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Hypebeast reports that KATSEYE has landed its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, with the five-track project WILD opening at the top on the strength of 170,000 equivalent album units. Pure album sales accounted for 145,000 of that total, a figure that signals dedicated fan investment rather than passive streaming. In the same chart cycle, Phoebe Bridgers reached a career milestone of her own, as Lost Weekend debuted at No. 2 with 118,000 units.
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