NCT 127 notch their fifth high 10-charting set on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated March 18) as Ay-Yo: The 4th Album Repackage debuts at No. 2. It’s the fifth whole, and consecutive, high 10-charting effort for the pop ensemble. All 5 have peaked throughout the high two positions of the chart.
NCT 127 final debuted on Prime Album Sales with their fourth album, 2 Baddies, final yr. That set was later repackaged, had three new bonus tracks added, and retitled as Ay-Yo. It initially reached streamers and digital retailers in January, however its CD launch didn’t occur till March 3.
Ay-Yo bought 29,000 copies within the U.S. within the week ending March 9, based on Luminate. CDs comprise successfully all of Ay-Yo’s gross sales for the week. Like many Ok-pop releases, the CD configuration of Ay-Yo was issued in collectible deluxe packages, every with a typical set of things and randomized components (covers, photocards, posters, stickers). The album was not obtainable in every other bodily format.
Additionally within the high 10 of the brand new Prime Album Gross sales chart, Morgan Wallen, Kali Uchis, De La Soul, Macklemore and Daisy Jones & The Six all debut albums within the area.
Billboard’s Top Album 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 Might 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece rely data 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 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.
At No. 1 on Prime Album Gross sales, Morgan Wallen lands his second chief, and greatest gross sales week but, as One Factor at a Time bows with 111,500 copies bought. That sum simply outpaces his earlier highest gross sales body when his final album, the chart-topping Harmful: The Double Album, launched with 74,000 copies bought in January of 2021.
Kali Uchis logs her first high 10 and largest gross sales week as her new studio set Pink Moon in Venus enters at No. 3 with 28,000 bought. Of that sum, practically 14,000 comprise vinyl gross sales – enabling the set to debut at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart.
De La Soul’s debut album 3 Toes Excessive and Rising, launched in 1989, enters Prime Album Gross sales at No. 4 after the long-out-of-print set was reissued on bodily codecs and made its digital retail debut on March 3. The album bought 21,000 copies within the week ending March 9, with virtually 14,000 of that sum from vinyl LP gross sales (it bows at No. 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart). On the Billboard 200, 3 Toes Excessive and Rising initially peaked at No. 24 in 1989 however hits a brand new excessive on the March 18-dated chart, the place the set re-enters at No. 15, its first week within the high 20.
Macklemore’s new album Ben bows at No. 5 on Prime Album Gross sales, promoting 14,000 copies in its first week. It’s his second solo high 10-charting set, following Gemini in 2017, which peaked at No. 2. As one-half of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, the duo visited the highest 10 twice, with This Unruly Mess I’ve Made (No. 3 in 2016) and The Heist (No. 2 in 2012).
4 former No. 1s are subsequent on Prime Album Gross sales, as TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Title Chapter: Temptation falls 4-6 (11,000; down 23%), Taylor Swift’s Midnights dips 5-7 (10,000; down 8%), Gorillaz’s Cracker Island drops 1-8 in its second week (practically 10,000; down 80%), and P!nk’s Trustfall slips 3-9 (9,000; down 47%).
Rounding out the highest 10 is Daisy Jones & The Six’s Aurora, debuting at No. 10 with 8,000 bought. The album doubles because the soundtrack to the Amazon Prime Video collection Daisy Jones & the Six, in regards to the fictional rock band of the identical title. The collection stars Riley Keough (because the character Daisy Jones) and Sam Claflin (The Six member Billy Dunne), who sing lead vocals on the Aurora album.
Within the week ending March 9, there have been 1.979 million albums bought within the U.S. (up 6.9% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so on.) comprised 1.524 million (up 3.4%) and digital albums comprised 455,000 (up 20.4%).
There have been 667,000 CD albums bought within the week ending March 9 (up 9.9% week-over-week) and 847,000 vinyl albums bought (down 1%). Yr-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 6.192 million (up 1.3% in comparison with the identical timeframe a yr in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales whole 8.815 million (up 25.6%).
General year-to-date album gross sales whole 18.65 million (up 7.8% in comparison with the identical year-to-date timeframe a yr in the past). Yr-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 15.1 million (up 14.3%) and digital album gross sales whole 3.549 million (down 13.1%).
