Miley’s ‘Bass Persuades’ debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 61,000 units, her first chart-topper since ‘Bangerz’ in 2013
Miley has her first Billboard 200 No. 1 in 13 years, and she won it by roughly a thousand units. Bass Persuades debuts atop the chart dated Oct. 3 with 61,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Sept. 24, according to Luminate. Ella Langley‘s Dandelion holds at No. 2 with nearly 61,000, and Riley Green’s That’s Just Me opens at No. 3 with 60,000. Three albums inside about 1,000 units is as close as the top of this chart gets.
It is her sixth leader and her 16th top 10 album, a tally spanning her work as Miley Cyrus, her current mononymous era, and her soundtrack releases as Hannah Montana. She last topped the list with Bangerz in October 2013, making her the third act in 2026 to wait at least a decade between No. 1s.
How the Week Was Built
The composition of the number matters more than the number itself. Of those 61,000 units, 47,000 came from album sales, with 14.2 million on-demand official streams accounting for most of the rest. That is a sales-heavy week by current standards, built on a physical strategy that put the album out across vinyl, CD, cassette and digital.
It also beat the forecasts comfortably. Hits Daily Double had projected 40,000 to 45,000 units, with another estimate landing around 46,000. The final figure cleared the high end by more than a third.
The campaign was unusually compressed. Miley announced Bass Persuades on Sept. 1, released the title track and video on Sept. 3, and put out the album on Sept. 18. Seventeen days from announcement to release is a schedule that only works when an audience is already primed and the revenue is coming from pre-orders and direct-to-consumer sales rather than a long radio setup. The title track debuted at No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Sept. 19, her 24th top 40 hit.
What the Number Actually Means
By historical measure, 61,000 units is a modest total for a chart-topper. Bangerz opened with 270,000 in 2013. That gap says more about a decade of change in album consumption than about Miley, and it illustrates where the Billboard 200 now sits: when 47,000 physical and digital sales can carry a week, the No. 1 slot rewards fan mobilization and variant strategy over broad passive listening.
The album itself is her 10th studio release and the first issued solely under the name Miley. Model/Actriz appear on “Different Religion” and Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow features on “Neon Signs.” After the title track, the most-streamed songs in the opening week were “Let’s Get Married,” “Different Religion” and “Orbit.” Model/Actriz are also slated to appear at her upcoming live dates.
Reviews were not uniformly enthusiastic, with Variety’s assessment landing somewhere around pretty and passable. The Billboard 200 does not grade on that curve.
Elsewhere in the top 10, Riley Green and beabadoobee each score their first top 10 albums. Jhené Aiko‘s Westside Whimsy falls from No. 1 to No. 8 in its second week with 35,000 units, down 53 percent. Drake’s ICEMAN slips 6-9 with nearly 35,000 units, down just 2 percent. Noah Kahan’s Stick Season holds steady, as it has for most of three years.
For Miley, the practical result is a reset. Something Beautiful peaked at No. 4 in June 2025. Bass Persuades puts her back on top, by a margin you could fit inside a tour bus.
