Usher lands his fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart (dated Feb. 24) as his new studio album, Coming Dwelling, arrives atop the listing. The set bought 53,000 copies within the U.S. within the week ending Feb. 15, in response to Luminate. Usher beforehand topped the listing with Trying 4 Myself (in 2012), Raymond V Raymond (2010), Right here I Stand (2008) and Confessions (2004).
Elsewhere within the high 10 of the brand new Prime Album Gross sales chart, the newest albums from P1Harmony, Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign, and iTZY arrive.
Billboard’s Prime 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 Might 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend data from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales had been the only real measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by the listing 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. The brand new Feb. 24, 2024-dated chart might be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Feb. 21, in the future later than normal, owed to the Presidents’ Day vacation within the U.S. on Feb. 19. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
Of Coming Dwelling’s 53,000 copies bought, digital gross sales comprise 47,500 and bodily gross sales comprise 5,500 (4,000 on CD and 1,500 on vinyl). Its begin marks the biggest gross sales week for an R&B album in additional than 4 years, since Lionel Richie’s dwell set Hey From Las Vegas bought 65,000 copies in its first week (on the listing dated Aug. 31, 2019). Richie’s first-week gross sales had been boosted by a live performance ticket/album sale redemption supply. Ticket/album bundles ceased to depend towards chart gross sales as of Oct. 9, 2020. (R&B albums are outlined as those who have charted on Billboard’s Prime R&B Albums chart.)
Coming Dwelling was out there to buy in its first week as a typical digital obtain, a typical CD, 5 completely different vinyl variants, two deluxe boxed units and a deluxe digital album with a bonus monitor and various cowl artwork. The latter was promoted as a SKIMS unique (alongside Usher’s new starring position in a SKIMS marketing campaign) and bought for a restricted time by way of SKIMS’ official retailer and Usher’s personal webstore. Each variations of the digital album had been deeply discounted throughout the set’s opening week.
Coming Dwelling was launched on Feb. 9, two days earlier than Usher took the stage because the 2024 Tremendous Bowl halftime headliner. The 2024 Tremendous Bowl was the most-watched broadcast in American TV historical past, with 123.4 million viewers throughout CBS and the sport’s simulcasts throughout Nickelodeon, Univision, Paramount+ and different digital platforms. Usher didn’t carry out any materials from the brand new album throughout the halftime present, focusing as an alternative on acquainted favorites from the previous, corresponding to “My Boo” (with Alicia Keys), “U Acquired It Unhealthy” (with H.E.R.) “OMG” (with Will.i.am) and the show-closing “Yeah!” (with Lil Jon and Ludacris).
P1Harmony’s Killin’ It debuts at No. 2 on Prime Album Gross sales with 18,000 copies bought – practically all from CD gross sales. Like many Ok-pop initiatives, the set was issued in collectible CD packages, 16 in whole, every containing branded merchandise and randomized components. It’s one of the best gross sales week for P1Harmony, its highest-charting effort, and second high 10.
Ye (previously often called Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s collaborative album Vultures 1 begins at No. 3 with 18,000 bought – all from digital downloads.
Vultures 1, launched on Feb. 10, was initially solely out there to buy as a digital obtain. The unique 16-track set bought by main digital retailers, in addition to Ye’s personal official webstore. Bodily variations of the album on CD and vinyl are anticipated to be launched at a later date, and Ye’s retailer is accepting pre-orders for each presently. The set’s first-week gross sales had been boosted by aggressive sale pricing. Vultures 1 is the twelfth high 10 for Ye and first for Ty.
Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Model) falls 1-4 with 15,000 copies bought (although up 28%).
iTZY’s Born to Be bows at No. 5 with 14,000 copies bought, largely from CD gross sales. It’s the fifth high 10-charting effort for the Korean pop act. As is customary for a lot of Ok-pop venture, the album was out there in a number of collectible CD editions – 10 in whole – all containing branded merchandise with randomized components.
Swift has three extra albums within the high 10, as Lover falls 3-6 (12,000; up 13%), Midnights dips 2-7 (11,000; down lower than 1%) and Folklore rises 10-8 (9,000; up 57%). Toby Keith’s 35 Greatest Hits drops 4-9 with 7,000 bought (down 35%) and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season climbs 14-10 with practically 7,000 (up 48%) following its deluxe reissue on Feb. 9 with extra tracks.
Within the week ending Feb. 15, there have been 1.258 million albums bought within the U.S. (up 7.8% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so on.) comprised 906,000 (up 9.3%) and digital albums comprised 353,000 (up 4%).
There have been 435,000 CD albums bought within the week ending Feb. 15 (up 11.3% week-over-week) and 467,000 vinyl albums bought (up 7.7%). 12 months-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 2.933 million (down 31.5% in comparison with the identical timeframe a yr in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales whole 3.314 million (down 46.7%).
Total year-to-date album gross sales whole 8.341 million (down 35.5% in comparison with the identical year-to-date timeframe a yr in the past). 12 months-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 6.279 million (down 40.5%) and digital album gross sales whole 2.062 million (down 12.7%).
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