Final data is still being tabulated, and Billboard will not formally announce the #1 album until Sunday.<\/p>\n
Enough information is available, however, to call the race in favor of Ariana Grande’s “Sweetener.” The album will be the third Ariana Grande release to earn #1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales and Billboard 200 charts.<\/p>\n
Early Friday morning, Grande celebrated the achievement with a series of Tweets.<\/p>\n
“hello everyone ! sweetener is officially number one n i jus wanted to say thank u so much,” wrote Grande on Twitter. “ik these things don\u2019t really matter but i am over the moon grateful n i just want to thank u for all ur warmth n for receiving this project w such love thank u for all that u do.”<\/p>\n
“thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.”<\/p>\n
Grande also shared fiance Pete Davidson’s excitement over the news: “‘i\u2019m so happy i could wear a fedora’ – pete davidson!”<\/p>\n
As of mid-week, “Sweetener” was expected to sell upwards of 110,000 pure US copies and generate over 200,000 in overall consumption (album sales + units from track sales + units from track streams). Hits Daily Double and BuzzAngle should offer their version of the final numbers later Friday. Billboard, as noted, will share its authoritative data by Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Grande previously hit #1 with “Yours Truly” and “My Everything,” her first two albums. Her third album “Dangerous Woman” debuted at #2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Sweetener” will become Ariana Grande’s third number one album.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[183,1047],"tags":[692,10953],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n