Gracie Abrams Scores First No. 1 Album With 'Daughter From Hell'

Gracie Abrams has landed her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart.

This marks her best week ever by units and a career milestone, surpassing the No. 2 debut of her 2024 album, The Secret of Us.

What Are the First-Week Sales Figures?

The 124,000 units for Daughter From Hell break down into specific categories:

• Album Sales: 77,000 (her best sales week, debuting at No. 1 on Top Album Sales).
• Streaming Equivalent Albums (SEA): 46,500 (equaling 47.27 million on-demand streams of the album's songs).
• Track Equivalent Albums (TEA): About 500 units.

The album's commercial performance was fueled by a wide array of physical releases. In its first week, it was available across 10 vinyl variants, four CD variants, two cassette editions, and two digital/streaming editions.

What Is 'Daughter From Hell' and Who Worked on It?

Daughter From Hell is Gracie Abrams's third studio album, following 2023's Good Riddance and 2024's The Secret of Us. The 16-track project was co-produced with her longtime collaborator Aaron Dessner of The National. Other notable collaborators on the album include Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and actor Paul Mescal.

The album was announced on May 11 and preceded by two singles that charted on the Billboard Hot 100: "Hit the Wall" and "Look at My Life." As of the latest chart, "Hit the Wall" sits at No. 57 on the Hot 100.

How Does This Fit Into Her Career and 2026's Chart Landscape?

This achievement solidifies Abrams's commercial rise. Her opening slot on Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in 2023 and a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist that same year significantly expanded her audience. Daughter From Hell represents a sonic evolution noted by critics, with Rolling Stone calling it "her best album yet" for its bigger sound and deeper lyrical exploration.

Abrams is now the sixth act to land their first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2026, following Noah Kahan, Ella Langley, Megan Moroney, Don Toliver, and Megadeth.

What's Happening on the Rest of the Billboard 200?

The rest of the top 10 features several steady holdovers from the previous week. Olivia Rodrigo's you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love holds at No. 2 with 86,000 units. Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem is No. 3 (75,000 units), and Ella Langley's Dandelion is No. 4 (72,000 units).

The most significant mover was BTS's album ARIRANG, which surged from No. 26 to No. 9 with 40,000 units. This jump followed the release of a new vinyl picture disc variant and promotion around the group's performance during the FIFA World Cup final halftime show.

The 2025 First-No. 1 Club and Chart Methodology

According to Billboard, Abrams joins a specific class of artists achieving a debut chart-topper in 2026. In the entirety of 2025, there were five acts that got their first No. 1: Ken Carson, Ghost, Tate McRae, PARTYNEXTDOOR and Sleep Token.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. The new Aug. 1, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard's website on July 28. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.

Sources

• Billboard
• Rolling Stone