Miley’s New Album Makes Billboard History For Biggest Drop From A #1 Debut

Miley, the pop veteran who recently dropped the "Cyrus" from her stage name, had the #1 album in America last week. This week, things look starkly different. Her new album Bass Persuades debuted at #1 last week. Its 61,000 album equivalent units were enough to temporarily sneak past Ella Langley's Dandelion and give Miley her first #1 album since 2013's Bangerz. It couldn't last. This week, Bass Persuades plummets all the way down to #157 — the biggest-ever drop from a #1 debut.As Variety reports, Miley's second-week drop-off puts her in rare company. There have been a couple of albums that fell even further in a single week, but there were extenuating circumstances both times. Bon Jovi's This House Is Not For Sale reached #1 in 2018, two years after it came out, when the band bundled it with concert tickets, and then it fell to #169 in the next week. The 10th-anniversary of Travis Scott's Days Before Rodeo mixtape hit #1 in 2024, the week that the vinyl pre-orders finally shipped out, and then fell off the Billboard 200 chart entirely the next week. But Bass Persuades is a new album that doesn't seem to be part of a merch drop or anything like that, so its fall feels a little diff...