Josh Groban Debuts His New Album At No. 1 On Multiple Charts
It's been half a decade since Josh Groban released his last studio album. Harmony arrived in late 2020, and in the years since, the singer has toured in support of that project and starred in the Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which earned him a Tony Award nomination. Now, as he wraps his latest concert residency, he scores another musical win.
The superstar vocalist collects another No. 1 album on several rankings in America this week, proving his fanbase remains loyal even without a steady stream of new music. Gems arrives on three Billboard-published tallies this frame, leading two of them and debuting inside the top 10 on the third.
Groban's latest starts at No. 1 on both the Classical Albums and Classical Crossover Albums charts. On both of those tallies, which focus on classical music full-lengths, Groban collects his sixth No. 1. He has now sent a total of seven titles to those lists, with only one missing the top spot. Josh Groban in Concert fell short by just one position more than two decades ago and never managed to take a turn in the spotlight.
Gems also enters the Top Album Sales tally, the all-genre ranking of the bestselling full-lengths and EPs throughout the U.S. On that competitive tally, the set launches at No. 6. It earns the singer his eleventh top 10 and fifteenth placement somewhere on the roster. Gems opens with just under 7,000 copies sold, according to Luminate.
Groban scores the fourth-highest-ranking debut this frame on the Top Album Sales chart. He lands between new arrivals by Fuerza Regida (111XPANTIA, No. 2), Pink Floyd (At Pompeii - MCMLXXII, No. 3), and Eric Church (Evangeline Vs. The Machine, No. 4).
Gems is an 18-track compilation largely made up of his biggest hit songs. But, as is common practice when musicians re-release older cuts but want to entice superfans to pick up a copy, he included a pair of never-before-heard tunes as well: 'Be All Right' and 'Open Hands.' The original material clearly helped push several thousand people to purchase the compilation, making it a bestseller immediately — and seemingly holding fans over while he likely works on his next full-length.
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