Dua Lipa made quite a splash with Radical Optimism, and she’s reaping the fruits of her labor. Her third studio album debuted at No. 1 in the UK with the largest opening week of her career, in addition to hitting No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 chart.
Radical Optimism was released on May 3, and Lipa described it as an album about “the idea of going through chaos gracefully and feeling like you can weather any storm.” She dropped three singles “Houdini”, “Training Season”, and “Illusion” ahead of its release, and she’s planning to promote it with The Radical Optimism Tour, set to kick off this summer.
Radical Optimism earned 46,300 chart units during its debut week on the Official Albums Chart in the UK, which marks the largest week by a British act this year. It also earned the most chart units for any album by a British female artist since Adele’s 30 in 2021.
Lipa failed to replicate this success in the US but did pretty great overall. Radical Optimism debuted at No. 2 behind Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, with 83,000 equivalent album units. This makes it Lipa’s highest-charting album in the US, and it scored the largest week of the singer’s career, surpassing its predecessor Future Nostalgia.
