Billboard 200 #1 Album Week of October 31 prediction

The latest Billboard 200 chart, dated Oct. 17, 2026, has Olivia Rodrigo's you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love at No. 3 with 66,000 equivalent album units, a drop of one spot and a 2% decline in units. Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl sits at No. 1 with 93,000 units, and Drake's HABIBTI is No. 2 with 71,000, according to a chart listing for that week. That gap is the main reason the lean is against Rodrigo taking the Oct. 31 chart. She is not far back, but she would have to pass two albums that currently rank above her. Swift's figure includes 27,000 in sales, and Drake's includes fewer than 1,000, per the same listing. Rodrigo does have something moving in her favor. A remix of "Expectations" with Chappell Roan was set to arrive Oct. 15, and reports describe it as the first remix of its kind in her career. Billboard has called the album Billboard 200-topping, so it has reached No. 1 before. The evidence here does not show how much the remix will add to her unit totals. Other titles are in the same neighborhood. The Beatles' Rubber Soul re-entered at No. 4 with 58,000 units, and Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem is at No. 5 with 55,000. What to watch: the chart dated Oct. 24, which will show whether the remix lifts Rodrigo's units and narrows the distance to Swift and Drake.