{"id":238198,"date":"2026-05-04T02:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/noah-kahan-earns-first-1-album-the-great-divide\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:16:52","slug":"noah-kahan-earns-first-1-album-the-great-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/noah-kahan-earns-first-1-album-the-great-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Kahan Earns First #1 Album &#8211; The Great Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <i>The Great Divide<\/i> by Noah Kahan debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 389k units. It becomes his first number one album.  The 21-track set opens with 370k, powered by 170k in pure sales and 200m+ streams\u2014 the largest streaming debut so far this year, and biggest since Taylor Swift&#8217;s album <i>The Life of a Showgirl<\/i>.  <\/p>\n<p>Kahan\u2019s debut marks the biggest week for a rock album since the charts started measuring by units at the end of 2014. It also becomes the third-biggest week for an album in 2026 behind BTS\u2019 <i>Arirang<\/i> (641,000 units) and Harry Styles\u2019 <i>Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally<\/i> (430,000 units).  <i>The Great Divide<\/i> also had the biggest vinyl sales week for a rock album since electronic tracking began in 1991, with 118,000 units sold across nine vinyl variants.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Noah Kahan Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With \u2018The Great Divide\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VfUdNdiWza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/VfUdNdiWza<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 billboard (@billboard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billboard\/status\/2051014654369931589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/billboard\/status\/2051014654369931589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitsdailydouble.com\/news\/charts\/top-50-kahan-story-2026-05-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/noah-kahan-scores-first-no-1-albums-chart-the-great-divide-1236736424\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132295349.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Divide by Noah Kahan debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 389k units. It becomes his first number one album. The 21-track set opens with 370k, powered by 170k in pure sales and 200m+ streams\u2014 the largest streaming debut so far this year, and biggest since Taylor Swift&#8217;s album The Life of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}