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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Mar 28, 2016 5:43 AM UTC  Gwen Stefani attends the photo call for the Keita Maruyama show as a part of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Tokyo, March 14, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan Gwen Stefani attends the photo call for the Keita Maruyama show as a part of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Tokyo, March 14, 2016 in Tokyo, JapanJun Sato—WireImage/Getty Images by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Mar 28, 2016 5:43 AM UTC Gwen Stefani has officially joined the No. 1 album club. According to [Billboard](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7311520/gwen-stefani-scores-her-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart), Stefani’s new release _This Is What the Truth Feels Like_ sold 84,000 equivalent album units and 76,000 units in pure album sales for the week ending March 24, enough to put her at the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart. _This Is What the Truth Feels Like_ is Stefani’s third solo album and her first to hit No. 1\. It’s been almost 10 years since she’s released a solo record, and her most recent album, 2006’s _The Sweet Escape,_ topped out at No. 3 on the Billboard chart. Stefani has topped the Billboard albums chart once before, although not as a solo artist: No Doubt’s 1996 hit _Tragic Kingdom_ spent nine nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1\. As a result, Stefani is now one of only a few artists to have a No. 1 album both as part of a group and as a solo artist. “When I started this, I walked into the studio and said, ‘I don’t care about a single. I’m doing this to get this stuff out. I want it to be the truth,’” Stefani [told EW](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/17/gwen-stefani-reborn) about her new album. “So when we started writing, it was a lot of journal stuff that I had worked on. Every record was written around emotion.” [_This article originally appeared on Ew.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/27/gwen-stefani-first-no-1-solo-album) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4273305/gwen-stefani-first-no-1-solo-album/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4273305/gwen-stefani-first-no-1-solo-album/"},"headline":"Gwen Stefani Earns Her First No. 1 Solo Album","datePublished":"2016-03-28T05:43:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:15:16.705Z","description":"\"Every record was written around emotion”","url":"https://time.com/4273305/gwen-stefani-first-no-1-solo-album/","keywords":["Music","gwen stefani"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a29f0cda2ae3906/69888cb5196cf4c81003aeec/gettyimages-515558314.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a29f0cda2ae3906/69888cb5196cf4c81003aeec/gettyimages-515558314.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"KEITA MARUYAMA - MBFW Tokyo Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 - Celebrities","caption":"KEITA MARUYAMA - MBFW Tokyo Autumn/Winter 2016/2017 - Celebrities","creditText":"Jun Sato—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4273305/gwen-stefani-first-no-1-solo-album/","name":"Gwen Stefani Earns Her First No. 1 Solo Album"}}]}] ```