Ariana Grande Nabs Second No. 1 Album In Less Than A Year

September 2, 2014

Ariana Grande has scored her second No. 1 album in less than a year, as her new release, My Everything, opens atop the Billboard 200.
 
The album, which was released Aug. 25, sold 169,000 copies in the week ending Aug. 31, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In turn, My Everything scores the second-largest sales week for a female pop artist in 2014, after the debut of Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence (182,000).

My Everything follows Grande’s debut album, Yours Truly, which came out Sept. 2, 2013. It also started in the No. 1 slot, selling 138,000 copies in its first week.
 
Grande is the first woman to debut at No. 1 with her first two albums since 2010. Thelast woman to do so was Susan Boyle, who bowed atop the list with I Dreamed a Dream (released in 2009) and The Gift (2010).

Speaking of Boyle, she and Grande are two of only three women to have charted two different No. 1 albums in less than a year since SoundScan started powering the chart in May 1991. They join LeAnn Rimes, who did it with Unchained Melody/The Early Years and You Light Up My Life — Inspirational Songs in 1997. Justin Bieber, Jay Z, One Direction, Luke Bryan and Lil Wayne are among the other acts that have managed the feat.

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