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Ariana Grande is still busy promoting her latest album Eternal Sunshine, which was released earlier this year. That set is experiencing a mixed performance on the Billboard charts this week, as it rises on one list but falls on two others. That’s to be expected for a title that’s been out for a few months, so there are no big surprises there.
As Eternal Sunshine continues to sell and stream, one of Grande’s earlier albums debuts on a ranking it’s never reached before. It helps the singer earn not just another placement on one chart, but a shiny new top 10 hit.
Sweetener debuts at No. 5 on this week’s Vinyl Albums chart. Billboard publishes that ranking to show which titles sold the most copies on the once-seemingly-dead format in the U.S. each tracking frame.
Grande earns her fifth top 10 on the Vinyl Albums ranking this frame. Sweetener stands as her fourth-highest-rising title on the tally.
The Grammy winner has topped the Vinyl Albums chart twice in her career. Both Positions and Eternal Sunshine debuted and peaked at No. 1 when they first became available. Her 2019 project Thank U, Next came close to becoming her first champion when it rose as high as No. 3.
Grande’s only other top 10 title on the Vinyl Albums list is K Bye For Now (Swt Live), the live album recorded during her Sweetener tour. That set topped out at No. 9.
Two of Grande’s earliest releases have also landed on the same chart, though they haven’t come close to the top 10. In 2022, My Everything reached No. 25, narrowly reaching the list at all. Last year, Yours Truly, her debut, debuted and stopped at No. 23.
Sweetener was recently re-released on Grande’s website on peach-colored vinyl, which fans rushed to purchase. The album sold a total of 4,705 copies in the past tracking period, according to Luminate, though not all of those were vinyl sales. That sum is large enough to send the project back to No. 13 on the Top Album Sales chart. It also reappears on the Billboard 200 at No. 184 this week.
