Future scores his third No. 1 album this year, while Katy Perry’s ‘143’ debuts at No. 6

The future is so bright that he has to put up the curtains and his album “Mixtape Pluto” becomes his third release will hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2024. Meanwhile, Katy Perry’s only number 1 is currently embedded in her album title, as “143” lags behind its No. 6 debut.

The Future’s set reached 129,000 album-equivalent units, a chart-topping break first announced by Billboard on Sunday. Streaming accounted for the majority of its results. While this is the rapper’s third No. 1 album of the year (so far – let’s not underestimate him), Mixtape Pluto is the first of the three to be released solely under his name. He previously rose to the top with two albums with Metro Boomin, We Don’t Trust You and the imaginatively titled We Still Don’t Trust You. Sales of the new song were minimal at 10,000 units, but songs from it were streamed a very solid 156.62 million times.

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Billboard notes that the latest artist is popular AND Prolific enough to score three fresh No. 1 albums in just six months were the Beatles, who achieved it in 1965–66. (If you don’t count the cast of Glee as a single artist, as in 2010, three “Glee” soundtrack albums peaked in two months.)

Perry’s “143” debuted with a disappointing 48,000 copies. Its results had a much greater impact on sales than on streaming. Album sales totaled 37,500 units, with multiple vinyl and digital releases delivering better results, according to Billboard. As it streamed, songs from “143” racked up 13.11 million on-demand streams.

The release of Perry’s first album since 2020’s “Smile” comes after a promising performance at the MTV VMAs, which was quite well received, mixing classics with snippets of several new songs. However, creating a single from the Click album was a challenge. The controversial (to put it mildly) “Woman’s World” peaked at No. 63 on the Hot 100, and was quickly replaced by “Lifetimes,” a single that many fans thought would have been better from the get-go, but that failed to make the chart.

The only other new album to debut higher on the charts was Lil Tecca’s “Plan A,” which peaked at No. 9 with 42,000 equivalent album units. It’s his fourth album to reach the top 10, but it’s his biggest weekly tally since 2019.

The remaining seven spots in the top 10 were taken by returning works, led by Chappell Roan’s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess,” which rose to second place and held the position twice in consecutive weeks. If it weren’t for Future’s big nod, Roan could have had an easy path to the top spot this week, as moving up one position doesn’t really reflect how much of a boost it received – a 64% unit increase. This was mainly due to the four special anniversary vinyl editions that were released on this occasion. Total equivalent circulation for her albums this time was an impressive 129,000 units, with album sales across all formats totaling 56,000 and vinyl sales in particular at 50,000. All of these numbers were year-end highs.

The rest of the top ten included Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” at No. 3 (100,000 units), Post Malone’s country album at No. 4 (53,000), Morgan Wallen at No. 5 (also 53,000 units). , Taylor Swift at No. 7 (47,000), Billie Eilish at No. 8 (45,000) and Noah Kahan at No. 10 (38,000).

The final results for the top 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart will be released on Monday.

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