Ariana Grande’s long-awaited new album, “Eternal Sunshine,” opens on the best of the newest Billboard chart with the largest debut of the 12 months to this point, kicking off a season of anticipated blockbusters from Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Dua Lipa.
“Eternal Sunshine,” Grande’s 7th studio album and her first in virtually 4 years, begins at No. 1 with the an identical of 227,000 gross sales within the United States, together with 195 million streams and 77,000 copies bought as a whole package deal, in line with the monitoring carrier Luminate. After a primary unmarried, “Yes, And?,” went to No. 1 in January, the overall album arrived with Grande functioning on “Saturday Night Live” after which — along side Cynthia Erivo, her co-star within the upcoming two-part “Wicked” movie — showing as a presenter on the Oscars.
“Eternal Sunshine” is Grande’s 6th No. 1 album. All of her studio LPs have long past to the highest with the exception of “Dangerous Woman” in 2016, which was once held at No. 2 by means of that 12 months’s juggernaut, Drake’s “Views.”
Since her remaining album, “Positions” (2020), Grande has been capturing an adaptation of the Broadway musical “Wicked,” through which she’s going to play Glinda the Good. Production at the movie was once not on time first by means of the coronavirus after which by means of remaining 12 months’s SAG-AFTRA strike; the primary “Wicked” movie is now set to be launched in November.
Grande’s first-week numbers are the most productive for any new album this 12 months by means of a good margin, topping Ye and Ty Dolla Sign’s “Vultures 1” (148,000). More giant figures are at the horizon for Beyoncé’s nation pivot, “Cowboy Carter,” due on the finish of this month; Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” in April; after which Lipa’s “Radical Optimism,” in May.
Also this week, Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time,” which hit No. 1 for the nineteenth time remaining week, falls to No. 2. Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season” is No. 3, “Vultures 1” is No. 4 and SZA’s “SOS” is No. 5.
