Selena Gomez has earned her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart, knocking Jay Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail to the second spot.
The former Disney Channel star’s Stars Dance follows the release of 2011’s When The Sun Goes Down, which only peaked at No. 3. Stars Dance, which was released by Hollywood Records, started off with 97,000 copies this past week, also earning her best sales week, according to Billboard.
Gomez’s album has been powered by the success of “Come & Get It,” which reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 on the Pop Songs airplay chart. The 21-year-old is also the youngest female solo artist to have a No. 1 since Taylor Swift did it in 2010 with Speak Now.
Magna Carta was pumped to 77,000 copies this past week, according to Nielsen SoundScan numbers. That’s down 40 percent from last week, when it sold 129,000 copies in its second week.
Disney’s Teen Beach Movie soundtrack reached No. 3 with 57,000 copies, up 128 percent from last week. Kidz Bop 24 came in at No. 4 with 39,000, just ahead of Marc Anthony’s Spanish-language release 3.0. That new album also sold around 39,000 copies and its his best sales week since 2002’s Mended.
The rest of the Top 10 features Florida Georgia Line’s Here’s To The Good times (30,000); Imagine Dragons’ Night Visions (27,000), We Came As Romans’ Tracing Back Roots (26,000); Young Money and Cash Money Records’ Rich Gang (24,000) and Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience (21,000).
One Direction’s “Best Song Ever” debuted at the top of the Digital Songs chart with 322,000 downloads.
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