Ariana Grande has secured her seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with Petal, delivering her biggest sales week in over a decade and tying her with some of pop music's most iconic figures. The 12-track album, released without any featured artists, opened with 295,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. during the tracking week ending August 6, according to Billboard . This marks Grande's strongest weekly performance by units in the 2020s and her best pure album sales week since her 2014 release My Everything .
The album's debut is powered by a massive 168,000 pure album sales, with vinyl emerging as a particularly dominant force. Petal sold 96,000 vinyl copies in its first week, giving Grande her best-ever week on the format and securing the fifth-largest vinyl sales week of 2026 so far . The strategic release across more than ten digital variants, ten vinyl editions, five CD versions, and two cassettes—featuring bonus content like live cuts, voice notes, and instrumentals—helped drive this impressive multi-format consumption . In addition to physical sales, the album generated 128.83 million on-demand streams, translating to 126,000 streaming equivalent album units .
A Historic Tie in the Billboard 200 Record Books
With this achievement, Grande joins an elite echelon of female artists, tying for the fifth-most No. 1 albums among solo women in the Billboard 200's history, which dates back to 1956 as a regularly published ranking . She now sits alongside Lady Gaga and Janet Jackson with seven chart-toppers each, trailing only Taylor Swift (15), Barbra Streisand (11), Madonna (10), and Beyoncé (eight) . The milestone is particularly significant given the long-running legacies of Jackson, who redefined pop and R&B across the 1980s and 90s, and Gaga, who revolutionized the genre in the late 2000s with a mix of music, fashion, and spectacle .
Petal was preceded by the lead single "Hate That I Made You Love Me," which gave Grande her ninth No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it debuted atop the chart in June . The success comes as Grande prepares to step back from public life; she is currently in the midst of her Eternal Sunshine tour, which runs through September 1 . Her previous album, Eternal Sunshine, opened with 227,000 units in 2024, making Petal's 295,000-unit debut a significant jump from her last release . The album's strong performance suggests that any surrounding public discourse may have only amplified interest in the project .
