Jelly Roll tops Billboard 200 for the first time while Charli XCX commences ‘Brat’ autumn
Jelly Roll has the number-one album in the country for the first time in his career as his new album “Beautifully Broken” debuted in the top spot on the Billboard 200 for the tracking week that ended October 17. It achieved 161,000 equivalent album units based on its combined album sales, individual track sales and online streams. Read all about this week’s chart here at Billboard.com.
This was the best week ever for Jelly Roll by total album units and by pure album sales (114,000). But there was a lot of competition for spots on this week’s chart, including two other debuts in the top five. The first of those was Rod Wave‘s “Last Lap” coming in at number-two with 127,000 units. Most of that came from streaming, making it the week’s most streamed album.
Number-three wasn’t a new album, per se — not entirely anyway. It was Charli XCX‘s “Brat,” surging back up 11 spots thanks to the release of deluxe editions of the collection, including “Brat and It’s the Same But There’s Three More Songs So It’s Not” and “Brat and It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat.” All that added together amounted to 105,000 units, which was her best week ever too. Rounding out this week’s top five were Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Short n’ Sweet” at number-four with 85,000 units and the debut of GloRilla‘s “Glorious” at number-five with 69,000 units — you guessed it, her best week ever.
In our Billboard 200 predictions contest, only one game player correctly predicted that “Beautifully Broken” would top the chart. Our consensus was that “Last Lap” would be number-one instead; just five people anticipated its number-two bow. At number-three, six people bet on either “Brat” or “Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat”; since Billboard counted both under the “Brat” umbrella, both answers were correct. Another five people got “Short n’ Sweet” right at number-four. And two people were correct about “Glorious” at number-five. In a difficult-to-predict week, three people managed to answer just two out of six prediction questions correctly. See the complete results.