Overview
- Cloud 9 starts with 147,000 equivalent album units in the U.S., including 78,000 in album sales and 69,000 SEA units equal to about 71.54 million streams, with TEA negligible.
- It is Moroney’s first chart-topping album and her third studio release, following Am I Okay? (No. 9 in 2024) and Lucky (No. 38 in 2023).
- The set is the first country album by a woman to lead the Billboard 200 since Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter in April 2024, part of just seven such No. 1s by five women over the past decade.
- First-week sales were lifted by multiple physical formats: five vinyl variants, three CD versions and four deluxe boxed sets, including signed editions and Target-exclusive bonus tracks.
- The same chart frame features Hilary Duff debuting at No. 3, Baby Keem at No. 4 and Mumford & Sons at No. 10, while Ella Langley tops the Hot 100 with “Choosin’ Texas,” marking the first simultaneous album–song No. 1s by two women who primarily record country.