Elton John’s ‘Madman Across the Water’ Hits Top 10 on Top Album Sales – Billboard

Elton John’s Fiftieth-anniversary reissue of Madman Throughout the Water makes a splash on Billboard’s album charts (dated June 25), because the set debuts within the high 10 on each Prime Album Gross sales and Vinyl Albums. The set additionally arrives on Prime Rock Albums and Catalog Albums, and it charts on the Billboard 200 for the primary time in almost 50 years.

Madman Throughout the Water was first launched in 1972 and peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 in February of that 12 months. The set contained the hit singles “Levon” and “Tiny Dancer.”

Additionally within the high 10 on Prime Album Gross sales: new releases from BTS, Immobile In White and Carrie Underwood debut, whereas Seatbelts’ Cowboy Bebop soundtrack hits the highest 10 for the primary time after a vinyl reissue.

Billboard’s Prime 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 depend info from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales had been the only measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart via the checklist dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with monitor equal album models and streaming equal album models.

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Madman Throughout the Water was reissued on June 10 in 5 new configurations – a deluxe digital album, a two-CD set, a 4 LP vinyl field set, an excellent deluxe three-CD/one-blu-ray field set and a single-LP coloured vinyl urgent. All however the latter contains an array of bonus tracks. All variations of the album, outdated and new, are mixed for monitoring and charting functions.

On the 31-year-old Prime Album Gross sales chart, Madman debuts at No. 8 with 7,000 copies bought within the U.S. within the week ending June 16, in keeping with Luminate. Of that sum, vinyl gross sales comprise 3,000 – enabling its debut at No. 9 on the Vinyl Albums chart. The latter checklist ranks the week’s top-selling vinyl albums.

Madman additionally debuts at Prime Rock Albums (No. 16), Catalog Albums (No. 43) and re-enters the Billboard 200 (No. 115) with 9,000 equal album models earned. Madman was final on the Billboard 200 dated Nov. 11, 1972. (Prime Rock Albums and Catalog Albums rank the week’s hottest rock releases, and catalog [older] albums of the week, respectively, by models.)

At No. 1 on Prime Album Gross sales, BTS’ Proof scores the 12 months’s second-largest gross sales week, arriving with 266,000 copies bought. Harry Types’ former No. 1 Harry’s Home is a non-mover at No. 2 with 26,000 bought (down 22%).

Rock band Immobile In White sees its new studio album Scoring the Finish of the World debut at No. 3 – the band’s highest-charting set but on Prime Album Gross sales. The hassle launches with the group’s second-largest gross sales week ever: 23,000 bought. At No. 4, Carrie Underwood’s newest studio launch, Denim & Rhinestones, begins with 22,000 bought.

SEVENTEEN’s 4th Album: Face the Solar falls from No. 1 to No. 5 in its second week with 17,000 bought (down 59%). TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping Minisode 2: Thursday’s Baby is regular at No. 6 with 13,000 (up 17%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s former chief Bitter dips 5-7 with 10,000 (down 29%).

Seatbelts’ soundtrack to Cowboy Bebop hits the highest 10 for the primary time because the set re-enters the chart at No. 9 with 7,000 bought (up 10,694%). The album had beforehand topped out at No. 25 on the Feb. 6, 2021-dated checklist. The soundtrack surges again onto the chart following a double-LP coloured vinyl reissue. Successfully all the album’s gross sales for the week had been from vinyl codecs, and the set re-enters the Vinyl Albums chart at new excessive of No. 3.

Closing out the highest 10 on Prime Album Gross sales is Submit Malone’s Twelve Carat Toothache, which falls 3-10 in its second week with almost 7,000 bought (down 69%).

Within the week ending June 16, there have been 1.961 million albums bought within the U.S. (up 16% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and many others.) comprised 1.589 million (up 21.3%) and digital albums comprised 372,000 (down 2.4%).

There have been 909,000 CD albums bought within the week ending June 16 (up 41.3% week-over-week) and 670,000 vinyl albums bought (up 2%). Yr-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 15.501 million (down 10.9% in comparison with the identical time-frame a 12 months in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales complete 17.638 million (down 0.2%).

General year-to-date album gross sales complete 42.989 million (down 9% in comparison with the identical year-to-date time-frame a 12 months in the past). Yr-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 33.372 million (down 5.3%) and digital album gross sales complete 9.617 million (down 19.7%).