Post Malone's 'F-1 Trillion' Enters No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

Post Malone's first country album, F-1 Trisis at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 31) with 250,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 22, according to Luminate. It is the sixth top 10 and third No. 1 for the artist. It recently topped the list with Bleeding Hollywood in 2019, which spent five weeks at the top of the chart. First rule me Beerbongs & Bentleysfor three weeks in 2018.

The standard version of F-1 Tris The album was released on August 16 and has 18 songs, 15 of which are collaborations with country stars, from Dolly Parton and Hank Williams Jr., Brad Paisley and Blake Shelton, to HARDY and Morgan Wallen. Later on August 16, F-1 Tris put together a deluxe reissue, titled the “Long Bed” edition, featuring nine additional Post Malone solo tracks.

F-1 Tris it also leads the Top Country Albums — where it is Post Malone's first entry — and the Top Streaming Albums and Top Sales album tallies.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the US based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units include album sales, track album equivalents (TEA) and streaming album equivalents (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale or 10 individual tracks sold from an album or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 official paid/subscription audio and video streams generated from songs from an album. The new chart dated August 31, 2024 will be published in full on Bulletin boardon the user's website on August 27. For all the new charts, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

F-1 Tris debuts with 250,000 equivalent album units earned — the second-biggest week for any country album in 2024. Only Beyoncé Cowboy Carter earned its biggest week this year among country sets when it opened in April with 407,000 units.

Of F-1 TrisFirst week total of 250,000 units, SEA units comprise 164,000 (equivalent to 212.86 million official on-demand streams of the deluxe album's 27 songs), album sales total 80,000 and TEA units comprise 6,000. The album's first week sales were boosted by its availability on four vinyl editions (a standard black vinyl and three color variants, which combined to sell 25,000 — Post Malone's best week on vinyl), a cassette and a CD, in addition to the express and pure digital album downloads for the standard 18-song version and the “Long Bed” 27-song version.

F-1 Tris led by the crossover hit “I Had Some Help,” featuring country superstar Wallen. The single spent six weeks atop the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart in May–July, reached No. 1 on the all-genre Streaming Songs chart, and topped both Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay. It also topped the all-genre Radio Songs chart and reached No. 1 on both the Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay charts. “Help” was followed by two more preview tracks from the album before the full-length set dropped: “Pour Me a Drink,” featuring Shelton, and “Guy for That,” featuring Luke Combs. Both reached the top 20 on the Hot 100 and the top 10 on Hot Country Songs.

Reflecting their latest sonic turns, Post Malone is the second artist, after Beyoncé, to lead the Top Country Albums chart in 2024 with a first entry, after reaching No. 1 on other genre-specific albums charts with previous albums . Between 2017 and 2022, Post Malone earned four No. 1s on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (with Stoney, Beerbongs & Bentleys, Bleeding Hollywood and Twelve carat toothache), and also led the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart in 2023 (with Austin). Earlier in 2024, Beyoncé made her first visit to Top Country Albums together Cowboy Cartertopped the list for four weeks in April-May. Beyoncé previously recorded eight No. 1s on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as a solo artist from 2003-22.

Post Malone leads an otherwise sleepy top 10 on the new Billboard 200, as well F1-Trillion it is the only debut in the region. By Chappell Roan The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess maintains its No. 2 high for a second week, gaining 72,000 equivalent album units (down 1%), while Taylor Swift Department of Tormented Poets falls to No. 3, after 15 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1, with 62,000 (down 27%). The top of Wallen's graph One thing at a time dips 3-4 with 60,000 (down 5%) and Billie Eilish's Hit with hard and soft drops 4-5 with 53,000 (down 8%).

By Zac Bryan The Great American Bar Scene falls 5-6 with 44,000 equivalent album units earned (down 8%), Charli XCX Brat slips 6-7 with 41,000 (down 14%). By Noah Kahan Stick Season falls 7-8 with 38,000 (down 2%). Wallen's former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double album down 8-9 with 36,000 (down 5%). and Bryan's self-titled leader is a non-mover at No. 10 with 33,000 (down less than 1%).

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