Karol G and Trippie Redd see their newest tasks debut in the highest 10 on (*10*)’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Aug. 26), whereas Travis Scott’s Utopia continues atop the listing with a giant acquire owed to bargain-basement sale pricing.
(*10*)’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based mostly solely on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to May 25, 1991, the primary week (*10*) started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend info from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales had been the only measurement utilized by the (*10*) 200 albums chart by means of the listing dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a strategy that blends album gross sales with observe equal album models and streaming equal album models. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
Utopia offered 99,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 17 (up 169%), in line with Luminate. Utopia’s album gross sales grew in the set’s third week on the chart thanks in half to a promotional provide in Scott’s official webstore, which discounted the Utopia vinyl LP from $50 to solely $5 for a restricted time. Of Utopia’s 99,000 gross sales for the week, vinyl accounted for 93,000. That sum marks Utopia’s finest week on vinyl but, the seventh-largest gross sales week on vinyl for any album since Luminate started monitoring gross sales in 1991, and the most important week for an R&B/hip-hop or rap album on vinyl in that very same interval.
Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) rises 5-2 on Top Album Sales with 23,000 (up 14%) whereas NewJeans’ former chief 2nd EP ‘Get Up’ falls 2-4 with 20,000 (down 24%).
Karol G logs her highest-charting set ever on Top Album Sales (and second prime 10) – along with her largest gross sales week but – as Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season) begins at No. 4 with 17,000 offered. The new assortment was accessible as a digital obtain album, CD and vinyl LP. The latter offered about 3,500 copies and arrives at No. 14 on the Vinyl Albums chart.
Swift’s former No. 1 Midnights bumps 9-5 with 13,000 (up 26%), the Barbie soundtrack is a non-mover at No. 6 with practically 13,000 (down 10%) and Swift’s former chief Folklore climbs 8-7 with 12,000 (up 12%).
Trippie Redd scores his fifth prime 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales as A Lover Letter to You 5 debuts at No. 8 with 11,000 offered. He notched his first prime 10 5 years in the past with the No. 5-peaking Life’s a Trip.
Rounding out the highest 10 on the brand new Top Album Sales chart are a pair former No. 1s: Swift’s Lover (rising 12-9 with 11,000; up 28%) and Stray Kids’ 5-Star: The third Album (11-10 with 9,000; down 5%).
In the week ending Aug. 17, there have been 1.869 million albums offered in the U.S. (up 4.5% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so on.) comprised 1.540 million (up 6.4%) and digital albums comprised 329,000 (down 3.6%).
There had been 646,000 CD albums offered in the week ending Aug. 17 (down 1.4% week-over-week) and 885,000 vinyl albums offered (up 13.1%). Year-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 22.236 million (up 3.1% in comparison with the identical timeframe a yr in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales whole 29.613 million (up 21%).
Overall year-to-date album gross sales whole 63.938 million (up 7.7% in comparison with the identical year-to-date timeframe a yr in the past). Year-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 52.191 million (up 12.6%) and digital album gross sales whole 11.747 million (down 9.9%).
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