Chart Check [Billboard 200]: Kesha’s ‘Period’ Album Is the Week’s Top Seller & Overall Highest-Charting Debut

Don’t call it a comeback! Just two years after Kesha watched her last album, ‘Gag Order,’ nearly miss the Billboard 200 when it debuted at #168, the Pop diva is seeing its follow-up top Billboard charts.

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Kesha’s ‘Period’

First-Week Sales (SPS) ≈ 21,400 units

First-Week Sales (Pure) ≈ 14,300 units

Billboard 200 Debut: #17

Released July 4 on the backs of singles ‘Joyride,’ ‘Boy Crazy,’ ‘Delusional,’ ‘Yippee-Ki-Yay,’ and ‘The One,’ Kesha’s ‘Period‘ pounced to a #17 debut on this week’s Billboard 200 thanks to first-week sales just north of 21,000 total units.

The highest position she’s captured on the hitlist since 2020’s ‘High Road‘ opened at #7, the tidy sales sum also helped ‘Period’ become the week’s highest-charting new album and the only LP to premiere in the top 20 of the chart’s updated edition.

Despite bowing outside of the top 10 of the Billboard 200, the 11-track effort still managed to outperform every title inside the ranking on a pure sales front thanks to its count of approximately 14,000 moved (helping it land at #1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart).

Look below to see who joins her on this week’s TGJ Chart Check.

Billboard 200 This Week

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[photo source: Billboard]