The all-star charity album Good Music to Guarantee Secure Abortion Entry to All debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Compilation Albums chart and in addition bows at No. 9 on Prime Album Gross sales.
The 49-track set bought practically 8,500 copies within the U.S. within the week ending Oct. 13 in line with Luminate – the most important gross sales week for a non-soundtrack compilation album in two years.
The profit album boasts music from Demise Cab for Cutie, Fleet Foxes and Pearl Jam, amongst others, and was completely accessible through Bandcamp’s webstore for at some point solely, on Oct. 7, as a digital obtain. In line with a press launch, the album’s web proceeds will profit non-profit organizations working to supply 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 bought 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 Prime Album Gross sales with 13,500 bought (Oct. 17, 2020 chart).
Good Music to Guarantee Secure Abortion Entry to All additionally debuts at No. 8 on Prime Present Album Gross sales and within the prime 40 on Unbiased Albums, Prime Rock & Various Albums, Prime Rock Albums and Prime Various Albums.
Good Music moreover enters at No. 151 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart – the very best debut by a non-R&B/hip-hop compilation in over a 12 months. The final such set — once more, excluding soundtracks — to bow larger 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 (in line with the Good Music group).
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most well-liked albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album models, compiled by Luminate. Items comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks bought 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. Prime Album Gross sales and Prime 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.
Prime Rock & Various Albums, Prime Rock Albums and Prime Various Albums rank the week’s hottest rock and different albums, rock albums and different albums, respectively, by equal album models. Unbiased Albums displays the week’s hottest albums, by models, launched by unbiased file labels.
