Ariana Grande assaults again Billboard’s number one thanks to the ‘Deluxe’ edition of ‘Eternal Sunshine’
Ariana Grande’s album released in 2024, ‘Eternal Sunshine’, again occupies the first place in the Billboard 200 rankingjumping from the 87 to 1st in that same list on April 12, After launching its luxury edition entitled ‘Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Bright Days Ahead’. Enhanced by six unpublished themes, this relaunch – devonable on digital platforms, download, CD and vinyl – reached 137,000 equivalent units in the US. During the week that ended on April 3, which represents a increase of 968%, according to luminete data.
All versions of the album, both the original and the new one, are grouped for monitoring and classification purposes, remaining under the name ‘Eternal Sunshine’ on the lists.
‘Eternal Sunshine’ arrived at the top of Billboard 200 on March 23 of last year and spent the next two weeks being number 1. The album contains Two songs in the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Yes, and?’ and ‘We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)’. He has also returned to Top 40 at Billboard 200 for the first time since October 19, 2024, in which he held the number 34.
The Billboard 200 list classifies the most heard albums of the week in the United States, Based on a multiple measurement system that calculates equivalent album units, compiled by luminate. These units include Direct sales, individual song sales conversions (ASD) and streaming reproductions (Sea).
A unit is counted as the sale of a complete album, the purchase of 10 loose songs from the same album, or 3,750 views on platforms with advertisements, or 1,250 transmissions under subscription or payment, either in audio or video format. The most recent update on the list, corresponding to April 12, 2025, will be available in its entirety on the Billboard website on April 8.
With the return of ‘Eternal Sunshine’ to the number 1 position after one year and two weeks, it becomes the second album in the last six months to re -lead the list After having been out of the top more than a year. In the ranking of January 4, 2025, ‘SOS’ of SZA also returned to the first place after an absence of 22 months, driven by its reissue ‘Sos Deluxe: Lana’.
Besides, ‘Eternal Sunshine’ achieved the greatest rise to the first place (from 87 to 1) since September Past, when ‘Days Before Rodeo’ of Travis Scott rose from 106 to 1 on the list of September 28, 2024, after sending the vinyl edition of the album to the buyers.
Of the 137,000 equivalent units obtained by ‘Eternal Sunshine’ last week, 75,000 came from streaming (an increase of 541%, equivalent to 98.45 million official reproductions on demand, allowing you 61,000 correspond to traditional sales (an increase of 5,338%, returning to number 1 in top album salts per second time), and 1,000 units came from sales of individual tracks (TEA), which represents an increase of 4,115%.
The impulse in sales was the result of multiple special editions launched next to the version ‘Bright Days Ahead’. The original edition of the album included 13 themes, while this reissue He added Six new tracks: An extended version of the introduction ‘intro (end of the world)’ and five unpublished songs.
In your official store, Grande offered three exclusive versions in digital download: One with the 19 songs, another with the 19 clues more its instrumental versions, and a third with versions to Capella, all with alternative cover. Also Twine editions and six versions on CD of the reissue were launched (Some autograph), which contained the 19 songs along with three additional tracks of the “slightly deluxe” versions of the previous year.
