Blink-182 Reaches A Special Milestone For The First Time

Blink-182 is just barely holding on when it comes to Billboard’s most important albums chart. The pop-punk band sees its Greatest Hits decline on the Billboard 200, but as it holds on, it reaches a very special landmark–one which the group has never seen before.

As of this frame, Blink-182’s Greatest Hits has now spent 156 weeks somewhere on the Billboard 200. The compilation is the first release from the rock act to rack up exactly three years somewhere on the 200-space ranking of the most-consumed albums and EPs throughout America.

This frame, Greatest Hits dips eight spaces, falling from No. 192 to No. 200. Even if it had fallen away, the title occasionally disappears, but fans in America continue to consume the many singles featured on it, so it would almost certainly return at some point, as it always has in the past.

Luminate reports that in the past tracking period, Blink-182’s Greatest Hits moved about 8,150 equivalent units. That’s down slightly from last frame, when it shifted 8,300. Of that sum, a little under 700 are pure purchases, with streaming activity making up almost all of the rest.

Greatest Hits is the only release by Blink-182 to manage triple-digit frames anywhere on the Billboard 200. Enema of the State, the band’s early release that hit the chart in 1999, remains the group’s second longest-running win, with 86 turns on the tally.

Blink-182’s singles collection is present on three Billboard charts this week, and it falls on all of them. It lands highest on the Top Alternative Albums list, where it dips from No. 23 to No. 25. At the same time, it declines from No. 39 to No. 41 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums list.

The pop-punk group’s Greatest Hits also hits 156 weeks on the Top Alternative Albums chart. It’s lived on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums ranking for slightly longer, as this frame is No. 167 for the title.