Ella Langley’s second week with Dandelion at the summit of Top Country Albums and the all-genre Billboard 200 dated May 2 places her in rare company. The set earned 106,000 equivalent album units in the United States in its second frame (April 17–23), according to Luminate, making her one of just three women with country projects to post at least 100,000 units in a second consecutive week.
Langley joins Beyoncé and Taylor Swift in the achieving feat. Beyoncé met the mark with Cowboy Carter (2024), which debuted with 407,000 units and followed with 128,000. Swift has done so multiple times in the past decade. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) opened in 2023 with 716,000 and followed with 121,000, while 2021’s Red (Taylor’s Version) logged three consecutive 100,000-plus weeks (605,000, 159,000 and 102,000). Dandelion follows with 169,000 and 106,000.
Swift’s 2021 Fearless (Taylor’s Version) also reached multiple 100,000-plus weeks, though not consecutively. It opened with 291,000 units, dipped below the mark in its second week at No. 1, then returned to the summit later that year with 152,000.
Before Billboard’s genre album charts shifted to their current streaming and sales hybrid methodology in February 2017, the sole metric was album sales. Swift reached back-to-back 100,000-plus weeks with the original versions of Fearless (its first seven frames in 2008-09) and Speak Now (its first nine in 2010-11). Her Red (2012) did even better, debuting with 1.21 million sold and selling more than 100,000 in its first 10 weeks. Carrie Underwood also earned the honor in 2012 with Blown Away, which began with 267,000 and followed with 120,000.
Dandelion flexes its second-week strength as Langley’s profile continues to grow beyond the charts, including a high-visibility Stagecoach appearance the day after the tracking week closed, positioning the album for continued momentum beyond its second week at No. 1. Plus, the set’s “Choosin’ Texas” tops Hot Country Songs for a 22nd week; follow-up “Be Her” holds at its No. 2 high, and her new duet with Morgan Wallen, “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” newly added to Dandelion with its April 24 release, is set to splash onto next week’s charts (dated May 9).
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