The Weeknd Earns Fifth No. 1 Album With 'Hurry Up Tomorrow'
Moving a record 490,500 album-equivalent units in the first week since its release.
Following last week’s promising projections, The Weeknd has successfully secured his fifth No. 1 album debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart with Hurry Up Tomorrow, according to Billboard.
The 22-track record moved 490,500 album-equivalent units in the week concluding on February 6, according to Luminate. Notably, the figure marked the largest first week for any album since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, which took the No. 1 spot in May of last year with a whopping 2.61 million album-equivalent units.
Breaking down The Weeknd’s 490,500 first-week units, album sales were responsible for 359,000 units, SEA units covered 13,5000 and TEA units tallied 1,000. Across the board, the album recorded 183,000 units in digital album sales, 99,000 units in CD sales, 77,000 units in vinyl sales and 1,000 units in cassette sales.
The album’s total units marked The Weeknd’s largest first-week numbers to date. His previous projects — After Hours (2020), My Dear Melancholy (2018), Starboy (2016) and Beauty Behind the Madness (2015) — all topped the charts at the time of their respective releases.
Elsewhere on the charts, Chappell Roan and Billie Eilish saw significant jumps on the leaderboard after last week’s Grammy Awards. Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess climbed from 14th to 6th, while Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft jumped from 10th to 5th on the list.
