Miley Hits Number One on Albums Chart With ‘Bass Persuades’ — SkimNews
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- Miley (now working under the mononym) debuted her 10th studio album Bass Persuades at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 61,000 equivalent album units for the week ending Sept. 24, her first chart-topper since 2013's Bangerz and her sixth #1 album overall.
- Bass Persuades was driven primarily by album sales (47,000 of the 61,000 units), with streaming equivalent albums adding 14,000 units — equal to 14.22 million on-demand official streams of the LP's songs.
- The opening week's sales were fueled by an unusually deep physical footprint: 16 vinyl variants (one with a bonus track), 9 CD versions (one with a bonus track), 6 download variants with bonus offerings, and a cassette.
- Miley has now amassed 16 Top 10 albums total, spanning her work as Miley Cyrus and her soundtrack releases as Disney character Hannah Montana.
- The album's title track bowed at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 after its Sept. 3 release, with the LP following on Sept. 18.
- On the rest of the chart, Ella Langley's Dandelion held #2 with just under 61,000 units, Riley Green's That's Just Me opened at #3 with 60,000 units, and Beabadoobee scored her first Top 10 album with Pylon at #7 (35,000 units).
Why it matters: The #1 marks Miley's first Billboard 200 crown in 12 years, ending the longest gap between her chart-toppers; the album's win was almost entirely sales-driven, with 47,000 of 61,000 units from purchases rather than streams — a physical-format strategy that gave her an edge over streaming-heavy competitors like Ella Langley, who trailed by a razor-thin margin of fewer than 1,000 units.
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