Coachella 2026’s three headliners — Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G — all make waves on the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 25), following their star turns over the first weekend of the festival (April 10-12).
Bieber has a career-high total of seven albums on the chart — including five re-entries and a debut — led by a top 10 return for SWAG. And all seven post individual gains of at least 100% in equivalent album units earned (in the United States in the week ending April 16) as compared to the previous week, according to Luminate. Carpenter has two titles on the chart, including one in the top 10; while Karol G re-enters the list with Tropicoqueta.
Carpenter, Bieber and Karol G headlined the evenings of April 10, 11 and 12, respectively, over the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and their performances were also livestreamed on YouTube. The trio repeated their headlining turns the following weekend (April 17, 18 and 19), and those gains will be reflected on next week’s charts (dated May 1).
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new April 25, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full onBillboard‘s website on April 21.
Bieber’s SWAG zooms 55-7 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 16, a gain of 160% compared to the previous week. The increase was largely owed to streaming activity, as SWAG’s songs generated 42,000 SEA units (up 158%), equaling 41.48 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — across both its SWAG and deluxe SWAG II reissue that contained additional songs. (All versions of the album are combined for tracking and charting.)
Five more Bieber sets re-enter the list: Purpose (No. 32 with 22,000 units; up 173%), Believe (No. 34 with 21,000, up 241%), My World 2.0 (No. 38 with 20,000, up 268%), Justice (No. 110 with 13,000, up 100%) and My World (No. 147 with 12,000, up 563%).
Debuting on the chart is Bieber’s 12-year-old album Journals, entering at No. 111 with nearly 13,000 units earned (up 192%). Journals was originally released exclusively for purchase only in the iTunes Store on Dec. 23, 2013. However, sales from the iTunes Store were not reported to Luminate (then-named Nielsen SoundScan), and in turn, the title did not debut on the Billboard 200. The album eventually became widely available to all digital download and streaming services (and eventually iTunes began reporting the album’s weekly sales), and on CD and vinyl, but this week marks the first week the album had enough activity to chart in a single week.
With seven albums on the Billboard 200 at the same time, that marks the most titles Bieber has placed on the tally concurrently. The most he’s ever had on the chart at once is four, last achieved in January 2012.
As for Carpenter, her former No. 1 Man’s Best Friend jumps back into the top 10, climbing 18-10, with 40,000 equivalent album units earned, up 44%. Like SWAG, Man’s Best Friend mostly gained from streaming increases — it earned 34,000 SEA units (up 60%), equaling 34.39 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs.
Carpenter’s previous set, Short n’ Sweet, sizzles with a 24-17 jump (nearly 31,000 units, up 23%).
Rounding out the Coachella headliners is Karol G, who sees her Tropicoqueta album re-enter at No. 116 with nearly 13,000 units (up 51%).
