Noah Kahan celebrated scoring his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 in pretty much the way you might expect from the Vermont singer known for writing contemplative pop-folk songs about the everyday struggles of growing up and battling anxiety. “Number one album in the country, ’bout to buy the Wi-Fi package on this flight to celebrate,” Kahan wrote in an Instagram Story on Sunday (April 3) after his fourth full-length studio LP, The Great Divide, debuted atop the album’s tally on the list dated May 9.
Did we mention he’s from the rustic, laid-back Green Mountain State?
“(messaging only, horrific rip off for browsing privileges),” Kahan added jokingly of his Bernie Sanders-like frugal celebration in the post that included a pic of him on a plane with a hood pulled up over his baseball hat. His Story also included a slide with a screenshot of the Billboard news headline announcing his feat — with the caption “Oops” — as well as the detail that his 389,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. for the week ending April 30, according to Luminate, was the largest week for a rock album by units since the chart began measuring by units in late 2014. It was also the third-biggest week of 2026 among all albums and the singer’s biggest week by units in his career.
When the GM of Kahan’s management firm, Ryan Langlois, commented that his client is in “Barry Bonds mode setting ‘in the modern era’ records when he pulled from the Billboard story noting that The Great Divide also landed this year’s largest streaming week of any album and the biggest vinyl sales week for a rock album in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991),” Kahan had the perfect response. “Except I would have given myself more playing time in the celebrity all-star game,” he joked of the 2025 matchup in which he actually played on Team Bonds alongside Kai Cenat, Mickey Guyton, Baron Davis, Rome Flynn and Alisha Gray, among others.
Kahan was also chuffed to debut at No. 1 on the Official U.K. albums chart, landing him his second chart-topper across the pond. “Life is crazy f–kin grateful for it all,” he wrote on X.
The Great Divide is Kahan’s fifth album to chart on the Billboard 200 and his second top 10. He previously topped out at No. 2 in 2024 with Stick Season; on the heels of his new chart-topper, that previous LP returned to the top 10, rising 11-10 in its 179th week on the chart.
