Within the first 5 weeks of 2024, Taylor Swift received two Grammy Awards (together with a record-breaking fourth for album of the 12 months, for Midnights), introduced a brand new studio album (onstage on the Grammys!), bought her ninth No. 1 on the Grownup Modern chart with the revived Lover hit “Merciless Summer season,” topped Billboard’s annual Energy 100 listing for the primary time, and noticed two of her albums surpass the two million U.S. gross sales mark: 1989 (Taylor’s Model) and Lover.
1989 (Taylor’s Model), launched in 2023, jumped previous the two million mark – counting solely conventional album gross sales (purchases of CD, vinyl, cassette and digital obtain copies) – within the week ending Jan. 11, in keeping with Luminate. In the meantime, Lover, launched in 2019, flew previous the two million threshold within the week ending Jan. 18. They mark her ninth and tenth albums to promote not less than 2 million within the U.S.
Swift’s top-selling album within the U.S. is Fearless, with 7.286 million copies offered.
Plus, on the most recent Prime Album Gross sales chart, the previous No. 1 Lover locks up its 2 hundredth nonconsecutive week on the tally, because it rises 8-4 on the listing dated Feb. 10. It offered 8,000 copies within the week ending Feb. 1 (the monitoring week captured on the Feb. 10-dated chart) – up 21% in comparison with its gross sales within the earlier week. Solely two different Swift albums have spent not less than 200 weeks on Prime Album Gross sales: her self-titled album, with 286 weeks (and counting), and Fearless, with 224 weeks.
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 rely data from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales had been the only measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart via the listing dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a strategy that blends album gross sales with observe equal album models and streaming equal album models. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
Elsewhere on the brand new Prime Album Gross sales chart, Grateful Useless rating its first No. 1 as Dave’s Picks, Quantity 49: Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford U., Palo Alto, CA (4/27/85 & 4/28/85) debuts atop the listing. It offered 21,000 in its first week. Rock supergroup The Smile sees its new album Wall of Eyes begins at No. 2 (14,500) whereas Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Model) is regular at No. 3 (10,000; down 9%). Inexperienced Day’s Saviors slips 1-5 in its second week with 7,000 (down 82%), whereas Alkaline Trio’s Blood, Hair and Eyeballs bows at No. 6 with simply over 6,000. Stray Youngsters’ chart-topping ROCK-STAR is stationary at No. 7 with 6,000 (down 2%) and Swift’s former chief Midnights falls 5-9 with almost 6,000 (down 13%).
Two debuts shut out the highest 10, as Static-X’s Challenge Regeneration, Quantity 2 launches at No. 9 with almost 5,000, and Future Islands’ Individuals Who Aren’t There Anymore bows at No. 10 with 4,000.
Within the week ending Feb. 1, there have been 1.118 million albums offered within the U.S. (up 1.3% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so on.) comprised 827,000 (up 0.5%) and digital albums comprised 291,000 (up 3.6%).
There have been 404,000 CD albums offered within the week ending Feb. 1 (up 3.9% week-over-week) and 418,000 vinyl albums offered (down 2.4%). Yr-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 2.108 million (down 31% in comparison with the identical time-frame a 12 months in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales complete 2.413 million (down 46.4%).
General year-to-date album gross sales complete 5.915 million (down 36.1% 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 4.545 million (down 40.2%) and digital album gross sales complete 1.370 million (down 17.7%).
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