Phoebe Bridgers Rules Top Rock & Alternative Albums Chart for First Time With ‘Lost Weekend’
Phoebe Bridgers is No.
1 on Billboard ’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart for the first time, as Lost Weekend debuts atop the Aug.
29-dated survey.
In its first week, ending Aug.
20, the set earned 124,000 equivalent album units in the United States, according to Luminate.
The album’s triumph exceeds the No.
6 debut and peak of Bridgers’ previous solo effort, Punisher , in 2020.
In between the two sets, Bridgers appeared in the top 10 as part of Boygenius , alongside Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus ; the band’s debut full-length, The Record , reached No.
2 in 2023.
As previously reported , Lost Weekend roars in at No.
2 on the all-genre Billboard 200 , marking Bridgers’ first-time top 40 entry as a solo act.
The Dead Oceans label earns its highest-ever Billboard 200 placement.
On Top Rock & Alternative Albums, it adds its second No.
1, following Mitski ’s Laurel Hell in 2022.
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