Melanie Martinez Scores Top Rock & Alternative Albums No. 1 With ‘Hades’

Melanie Martinez’s Hades is No. 1 on Billboard‘s Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart dated April 11, bowing atop the latest survey with 84,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending April 2, according to Luminate.

Of that sum, 63,000 units are via album sales, including 28,000 from the vinyl configuration, which begets a No. 2 start on the Vinyl Albums tally, behind Ye’s (formerly Kanye West) Bully (32,000).

Martinez previously reigned on Top Rock & Alternative Albums with Portals, which led for two weeks in 2023.

Additionally, Hades debuts at No. 1 on Top Alternative Albums, Martinez’s fourth No. 1, following reigns for Cry Baby (2015) and K-12 (2019) in addition to the aforementioned Portals and Hades.

Martinez moves into a four-way tie alongside Billie Eilish, Lorde and Paramore for the most No. 1s on Top Alternative Albums by women or women-led acts since the chart’s 2007 inception. Only two such acts have more: Lana Del Rey (seven, also the top mark among any act) and Florence + The Machine (five).

Hades concurrently starts at No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200, her third time in the chart’s top three; Portals remains her best via its No. 2 bow.

Eight songs from Hades appear on the April 11-dated Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, led by “Possession,” which re-enters at No. 33 (after premiering at No. 11 in February). It earned 1.8 million official U.S. streams. The album’s top debut of the week, meanwhile, belongs to “Uncanny Valley” (No. 37; 1.6 million streams).