
So far, Khalid’s catalog of tunes has tallied 4 billion on-demand audio streams. Through April 11, American Teen has earned 2.45 million equivalent album units, while Suncity has collected 450,000 units. American Teen has yet to depart the chart after 110 consecutive weeks on the tally (it climbs 35-33 on the latest chart). 4 back in September of 2017, while Suncity debuted and peaked at No. 1.įree Spirit follows Khalid’s 2017 debut album, American Teen, and last year’s Suncity. Before that, one has to scroll back to June 17, 2017, when Bryson Tiller’s True to Self opened at No. The last to do so was The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy EP, which bowed atop the tally dated April 14, 2018. Notably, Free Spirit is the first R&B album to reach No. Of Free Spirit’s opening-week unit sum, 111,000 were in SEA units (translating to 146.9 million on-demand audio streams for the albums tracks), 85,000 were in album sales (boosted by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with his upcoming tour) and 6,000 were in TEA units.

Khalid's 'Free Spirit' Could Stand to Let Its Freak Flag Fly The only bigger weeks logged in 2019 were the starting frames of Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next (360,000), Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (313,000) and Backstreet Boys’ DNA (234,000). 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s websites on April 16.įree Spirit’s start of 202,000 equivalent album units is the fourth-biggest week for an album in 2019, and the largest for a set by a male solo artist.

The new April 20-dated chart (where Free Spirit bows at No.

Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. Of that sum, 85,000 were in traditional album sales. The set, released on April 5 through Right Hand/RCA Records, starts with 202,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 11, according to Nielsen Music - the fourth-largest week of 2019 for an album.

1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as his third release, Free Spirit, opens atop the tally.
