Singer Solange Knowles attends the Creatures of Comfort fashion show during New York Fashion Week September 2016 at Industria Studios on September 8, 2016 in New York City. (Photo : Getty Images / Ilya S. Savenok)
"A Set at the Table," the recent album of Beyonce Knowles' sister Solange Knowles, landed No. 1 on an Oct. 22-dated Billboard 200 chart following a week of buzz and sales. It narrowly beat Bon Iver's "A Million," which landed No. 2.
"A Set at the Table" sold 46,000 copies from traditional album sales and 72,000 copies overall in its first week of release. Iver's "A Million" album had 71,000 units sales in total, 58,000 units of which are from traditional album sales, according to The Boombox.
"A Set at the Table" is the first album that gives Solange such honor. The singer's followers will get hold of her precious work in CD on Nov. 18.
Solange's recent achievement puts her and her R&B superstar sister, Beyonce among the elite league of a few siblings who reign the charts, according to Billboard. Beyonce has six albums that previously topped Billboard 200, including this year's "Lemonade."
Other siblings with chart-topping albums were Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. Michael tallied six No. 1s from his 1993 "Thriller" to the 2009 "This Is It" soundtrack. Janet's chart-topping albums were from "Control" in 1986 through "Unbreakable" in 2015.
Michael and Janet earned No. 1s in the same calendar year in 2001 with "Invincible" and "All For You," respectively. It is notable that way earlier, another member of their family had also enjoyed massive album sales. Jermaine Jackson's "Let's Get Serious" peaked at No. 6 in 1980.
Rapper and No Limit Records CEO Master P had his 1997 album, "Ghetto D" on top of Billboard 200. His "MP Da Last Don" achieved the same in 1998. His brother followed the following year, when his album "Made Man" tallied No. 1 in the charts.
Ashlee Simpson had two top-notch albums, "Autobiography" in 2004 and "I Am Me" in 2005. Her sister Jessica Simpson's 2004 "In This Skin" landed No. 2. Jessica had three other albums landing at the top 10.
Sisters Toni Braxton and Tamar Braxton also enjoyed having their albums landing top 10 on Billboard 200. Toni claimed six top 10s, including her No. 1 self-titled album in 1994 while Tamar had two top 10s, such as "Love and War" that scored No. 2 in 2013.
Listen to Solange's "Don't Touch My Hair," one of the songs in "A Seat at the Table" below:
