List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2023
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This is a list of the albums ranked number one in the United States during 2023. The top-performing albums and EPs in the U.S. are ranked on the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data is compiled by Luminate Data based on multi-metric consumption as measured in album-equivalent units, which comprise album sales, track sales, and streams on digital music platforms. Each unit equals one album sold or 10 individual digital tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.
1989 (Taylor's Version), the fourth re-recorded album by Taylor Swift, surpassed her own Speak Now (Taylor's Version) to garner the largest opening week of 2023, with over 1.65 million album-equivalent units, including 1.35 million album sales. It became the best-selling album of the year, with over 1.9 million copies sold within 2023.{{Cite web |last=Caulfield |first=Keith |date=2024-01-10 |title=Morgan Wallen's 'One Thing at a Time' Is Luminate's Top Album of 2023 in U.S. |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/2023-us-year-end-music-report-luminate-top-album-morgan-wallen-taylor-swift-1235579214/ |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=Billboard |language=en-US}} Mañana Será Bonito, the fourth studio album by Colombian singer Karol G, became the first-ever Spanish-language album by a female artist to reach
the number-one spot, and only the third Spanish-language album to top the chart in its 78-year history.
File:Morgan Wallen performing at Freedom Fest 2019.jpg by American country singer Morgan Wallen is the longest-running number-one album of the year.]]
One Thing at a Time, the third studio album by American country singer Morgan Wallen, is the longest-running number-one album of the year, topping the chart for 16 non-consecutive weeks. It also became the most consumed album of 2023. The second studio album of SZA, SOS (2022), is 2023's longest reigning number-one on the Billboard 200 by a female artist, topping the chart for eight weeks within the year.
Chart history
File:SZA CTRL Tour Toronto 2017 8 (cropped).jpg (2022) by SZA is the year's longest-running number-one album by a female artist, with eight weeks atop the chart in 2023.]]
File:Travi$ Scott 2014 February.jpg by Travis Scott became the first rap album since Drake's Scorpion (2018) to spend its first four weeks atop the chart.]]
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Number-one artists
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|+ List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one ! scope="col"| Rank ! scope="col"| Artist ! scope="col"| Weeks at No. 1 |
| 1
| 16 |
| 2
| SZA | 8 |
| 3
| 7 |
| 4
| 4 |
| rowspan="4"| 5
| rowspan="4"| 2 |
| Rod Wave |
| Stray Kids |
| Drake |
| rowspan="9" | 9
| rowspan="9" | 1 |
| Karol G |
| Lil Uzi Vert |
| NewJeans |
| Olivia Rodrigo |
| Bad Bunny |
| Blink-182 |
| Ateez |
| Nicki Minaj |