Ella Langley's Dandelion Debut Tops Charts

0:00It's April 19th. You're listening to Music News today, AI-powered coverage of the music industry. Ella Langley's making ways with her new album, Dandelion, hitting number one on the billboard 200 chart. It racked up 169,000 equivalent album units in its first week, fueled by her smash, single choosing Texas that's held the top. Spot on the hot 100 for six straight weeks this year. This marks her first number one album debut. Dandelion success builds on that single streaming dominance, sitting at number two, on Spotify's U.S. Top 50 right now, right behind Olivia. Rodrigo's latest, another track from the album Be Here, cracked the top 10 there too, hinting at her next big hit. Those 169,000 units broke down to 39,000 pure sales and a massive 130 million on-demand streams. Fans and charts are buzzing over this country, crossover win. The biggest debut for a female country artist in two years since Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter.

1:03It follows Megamaroni's own number one with cloud nine, back in March, positioning both as top dogs for the Academy of Country Music Awards. This. May. Langley's jump from her last album hungover, which peaked at number 20, shows her star-power exploding. Elsewhere on the album chart, Morgan Wallins on the problem holds steady at number two, with 83,000 units. Justin Bieber's swag leaped from 55 to 7 after his Coachella set, up 160% to 43,000 units. Country stays strong with Luke Holmes at 8 and another Wallene project at 9, and another Wallene project, with four country albums in the top 10 including Langley, Holmes, and the Wallins, the genres owning the charts right now, and her momentum looks. The stoppable heading into award season.