Billie Eilish crowns Billboard ’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Rock & Alternative Songs charts dated June 1 with her new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft , and its lead single “Lunch.” Hit Me Hard and Soft becomes Eilish’s first No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, reigning as her first LP since the chart shifted in 2022 to include alternative-leaning titles outside the rock genre.
The set is also Eilish’s fourth leader on Top Alternative Albums , following Happier Than Ever (2021), When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019) and Dont Smile at Me (2019, after it first appeared on the list in 2017). In the week ending May 23, Hit Me Hard and Soft , released May 17, earned 339,000 equivalent album units in the U.S.
– Eilish’s best career week by that metric – according to Luminate. The sum includes 191,000 album sales and 146,000 streaming-equivalent units. The 10-song collection is the first release to reach six digits in units on Top Rock & Alternative Albums since Dolly Parton ’s Rockstar (128,000; Dec.
2, 2023) and the first on Top Alternative Albums since blink-182 ’s One More Time...
(125,000; Nov. 4, 2023). The 339,000-unit total is the highest for a title on Top Rock & Alternative Albums in a decade, since the 383,000 units amassed by Coldplay ’s Ghost Stories (June 7, 2014; it’s the top count since Top Rock & Alternative Albums shifted to a consumption-based methodology in 2016).
On Top Alternative Albums, Hit Me Hard and Soft has the.