The Weeknd has secured his fifth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with the debut of Hurry Up Tomorrow at the top spot (dated Feb. 15). The album earned a remarkable 490,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. during the week ending Feb. 6, according to Luminate. This marks the largest opening week for any album since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department debuted with 2.61 million units on the May 4, 2024-dated chart. Hurry Up Tomorrow also delivers the biggest week for an R&B/hip-hop album since Travis Scott’s Utopia debuted at No. 1 with 496,000 units on the Aug. 12, 2023, chart.
The Weeknd has previously topped the chart with After Hours (2020), My Dear Melancholy (2018), Starboy (2016), and Beauty Behind the Madness (2015).
In other chart movements, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess surges from No. 14 to No. 6 following her win for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards on Feb. 2. Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft also climbs from No. 10 to No. 5 in the wake of her Grammy exposure.
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