page_title: List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2018
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2018 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: English: cut bay original picture Lady Gaga at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival
context_page_description: The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of its individual tracks. In 2018, a total of 41 albums claimed the top position of the chart. Beginning with rapper Eminem's ninth studio album, Revival, issue dated January 3, another one of which, Taylor Swift's sixth studio album, Reputation returned to the top slot a week later after three weeks from the slot, issue dated December 2, 2017.
  Drake's Scorpion was the best selling album of 2018. Rapper Post Malone's Beerbongs & Bentleys is the second best-selling album with 3,251,000 total album units, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 374,000 were in traditional album sales. In the meantime, another hip-hop artist Travis Scott's third studio album, Astroworld, sustained the second biggest first-week sales with 537,000 album-equivalent units, of which 270,000 were pure sales.
caption: Lady Gaga (pictured) earned her fifth consecutive number-one album with A Star Is Born making her the first female artist to have five number-one albums in the 2010s decade.
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