Los Angeles-based trio LA LOM make their debut Bulletin board chart appearance with debut album The Los Angeles League of Musiciansas the 13-track set debuts at No. 5 on the Tropical Albums chart (dated August 24).
“I know I wasn't thinking about the charts when we made the record,” says LA LOM guitarist Zac Sokolow. Bulletin board. “We're very excited to have the opportunity to share our original music with people around the world and we're really happy to hear that the record is resonating with people.”
The Los Angeles League of Musicians released August 9 on Verve/VLG. This gives the company its first entry and top 10 on a Latin chart in over a decade, since Natalie Cole Natalie Cole En Español debuted at No. 1 on both the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in January 2013.
The Los Angeles League of Musicians (LA LOM is its acronym), opens at No. 5 on Tropical Albums with just over 2,000 US album-equivalent gains for the Aug. 9-15 tracking week, according to Luminate. The majority of the album's first week tally includes traditional album sales, with a small number of units through streaming activity. This equates to 358,000 official US on-demand streams for the album's songs.
On Tropical Albums, one unit equals one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 official paid/subscription audio and video streams for one album song.
With The Los Angeles League of MusiciansLA LOM makes its first entry in a Bulletin board chart and his first top 10 in any ranking.
Notably, it is only the third album to debut in the Tropical Albums top five so far in 2024, following Prince Royce Llamada Perdida (No. 2 starts in March) and Marc Anthony's Muevense (4th debut in May). Furthermore, LA LOM marks the third top-five debut from a group this decade, joining El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico's En Quarantena and Buena Vista Social Club's Ahora Me Da Pena EPboth achieving No. 3 openings in April 2021 and May 7, 2022, respectively.
“We all have a background playing different styles of music that we heard in Los Angeles, the city we all grew up in,” adds Sokolow. “Everything from classic soul, rockabilly, country, jazz, to traditional Eastern European music. When we play cumbia, we bring all these elements from the city into our music. The tropical/cumbia that's most popular in Los Angeles is probably the cumbia pop style from Mexico that you hear on the radio, but there are also some really great bands playing chicha-influenced music from Peru or the vallenato style from Colombia. We play our own style from Los Angeles.”
Thanks to LA LOM's growing US footprint, the band, consisting of Zac Sokolow (guitar), Jake Faulkner (bass) and Nicholas Baker (drums/percussion), simultaneously debuts on the Emerging Artists chart at No. 18. The tally ranks the most popular emerging artists of the week, using the same formula as the comprehensive Billboard Artist 100, which measures artist activity across multiple Bulletin board diagrams.
In addition, the album leads LA LOM to its first appearance on Top Current album Sales, where it reaches No. 44.
“What you hear on the record is very close to the way we play live, but we always play better when we play in a room full of dancers,” concludes Sokolow. “We've been pretty busy touring the last couple of months and have dates all over the world. Be sure to come see us when we get to your town!”
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