News It also scored the biggest streaming debut of 2026 Noah Kahan on April 22, 2026, in Brooklyn, N.Y., for a Spotify-sponsored concert (photo: Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for Spotify). Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide (Mercury) has landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 389,000 equivalent units, not only marking the Vermont troubadour’s first-ever chart-topper but also delivering the biggest streaming debut of 2026. Not bad for a guy who made his name writing five-minute, gut-punch folk songs about small-town malaise. Indeed, The Great Divide logged the biggest week for a rock release since Billboard switched to its current units system in 2014, and it moved more vinyl than any rock record in the modern tracking era (dating back to 1991). Globally, the album debuted at No. 1 across the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Switzerland. In the U.K., it stands as the biggest debut for an international artist this year.…