Abel’s latest drop just claimed the top crown in America.
The 34-year-old superstar’s sixth album Hurry Up Tomorrow crushed the Billboard 200 for Feb. 15, pulling in a massive 490,500 equivalent album units.
The project marks The Weeknd’s fifth #1 album and his biggest numbers since Billboard started counting units in 2014. It’s also the highest-selling week for any album since Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department dropped those wild 2.61 million units for its #1 debut in May 2024.
The album even topped Travis Scott’s Utopia numbers, making it the biggest R&B/hip-hop launch since La Flame hit #1 in Aug. 2023 with 496,000 units.
Hurry Up Tomorrow came through with the works – eight different vinyl versions, eight CD options, cassettes, and nine deluxe box sets. Plus, that surprise Grammy performance in 2025 probably helped pump those numbers up.
Right behind The Weeknd, Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos grabbed #2, with SZA’s SOS and Kendrick’s GNX following up.
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess jumped to #5 and #6 – likely thanks to their Grammy spotlight moments.
The rest of the top 10 lineup: Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet at #7, Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time at #8, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department at #9, and newcomer Gracie Abrams closing it out with The Secret of Us.
