Madonna has the number one album in the country:
Billboard reported Sunday that the debut for “Confessions II” set some recent high-water marks for Madonna. Breaking down that 134K figure: The album delivered Madonna’s best streaming week ever, with SEA units of 19,000, representing 20.1 million on-demand streams. Album sales were robust, too, with 114,000 physical or digital copies sold, amounting to the singer’s best sales week since 2012.
Chiodos’ “Baby, You Wouldn’t Last a Minute on the Creek” has officially been certified Gold.
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Saosin’s self-titled album has officially been certified gold.
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Noah Kahan has his first number one album:
Noah Kahan has scored his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with his fourth album “The Great Divide,” opening with 389,000 equivalent album units.
Kahan’s debut marks the biggest week for a rock album since the charts started measuring by units at the end of 2014
Paramore’s This is Why has been certified Gold.
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Harry Styles still has the number one album in the country. Sturgill Simpson’s record debut at number three despite not having a streaming release.
Johnny Blue Skies (formerly Sturgill Simpson) & the Dark Clouds’ Mutiny After Midnight debuts at No. 3 with 59,000 equivalent album units earned — all from physical album sales. It’s the best week yet, by units earned or album sales, for the artist. It’s the second top 10-charting project for Simpson, following the No. 3-peaking A Sailor’s Guide to Earth in 2016. Mutiny After Midnight is currently only available on CD, vinyl and cassette. No release date has been announced for a streaming version or a digital download for purchase.
Harry Styles has the number one album in the country this week.
Harry Styles’ fourth solo studio album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally., debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 21) with 430,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending March 12, according to Luminate
Megan Moroney’s new album, Cloud 9, debuts at number one on the charts. Hilary Duff is at three.
The country star earned her first chart-topper as “Cloud 9” began with 147,000 equivalent album units. This denotes the biggest week for a country album by a woman in almost two years, following Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” in April 2024. Moroney’s “Cloud 9” is her third studio album and second to debut in the top 10 after “Am I Okay?” bowed at No. 9 in 2024. Her 2023 debut, “Lucky,” previously peaked at No. 38.
The RIAA has announced its tally of the 2025 gold and platinum certifications. Taylor Swift’s Life of a Showgirl and Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” topped the list.
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One month after its release, Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” logs a major milestone as it hits a fn uninterrupted four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
The set is just the second album of 2025 to spend its first four weeks at the summit, following Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem,” which led for its first eight weeks (and 12 weeks overall). Not surprisingly, Swift’s fourth week numbers are significant; she has earned a total of 146,000 album units in the United States in the week ending Oct. 30, according to Luminate.
Taylor Swift still has the number one album:
Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” era continues as the record notches a third straight week at No. 1 with 194,000 equivalent album units earned, according to Luminate. The 12-song record shows no signs of slowing down — it’s only the second album of 2025 to spend its first three weeks atop the chart, following Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem,” which held the position for first eight weeks.
Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl sold many, many albums. The press release can be found below.
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According to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate, the tracks on The Life of a Showgirl have generated more than 460 million on-demand official streams in the United States since the album’s release on Oct. 3. There are multiple versions of album on streaming services: a standard 12-song edition, a track-by-track commentary edition that includes the 12 songs plus commentary tracks from Swift, and a track-by-track commentary edition that has Swift’s commentary and lyric videos for each of the songs. […] The sales continue to come in to Luminate for The Life of a Showgirl and it may soon topple Adele’s longstanding record for the largest sales week for an album in the modern era. Adele’s 25 debuted with 3.378 million copies sold in its first week in 2015 — the biggest sales week for any album since Luminate began tracking data in 1991 (when the modern era of music sales tabulation began).
Taylor Swift’s new album brought in over $33 million at the box office and 2.7 million day-one album sales.
Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl launch has shown once again that it’s Taylor’s world and the rest of us are just living in it. The special album release event dwarfed the competition at the box office over the weekend, debuting to an impressive $33 million domestic and $13 million overseas. That’s a record-breaking number for what is neither a concert film nor a documentary, but a timed promotional event for the release of her new album.
The album dropped on Friday and is already setting records. After just one day, The Life of a Showgirl has secured the second-highest weekly sales for any album since tracking of such things began in the early 1990s. Billboard’s Luminate reported that the album sold 2.7 million copies on Friday alone.
Twenty One Pilots have the number one album in the country.
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