red (Taylor's Version)-Taylor Swift-November                                                   604
 19 Shiesty Season-Pooh Shiesty-February                                                           532
 20 =-Ed Sheeran-November                                                                          510
 21 Sincerely,Kentrell-YoungBoy Never Broke-October                                                398
 22 The Off-Season-J. Cole-May                                                                     392
 23 Montero-Lil Nas X-October                                                                      390
 24 Call Me If You Get Lost-Tyler,The Creator-July                                                 374
 25 Still Over It-Summer Walker-November                                                           330
 26 Christmas-Michael Buble-December  (2011)                                                       324
 27 Fighting Demons-Juice Wrld-December                                                            310
 28 Inside (The Songs)-Bo Burnham-June                                                             308
 29 Fearless (Taylor's Version)-Taylor Swift-April                                                 300
 30 Slime Language 2-Young Thug-May                                                                262
 31 Destined 2 Win-Lil Tjay-April                                                                  246
 32 Culture III-Migos-June                                                                         244
 33 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack)-Vince Guaraldi Trio-December (1965)                     228
 34 Merry Christmas-Mariah Carey-December (1994)                                                   220
 35 The Christmas Song-Nat King Cole-December (1963)                                               212
 36 An Evening With Silk Sonic-Silk Sonic,Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak -November                    206
 37 Khaled Khaled-DJ Khaled-May                                                                    206
 38 The Melodic Blue-Baby Keem-September                                                           174
 39 Faith-Pop Smoke-July                                                                           160
 40 Expensive Pain-Meek Mill-October                                                               148
 41 Trip At Knight-Trippie Redd-August                                                             136
 42 Whole Lotta Red-Playboi Carti-January                                                          122
 43 Punk-Young Thug-October                                                                        118
 44 My Savior-Carrie Underwood-April                                                               100
 45 Star-Crossed-Kacey Musgraves-September                                                          98
 46 If I Can't Have Love,I Want Power-Halsey-September                                              98
 47 The Chaos Chapter:Freeze-Tomorrow x Together-June                                               98
 48 Dancing With the Devil...The Art of Starting Over-Demi Lovato-April                             94
 49 When It's All Said and Done... Take Time-Giveon-March                                           92
 50 Mercury:Act 1-Imagine Dragons-September                                                         82
 51 Goodbye & Good Riddance-Juice WRLD-June       (2018)                                            82
 52 Nevermind-Nirvana-November            (1992)                                                    74 
 53 Voyage-ABBA-November                                                                            58
 54 Life Of A Don-Don Toliver-October                                                               58
 55 Sob Rock-John Mayer-July                                                                        58
 56 Beam Me Up Scotty-Nick Minaj-May                                                                58
 57 The Best of DMX-DMX-April     (2010)                                                            58  
 58 Chemtrails Over The Country Club-Lana Del Rey-April                                             58
 59 McCartney III-Paul McCartney-January                                                            58
 60 Formula Of Love:O+T=<3-Twice-November                                                           56
 61 Faces-Mac Miller-October                                                                        56
 62 Sticker:The 3rd Album-NCT 127-October                                                           56
 63 Senjutsu-Iron Maiden-September                                                                  56
 64 King's Disease II-Nas-August                                                                    56
 65 Scaled And Icy-Twenty One Pilots-May                                                            56
 66 Clouds (The Mixtape)-NF-April                                                                   56
 67 Medicine At Midnight-Foo Fighters-February                                                      56
 68 The Good Times And The Bad Ones-Why Don't We-January                                            56
 69 Music of the Spheres-Coldplay-October                                                           54
 70 Welcome 2 America-Prince-August                                                                 54
 71 Soul-Eric Church-May                                                                            54
 72 Heaux Tales-Jazmine Sullivan-January                                                            54
 73 Something For The Hotties-Megan Thee Stallion-November                                          52
 74 Let It Be-The Beatles-October        (1970)                                                     52       
 75 Solar Power-Lorde-August                                                                        52
 76 25-G Herbo-July                                                                                 52
 77 Heart-Eric Church-April                                                                         52
 78 Good Things-Dan + Shay-August                                                                   50
 79 Back Of My Mind- H.E.R.-June                                                                    50
 80 Taste of Love-Twice-June                                                                        50
 81 Delta Kream-The Black Keys-May                                                                  50
 82 Raise the Roof-Robert Plant & Alison Krauss-November                                            48
 83 Yellow Tape 2-Key Glock-November                                                                48
 84 Long Term Effects of Suffering-$uicideboy$-August                                               48
 85 All Things Must Pass-George Harrison-August    (1971)                                           48  
 86 The House Is Burning-Isaiah Rashad-August                                                       48
 87 Bigger Than Life or Death-EST Gee-August                                                        48
 88 The Battle Aat Garden's Gate-Greta Van Fleet-April                                              48
 89 Macon-Jason Aldean-November                                                                     46
 90 Blue Banisters-Lana Del Rey-November                                                            46
 91 Love for Sale-Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga-October                                                46
 92 Jordi-Maroon 5-June                                                                             46
 93 Exodus-DMX-June                                                                                 46
 94 Free Dem Boyz-42 Dugg-May                                                                       46 
 95 Dum and Dummer 2-Young Dolph And Key Glock-April                                                46
 96 Metallica-Metallica-September     (1991)                                                        44   
 97 Pressure Machine-The Killers-August                                                             44
 98 Where Have You Gone-Alan Jackson-May                                                            44
 99 The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy-Rob Zombie-March                                44
100 Niratias-Chevelle-March                                                                         44
101 The Lockdown Sessions-Elton John-November                                                       42
102 We Love You Tecca 2-Lil Tecca-September                                                         42
103 One In a Million-Aaliyah-August   (1996)                                                        42 
104 Country Again (Side A)-Thomas Rhett-May                                                         42
105 OK Orchestra-AJR-April                                                                          42
106 If I Know Me-Morgan Wallen-February    (2018)                                                   42  
107 Los Dioses-Anuel AA and Ozuna-February                                                          42
108 Dimension:Dilemma-ENHYPEN-October                                                               40
109 In These Silent Days-Brandi Carlile-October                                                     40
110 Crazy In Love:The 1st Album-iTZY-October                                                        40
111 Human-OneRepublic-September                                                                     40
112 Just A Matter Of Slime-YNW Melly-August                                                         40
113 Van Weezer-Weezer-May                                                                           40
114 Roadrunner:New Light,New Machine-BrockHampton-April                                             40
115 When You See Yourself-Kings Of Leon-March                                                       40
116 Kid A Mnesia-Radiohead-November                                                                 38
117 Jose-J Balvin-September                                                                         38
118 Moon Boy-Yung Bleu-August                                                                       38
119 Mammoth WVH-Mammoth WVH-June                                                                    38
120 Fortitude-Gojira-May                                                                            38
121 Spaceman-Nick Jonas-March                                                                       38
122 Only The Family Presents:Loyal Bros Compilation-Various Artists-March                           38
123 Judas And The Black Messiah:The Inspired Album-Soundtrack-February                              38
124 Blockchain-Money Man-November                                                                   36
125 Dave's Picks,Vol. 40:Deer Creek Music Center,Noblesville,IN 7/18/90/7/19/90-Grateful Dead-Nov.  36
126 Seventeen 9th Mini Album: Attacca (EP)-Seventeen-November                                       36
127 Eternal Blue-Spiritbox-October                                                                  36
128 Aaliyah-Aaliyah-September   (2001)                                                              36  
129 King Of Killbranch-BIG30-September                                                              36
130 Famous Friends-Chris Young-August                                                               36
131 All I Know So Far:Setlist-P!nk-June                                                             36