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TOMORROW X TOGETHER lands its sixth No. 1 on Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart, as minisode 3: TOMORROW opens atop the tally (dated April 20). The set bought 103,500 copies bought within the U.S. within the week ending April 11, in response to Luminate. Additionally, the highest 10 welcomes debuts from Conan Grey, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, Khruangbin and J. Cole.
Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based mostly 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 have 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 strategy that blends album gross sales with monitor equal album items and streaming equal album items. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s minisode 3: TOMORROW enters with 103,500 copies bought. Of that sum, bodily gross sales comprise 101,500 (all from CD gross sales), whereas digital downloads comprise 2,000. The album’s gross sales have been supported by its availability throughout 17 collectible CD editions (together with unique editions bought by Barnes & Noble, Goal and the act’s webstore), all containing randomized paper merchandise (however with the identical audio tracklist). It was additionally issued throughout a number of digital obtain variations, together with 5 iterations that every contained a unique voice memo as a bonus monitor, plus an version that boasted bonus remixes.
Conan Grey notches his third prime 10-charting effort on Prime Album Gross sales as Discovered Heaven begins at No. 2 with 27,000 copies bought. It additionally matches his chart-high, as Child Krow peaked at No. 2 in 2020. Vinyl gross sales powered greater than half of the set’s first week (58%), with practically 16,000 copies bought of the album throughout 10 vinyl variants (together with exclusives for Amazon, Barnes & Noble, unbiased file shops, Goal and Grey’s official webstore; the latter additionally supplied a signed version). The album additionally launches at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. Seven completely different iterations of the CD version of the album have been accessible (most with the identical tracklist, simply with completely different cowl artwork) together with one which was signed by the artist. Discovered Heaven was additionally issued as a normal digital obtain album, together with an alternate model, with completely different cowl artwork, bought via the artist’s webstore.
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter falls to No. 3 after debuting at No. 1 every week earlier. The set bought 21,000 copies in its second week (down 88%). Whereas Cowboy Carter’s CD and vinyl editions have been accessible to buy solely by way of Beyoncé’s official webstore within the set’s first two weeks of launch, these bodily configurations turned broadly accessible to all retailers starting on April 12. (The album has additionally been purchasable as a digital obtain, broadly, since its launch on March 29.)
The Black Keys’ Ohio Gamers debuts at No. 4 on Prime Album Gross sales with 20,000 copies bought, marking the seventh prime 10-charting effort for the band. The set was accessible in seven vinyl variants, a normal CD, customary cassette, customary digital obtain, and a deluxe boxed set containing branded merchandise (a T-shirt and sticker set) and a CD.
Vampire Weekend’s Solely God Was Above Us bows at No. 5 on Prime Album Gross sales, with 16,000 copies bought. It’s the act’s fourth prime 10-charting effort and brings the group its first debut on the rating since 2019’s Father of the Bride bowed at No. 1 (Could 18, 2019 chart). The brand new album was accessible in 4 vinyl variants, a normal CD, customary obtain, and two deluxe boxed units (every containing a branded T-shirt and a replica of the CD).
Khruangbin’s A La Sala steps in at No. 6 on Prime Album Gross sales with 14,000 copies bought, garnering the act its fourth prime 10-charting effort. 80% of the album’s first-week gross sales have been from vinyl choices, six in whole. It was additionally issued as a normal CD, cassette and digital obtain.
J. Hope’s Hope On the Road, Vol. 1 falls 2-7 in its second week on the chart, with 9,000 bought (down 80%).
J. Cole’s Would possibly Delete Later rounds out the six debuts within the prime 10 on Prime Album Gross sales, because the shock launch from the rapper bows at No. 8 with 9,000 bought (all from a normal digital obtain). It’s the seventh prime 10-charting set for the artist.
Closing out the highest 10 are a pair of former No. 1s from Taylor Swift, as Lover falls 3-9 (7,000; down 28%) and 1989 (Taylor’s Model) drops 4-10 (6,500; down 28%).
Within the week ending April 11, there have been 1.294 million albums bought within the U.S. (down 3.7% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so on.) comprised 964,000 (down 3.3%) and digital albums comprised 329,000 (down 4.9%).
There have been 525,000 CD albums bought within the week ending April 11 (up 1.4% week-over-week) and 433,000 vinyl albums bought (down 8.7%). Yr-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 6.698 million (down 31.3% in comparison with the identical time-frame a 12 months in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales whole 6.858 million (down 49.3%).
Total year-to-date album gross sales whole 18.177 million (down 36.8% 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 13.626 million (down 41.9%) and digital album gross sales whole 4.551 million (down 14.5%).
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