(G)I-DLE collects its fourth high 10-charting album on Billboard’s High Album Gross sales chart (dated March 16), because the South Korean pop group’s newest launch, 2, debuts at No. 4 with 8,500 copies offered within the U.S. within the week ending March 7, in response to Luminate.
Additionally within the high 10 of the most recent High Album Gross sales chart, Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson lands his first solo high 10 as his new set The Mandrake Mission bows at No. 5. Plus, ScHoolboy Q’s new Blue Lips begins at No 6, marking his fourth high 10-charting effort.
Billboard’s High Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week primarily based solely on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to Could 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend 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 strategy that blends album gross sales with monitor equal album models and streaming equal album models. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
TWICE’s With YOU-th holds at No. 1 on High Album Gross sales with almost 17,000 offered (down 82%), after debuting atop the checklist every week in the past. LE SSERAFIM’s Straightforward can be a non-mover, sitting at No. 2 in its second week with 10,500 (down 69%). Taylor Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Model) rises 6-3 with almost 9,000 (down 5%).
(G)I-DLE’s 2 debuts at No. 4 with 8,500 offered – primarily all from CD gross sales. The set was obtainable in 4 collectible CD editions, together with one Goal-exclusive variant. All packages contained branded paper merchandise, a few of which is randomized.
Dickinson’s The Mandrake Mission begins at No. 5 with 8,000 offered, touchdown the Iron Maiden singer his first solo high 10 effort. The set was obtainable to buy as a typical digital album, in 4 CD variations (a typical version, two with enhanced packaging, and one with a signed insert), and a pair of vinyl LPs (together with one with a signed insert).
ScHoolboy Q’s Blue Lips debuts at No. 6 with almost 8,000 offered – with greater than half of that sum from vinyl gross sales (4,000 – his greatest week ever on vinyl). The set was issued in only one vinyl version, pressed on translucent blue-colored vinyl.
4 former No. 1s spherical out the most recent high 10: Swift’s Lover is regular at No. 7 (7,000; down 2%), Swift’s Folklore rises 9-8 (6,000; up 2%), Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts jumps 16-9 (5,500; up 14%) and Swift’s Midnights dips 8-10 (almost 5,500; down 10%).
Within the week ending March 7, there have been 1.153 million albums offered within the U.S. (down 9.6% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so forth.) comprised 850,000 (down 12.9%) and digital albums comprised 304,000 (up 1.4%).
There have been 442,000 CD albums offered within the week ending March 7 (down 17.1% week-over-week) and 403,000 vinyl albums offered (down 7.9%). Yr-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 4.318 million (down 30.3% in comparison with the identical time-frame a yr in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales whole 4.601 million (down 47.8%).
Total year-to-date album gross sales whole 11.936 million (down 36% in comparison with the identical year-to-date time-frame a yr in the past). Yr-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 8.963 million (down 40.6%) and digital album gross sales whole 2.973 million (down 16.2%).
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