TWICE and LE SSERAFIM are making history Advertising sign32-year-old top album sales chart (dated March 9) as South Korean female pop groups debut at Nos. 1 and 2 — marking the first time two all-female groups have held the top two spots on the same dot.
The history of top album sales dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Advertising sign began charting electronically tracked track count information from SoundScan, now Luminate.
TWICE's With Youth debuts at No. 1 with 90,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 29, according to Luminate. LE SSERAFIM's Comfortably starts at No. 2 with 34,000 copies sold. The majority of each album's sales come from CD purchases in various collector's editions, as is usually the case with major K-pop releases
Also in the top 10 of the new top album sales chart are latest albums from French Montana and Ace Frehley, while former BTS No. 1 Love Yourself: Tear re-enters the chart in the top 10 after being released on vinyl.
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.
for TWICE, Together with YOU marks his fourth top-selling No. 1 album and fifth top 10 overall. For LE SSERAFIM, Comfortably is the act's third top 10 set.
At No. 3 on the top selling albums, French Montana's Mac & Cheese 5 debut with 22,500 copies sold. Of that figure, physical sales include 19,000 (9,000 on vinyl — the best week in the format, 10,000 on CD) and digital sales include about 3,500. Sales were boosted by the album's availability in six CD variants (three alternate covers and three signed editions each with a different cover) and three vinyl variants (all with alternate covers) — all sold through the artist's online store. Physical albums were heavily discounted to $5 for the standard vinyl and CD editions and $10 for the signed CD editions. The digital album was also released in three variants: a standard album (clean and clear), a deluxe edition (with a bonus track, clean and clear) and a super deluxe edition, called “Editions” (with all the tracks on the album standard spoken tracks, plus versions of each song in clean, sped-up, slowed-down, instrumental and acapella mixes).
Mac & Cheese 5 is French Montana's fourth top-10 effort on Top album Sales and his highest-charting set to date, surpassing the No. 4 peak from his three previous top-10 sets.
Ace Frehley records his highest charting album ever on Top Selling Albums as his latest release, 10,000 volts, charges at No. 4 with sales of 13,000 copies. Of that amount, vinyl sales account for 5,500, marking the former KISS guitarist's biggest sales week on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. Overall, 10,000 volts is Frehley's fifth set of top 10 album sales charts.
BTS's former No.1 Love Yourself: Tear re-enters the album sales chart at No. 5 with about 9,500 sold — almost all of it from vinyl sales, as the album was released in format for the first time during the tracking week. With nearly 9,500 copies sold on vinyl, the album also lands at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart, BTS' second lead on that list, after Love Yourself : Her in 2023.
Four former No. 1s, all by Taylor Swift, follow in the top selling albums. 1989 (Taylor Edition) falls 3-6 (9,000, down 19%). Lover dips 4-7 (7,000, down 22%). Midnight slips 7-8 (6,000, down 19%). and Folklore down 8-9 (almost 6,000, down 21%). Bob Marley and The Wailers' Legend: The best of Bob Marley and the Wailersclimbs 11-10 (nearly 6,000, though down 17%), marking the set's first week in the top 10 since April 17, 2021, when it charted at No. 9. (The album earlier peaked at No. 5 on the September Chart 20, 2014.) The hit album returns to the top 10 of the latest chart following the publicity and promotion generated by the release and success of the Marley biopic Bob Marley: One Love.
In the week ending February 29, 1.276 million albums were sold in the US (up 9.4% compared to the previous week). Of that amount, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) made up 976,000 (up 13.8%) and digital albums made up 300,000 (down 2.9%).
533,000 CD albums were sold in the week ending February 29 (up 30.6% week over week) and 438,000 vinyl albums (down 1.7%). Year-to-date CD album sales total 3.875 million (down 29.9% from the same period a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 4.197 million (down 47, 3%).
Total year-to-date album sales are 10.783 million (down 35.3% from the same time period a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales total 8.113 million (down 40.2%) and digital album sales total 2.669 million (down 13.7%).
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