Jelly Roll Secures His First No. 1 Album With ‘Beautifully Broken’

variety.com:

Thania Garcia Jelly Roll nabs his first-ever No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with “Beautifully Broken.” The LP opens with the third-largest units sold — 161,000 equivalent album units earned, per Luminate — for any country album in the United States this year, following the releases of Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” and Post Malone’s “F-1 Trillion.” “Beautifully Broken’s” opening units were largely driven by its success in pure album sales, marking a sum of 114,000.

The 28-song album was available for purchase in seven vinyl variants, three CD variants, a cassette tape and three download album variants.

Florida-born trap-soul rapper Rod Wave follows at No. 2 on the list with his seventh consecutive top 10 (all of his sets have opened in the top 10 of the albums chart), “Last Lap.” The latter logged 127,000 equivalent album units earned, with 173.35 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 23 songs.

Notably, Wave has logged at least one top 10 album every year since 2019 — the only other act with at least one new top 10 in every year over 2019-24 is Taylor Swift.