At Nos. 2-9 on the unique chart, there are debuting albums from The Gloomy Keys, Alan Jackson, ENHYPEN, St. Vincent, Phoebe Bridgers that contains Elevate Moose, Nicki Minaj, Yoko Yakahashi and Megumi Hayashibara and Myles Kennedy.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the tip-promoting albums of the week based totally mostly handiest on mature album sales. The chart’s history dates support to May perchance perhaps perhaps presumably 25, 1991, the most important week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend knowledge from SoundScan, now MRC Records. Pure album sales maintain been the dimension utterly utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album sales with discover equal album objects and streaming equal album objects. For all chart recordsdata, apply @billboard and @billboardcharts on every Twitter and Instagram.
All of The Off-Season’s 37,000 copies sold came from digital album sales, as the feature became once no longer launched on any physical codecs. It’s J. Cole’s first studio album no longer to be launched on the initiating on CD.
The Gloomy Keys’ unique blues covers project, Delta Kream, bows at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 30,000 sold. Of that sum, physical album sales comprise 22,000 (with 14,000 vinyl LPs and eight,000 CDs) while digital album sales comprise 8,000. The feature additionally debuts at No. 1 on every the Vinyl Albums and Tastemaker Albums charts. The ragged ranks the week’s top-promoting vinyl albums, while the latter tallies the tip-promoting albums at fair account shops.
Country king Alan Jackson debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales with his unique studio feature Where Glean You Long gone, promoting 27,000 copies. Of that sum, physical album sales comprise 18,000 (all from CDs), while digital album sales comprise 9,000. Where Glean You Long gone is Jackson’s 16th top 10 and absolute top charting title since 2012’s No. 2-peaking Thirty Miles West. Where Glean You Long gone is additionally the tip-promoting country album of the week.
South Korean boy band ENHYPEN lands its first top 10, as Border: Carnival bows at No. 4, promoting lawful over 20,000 copies – successfully all from CD sales. The album became once on hand in four collectible CD editions, same to other K-pop titles, with different packaging and randomized internal paper parts (liner notes, poster, photo playing cards, and so forth.).
St. Vincent lands her 2d top 10 on Top Album Sales, as her most contemporary studio effort, Daddy’s Home, bows at No. 5 with 20,000 sold. Of that sum, 17,000 comprise physical albums (12,000 vinyl LPs; 4,000 CDs and 1,000 cassettes and eight-discover cartridges) while 3,000 comprise downloads. Daddy’s Home became once issued on multiple vinyl variants, as smartly as three cassette tapes and even an 8-discover tape (completely sold via the artist’s legitimate webstore).
As Daddy’s Home rounds out the tip five on Top Album Sales, for the most important time in 2021, the tip five promoting albums of the week sold on the least 20,000 copies every. The last time the tip five every sold on the least 20,000 became once on the Jan. 2-dated chart (reflecting the sales week ending Dec. 24, 2020). That week, every title within the tip 10 sold on the least 20,000, led by the No. 1 debut of Paul McCartney’s McCartney III (104,000).
The last time outdoor of the Christmas taking a focus on about season (on the total outlined as Thanksgiving through Christmas) where the tip five titles every sold on the least 20,000 became once on the Oct. 31, 2020-dated chart, reflecting the sales week ending Oct. 22.
Phoebe Bridgers’ remix EP Copycat Killer, that contains Elevate Moose, debuts at No. 6 on the unique Top Album Sales chart with 11,000 sold thanks to its huge release on vinyl LP (nearly all of its sales for the week maintain been on vinyl). Copycat became once on the initiating launched in November 2020 as a digital album and a Rough Trade-unfamiliar vinyl EP. The four-song feature incorporates different orchestral preparations (in collaboration with arranger Moose) of songs on the initiating came actual through on Bridgers’ Punisher album.
Nicki Minaj’s mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty begins at No. 7 with nearly 11,000 sold (all from digital downloads). Beam Me Up Scotty became once on the initiating launched for free in 2009, but became once no longer commercially issued or allotted to streaming services and products till May perchance perhaps perhaps presumably 14, 2021. The unique version of the album properties many of the tracks from the 2009 release and adds three unique cuts: “Seeing Green,” with Drake and Lil Wayne, “Fractions” and “Crocodile Teeth” (remix) with Skillibeng.
Evangelion: In the end debuts at No. 8 with nearly 9,000 sold – nearly completely from vinyl LP sales. The album aspects songs by Yoko Takahashi and Megumi Hayashibara as heard within the anime assortment Neon Genesis Evangelion and Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Reach. While the album became once on the initiating launched digitally and on CD last December, it didn’t attain vinyl (actual through multiple color variants) till May perchance perhaps perhaps presumably 14.
Myles Kennedy’s 2d solo studio album The Ides of March debuts at No. 9 on Top Album Sales, promoting 7,000 copies. It’s the fourth top 10 for Kennedy, following three earlier top 10s with Cut and The Conspirators.
Closing out the tip 10 is Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia, which re-enters at No. 10 with nearly 7,000 sold (up 261%). Its surge is owed mostly to vinyl LP sales, as of its sales sum for the week, vinyl LPs symbolize 5,000 of that total (up 841%). The album’s expanded deluxe version, dubbed The Moonlight Model, became once issued on vinyl on May perchance perhaps perhaps presumably 14.
