The Cure makes a spectacular return to Bulletin boardof the album charts (dated November 16) upon its arrival Songs of a Lost World. It's the band's first No. 1 on the Top Albums Sales chart in 33 years and the band's highest effort on the Billboard 200 (No. 4) since 1992. It also bows at No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top alternative albums, vinyl albums and Indie Store album sales.
Songs of a Lost World is the group's first album of new material since 2008. The new album is the band's third set of top 10 hits on the Billboard 200, following its self-titled effort (No. 7 in July 2004) and Wish (No. 2 in May 1992).
Equivalent album units include album sales, track album equivalents (TEA) and streaming album equivalents (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale or 10 individual tracks sold from an album or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 official paid/subscription audio and video streams generated from songs from an album. Charts dated November 16, 2024 will be posted in full on Billboard's website on Tuesday, November 12.
Songs of a Lost World bows with 57,000 equivalent album units earned (the act's best week by units) in the United States in the week ending Nov. 7, according to Luminate. Of that amount, album sales include 53,000 (The Cure's biggest sales week since 2004 when their self-titled album was released with 91,000), SEA units consist of 4,000 (equivalent to 5.02 million official streams of the songs of the album on demand) and TEA units a negligible amount.
The new album's first-week sales were boosted by its availability on five vinyl variants (which sold a total of 23,000 copies; the band's best week on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991), a standard CD, a audio CD/blu-ray package, two cassettes, a standard digital download and a deluxe digital download with five bonus live tracks (exclusive to the band's webstore).
The set's “A Fragile Thing” climbs 25-22 on Alternative Airplay (a new peak and their highest-charting song since 2004) and 12-10 on Adult Alternative Airplay (The Cure's first top 10 and third hit on charts, since the list began in 1996).
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