New York-based rock quartet Brand New have scored their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, displacing Kesha's Rainbow. The group's Science Fiction, their first new album in eight years, moved 58,000 equivalent album units for the week ending Aug. 24, according to Billboard.
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Brand New — comprising Jesse Lacey, Vincent Accardi, Brian Lane, and Garrett Tierney — have made Science Fiction only available via streaming and digital services thus far. A physical CD and LP release is scheduled for Oct. 17. Other albums to top the chart in 2017 sans a physical release include Drake's More Life and Big Sean's I Decided.
In related news, rapper Kodak Black has bowed at No. 2 with Project Baby Two, backed by 50,000 units. The mixtape album was propelled mainly by 39,000 streaming equivalent units.
