Billboard 200 - Blackpink

[Gary]

www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/blackpink-born-pink-number-one-debut-billboard-200-chart-1235144407/
BLACKPINK’s ‘Born Pink’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
It's both the first chart-topper for the K-pop quartet and by an all-female group in over a decade.


By Keith Caulfield

09/25/2022

BLACKPINK lands its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 1) as its second full-length studio album, Born Pink, starts atop the list with 102,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 22, according to Luminate. The eight-song set is the first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 by an all-female group since 2008.


Born Pink is the second top 10 for the South Korean quartet, which previously debuted and peaked at No. 2 in October 2020 with its full-length debut, The Album. In addition, Born Pink is the third album by a South Korean act to top the Billboard 200 in 2022, following BTS’ Proof and Stray Kids’ Stray Kids Mini Album: Oddinary. (Unlike those two albums, which are mostly in the Korean language, Born Pink is mostly in English — though with a fair amount of Korean lyrics.)

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold 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. The new Oct. 1, 2022-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Sept. 27. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of Born Pink’s 102,000 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 75,500; SEA units comprise 25,000 (equaling 37.49 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,500.

Born Pink is the first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 by a female group since Danity Kane’s second album, Welcome to the Dollhouse, debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated April 5, 2008.

Born Pink also debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart with the seventh-largest sales week of any album in 2022 — 75,500 copies sold. Of that sum, 85% were CD sales (64,000), while 15% were digital album sales (11,500). The set was not available in any other configuration (such as vinyl LP or cassette).

The CD configuration of the album was issued in collectible packages (17 total, including exclusive variants for Target and the group’s official webstore), each with a standard set of internal paper items and randomized elements (such as photocards, postcards and stickers). Among those were four alternative cover art editions — each corresponding to a member of the group. CD sales were bolstered by the availability of signed editions of the album (the four cover variants) in the group’s webstore and at independent record stores, where each of the four versions was signed by its corresponding member.

Lavish collectible CD packages like Born Pink’s are typically expensive — as its standard digipack and box set editions originally sold for $26 and $50, respectively, in the group’s webstore. However, the digipack’s price fell to $14.99 during release week, while the autographed edition available at indie retail also went for $14.99.

Sale pricing also kicked in on the digital version of the album, which began selling for $7.99 in the iTunes and Amazon digital stores but fell to $3.99 midway through its debut week. In addition, three alternative digital editions of the album were released on Sept. 19 exclusively in the group’s webstore for $4.99 each. All three had the same eight song tracklist, but two came with an alternative cover art, and one was a “signed digital album” (with digital replicas of the quartet’s signatures on its cover).

Born Pink’s lead single “Pink Venom” debuted and peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated Sept. 3. It has so far reached No. 36 on the Pop Airplay chart (through the most recently published list dated Sept. 24). The cut also spent two weeks on the all-genre Streaming Songs chart, debuting and peaking at No. 9 (Sept. 3 chart).

Outside the U.S., “Pink Venom” is a major hit, spending two weeks atop the Billboard Global 200 and three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. tally. The two charts rank the world’s most popular songs of the week based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the U.S.

Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti falls 1-2 on the Billboard 200 after 11 nonconsecutive weeks atop the list. The set earned 93,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week (down 4%).

NCT 127’s 2 Baddies debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, giving the South Korean pop ensemble its third top 10-charting effort. It matches the act’s chart high, first achieved with its previous album, Sticker: The 3rd Album, which debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the Oct. 2, 2021-dated list.

2 Baddies bows with 58,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 55,500; SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 3.85 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 12 songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

The CD configuration of 2 Baddies was issued in collectible deluxe packages (eight total, including a Target-exclusive edition), each with a standard set of items and randomized elements (like photocards and posters). Sales were also enhanced by the availability of deluxe box set editions that were packaged with branded merchandise like shirts, hats and tote bags. Nearly all of its sales for the week were on CD (a little under 1,000 were sold via digital download); the set was not issued in any other physical format.

2 Baddies will be released in further iterations on Oct. 7, as its CD digipack edition will street that day — available in nine different cover variations (one for each of the group’s members), each with a standard set of paper goods and randomized photocards.

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album is a non-mover at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 48,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).

Dangerous: The Double Album has now accumulated 88 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. It now solely has the sixth-most weeks in the top 10 among all albums since the chart began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March of 1956.

The all-time top 10 record-holder is the original cast recording of My Fair Lady, with 173 weeks in the top 10 between 1956-60. See list, below.

Albums With Most Weeks in Top 10 on Billboard 200 Chart (March 24, 1956-onwards)

Weeks in Top 10, Artist, Title, Year First Reached Top 10

173, Original Cast, My Fair Lady, 1956
109, Soundtrack, The Sound of Music, 1965
106, Soundtrack, West Side Story, 1962
105, Original Cast, The Sound of Music, 1960
90, Soundtrack, South Pacific, 1958
88, Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album, 2021
87, Original Cast, Camelot, 1961
87, Soundtrack, Oklahoma!, 1956
85, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Paul and Mary, 1962
84, Adele, 21, 2011
84, Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A., 1984

(through the Oct. 1, 2022-dated chart.)

The Weeknd’s compilation album The Highlights vaults back to the top 10, rising 32-5 with 39,000 equivalent album units earned (up 139%). The set contains such hits “Blinding Lights” and the resurgent “Die for You” (from The Weeknd’s studio albums After Hours and Starboy, respectively). On the new chart, the TEA and SEA units for those songs contribute to The Highlights, as a song’s activity is assigned to the artist’s album with the most traditional album sales in a week. (The Highlights sold nearly 1,000 copies in the latest tracking week, while After Hours and Starboy each sold under 1,000.) A week ago, the TEA and SEA for the songs were directed to After Hours and Starboy, respectively, as they outsold The Highlights that week.

Beyoncé’s former leader Renaissance climbs 8-6 on the new Billboard 200 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%) and Harry Styles’ chart-topping Harry’s House is stationary at No. 7 with 35,000 units (down 8%).

EST Gee clocks his second top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 as I Never Felt Nun bows at No. 8 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 29,000 (equaling 41.15 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks) while album sales comprise 1,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Closing out the top 10 are Rod Wave’s former No. 1 Beautiful Mind, holding steady at No. 9 (29,000 equivalent album units earned, down 9%), and YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Realer 2, falling 6-10 in its third chart week (27,000, down 30%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

[Gary]

1. Blackpink 102,000 (sales 75,500)
2. Bad Bunny 93,000
3. NCT 127 58,500 (salesv 55,500)
4. Morgan Wallen 48,000
5. The Weeknd 39,000
6. Beyonce 36,000
7. Harry Styles 35,000
8. EST Gee 30,000 (sales 1000)
9. Rod Wave 29,000
10. Youngboy 27,000

[Gary]

Weeks in the top 10

top 10 ARTIST
88 MORGAN WALLEN
29 THE WEEKND
20 BAD BUNNY
18 HARRY STYLES
8 BEYONCE
6 ROD WAVE
2 YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE AGAIN

[Gary]

All time - single artist --- most weeks in the top 5


71 Thriller, Michael Jackson
68 21, Adele
67 Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen
66 Born In The U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
55 Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette

[leonagwen]

Congratulations BLACKPINK!!

[After Minutes]

This is a huge feat for BP, congrats! But it does make me wonder one thing: there does seem to be a big difference between how willing Blinks are to... enhance the charts compared to ARMYs.

Look, they're the biggest K-pop act behind BTS, their members are arguably even more successful individually than BTS' are (especially Lisa and Jennie), but there is without a doubt a noticeable gap between the groups. While reaching #1 off sales would be difficult, the blinks could probably push Blackpink into the top 10 at least once.

Is it just that they have a different attitude and are less willing to manipulate the charts, are they less aware of the charts in general or is it just that they aren't numerous enough to do it successfully?

[WolfSpear]

BlackPink now becomes the first all-female K-Pop group to lead the Billboard 200. Congrats!

The only other K-Pop acts to lead this chart are BTS, SuperM and Stray Kids.

[Mathgeek]

Sept 25, 2022 15:30:25 GMT -5 After Minutes said:

This is a huge feat for BP, congrats! But it does make me wonder one thing: there does seem to be a big difference between how willing Blinks are to... enhance the charts compared to ARMYs.

Look, they're the biggest K-pop act behind BTS, their members are arguably even more successful individually than BTS' are (especially Lisa and Jennie), but there is without a doubt a noticeable gap between the groups. While reaching #1 off sales would be difficult, the blinks could probably push Blackpink into the top 10 at least once.

Is it just that they have a different attitude and are less willing to manipulate the charts, are they less aware of the charts in general or is it just that they aren't numerous enough to do it successfully?

I think they just need to grow their fanbase more because they were collecting funds and funding digitals. The thing is that they were also buying 4/album for digitals when the new rules only allow 1 so perhaps the sales would have been even stronger digitally had they followed the rules instead of just doing what the website said?

Congrats to them though because they pulled it off!

[ginie]

Sept 25, 2022 15:30:25 GMT -5 After Minutes said:

This is a huge feat for BP, congrats! But it does make me wonder one thing: there does seem to be a big difference between how willing Blinks are to... enhance the charts compared to ARMYs.

Look, they're the biggest K-pop act behind BTS, their members are arguably even more successful individually than BTS' are (especially Lisa and Jennie), but there is without a doubt a noticeable gap between the groups. While reaching #1 off sales would be difficult, the blinks could probably push Blackpink into the top 10 at least once.

Is it just that they have a different attitude and are less willing to manipulate the charts, are they less aware of the charts in general or is it just that they aren't numerous enough to do it successfully?

Blackpink comeback once in a while lol so Blinks are more clueless about charts but they want the #1. What I saw for Born Pink is maybe they need a bigger hardcore fandom, their agency priced their album at around $50 in USA and Europe and when preorders started I saw some comments from their US fans who said they were buying on Ktown4u (an online korean shop) because it was less expensive, to compare 1 album on US stores like Target = $50 and if they ordered on Ktown4u (they do special discounts for kpop fandoms) they paid around $70 to have the 3 versions of the Box set. The hardcore fandom pre ordered on US stores, but BP casual fans went to kpop stores like Ktown4u.

What happened with Born Pink just show how their korean agency is greedy, they also made the mistake to put on sales Blackpink concert tickets on Born Pink release day, and the tickets were really expensive ($200 to $1500), Blackpink is their most sucessful musical act so they try to get as much money as they can from their fans with minimum promo. Interscope don't do that much for Blackpink but at least they did some stuff this time to get the #1 (with digital albums).

[uncanny614]

Ktown4u and some others (especially 3rd partys on Amazon) do NOT count toward the Billboard Album or singles charts. That probably hurt them. The $49 (basically $50) priced cd, stop some people from buying more than 1 cd. The Album is number 1 ( US and UK ) & has made alot of money for Interscope, YG Entertainment, so I doubt they are upset. Blackpink next cd will probably be just as expensive as this one was.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

[Gary]

BB200


TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 - - 1 Born Pink, BLACKPINK 1
2 1 - 20 Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny 1
3 - - 1 2 Baddies, NCT 127 3
4 4 - 89 Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen 1
5 32 - 84 The Highlights, The Weeknd 2
6 8 - 8 Renaissance, Beyonce 1
7 7 - 18 Harry's House, Harry Styles 1
8 - - 1 I Never Felt Nun, EST Gee 8
9 9 - 6 Beautiful Mind, Rod Wave 1
10 6 - 3 Realer 2, YoungBoy Never Broke Again 6
11 12 - 18 American Heartbreak, Zach Bryan 5
12 - - 1 Hell Paso, Koe Wetzel 12
13 13 - 21 I Never Liked You, Future 1
14 14 - 10 Gemini Rights, Steve Lacy 7
15 - - 1 Girl Of My Dreams, FLETCHER 15
16 17 - 55 Certified Lover Boy, Drake 1
17 19 - 134 My Turn, Lil Baby 1
18 11 - 4 God Did, DJ Khaled 1
19 20 - 70 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 1
20 5 - 2 Different Man, Kane Brown 5
21 - - 31 Animals, Pink Floyd 3
22 2 - 2 Demons Protected By Angels, NAV 2
23 18 - 7 The Last Slimeto, YoungBoy Never Broke Again 2
24 21 - 28 7220, Lil Durk 1
25 22 - 19 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar 1
26 30 - 13 Growin' Up, Luke Combs 2
27 23 - 16 Twelve Carat Toothache, Post Malone 2
28 27 - 276 Ctrl, SZA 3
29 24 - 14 Honestly, Nevermind, Drake 1
30 16 - 4 Queen Radio: Volume 1, Nicki Minaj 10
31 29 - 159 Hollywood's Bleeding, Post Malone 1
32 26 - 42 Who Is Nardo Wick?, Nardo Wick 16
33 28 - 7 Curtain Call 2, Eminem 6
34 33 - 277 This One's For You, Luke Combs 4
35 3 - 2 Patient Number 9, Ozzy Osbourne 3
36 31 - 65 Planet Her, Doja Cat 2
37 37 - 150 What You See Is What You Get, Luke Combs 1
38 34 - 509 Greatest Hits, Queen 8
39 36 - 208 If I Know Me, Morgan Wallen 10
40 42 - 113 Folklore, Taylor Swift 1
41 40 - 227 Goodbye & Good Riddance, Juice WRLD 4
42 10 - 2 Lyfe, Yeat 10
43 44 - 116 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon, Pop Smoke 1
44 39 - 134 YHLQMDLG, Bad Bunny 2
45 48 - 254 Diamonds, Elton John 7
46 49 - 45 Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
47 38 - 11 Wasteland, Brent Faiyaz 2
48 41 - 517 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 2
49 43 - 495 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 1
50 53 - 161 Lover, Taylor Swift 1
51 50 - 242 Graduation, Kanye West 1
52 85 - 20 Come Home The Kids Miss You, Jack Harlow 3
53 - - 1 (Self-Titled), Marcus Mumford 53
54 56 - 115 Legends Never Die, Juice WRLD 1
55 62 - 125 Indigo, Chris Brown 1
56 - - 1 Mr. Sun, Little Big Town 56
57 45 - 92 The Essential Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley 42
58 55 - 608 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 18
59 54 - 47 =, Ed Sheeran 1
60 - - 1 Asphalt Meadows, Death Cab For Cutie 60
61 46 - 6 Traumazine, Megan Thee Stallion 4
62 61 - 43 Encanto, Soundtrack 1
63 58 - 10 Special, Lizzo 2
64 57 - 41 Mercury - Act 1, Imagine Dragons 9
65 92 - 598 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 1
66 63 - 145 Fine Line, Harry Styles 1
67 47 - 4 Between 1&2: 11th Mini Album (EP), TWICE 3
68 75 - 406 1989, Taylor Swift 1
69 70 - 284 DAMN., Kendrick Lamar 1
70 73 - 499 Take Care, Drake 1
71 76 - 221 Scorpion, Drake 1
72 71 - 129 Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa 3
73 65 - 113 F*ck Love, The Kid LAROI 1
74 74 - 441 Greatest Hits, 2Pac 3
75 78 - 367 Traveller, Chris Stapleton 1
76 80 - 154 IGOR, Tyler, The Creator 1
77 79 - 97 Starting Over, Chris Stapleton 3
78 86 - 365 Hamilton: An American Musical, Original Broadway Cast 2
79 82 - 185 Death Race For Love, Juice WRLD 1
80 90 - 15 Proof, BTS 1
81 60 - 13 Breezy, Chris Brown 4
82 87 - 731 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 10
83 - - 1 The Mars Volta, The Mars Volta 83
84 72 - 37 Dawn FM, The Weeknd 2
85 91 - 230 beerbongs & bentleys, Post Malone 1
86 83 - 8 Sing Me A Lullaby, My Sweet Temptation, $uicideBoy$ 7
87 77 - 17 Top Gun: Maverick, Soundtrack 17
88 94 - 407 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
89 - - 1 Sunrise On Slaughter Beach, Clutch 89
90 64 - 13 Elvis (Soundtrack), Elvis Presley & Various Artists 26
91 95 - 216 ASTROWORLD, Travis Scott 1
92 93 - 60 Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish 1
93 98 - 41 Fighting Demons, Juice WRLD 2
94 97 - 78 SoulFly, Rod Wave 1
95 - - 1 Blue Train, John Coltrane 95
96 84 - 592 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 3
97 107 - 93 Evermore, Taylor Swift 1
98 101 - 155 Over It, Summer Walker 2
99 108 - 265 Luv Is Rage 2, Lil Uzi Vert 1
100 105 - 54 The Melodic Blue, Baby Keem 5
101 99 - 67 Hall Of Fame, Polo G 1
102 100 - 534 Back In Black, AC/DC 4
103 103 - 37 DS4EVER, Gunna 1
104 109 - 296 Blonde, Frank Ocean 1
105 102 - 79 Justice, Justin Bieber 1
106 106 - 182 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Billie Eilish 1
107 115 - 404 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 31
108 117 - 540 Thriller, Michael Jackson 1
109 112 - 590 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 3
110 110 - 9 Danado, Ivan Cornejo 95
111 116 - 332 Views, Drake 1
112 89 - 44 An Evening With Silk Sonic, Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) 2
113 114 - 209 reputation, Taylor Swift 1
114 96 - 105 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1, Nickelback 21
115 113 - 593 Nevermind, Nirvana 1
116 104 - 480 Greatest Hits, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 2
117 122 - 302 Stoney, Post Malone 4
118 120 - 450 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
119 121 - 235 ?, XXXTENTACION 1
120 119 - 95 El Ultimo Tour del Mundo, Bad Bunny 1
121 111 - 200 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 11
122 67 - 3 Formula, Vol. 3, Romeo Santos 10
123 - - 1 This Is The Heavy, Mitchell Tenpenny 123
124 126 - 217 AM, Arctic Monkeys 6
125 66 - 2 Mr. Money With The Vibe, Asake 66
126 123 - 749 Legend: The Best Of..., Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
127 81 - 4 The Forever Story, JID 12
128 127 - 198 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West 1
129 132 - 85 Shiesty Season, Pooh Shiesty 3
130 124 - 98 Dreamland, Glass Animals 7
131 128 - 115 Purgatory, Tyler Childers 106
132 130 - 127 The College Dropout, Kanye West 2
133 136 - 56 Donda, Kanye West 1
134 - - 2 Ivory, Omar Apollo 134
135 131 - 240 Gold: Greatest Hits, ABBA 25
136 - - 31 Greatest Hits, Earth, Wind & Fire 40
137 137 - 24 Stereotype, Cole Swindell 48
138 140 - 123 The GOAT, Polo G 2
139 148 - 133 Eternal Atake, Lil Uzi Vert 1
140 139 - 274 More Life, Drake 1
141 138 - 81 Greatest Hits, Pitbull 108
142 146 - 334 ANTI, Rihanna 1
143 145 - 85 Whole Lotta Red, Playboi Carti 1
144 141 - 289 ÷ (Divide), Ed Sheeran 1
145 142 - 298 Moana, Soundtrack 2
146 147 - 68 Savage Mode II, 21 Savage & Metro Boomin 1
147 144 - 281 The Fame, Lady Gaga 2
148 149 - 245 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day, Kid Cudi 4
149 118 - 6 Motomami, Rosalia 33
150 - - 215 50 Number Ones, George Strait 1
151 135 - 678 Metallica, Metallica 1
152 133 - 13 Give Or Take, Giveon 11
153 154 - 129 Pray 4 Love, Rod Wave 2
154 157 - 248 17, XXXTENTACION 2
155 134 - 192 All Time Greatest Hits, Lynyrd Skynyrd 56
156 150 - 440 Nothing Was The Same, Drake 1
157 151 - 68 The Voice Of The Heroes, Lil Baby & Lil Durk 1
158 165 - 286 T R A P S O U L, Bryson Tiller 8
159 156 - 425 The Eminem Show, Eminem 1
160 160 - 53 Montero, Lil Nas X 2
161 129 - 3 Mr. Saturday Night, Jon Pardi 34
162 158 - 98 Channel Orange, Frank Ocean 2
163 159 - 46 Still Over It, Summer Walker 1
164 162 - 44 30, Adele 1
165 188 - 295 Teenage Dream, Katy Perry 1
166 - - 1 Hold The Girl, Rina Sawayama 166
167 153 - 271 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection, Bon Jovi 5
168 152 - 11 Love, Damini, Burna Boy 14
169 161 - 49 Devil's Got A New Disguise: The Very Best Of Aerosmith, Aerosmith 33
170 170 - 74 A Gangsta's Pain, Moneybagg Yo 1
171 164 - 171 X 100PRE, Bad Bunny 11
172 181 - 116 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston 14
173 175 - 144 Get Rich Or Die Tryin', 50 Cent 1
174 169 - 445 Greatest Hits, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 8
175 174 - 5 Cigarettes After Sex, Cigarettes After Sex 174
176 190 - 102 Top, YoungBoy Never Broke Again 1
177 171 - 356 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
178 163 - 55 Call Me If You Get Lost, Tyler, The Creator 1
179 179 - 109 "Awaken, My Love!", Childish Gambino 5
180 172 - 270 Evolve, Imagine Dragons 2
181 88 - 412 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 2
182 173 - 63 Fearless (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
183 168 - 7 Ballads Of The Broken, Jelly Roll 159
184 195 - 232 Hozier, Hozier 2
185 177 - 174 Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, Lewis Capaldi 20
186 187 - 136 Die Lit, Playboi Carti 3
187 - - 3 Public Housing, Real Boston Richey 60
188 - - 1 Feliz Cumpleanos Ferxxo: Te Pirateamos El Album, Feid 188
189 166 - 9 Summertime Blues, Zach Bryan 34
190 - - 188 The Life Of deleted, Kanye West 1
191 193 - 144 Confessions, Usher 1
192 - - 1 At The Royal Albert Hall: April, 14 1970, Creedence Clearwater Revival 192
193 180 - 138 Harry Styles, Harry Styles 1
194 176 - 35 Country Stuff: The Album, Walker Hayes 9
195 182 - 76 Currents, Tame Impala 4
196 191 - 71 The Off-Season, J. Cole 1
197 178 - 75 When It's All Said And Done... Take Time, Giveon 5
198 185 - 76 Hey World, Lee Brice 45
199 192 - 72 I Am > I Was, 21 Savage 1
200 - - 1 Color Decay, The Devil Wears Prada 200

[Gary]

Current


TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 - - 1 Born Pink, BLACKPINK 1
2 - - 1 2 Baddies, NCT 127 2
3 - - 1 Girl Of My Dreams, FLETCHER 3
4 1 - 2 Patient Number 9, Ozzy Osbourne 1
5 - - 1 (Self-Titled), Marcus Mumford 5
6 - - 1 Sunrise On Slaughter Beach, Clutch 6
7 5 - 4 Between 1&2: 11th Mini Album (EP), TWICE 1
8 - - 1 Asphalt Meadows, Death Cab For Cutie 8
9 - - 1 The Mars Volta, The Mars Volta 9
10 - - 1 Mr. Sun, Little Big Town 10
11 - - 1 At The Royal Albert Hall: April, 14 1970, Creedence Clearwater Revival 11
12 15 - 8 Manifesto : Day 1 (EP), ENHYPEN 1
13 9 - 18 Harry's House, Harry Styles 1
14 6 - 3 The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!, Megadeth 1
15 - - 1 Color Decay, The Devil Wears Prada 15
16 17 - 19 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar 2
17 23 - 8 SEVENTEEN 4th Album Repackage: Sector 17, SEVENTEEN 1
18 13 - 38 An Evening With Silk Sonic, Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) 3
19 - - 1 We The Kingdom, We The Kingdom 19
20 - - 1 Hold The Girl, Rina Sawayama 20
21 - - 1 Expert In A Dying Field, The Beths 21
22 - - 1 Suckerpunch, Maggie Lindemann 22
23 - - 1 Opvs Contra Natvram, Behemoth 23
24 7 - 2 Wisdom, Stick Figure 7
25 4 - 2 Different Man, Kane Brown 4
26 25 - 70 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 1
27 26 - 17 SEVENTEEN 4th Album: Face The Sun, SEVENTEEN 1
28 - - 1 HiROQUEST: Genesis, Steve Aoki 28
29 - - 1 Hell Paso, Koe Wetzel 29
30 - - 1 Wilderness Of Mirrors, The Black Angels 30
31 - - 4 Come Home The Kids Miss You, Jack Harlow 5
32 - - 4 Ultimate Aaliyah, Aaliyah 12
33 38 - 149 Lover, Taylor Swift 1
34 - - 1 Mid-Atlantic Dub, Bumpin Uglies 34
35 39 - 112 Folklore, Taylor Swift 1
36 32 - 8 Renaissance, Beyonce 1
37 - - 1 This Is The Heavy, Mitchell Tenpenny 37
38 30 - 16 Call Me If You Get Lost, Tyler, The Creator 1
39 - - 1 God's Work, LeAnn Rimes 39
40 - - 1 Everything I Know About Love, Laufey 40
41 35 - 45 Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
42 37 - 10 Checkmate: Mini Album (EP), iTZY 2
43 10 - 8 Stranger Things: Soundtrack From The Netflix Series, Season 4, Soundtrack 10
44 - - 1 Yessie, Jessie Reyez 44
45 - - 1 EP3, Ringo Starr 45
46 - - 1 Tekkno, Electric Callboy 46
47 - - 1 The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: That's What Happened, 1982-1985, Miles Davis 47
48 36 - 145 Fine Line, Harry Styles 1
49 - - 1 The Trouble With Fever, Michelle Branch 49
50 31 - 5 AfterLife, Five Finger Death Punch 2
51 2 - 2 Demons Protected By Angels, NAV 2
52 33 - 13 Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny 3
53 40 - 10 Special, Lizzo 1
54 11 - 2 When The Wind Forgets Your Name, Built To Spill 11
55 45 - 370 Traveller, Chris Stapleton 1
56 44 - 44 30, Adele 1
57 20 - 86 Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen 1
58 - - 1 Look Up!, The Harlem Gospel Travelers 58
59 14 - 2 The Man From Waco, Charley Crockett 14
60 48 - 60 Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish 1
61 - - 2 Rumble Of Thunder, The Hu 42
62 72 - 2 Dallas / Fort Worth, Drake Milligan 62
63 50 - 15 Proof, BTS 1
64 - - 1 Autofiction, The London Suede 64
65 3 - 2 Magic Man, Jackson Wang 3
66 - - 1 Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros 66
67 - - 3 Drill Music In Zion, Lupe Fiasco 35
68 - - 12 Glow On, Turnstile 8
69 41 - 6 Cheat Codes, Danger Mouse & Black Thought 2
70 - - 1 Dreamkiller, Sumerlands 70
71 54 - 76 Fearless (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
72 63 - 253 Diamonds, Elton John 6
73 46 - 12 Planet Zero, Shinedown 1
74 - - 2 Three Sides Of One, King's X 10
75 53 - 37 Dawn FM, The Weeknd 1
76 55 - 4 Thee Sacred Souls, Thee Sacred Souls 24
77 - - 1 View With A Room, Julian Lage 77
78 47 - 5 Viva Las Vengeance, Panic! At The Disco 3
79 73 - 13 Growin' Up, Luke Combs 2
80 18 - 2 Legend, John Legend 18
81 12 - 2 How Do You Burn?, The Afghan Whigs 12
82 57 - 27 Impera, Ghost 1
83 - - 1 Better Days ...And Nights (EP), Smith/Kotzen 83
84 62 - 13 Superache, Conan Gray 3
85 - - 2 The New Dark Ages, GWAR 67
86 27 - 20 Minisode 2: Thursday's Child (EP), TOMORROW X TOGETHER 1
87 69 - 7 NOW That's What I Call '90s Alternative Rock, Various Artists 30
88 42 - 5 Finally Enough Love, Madonna 1
89 59 - 10 Elvis (Soundtrack), Elvis Presley & Various Artists 9
90 64 - 7 Curtain Call 2, Eminem 1
91 - - 1 Spark, Whitney 91
92 - - 1 Outside The Box, Gene Watson 92
93 - - 4 Life After Death, tobyMac 5
94 - - 10 Girls: The 2nd Mini Album (EP), aespa 1
95 - - 1 Some Of Us Are Brave, Danielle Ponder 95
96 65 - 3 Not Just A Girl: The Highlights (Soundtrack), Shania Twain 20
97 24 - 2 Jude, Julian Lennon 24
98 21 - 2 Anthem, Flogging Molly 21
99 - - 54 Scaled And Icy, twenty one pilots 2
100 61 - 4 Will Of The People, Muse 4

[Gary]

Album Sales


TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 - - 1 Born Pink, BLACKPINK 1
2 - - 1 2 Baddies, NCT 127 2
3 - - 3 Animals, Pink Floyd 3
4 - - 1 Girl Of My Dreams, FLETCHER 4
5 1 - 2 Patient Number 9, Ozzy Osbourne 1
6 - - 1 (Self-Titled), Marcus Mumford 6
7 - - 1 Blue Train, John Coltrane 7
8 - - 1 Sunrise On Slaughter Beach, Clutch 8
9 5 - 4 Between 1&2: 11th Mini Album (EP), TWICE 1
10 - - 1 Asphalt Meadows, Death Cab For Cutie 10
11 - - 1 The Mars Volta, The Mars Volta 11
12 - - 1 Mr. Sun, Little Big Town 12
13 - - 1 At The Royal Albert Hall: April, 14 1970, Creedence Clearwater Revival 13
14 15 - 8 Manifesto : Day 1 (EP), ENHYPEN 1
15 9 - 18 Harry's House, Harry Styles 1
16 6 - 3 The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!, Megadeth 1
17 - - 1 Color Decay, The Devil Wears Prada 17
18 17 - 18 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar 2
19 25 - 8 SEVENTEEN 4th Album Repackage: Sector 17, SEVENTEEN 1
20 13 - 30 An Evening With Silk Sonic, Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) 3
21 - - 1 We The Kingdom, We The Kingdom 21
22 - - 1 Hold The Girl, Rina Sawayama 22
23 - - 1 Expert In A Dying Field, The Beths 23
24 24 - 315 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 6
25 - - 1 Suckerpunch, Maggie Lindemann 25
26 30 - 121 IGOR, Tyler, The Creator 1
27 - - 1 Opvs Contra Natvram, Behemoth 27
28 7 - 2 Wisdom, Stick Figure 7
29 4 - 2 Different Man, Kane Brown 4
30 29 - 70 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 1
31 32 - 16 SEVENTEEN 4th Album: Face The Sun, SEVENTEEN 1
32 - - 1 HiROQUEST: Genesis, Steve Aoki 32
33 - - 1 Hell Paso, Koe Wetzel 33
34 - - 1 Wilderness Of Mirrors, The Black Angels 34
35 - - 2 Come Home The Kids Miss You, Jack Harlow 5
36 - - 3 Ultimate Aaliyah, Aaliyah 12
37 52 - 129 Lover, Taylor Swift 1
38 - - 1 Mid-Atlantic Dub, Bumpin Uglies 38
39 35 - 317 Thriller, Michael Jackson 9
40 31 - 268 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 2
41 39 - 471 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 10
42 33 - 658 Metallica, Metallica 1
43 55 - 113 Folklore, Taylor Swift 1
44 83 - 116 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack), Vince Guaraldi Trio 6
45 43 - 8 Renaissance, Beyonce 1
46 40 - 453 Greatest Hits, Queen 3
47 - - 1 This Is The Heavy, Mitchell Tenpenny 47
48 38 - 16 Call Me If You Get Lost, Tyler, The Creator 1
49 - - 1 God's Work, LeAnn Rimes 49
50 - - 1 Everything I Know About Love, Laufey 50
51 48 - 45 Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
52 51 - 10 Checkmate: Mini Album (EP), iTZY 2
53 10 - 6 Stranger Things: Soundtrack From The Netflix Series, Season 4, Soundtrack 10
54 54 - 88 Evermore, Taylor Swift 1
55 - - 1 Yessie, Jessie Reyez 55
56 - - 1 EP3, Ringo Starr 56
57 - - 1 Tekkno, Electric Callboy 57
58 - - 1 The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: That's What Happened, 1982-1985, Miles Davis 58
59 47 - 114 Harry Styles, Harry Styles 1
60 49 - 145 Fine Line, Harry Styles 1
61 - - 1 The Trouble With Fever, Michelle Branch 61
62 41 - 5 AfterLife, Five Finger Death Punch 2
63 67 - 64 Ctrl, SZA 5
64 21 - 5 It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Soundtrack), Vince Guaraldi 21
65 2 - 2 Demons Protected By Angels, NAV 2
66 45 - 10 Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny 3
67 57 - 10 Special, Lizzo 1
68 53 - 221 Back In Black, AC/DC 20
69 44 - 160 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 7
70 58 - 261 Abbey Road, The Beatles 1
71 11 - 2 When The Wind Forgets Your Name, Built To Spill 11
72 56 - 164 AM, Arctic Monkeys 6
73 66 - 362 Traveller, Chris Stapleton 1
74 68 - 297 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
75 50 - 153 The College Dropout, Kanye West 2
76 63 - 44 30, Adele 1
77 62 - 590 Legend: The Best Of..., Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
78 20 - 48 Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen 1
79 76 - 106 The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, Lauryn Hill 1
80 65 - 325 Gold: Greatest Hits, ABBA 6
81 - - 411 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 10
82 - - 1 Look Up!, The Harlem Gospel Travelers 82
83 14 - 2 The Man From Waco, Charley Crockett 14
84 73 - 60 Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish 1
85 - - 2 Rumble Of Thunder, The Hu 80
86 - - 1 Dallas / Fort Worth, Drake Milligan 86
87 64 - 101 The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance 2
88 77 - 13 Proof, BTS 1
89 - - 1 Autofiction, The London Suede 89
90 3 - 2 Magic Man, Jackson Wang 3
91 79 - 313 Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys, The Beach Boys 11
92 72 - 410 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
93 94 - 98 Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Wu-Tang Clan 41
94 - - 86 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
95 - - 1 Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros 95
96 - - 28 I Care 4 U, Aaliyah 3
97 - - 2 Drill Music In Zion, Lupe Fiasco 42
98 - - 3 Glow On, Turnstile 8
99 74 - 221 Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2, Soundtrack 2
100 59 - 6 Cheat Codes, Danger Mouse & Black Thought 2

[Gary]

Vinyl

TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 - - 1 Blue Train, John Coltrane 1
2 - - 2 Animals, Pink Floyd 2
3 - - 1 The Mars Volta, The Mars Volta 3
4 - - 1 Girl Of My Dreams, FLETCHER 4
5 - - 1 Asphalt Meadows, Death Cab For Cutie 5
6 - - 1 Sunrise On Slaughter Beach, Clutch 6
7 - - 1 (Self-Titled), Marcus Mumford 7
8 1 - 2 Patient Number 9, Ozzy Osbourne 1
9 2 - 4 An Evening With Silk Sonic, Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak) 1
10 3 - 18 Harry's House, Harry Styles 1
11 - - 1 At The Royal Albert Hall: April, 14 1970, Creedence Clearwater Revival 11
12 6 - 4 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar 2
13 14 - 88 IGOR, Tyler, The Creator 2
14 - - 1 Come Home The Kids Miss You, Jack Harlow 14
15 - - 1 Ultimate Aaliyah, Aaliyah 15
16 - - 1 Color Decay, The Devil Wears Prada 16
17 - - 68 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack), Vince Guaraldi Trio 1
18 11 - 200 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 1
19 13 - 278 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 1
20 - - 1 Expert In A Dying Field, The Beths 20
21 - - 1 Everything I Know About Love, Laufey 21
22 19 - 57 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 1
23 - - 1 Hold The Girl, Rina Sawayama 23
24 15 - 14 Call Me If You Get Lost, Tyler, The Creator 1
25 - - 1 Wisdom, Stick Figure 25

[Gary]

Catalog


TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 - - 4 Animals, Pink Floyd 1
2 2 - 191 Ctrl, SZA 1
3 3 - 840 Greatest Hits, Queen 1
4 4 - 39 YHLQMDLG, Bad Bunny 1
5 5 - 363 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 1
6 6 - 432 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 1
7 8 - 85 Graduation, Kanye West 7
8 11 - 19 Indigo, Chris Brown 8
9 7 - 41 The Essential Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley 7
10 10 - 1175 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 1
11 20 - 469 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 1
12 15 - 275 1989, Taylor Swift 1
13 12 - 115 DAMN., Kendrick Lamar 2
14 13 - 330 Take Care, Drake 1
15 14 - 364 Greatest Hits, 2Pac 2
16 16 - 55 IGOR, Tyler, The Creator 6
17 18 - 1371 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 1
18 21 - 276 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 2
19 - - 2 Blue Train, John Coltrane 19
20 17 - 586 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 1
21 27 - 5 Evermore, Taylor Swift 21
22 24 - 39 Over It, Summer Walker 13
23 23 - 1139 Back In Black, AC/DC 1
24 28 - 114 Blonde, Frank Ocean 2
25 26 - 3 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Billie Eilish 25
26 33 - 445 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 1
27 35 - 570 Thriller, Michael Jackson 1
28 30 - 391 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 1
29 34 - 181 Views, Drake 4
30 32 - 48 reputation, Taylor Swift 7
31 22 - 65 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1, Nickelback 11
32 31 - 299 Nevermind, Nirvana 1
33 25 - 809 Greatest Hits, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 1
34 39 - 88 Stoney, Post Malone 7
35 37 - 122 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 3
36 38 - 88 ?, XXXTENTACION 5
37 36 - 17 El Ultimo Tour del Mundo, Bad Bunny 31
38 29 - 113 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 1
39 42 - 54 AM, Arctic Monkeys 14
40 40 - 1536 Legend: The Best Of..., Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
41 43 - 41 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West 9
42 47 - 7 Shiesty Season, Pooh Shiesty 38
43 44 - 27 Purgatory, Tyler Childers 17
44 45 - 42 The College Dropout, Kanye West 1
45 46 - 517 Gold: Greatest Hits, ABBA 1
46 - - 30 Greatest Hits, Earth, Wind & Fire 3
47 - - 29 The GOAT, Polo G 10
48 - - 47 Eternal Atake, Lil Uzi Vert 8
49 50 - 43 Greatest Hits, Pitbull 34
50 - - 125 ANTI, Rihanna 6

[Music Fan]

Sept 26, 2022 18:55:00 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

With the way people were acting on this board, you'd think Rina would have a Top 20 debut. Goes to show how this forum can sometimes be such a bubble.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ Reissue Hits Top 10 on Billboard’s Album Sales Chart

9/27/2022

By Keith Caulfield

The set, first released in 1977, also makes a splash on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Billboard 200, Catalog Albums, Tastemaker Albums and Vinyl Albums.

Pink Floyd’s Animals surges back onto Billboard’s album charts (dated Oct. 1) following its reissue on Sept. 16.

The set, first released in 1977, re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 3 with 20,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 22, according to Luminate (up from 500 copies sold in the previous week). It’s the biggest sales week for any Pink Floyd album since 2014 and Animals’ highest rank on the 31-year-old chart.

Animals also re-enters at No. 1 on the Catalog Albums chart (its first week at No. 1 and the act’s fifth leader on the 31-year-old list), and impacts the top five on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Tastemaker Albums and Vinyl Albums. It also bounds back onto the Billboard 200 at No. 21 – the set’s first visit to the top 40, and highest rank, since 1977. That year it peaked at No. 3 for three weeks (on the charts dated March 5-19). 

The five-song, 42-minute album was reissued in a new mix on CD, vinyl, Blu-ray, SACD and digital download configurations ranging in price from $12.99 to $29.98. All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes.

A deluxe box set edition of Animals is due out on Oct. 7. The four-disc set (containing vinyl LP/CD/DVD and Blu-ray discs) currently sells for $99.98 in Pink Floyd’s official webstore and is packaged in a hardcover book with a 32-page booklet. Notably, while the reissues all present a freshened up 2018 mix of the album, there are no additional bonus tracks added to the release.

The Animals reissue was meant to be released a few years ago, but was delayed due to a dispute over the package’s then-planned liner notes — which were ultimately not included in the finished product.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums rank the week’s most popular rock and alternative albums, and rock albums, respectively, by equivalent album units. Catalog Albums lists the week’s most popular older (catalog) titles by equivalent album units. Tastemaker Albums ranks the week’s best-selling albums at independent and small chain record stores. Vinyl Albums tallies the top-selling vinyl albums of the week.

Of Animals’ 20,000 copies sold in the week after its reissue, physical sales comprise 19,000 (8,500 on vinyl; 6,000 on CD; and 4,500 on other physical formats) and digital downloads comprise 1,000.

The 20,000 sum marks the band’s best sales week for any album since its final studio album, The Endless River, sold 29,000 copies in its seventh week of release, in the week ending Dec. 28, 2014. (The album sold in excess of 20,000 copies in each of its first seven weeks. It debuted with 179,000 sold.)

At No. 1 on Top Album Sales, BLACKPINK lands its second leader with Born Pink’s debut atop the tally. It sold 75,500 copies in its first week, largely from CD sales. Bowing at No. 2 is NCT 127’s 2 Baddies with 55,500 copies sold. It’s the fourth top 10-charting effort for the ensemble, and all four have reached the top two.

FLETCHER scores her first top 10 on Top Album Sales as her full-length debut studio set Girl of My Dreams debuts at No. 4 with 16,000 copies sold. Ozzy Osbourne’s chart-topping Patient Number 9 falls to No. 5 in its second week with 15,000 sold (down 72%).

Marcus Mumford’s solo debut effort (self-titled) starts at No. 6 with 11,000 sold. Previously, he visited the list as part of Mumford & Sons, notching nine charting efforts between 2010 and 2018, including three No. 1s (Babel, in 2012; Wilder Mind in 2015 and Delta in 2018).

John Coltrane’s Blue Train, first released in 1957, debuts at No. 7 on Top Album Sales following its 65th anniversary expanded reissue on multiple formats on Sept. 16. The set sold 11,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 22, according to Luminate – the largest sales week of 2022 for any Coltrane album. All versions of the album, old and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes. 

It’s the third top 10-charting effort for Coltrane, who died in 1967, on the 31-year-old Top Album Sales chart. Further, Blue Train also debuts at No. 1 on both the overall Jazz Albums chart and Traditional Jazz Albums chart (his seventh leader on both). It also scores Coltrane his first leader on the 11-year-old Vinyl Albums chart. Blue Train additionally enters at No. 6 on Tastemaker Albums and No. 95 on the Billboard 200.

Blue Train was reissued in two versions as part of Blue Note Records’ Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series: a mono edition of the original five track album, and an expanded stereo edition (dubbed Blue Train: The Complete Masters). The latter adds seven alternate and incomplete takes (four of which are previously unreleased). The mono set was reintroduced on vinyl, while the Complete edition was reissued on two-LP vinyl, a double CD and digital download.

Of the album’s 11,000 in total sales for the week, essentially all were physical sales – with just over 10,000 on vinyl and a little under 1,000 on CD. (A negligible number of digital download albums were also sold.)

Notably, Blue Train logs the largest sales week for a jazz album on vinyl in 2022. The last larger week for a jazz set was registered by the evergreen soundtrack to the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, when it sold 20,000 copies in the week ending Dec. 23, 2021.

Further, Blue Train is the first jazz album to lead the Vinyl Albums chart in nearly five years – since A Charlie Brown Christmas topped the tally on the Dec. 16, 2017-dated list. 

Back on the new Top Album Sales chart, Clutch secures its third top 10-charting effort with Sunrise on Slaughter Beach debuting at No. 8 with 10,500 sold (with 5,000 of that sum on vinyl). TWICE’s former leader Between 1&2: 11th Mini Album falls 5-9 with just over 10,000 (down 15%). Death Cab for Cutie’s new studio album Asphalt Meadows starts at No. 10 with 10,000 sold – marking the sixth top 10 for the act.

In the week ending Sept. 22, there were 1.746 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 5.3% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.380 million (up 5.5%) and digital albums comprised 365,000 (up 4.2%).

There were 705,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Sept. 22 (up 10.6% week-over-week) and 661,000 vinyl albums sold (up 0.3%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 24.817 million (down 8.1% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 27.862 million (up 0.5%).

Overall year-to-date album sales total 67.942 million (down 8% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 53.060 million (down 3.6%) and digital album sales total 14.881 million (down 20.9%).

[iHype.]

2022 Billboard 200 Year-End (Week 46)
Bad Bunny - Un Verano Sin Ti: 2,493,000
Adele - 30: 2,481,000

The torch has been passed.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Blackpink, The Supremes, Go-Go’s & More All-Female Groups That Have Topped the Billboard 200

9/29/2022

By Paul Grein

The Supremes and The Chicks are tied as the all-female groups with the most No. 1 albums. 

Blackpink enters the Billboard 200 at No. 1 this week with Born Pink. The K-pop sensations are the eighth all-female group to top Billboard’s flagship album chart (which dates to 1956). They follow four pop/R&B groups, Diana Ross & The Supremes, TLC, Destiny’s Child and Danity Kane; a pop/rock group, Go-Go’s; a pure pop group, Spice Girls; and a country group, The Chicks.

The Supremes and The Chicks are tied as the all-female groups with the most No. 1 albums – three each. Destiny’s Child and Danity Kane are tied for second place, with two No. 1 albums each.

Go-Go’s Beauty and the Beat topped the Billboard 200 for six weeks in 1982, longer than any other album by an all-female group. Diana Ross and The Supremes’ Greatest Hits (1967), Spice Girls’ Spice (1997) and TLC’s Fanmail (1999) are close behind with five weeks each on top.

Blackpink came close to joining this elite list of all-female groups that have topped the Billboard 200 in October 2020, when its debut album, The Album, debuted and peaked at No. 2. The first all-female group to reach No. 1, The Supremes, also just missed accomplishing the feat with an earlier album. Where Did Our Love Go stalled at No. 2 for four straight weeks in January and February 1965 (behind The Beatles’ Beatles ’65 – tough competition).

Wilson Phillips came agonizingly close to making this list. Their 1990 debut album Wilson Phillips logged 10 weeks at No. 2. It got stuck behind M.C. Hammer’s Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, a 21-week leader.

Here’s a complete list of the all-female groups to land No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200.

Diana Ross & The Supremes

No. 1 albums (3): The Supremes A’ Go-Go (billed as The Supremes, two consecutive weeks in October 1966); Diana Ross and The Supremes Greatest Hits (five consecutive weeks in October/November 1967); TCB (TV soundtrack with The Temptations, one week in February 1969)

Members: Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard (first two No. 1 albums); Ross, Wilson, Cindy Birdsong (third No. 1 album)

Notes: Diana Ross and The Supremes Greatest Hits was the first LP to credit the group under its new billing Diana Ross & The Supremes. (The group had previously been known as just The Supremes.) Here’s a sad note: Although founding member Florence Ballard is pictured on the album artwork and sings on all the tracks, by the time the set was released in August 1967, she had been fired and replaced by Cindy Birdsong.

TCB was a 1968 TV special produced by Motown Productions and George Schlatter–Ed Friendly Productions, which was responsible for the No. 1 series on television at the time, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. The special was taped before a live studio audience in September 1968 and broadcast on NBC on Dec. 9, 1968. TCB is the only soundtrack by an all-female group to hit No. 1 and the only album that marked a collaboration with another act (in this case, Motown’s top male group, The Temptations).

Ballard died of a heart attack in 1976 at age 32. Wilson died of hypotensive cardiovascular disease in 2021 at age 76. The Supremes were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

Go-Go’s

No. 1 album (1): Beauty and the Beat (six consecutive weeks in March/April 1982)

Members: Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, Jane Wiedlin

Notes: Beauty and the Beat was the first debut album by an all-female group to reach No. 1. It’s also the only album by an all-female pop/rock group to reach No. 1. The album reached No. 1 in its 32nd chart week, making it the slowest-rising No. 1 album by an all-female group. It topped the Billboard 200 for six weeks, the longest run by an album by an all-female group. Go-Go’s were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021.

Spice Girls

No. 1 album: Spice (five non-consecutive weeks from May to July 1997)

Members: Victoria Adams (Posh Spice), Melanie Brown (Scary Spice), Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice)

Notes: Spice entered the Billboard 200 at No. 6 in February 1997 and hit No. 1 in its 14th week. Spice went on to be Billboard’s No. 1 album of 1997. It’s the only time an all-female group had the year’s top album. Go-Go’s’ Beauty and the Beat had come close, finishing No. 2 for 1982. (behind Asia’s Asia).

TLC

No. 1 album (1): FanMail (five nonconsecutive weeks from March to May 1999)

Members: Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes

Notes: FanMail was the first album by an all-female group to enter the Billboard 200 at No. 1. (Prior to 1975, no albums had entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1.) It was also the first album by an all-female group to relinquish the No. 1 spot and later return to the top spot. It spent its first four weeks at No. 1 and returned to No. 1 in its ninth week. Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes was killed in a car crash in Honduras in 2002. She was just 30.

The Chicks

No. 1 albums (3): Fly (two consecutive weeks in September 1999); Home (four nonconsecutive weeks from September 2002 to February 2003); Taking the Long Way (two consecutive weeks in June 2006)

Members: Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison

Notes: The Chicks (formerly Dixie Chicks) are the only all-female country group to land a No. 1 album. Also, they are the only all-female group to hit No. 1 with three studio albums. (Moreover, these were consecutive studio albums.) Home spent its first three weeks at No. 1 and returned to No. 1 in its 23rd week.

Destiny’s Child

No. 1 albums (2): Survivor (two consecutive weeks in May 2001); #1’s (one week in November 2005)

Members: Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams

Notes: Beyoncé has gone on to top the Billboard 200 seven times on her own, more than any other alumnus of a Billboard 200-topping all-female group. Diana Ross is in second place, with one No. 1 album on her own (the Lady Sings the Blues soundtrack in 1973).

Danity Kane

No. 1 albums (2): Danity Kane (one week in September 2006);Welcome to the Dollhouse (one week in April 2008)

Members: Shannon Bex, Aundrea Fimbres, Aubrey O’Day, Dawn Richard, D. Woods

Notes: Danity Kane were the first all-female group to top the Billboard 200 with both their first and second albums. (The second albums by Go-Go’s and Spice Girls had fallen short. Go-Go’s’ Vacation peaked at No. 8; Spice Girls’ Spiceworld peaked at No. 3.) But Danity Kane’s long-awaited third studio album, DK3, fell far short, peaking at No. 44 in 2014.

Blackpink

No. 1 album: Born Pink (one week so far in October 2022)

Members: Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, Lisa

Notes: This is the first album by an all-female K-pop group to reach No. 1.

[Gary]

Lil Baby’s ‘My Turn’ Hits 100 Weeks in Top 10 of Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart
The new honor comes just weeks ahead of the rapper's upcoming album, It's Only Me.


BY TREVOR ANDERSON

My Turn captures its 100th nonconsecutive frame in the region with a 12-9 ascent on the list dated Oct. 1. It earned 22,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 22, according to Luminate, a 4% increase from the previous week.

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My Turn, released on Feb. 28, 2020, spent six weeks at No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and finished as the year-end No. 1 album on the annual chart recap. Its longevity was supported by five top 10 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: “Woah” (No. 7), “Sum 2 Prove” (No. 9), “Heatin Up,” with Gunna (No. 10), “We Paid,” with 42 Dugg (No. 8) and The Bigger Picture (No. 3).


With 100 weeks in the top 10, My Turn extends its record as the album with the most weeks in the top 10 of Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. It moves further ahead of previous recordholder, and now silver medalist, Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding, which has collected 89 weeks in the top 10. (My Turn overtook Hollywood’s Bleeding in April and has since remained in front.) Bleeding, in turn, took the record from two other Post Malone titles: his debut LP, Stoney, and sophomore effort, beerbongs & bentleys, each with 77 weeks in the top 10. Michael Jackson’s Thriller, whose 76 weeks was the benchmark since 1984, rounds out the top five.

Here’s a recap of the albums with the most weeks in the top 10 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart:

Weeks in Top 10, Title, Artist, Year(s) in Top 10
100, My Turn, Lil Baby, 2020-22
89, Hollywood’s Bleeding, Post Malone, 2019-22
77, Stoney, Post Malone, 2016-18
77, beerbongs & bentleys, Post Malone, 2018-19
76, Thriller, Michael Jackson, 1983-84
70, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, Pop Smoke, 2020-22
64, Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston, 1985-86
63, The E.N.D., The Black Eyed Peas, 2009-10
61, After Hours, The Weeknd, 2020-21
59, The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, 2012-14

Notably, half of the list above comprises albums released in the last five years, reflecting a shift in the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart’s methodology in recent years. Beginning with the list dated Feb. 11, 2017, the chart switched from ranking by only sales to multi-metric consumption, a figure represented by equivalent album units that includes traditional album sales and track sales and official streams from an album’s songs.

As such, listeners’ repeated streams contribute to the album’s ranking each week, whereas for pre-streaming releases, the most popular consumption method then – album sales – contributed to an album’s chart position for only that single week.