Norah Jones’ Visions bows at No. 9 on Billboard’s High Album Gross sales chart (dated March 23) and at No. 1 on each the general Jazz Albums and Up to date Jazz Albums rankings. It’s the eighth prime 10 on the Album Gross sales tally for Jones, and her fourth chief on each Jazz Albums and Up to date Jazz Albums.
Visions additionally enters at No. 40 on the High Rock & Different Albums chart, her first debut on the record since Dec. 2013, when Foreverly, her collaborative album with Billie Joe Armstrong, opened at No. 7 on its technique to a No. 4 peak in Jan. 2014.
Visions was preceded by the radio-promoted single “Working,” which has so-far peaked at No. 7 on the Grownup Different Airplay chart – marking her eighth prime 10 and highest-charting tune on the record in over a decade, since “Comfortable Drugs” hit No. 4 in 2012.
Additionally within the prime 10 of the brand new High Album Gross sales chart: the newest releases from Ariana Grande, Judas Priest, xikers and Bleachers arrive.
Billboard’s High 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 Could 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece rely info from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales have been the only measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart via the record dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with observe equal album models and streaming equal album models. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
Within the monitoring week ending March 14 (which is mirrored on the March 23-dated High Album Gross sales chart), Visions bought 7,000 copies within the U.S., in accordance with Luminate. Of that sum, bodily gross sales comprise 5,500 (3,500 on CD and a couple of,000 on vinyl) and digital obtain gross sales comprise 1,500. The album was obtainable in 4 vinyl variants (together with unique iterations for Barnes & Noble, indie retailers and Spotify), a regular CD, a Goal-exclusive CD (with a bonus observe and a poster) and a signed CD (obtainable in Jones’ webstore).
At No. 1 on High Album Gross sales, Ariana Grande’s Everlasting Sunshine begins with 77,000 copies bought – incomes Grande her sixth chart-topper. The set was obtainable in a dozen bodily configurations and two digital obtain choices.
Veteran rock band Judas Priest begins at No. 2 with Invincible Defend (23,000 bought), scoring the group its third prime 10-charting set on High Album Gross sales. (The record started in 1991, nicely after Judas Priest started its total Billboard chart profession in 1978 on the Billboard 200 with Stained Class.) The brand new album’s first-week gross sales have been bolstered by its availability throughout six vinyl variants, a regular CD and a Goal-exclusive CD with a lenticular cowl.
South Korean pop group xikers nabs its highest-charting effort on High Album Gross sales, and second prime 10-charting set, as Home of Difficult: Trial and Error debuts at No. 3 with 12,500 copies bought (the act’s finest gross sales week). The set’s gross sales have been nearly fully from CDs, with a minimal variety of gross sales from digital downloads. The album was issued in 10 collectible CD editions, all together with branded paper merchandise (some randomized).
TWICE’s With YOU-th falls 1-4 in its third week on the chart, promoting 10,500 copies (down 37%).
Bleachers’ new self-titled album opens at No. 5 with 9,500 copies bought. It’s the second prime 10-charting effort the for the act, led by Jack Antonoff. The album was obtainable in a regular 14-track version on digital obtain, CD and cassette. It was additionally obtainable on 10 vinyl editions, all boasting bonus tracks and most pressed on coloured vinyl.
Rounding out the remainder of the highest 10 on the brand new High Album Gross sales chart: Taylor Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Model) falls 3-6 (9,000; up 2%), Swift’s former chief Lover is regular at No. 7 (8,000; up 8%), LE SSERAFIM’s Simple falls 2-8 (7,000; down 30%) and Swift’s chart-topping Folklore dips 8-10 (6,000; up 4%).
Within the week ending March 14, there have been 1.196 million albums bought within the U.S. (up 3.7% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so on.) comprised 909,000 (up 7%) and digital albums comprised 287,000 (down 5.5%).
There have been 474,000 CD albums bought within the week ending March 14 (up 7.3% week-over-week) and 430,000 vinyl albums bought (up 6.7%). Yr-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 4.792 million (down 30.8% in comparison with the identical time-frame a 12 months in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales whole 5.031 million (down 48%).
General year-to-date album gross sales whole 13.132 million (down 36.3% in comparison with the identical year-to-date time-frame a 12 months in the past). Yr-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 9.872 million (down 40.9%) and digital album gross sales whole 3.260 million (down 16.5%).
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