Ariana Grande earns her seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as petal premieres atop the Aug. 15-dated tally. The set launches with 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Aug. 6, marking the singer-songwriter’s biggest week by units in the 2020s. The set also bows with Grande’s biggest week by pure album sales in more than a decade.
With a seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Grande ties for the fifth-most leaders among solo women. Taylor Swift leads with 15, followed by Barbra Streisand (11), Madonna (10), Beyoncé (eight) and Janet Jackson, Lady Gaga and Grande (seven ach), dating to the chart’s start as a regularly published ranking in 1956.
Grande previously led with Eternal Sunshine (No. 1 for three weeks in 2024), Positions (two, 2020), Thank U, Next (two, 2019), Sweetener (one, 2018), My Everything (one, 2014) and Yours Truly (2013). Further, the new album marks the entertainer’s 10th top 10 on the chart.
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 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 15, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 11. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.
Of petal’s 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week, album sales comprise 168,000 (Grande’s second-largest sales week ever — it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 126,000 (equaling 128.83 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs — it also debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and 1,000 TEA units.
Grande’s only larger album sales week was registered when My Everything debuted with 169,000 sold in 2014.
The new set was released in its first week across more than 10 digital download and streaming variants (including six with assorted bonus tracks including live cuts, voice notes, a cappellas and instrumentals), 10 vinyl variants (including a signed edition), five CD variants (including a signed edition) and two cassettes. Its vinyl sales totaled 96,000 for the week — Grande’s best week on vinyl ever, and 2026’s fifth-largest week on vinyl overall.
Grande’s new album was announced on April 28 and preceded by her ninth No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” which debuted atop the list dated June 13.
Grande is in the midst of her The Eternal Sunshine Tour, which launched on June 6 and continues through Sept. 1.
The Nos. 2-7 titles on the latest Billboard 200 are all former No. 1s. Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem falls 1-2 (75,000 equivalent album units, down 6%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love dips 2-3 (74,000, down 7%). The next four titles are all non-movers for the week. Ella Langley’s Dandelion is No. 4 (72,000, down 3%), Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is No. 5 (59,000, down 5%), Drake’s ICEMAN is No. 6 (48,000, down 10%), and Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is No. 7 (38,000, down 4%).
Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is up a spot to No. 8 (37,000 equivalent album units, up 1%), Michael Jackson’s former No. 1 Thriller falls 8-9 (36,000, down 7%), and Kahan’s Stick Season is steady at No. 10 (35,000, up less than 1%).
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