Ariana Grande secured her second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 in less than a year with the release of My Everything last week, while Brad Paisley placed a distant second.
With 169,000 copies sold in the week ending Aug. 31, Grande easily topped the music chart and at the same time had the second-largest sales week of the year for a female singer, Billboard reports. Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence holds the top honor after debuting with 182,000 sold copies earlier in the year.
Grande has hit the top of the Billboard 200 twice in less than a year since her debut album Yours Truly was released on Sept. 2, 2013 and sold slightly less at 138,000.
My Everything managed to outpace early projections by nearly 10,000 copies. Paisley was much closer to the estimated numbers after selling 53,000 copies of Moonshine in the Trunk. While the country singer didn't get his first No. 1 debut, he did place second.
Kem debuted in the third spot on the Billboard 200 with Album IV, which managed 52,000 sold copies. Movie soundtracks continue to be a staple in the top 10 for the year and Guardians of the Galaxy's remained in the top five, but fell to fourth with 48,000 sold.
Rounding out the top five was Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour, which improved upon last week's sales 24 percent to sell 30,000 copies. Wiz Khalifa's Blacc Hollywood tumbled from atop the chart down to sixth with 30,000 sold.
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