Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Spends 12th Week at No. 1 Top Album Sales – Billboard

Taylor Swift’s Midnights continues its sizzling streak atop Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, because the set spends its 12th consecutive, and whole, week at No. 1 on the checklist dated Jan. 21. The album bought 25,000 copies within the U.S. within the week ending Jan. 12 (down 58%) based on Luminate.

Midnights now has probably the most weeks at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart for the reason that Frozen soundtrack dominated for 13 nonconsecutive weeks in 2014. Midnights has probably the most weeks in a row at No. 1 for the reason that Titanic soundtrack logged all 16 of its No. 1 weeks consecutively in 1998.

Midnights’ whole U.S. album gross sales now stand at 1.901 million.

Billboard’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 Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece rely data from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales have been the only measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by way of the checklist dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with observe equal album items and streaming equal album items. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.

BTS’ Love Yourself: Her re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 2 following the set’s Jan. 6 launch on vinyl. The effort, initially launched in 2017, bounds again onto the chart with 20,000 bought (up 2,130%), with most of that sum from vinyl gross sales (18,000). It’s the primary time BTS has launched an album on vinyl within the U.S., although the group has issued singles on vinyl.

Love Yourself: Her additionally debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart, the primary time a Ok-pop title has led checklist. It additionally halts Swift’s stranglehold of the highest spot with Midnights, pushing the album all the way down to No. 2 after 11 straight weeks at No. 1.

Back on Top Album Sales, ATEEZ’s Spin Off: From the Witness falls one spot to No. 3 (14,000; down 66%) whereas French Montana’s Coke Boys 6: Gangsta Grillz, hosted by DJ Drama, debuts at No. 4 (11,000).

Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours dips 4-5 (simply over 7,000; down 17%), RM’s Indigo descends 3-6 (7,000; down 22%) and Michael Jackson’s Thriller falls 6-7 (almost 7,000; down 16%). Stray Kids’ former No. 1 MAXIDENT re-enters the chart at No. 8 with almost 6,000 bought (up 378%) after a brand new Target-exclusive CD version of the album was launched on Jan. 6.

Rounding out the highest 10 are two former No. 1s: Harry Styles’ Harry’s House (5-9 with almost 6,000; down 32%) and Tyler, the Creator’s Igor (7-10 with 5,000; down 23%).

In the week ending Jan. 12, there have been 1.837 million albums bought within the U.S. (down 13.5% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so on.) comprised 1.512 million (down 14.7%) and digital albums comprised 325,000 (down 7.5%).

There have been 589,000 CD albums bought within the week ending Jan. 12 (down 13.6% week-over-week) and 915,000 vinyl albums bought (down 15.4%). Year-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 1.27 (up 3.4% in comparison with the identical time-frame a yr in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales whole 1.996 million (up 33.2%).

Overall year-to-date album gross sales whole 3.961 million (up 11.8% in comparison with the identical year-to-date time-frame a yr in the past). Year-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 3.285 million (up 19.8%) and digital album gross sales whole 676,000 (down 15.4%).