Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the dwell-selling albums of the week essentially essentially essentially based finest on ragged album sales. The chart’s history dates back to Might presumably perhaps also 25, 1991, the predominant week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored allotment rely facts from SoundScan, now MRC Recordsdata. Pure album sales had been the measurement completely utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart thru the checklist dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with phrase a linked album items and streaming a linked album items. For all chart facts, educate @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Of Happier Than Ever’s sales of 153,000 in the week ending Aug. 5, bodily album sales comprise 129,000 (with a whopping 73,000 on vinyl, 46,000 on CD and virtually 10,000 on cassette) and 24,000 thru digital find.
Happier’s vinyl sales start of 73,000 marks both the second-supreme sales week, and second-supreme debut week, for a vinyl album since MRC Recordsdata began monitoring sales in 1991. The proper bigger week used to be registered by the advent of Swift’s Evermore on vinyl earlier this three hundred and sixty five days (102,000; chart dated June 12).
Evermore’s vinyl release on Might presumably perhaps also 28 trailed the extensive digital release of the album by 5 months, as the digital and streaming editions had been released on Dec. 11, 2020. Evermore’s vinyl debut used to be aided by 5 months of banked pre-orders (the vinyl went up for sale in mid-December), whereas Eilish had three months of pre-orders (her pre-expose went live on the stop of April). And lastly, Evermore used to be first and major on hand in three vinyl variants for its Might presumably perhaps also 28 release, as when compared with Eilish’s eight vinyl variants.
Prince’s archival studio album Welcome 2 The usa debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 50,000 copies sold – the supreme sales week for an R&B album in 2021 and Prince’s supreme debut sales week since 2014’s Art Reliable Age launched with 51,000.
Of Welcome’s starting sum, bodily album sales comprise 43,000 (22,000 on vinyl LP and 21,000 on CD) and 7,000 comprise digital albums.
As Welcome 2 The usa starts with 50,000 sold, it marks finest the third time in 2021 that two albums every sold no longer no longer as much as 50,000 copies in the identical week. It beforehand took space in the monitoring weeks ending Might presumably perhaps also 27 (when Olivia Rodrigo’s Bitter and Twenty One Pilots’ Scaled and Chilly debuted at Nos. 1 and a pair of with 72,000 and 51,000, respectively) and April 1 (when Carrie Underwood’s My Savior and NF’s Clouds debuted at Nos. 1 and a pair of with 68,000 and 58,000, respectively).
Grateful Lifeless’s newest archival live release, Dave’s Picks, Quantity 39: The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA – 4/26/83, bows at No. 3 on Top Album Sales with 22,000 sold (all from CD sales). That 22,000 sum is the supreme sales week for a Grateful Lifeless album since the week ending Dec. 24, 1995, when Hundred Year Corridor sold 25,000 copies.
Bleachers’ original studio album, Beget the Disappointment Out of Saturday Night, enters at No. 4 with 15,000 sold. It’s the act’s first studio effort since 2017’s Long previous Now. The original album used to be a sturdy vendor on vinyl, inviting 7,500 copies on the layout, intellectual ample for a debut at No. 3 on the Vinyl Albums chart, unhurried Eilish and Prince at Nos. 1 and a pair of.
NEEDTOBREATHE’s newest effort, Into the Mystery, debuts at No. 5 on Top Album Sales with 9,000 sold. It’s the fifth prime 10 effort for the act on Top Album Sales.
Leon Bridges’ Gold-Diggers Sound slips 3-6 in its second week with 8,000 (down 45%). Olivia Rodrigo’s worn No. 1 Bitter falls 6-7 with 8,000 sold (up 6%).
Durand Jones & The Indications’ Personal Location debuts at No. 8 on Top Album Sales with virtually 8,000 sold – with 6,500 sold on vinyl LP. It’s the predominant prime 10 for the act, which bought as excessive as No. 56 in 2019 with American Like Call.
A pair of worn No. 1s wraps up the dwell 10, as Taylor Swift’s Folklore falls 2-9 with 7,500 (down 51%) and The following day x Collectively’s The Chaos Chapter: Freeze falls 7-10 with 7,000 (up 1%).
