Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Model) debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Nov. 11), promoting a whopping 1.359 million copies within the U.S. within the week ending Nov. 2, in response to Luminate. As beforehand reported, that marks the largest gross sales week of 2023, the most important gross sales week of any album since 2015, and the sixth-biggest gross sales week for an album since Luminate started electronically monitoring gross sales in 1991.
1989 (Taylor’s Model) is Swift’s thirteenth No. 1 on High Album Gross sales.
The primary-week gross sales of 1989 (Taylor’s Model) have been so giant, they accounted for 43.8% of all albums bought within the U.S. within the monitoring week: 1.359 million of the overall 3.102 million bought. Additional, focusing simply on the bodily copies of the album Swift bought (CD, vinyl and cassettes), 1989 (Taylor’s Model) bought 1.261 million copies – representing 46.9% of all bodily album gross sales final week (2.689 million bodily albums have been bought throughout all titles within the U.S.).
The gross sales of 1989 (Taylor’s Model) have been enhanced by its availability in 15 collectible bodily codecs: 5 colour vinyl variants, eight CD editions and two cassette editions. Of the 5 vinyl variants, Goal carries a colour variant that features one bonus monitor (“Sweeter Than Fiction”). The album can also be available for purchase in two digital obtain editions: a typical 21-song model and a deluxe 22-song model (which provides a re-recorded model of the album’s “Dangerous Blood,” that includes Kendrick Lamar).
To date in 2023, Swift’s catalog of albums, throughout all of her titles, have bought 4.531 million copies – which accounts for five.4% of all albums bought this yr by all artists mixed (83.758 million bought yr thus far). Swift is by far the yr’s top-selling act by whole album gross sales. Her collected albums have bought six instances greater than the yr’s No. 2-selling act, Stray Youngsters, with 753,000 bought.
Elsewhere within the prime 10 of the brand new High Album Gross sales chart, the most recent releases from SEVENTEEN, Grateful Lifeless and Duran Duran debut.
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 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 real measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by the record dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with monitor equal album items and streaming equal album items. The brand new Nov. 11, 2023-dated chart can be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Nov. 7. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
At No. 2 on High Album Gross sales, SEVENTEEN’s SEVENTEENTH Heaven: eleventh Mini Album arrives. It’s the sixth prime 10-charting effort for the Korean pop group. The set bows with 98,000 copies bought, successfully all from CD gross sales, bolstered by its availability throughout 16 collectible CD variants.
The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds falls 2-3 in its second week, with 33,000 bought (down 65%).
Grateful Lifeless’s newest archival stay album launch, Dave’s Picks, Quantity 48: Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 11/20/71, debuts at No. 4 with 19,000 bought. It’s the thirty eighth prime 10-charting set for the band since High Album Gross sales launched in 1991.
TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping The Title Chapter: Freefall dips 3-5 with 15,000 bought (down 48%).
Duran Duran’s new Danse Macabre debuts at No. 6 with 14,000 bought. It’s the fourth prime 10-charting title on the 32-year-old High Album Gross sales chart. The album’s gross sales have been bolstered by its availability in 5 completely different vinyl iterations (including as much as a little bit over 5,000 bought), however its CD was its best-selling format, as its singular out there CD bought practically 6,000 copies.
Rounding out the brand new prime 10 on High Album Gross sales are 4 former No. 1s from Swift: Midnights (rising 8-7 with 13,000; up 48%), Lover (6-8 with 13,000; up 28%), Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model) (11-9 with practically 13,000; up 74%) and Folklore (9-10 with 12,000; up 43%). With 5 Swift titles within the prime 10 concurrently, it’s the second time Swift held no less than half of the highest 10 in the identical week. She beforehand did it on the July 22-dated chart, with six titles.
Within the week ending Nov. 2, there have been 3.102 million albums bought within the U.S. (up 75.5% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so forth.) comprised 2.689 million (up 88.9%) and digital albums comprised 413,000 (up 20%).
There have been 1.233 million CD albums bought within the week ending Nov. 2 (up 105.1% week-over-week) and 1.434 vinyl albums bought (up 76.8%). 12 months-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 29.245 million (up 0.8% in comparison with the identical time-frame a yr in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales whole 38.585 million (up 18.4%).
Total year-to-date album gross sales whole 83.758 million (up 5.7% in comparison with the identical year-to-date time-frame a yr in the past). 12 months-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 68.296 million (up 10.1%) and digital album gross sales whole 15.462 million (down 10.1%).
