It’s anything but a commercial dry spell for Kacey Musgraves right now, as her album “Middle of Nowhere” debuted with the best first week numbers of her career to date, 100,000 equivalent album units.
The recent Variety Gover Gal landed at a solid number 3 with this number. Musgraves’ last album, 2024’s “Deeper Well,” was close, debuting at No. 2 with 97,000 units. Previous arcs include “Star-Crossed” with 77,000, “Golden Hour” with 49,000, “Pageant Material” with 60,000 and his first film, “Same Trailer Different Park”, with 42,000.
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But the top spot on the Billboard 200 is occupied for a second week by Noah Kahan’s “The Great Divide,” with an impressive 163,000 units, down 58% from its blockbuster opening.
Also note in the new ranking, as revealed by Billboard on Sunday via Lumenate: Michael Jackson now has two albums in the top 10 following the enormous box office of the dramatic biopic “Michael”. “Thriller” climbs two spots to No. 5, with 62,000 units, followed by the rise of “Number Ones,” which also scored 62,000 units and climbed seven spots to No. 6.
“Number Ones” had never charted in the top 10 before, so it officially becomes Jackson’s 11th album to reach that mark. Before these two albums made their rise, his last top 10 album was the posthumous release “Xscape” in 2014.
Ella Langley is not running out of steam: her album “Dandelion” remains at number 2 with 103,000 units, down only 8% compared to the previous week.
Rounding out the top 10 are Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem” at No. 4, BTS’ “Arirang” at No. 7, Olivia Dean’s “The Art of Loving” at No. 8, Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” and Bad Bunny’s “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” at No. 10.
Country music takes up three of the top four spots, with Langley, Musgraves and Wallen lining up at Nos. 2 through 4, and four in the top 10, including the additional album for Wallen’s previous album.
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