Billie Eilish’s new studio album Hit Me Exhausting and Mushy has debuted at No. 2 on the newest Billboard 200 albums chart, marking the singer-songwriter’s best-selling week ever.
The brand new Eilish album has 339,000 equal album items earned on the chart dated June 1 (for the week ending Might 23). That determine represents Eilish’s largest week ever by items earned, and of that sum, 191,000 are conventional album gross sales, once more her greatest gross sales week but.
Billboard additionally reviews that the 191,000 conventional gross sales determine contains 90,000 in vinyl gross sales, yet one more Eilish greatest.
The figures handily surpass Eilish’s earlier high gross sales: Her 2019 debut When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go? which registered 313,000 items. Her earlier largest gross sales week, Billboard notes, was the opening body of the debut album, with 170,000.
Hit Me Exhausting and Mushy is Eilish’s third album to achieve the highest two on the chart, following Happier Than Ever (in 2021) and When We All Fall Asleep.
As anticipated, the No. 1 place on the June 1 chart is Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division, holding onto the highest spot for a fifth consecutive week. The album earned 378,000 equal album items within the U.S. for the week.
Eilish introduced the brand new album on April 8, and staged two listening occasions on Might 15 and Might 16 at Barclays Heart in Brooklyn, New York and the Kia Discussion board in Inglewood, California, respectively. AMC Theatres screened a listening occasion on Might 16-17 throughout greater than 100 theaters within the U.S., and an official music video for the album’s single “Lunch” was launched on Might 17, the identical day the album dropped.
Eilish will launch a world tour on September 29 in Quebec to assist the brand new album, with dates scheduled by July 2025. Three October dates at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard are already offered out, as are three December dates on the Kia Discussion board.