Six weeks into the run of Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl blockbuster, we still haven’t seen a new album really challenge it for the top spot on the Billboard 200 — but slightly lower in the top tier, some artists have enjoyed new breakthroughs. One of those comes this week, with Rosalía‘s much-anticipated new album LUX.

The ambitious set arrived with a good amount of hype, based around some of the pre-release buzz and reports (including in Billboard‘s own cover story) that it would feature the Spanish cult-pop star singing in 13 different languages. LUX was immediately met with unanimous critical acclaim, and now has posted the best first-week numbers of her career, bowing at No. 4 with 46,000 equivalent album units.

What does the debut mean for Rosalía’s career? And do we agree w

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