The all-star charity album Good Music to Guarantee Protected Abortion Entry to All debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Compilation Albums chart and in addition bows at No. 9 on High Album Gross sales.
The 49-track set offered practically 8,500 copies within the U.S. within the week ending Oct. 13 based on Luminate – the biggest gross sales week for a non-soundtrack compilation album in two years.
The profit album boasts music from Loss of life Cab for Cutie, Fleet Foxes and Pearl Jam, amongst others, and was solely out there through Bandcamp’s webstore for in the future solely, on Oct. 7, as a digital obtain. In accordance with a press launch, the album’s internet proceeds will profit non-profit organizations working to offer abortion care entry to all: Brigid Alliance and NOISE FOR NOW (who’re working with Abortion Care Community).
The final time a non-soundtrack compilation album offered extra in a single week was two years in the past, when the final Good Music charity album, Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Quantity 2 debuted at No. 10 on High Album Gross sales with 13,500 offered (Oct. 17, 2020 chart).
Good Music to Guarantee Protected Abortion Entry to All additionally debuts at No. 8 on High Present Album Gross sales and within the high 40 on Unbiased Albums, High Rock & Different Albums, High Rock Albums and High Different Albums.
Good Music moreover enters at No. 151 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart – the best debut by a non-R&B/hip-hop compilation in over a yr. The final such set — once more, excluding soundtracks — to bow greater was A-list-loaded rock tribute set The Metallica Blacklist, which debuted at No. 132 on the Sept. 25, 2021-dated chart (peaking at No. 103 on the Oct. 16, 2021 chart).
In 2020, the 2 Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy albums raised over $600,000 for voting-rights organizations (based on the Good Music group).
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most well-liked albums of the week within the U.S. primarily based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album models, compiled by Luminate. Models comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.
Compilation Albums ranks the week’s top-selling compilations by conventional album gross sales. High Album Gross sales and High Present Album Gross sales tally, respectively, the general top-selling albums of the week, and the top-selling present (excluding older, or “catalog” albums) albums of the week.
High Rock & Different Albums, High Rock Albums and High Different Albums rank the week’s hottest rock and various albums, rock albums and various albums, respectively, by equal album models. Unbiased Albums displays the week’s hottest albums, by models, launched by unbiased file labels.
