The Essential Collection’ Makes Top 10 Debut

Eagles fly again onto Billboard’s charts with the band’s new best-of, To the Restrict: The Important Assortment. The retrospective debuts at No. 9 on High Album Gross sales, No. 6 on High Rock Albums, No. 8 on High Rock & Various Albums and No. 8 on High Present Album Gross sales (all charts dated April 27). It additionally launches at No. 30 on the Billboard 200 – the group’s twelfth prime 40-charting effort on the tally.

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 Might 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 via the listing 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. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.

High Rock Albums and High Rock & Various Albums rank, respectively, the week’s hottest rock, and rock and various albums by equal album models. High Present Album Gross sales ranks the week’s top-selling new/present albums (non-catalog/older titles).

To the Restrict: The Important Assortment bought 7,000 copies within the U.S. within the week ending April 18 (as mirrored on the charts dated April 27). Bodily gross sales comprise 6,500 of the album’s first-week gross sales (5,000 on CD and 1,500 on vinyl) whereas digital obtain gross sales comprise 500.

At No. 1 on High Album Gross sales, Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter rises two spots to seize its second week atop the listing (28,000 bought; up 37%). The album’s bodily version (on CD and vinyl) turned broadly accessible to all retailers through the monitoring week, after beforehand been bought completely via the artist’s webstore.

Linkin Park’s first biggest hits album, Papercuts, debuts at No. 2 on High Album Gross sales with 20,500 copies bought. The album’s gross sales had been bolstered by its availability throughout eight vinyl variants, in addition to a CD, cassette and digital obtain. It’s the eleventh prime 10-charting effort on High Album Gross sales for the band.

TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s minisode 3: TOMORROW falls 1-3 in its second week with 19,000 bought (down 82%).

Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Below Ocean Blvd re-enters High Album Gross sales at No. 4 with 10,000 bought (797%), largely from gross sales of a brand new vinyl variant, an “pageant orange”-colored version.

Maggie Rogers’ Don’t Neglect Me opens at No. 5 with 10,000 bought, marking the artist’s third prime 10-charting effort. Its gross sales had been supported by its availability throughout eight bodily iterations (amongst them had been two signed editions) and a digital obtain.

Noah Kahan’s Stick Season surges 28-6 with practically 10,000 bought, following the discharge of the Stick Season (We’ll All Be Right here Endlessly) deluxe version throughout 4 vinyl variants and on CD. The deluxe set was initially launched on June 9, 2023, as a digital obtain and streaming album.

Mark Knopfler is again on High Album Gross sales along with his first new entry since 2018, as his newest studio effort, One Deep River, begins at No. 7 with 8,000 copies bought. It’s his first entry on the listing since his final studio album Down the Highway Wherever debuted and peaked at No. 6 on the Dec. 1, 2018-dated listing.

Rounding out the highest 10 of the brand new High Album Gross sales chart are Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Lover (9-8 with practically 8,000; up 4%), Eagles’ To the Restrict at No. 9 and Swift’s former chief 1989 (Taylor’s Model) (holding at No. 10 with practically 7,000; up 2%).

Within the week ending April 18, there have been 1.117 million albums bought within the U.S. (down 13.7% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and many others.) comprised 828,000 (down 14.1%) and digital albums comprised 289,000 (down 12.4%).

There have been 422,000 CD albums bought within the week ending April 18 (down 19.6% week-over-week) and 401,000 vinyl albums bought (down 7.5%). Yr-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 7.121 million (down 31.9% in comparison with the identical timeframe a 12 months in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales whole 7.259 million (down 49.9%).

General year-to-date album gross sales whole 19.293 million (down 37.3% in comparison with the identical year-to-date timeframe a 12 months in the past). Yr-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 14.454 million (down 42.5%) and digital album gross sales whole 4.839 million (down 14.7%).