Kesha Earns A Career-First No. 1 With Her Comeback Album

Kesha’s new album Period — officially titled with just the punctuation symbol, but typically referred to by the word itself — returns the pop star to the highest reaches of several Billboard rankings this week as it arrives. The highly anticipated full-length opens at No. 1 across a variety of tallies, even sending the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter to the top spot on one list for the first time in her career.

Kesha Earns Her First No. 1

Kesha launches Period at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart, claiming the bestselling record in America for the first time ever. Throughout her years as a superstar, Kesha has sent a trio of projects to the Vinyl Albums list, and all of them have cracked the top five, but until now, none had led the charge.

Period Beats Gag Order and Rainbow

Before Period, Kesha’s highest-rising win on the Vinyl Albums chart was Gag Order, the full-length that arrived just two years earlier. That set debuted at No. 3 and then fell away, never to be seen again.

Rainbow reached its No. 4 high point in November 2017 when it debuted, and so far, that project is the only one from Kesha to hold on for more than one stay, as it managed only two stints on the tally.

Kesha Joins Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and The Beatles

Kesha leads the Vinyl Albums tally during a fairly quiet frame. Period is one of just two debuts on the list, as Clarity Of Cal by Vulfpeck opens at No. 3, while Short n’ Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter rockets back to the runner-up space from outside the top 10.

Since there aren’t many arrivals, several favorites have a chance to return. This week’s Vinyl Albums ranking features classics from the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Tame Impala, The Beatles, and SZA, all of whom manage to reappear. Two of Taylor Swift’s projects, Reputation and her self-titled debut, also reenter the roster.

Kesha’s New Album Launches at No. 1 on Several Lists

Period opens at No. 1 on three Billboard lists. In addition to the Vinyl Albums tally, the dance-pop project also conquers both the Top Album Sales and Top Dance Albums charts, where the pop singer has dominated in the past.

Luminate reports that in its first full frame of availability, the latest from the party-hard musician arrives with 15,500 pure purchases. That’s several thousand more than Beautiful Chaos by Katseye, which dips to No. 2 in its second week on the tally.