Lorde has earned her first No. 1 album, with her newly released Melodrama.
According to Nielsen Music, the singer's sophomore record moved 109,000 equivalent album units, including 82,000 in traditional sales, during the tracking week ending on June 22.
Lorde's debut album, 2013's Pure Heroine, peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. charts when it was released.
Thanking fans on Twitter on Monday, Lorde nodded to the rare success of her debut single "Royals," acknowledging she knew "there were no such guarantees" this time around. "That's why this means so much."
She also expressed gratitude for the opportunity to make a big record once again on her own terms. "When I was a kid I thought big records had to be made a certain way—to be sterile [and] calculated in craft; that something had to be sacrificed," she tweeted, giving producer Jack Antonoff a shoutout. "I have had the divine thrill of disproving that firsthand, twice over."
Lorde's chart-topping success also marks a third consecutive week a female artist has crowned the Billboard 200, following No. 1 debuts from Katy Perry last week and Halsey the week prior.
you guys, today we have the number one album in america. from the bottom of my heart, thankyou.
— Lorde (@lorde) June 26, 2017