Dua Lipa achieves her first No. 1 on Billboard’s High Album Gross sales chart, as her third full-length studio effort, Radical Optimism, debuts atop the checklist dated Could 18. Within the week ending Could 9, the album bought 51,500 copies within the U.S. in line with Luminate – marking the singer-songwriter’s greatest gross sales week but. Her earlier greatest week, each when it comes to gross sales and chart rank, got here when her final studio set, Future Nostalgia, debuted at No. 4 with 18,000 bought on the April 11, 2020-dated chart.
Additionally making waves within the prime 10 of the brand new High Album Gross sales chart: the most recent releases from SEVENTEEN, NCT Dream and Sia arrive, whereas vinyl releases immediate massive re-entries for Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 and Dave Matthews’ Some Satan.
Billboard’s High Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week primarily based solely on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to Could 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece rely info from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales had been the only real measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by means of the checklist dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with observe equal album items and streaming equal album items. The brand new Could 18, 2024-dated chart can be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Could 14. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
Of Radical Optimism’s 51,500 copies bought, bodily gross sales comprise 39,000 (20,000 on vinyl – her greatest week ever, 18,000 on CD and fewer than 1,000 on cassette) and digital obtain gross sales comprise 12,500.
The album’s gross sales had been bolstered by its availability throughout 20 bodily variants, all with the identical 11 songs. There have been 11 vinyl editions in assorted colours (considered one of which was signed, and most variants had been unique to particular retailers) and two cassette tapes. By way of CDs, there was a broadly obtainable customary CD with a lenticular cowl, after which a number of CD iterations bought completely in Lipa’s webstore (a signed customary CD, a zine CD package deal, and 4 deluxe CD boxed units – every containing a branded T-shirt and a CD, and two of the containers additionally included a signed artwork card).
As well as, the album was issued as a broadly obtainable customary 11-song digital obtain and a deluxe digital album with two stay bonus tracks bought completely in Lipa’s webstore.
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division falls 1-2 (51,000; down 53%) after spending its first two weeks atop the checklist.
SEVENTEEN’s retrospective compilation SEVENTEEN Finest Album ‘17 Is Proper Right here’ bows at No. 3 with 49,000 copies bought. It’s the seventh prime 10-charting effort from the group. The set’s gross sales had been supported by its availability throughout a dozen CD variants, all containing branded paper merchandise like posters and photocards (some randomized). Unique iterations had been bought by Barnes & Noble and Goal, whereas signed editions had been additionally obtainable.
Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 re-enters High Album Gross sales at No. 4 following the set’s arrival on vinyl. The hassle bought 31,000 copies throughout all obtainable configurations (up 37,841%). Basically all of its gross sales had been from vinyl – practically 31,000, which marks the most important gross sales week on vinyl for each Ye and Ty Dolla $ign. The vinyl version of the album was completely bought by way of Ye’s official webstore, and was initially bought as a pre-order when the album was first launched on Feb. 10 (as a paid obtain and by way of streaming providers). At the moment, when clients pre-ordered the vinyl, the webstore acknowledged the vinyl would ship in “2024.”
Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Model) climbs 7-5 with 7,000 bought (although down 20%).
NCT Dream’s DREAM()SCAPE debuts at No. 6 with practically 7,000 bought, marking the third prime 10-charting set for the act. Successfully all the album’s gross sales had been on CD, and the set was obtainable in three iterations (all containing branded paper merchandise, with some randomized parts).
Swift’s former chief Lover steps 8-7 with simply 6,500 (down 19%).
Dave Matthews’ Some Satan, initially launched in 2003, returns to the chart for the primary time since 2004, following the set’s launch on vinyl for the primary time. The set bought 6,000 copies, with mainly all of that from vinyl gross sales. It was issued in three vinyl variants – a broadly obtainable black version, a blue coloured model bought by means of Matthews’ webstore, and an Amazon-exclusive “fog coloured vinyl.”
TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping minisode 3: TOMORROW rises one spot to No. 9 with 5,500 bought (down 25%).
Sia rounds out the highest 10 with the No. 10 debut of her new album, Affordable Girl. It bought a little bit greater than 5,000 copies, and was obtainable throughout eight vinyl variants, in addition to a normal CD, cassette and digital obtain album. It’s the third prime 10-charting effort for Sia, and the primary since 2016’s This Is Performing debuted and peaked at No. 4.