{"id":615058,"date":"2026-09-29T06:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615058\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:10:12","slug":"miley-cyrus-bass-persuades-bows-at-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615058\/","title":{"rendered":"Miley Cyrus&#8217; \u2018Bass Persuades\u2019 Bows at Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMiley\u2019s 10th studio album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/miley-cyrus-bass-persuades-review-1235629586\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bass Persuades<\/a>, finds the singer topping the Billboard 200 for the first time in more than a decade. It debuts with 61,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States, the week ending Sept. 24, according to Luminate as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/miley-cyrus-bass-persuades-no-1-billboard-200-albums-chart-1236349456\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Billboard <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/miley-cyrus-bass-persuades-no-1-billboard-200-albums-chart-1236349456\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBass Persuades is her sixth album to top the albums chart, and the first to hit Number One since 2013\u2019s Bangerz. In all, she\u2019s had 16 Top 10 albums comprising her work as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/miley-cyrus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_miley-cyrus\" data-tag=\"miley-cyrus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miley Cyrus<\/a> (she\u2019s now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/miley-billy-ray-cyrus-dropping-last-name-new-album-1235620468\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">working under the mononym Miley<\/a>), and her soundtrack releases as Disney character Hannah Montana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBass Persuades arrived on Sept. 18, preceded by its title track on Sept. 3. The song bowed at Number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album is the follow-up to Something Beautiful, which peaked at Number Four on the June 14, 2025 albums chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOf the 61,000 units earned, 47,000 of them are made up of Bass Persuades\u2019 albums sales; and streaming equivalent albums (SEA) comprise 14,000, which equates to 14.22 million on-demand official streams of the LP\u2019s songs. The album\u2019s opening week was boosted by sales across 16 vinyl variants, with one including a bonus track; nine CD versions, with one also having a bonus track; six download variants with bonus offerings; and a cassette.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tElsewhere on the charts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ella-langley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ella-langley\" data-tag=\"ella-langley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Langley<\/a>\u2019s previously chart-topping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/ella-langley-dandelion-review-1235544258\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dandelion,<\/a> is at Number Two, with just under 61,000 equivalent units. Also, a couple of newcomers to the Top 10 made splashes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/riley-green\/\" id=\"auto-tag_riley-green\" data-tag=\"riley-green\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riley Green<\/a>\u2019s That\u2019s Just Me debuted at Number Three, with 60,000 equivalent album units earned. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/beabadoobee\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beabadoobee\" data-tag=\"beabadoobee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beabadoobee<\/a> scored her first Top 10 album with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/beabadoobee-pylon-album-review-1235626786\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pylon<\/a>, which bows at Number Seven. It earned 35,000 equivalent album units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRounding out the Top Five, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/morgan-wallen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_morgan-wallen\" data-tag=\"morgan-wallen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s I\u2019m the Problem is at Number Four, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/olivia-rodrigo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_olivia-rodrigo\" data-tag=\"olivia-rodrigo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/olivia-rodrigo-you-seem-pretty-sad-for-a-girl-love-review-1235576485\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl so in Love<\/a>\u00a0falls to Number Five from the previous week\u2019s Number Three spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miley\u2019s 10th studio album, Bass Persuades, finds the singer topping the Billboard 200 for the first time in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[302968,224229,12733,156,24968,11215,157,111,139,69,3875,96305],"class_list":["post-615058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-beabadoobee","tag-billboard-charts","tag-ella-langley","tag-entertainment","tag-miley-cyrus","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-olivia-rodrigo","tag-riley-green"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}