The album, produced by Kahan, Simon and Aaron Dessner, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. 5/5/2026 Gabe Simon Credit: David O'Donahue Gabe Simon was already having a pretty good day on Sunday (May 3) when he found out that Noah Kahan ’s The Great Divide , which he co-wrote and co-produced, had debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 all-genre chart dated May 9. “I had a turkey leg in my left hand. I was at the [Tennessee] Renaissance [Festival]. My kids are running around dressed up as fairies, and I get a text from manager Drew [Simmons] saying that we’re No. 1,” he tells Billboard . Kahan’s fourth full-length studio project is his first chart topper in the U.S., earning 389,000 equivalent album units, according to Luminate. That makes the Mercury/Republic Records release the largest rock album since the Billboard 200 began measuring by units in late 2014.…