Noah Kahan has arrived. The Vermont singer-songwriter’s fourth studio album “The Great Divide” has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving Kahan his first chart-topper and one of the biggest opening weeks in recent rock history.
The album moved 389,000 equivalent album units in its first week, making it the largest debut week for a rock album since Billboard began measuring by units in 2014. Streaming led the charge, with 215.37 million on-demand streams in a single week, the biggest streaming week of any album in 2026. “The Great Divide” also posted the biggest vinyl sales week for a rock album in the modern tracking era, with 118,000 vinyl units sold across nine variants.
“An album with mostly 5-minute songs doesn’t go number one very often,” Kahan said in a statement to fans. “But because I have the greatest, smartest, most dedicated fans in the world, you guys have given me a number one album. Insanity. We did it together, and I’ll keep going as long as you’ll have me.”
Produced by Gabe Simon and Grammy-winning producer Aaron Dessner (Taylor Swift, Bon Iver), the 17-track album hit No. 1 in the U.S., the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Kahan also charted all 21 songs from the expanded deluxe version on the Hot 100 simultaneously, placing 12 in the top 40.
