Ariana Grande’s Everlasting Sunshine spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated March 30), after debuting atop the tally every week in the past. The set earned 100,500 equal album items within the U.S. within the monitoring week ending March 21 (down 56%), in keeping with Luminate. It’s the third Grande album to have logged a personal-best two weeks at No. 1. Her final two full-length studio units, Positions (in 2020) and Thank U, Subsequent (2019), each spent their first two weeks at No. 1.
Everlasting Sunshine debuted at No. 1 on the March 23-dated record with 227,000 items earned.
Plus, Kacey Musgraves’ Deeper Effectively begins at No. 2 together with her greatest week ever by each equal album items and conventional album gross sales, whereas Justin Timberlake’s The whole lot I Thought It Was launches at No. 4.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. primarily based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Models comprise album gross sales, observe equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered 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. The brand new March 30, 2024-dated chart might be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Tuesday (March 26). For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously generally known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Everlasting Sunshine’s 100,000 items earned within the monitoring week ending March 21, SEA items comprise 87,000 (down 41%, equaling 115.05 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album gross sales comprise 13,000 (down 56%) and TEA items comprise 500 (down 84%).
Kacey Musgraves’ Deeper Effectively makes a splash, because it debuts at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 97,000 equal album items earned — her greatest week, by items, for the reason that chart started rating by that measurement in December 2014. Additional, of the album’s first-week items, conventional album gross sales comprise 66,000 — Musgraves’ greatest gross sales week ever.
Of Deeper Effectively’s first-week unit sum of 97,000, conventional album gross sales comprise 66,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week), SEA items comprise 30,000 (equaling 38.06 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA items comprise 1,000.
Deeper Effectively is Musgraves’ highest-charting album since her debut effort, Identical Trailer Totally different Park, debuted and peaked at No. 2 in 2013.
Deeper Effectively is the fifth prime 10-charting effort for Musgraves, and all of them have began within the prime 4 of the rating. She beforehand visited the area with Star-Crossed (No. 3, 2021), Golden Hour (No. 4, 2018), Pageant Materials (No. 3, 2015) and Identical Trailer Totally different Park (No. 2, 2013).
Deeper Effectively’s first-week unit sum surpasses Musgraves’ earlier excessive, by items earned, when Star-Crossed debuted with 77,000 items. And, Deeper Effectively’s first-week gross sales determine is her greatest gross sales body ever, beating the 55,000 that Pageant Materials offered in its first week.
The brand new album was led by a pair of charting tracks on Billboard’s Sizzling Nation Songs chart: the title observe (reaching No. 26 in February) and “Too Good To Be True” (No. 41 earlier in March). Deeper is Musgraves’ first album since 2021, whereas in 2023 she scored her greatest chart hit ever on the Sizzling Nation Songs and all-genre Billboard Sizzling 100 charts, when Zach Bryan’s “I Bear in mind The whole lot,” on which she’s featured, topped each tallies. The tune, her first chief on each lists, was launched on Bryan’s self-titled 2023 album, however will not be on Deeper.
Musgraves supported the album launch with appearances on NBC’s The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon (March 14), NBC’s Right now (March 15) and SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Present (March 18). Previous to the album’s launch on March 15, Musgraves was the musical visitor on the March 2 episode of NBC’s Saturday Night time Reside.
Deeper Effectively’s first-week gross sales have been supported by its availability throughout 9 vinyl variants, together with eight different-colored variations and unique editions for Amazon, Spotify and Goal. In complete, the album offered 37,000 copies on vinyl — the top-selling vinyl set of the week, Musgraves’ greatest gross sales week ever on vinyl, the biggest vinyl week of 2024, and the fourth-largest week for a rustic album on vinyl since Luminate started monitoring gross sales in 1991. (The one larger gross sales weeks on vinyl for nation units have been all registered by Taylor Swift’s re-recordings.)
Deeper Effectively was additionally issued in 4 completely different CD variations, three completely different digital editions (two have been unique to her webstore — one with a bonus observe, and one other with the identical bonus observe an alternate cowl artwork) and as a cassette tape.
Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time slips 2-3 on the brand new Billboard 200, pushed down with a 3% achieve to 70,000 equal album items earned.
Justin Timberlake returns to the Billboard 200 along with his first album in over six years, as The whole lot I Thought It Was begins at No. 4. The set opens with 67,000 equal album items earned and marks Timberlake’s sixth consecutive prime five-charting effort — the whole lot of his solo releases, which incorporates 4 No. 1s.
Of The whole lot’s first-week unit sum of 67,000, conventional album gross sales comprise 41,000, SEA items comprise 24,000 (equaling 31.13 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA items comprise 2,000.
The brand new album was led off by the one “Egocentric,” which peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 dated Feb. 10. The observe has additionally reached the highest 20 of the Radio Songs, Pop Airplay, Grownup Pop Airplay, Grownup Modern and Rhythmic Airplay charts.
The whole lot’s launch was ushered in by a much-buzzed-about one-off live performance at The Wiltern in Los Angeles (March 13). The present featured a shock reunion along with his *NSYNC bandmates, with the group taking part in a medley of hits and the brand new The whole lot observe “Paradise.” Timberlake additionally turned up on NPR’s Tiny Desk collection on March 15 for a half-hour-long live performance. Earlier within the week, on March 11, he carried out the album’s “No Angels” on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Reside!
The whole lot’s first-week gross sales have been aided by its availability throughout 4 completely different vinyl variants (together with exclusives for Amazon, Goal and his webstore), 4 completely different deluxe CD boxed units (every with a bit of branded clothes and a CD) and a regular CD.
Noah Kahan’s Stick Season falls 3-5 on the brand new Billboard 200 with 46,000 equal album items earned (down 5%). 5 former No. 1s spherical out the remainder of the highest 10, as SZA’s SOS dips 5-6 (43,000; down 4%), Swift’s Lover climbs 9-7 (41,000; up 6%), Bryan’s self-titled album falls 6-8 (40,000; down 2%), Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Model) descends 8-9 (almost 40,000; up 3%) and Ye (previously generally known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 drops 4-10 (39,000; down 13%).
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