ATEEZ lands its first No. 1 on Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart (dated July 1) because the Korean pop group’s newest launch, The World EP.2: Outlaw, opens atop the tally. The six-song set launches with 101,000 copies offered — the act’s greatest gross sales week but. In whole, it’s the fourth high 10-charting set for the eight-member ensemble.
Additionally within the high 10 of the brand new Prime Album Gross sales chart, Queens of the Stone Age’s In Instances New Roman… debuts at No. 2, whereas three older albums all surge into the highest 10 following their premiere on vinyl: J. Cole’s Born Sinner, Gracie Abrams’ Good Riddance and Lil Peep’s Crybaby.
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 rely data from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales have been the only measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by way of the checklist dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a strategy that blends album gross sales with observe equal album models and streaming equal album models. The brand new July 1, 2023-dated chart can be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on June 27. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
Of The World EP.2: Outlaw’s 101,000 copies offered in its first week, bodily gross sales comprise a bit of over 98,000 (all on CD) and digital album gross sales comprise the remaining gross sales.
Like many Okay-pop releases, the CD version of The World EP.2: Outlaw was issued in collectible CD packages (21 whole, together with unique editions for Barnes & Noble, Goal and Walmart, in addition to some signed editions), every containing a regular set of branded merchandise objects and randomized branded components (motion playing cards, associate playing cards, picture playing cards). Of the album’s gross sales, 97.5% have been on the CD format, with the rest generated by digital obtain album purchases. The set was not launched on every other retail format (cassette, vinyl, and many others.).
The World EP.2: Outlaw is the tenth album to promote no less than 100,000 copies in a single week in 2023. Of these 10, seven of them are Okay-pop titles, with gross sales largely pushed by collectible CD variants.
Queens of the Stone Age begin at No. 2 on Prime Album Gross sales with its newest set, In Instances New Roman…, bowing with 36,000 copies offered. It’s the fifth high 10-charting effort for the group. Vinyl gross sales drove nearly all of the album’s beginning sum, with almost 21,000 offered on the format (the band’s greatest week ever on vinyl, bolstered by its availability throughout seven variants). In Instances New Roman… additionally debuts at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart — its third chief on that tally.
Stray Youngsters’ former chief 5-STAR: The third Album falls 2-3 on Prime Album Gross sales with 27,000 (down 41%), ENHYPEN’s Darkish Blood rises 5-4 with 13,000 (down 34%) and Taylor Swift’s Midnights climbs 7-5 with 11,000 (down 34%).
J. Cole’s chart-topping Born Sinner, launched in 2013, returns to the chart for the primary time since 2014, as its vinyl launch prompts its re-entry at No. 6 with 11,000 offered (up 39,761%) — almost all from vinyl gross sales. For its tenth anniversary, the album was pressed on three vinyl variants, together with a Goal-exclusive version. On Vinyl Albums, the set debuts at No. 2.
Gracie Abrams’ Good Riddance, which was launched in February, jumps again onto Prime Album Gross sales at No. 7 — a brand new peak — with 10,000 offered (up 3,322%, its greatest gross sales week but; virtually fully from vinyl gross sales). It was obtainable throughout 5 vinyl variants and begins at No. 3 on the Vinyl Albums chart.
Lil Peep’s Crybaby, launched in 2016, hits Prime Album Gross sales for the primary time as its vinyl launch prompts its debut at No. 8 with 8,000 offered (up 631%), with 7,000 of that sum on vinyl. It’s the third high 10-charting set for the late Lil Peep, who died in 2017, and all of his chart entries have been posthumous. Crybaby bows at No. 5 on the Vinyl Albums chart.
Rounding out the highest 10 of the brand new Prime Album Gross sales chart is SEVENTEEN’s SEVENTEEN tenth Mini Album: FML (climbing 11-9 with 8,000; down 4%) and Swift’s Folklore (13-10 with almost 8,000; up 6%).
