Following final week’s promising projections, The Weeknd has efficiently secured his fifth No. 1 album debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart with Hurry Up Tomorrow, in response to Billboard.
The 22-track report moved 490,500 album-equivalent items within the week concluding on February 6, in response to Luminate. Notably, the determine marked the biggest first week for any album since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division, which took the No. 1 spot in Might of final yr with a whopping 2.61 million album-equivalent items.
Breaking down The Weeknd’s 490,500 first-week items, album gross sales have been liable for 359,000 items, SEA items coated 13,5000 and TEA items tallied 1,000. Throughout the board, the album recorded 183,000 items in digital album gross sales, 99,000 items in CD gross sales, 77,000 items in vinyl gross sales and 1,000 items in cassette gross sales.
The album’s whole items marked The Weeknd’s largest first-week numbers to this point. His earlier tasks — After Hours (2020), My Pricey Melancholy (2018), Starboy (2016) and Magnificence Behind the Insanity (2015) — all topped the charts on the time of their respective releases.
Elsewhere on the charts, Chappell Roan and Billie Eilish noticed important jumps on the leaderboard after final week’s Grammy Awards. Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess climbed from 14th to sixth, whereas Eilish’s Hit Me Onerous and Gentle jumped from tenth to fifth on the record.
