Ariana Grande Scores Sixth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘Eternal Sunshine’

Ariana Grande achieves her sixth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart as Eternal Sunshine bows atop the record (dated March 23), launching with 227,000 equal album items earned within the U.S. within the week ending March 14, based on Luminate. Eternal’s opening body additionally marks the biggest week of 2024 for any album.

Grande beforehand led the tally with Positions (in 2020), Thank U, Next (2019), Sweetener (2018), My Everything (2014) and Yours Truly (2013).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most well-liked albums of the week within the U.S. primarily based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album gross sales, observe equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Each 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 new March 23, 2024-dated chart shall be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on March 19. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously often known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of Eternal Sunshine’s 227,000 items earned within the monitoring week ending March 14, SEA items comprise 148,000 (equaling 194.92 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album gross sales comprise 77,000 and TEA items comprise 2,000. Eternal’s first-week begin is the biggest of 2024 to date, surpassing the debut of Ye (previously often known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1, which bowed with 148,000 (chart dated Feb. 24).

Eternal’s first-week gross sales had been bolstered by the set’s availability throughout 12 bodily configurations (six vinyl and 6 CD choices, all with the identical tracklist), a normal digital obtain (in clear and express variations) and a “barely deluxe” digital obtain (clear and express, which added 4 bonus tracks – all remixes and various variations of songs on the usual album).

All six of the vinyl editions had been ruby red-colored, and 5 provided alternate cowl artwork. (Of the latter 5 editions, 4 had been offered completely via Grande’s official webstore, and one in all them was unique to Target.) Combined, her vinyl gross sales totaled 33,000 — her largest week on vinyl ever, surpassing the 32,000 first-week gross sales of Positions in 2021. As for the CD editions, there was a broadly out there commonplace CD, 4 variants (all with alternate cowl artwork) offered in Grande’s webstore, and a signed version (additionally offered by way of her webstore).

Eternal was launched March 8 and led by the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Yes, And?,” which debuted atop the tally dated Jan. 27. Grande introduced the brand new album on Jan. 17 and ushered within the set’s launch because the musical visitor on NBC’s Saturday Night Live (March 9) and appeared as a presenter on the Academy Awards (March 10).

Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is pushed right down to No. 2 on the brand new Billboard 200, regardless of a achieve (lower than 1%) to 68,000 equal album items earned. Noah Kahan’s Stick Season dips 2-3 (48,000; down 9%), Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s chart-topping Vultures 1 falls 3-4 (45,000; down 14%) and SZA’s former No. 1 SOS descends 4-5 (almost 45,000; down 3%).

The remainder of the highest 10 on the brand new chart contains former No. 1s: Zach Bryan’s self-titled set rises 8-6 (41,000 equal album items; up 8%), Drake’s For All the Dogs slips 5-7 (39,000; down 6%), Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) falls 6-8 (38,500; down 2%), Swift’s Lover drops 7-9 (almost 38,500; down lower than 1%) and Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album falls 9-10 (simply over 38,000; up 2%).

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