Fletcher's second full-length studio album Looking for the antidote debut at No. 3 on Advertising signTop Selling Albums chart (dated April 6), giving the singer her highest chart total to date. The effort begins with just over 13,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending March 28, according to Luminate. Fletcher previously visited the chart with her debut full-length, Girl of my dreamsdebuted and peaked at No. 4 in 2022.
Also in the top 10 of the Top Albums chart, latest efforts from Kenny Chesney, Shakira and Sierra Ferrell debut, while André 3000's New Blue Sun and Alice In Chains' Jar of flies re-enter the chart largely due to new vinyl releases.
Advertising signThe Top Albums Sales chart ranks the best-selling albums of the week based on traditional album sales only. The history of the chart dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Advertising sign began charting electronically tracked track count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Net album sales was the sole metric used by the Billboard 200 album chart through the list dated December 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that combines album sales with track-equivalent album units and album-equivalent units flow. For all the new charts, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Fletcher's first week sales Looking for the antidote boosted by its availability on six vinyl variants (including a signed edition and exclusive editions for Target and indie retailers), four CD editions (including a Target-exclusive edition with alternate cover and poster, a signed CD and a deluxe. Archives” in extended packaging), a standard digital album and a deluxe digital album with bonus tracks. Vinyl sales totaled 7,500 from Antidotefirst week sales – or, 57% of the album's total sales for the week. That number of 7,500 also represents Fletcher's biggest sales week for a vinyl album.
Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney lands his 12th No. 1 on the top selling albums as Born topped the chart with 18,500 copies sold. The set was available as a standard CD, a signed CD, a standard digital album and a deluxe digital album with additional bonus live tracks.
of Shakira Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran debuts at No. 2 on Top Albums, marking the entertainer's seventh top-10 chart effort. The project sold 14,500 copies in its opening week, supported by four vinyl variants (each with a different vinyl color and alternate cover), four CD variants (each with a different cover) and a digital album.
Kacey Musgraves Deeper well sinks 1-4 in second week on Top Albums (10,500, down 84%) and tops Taylor Swift 1989 (Taylor Edition) falls 4-5 (9,500, down 4%).
The Alice In Chains EP Jar of flies, originally released in 1994, re-enters the chart at No.6 following its 30th anniversary reissue on vinyl and cassette. The set was reissued on four vinyl variants (including a vinyl version with actual flies on the vinyl) which, together with the existing previously released vinyl versions, sold just over 9,000 copies in the tracking week (out of a total of 9,500 sold across all formats ). Jar of flies debuted at No. 1 on February 12, 1994 on the top-selling album and marked the first of two leaders for the rock group. The set was last listed in April 1995.
Taylor Swift's former No1 Lover falls 6-7 on Top Albums with sales of nearly 9,500 copies (up 5%).
André 3000's New Blue Sun re-enters top album sales at No. 8, a new high (and its first week in the top 10), following its physical release on March 22. The set (his first solo chart effort at Top Sales) was originally released via digital download and streaming services last November, then was released on vinyl, CD and cassette on March 22. Combined, all configurations of the album sold nearly 9,000 copies for the week (up from a negligible amount the previous week).
Sierra Ferrell scores her first top 10 album sales Path of Flowers flourished at No. 9 on its debut frame, selling 8,500 copies. The set was supported by eight vinyl variants, a standard CD and a digital album download. Vinyl sales accounted for 6,000 of the album's total first week sales, marking Ferrell's best week on vinyl.
Rounding out the top 10 of the new top-selling album chart is Ariana Grande's former No.1 Eternal sunshinefalling 3-10 in its third week of release with nearly 8,000 sales (down 39%).
In the week ending March 28, 1.201 million albums were sold in the US (down 0.5% from the previous week). Of that amount, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) made up 892,000 (down 1%) and digital albums made up 309,000 (up 0.9%).
427,000 CD albums were sold in the week ending March 28 (down 2.5% on the week) and 461,000 vinyl albums (up 0.6%). Year-to-date CD album sales total 5.656 million (down 32.2% year-over-year) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 5.951 million (down 48.4%) .
Year-to-date album sales total 15.54 million (down 36.9% year-to-date). Year-to-date physical album sales total 11.664 million (down 41.7%) and digital album sales total 3.875 million (down 16.5%).
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