Juice WRLD makes a posthumous appearance on this week’s Billboard 200 as The Party Never Ends debuts at No. 4.
The late artist’s final album earns a total of 86,000 equivalent album units in its first week, including 84,000 in streaming equivalent album units (123.43 million on-demand streams of the songs), 2,000 in album sales and the remaining in track equivalent album units. The Party Never Ends is the third posthumous release from Juice and marks his sixth top 10 entry; his earlier posthumous releases, Legends Never Die and Fighting Demons, debuted at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively.
Elsewhere in this week’s top 10, Taylor Swift returns to No. 1 followed by Kendrick Lamar at No. 2, the Wicked film soundtrack at No. 3 and Sabrina Carpenter at No. 5. The bottom half of this week’s top 10 is already spreading Christmas cheer as Michael Bublé’s Christmas jumps to No. 7, while Bing Crosby appears in the top 10 for the first time in almost 64 years as Ultimate Christmas climbs to No. 9. Billie Eilish moves down to No. 6, followed by Chappell Roan at No. 8 and Tyler, the Creator at No. 10.
