{"id":4544,"date":"2025-04-07T00:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T00:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2025-04-07T00:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T00:13:53","slug":"ariana-grandes-eternal-sunshine-returns-to-no-1-on-billboard-200-after-brighter-days-ahead-reissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4544","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande\u2019s \u2018Eternal Sunshine\u2019 Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 After \u2018Brighter Days Ahead\u2019\u00a0Reissue"},"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>Plus: Lil Durk debuts in the top three with &#8220;Deep Thoughts.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ariana-grande\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s 2024 album\u00a0<em>Eternal Sunshine<\/em>\u00a0returns to No. 1 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0albums chart for its third total week atop the list, flying 87-1 on the April 12-dated chart, following the set\u2019s deluxe reissue, dubbed\u00a0<em>Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead<\/em>. Bolstered with six previously unreleased songs, the expanded effort \u2014 available at streamers, and to purchase as a download, CD and vinyl LP \u2014 earned 137,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April 3 (up 968%), according to Luminate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes and continue to chart under the title\u00a0<em>Eternal Sunshine<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Eternal Sunshine<\/em>\u00a0premiered atop the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a>\u00a0dated March 23, 2024, and spent its first two weeks at No. 1. The set contains a pair of chart-toppers on the Billboard Hot 100 in the songs \u201cYes, And?\u201d and \u201cWe Can\u2019t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love).\u201d The project also returns to the top 40 on the Billboard 200 for the first time since the Oct. 19, 2024-dated list, when it ranked at No. 34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-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 April 12, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on April 8. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With&nbsp;<em>Eternal Sunshine<\/em>\u2019s return to No. 1 after a year and two weeks, it\u2019s the second title in the last six months to jump back to the top after more than a year away. On the Jan. 4, 2025-dated chart, SZA\u2019s&nbsp;<em>SOS<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/sza-sos-returns-number-one-billboard-200-after-deluxe-lana-edition-release-1235866616\/\">shot back to the top<\/a>&nbsp;after a 22-month vacation from No. 1. It returned to lead the list after its&nbsp;<em>SOS Deluxe: LANA<\/em>&nbsp;reissue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further,&nbsp;<em>Eternal Sunshine<\/em>&nbsp;has the largest positional jump to No. 1 (bolting 87-1) since last September, when Travis Scott\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Days Before Rodeo<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/travis-scott-days-before-rodeo-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235781313\/\">vaulted 106-1<\/a>&nbsp;on the Sept. 28, 2024-dated list, after the album\u2019s vinyl edition was shipped to customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of&nbsp;<em>Eternal Sunshine<\/em>\u2019s 137,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 3, SEA units comprise 75,000 (up 541%, equaling 98.45 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs; it reenters at No. 2 on Top Streaming Albums), traditional album sales comprise 61,000 (up 5,338%, it reenters at No. 1 on Top Album Sales for a second total week atop the list) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 4,115%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sales of&nbsp;<em>Eternal Sunshine<\/em>&nbsp;were bolstered by its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/ariana-grande-eternal-sunshine-brighter-days-ahead-charts-1235938104\/\">availability<\/a>&nbsp;in a variety of permutations released for the&nbsp;<em>Brighter Days Ahead<\/em>&nbsp;launch. The original&nbsp;<em>Eternal Sunshine<\/em>&nbsp;album had 13 tracks, and the core&nbsp;<em>Brighter Days Ahead<\/em>&nbsp;album added six cuts: one extended version of the album-opening \u201cInro (End of the World)\u201d and five new songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grande\u2019s webstore sold three exclusive variants of the download edition of the album: the 19-track edition, a version with the 19 tracks plus instrumentals of the same cuts, and another version with the 19 tracks and a cappella versions of each cut (all with alternative cover artwork). Grande also released two vinyl variants and six CD editions of the reissue (some signed by the artist), containing the 19 tracks plus the three bonus tracks originally found on the album\u2019s \u201cslightly deluxe\u201d reissues last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/playboi-carti\/\">Playboi Carti<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>MUSIC<\/em>&nbsp;falls to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart after two weeks on top, with 91,000 equivalent album units earned (down 31%). It holds at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart for a third week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/lil-durk\/\">Lil Durk<\/a>&nbsp;collects his seventh top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as&nbsp;<em>Deep Thoughts<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 3 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned. The set arrives largely from streaming activity, as it was only available to purchase as a standard widely available digital download album. Of its first-week units, SEA units comprise 63,000 (equaling 85.92 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s songs; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 1,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the top 10 on the Billboard 200 comprises former No. 1s. Kendrick Lamar\u2019s\u00a0<em>GNX<\/em>\u00a0falls 3-4 (58,000 units; down 10%); PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake\u2019s\u00a0<em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U<\/em>\u00a0is down 4-5 (nearly 58,000; down 6%); SZA\u2019s\u00a0<em>SOS<\/em>\u00a0slips 5-6 (56,000; down 7%); Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s\u00a0<em>Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>\u00a0dips 6-7 (51,000; down 7%); Bad Bunny\u2019s\u00a0<em>Deb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos\u00a0<\/em>is a non-mover at No. 8 (45,000; down 8%); Lady Gaga\u2019s\u00a0<em>MAYHEM<\/em>\u00a0falls 7-9 (nearly 45,000; down 15%); and Morgan Wallen\u2019s<em>\u00a0One Thing at a Time<\/em>\u00a0is stationary at No. 10 (almost 45,000; down 2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4544\" data-postid=\"4544\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4544 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Lil Durk debuts in the top three with &#8220;Deep Thoughts.&#8221; Ariana Grande\u2019s 2024 album\u00a0Eternal Sunshine\u00a0returns to No. 1 on the\u00a0Billboard 200\u00a0albums chart for its third total week atop the list, flying 87-1 on the April 12-dated chart, following the set\u2019s deluxe reissue, dubbed\u00a0Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead. 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