An Evening with Silk Sonic debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. The 2021 album was the debut studio release by Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s retro-soul duo.
Its opening week produced 104,000 equivalent album units in the United States. That total included 42,000 traditional album sales, 60,000 streaming-equivalent units from 82.6 million on-demand streams, and 2,000 track-equivalent units.
The result made the record Mars’s fourth top-ten album and .Paak’s second. It also topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, a different ranking from the all-genre Billboard 200. That distinction explains a common mix-up: the album was number one on the R&B chart but number two on the Billboard 200.
Its chart performance followed the success of singles including “Leave the Door Open,” “Skate,” and “Smokin out the Window.” The album later returned to the Billboard 200 top ten after its 2022 vinyl release, reaching number seven in that sales week.