The Weeknd’s ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ debuts at #1 with biggest first-week sales since last year

It seems as though The Weeknd‘s album Hurry Up Tomorrow was, indeed, highly anticipated.

The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 490,500 units — more than any album since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department debuted with 2.6 million in 2024. It’s also The Weeknd’s largest sales week ever. He’d previously topped the chart with four other albums: After Hours, My Dear Melancholy, Starboy and Beauty Behind the Madness.

Billboard notes that sales of the album were boosted by its availability in numerous formats, including eight vinyl variants, nine deluxe boxed sets, eight CD variants and multiple digital editions.

Meanwhile, thanks to the Grammy Awards — at which The Weeknd performed — albums by Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan rose on the chart.

Billie, who was the first performer on the telecast, singing “Birds of a Feather,” saw her album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT jump from #10 to #5.  Chappell’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess rose from #14 to #6, following her win for Best New Artist and her performance of “Pink Pony Club.”