Ariana Grande is certainly a force to be reckoned with in the music industry. She has now scored her second No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 in less than a year’s time.
My Everything, which was released on Aug. 25, is a follow-up to Yours Truly, which came out on Sept. 2, 2013.
According to Billboard, My Everything sold 169,000 copies in its debut week, which only comes in behind Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence opening week with 182,000 sold for this year.
My Everything did even better than Yours Truly, which was the 21-year-old pop star’s debut album. The latter sold 138,000 copies in its first week.
Grande follows in the footsteps of Susan Boyle as the second woman to get two No. 1 albums for the first two they release. Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream from 2009 and The Gift from 2010 accomplished the same feat.
She took to Twitter to show her gratitude for her latest No. 1. “my 2nd album to debut at #1 @billboard in less than a year... no words!!! thank u so much.so much love & appreciation,” she wrote.
Brad Paisley came in the No. 2 slot in the week ending on Aug. 31, selling 52,000 copies of his album Moonshine in the Trunk. R&B singer Kem comes in at a close third with his Promise to Love: Album IV selling 52,000 copies.
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