Miley Hits Number One on Albums Chart With ‘Bass Persuades’ — SkimNews
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- Miley tops the Billboard 200 for the first time since 2013's Bangerz, with her 10th studio album Bass Persuades earning 61,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 24, per Luminate.
- Bass Persuades marks Miley's sixth No. 1 album and brings her career total to 16 Top 10 entries across her work as Miley Cyrus and as Disney's Hannah Montana; she now records under the mononym Miley.
- Album sales drove the bulk of opening-week performance, with 47,000 of the 61,000 units coming from physical/digital purchases — fueled by 16 vinyl variants, 9 CD versions, 6 download variants, and a cassette — while streaming equivalents added 14,000 units (14.22 million on-demand streams).
- Title track Bass Persuades was released Sept. 3 ahead of the album's Sept. 18 arrival and bowed at No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- Something Beautiful, Miley's previous album, peaked at No. 4 on the June 14, 2025 chart, making this No. 1 her first chart-topper in that cycle.
- Elsewhere on the chart, Ella Langley's Dandelion was at No. 2 with just under 61,000 units, Riley Green debuted at No. 3 with That's Just Me (60,000 units), Beabadoobee earned her first Top 10 album with Pylon at No. 7, Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem sat at No. 4, and Olivia Rodrigo's You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl so in Love dropped to No. 5.
Why it matters: Roughly 77% of Bass Persuades' opening-week units (47,000 of 61,000) came from sales rather than streams — a striking breakdown in the streaming era that suggests Miley's fanbase still converts to physical purchases when given enough variants to buy.
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