Lorde's new album Melodrama has reportedly hit the number one spot on the Billboard 200 charts. The news was shared by the singer's mother Sonja Yelich, who tweeted: "our girl has the #1 album in the US on the Billboard Charts & we just saw her slay Glastonbury - best day!" our girl has the #1 album in the US on the Billboard Charts & we just saw her slay Glastonbury - best day ! Billboard last week predicted Melodrama would launch at number one, earning the equivalent of between 80,000 and 90,000 "album units" in the week after it launched on June 16. Katy Perry's newest album Witness is currently sitting in the number one spot for the week of July 1.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 24, 2017 02:32 UTC