Noah Kahan officially has his first No. 1 album.
The 29-year-old singer-songwriter’s fourth album, The great divisionThe magazine announced on Sunday that the song has reached the top of the Billboard 200. One of the most anticipated albums of 2026, The great division It earned 389,000 equivalent album units in its first week, Bulletin board Reports. This is the third biggest week for an album this year.
The great division It had good physical sales, about 175,000; However, streaming has catapulted the Vermont native to the top — streaming units accounted for 212,000 of the album’s total 389,000 equivalent units in the first week. The album marks the biggest streaming week for any album in 2026, the biggest streaming week for Kahan and the biggest week for a rock album since Billboard began measuring in units in 2014.
The great division As a follow-up to Kahan’s successful album, Stick seasonhelping transform the Vermont native from club action to home run leader. The 29-year-old singer announced the album in late January, and dropped the music video for her debut single, during the commercial break of the 2026 Grammy Awards.
Less than 24 hours after the release of the 17-song album, Kahan Surprise released an expanded version, The Great Divide: The Last Bugs. The expanded version of the album included four new songs – “Lighthouse”, “Staying Still”, “A Few of Our Own” and “Orbiter” – bringing the final number of songs to 21.
leads to The great divisionFollowing the release of Kahan, he dropped two pre-release singles, “The Great Divide” and “Porch Light”. The singer said earlier Hollywood Reporter that he and his team had many long conversations about why the titular track was the first release from the album. “We knew we wanted to make sure we were at the forefront of storytelling first. The great division “It really symbolizes the storytelling in the rest of the record, in my opinion,” Kahan said.
“It’s the best entry into the record from a storytelling and audio perspective. I think it offers something a little different than a lot of the stuff on Stick seasonHe continued. “There’s more musical stuff going on, it’s a little more swing, and I think that’s really fun because that’s the direction I want to go.”
Last month, Kahan released a documentary on Netflix, Noah Kahan: Out of the body. The 90-minute film, directed by Nick Sweeney, follows the singer as he prepares to shoot a movie great division, Standing at a crossroads what to do in the wake of a crushing blow. “I don’t want to be stuck in one way. It was these fears in my head that made it so hard for me to write it all down that I eventually had to let it go,” the singer said. THR.
He later added: “We really wanted to capture the feeling of Vermont on this album. Vermont has so many quiet, beautiful moments that you really need to hear to experience them.” “Some of the songs were recorded in ways that really capture that feeling.”