Noah Kahan landed his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 this week, and the numbers behind it are historic by nearly every metric the chart tracks.
"The Great Divide," Kahan's fourth studio album, earned 389,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending April 30, according to Luminate. That figure represents the biggest opening week for a rock album since Billboard began measuring by equivalent album units in December 2014, topping the previous record set by Dave Matthews Band's "Come Tomorrow," which debuted with 292,000 units in June 2018.
The album also posted the largest streaming week of 2026 across all genres, with streaming equivalent album units accounting for 212,000 of the total, representing 215.37 million on-demand streams. Pure album sales accounted for 175,000 units, Kahan's best sales week and the largest for a rock album in nearly seven years, since Tool's "Fear Inoculum" bowed with 248,000 copies in September 2019.
Vinyl alone tells its own story. Of those 175,000 sales, 118,000 copies were vinyl purchases, marking the biggest vinyl sales week for a rock album in the modern tracking era, which Luminate defines as beginning in 1991. The figure is striking at a time when the format's revival has been widely discussed but rarely quantified so dramatically for a single title.
"The Great Divide" is Kahan's fifth charted album on the Billboard 200 and his second top 10. He had previously peaked at No. 2 with "Stick Season" in 2024. That earlier album re-entered the top 10 this week, rising to No. 10 in its 179th week on the chart.
The week's top 10 also included Kehlani's self-titled album debuting at No. 4, her fourth top 10 on the chart, and Michael Jackson's "Thriller" re-entering at No. 7 following the theatrical debut of the "Michael" biopic.
The new May 9-dated Billboard 200 chart will be posted in full on May 5.
