The all-star charity album Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Compilation Albums chart and likewise bows at No. 9 on Top Album Sales.
The 49-track set bought practically 8,500 copies within the U.S. within the week ending Oct. 13 in line with Luminate – the most important gross sales week for a non-soundtrack compilation album in two years.
The profit album boasts music from Death Cab for Cutie, Fleet Foxes and Pearl Jam, amongst others, and was solely obtainable by way of Bandcamp’s webstore for in the future solely, on Oct. 7, as a digital obtain. According to a press launch, the album’s web proceeds will profit non-profit organizations working to offer abortion care entry to all: Brigid Alliance and NOISE FOR NOW (who’re working with Abortion Care Network).
The final time a non-soundtrack compilation album bought extra in a single week was two years in the past, when the final Good Music charity album, Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Volume 2 debuted at No. 10 on Top Album Sales with 13,500 bought (Oct. 17, 2020 chart).
Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All additionally debuts at No. 8 on Top Current Album Sales and within the high 40 on Independent Albums, Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums.
Good Music moreover enters at No. 151 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart – the best debut by a non-R&B/hip-hop compilation in over a yr. The final such set — once more, excluding soundtracks — to bow greater was A-list-loaded rock tribute set The Metallica Blacklist, which debuted at No. 132 on the Sept. 25, 2021-dated chart (peaking at No. 103 on the Oct. 16, 2021 chart).
In 2020, the 2 Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy albums raised over $600,000 for voting-rights organizations (in line with the Good Music group).
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album gross sales, observe equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.
Compilation Albums ranks the week’s top-selling compilations by conventional album gross sales. Top Album Sales and Top Current Album Sales tally, respectively, the general top-selling albums of the week, and the top-selling present (excluding older, or “catalog” albums) albums of the week.
Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums rank the week’s hottest rock and different albums, rock albums and different albums, respectively, by equal album items. Independent Albums displays the week’s hottest albums, by items, launched by impartial document labels.
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