It was four years ago today (September 15th, 2018) that Paul McCartney hit Number One album on the Billboard 200 albums chart with his then-latest album, Egypt Station. Egypt Station, which was the former-Beatle's eighth solo chart-topper, marked his first album to enter the Billboard 200 at the top spot. Across the pond, Egypt Station entered the UK charts at Number Three. The collection marked the first time McCartney topped the U.S. album charts since way back in 1982 with Tug Of War.
Billboard reported at the time, “The set, which was released on September 7th via MPL/Capitol Records, launches with a larger-than-expected 153,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending September 13th according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 147,000 were in traditional album sales.”
McCartney's previous two albums — 2013's New and 2007's Memory Almost Full — had peaked at Number Three. Prior to Egypt Station, the closest he had come to returning to the top spot with a new original studio album since Tug Of War was 1997's Flaming Pie, which stalled at Number Two.