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Kacey Musgraves’ ‘star-crossed’ debuts at #3 on the ‘Billboard’ 200

By Cillea Houghton Sep 21, 2021 | 10:00 AM


Interscope Records/UMG Nashville

Kacey Musgraves‘ new album star-crossed has debuted inside the top 10 on the Billboard 200

With 77,000 equivalent album units earned since its September 10 release, Kacey’s latest effort bows at #3 on the all-genre chart, coming in behind Drake and Kanye West.

star-crossed‘s sales make up 47,000 of those units, marking it the best-selling album of the week and Kacey’s second-largest sales week ever, behind 2015’s Pageant Material. 

On the streaming front, the Texas native had the second-largest debut streaming week for a country album by a woman this year, with more than 38 million streams. It trails Taylor Swift‘s Fearless (Taylor’s Version), released in April. 

star-crossed is Kacey’s fourth album to appear inside the Billboard 200 top five, following her 2013 debut, Same Trailer Different Park, her sophomore album Pageant Material, and the Grammy-winning Golden Hour. 

star-crossed‘s current single, “justified,” is inside the top 30 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

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