{"id":4098,"date":"2024-03-17T20:08:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T20:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2024-03-17T20:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T20:08:41","slug":"ariana-grande-scores-sixth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-with-eternal-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4098","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Scores Sixth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With \u2018Eternal\u00a0Sunshine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>The set launches with the largest week of 2024 for any album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ariana-grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u00a0achieves her sixth No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0albums chart as\u00a0<em>Eternal Sunshine<\/em>\u00a0bows atop the list (dated March 23), launching with 227,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 14, according to Luminate.\u00a0<em>Eternal<\/em>\u2019s opening frame also marks the largest week of 2024 for any album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grande previously led the tally with\u00a0<em>Positions<\/em>\u00a0(in 2020),\u00a0<em>Thank U, Next<\/em>\u00a0(2019),\u00a0<em>Sweetener<\/em>\u00a0(2018),\u00a0<em>My Everything<\/em>\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0<em>Yours Truly<\/em>\u00a0(2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold 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 will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on March 19. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on\u00a0multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold 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 will be posted in full on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on March 19. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Eternal<\/em>\u2019s first-week sales were bolstered by the set\u2019s availability across 12 physical configurations (six vinyl and six CD offerings, all with the same tracklist), a standard digital download (in clean and explicit versions) and a \u201cslightly deluxe\u201d digital download (clean and explicit, which added four bonus tracks \u2013 all remixes and alternative versions of songs on the standard album).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All six of the vinyl editions were ruby red-colored, and five offered alternate cover art. (Of the latter five editions, four were sold exclusively through Grande\u2019s official webstore, and one of them was exclusive to Target.) Combined, her vinyl sales totaled 33,000 \u2014 her largest week on vinyl ever, surpassing the 32,000 first-week sales of\u00a0<em>Positions<\/em>\u00a0in 2021. As for the CD editions, there was a widely available standard CD, four variants (all with alternate cover art) sold in Grande\u2019s webstore, and a signed edition (also sold via her webstore).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Eternal<\/em>&nbsp;was released March 8 and led by the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit \u201cYes, And?,\u201d which debuted atop the tally dated Jan. 27. Grande&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/ariana-grande-new-album-eternal-sunshine-release-date-1235582670\/\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;the new album on Jan. 17 and ushered in the set\u2019s release as the musical guest on NBC\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>&nbsp;(March 9) and appeared as a presenter at the Academy Awards (March 10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morgan Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>\u00a0is pushed down to No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, despite a gain (less than 1%) to 68,000 equivalent album units earned. Noah Kahan\u2019s\u00a0<em>Stick Season<\/em>\u00a0dips 2-3 (48,000; down 9%), Ye and Ty Dolla $ign\u2019s chart-topping\u00a0<em>Vultures 1<\/em>\u00a0falls 3-4 (45,000; down 14%) and SZA\u2019s former No. 1\u00a0<em>SOS<\/em>\u00a0descends 4-5 (nearly 45,000; down 3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the top 10 on the new chart comprises former No. 1s: Zach Bryan\u2019s self-titled set rises 8-6 (41,000 equivalent album units; up 8%), Drake\u2019s\u00a0<em>For All the Dogs<\/em>\u00a0slips 5-7 (39,000; down 6%), Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>\u00a0falls 6-8 (38,500; down 2%), Swift\u2019s\u00a0<em>Lover<\/em>\u00a0drops 7-9 (nearly 38,500; down less than 1%) and Wallen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>\u00a0falls 9-10 (just over 38,000; up 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4098\" data-postid=\"4098\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4098 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The set launches with the largest week of 2024 for any album. 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