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Taylor Swift Sells 1.4 Million Copies of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ on First Day of Release in U.S.

4/20/2024

By Keith Caulfield

After one day, Poets earns Swift her single-largest sales week for an album in the U.S., surpassing the 1.359 million sold of 1989 (Taylor's Version) in its first week.

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is off to a blockbuster start in the U.S. On its first day of release, on April 19, the set sold 1.4 million copies in traditional album sales, according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate. That marks Swift’s biggest sales week ever for any album in the U.S. (Luminate’s sales, streaming and airplay data powers Billboard’s charts. All numbers in this story are for the U.S. only.) 

Plus, the set’s 31 songs (available on its deluxe streaming and digital editions) generated 243.4 million official on-demand audio streams in the U.S. on April 19, led by the album’s first single, “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone, with 18.4 million streams. (That’s more than double the number of streams generated on the first day of Swift’s last release, 1989 [Taylor’s Version]; its 21 songs spurred 110 million streams on its opening day.)

In total, the album earned 1.6 million equivalent album units in the U.S. on its first day. The last album to exceed a million units in a week was Swift’s own 1989 (Taylor’s Version), when it tallied 1.653 million units in its first week late last year (week ending Nov. 2, 2023).

Further news of initial sales and streaming activity for the album, as provided by Luminate, will be reported in the coming days.

With 1.4 million copies sold across all of the CD, vinyl, cassette and digital download versions of the album, The Tortured Poets Department garners the single-largest sales week for any Swift album. Previously, her largest sales week was registered by the opening week of her re-recorded 1989 (Taylor’s Version) last year, when it sold 1.359 million copies.

The Tortured Poets Department (abbreviated as TTPD) was initially released on April 19 as a standard 16-song digital download album, as well as an array of 17-song physical configurations (more details on the assorted versions later in this story). Two hours after the album’s release, Swift announced an expanded 31-song edition of the set and released it as a digital download and streaming album. She wrote: “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”

The sales of The Tortured Poets Department will increase in the coming days, with the current tracking week ending on Thursday, April 25. The album’s final first-week sales number is expected to be announced on Sunday, April 28, along with its assumed large debut on the multi-metric Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4). If The Tortured Poets Department debuts atop the Billboard 200, it will mark Swift’s 14th No. 1 album, extending her record for the most among women. She would also tie Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists. The only act with more than 14 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 is The Beatles, with 19.

All 13 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her second album) through 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) have debuted at No. 1.

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 units 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. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram.

Sales Story: The 1.4 million sales number registered for the album is inclusive of both over-the-counter and download purchases of The Tortured Poets Department made on April 19, in addition to a likely large number of pre-orders of the album through Internet retailers that were shipped to customers for arrival on release day. Swift announced the album during the Grammy Awards on Feb. 4, and her official webstore began accepting pre-orders for the project that same day.

After one day on sale, The Tortured Poets Department is the top-selling album of 2024, year-to-date, in the U.S., surpassing the 188,000 sold by Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter through the week ending April 11.

The Tortured Poets Department’s sales were bolstered by its availability across 19 different physical configurations (nine CDs, six vinyl LPs and four cassettes — with four of the physical configurations exclusively sold by Target stores) and two digital download offerings (the standard 16-song album, and a surprise deluxe 31-song edition that was released two hours after the original album bowed).

Collectively, the six vinyl LPs combined to sell 600,000 copies on the album’s first day — already the second-largest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991). Swift holds the record for the largest sales week on vinyl in the modern era, with 693,000 copies sold of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on vinyl its first week.

Here’s a recap of the available versions of The Tortured Poets Department:

Standard 16-song digital download & streaming album

“The Manuscript” edition (standard CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, ghosted white-colored vinyl, Target-exclusive clear vinyl, and white-colored cassette — each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Manuscript.” The standard CD and vinyl editions are widely available through all retailers, while the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore. Swift also sold signed copies of the standard CD and vinyl variants exclusively through her webstore)

“The Albatross” edition (Target-exclusive CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, smoke-colored vinyl, smoke-colored cassette — each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Albatross.” The Target CD contains a poster. The vinyl is widely available, while the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore)

“The Bolter” edition (Target-exclusive CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, beige-colored vinyl, beige-colored cassette — each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Bolter.” The Target CD contains a poster. The vinyl is widely available, while the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore.

“The Black Dog” edition (Target-exclusive CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, charcoal-colored vinyl, charcoal-colored cassette – each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Black Dog.” The Target CD contains a poster. The vinyl is widely available, while the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore)

Deluxe 31-song digital download & streaming album (Contains the 16 songs on the standard digital album, plus the four bonus tracks that were issued on the above four variants [“The Manuscript,” “The Albatross,” “The Black Dog” and “The Bolter”] and 11 additional songs)

Million-Sellers History: Though the week isn’t nearly over with, The Tortured Poets Department already has the largest sales week for any album since Adele’s 25 bowed with 3.378 million copies sold (week ending Nov. 26, 2015). Presently, The Tortured Poets Department has the sixth-largest sales week for an album in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991). The top six biggest weeks are (all in debut weeks): Adele’s 25 (3.378 million), *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached (2.416 million, in 2000), *NSYNC’s Celebrity (1.878 million, 2001), Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP (1.76 million, 2000), Backstreet Boys’ Black & Blue (1.591 million, 2000) and The Tortured Poets Department (1.4 million, 2024).

The Tortured Poets Department is the seventh Swift album to have sold at least one million copies in a single week, following the debuts of 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Midnights, reputation, the original 1989, Red and Speak Now. She is the only act with seven different albums to each sell at least one million copies in a single week in the modern era. In total, there have been 26 instances — by 24 different albums — in which an album sold at least one million copies in a week in the modern era. One of those albums, Adele’s 25, sold more than one million in three separate weeks.

Strong Streaming Numbers: On the album’s first day, the 31 songs on the project generated 243.4 million official on-demand audio streams. (On-demand video official streaming information for the project will be available in the coming days.) The album’s top five most-streamed songs, by official on-demand audio streams, on April 19 were: “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone (18.4 million), title track “The Tortured Poets Department” (14 million), “Down Bad” (13.3 million), “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” (12.7 million) and “So Long, London” (12.6 million).

Swift’s largest streaming week, by total on-demand official streams (both audio and video) generated by the songs on an album, is the opening week of Midnights, which garnered 549.26 million streams for its 20 songs (week ending Oct. 27, 2022). Midnights also owns the third-largest streaming week overall, trailing the opening frames of Drake’s Scorpion (745.92 million in 2018) and Certified Lover Boy (743.67 million in 2021).

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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Modern-Era Single-Week Vinyl Sales Record

4/22/2024

By Keith Caulfield

With 700,000 copies sold on vinyl in its first three days in the U.S., it breaks Swift's own record for the biggest sales week for a vinyl album since 1991.

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department continues to rack up massive numbers after its first three days of release in the U.S. (April 19-21), according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate. (Luminate’s sales, streaming and airplay data powers Billboard’s charts. All numbers in this story are for the U.S. only.) 

In its first three days, the album has now sold 1.5 million copies across all configurations (digital download, CD, vinyl and cassette). That figure is inclusive of both over-the-counter and download purchases of The Tortured Poets Department made April 19-21, in addition to a likely large number of pre-orders of the album through Internet retailers that were shipped to customers for arrival on release day. 

As earlier reported (April 20, see below), the album sold 1.4 million copies on its first day, immediately becoming Swift’s biggest sales week ever for an album. The Tortured Poets Department’s sales are aided by its availability across more than 20 different editions among physical and digital configurations (see earlier story, April 20).

Further, of the 1.5 million sold, vinyl sales represent 700,000. That breaks Swift’s own record the largest sales week for an album on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking data in 1991), beating the 693,000 sold of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in its first week (ending Nov. 2, 2023).

The Tortured Poets Department’s 31 songs (available on its deluxe streaming and digital editions) generated 490.2 million on-demand official streams in the album’s first three days of release. That’s already the largest streaming week for an album in 2024 (by collected song streams), and the biggest for any album since Drake’s For All the Dogs debuted with 514 million on-demand official streams for its songs (week ending Oct. 12, 2023). Swift’s largest streaming week for an album is the opening week of Midnights, which collected 549.3 million on-demand official streams for its 20 tracks (week ending Oct. 27, 2022).

In total, The Tortured Poets Department earned 1.9 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first three days. That’s already the biggest week for any album since Adele’s 25 debuted with 3.482 million units (week ending Nov. 26, 2015), and the second-largest week (by units) for any album since the Billboard 200 began measuring by equivalent album units in Dec. 2014.

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 units 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. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram.

The sales and streaming activity of The Tortured Poets Department will increase in the coming days, with the current tracking week ending on Thursday, April 25. The album’s final first-week numbers (equivalent album units, total traditional album sales, and streaming figures) are expected to be announced on Sunday, April 28, along with its assumed large debut on the multi-metric Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4).

If The Tortured Poets Department debuts atop the Billboard 200, it will mark Swift’s 14th No. 1 album, extending her record for the most among women. She would also tie Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists. The only act with more than 14 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 is The Beatles, with 19.

All 13 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her second album) through 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) have debuted at No. 1.

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Record Store Day 2024: Taylor Swift Helps, But Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan & More Bring Big Sales at Retailers

4/23/2024

By Ed Christman

Retail Track Rides Again: Thanks to a wider selection of titles, including from artists like David Byrne, Paramore and Chappell Roan, some retailers said business was even better than last year.

If it’s possible, Record Store Day was even bigger this year than last year, when Taylor Swift caused a traffic jam at record stores across the nation, according to some of the merchants Billboard’s Retail Track columnist visited this past Saturday (April 20). 

This year, the Olivia Rodrigo “Stick Season”/Noah Kahan “Lacy” seven-inch was cited as the hottest seller by store managers and owners, but overall, a wider breadth of releases drove more traffic into stores, according to Rough Trade store manager George Flanagan. 

Other big sellers — or records that the retailers wished they had more copies of — included Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” seven-inch; the Sparks/Noël double LP No. 1 Song in Heaven/Is There More to Life Than Dancing?; Talking Heads‘ Live at WCOZ double LP; Sabrina Carpenter’s “Feather” seven-inch; and a 12-inch featuring David Byrne‘s cover of “Hard Time” and Paramore‘s cover of “Burning Down The House.”

This year, Swift issued The Tortured Poets Department on Friday, the day before Record Store Day (RSD), and it has so far sold an astounding 1.5 million records in its first three days of availability. But independent record store merchants say that while the album was a solid seller for the weekend, this album didn’t have the impact that Swift’s exclusive for last year’s RSD, Folklore: the Long Pond Studio Sessions. That’s because this year’s album was widely available at mass merchants, Amazon, and on her website, and at sale prices just a little bit above their wholesale cost. Nevertheless, retailers say they will always warmly welcome any new release by Swift.

Retail Track began the day at Darkside Records in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where at 9:15 — 15 minutes after the store opened — there were some 250 people waiting in line for their turn to enter the store. Letting customers in 15 to 20 at a time, the line — which lasted until nearly 6:30 p.m. on Saturday — stretched around the 9,000-square-foot store and deep into the filled-to-capacity parking lot. The first person in line showed up at 8 p.m. Thursday (April 18), according to Darkside co-owner Justin Johnson, who added that when he showed up to open the store on Friday morning (April 19), a full day before Record Store Day kicked off, there were already four people queued up.

“It was absolutely an incredible turnout. Everyone was really cool and we had a great time,” Johnson told Billboard. “It was our best day ever and it blew away last year’s Record Store Day, which up to then had been our best day ever.”

What’s more, one woman drove 11 hours from Michigan to shop at Darkside because of how the store had handled the autographed Taylor Swift CD last year, she told Johnson. “[She] wanted to support us for treating the Swifties so fairly and combating the bots,” Johnson said. And she showed up early enough at the store to be No. 10 in line, he added.

After leaving Darkside, Retail Track drove over the Hudson River to Middletown, N.Y. to visit Rock Fantasy, a record store/pinball machine/video game arcade. Open since 1985, Rock Fantasy leans hard rock/metal, but owner Stephen Keeler said the Rodrigo/Kahan single was the day’s top seller. He added that about 30 customers were in line when he showed up to open the store. Moreover, he says the store celebrated Record Store Day/420 by staging two shows on successive nights at Quinnz Pinz, the local bowling alley where he promotes shows. The weekend kicked off with a Grateful Dead tribute band, Gratefully Yours, on Friday night; while on Saturday night, Kiss tribute band Psycho Circus performed. On the afternoon of Record Store Day, Rock Fantasy held a pinball tournament in the store. 

Rock Fantasy’s layout is long and narrow, almost like a railroad apartment with five or six rooms. Besides the records, tchotchkes and other music memorabilia it sells in the front two rooms, the store also houses 53 pinball machines and a few vintage video games. Customers can choose to play on machines featuring Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Kiss, Ted Nugent, AC/DC, the Beatles, Elton John, the Rolling Stones and Guns & Roses, as well as machines licensed from movies like Jaws, Pulp Fiction, Godzilla, OO7 and Jurassic Park.

Heading back to the other side of Hudson, Retail Track tried a little potluck with a store called The Vinyl Room in Beacon, N.Y. While it turned out to be more of a bar and restaurant than a record store, it was nevertheless a fun place to visit. The space had only two racks of vinyl, mainly used records, but the store’s interior design, which used records and other music memorabilia and ornamentation, more than made the trip worth it.

Across the street, at the local VFW Hall, was the Beacon Record & CD Fest, a swap meet with about a dozen vendors where Retail Track lucked out by scoring a copy of the Tommy James & The Shondells single “Gingerbread Man” on Roulette Records.

Staying on the same side of the Hudson, Retail Track next headed to Cold Springs, N.Y. and visited Half Moon Records at The Shoppes, an emporium-style setup with a number of different rooms and stores. Half Moon, which comprised the front two rooms of The Shoppes, was filled with records. One of the co-owners, Peter Hamboussi, said the store had just doubled the space devoted to records about a month ago; while co-owner Nicole Le Blanc said the store hopes to build its country music inventory. Like other merchants, Hamboussi said he wished he had received more copies of the Byrne and Paramore record, as well as the Cranberries. He said he usually does good business on Record Store Day later in the afternoon, as devout music buyers continue on their crawls.

Finally, Retail Track headed back to New York City to visit Rough Trade Records, which had a line of about 100 people when the store opened, including customer George West, who was first in line at about 5 p.m. on the Friday night prior. West is usually first in line every year at the store for the event, reported Rough Trade’s Flanagan, who added that by 8 p.m. on Friday, five people had queued up. The line lasted all day Saturday until about 5:30 p.m., when the store stopped regulating the in-flow. Nevertheless, when Retail Track showed up at around 6 p.m., the store was jam-packed and still doing brisk business.

Another factor boosting traffic and sales at Rough Trade on Saturday was that it hosted Indie Plaza in Rockefeller Center, in the vast open space above the skating rink. During the day, DJs and bands alternated playing on a stage erected at the end of the plaza abutting 50th Street, keeping the crowd entertained until 9 p.m. Rough Trade set up a booth filled with music, while next to it was another booth with merch from the bands performing that day to sell to the fans enjoying the shows. Dave The Spazz, Sunrisa Disco, and Nancy Whang took turns helming the DJ booth in between sets by Cloud Nothings, Dehd, Armand Hammer, Glitterer, Sunny War, Corridor, Snõõper and Wishy.

“Last year, Record Store Day was our best day ever and it’s worth noting that Taylor Swift was a huge part of our business that day,” Flanagan said. “I was convinced we wouldn’t be able to top that, but we did; we were up by 5% to 10% more. I think one of the reasons why [2024 RSD] became the store’s best day ever is because there was something like 20% more titles out this year.”

For the last store visit of the day, the plan was to head back to home base of Astoria, Queens, to visit the semi-new Pancake Records on Steinway Street. But Retail Track ran out of gas (figuratively) and out of time (literally) — and the local bar with cold Pabst Blue Ribbon cans was beckoning.

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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Eclipses ‘Midnights’ Streaming Record in Four Days

4/23/2024

By Keith Caulfield

After four days, the new album's songs generated 602 million on-demand official streams in the U.S. – breaking Swift's own record for the biggest streaming week by a woman.

The numbers grow ever larger for Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate. (Luminate’s sales, streaming and airplay data powers Billboard’s charts. All numbers in this story reflect U.S. consumption only.) 

In the album’s first four days of release (April 19-22), the set’s collected 31 songs (on its deluxe edition) generated 602.3 million on-demand official streams in the U.S. – breaking Swift’s own record for the largest streaming week for an album by a woman. She previously held the record with the opening frame of her last studio album, Midnights, which collected 549.3 million on-demand official streams for its 20 tracks (in the week ending Oct. 27, 2022). 

The Tortured Poets Department also claims the third-largest streaming week overall, surpassing Midnights, and only trailing the opening frames of Drake’s Scorpion (745.92 million for its 25 songs in 2018) and Certified Lover Boy (743.67 million for its 21 songs in 2021).

Equivalent Album Units & Sales So Far: In the album’s first four days of release, The Tortured Poets Department has earned 2.1 million equivalent album units, with traditional album sales (purchases of digital downloads, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassettes) accounting for 1.6 million of that sum.

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 units 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. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram.

With 2.1 million units earned so far, The Tortured Poets Department has the biggest week for any album since Adele’s 25 debuted with 3.482 million units (week ending Nov. 26, 2015), and the second-largest week (by units) for any album since the Billboard 200 began measuring by equivalent album units in December 2014.

In terms of straight album sales, that 1.6 million total is inclusive of both over-the-counter and download purchases of The Tortured Poets Department made April 19-22, in addition to a likely large number of pre-orders of the album through Internet retailers that were shipped to customers for arrival on release day.

Fifth-Biggest Sales Week in Modern Era: After just four days, The Tortured Poets Department has the largest sales week for any album since Adele’s 25 bowed with 3.378 million copies sold (week ending Nov. 26, 2015), and Swift’s largest sales week ever (as reported on April 20, see below).

Currently, The Tortured Poets Department has the fifth-largest sales week for an album in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991). The top five biggest weeks are (all in debut weeks): Adele’s 25 (3.378 million), *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached (2.416 million, in 2000), *NSYNC’s Celebrity (1.878 million, 2001), Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP (1.76 million, 2000) and The Tortured Poets Department (1.6 million, 2024).

The Tortured Poets Department’s sales are aided by its availability across more than 20 different editions among physical and digital configurations (see story, April 20).

Vinyl Sales Continue To Grow: Of the 1.6 million sold of The Tortured Poets Department so far, vinyl sales represent 800,000 of that sum. The album – available in six vinyl variants – already broke Swift’s own record for the single-largest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era (as reported April 22, see below).

The sales and streaming activity of The Tortured Poets Department will increase in the coming days, with the current tracking week ending on Thursday, April 25. The album’s final first-week numbers (equivalent album units, total traditional album sales and streaming figures) are expected to be announced by Billboard on Sunday, April 28, along with its assumed large debut on the multi-metric Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4).

If The Tortured Poets Department debuts atop the Billboard 200, it will mark Swift’s 14th No. 1 album, extending her record for the most among women. She would also tie Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists. The only act with more No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 is The Beatles, with 19.

All 13 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her second album) through 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) have debuted at No. 1.

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100 million albums SPS with Luminate:

www.justjared.com/2024/04/23/taylor-swift-boasts-highest-debut-of-her-career-no-1-album-of-2024-already-breaks-a-bunch-of-records-with-the-tortured-poets-department/

Taylor is now the first artist to cross 100 million equivalent album units in US history, with over 5 million equivalent US albums in 2024, and she is the No. 1 artist of the year, via Luminate.

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Apr 23, 2024 19:57:30 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

100 million albums SPS with Luminate:

www.justjared.com/2024/04/23/taylor-swift-boasts-highest-debut-of-her-career-no-1-album-of-2024-already-breaks-a-bunch-of-records-with-the-tortured-poets-department/

Taylor is now the first artist to cross 100 million equivalent album units in US history, with over 5 million equivalent US albums in 2024, and she is the No. 1 artist of the year, via Luminate.

Now THIS is an incredible feat! WOW.

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Luminate Expands How It Counts Indie Retail Sales for Billboard Charts Via New Partnership

4/24/2024

By Chris Eggertsen

The data firm will now collect indie physical music sales data from StreetPulse as Billboard's Tastemakers Albums chart is rebranded Indie Store Album Sales.

Luminate, which provides data to the Billboard charts, has signed a new partnership that will enable it to report more direct U.S. independent music retail data than ever before, the company announced Wednesday (April 24).

Under the partnership — which took effect Friday (April 19) and was jointly reached by the Coalition of Independent Music Stores, Alliance of Independent Media Stores and Department of Record Stores (who work together as Record Store Day) along with the Music Business Association — Luminate will collect independent physical music sales from StreetPulse, a music industry data provider that receives daily sales metrics directly from retailers. The data, which encompasses sales of CDs, vinyl and cassettes, will be incorporated into the physical sales data Luminate already collects directly from other stores.

To better recognize the impact of music sales at indie retail, Billboard has rebranded its Tastemaker Albums chart to Indie Store Album Sales. The weekly tally reflects top-selling titles at indie stores in the United States. 

The news follows Luminate’s controversial decision last year to retire the weighted data modeling it previously used to measure physical sales in the indie retail sector in an effort to increase the quality and accuracy of its sales metrics.

“I’d like to thank the coalitions, the retail stores, and Luminate for taking this issue seriously and working together to reach a deal,” said Portia Sabin, president of the Music Business Association, in a statement.

“Sometimes it takes a pinch to bring people together, and the industry response to the unweighting of physical data was perhaps necessary to highlight the importance of that data to our industry,” Sabin added. “I’d also like to thank so many people at the labels, distributors, and even individual artists for speaking out and helping us to reach an agreement, because whenever our industry comes together to achieve a common goal it is inspiring for our future.”

“This new partnership is the most significant development in the independent music retail industry since the creation of Record Store Day,” said Andrea Paschal of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores. “Our goal has always been to ensure comprehensive physical sales reporting, and bringing in data from StreetPulse, which collects actual sales from more U.S. indie retailers than ever before, will ensure that every purchase is cataloged and counted correctly.”

“Luminate is always working towards the goal of providing quality and accurate data to the industry,” added Chris Muratore, director of partnerships at Luminate. “We always strive to be a good partner to those across the many sectors of the music and entertainment industries, and we are happy to announce this new partnership in alignment with that mission and our values.”

Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, who served as Record Store Day ambassador in 2019, said in his own statement, “We truly love …the [independent] shops. They’ve always meant the world to us. When it gets to this time when you can help out the community and the community record stores, it’s a no brainer.”

Upon hearing about the new agreement, Pearl Jam also put out a statement from the full band: “For nearly as long as we’ve been a band, there’d been a system that worked. We’re just honored to play a part… so that our beloved record stores can again have a real seat at the table.”

“Comprehensive sales figures are crucial for everyone: for artists and their label partners, for Luminate to provide accurate marketplace reporting, and for independent retailers who rightly own and control their data and the subsequent insights,” said Hannah Carlen, marketing director at Secretly Group. “Physical retail remains strong and growing, and this deal will ensure that reality is reflected in sales and total consumption figures.”

Note: Luminate is an independently operated company owned by PME TopCo, a PMC subsidiary and joint venture between Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge. Billboard is an independently operated company owned by PME Holdings, a subsidiary of PME TopCo.

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^Thanks for posting. Vinyl sales were going to see a huge bump for week starting April 19, with the Swift album. Though even bigger now, I gather, with this announcement. Will be a shame, though, if the first nearly four months of vinyl sales go unaccounted for in the 2024 album-sales tally.

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How Historic Will Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Debut Be?

4/24/2024

By Andrew Unterberger

In this week's The Contenders, it's all things Taylor Swift, as her 31-track new album looks to make a jaw-dropping chart bow in its first week.

The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. This week (for the upcoming Billboard 200 dated May 4), Taylor Swift zooms past her own already-historic career-best marks with the first week of her much-anticipated Tortured Poets Department album. 

Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department (Republic): Apologies to grunge greats Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter, which should have a very nice first-week sales debut – but this week, it’s simply all about Taylor Swift. Her 16-track, much-hyped new album’s The Tortured Poets Department, which was expanded to 31 tracks mere hours after its initial release with the set’s subsequent Anthology Edition, is set to put up some absolutely stratospheric first-week numbers – zooming past the totals even for her recent Midnights and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) releases, which already but her in a class by herself this decade as far as debut tallies go. 

Billboard has reported on her Poets numbers throughout the week, most recently updating them yesterday (April 23) for the days of April 19-22. Through those first four days of release, the album had racked up 1.6 million traditional album sales, including a modern-era record 800,000 of that in vinyl, according to initial reports to Luminate – both easily the highest such first-week numbers for the decade, passing Swift’s prior marks of 1.359 million and 693,000 for 1989 (TV). It’s also already the fifth-highest single-week sales mark for an album of the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991). The album is available for purchase in six vinyl variants, including editions named after album cuts “The Albatross,” “The Bolter,” “The Manuscript” and “The Black Dog,” which all also have CD versions available for sale on her webstore.

Additionally, the 31 total tracks have amassed a combined 602.3 million official on-demand U.S. streams, which passes the 549.3 million streams posted by Midnights upon its October 2022 debut for the highest single-week mark for an album by a female artist. The only other albums that have posted higher single-week streaming marks are both by Drake — Scorpion posted 745.92 million in 2018 with its 25 tracks, and Certified Lover Boy totaled 743.67 million in 2021 with its 21 – both of which Swift would seem to be on pace to pass, with three days still to be accounted for in the Poets tracking week.

All in all, Tortured Poets Department is already up to 2.1 million equivalent album units in its first week of release, making it only the second album since the Billboard 200 began measuring by equivalent album units in December 2014 to clear the two million mark in a single week. The other, of course, is Adele’s 25, which posted a still-staggering 3.482 million first-week units (including 3.378 million in straight sales) upon its debut in November 2015. (*NSYNC’s No Strings Attached also earned 2.416 million in straight sales during its 2000 debut week, obviously long before Billboard calculations accounted for streaming.)

With sales and streams both slowing for Poets as the week goes on – a very normal arc for a blockbuster album release – it’s unlikely that the album will approach either of those Adele numbers. The album would have to average around 460,000 units a day over the final three days of the tracking week to challenge Adele’s 3.482 million total, and it added around 200,000 additional units on the 22nd. You can never count out a last-minute extra edition or two as far as Taylor Swift is concerned, and 2.5 million is definitely in range for her, but failing some extraordinary surge, it seems like the three-million mark will likely remain Adele-only territory for at least one more Swift album.

Swift should also remain in a class by herself when it comes to space occupied at the top of the Hot 100, however. For the second album of all-new material in a row – following Midnights in 2022 – Swift is a threat to lock down each of the top 10 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 with debuting tracks from the set, and this time her uninterrupted dominance could stretch into the teens as well, according to early data from Luminate. (Swift charting all 31 songs from Anthology is also certainly a possibility.)

The main threats to her top-dozen Hot 100 supremacy are of course Hozier’s “Too Sweet” and Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That,” which occupy the top two spots on the chart this week (dated April 27), and Republic labelmate Drake’s own new release “Push Ups,” which debuted on streaming and at digital retailers on Friday after being available via internet leaks for the prior week. “Push Ups” is unlikely to get the streaming edge on any of Taylor’s top dozen Poets tracks, but its sales advantage – it remains in the top 20 on the iTunes real time chart, behind just eight of the Poets cuts – may be enough for it to get in the way if it continues through the end of the week.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Apr 24, 2024 12:06:55 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

^Thanks for posting. Vinyl sales were going to see a huge bump for week starting April 19, with the Swift album. Though even bigger now, I gather, with this announcement. Will be a shame, though, if the first nearly four months of vinyl sales go unaccounted for in the 2024 album-sales tally.

Agreed. The YTD Vinyl sales up to last week were more 49% (about 6.7 million) below those reported for last year according to the Top Album Sales article. So, even with 800k+ from TTPD this week there's still a long way to go. RSD should also help reduce the gap.

[balletgirlmom]

There was a story on one of the business reports about a vinyl factory in Nashville, TN.  The owner was interviewed and said Taylor Swift accounts for the majority of all vinyl produced in his factory.  

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Taylor Swift Nears *NSYNC Sales Milestone With ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

4/24/2024

By Keith Caulfield

The new album sold 1.8 million copies in its first five days in the U.S.

After its first five days on sale, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has sold 1.8 million copies in the U.S., according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate (reflecting April 19-23 activity). With two days left in the tracking week (ending April 25), the album already has the fourth-largest sales week in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991) and is nearing lofty milestones set by *NSYNC over 20 years ago. 

Luminate’s sales, streaming and airplay data powers Billboard’s charts. All numbers in this story reflect U.S. consumption only.

The top four biggest sales weeks in the modern era for albums are (all in debut weeks): Adele’s 25 (3.378 million), *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached (2.416 million, in 2000), *NSYNC’s Celebrity (1.878 million, 2001) and The Tortured Poets Department (1.8 million, 2024).

The new album’s 1.8 million sales total is inclusive of both over-the-counter and download purchases of The Tortured Poets Department made April 19-23, in addition to a likely large number of pre-orders of the album through Internet retailers that were shipped to customers for arrival on release day. Sales reflect more than 20 different editions of the album available among physical and digital configurations (see story, April 20, below).

The sales activity of The Tortured Poets Department will increase in the coming days, with the current tracking week ending on Thursday, April 25. The album’s final first-week numbers (equivalent album units, total traditional album sales and streaming figures) are expected to be announced by Billboard on Sunday, April 28, along with its assumed large debut on the multi-metric Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4).

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 units 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. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram.

The Tortured Poets Department earned 2.4 million equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first five days (inclusive of the 1.8 million in traditional album sales), while its collected 31 songs (on its deluxe edition) generated 706 million on-demand official streams.

If The Tortured Poets Department debuts atop the Billboard 200, it will mark Swift’s 14th No. 1 album, extending her record for the most among women. She would also tie Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists. The only act with more No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 is The Beatles, with 19.

All 13 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her second album) through 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) have debuted at No. 1.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Taylor Swift Sets Single-Week Streaming Record With ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

4/25/2024

By Keith Caulfield

After six days of release, it surpasses the previous U.S. record, set by the debut of Drake's Scorpion in 2018.

After its first six days of release in the U.S., Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has broken the single-week streaming record in the U.S. for an album, according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate. 

The collected 31 songs across the deluxe edition of The Tortured Poets Department generated 799 million on-demand official streams in the U.S. on April 19-24. It breaks the record for the largest streaming week for an album, previously set by the opening frame of Drake’s Scorpion (745.92 million for its 25 songs in 2018). 

Luminate’s sales, streaming and airplay data powers Billboard’s charts. All numbers in this story reflect U.S. consumption only. The current tracking week ends on April 25.

The album’s final first-week numbers (equivalent album units, total traditional album sales and streaming figures) are expected to be announced by Billboard on Sunday, April 28, along with its assumed large debut on the multi-metric Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4). 

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 units 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. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram.

The Tortured Poets Department earned 2.5 million equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first six days. Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise 1.85 million.

If The Tortured Poets Department debuts atop the Billboard 200, it will mark Swift’s 14th No. 1 album, extending her record for the most among women. She would also tie Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists. The only act with more No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 is The Beatles, with 19.

All 13 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her second album) through 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) have debuted at No. 1.

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Taylor Swift Makes Historic Debut at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
By Keith Caulfield
04/28/2024

The set launches with the largest streaming week ever for an album and marks her 14th No. 1, tying her for the most among soloists.

As expected, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department makes a gigantic debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4), securing the superstar her 14th chart-topping album. She ties Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists in the nearly-70-year history of the chart. Only The Beatles, with 19 No. 1s, have more.

The Tortured Poets Department launches with 2.61 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 25, with traditional album sales (purchases of digital download albums, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassettes) comprising 1.914 million of that sum. Of that sales figure, vinyl sales represent a staggering 859,000. The collected 31 songs on the deluxe edition of the album generated 891.34 million on-demand official streams.

Those eye-popping figures mark the largest streaming week for an album ever, the second-largest week for an album (by total equivalent album units earned) since the Billboard 200 began measuring by units in December 2014, the third-largest sales week (by traditional album sales) in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991) and the largest sales week for an album on vinyl in the modern era.

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 May 4, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 30.

Of The Tortured Poets Department’s first-week unit sum of 2.61 million, album sales comprise 1.914 million (a number bolstered by its availability across more than 20 different iterations of the album), SEA units comprise 683,000 (equaling 891.37 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 31 songs, on its deluxe edition) and TEA units comprise 14,000. (All figures are rounded.)

With 1.914 million sold, The Tortured Poets Department is instantly the top-selling album of 2024, year-to-date. The second-biggest selling album, counting weekly sales from January through the present, is Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, with 228,000 copies sold in total.

Swift announced the album during the Grammy Awards on Feb. 4, and her official webstore began accepting pre-orders for the project that same day. The set was released on April 19, alongside its first single, “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone.

The Tortured Poets Department (abbreviated as TTPD) was initially released at midnight ET on April 19 as a standard 16-song digital download album, as well as an array of 17-song physical configurations (more details on the assorted versions later in this story). Two hours after the album’s release, Swift announced an expanded 31-song edition of the set and released it as a digital download and streaming album. She wrote: “It’s a 2am surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”

Swift’s 14th No. 1 on the Billboard 200

With a 14th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, Swift ties Jay-Z for the most chart-toppers among soloists. Overall, only The Beatles have more, with 19 leaders. All 14 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and rerecorded projects from 2008’s Fearless (her second album) through 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department have debuted at No. 1.

Here’s a look at the acts with at least 10 No. 1s on the Billboard 200, since the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.

19, The Beatles
14, Jay-Z
14, Taylor Swift
13, Drake
11, Bruce Springsteen
11, Barbra Streisand
11, Ye (formerly Kanye West)
10, Eminem
10, Future
10, Elvis Presley


Largest Streaming Week Ever

The Tortured Poets Department’s collected 31 songs on its deluxe edition generated 891.37 million on-demand official streams in the week ending April 25 in the U.S. That marks the single-largest streaming week ever for an album, by total combined streams for its songs. Here’s a recap of the top 10 largest streaming weeks for albums (all were debut weeks):

Rank, Artist, Title, Streams, Chart Date
1, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 891.37 million, May 4, 2024
2, Drake, Scorpion, 745.92 million, July 14, 2018
3, Drake, Certified Lover Boy, 743.67 million, Sept. 18, 2021
4, Taylor Swift, Midnights, 549.26 million, Nov. 5, 2022
5, Drake, For All the Dogs, 514.01 million, Oct. 21, 2023
6, Drake & 21 Savage, Her Loss, 513.56 million, Nov. 19, 2022
7, Morgan Wallen, One Thing at a Time, 498.28 million, March 18, 2023
8, Lil Wayne, Tha Carter V, 433.02 million, Oct. 13, 2018
9, Post Malone, beerbongs & bentleys, 431.34 million, May 12, 2018
10, Juice WRLD, Legends Never Die, 422.63 million, July 25, 2020

(Streaming data source: Luminate)

Second-Largest Week, by Equivalent Album Units Earned

In December 2014, the Billboard 200 began ranking the week’s most popular albums by equivalent album units. (Previously, the chart was ranked strictly by traditional album sales.) Since that changeover, The Tortured Poets Department has the second-biggest week for any album by units earned. Here’s a recap of the top 10 biggest weeks, by units, since December 2014:

Rank, Artist, Title, Units, Chart Date
1, Adele, 25, 3.482 million, Dec. 12, 2015
2, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 2.61 million, May 4, 2024
3, Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), 1.653 million, Nov. 11, 2023
4, Taylor Swift, Midnights, 1.578 million, Nov. 5, 2022
5, Taylor Swift, reputation, 1.238 million, Dec. 2, 2017
6, Adele, 25, 1.193 million, Jan. 9, 2016*
7, Adele, 25, 1.162 million, Dec. 19, 2015*
8, Drake, Views, 1.039 million, May 21, 2016
9, Taylor Swift, Lover, 867,000, Sept. 7, 2019
10, Taylor Swift, Folklore, 846,000, Aug. 8, 2020

(Equivalent album units source: Luminate; All weeks are debuts, except for those marked with an asterisk.)

Third-Largest Sales Week in Modern Era

The Tortured Poets Department sold 1.914 million copies in traditional album sales in its first week (purchases of digital downloads, CDs, vinyl LPs and cassette tapes). That marks the third-largest sales week for an album in the modern era — since Luminate began electronically tracking music sales in 1991.

The Tortured Poets Department’s sales were bolstered by its availability across 19 different physical configurations (nine CDs, six vinyl LPs and four cassettes, with four of the physical configurations exclusively sold by Target stores) and two digital download offerings (the standard 16-song album, and a surprise deluxe 31-song edition that was released two hours after the original album bowed). All of the variants are itemized later in this story.

Of The Tortured Poets Department’s first-week sales of 1.914 million, physical sales comprise 1.64 million (859,000 vinyl LPs — a modern-era single week record for an album on vinyl, 759,500 CDs and a little over 21,500 cassettes) and digital downloads comprise 274,000.

The Tortured Poets Department is the seventh Swift album to have sold at least 1 million copies in a single week, following the debuts of 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Midnights, reputation, the original 1989, Red and Speak Now. She is the only act with seven different albums to each sell at least 1 million copies in a single week in the modern era. In total, there have been 26 instances — by 24 different albums — in which an album has sold at least 1 million copies in a week in the modern era. One of those albums, Adele’s 25, sold more than 1 million in three separate weeks.

Six of the top 10 million-selling weeks occurred in the early 2000s, in the pre-digital and pre-streaming heyday of the CD — when essentially the only way to listen to music on-demand was by purchasing an album. The year 2000 was the high-water mark in the modern era for album sales, when 785 million albums were sold in the U.S. Comparably, in 2023, there were 105.32 million albums sold, and Swift sold the most of any act — accounting for 6% of all U.S. album sales in 2023. (Popular streaming services Spotify and Apple Music did not launch in the U.S. until 2011 and 2015, respectively.)

Here’s a recap of the top 10 biggest-selling weeks by albums in the modern era (1991-present), ranked in order by sales volume.

Rank, Artist, Title, Sales, Chart Date
1, Adele, 25, 3.378 million, Dec. 12, 2015
2, *NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 2.416 million, April 8, 2000
3, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 1.914 million, May 4, 2024
4, *NSYNC, Celebrity, 1.88 million, Aug. 11, 2001
5, Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 1.76 million, June 10, 2000
6, Backstreet Boys, Black & Blue, 1.591 million, Dec. 9, 2000
7, Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), 1.359 million, Nov. 11, 2023
8, Eminem, The Eminem Show, 1.322 million, June 15, 2002*
9, Britney Spears, Oops! …I Did It Again, 1.319 million, June 3, 2000
10, Taylor Swift, 1989, 1.287 million, Nov. 15, 2014

(Sales source: Luminate. *All weeks are debuts, except for The Eminem Show, which debuted on the chart dated June 8, 2002, from a partial week of sales due to an off-cycle early release. The June 15, 2002, chart reflected the album’s first week of availability.)

Biggest Sales Week for a Vinyl Album in Modern Era

Swift continues to be a dominant force when it comes to vinyl album sales, as The Tortured Poets Department’s first-week vinyl figure of 859,000 is the single-largest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era. Swift has the top four-selling weeks on vinyl, and six of the top 10-selling weeks.

Rank, Artist, Title, Sales, Chart Date
1, Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department, 859,000, May 4, 2024
2, Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), 693,000, Nov. 11, 2023
3, Taylor Swift, Midnights, 575,000, Nov. 5, 2022
4, Taylor Swift, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), 268,000, July 22, 2023
5, Harry Styles, Harry’s House, 182,000, June 4, 2022
6, Taylor Swift, Red (Taylor’s Version), 114,000, Nov. 27, 2021
7, Adele, 30, 108,000, Dec. 4, 2021
8, Taylor Swift, Evermore, 102,000, June 12, 2021
9, Olivia Rodrigo, Guts, 94,000, Sept. 23, 2023
10, Travis Scott, Utopia, 93,000, Aug. 26, 2023

(Sales source: Luminate; all weeks reflect albums’ first week of availability on vinyl.)

In 2023, Swift loomed so large on vinyl that her 1989 (Taylor’s Version) became the first vinyl album in the modern era to sell 1 million copies in a calendar year. Further, in 2023, Swift accounted for 7% of all vinyl album sales in the U.S. From 2021 through 2023, vinyl albums were the leading configuration for album purchases in the U.S. Vinyl was the dominant configuration for album purchases in the U.S. up until the early 1980s. After that, cassettes took hold until the early 1990s, when the CD configuration blossomed and remained king until 2021, when vinyl retook the top slot.

Recap of the Retail-Available Versions of The Tortured Poets Department

Standard 16-song digital download album (Widely available through all digital retailers.)

“The Manuscript” edition (Standard CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, ghosted white-colored vinyl, Target-exclusive clear vinyl, and white-colored cassette — each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Manuscript.” The standard CD and vinyl editions are widely available through all retailers, the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore. Swift also sold signed copies of the standard CD and vinyl variants exclusively through her webstore.)

“The Albatross” edition (Target-exclusive CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, smoke-colored vinyl, smoke-colored cassette — each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Albatross.” The Target CD contains a poster. The vinyl is widely available, while the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore.)

“The Bolter” edition (Target-exclusive CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, beige-colored vinyl, beige-colored cassette — each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Bolter.” The Target CD contains a poster. The vinyl is widely available, while the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore.)

“The Black Dog” edition (Target-exclusive CD, deluxe CD containing Swift-branded merchandise, charcoal-colored vinyl, charcoal-colored cassette — each with the standard album’s 16 songs plus one bonus track: “The Black Dog.” The Target CD contains a poster. The vinyl is widely available, while the deluxe CD and cassette are exclusive to Swift’s webstore.)

Deluxe 31-song digital download album (Widely available through all digital retailers. Contains the 16 songs on the standard digital album, plus the four bonus tracks that were issued on the above four variants [“The Manuscript,” “The Albatross,” “The Black Dog” and “The Bolter”] and 11 additional songs.)

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.

[pikandru]

Well unless something happens where streaming has a huge fallout and we go back to buying music as the dominant music consumption habit, Adele’s record will stand forever. Nothing could be a more perfect storm than TTPD had here and it still fell a whopping 700k short.

[Caviar]

Eye watering figures.

[Eloqueen™]

It's still astounding to me that this pulled 2.6 MILLION copies and will go triple platinum in 2 freaking weeks IN 2024! The hugeness and consistency of her openings will forever remain unmatched! I mean even if this album has no legs, we're still looking at 4 million sold easily. It's already a hit no matter where it goes from this point. lol

[fridayteenage]

859,000 vinyl LPs: 24% higher than 1989tv, 49% higher than midnights

759,500 CDs: 37% higher than 1989tv, 92% higher than midnights

21,500 cassettes: 115% higher than midnights

digital downloads 274,000: 70% higher than midnights

891.37 million streams: 62% higher than midnights, 138% higher than 1989tv

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Pearl Jam’s ‘Dark Matter’ Debuts in Top Five on Billboard 200 Chart

4/28/2024

By Keith Caulfield

Pearl Jam debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated May 4) with its latest studio album, Dark Matter, marking the 13th top 10-charting effort for the band. The set launches with a little over 59,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 25, according to Luminate.

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, as earlier reported, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department makes a milestone debut atop the list, with 2.61 million equivalent album units earned in its first week.

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 May 4, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 30. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of Dark Matter’s first-week sum of 59,000 units, album sales comprise 52,000, SEA units comprise 7,000 (equaling 9.33 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 11 songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Notably, of its 52,000 sales sum, vinyl sales comprise a little over 24,000, enhanced by its availability across 12 different color vinyl variants.

The new album was led by the set’s title track, which hit No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in March (the group’s fourth No. 1 and first since 1998) and has reached the top 10 on Alternative Airplay (the act’s 20th top 10 hit).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Future and Metro Boomin’s former leader We Don’t Trust You rises one spot with 69,000 equivalent album units earned (down 17%). Beyoncé’s chart-topping Cowboy Carter slips 2-3 with 66,000 (down 33%), and Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 One Thing at a Time is a non-mover at No. 4 with 64,000 (down 11%).

Future and Metro Boomin’s We Still Don’t Trust You falls 1-6 with 54,000 equivalent album units earned (down 57%), Noah Kahan’s Stick Season slips 5-7 with 45,000 units (down 11%) and Benson Boone’s Fireworks & Rollerblades glides 7-8 with 40,000 units (down 8%). Rounding out the top 10 is a pair of former No. 1s: SZA’s SOS dips 8-9 with 39,000 units (down 2%) and Swift’s Lover climbs 11-10 with 37,000 (down 6%).

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.

[clsvltn]

All eyes on Taylor, but Pearl Jam put up some pretty respectable numbers as well for a group that is 30+ years into their career.

[hijakint]

Apr 28, 2024 14:19:13 GMT -5 pikandru said:

Well unless something happens where streaming has a huge fallout and we go back to buying music as the dominant music consumption habit, Adele’s record will stand forever. Nothing could be a more perfect storm than TTPD had here and it still fell a whopping 700k short.

To be exact it's short 872k units and 1.464M in pure sales.

[Elusive Chanteuse]

This is honestly historical. I'm personally not a big fan of the album, but there’s no denying that this is insane. I’m also curious if the album will have legs or if it’ll drop off quicker than expected.

Either way it goes from here, the album is already a colossal SMASH.

[Hefty Hanna]

Apr 28, 2024 14:23:05 GMT -5 Eloqueen™ said:

It's still astounding to me that this pulled 2.6 MILLION copies and will go triple platinum in 2 freaking weeks IN 2024! The hugeness and consistency of her openings will forever remain unmatched! I mean even if this album has no legs, we're still looking at 4 million sold easily. It's already a hit no matter where it goes from this point. lol

Easily, plus the inevitable (?) ‘Anthology’ double version. Massive.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

[balletgirlmom]

Pearl Jam's numbers are great!

[Gary]

BB200

TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 - - 1 The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift 1
2 3 - 5 We Don't Trust You, Future & Metro Boomin 1
3 2 - 4 Cowboy Carter, Beyonce 1
4 4 - 60 One Thing At A Time, Morgan Wallen 1
5 - - 1 Dark Matter, Pearl Jam 5
6 1 - 2 We Still Don't Trust You, Future & Metro Boomin 1
7 5 - 74 Stick Season, Noah Kahan 2
8 7 - 3 Fireworks & Rollerblades, Benson Boone 6
9 8 - 72 SOS, SZA 1
10 11 - 244 Lover, Taylor Swift 1
11 9 - 172 Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen 1
12 10 - 7 Eternal Sunshine, Ariana Grande 1
13 13 - 35 Zach Bryan, Zach Bryan 1
14 15 - 26 1989 (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
15 14 - 79 Midnights, Taylor Swift 1
16 12 - 33 Guts, Olivia Rodrigo 1
17 16 - 29 For All The Dogs, Drake 1
18 22 - 23 The Diamond Collection, Post Malone 15
19 19 - 101 American Heartbreak, Zach Bryan 5
20 6 - 2 Papercuts, Linkin Park 6
21 21 - 39 Utopia, Travis Scott 1
22 20 - 196 \\ 1
23 18 - 5 Unheard (EP), Hozier 10
24 25 - 27 Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada, Fuerza Regida 14
25 28 - 44 Genesis, Peso Pluma 3
26 23 - 3 Ehhthang Ehhthang, GloRilla 18
27 32 - 103 Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny 1
28 31 - 15 American Dream, 21 Savage 1
29 26 - 57 Gettin' Old, Luke Combs 4
30 36 - 5 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess, Chappell Roan 30
31 17 - 3 Might Delete Later, J. Cole 2
32 29 - 3 Bryson Tiller, Bryson Tiller 12
33 37 - 360 This One's For You, Luke Combs 4
34 34 - 6 Mr. Beat The Road, BossMan Dlow 20
35 56 - 578 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 1
36 38 - 29 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I), Teddy Swims 25
37 43 - 832 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
38 76 - 20 Pink Friday 2, Nicki Minaj 1
39 24 - 23 11:11, Chris Brown 9
40 40 - 28 Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Manana, Bad Bunny 1
41 39 - 11 Vultures 1, ¥$: Ye & Ty Dolla $ign 1
42 46 - 50 Religiously. The Album., Bailey Zimmerman 7
43 35 - 31 Scarlet, Doja Cat 4
44 41 - 153 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 1
45 30 - 2 To The Limit: The Essential Collection, Eagles 30
46 55 - 359 Ctrl, SZA 3
47 45 - 691 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 18
48 51 - 217 My Turn, Lil Baby 1
49 49 - 367 DAMN., Kendrick Lamar 1
50 50 - 582 Take Care, Drake 1
51 58 - 379 Blonde, Frank Ocean 1
52 47 - 337 Diamonds, Elton John 7
53 53 - 681 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 1
54 42 - 128 Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
55 44 - 176 Evermore, Taylor Swift 1
56 57 - 592 Greatest Hits, Queen 8
57 54 - 533 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
58 27 - 292 reputation, Taylor Swift 1
59 - - 1 Rebel, Anne Wilson 59
60 67 - 31 Emails I Can't Send, Sabrina Carpenter 23
61 59 - 73 Heroes & Villains, Metro Boomin 1
62 52 - 42 Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
63 61 - 600 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 2
64 64 - 291 If I Know Me, Morgan Wallen 10
65 60 - 47 Whitsitt Chapel, Jelly Roll 3
66 63 - 20 Think Later, Tate McRae 4
67 - - 990 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 1
68 69 - 304 Scorpion, Drake 1
69 74 - 233 What You See Is What You Get, Luke Combs 1
70 72 - 138 Certified Lover Boy, Drake 1
71 70 - 325 Graduation, Kanye West 1
72 73 - 32 Nostalgia, Rod Wave 1
73 66 - 24 Higher, Chris Stapleton 3
74 81 - 299 ASTROWORLD, Travis Scott 1
75 68 - 147 35 Biggest Hits, Toby Keith 1
76 79 - 185 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1, Nickelback 21
77 85 - 315 Hozier, Hozier 2
78 71 - 5 Tyla, Tyla 24
79 77 - 175 Channel Orange, Frank Ocean 2
80 84 - 802 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 10
81 80 - 415 Views, Drake 1
82 78 - 450 Traveller, Chris Stapleton 1
83 87 - 368 T R A P S O U L, Bryson Tiller 8
84 75 - 146 Fearless (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
85 86 - 77 Her Loss, Drake & 21 Savage 1
86 88 - 310 Goodbye & Good Riddance, Juice WRLD 4
87 83 - 448 Hamilton: An American Musical, Original Broadway Cast 2
88 109 - 237 IGOR, Tyler, The Creator 1
89 33 - 3 minisode 3: TOMORROW, TOMORROW X TOGETHER 3
90 90 - 240 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates, Daryl Hall John Oates 34
91 82 - 11 Dolido Pero No Arrepentido (EP), Fuerza Regida 69
92 95 - 75 Bell Bottom Country, Lainey Wilson 51
93 - - 1 How?, BOYNEXTDOOR 93
94 97 - 42 Hood Hottest Princess, Sexyy Red 62
95 89 - 490 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
96 101 - 154 Greatest Hits, Pitbull 91
97 92 - 138 After Hours, The Weeknd 1
98 103 - 29 $ad Boyz 4 Life II, Junior H 14
99 93 - 40 Barbie: The Album, Soundtrack 2
100 104 - 37 Amar, BigXthaPlug 97
101 96 - 61 Manana Sera Bonito, Karol G 1
102 110 - 563 Greatest Hits, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 2
103 102 - 327 The Essential Billy Joel, Billy Joel 15
104 100 - 66 The Mockingbird & The Crow, HARDY 4
105 98 - 417 ANTI, Rihanna 1
106 94 - 30 20 Number Ones, Thomas Rhett 22
107 111 - 471 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 31
108 107 - 281 50 Number Ones, George Strait 1
109 108 - 667 Nevermind, Nirvana 1
110 114 - 10 2093, Yeat 2
111 91 - 12 Hazbin Hotel, Season One, Soundtrack 13
112 115 - 256 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 11
113 105 - 162 The Highlights, The Weeknd 2
114 65 - 338 Starboy, The Weeknd 1
115 113 - 519 Greatest Hits, 2Pac 3
116 99 - 180 Starting Over, Chris Stapleton 3
117 118 - 673 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 3
118 112 - 18 THE BIGGEST (EP), BigXthaPlug 112
119 119 - 104 I Never Liked You, Future 1
120 121 - 673 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 3
121 - - 1 Best Of, Bruce Springsteen 121
122 147 - 623 Thriller, Michael Jackson 1
123 131 - 151 Savage Mode II, 21 Savage & Metro Boomin 1
124 136 - 265 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Billie Eilish 1
125 - - 13 Wasteland, Baby!, Hozier 1
126 124 - 301 Beauty Behind The Madness, The Weeknd 1
127 135 - 264 DS2, Future 1
128 128 - 148 Planet Her, Doja Cat 2
129 133 - 238 Over It, Summer Walker 2
130 116 - 46 Elisabeth, Zach Bryan 83
131 130 - 44 I Am Music, Lil Wayne 25
132 123 - 5 Livin' My Best Life, Dylan Scott 60
133 122 - 323 Gold: Greatest Hits, ABBA 25
134 127 - 257 All Time Greatest Hits, Lynyrd Skynyrd 56
135 129 - 354 More Life, Drake 1
136 126 - 101 Harry's House, Harry Styles 1
137 139 - 38 El Comienzo, Grupo Frontera 34
138 167 - 26 Larger Than Life, Brent Faiyaz 11
139 106 - 489 1989, Taylor Swift 1
140 154 - 518 Greatest Hits, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 8
141 142 - 300 AM, Arctic Monkeys 6
142 134 - 363 The Fame, Lady Gaga 2
143 137 - 370 Teenage Dream, Katy Perry 1
144 146 - 361 Greatest Hits, The Notorious B.I.G. 1
145 117 - 57 Bluebird Days, Jordan Davis 19
146 158 - 213 Sublime, Sublime 13
147 138 - 35 Greatest Hits, Aerosmith 36
148 132 - 37 Manana Sera Bonito (Bichota Season), Karol G 3
149 145 - 194 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon, Pop Smoke 1
150 153 - 341 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection, Bon Jovi 5
151 125 - 9 Decide, Djo 56
152 148 - 23 Pretty Little Poison, Warren Zeiders 59
153 151 - 58 Summertime Blues, Zach Bryan 34
154 - - 1 I Was / I Am, Noah Kahan 154
155 141 - 210 Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa 3
156 120 - 5 Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, Shakira 13
157 152 - 204 Confessions, Usher 1
158 155 - 195 Purgatory, Tyler Childers 71
159 168 - 192 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston 14
160 176 - 94 Wasteland, Brent Faiyaz 2
161 156 - 3 What Happens Now?, Dasha 141
162 143 - 23 Leather, Cody Johnson 18
163 169 - 264 Number One Hits, Tim McGraw 27
164 165 - 268 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West 1
165 163 - 129 Greatest Hits, blink-182 6
166 160 - 143 Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish 1
167 180 - 348 Luv Is Rage 2, Lil Uzi Vert 1
168 159 - 369 Moana, Soundtrack 2
169 166 - 108 7220, Lil Durk 1
170 161 - 157 Currents, Tame Impala 4
171 162 - 216 Get Rich Or Die Tryin', 50 Cent 1
172 - - 1 Live At SoFi Stadium, The Weeknd 172
173 - - 17 A Great Chaos, Ken Carson 11
174 150 - 3 Wish, Soundtrack 150
175 178 - 161 SoulFly, Rod Wave 1
176 179 - 603 Back In Black, AC/DC 4
177 175 - 198 Legends Never Die, Juice WRLD 1
178 171 - 3 Certified, NLE Choppa 171
179 177 - 246 Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne 1
180 196 - 192 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits, Elvis Presley 1
181 182 - 366 ÷ (Divide), Ed Sheeran 1
182 186 - 204 YHLQMDLG, Bad Bunny 2
183 195 - 123 Call Me If You Get Lost, Tyler, The Creator 1
184 144 - 6 Deeper Well, Kacey Musgraves 2
185 192 - 100 Toxicity, System Of A Down 1
186 172 - 542 1, The Beatles 1
187 185 - 80 It's Only Me, Lil Baby 1
188 - - 185 Flower Boy, Tyler, The Creator 2
189 173 - 140 Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna 2
190 189 - 314 ?, XXXTENTACION 1
191 - - 287 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 14
192 - - 115 Freudian, Daniel Caesar 25
193 181 - 429 Hot Rocks 1964-1971, The Rolling Stones 4
194 174 - 91 Renaissance, Beyonce 1
195 188 - 50 Greatest Hits Vol. I, Korn 4
196 184 - 59 Endless Summer Vacation, Miley Cyrus 3
197 198 - 268 Death Race For Love, Juice WRLD 1
198 191 - 6 Fine Ho, Stay, Flo Milli 54
199 - - 1 Children Of The Slums, Mozzy 199
200 193 - 18 For Her, Hunxho 84

[Gary]

Current Sales

TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 - - 1 The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift 1
2 - - 1 Dark Matter, Pearl Jam 2
3 9 - 26 1989 (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
4 - - 78 Midnights, Taylor Swift 1
5 1 - 4 Cowboy Carter, Beyonce 1
6 - - 1 How?, BOYNEXTDOOR 6
7 11 - 195 Folklore, Taylor Swift 1
8 - - 1 Rebel, Anne Wilson 8
9 3 - 3 minisode 3: TOMORROW, TOMORROW X TOGETHER 1
10 6 - 43 Stick Season, Noah Kahan 4
11 16 - 127 Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
12 2 - 2 Papercuts, Linkin Park 2
13 19 - 42 Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
14 - - 1 Best Of, Bruce Springsteen 14
15 - - 1 Cometh The Storm, High On Fire 15
16 14 - 7 Eternal Sunshine, Ariana Grande 1
17 17 - 33 Guts, Olivia Rodrigo 1
18 45 - 18 The World EP.Fin : Will, ATEEZ 1
19 10 - 4 Hope On The Street, Vol.1 (EP), j-hope 2
20 - - 1 Re: This Is Why / This Is Why, Paramore 20
21 15 - 9 With YOU-th (EP), TWICE 1
22 - - 4 Emails I Can't Send, Sabrina Carpenter 12
23 28 - 152 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 1
24 32 - 33 Zach Bryan, Zach Bryan 2
25 8 - 2 To The Limit: The Essential Collection, Eagles 8
26 - - 28 This Is Why, Paramore 1
27 12 - 3 Found Heaven, Conan Gray 2
28 - - 1 Tarantula Heart, Melvins 28
29 29 - 6 Deeper Well, Kacey Musgraves 1
30 24 - 24 Higher, Chris Stapleton 3
31 - - 1 Live At WCOZ 77, Talking Heads 31
32 21 - 23 Orange Blood, ENHYPEN 2
33 22 - 24 ROCK-STAR, Stray Kids 1
34 5 - 2 Don't Forget Me, Maggie Rogers 5
35 20 - 9 Easy (EP), LE SSERAFIM 2
36 - - 1 Live At Gorilla, Manchester: 01 . 02 . 2023, The 1975 36
37 31 - 53 SOS, SZA 3
38 27 - 5 Born, Kenny Chesney 1
39 - - 3 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess, Chappell Roan 26
40 - - 1 Live At SoFi Stadium, The Weeknd 40
41 4 - 56 Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey 2
42 25 - 46 Whitsitt Chapel, Jelly Roll 3
43 - - 1 Mean Girls (2024), Soundtrack 43
44 - - 1 Live At Konserthuset, Stockholm: September 20, 1968, The Doors 44
45 7 - 2 One Deep River, Mark Knopfler 7
46 - - 1 Waiting In The Sky (Before The Starman Came To Earth), David Bowie 46
47 - - 1 Defiance Part 2: Fiction, Ian Hunter 47
48 30 - 3 Only God Was Above Us, Vampire Weekend 5
49 - - 1 I Got Away (EP), Pastor Mike Jr. 49
50 38 - 21 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I), Teddy Swims 12

[Gary]

Sales

TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 - - 1 The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift 1
2 - - 1 Dark Matter, Pearl Jam 2
3 8 - 212 Lover, Taylor Swift 1
4 10 - 26 1989 (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
5 11 - 79 Midnights, Taylor Swift 1
6 1 - 4 Cowboy Carter, Beyonce 1
7 - - 1 How?, BOYNEXTDOOR 7
8 35 - 488 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 7
9 13 - 196 Folklore, Taylor Swift 1
10 - - 1 Rebel, Anne Wilson 10
11 3 - 3 minisode 3: TOMORROW, TOMORROW X TOGETHER 1
12 6 - 35 Stick Season, Noah Kahan 4
13 14 - 171 Evermore, Taylor Swift 1
14 - - 1 I Was / I Am, Noah Kahan 14
15 20 - 128 Red (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
16 2 - 2 Papercuts, Linkin Park 2
17 25 - 42 Speak Now (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
18 21 - 126 Fearless (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift 1
19 - - 1 Best Of, Bruce Springsteen 19
20 - - 1 Cometh The Storm, High On Fire 20
21 26 - 398 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 2
22 17 - 7 Eternal Sunshine, Ariana Grande 1
23 22 - 33 Guts, Olivia Rodrigo 1
24 18 - 664 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
25 - - 13 The World EP.Fin : Will, ATEEZ 1
26 12 - 4 Hope On The Street, Vol.1 (EP), j-hope 2
27 - - 16 Wasteland, Baby!, Hozier 1
28 - - 1 Re: This Is Why / This Is Why, Paramore 28
29 19 - 9 With YOU-th (EP), TWICE 1
30 31 - 377 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
31 - - 2 Emails I Can't Send, Sabrina Carpenter 12
32 - - 5 Life Is Killing Me, Type O Negative 32
33 38 - 143 Sour, Olivia Rodrigo 1
34 44 - 29 Zach Bryan, Zach Bryan 3
35 9 - 2 To The Limit: The Essential Collection, Eagles 9
36 - - 14 This Is Why, Paramore 1
37 15 - 3 Found Heaven, Conan Gray 2
38 - - 1 Tarantula Heart, Melvins 38
39 46 - 396 Thriller, Michael Jackson 2
40 39 - 6 Deeper Well, Kacey Musgraves 1
41 32 - 19 Higher, Chris Stapleton 3
42 - - 1 Live At WCOZ 77, Talking Heads 42
43 28 - 23 Orange Blood, ENHYPEN 2
44 29 - 24 ROCK-STAR, Stray Kids 1
45 42 - 534 Greatest Hits, Queen 3
46 5 - 2 Don't Forget Me, Maggie Rogers 5
47 27 - 9 Easy (EP), LE SSERAFIM 2
48 - - 1 Live At Gorilla, Manchester: 01 . 02 . 2023, The 1975 48
49 43 - 47 SOS, SZA 3
50 37 - 5 Born, Kenny Chesney 1

[Gary]

Indie Stores

TW LW 2W WOC TITLE PEAK
1 - - 1 The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift 1
2 - - 1 Dark Matter, Pearl Jam 2
3 - - 1 I Was / I Am, Noah Kahan 3
4 - - 1 Re: This Is Why / This Is Why, Paramore 4
5 - - 10 This Is Why, Paramore 1
6 - - 1 Live At WCOZ 77, Talking Heads 6
7 - - 1 Live At Gorilla, Manchester: 01 . 02 . 2023, The 1975 7
8 13 - 185 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 2
9 - - 6 The World EP.Fin : Will, ATEEZ 2
10 - - 1 Live At SoFi Stadium, The Weeknd 10
11 - - 1 Live At Konserthuset, Stockholm: September 20, 1968, The Doors 11
12 - - 3 Nothing Happens, Wallows 2
13 - - 1 Waiting In The Sky (Before The Starman Came To Earth), David Bowie 13
14 - - 1 JEFFERY, Young Thug 14
15 - - 150 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 3
16 - - 1 Team Sleep, Team Sleep 16
17 - - 1 The 1975 Sire Demos, Ramones 17
18 - - 8 Cracker Island, Gorillaz 1
19 - - 1 Not Ready For Prime Time: Live At The Cabaret Metro, 1986, The Replacements 19
20 1 - 2 Cowboy Carter, Beyonce 1
21 - - 1 Nightfall Of Diamonds, Grateful Dead 21
22 - - 2 Lost In Translation, Soundtrack 2
23 3 - 18 Stick Season, Noah Kahan 3
24 - - 1 The Top, The Cure 24
25 - - 1 Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Bill Evans Trio 25