Kings of Leon marks their sixth attempt at the top 10 charts Advertising signThe top selling album chart, as the band's last studio release, We can have fun, bows out at No. 3 on May 25. The set also makes a splash in a number of other charts, including top 10 debuts on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Current album Sales, Indie Store album Sales and Vinyl Albums.
We can have fun sold 14,000 copies in the US in the week ending May 16, according to Luminate.
Also in the top 10 of the new top album sales chart, Taylor Swift's Department of Tormented Poets tops the chart for a third week in a row, Knocked Loose marks best sales week ever and highest charting album with No.2 debut You won't go before you're supposed toand Scotty McCreery's Rise fall starts at No. 6 – marking his sixth top 10 set.
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 changed 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.
Swift's Poets records a third straight week at No. 1 on top album sales (41,000, down 19%), while Knocked Loose records its best sales week and highest charting effort yet, as You won't go before you're supposed to enters No. 2 with 18,000 sales.
SEVENTEEN's SEVENTEEN Best album “17 Is Right Here” slips 3-4 with 11,000 (down 78%), Swift tops 1989 (Taylor Edition) is unmoved at No. 5 (8,000, up 9%), McCreery's Rise fall bows at No. 6 (7,000), former leader Swift Lover is still at No. 7 (nearly 7,000, up 7%), Dua Lipa Radical Optimism falls 1-8 in its second week (6,000, down 89%) and Swift's chart-topper Midnights motors 11-9 (just over 5,000, up 4%).
Rounding out the top 10 is Hozier Wasteland, baby!which jumps 16-10 with 5,000 (up 30%), following the recent release of a new Amazon-exclusive vinyl edition of the album.
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