Overview
- Luminate reports just under 186,000 equivalent units for the debut week, including 93,500 in traditional sales.
- ‘The Romantic’ opens at No. 1 on six Billboard charts: Billboard 200, Top Album Sales, Vinyl Albums, Top Streaming Albums, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top R&B Albums.
- The set marks Mars’ first solo album to open at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, contrasting with ‘Unorthodox Jukebox,’ which reached the summit months after release.
- The album’s fast start follows lead single ‘I Just Might,’ which became Mars’ first song to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in mid-January.
- The week’s Billboard 200 top five rounds out with Bad Bunny at No. 2, Morgan Wallen at No. 3, Don Toliver at No. 4 and Olivia Dean at No. 5.