Future‘s future is so bright, he has to wear shades — with his “Mixtape Pluto” album becoming his third release to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in 2024. The only numeral 1 for Katy Perry right now, meanwhile, is embedded in her album title, as “143” lagged behind with a No. 6 debut.
The Future set bowed with 129,000 equivalent album units, a chart breakout first reported by Billboard on Sunday. Streaming accounted for most of his tally. Although it’s the rapper’s third No. 1 album of the year (so far — let’s not underestimate him), “Mixtape Pluto” is the first of those three to come out solely under his name. He previously reached the peak with a pair of collaborative albums with Metro Boomin, “We Don’t Trust You” and the imaginatively titled “We Still Don’t Trust You.” Sales for the new one were minimal, at 10,000, but its songs were streamed a very robust 156.62 million times.
Billboard notes that the last artist popular and prolific enough to rack up three fresh No. 1 albums in the space of just six months was the Beatles, who did it in 1965-66. (That’s if you don’t count the Glee Cast as a single artist, as three “Glee” soundtrack albums reached the top in the space of two months in 2010.)
Perry’s “143” debuted with a disappointing 48,000 units. Her tally was weighted significantly more toward sales than streaming. Album sales were responsible for a healthy 37,500 of those units, Billboard reported, with multiple vinyl and digital variants offering boosts. As streaming goes, the songs from “143” picked up 13.11 million on-demand listens.
The release of Perry’s first album since 2020’s “Smile” came on the promising heels of a performance on the MTV VMAs that was quite well-received, mixing classics with excerpts from a couple of new tunes. Making a single from the album click has been challenging, though. The controversial (to put it mildly) “Woman’s World” peaked at No. 63 on the Hot 100, and was quickly succeeded by “Lifetimes,” a single that many fans felt would have been superior coming out of the gate, but that one failed to make the chart.
The only other new album to debut in the upper ranks of the chart was Lil Tecca’s “Plan A,” in at No. 9 with 42,000 equivalent album units. It’s his fourth album to make the top 10, but this marks his biggest weekly tally since 2019.
The other seven slots in the top 10 were filled by returning entries, led by Chappell Roan‘s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” which rose a spot to No. 2, a position it has held twice before in nonconsecutive weeks. If not for Future’s big bow, Roan might have had an easy path to finally reaching the top spot this week, as the one-position bump doesn’t really reflect just what a boost it got — a 64% increase in units. That was due mostly to four special one-year anniversary vinyl editions coming out for the occasion. Her equivalent album total this time around was an impressive 129,000, with album sales in all formats accounting for 56,000 and vinyl in particular adding up to 50,000 units. All of those numbers were the best over for the year-end record.
The remainder of the top 10 had Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” at No. 3 (100,000 units), followed by Post Malone’s country album at No. 4 (53,000), Morgan Wallen at No. 5 (also 53,000), 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 of Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart will be released Monday.
Source Agencies
