Kelsea Ballerini achieves her first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart as Patterns blasts in atop the Nov. 9-dated list.
Released Oct. 25, the set earned 54,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. – a new weekly best for Ballerini – with 35,000 in album sales through Oct. 31, according to Luminate.
On the all-genre Billboard 200, the album arrives at No. 4, marking Ballerini’s second top 10 and highest rank, surpassing the No. 7 peak for Unapologetically in November 2017.
First-week sales for Patterns were encouraged by the set’s availability across eight vinyl variants (including one signed edition). Her vinyl sales totaled 12,000 for the week – Ballerini’s best week ever on vinyl. Plus, two CDs were available (including one signed edition). On Oct. 28, a digital version was released on her website with two bonus cuts. Additionally, the album was sale-priced for $4.99 in the iTunes Store.
Ballerini, from Knoxville, Tenn., co-wrote all 15 songs on Patterns. The LP’s first single, “Cowboys Cry Too,” with Noah Kahan, jumps 47-24 on the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart. The song, which debuted at its No. 16 high in July, drew 4.9 million official U.S. streams, up 69%, in the tracking week. On Country Airplay, it ranks at No. 43 (2.5 million in audience, up 3%); it began at its No. 27 best in July.
Patterns marks Ballerini’s eighth Top Country Albums entry. It follows Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, which opened at No. 21 in February 2023 before reaching No. 11 the next month. Her charted titles before that are Subject to Change, which started at its No. 3 high in October 2022; Ballerini (No. 9, September 2020); Kelsea (No. 2, April 2020); Unapologetically (No. 3, November 2017); The First Time (No. 4, June 2015); and Kelsea Ballerini (No. 40, March 2015).
