Lainey Wilson scores her first prime 10, along with her greatest gross sales week ever, on Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart (dated Sept. 7) as her fifth studio album Whirlwind arrives at No. 3 with 34,000 copies bought within the U.S. within the week ending Aug. 29, in accordance with Luminate. The set is the follow-up to her breakthrough album Bell Backside Nation, which was her solely different charting set on Prime Album Gross sales, peaking at No. 15 in November 2022.
Whirlwind additionally arrives within the prime 10 throughout an array of Billboard album charts, together with Unbiased Albums (No. 1), Prime Nation Albums (No. 3), the Billboard 200 (No. 8), Vinyl Albums (No. 3) and Indie Retailer Album Gross sales (No. 10).
Additionally within the prime 10 of the newest Prime Album Gross sales chart, Travis Scott’s Days Earlier than Rodeo fees in at No. 1 with the second-largest gross sales week of 2024, Sabrina Carpenter notches her largest gross sales week ever – and the 12 months’s second-largest for a vinyl album – with the No. 2 bow of Quick n’ Candy, Thomas Rhett achieves his seventh prime 10 with the No. 5 debut of A few Girl, and FONTAINES D.C. land its first prime 10 – and greatest gross sales week – with the No. 8 begin of Romance.
Billboard’s Prime Album Gross 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 Might 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend info from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales had been the only real 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 monitor equal album items and streaming equal album items. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously often known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Whirlwind begins with 34,000 copies bought, and of that sum, bodily gross sales comprise 22,000 (16,000 on CD and 6,000 on vinyl) and digital obtain album gross sales comprise 12,000.
The set’s first-week gross sales had been bolstered by its availability throughout eight vinyl variants, three CD editions (together with a signed version bought in Wilson’s webstore, and a Walmart-exclusive CD containing a branded patch and a bonus monitor), an ordinary digital obtain album, and a deluxe digital album variant with 4 bonus “worktape” recordings (bought through Wilson’s webstore).
Scott’s 2014 mixtape Days Earlier than Rodeo roars at No. 1 on Prime Album Gross sales with 331,000 copies bought – the second-largest gross sales week of 2024 and Scott’s greatest gross sales week ever. (The 12 months’s largest gross sales week stays the debut body of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division, with 1.914 million copies bought.) Days was launched on Aug. 23 commercially and broadly by way of streaming providers for the primary time. Digital obtain album gross sales comprise 300,000 of Days’ first-week sum, whereas CD gross sales account for the remaining 31,000.
Days’ first-week gross sales determine was aided by its availability throughout eight digital album variants, seven of which included bonus tracks (starting from unreleased studio cuts, to reside tracks, to remixes), and most had been bought solely through Scott’s official webstore. The album’s CD gross sales had been generated by a stand-alone CD, in addition to a CD that was a part of a deluxe boxed set containing a branded hat – each of which had been unique to Scott’s webstore.
Within the coming weeks, the album will revenue from two vinyl variants which might be but to ship to prospects, along with two deluxe boxed units containing the vinyl LP and branded merchandise – all of that are unique to Scott’s webstore.
Sabrina Carpenter’s Quick n’ Candy begins at No. 2 on Prime Album Gross sales with 184,000 bought – her largest gross sales week and the fifth-largest gross sales debut week of 2024.
Quick n’ Candy’s gross sales had been enhanced by its availability throughout 9 vinyl variants, 5 CD editions, two cassettes and 4 digital album obtain variants (three of which had been unique to her webstore). Vinyl gross sales mixed totaled 105,000 – Carpenter’s greatest week on vinyl and the second-largest gross sales week of the 12 months for a vinyl album. Quick n’ Candy additionally debuts at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. (The biggest vinyl gross sales week in 2024 for an album is owned by the debut week of Swift’s Poets, with 859,000.)
As for the remainder of Quick n’ Candy’s first-week gross sales, it bought 33,000 on CD; 45,000 digital obtain albums; and a pair of,000 cassettes.
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is pushed down 3-4, regardless of a 20% acquire in gross sales to 18,000 bought for the week.
Thomas Rhett racks up his seventh prime 10-charting effort on Prime Album Gross sales as his newest studio album, A few Girl, arrives at No. 5 with 13,000 bought. Of that sum, practically 4,000 had been from vinyl LP gross sales – Rhett’s greatest vinyl gross sales week ever. Its gross sales had been helped by its availability throughout greater than a dozen vinyl variants.
Submit Malone’s F-1 Trillion falls to No. 6 after debuting atop the checklist every week in the past. It bought 12,000 copies in its second week (down 84%). Stray Children’ former No. 1 ATE dips 4-7 with 12,000 bought (down 17%).
FONTAINES D.C.’s Romance begins at No. 8 with practically 9,000 bought – the primary prime 10 and greatest gross sales week for the act. The set was obtainable throughout six vinyl variants (which bought a mixed 6,000 – the act’s greatest week on vinyl).
Closing out the Prime Album Gross sales’ prime 10 are EHYPEN’s chart-topping Romance: Untold (shifting 5-9 with 8,000; down 19%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Onerous and Gentle (7-10 with 7,000; down 9%).
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