Billboard 200 9/7/24: Sabrina #1 362k, Travis #2 361k

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

There's an error in Travis' streaming album equivalents. Should be around 29,500.

Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200

9/3/2024

By Keith Caulfield

Plus: Travis Scott's Days Before Rodeo rides in at No. 2, and Lainey Wilson scores her first top 10 with the arrival of Whirlwind.

Sabrina Carpenter achieves her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Sept. 7), as her new studio album, Short n’ Sweet, debuts atop the tally. The set earned 362,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 29, according to Luminate — marking her best week ever, and the year’s third-largest debut. The set, which is also her first top 10-charting effort, was announced on June 3, and its Aug. 23 release was preceded by a pair of top three-charting Billboard Hot 100 hit songs: “Espresso” (No. 3) and “Please Please Please” (No. 1). 

Meanwhile, the first official release of Travis Scott’s 2014 mixtape Days Before Rodeo opens at No. 2, marking his fifth top five-charting effort. The set earned a little over 361,000 equivalent album units — the year’s fourth-largest debut and biggest week for any rap album. Of that sum, album sales comprise 331,000 – yielding 2024’s second-biggest sales week, and best sales week for any rap album. Days Before Rodeo’s Aug. 23 release was announced on Aug. 18 — the 10th anniversary of the set’s initial free release in 2014. Until Aug. 23, the set had never been commercially released nor officially made widely available through all streaming services.

Carpenter’s and Scott’s debuts were both aided by social media chatter about them potentially vying for No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The two artists also had promotional help on social media from some very famous friends. Among the endorsements: Taylor Swift shouted out her former Eras Tour mate Carpenter in her Instagram story on Aug. 23, writing, “Short. Sweet. Has made an extraordinary album… Go support our girl!” Carpenter’s rumored boyfriend and “Please Please Please” video co-star, Academy Award-nominated actor Barry Keoghan, shared a link to buy the album in his own Instagram story on Aug. 29. That same day, Ye (formerly Kanye West) shared a link to buy Scott’s album in his Instagram story.

While Carpenter’s and Scott’s albums lead the top 10 action, they aren’t the only debuts in the region. Country singer-songwriter Lainey Wilson notches her first top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200, as Whirlwind blows in at No. 8 in its opening week.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric 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 Sept. 7, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Wednesday, Sept. 4 (a day later than usual due to the Labor Day holiday in the U.S. on Sept. 2). For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet starts with 362,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 184,000 (her biggest sales week ever and the fifth-largest sales debut of 2024), SEA units comprise 176,000 (equaling 233 million on-demand official streams of the 12 songs on the streaming edition of the album; her largest streaming week ever and the fourth-largest streaming debut of 2024) and TEA units comprise 2,000.

Short n’ Sweet also opens at No. 1 on the Streaming Albums chart.

Short n’ Sweet is Carpenter’s seventh charting album but first to reach the top 20. Her first visit to the chart came in 2015 with Eyes Wide Open, peaking at No. 43. Until this week, Carpenter’s best chart rank came with the 2022 release Emails I Can’t Send, which debuted and peaked at No. 23. The album includes “Nonsense,” which marked her first top 10-charting hit on the Pop Airplay chart. She followed it up with “Feather,” a bonus track added to a deluxe edition of Emails. “Feather” floated to No. 1 on Pop Airplay and marked her first top 40-charting song on the Hot 100.

The Short n’ Sweet campaign began brewing on the charts with its lead single, “Espresso,” which reached No. 3 on the Hot 100 in June and No. 1 on Pop Airplay in July. A second single, “Please Please Please,” followed, and it hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in its second week on the list in June, and tops the Sept. 7-dated Pop Airplay chart. The set’s third promoted song, “Taste,” debuts at No. 34 on the Sept. 7-dated Pop Airplay ranking.

The official music videos for “Please” and “Taste” are also starry affairs, with the former co-starring Keoghan and the latter featuring actress Jenna Ortega.

Short n’ Sweet’s sales were bolstered by its availability across nine vinyl variants, five CD editions, two cassettes and four digital album download variants. Vinyl sales combined totaled 105,000 – Carpenter’s best week on vinyl and the second-largest sales week of the year for a vinyl album. Short n’ Sweet also debuts at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart.

As for the rest of the album’s first-week sales, it sold 33,000 on CD; 45,000 digital download albums; and 2,000 cassettes.

Among Short n’ Sweet’s vinyl variants were some exclusively sold through Carpenter’s official webstore, including one variant with a bonus track, a picture disc and a signed edition. Her webstore also exclusively carried a signed CD.

There were also exclusive editions of her physical album sold through the likes of Amazon (a color vinyl and a CD with alternative packaging), Target (a color vinyl, and a CD containing a poster) and Urban Outfitters (a color vinyl).

As for its digital download variants, Short n’ Sweet was initially issued widely through digital retailers (including her webstore) as a standard 12-song album. The set did not garner additional variants until Aug. 28-29, the final days of the tracking week. Carpenter issued one variant in the evening of Aug. 28, followed by a second variant in the afternoon of Aug. 29, with a third arriving around 10 p.m. ET on Aug. 29. All were exclusively sold via her webstore for $4.99 each (the minimum price required for chart eligibility), and all contained the standard album’s 12 songs, plus one bonus track each. (The standard digital album was also discounted to $4.99 on Aug. 29 in both her webstore and in the iTunes Store.)

Of the additional variants, first came the Bonus Track Digital Album edition, with the extra song “Needless to Say.” Then the Short n’ Sweet(er) edition was second, and it came with the bonus track “Busy Woman.” The final variant was the Short n’ Sweet(est) edition with a demo recording of “Taste” as its bonus track.

The three alternative variants became unavailable to purchase on Aug. 30.

At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Scott’s Days Before Rodeo enters with 361,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 331,000 (the second-biggest sales week of 2024, trailing only the 1.91 million sales start of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department), SEA units comprise 176,000 (equaling 40.63 million on-demand official streams of the 12 songs on the album’s streaming edition) and TEA units comprise less than 500 units.

Days Before Rodeo also debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.

Days Before Rodeo was initially released as a free mixtape on Aug. 18, 2014. It garnered its first commercial and official streaming release for its 10th anniversary, on Aug. 23, as the 12-track set was issued through all major digital retail and streamers. Scott ushered in the album’s official release with an anniversary concert on Aug. 22 at The Masquerade in Atlanta, where he performed 10 of the standard album’s 12 songs, in addition to other material.

Of Days Before Rodeo’s first-week sales, digital download comprise 300,000 – the largest download sales week for an album this year. (The rest of the album’s sales came from CD purchases.) The set’s download sales were bolstered by its availability across eight different editions of the digital album, six of which were exclusively sold through Scott’s official webstore. Aside from the standard 12-song download album, the other seven variants contained assorted bonus tracks (ranging from unreleased studio cuts, to live tracks from The Masquerade concert, and chopped and screwed remixes of the album’s songs).

All variants sold via Scott’s webstore were priced at $4.99, while versions available in the iTunes Store were also available for $4.99 at the end of the tracking week.

Here’s a recap of the assorted digital album variants and when they were released:

Aug. 23 – Standard Digital Download – 12-song standard album, widely available, though not in Scott’s webstore.

Aug. 23 – Digital Deluxe Album – 12-song standard album with five bonus previously unreleased songs (“Mo City Flexologist”; “Too Many Chances”; “Yeah Yeah,” featuring Young Thug; “Serenade”; and “Whole Lots Changed”), available for pre-order beginning Aug. 18 (the day of the 10th anniversary of the mixtape’s initial free release). Exclusive to Scott’s webstore.

Aug. 29 – Digital Deluxe Album Vault 1 – 12-song standard album with the five bonus songs included on the Digital Deluxe Album (above), plus a PDF booklet. Widely available, including Scott’s webstore.

Aug. 29 – Digital Deluxe Album Vault 2 – 12 song standard album with two bonus previously unreleased songs (“Hold On,” featuring Young Thug and Quavo; and “Respected”). Exclusive to Scott’s webstore.

Aug. 29 – DBR Standard Edition + Live From Atlanta – 12-song standard album with 12 bonus live songs from Scott’s concert at The Masquerade. Exclusive to Scott’s webstore.

Aug. 29 – DBR Deluxe Edition + Chopped and Screwed Edition – 12-song standard album, plus the seven bonus songs included on the Digital Deluxe Album and Vault 1 editions (above), and “slowed and chopped” remixes of 18 of the album’s songs. Exclusive to Scott’s webstore.

Aug. 29 – Digital Deluxe Album Vault 3 – 12-song standard album with two bonus previously unreleased songs (“Naughty” and “Too Many Options,” featuring an uncredited Young Thug). Exclusive to Scott’s webstore.

Aug. 29 – Digital Deluxe Album Vault 4 – 12-song standard album with two bonus previously unreleased songs (“Whoudini,” featuring an uncredited Playboi Carti; and a remix of “Quintana, Pt. 2”). Exclusive to Scott’s webstore.

Vault 1 was released in the morning of Thursday, Aug. 29, while the rest of the editions issued on Aug. 29 had a staggered release through the rest of the day, until Vault 4 dropped shortly before 11:30 p.m. ET. All download variants, except for the standard widely available 12-song edition, became unavailable for purchase on Aug. 30.

In terms of physical formats, the set was available as a CD during its debut week, only via Scott’s webstore. It was sold both as a stand-alone CD and as part of a deluxe boxed set containing a branded hat and a CD. Two vinyl variants (a standard edition, and one in expanded packaging), as well as two further boxed sets (one containing a hoodie and the standard vinyl, one with a T-shirt and the deluxe vinyl) were available to pre-order during the tracking week, but have yet to ship to customers, so they do not impact its debut numbers.

A wide retail release beyond Scott’s webstore for any physical formats of the album has not been announced.

With both Short n’ Sweet and Days Before Rodeo each launching with over 360,000 equivalent album units earned, it’s the first time that two albums have earned at least 360,000 units in the same week in over eight years. It last happened on the May 14, 2016-dated chart, when Beyoncé’s Lemonade bowed at No. 1 with 653,000 and Prince’s The Very Best of Prince earned 391,000 units at No. 2 (shortly after his death). The latter title, first released in 2001, had re-entered at No. 1 the previous week.

As both Days Before Rodeo and Short n’ Sweet are debuts – the last time the chart housed two debuting titles earning at least 360,000 units came on the Dec. 5, 2015-dated chart, when Justin Bieber’s Purpose premiered with 649,000 and One Direction’s Made in the A.M. launched at No. 2 with 459,000.

Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion falls to No. 3 with 111,000 equivalent album units (down 55%), after debuting atop the chart a week ago. Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess dips 2-4 with 72,000 (up less than 1%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time slips 4-5 with 58,000 (down 3%), Swift’s former No. 1 The Tortured Poets Department descends 3-6 with 57,000 (down 8%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft falls 5-7 with nearly 53,000 (down 2%).

Lainey Wilson ropes her first top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 with the No. 8 debut of her fifth studio album, Whirlwind. The set swirls in with 48,000 equivalent album units earned — her best week ever by units. Of that sum, album sales comprise 34,000; SEA units comprise 14,000 (equaling 17.83 million on-demand official streams of the 14 songs on the streaming edition of the album) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000.

The set’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across eight vinyl variants, three CD editions (including a signed edition sold in Wilson’s webstore, and a Walmart-exclusive CD containing a branded patch and a bonus track), a standard digital download album, and a deluxe digital album variant with four bonus “worktape” recordings (sold via Wilson’s webstore).

The new album was led by the single “Hang Tight Honey,” which reached the top 20 of the Hot Country Songs chart in August and is percolating in the top 15 of the Country Airplay chart (after reaching a No. 13 high in August).

Whirlwind is the follow-up to Bell Bottom Country, which marked Wilson’s first album to reach the all-genre Billboard 200 (peaking at No. 51) and climbed to No. 9 on Top Country Albums. The set won the Grammy Award for best country album, the Country Music Association (CMA) award for album of the year, and the Academy of Country Music (ACM) award for album of the year. (It became only the ninth album ever to win all three trophies.) Bell Bottom Country spun off three top 10-charting hits on Hot Country Songs — “Heart Like a Truck,” “Watermelon Moonshine” and “Wildflowers and Wild Honey.” All three also reached the top five on the Country Airplay chart, with “Watermelon” topping the tally.

Closing out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 are Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene, which falls 6-9 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned (down 7%), and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season, slipping 8-10 with 37,000 units (down 2%).

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.

[dremolus - solarpunk]

[fridayteenage]

Oh wow I thought it'd go the other way

Travis having over 90 percent from sales is very kpop coded

[Choco]

Thank god.

[👑 Eloquent ™]

Congrats Sabrina!!

[morgan96]

362k vs 361k?
The fraud(both)

[fridayteenage]

That's 20x her previously highest week.

Who else has done that? Can't think of anyone

[85la]

So it turned out EXTREMELY close, a tie really, as I'm sure there's a small margin of error, but I'm glad Sabrina officially won it. When it was this close (under 1k unit difference between any two positions in the top 10, not just nos. 1 and 2) they used to give exact numbers. I wish we had them now. I wonder if the difference between nos. 1 and 2 was ever this close before?

[clsvltn]

Happy Sabrina won but it is still VERY impressive for what Travis was able to do with a old ass mixtape. Just imagine his next new full era with physicals available as well.

[Ernesto]

I'm glad Sabrina won the battle for No.1. I love her album!

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

[musiclife]

Sept 3, 2024 11:57:04 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

That's 20x her previously highest week.

Who else has done that? Can't think of anyone

Taylor if you count her. Her debut only debuted with 40k and Fearless debuted with 592k. That's about 15x her debut.

Also if I recall correctly Maroon 5's debut only did like 8k first week. Their next album debuted with 430k. That would be like 53x their debut.

[fridayteenage]

Sept 4, 2024 1:11:40 GMT -5 musiclife said:

Sept 3, 2024 11:57:04 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

That's 20x her previously highest week.

Who else has done that? Can't think of anyone

Taylor if you count her. Her debut only debuted with 40k and Fearless debuted with 592k. That's about 15x her debut.

I'm not talking about only debut week gaps, otherwise obviously Norah would be like a billionx.
But Norah's first album ended up peaking at 621k, so her next album's first week didn't quite double her previous highest week.
Taylor likewise, her debut peaked at 187k, so her next album's first week was about 3x.

[musiclife]

Sept 4, 2024 1:17:13 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

Sept 4, 2024 1:11:40 GMT -5 musiclife said:

Taylor if you count her. Her debut only debuted with 40k and Fearless debuted with 592k. That's about 15x her debut.

I'm not talking about only debut week gaps, otherwise obviously Norah would be like a billionx.
But Norah's first album ended up peaking at 621k, so her next album's first week didn't quite double her previous highest week.
Taylor likewise, her debut peaked at 187k, so her next album's first week was about 3x.

Gotcha.. but did Emails I Can't Send end up eventually going any higher than it's originally 18k?

[jodakyellow]

Sept 4, 2024 1:19:05 GMT -5 musiclife said:

Sept 4, 2024 1:17:13 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

I'm not talking about only debut week gaps, otherwise obviously Norah would be like a billionx.
But Norah's first album ended up peaking at 621k, so her next album's first week didn't quite double her previous highest week.
Taylor likewise, her debut peaked at 187k, so her next album's first week was about 3x.

Gotcha.. but did Emails I Can't Send end up eventually going any higher than it's originally 18k?

Nope, it peaked at its debut

[wavey.]

Yeah, incredible numbers for both. Sabrina is HER now. Island put their foot DOWN.

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Top Album Sales
TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )

1 NEW 1 Days Before Rodeo - Travis Scott ( 1 )
2 NEW 1 Short N' Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter ( 2 )
3 NEW 1 Whirlwind - Lainey Wilson ( 3 )
4 3 16 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan ( 3 )
5 NEW 1 About A Woman - Thomas Rhett ( 5 )
6 1 2 F-1 Trillion - Post Malone ( 1 )
7 4 6 Ate: Mini Album (EP) - Stray Kids ( 1 )
8 NEW 1 Romance - FONTAINES D.C. ( 8 )
9 5 7 Romance : Untold - ENHYPEN ( 1 )
10 7 15 Hit Me Hard And Soft - Billie Eilish ( 2 )

11 Re-Entry 3 Emails I Can't Send - Sabrina Carpenter ( 11 )
12 10 19 The Tortured Poets Department - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
13 NEW 1 True - Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks ( 13 )
14 6 2 SIS (Soft Is Strong) (EP) - KATSEYE ( 6 )
15 NEW 1 Fe3o4: Stick Out (3rd EP) - NMIXX ( 15 )
16 15 416 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac ( 2 )
17 NEW 1 Louis Tomlinson: Live - Louis Tomlinson ( 17 )
18 NEW 1 Imaginal Disk - Magdalena Bay ( 18 )
19 13 6 Twisters: The Album - Soundtrack ( 6 )
20 19 44 1989 (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift ( 1 )

21 12 5 Deadpool & Wolverine - Soundtrack ( 9 )
22 2 2 Popular Monster - Falling In Reverse ( 2 )
23 16 12 Brat - Charli xcx ( 3 )
24 22 214 Folklore - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
25 25 7 Charm - Clairo ( 3 )
26 24 230 Lover - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
27 28 53 Stick Season - Noah Kahan ( 4 )
28 49 10 The Secret Of Us - Gracie Abrams ( 1 )
29 27 46 Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan ( 3 )
30 26 51 Guts - Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

31 29 97 Midnights - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
32 21 4 Walk: The 6th Album - NCT 127 ( 8 )
33 35 8 New World Depression - $uicideboy$ ( 3 )
34 Re-Entry 2 Grassroots - 311 ( 34 )
35 30 203 IGOR - Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )
36 32 682 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers - Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )
37 34 414 Thriller - Michael Jackson ( 2 )
38 NEW 1 The Underworld Awaits Us All - Nile ( 38 )
39 33 20 Bewitched - Laufey ( 3 )
40 20 3 This Is How Tomorrow Moves - beabadoobee ( 6 )

41 31 189 Evermore - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
42 38 11 Clancy - Twenty One Pilots ( 1 )
43 Re-Entry 2 11:11 - Chris Brown ( 31 )
44 41 342 good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )
45 Re-Entry 2 No Name - Jack White ( 8 )
46 50 726 Metallica - Metallica ( 1 )
47 Re-Entry 91 35 Biggest Hits - Toby Keith ( 2 )
48 NEW 1 The Moon And The Melodies - Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser ( 48 )
49 45 395 Born To Die - Lana Del Rey ( 2 )
50 43 133 Ctrl - SZA ( 5 )

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Top Current Album Sales
TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )

1 NEW 1 Days Before Rodeo - Travis Scott ( 1 )
2 NEW 1 Short N' Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter ( 2 )
3 NEW 1 Whirlwind - Lainey Wilson ( 3 )
4 3 21 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan ( 3 )
5 NEW 1 About A Woman - Thomas Rhett ( 5 )
6 1 2 F-1 Trillion - Post Malone ( 1 )
7 4 6 Ate: Mini Album (EP) - Stray Kids ( 1 )
8 NEW 1 Romance - FONTAINES D.C. ( 8 )
9 5 7 Romance : Untold - ENHYPEN ( 1 )
10 7 15 Hit Me Hard And Soft - Billie Eilish ( 2 )

11 Re-Entry 6 Emails I Can't Send - Sabrina Carpenter ( 11 )
12 10 19 The Tortured Poets Department - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
13 NEW 1 True - Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks ( 13 )
14 6 2 SIS (Soft Is Strong) (EP) - KATSEYE ( 6 )
15 NEW 1 Fe3o4: Stick Out (3rd EP) - NMIXX ( 15 )
16 NEW 1 Louis Tomlinson: Live - Louis Tomlinson ( 16 )
17 NEW 1 Imaginal Disk - Magdalena Bay ( 17 )
18 13 6 Twisters: The Album - Soundtrack ( 6 )
19 16 44 1989 (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
20 12 5 Deadpool & Wolverine - Soundtrack ( 9 )

21 2 2 Popular Monster - Falling In Reverse ( 2 )
22 14 12 Brat - Charli xcx ( 3 )
23 19 213 Folklore - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
24 21 7 Charm - Clairo ( 3 )
25 24 61 Stick Season - Noah Kahan ( 4 )
26 35 10 The Secret Of Us - Gracie Abrams ( 1 )
27 23 51 Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan ( 2 )
28 22 51 Guts - Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )
29 25 96 Midnights - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
30 18 5 Walk: The 6th Album - NCT 127 ( 8 )

31 27 9 New World Depression - $uicideboy$ ( 3 )
32 NEW 1 The Underworld Awaits Us All - Nile ( 32 )
33 26 27 Bewitched - Laufey ( 3 )
34 17 3 This Is How Tomorrow Moves - beabadoobee ( 6 )
35 29 14 Clancy - Twenty One Pilots ( 1 )
36 Re-Entry 2 11:11 - Chris Brown ( 21 )
37 Re-Entry 2 No Name - Jack White ( 8 )
38 32 21 minisode 3: TOMORROW - TOMORROW X TOGETHER ( 1 )
39 33 8 Armageddon: The 1st Album - aespa ( 2 )
40 30 170 Sour - Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )

41 NEW 1 Lost Corner - Kenshi Yonezu ( 41 )
42 NEW 1 Kantos - Kishi Bashi ( 42 )
43 38 60 Speak Now (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
44 NEW 1 BREAD (Be Really Energetic And Dance) - Sofi Tukker ( 44 )
45 31 6 Muse - Jimin ( 2 )
46 39 145 Red (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
47 28 13 Golden Hour : Part.1 (EP) - ATEEZ ( 1 )
48 42 70 SOS - SZA ( 3 )
49 Re-Entry 33 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I) - Teddy Swims ( 12 )
50 NEW 1 Smile! - Porter Robinson ( 50 )

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Top Streaming Albums
TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )

1 NEW 1 Short N' Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter ( 1 )
2 1 2 F-1 Trillion - Post Malone ( 1 )
3 2 46 One Thing At A Time - Morgan Wallen ( 1 )
4 4 20 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan ( 2 )
5 3 19 The Tortured Poets Department - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
6 5 15 Hit Me Hard And Soft - Billie Eilish ( 2 )
7 6 9 The Great American Bar Scene - Zach Bryan ( 1 )
8 8 46 Dangerous: The Double Album - Morgan Wallen ( 4 )
9 9 46 Stick Season - Noah Kahan ( 2 )
10 7 12 Brat - Charli xcx ( 5 )

11 NEW 1 Days Before Rodeo - Travis Scott ( 11 )
12 10 46 Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan ( 5 )
13 12 46 SOS - SZA ( 3 )
14 11 10 Exodo - Peso Pluma ( 3 )
15 13 46 American Heartbreak - Zach Bryan ( 10 )
16 14 13 Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going - Shaboozey ( 5 )
17 NEW 1 Incomodo - Tito Double P ( 17 )
18 17 6 Twisters: The Album - Soundtrack ( 7 )
19 19 23 We Don't Trust You - Future & Metro Boomin ( 1 )
20 18 21 Fireworks & Rollerblades - Benson Boone ( 5 )

21 20 7 The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) - Eminem ( 1 )
22 21 46 Lover - Taylor Swift ( 7 )
23 28 29 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I) - Teddy Swims ( 18 )
24 22 41 This One's For You - Luke Combs ( 14 )
25 25 46 Un Verano Sin Ti - Bad Bunny ( 15 )
26 32 46 Genesis - Peso Pluma ( 9 )
27 23 34 Folklore - Taylor Swift ( 16 )
28 30 31 Blonde - Frank Ocean ( 28 )
29 26 46 Guts - Olivia Rodrigo ( 3 )
30 31 46 Utopia - Travis Scott ( 9 )

31 27 5 The First Time - The Kid LAROI ( 18 )
32 34 46 For All The Dogs - Drake ( 1 )
33 29 46 Midnights - Taylor Swift ( 6 )
34 40 10 The Secret Of Us - Gracie Abrams ( 7 )
35 37 45 Curtain Call: The Hits - Eminem ( 18 )
36 43 11 A Great Chaos - Ken Carson ( 6 )
37 33 30 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits - Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty ( 28 )
38 39 46 Diamonds - Elton John ( 29 )
39 38 41 Gettin' Old - Luke Combs ( 19 )
40 36 44 1989 (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift ( 1 )

41 42 33 DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar ( 14 )
42 24 3 Sugar Honey Iced Tea - Latto ( 15 )
43 44 34 Sour - Olivia Rodrigo ( 26 )
44 35 36 reputation - Taylor Swift ( 14 )
45 16 2 Before I Disappear Again - NoCap ( 16 )
46 47 17 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac ( 46 )
47 45 16 One Of Wun - Gunna ( 2 )
48 49 44 Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada - Fuerza Regida ( 9 )
49 Re-Entry 6 Emails I Can't Send - Sabrina Carpenter ( 26 )
50 46 36 Religiously. The Album. - Bailey Zimmerman ( 24 )

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Vinyl Albums
TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )

1 NEW 1 Short N' Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter ( 1 )
2 2 15 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan ( 1 )
3 NEW 1 Whirlwind - Lainey Wilson ( 3 )
4 NEW 1 Romance - FONTAINES D.C. ( 4 )
5 4 15 Hit Me Hard And Soft - Billie Eilish ( 1 )
6 Re-Entry 2 Emails I Can't Send - Sabrina Carpenter ( 6 )
7 NEW 1 About A Woman - Thomas Rhett ( 7 )
8 1 2 F-1 Trillion - Post Malone ( 1 )
9 NEW 1 Imaginal Disk - Magdalena Bay ( 9 )
10 7 375 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )

11 NEW 1 Grassroots - 311 ( 11 )
12 5 5 Deadpool & Wolverine - Soundtrack ( 5 )
13 11 7 Charm - Clairo ( 1 )
14 NEW 1 Louis Tomlinson: Live - Louis Tomlinson ( 14 )
15 10 29 Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan ( 1 )
16 19 6 New World Depression - $uicideboy$ ( 1 )
17 12 19 The Tortured Poets Department - Taylor Swift ( 1 )
18 18 321 Thriller - Michael Jackson ( 1 )
19 15 36 Stick Season - Noah Kahan ( 2 )
20 NEW 1 11:11 - Chris Brown ( 20 )

21 13 153 IGOR - Tyler, The Creator ( 2 )
22 20 12 Bewitched - Laufey ( 2 )
23 14 44 Guts - Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )
24 8 3 This Is How Tomorrow Moves - beabadoobee ( 5 )
25 Re-Entry 2 No Name - Jack White ( 5 )

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Indie Store Album Sales
TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )

1 NEW 1 Short N' Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter ( 1 )
2 1 17 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan ( 1 )
3 NEW 1 Romance - FONTAINES D.C. ( 3 )
4 5 7 Charm - Clairo ( 2 )
5 9 4 No Name - Jack White ( 1 )
6 3 12 Brat - Charli xcx ( 1 )
7 2 2 F-1 Trillion - Post Malone ( 2 )
8 6 71 MM..Food - MF Doom ( 3 )
9 7 3 This Is How Tomorrow Moves - beabadoobee ( 2 )
10 NEW 1 Whirlwind - Lainey Wilson ( 10 )

11 NEW 1 The Moon And The Melodies - Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser ( 11 )
12 NEW 1 Imaginal Disk - Magdalena Bay ( 12 )
13 16 21 Grace - Jeff Buckley ( 9 )
14 8 6 So Tonight That I Might See - Mazzy Star ( 3 )
15 NEW 1 Bubblegum - Mark Lanegan Band ( 15 )
16 11 15 Hit Me Hard And Soft - Billie Eilish ( 1 )
17 14 36 Stick Season - Noah Kahan ( 3 )
18 15 199 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac ( 2 )
19 NEW 1 Emails I Can't Send - Sabrina Carpenter ( 19 )
20 NEW 1 Smile! - Porter Robinson ( 20 )

21 18 13 Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift ( 10 )
22 17 266 good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )
23 NEW 1 The Underworld Awaits Us All - Nile ( 23 )
24 20 176 IGOR - Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )
25 Re-Entry 43 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West ( 1 )

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The Billboard 200
TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )

1 New 1 Short N' Sweet ‒ Sabrina Carpenter ( 1 )
2 New 1 Days Before Rodeo ‒ Travis Scott ( 2 )
3 1 2 F-1 Trillion ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )
4 2 23 The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess ‒ Chappell Roan ( 2 )
5 4 78 One Thing At A Time ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 )
6 3 19 The Tortured Poets Department ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
7 5 15 Hit Me Hard And Soft ‒ Billie Eilish ( 2 )
8 New 1 Whirlwind ‒ Lainey Wilson ( 8 )
9 6 9 The Great American Bar Scene ‒ Zach Bryan ( 2 )
10 8 92 Stick Season ‒ Noah Kahan ( 2 )
11 7 12 Brat ‒ Charli xcx ( 3 )
12 9 190 Dangerous: The Double Album ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 )
13 10 53 Zach Bryan ‒ Zach Bryan ( 1 )
14 13 90 SOS ‒ SZA ( 1 )
15 15 10 Exodo ‒ Peso Pluma ( 5 )
16 14 119 American Heartbreak ‒ Zach Bryan ( 5 )
17 11 6 Twisters: The Album ‒ Soundtrack ( 7 )
18 16 13 Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going ‒ Shaboozey ( 5 )
19 New 1 About A Woman ‒ Thomas Rhett ( 19 )
20 New 1 Incomodo ‒ Tito Double P ( 20 )
21 19 21 Fireworks & Rollerblades ‒ Benson Boone ( 6 )
22 20 262 Lover ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
23 23 23 We Don't Trust You ‒ Future & Metro Boomin ( 1 )
24 21 7 The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) ‒ Eminem ( 1 )
25 27 47 I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I) ‒ Teddy Swims ( 17 )

26 22 214 Folklore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
27 24 51 Guts ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )
28 58 49 Emails I Can't Send ‒ Sabrina Carpenter ( 23 )
29 25 97 Midnights ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
30 28 44 1989 (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
31 26 378 This One's For You ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )
32 37 10 The Secret Of Us ‒ Gracie Abrams ( 2 )
33 29 596 Rumours ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 1 )
34 32 121 Un Verano Sin Ti ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )
35 36 57 Utopia ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )
36 42 62 Genesis ‒ Peso Pluma ( 3 )
37 40 397 Blonde ‒ Frank Ocean ( 1 )
38 33 709 Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits ‒ Creedence Clearwater Revival ( 18 )
39 35 13 The First Time ‒ The Kid LAROI ( 24 )
40 41 385 DAMN. ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )
41 39 171 Sour ‒ Olivia Rodrigo ( 1 )
42 45 47 For All The Dogs ‒ Drake ( 1 )
43 43 699 Curtain Call: The Hits ‒ Eminem ( 1 )
44 34 310 reputation ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
45 46 355 Diamonds ‒ Elton John ( 7 )
46 44 618 good kid, m.A.A.d city ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 2 )
47 47 75 Gettin' Old ‒ Luke Combs ( 4 )
48 50 26 A Great Chaos ‒ Ken Carson ( 11 )
49 31 3 Sugar Honey Iced Tea ‒ Latto ( 15 )
50 38 6 Ate: Mini Album (EP) ‒ Stray Kids ( 1 )

51 51 377 Ctrl ‒ SZA ( 3 )
52 48 25 Eternal Sunshine ‒ Ariana Grande ( 1 )
53 53 16 One Of Wun ‒ Gunna ( 2 )
54 54 610 Greatest Hits ‒ Queen ( 8 )
55 18 2 Before I Disappear Again ‒ NoCap ( 18 )
56 60 45 Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 14 )
57 52 68 Religiously. The Album. ‒ Bailey Zimmerman ( 7 )
58 61 203 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 ‒ Nickelback ( 21 )
59 ReEntry 222 Hollywood's Bleeding ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )
60 30 11 Hardstone Psycho ‒ Don Toliver ( 3 )
61 62 600 Take Care ‒ Drake ( 1 )
62 59 11 New World Depression ‒ $uicideboy$ ( 5 )
63 56 850 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers ‒ Bob Marley And The Wailers ( 5 )
64 79 122 I Never Liked You ‒ Future ( 1 )
65 66 820 Journey's Greatest Hits ‒ Journey ( 10 )
66 49 5 Pero No Te Enamores ‒ Fuerza Regida ( 25 )
67 12 2 Popular Monster ‒ Falling In Reverse ( 12 )
68 55 235 My Turn ‒ Lil Baby ( 1 )
69 90 41 11:11 ‒ Chris Brown ( 9 )
70 70 193 Channel Orange ‒ Frank Ocean ( 2 )
71 57 7 Am I Okay? ‒ Megan Moroney ( 9 )
72 74 343 Graduation ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )
73 67 333 Hozier ‒ Hozier ( 2 )
74 63 309 If I Know Me ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 10 )
75 100 165 35 Biggest Hits ‒ Toby Keith ( 1 )

76 65 468 Traveller ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 1 )
77 73 165 Meteora ‒ Linkin Park ( 1 )
78 72 551 Born To Die ‒ Lana Del Rey ( 2 )
79 81 156 Certified Lover Boy ‒ Drake ( 1 )
80 69 6 Muse ‒ Jimin ( 2 )
81 83 38 Think Later ‒ Tate McRae ( 4 )
82 New 1 La Pantera Negra ‒ Myke Towers ( 82 )
83 77 356 Starboy ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )
84 85 317 ASTROWORLD ‒ Travis Scott ( 1 )
85 75 6 9 Lives ‒ Koe Wetzel ( 15 )
86 71 146 Red (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
87 80 91 Heroes & Villains ‒ Metro Boomin ( 1 )
88 76 251 What You See Is What You Get ‒ Luke Combs ( 1 )
89 68 9 Megan ‒ Megan Thee Stallion ( 3 )
90 84 386 T R A P S O U L ‒ Bryson Tiller ( 8 )
91 94 172 Greatest Hits ‒ Pitbull ( 77 )
92 92 328 Goodbye & Good Riddance ‒ Juice WRLD ( 4 )
93 82 7 Charm ‒ Clairo ( 8 )
94 17 41 The Diamond Collection ‒ Post Malone ( 12 )
95 114 5 Child Of God ‒ Forrest Frank ( 28 )
96 88 466 Hamilton: An American Musical ‒ Original Broadway Cast ( 2 )
97 New 1 Romance ‒ FONTAINES D.C. ( 97 )
98 ReEntry 108 Greatest Hits ‒ Creed ( 15 )
99 87 581 Greatest Hits ‒ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ( 2 )
100 95 21 Ehhthang Ehhthang ‒ GloRilla ( 18 )

101 96 258 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates ‒ Daryl Hall John Oates ( 34 )
102 91 46 Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Manana ‒ Bad Bunny ( 1 )
103 102 685 Nevermind ‒ Nirvana ( 1 )
104 108 47 $ad Boyz 4 Life II ‒ Junior H ( 14 )
105 103 65 Whitsitt Chapel ‒ Jelly Roll ( 3 )
106 113 50 Nostalgia ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )
107 98 198 Starting Over ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )
108 147 2 Cold Beer & Country Music ‒ Zach Top ( 108 )
109 109 489 The Essential Michael Jackson ‒ Michael Jackson ( 31 )
110 89 23 Unheard (EP) ‒ Hozier ( 10 )
111 99 433 Views ‒ Drake ( 1 )
112 104 42 Higher ‒ Chris Stapleton ( 3 )
113 New 1 Play Cash Cobain ‒ Cash Cobain ( 113 )
114 86 194 Evermore ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
115 115 24 Mr. Beat The Road ‒ BossMan DLow ( 20 )
116 101 435 ANTI ‒ Rihanna ( 1 )
117 107 255 IGOR ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 1 )
118 122 508 2014 Forest Hills Drive ‒ J. Cole ( 1 )
119 116 19 Papercuts ‒ Linkin Park ( 6 )
120 106 76 Summertime Blues ‒ Zach Bryan ( 34 )
121 93 22 Cowboy Carter ‒ Beyonce ( 1 )
122 105 322 Scorpion ‒ Drake ( 1 )
123 112 299 50 Number Ones ‒ George Strait ( 1 )
124 126 537 Greatest Hits ‒ 2Pac ( 3 )
125 120 156 After Hours ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )

126 123 79 Manana Sera Bonito ‒ Karol G ( 1 )
127 121 691 Greatest Hits ‒ Guns N' Roses ( 3 )
128 125 33 American Dream ‒ 21 Savage ( 1 )
129 111 64 Elisabeth ‒ Zach Bryan ( 76 )
130 131 641 Thriller ‒ Michael Jackson ( 1 )
131 97 7 Descendants: The Rise Of Red ‒ Soundtrack ( 60 )
132 129 691 Doo-Wops & Hooligans ‒ Bruno Mars ( 3 )
133 130 388 Teenage Dream ‒ Katy Perry ( 1 )
134 78 7 Romance : Untold ‒ ENHYPEN ( 2 )
135 110 60 Speak Now (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
136 128 380 The Fame ‒ Lady Gaga ( 2 )
137 118 6 Mirada ‒ Ivan Cornejo ( 17 )
138 117 11 Speak Now ‒ Moneybagg Yo ( 13 )
139 132 271 Greatest Hits ‒ Foo Fighters ( 11 )
140 124 48 20 Number Ones ‒ Thomas Rhett ( 22 )
141 64 4 Vultures 2 ‒ ¥$: Ye & Ty Dolla $ign ( 2 )
142 134 341 Gold: Greatest Hits ‒ ABBA ( 25 )
143 136 318 AM ‒ Arctic Monkeys ( 6 )
144 139 222 Confessions ‒ Usher ( 1 )
145 133 20 We Still Don't Trust You ‒ Future & Metro Boomin ( 1 )
146 127 212 Purgatory ‒ Tyler Childers ( 71 )
147 143 55 Amar ‒ BigXthaPlug ( 97 )
148 135 282 DS2 ‒ Future ( 1 )
149 137 316 Beauty Behind The Madness ‒ The Weeknd ( 1 )
150 145 453 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 ‒ Eagles ( 1 )

151 144 18 PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 (P4) ‒ PARTYNEXTDOOR ( 10 )
152 159 126 7220 ‒ Lil Durk ( 1 )
153 154 55 Manana Sera Bonito (Bichota Season) ‒ Karol G ( 3 )
154 157 400 Greatest Hits So Far... ‒ Zac Brown Band ( 20 )
155 138 53 Greatest Hits ‒ Aerosmith ( 36 )
156 146 275 All Time Greatest Hits ‒ Lynyrd Skynyrd ( 56 )
157 140 621 Back In Black ‒ AC/DC ( 4 )
158 148 27 Bewitched ‒ Laufey ( 18 )
159 153 228 Future Nostalgia ‒ Dua Lipa ( 3 )
160 149 536 Greatest Hits ‒ Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ( 8 )
161 160 366 Luv Is Rage 2 ‒ Lil Uzi Vert ( 1 )
162 ReEntry 59 I Am Music ‒ Lil Wayne ( 25 )
163 150 7 Artificial Paradise ‒ OneRepublic ( 50 )
164 155 231 Sublime ‒ Sublime ( 13 )
165 167 95 Her Loss ‒ Drake & 21 Savage ( 1 )
166 156 56 El Comienzo ‒ Grupo Frontera ( 34 )
167 165 757 Metallica ‒ Metallica ( 1 )
168 177 166 Planet Her ‒ Doja Cat ( 2 )
169 158 234 Get Rich Or Die Tryin' ‒ 50 Cent ( 1 )
170 195 166 SoulFly ‒ Rod Wave ( 1 )
171 142 283 When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )
172 186 260 Tha Carter III ‒ Lil Wayne ( 1 )
173 164 387 Moana ‒ Soundtrack ( 2 )
174 171 14 T-Pain Presents Happy Hour: The Greatest Hits ‒ T-Pain ( 171 )
175 198 282 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ‒ Kanye West ( 1 )

176 175 305 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac ( 14 )
177 166 507 1989 ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
178 178 256 Over It ‒ Summer Walker ( 2 )
179 176 359 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection ‒ Bon Jovi ( 5 )
180 168 180 The Highlights ‒ The Weeknd ( 2 )
181 179 41 Leather ‒ Cody Johnson ( 18 )
182 ReEntry 297 beerbongs & bentleys ‒ Post Malone ( 1 )
183 197 332 ? ‒ XXXTENTACION ( 1 )
184 162 164 Fearless (Taylor's Version) ‒ Taylor Swift ( 1 )
185 174 208 Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits ‒ Elvis Presley ( 1 )
186 163 234 Unorthodox Jukebox ‒ Bruno Mars ( 1 )
187 180 23 Livin' My Best Life ‒ Dylan Scott ( 60 )
188 ReEntry 2 Greatest Hits ‒ Avril Lavigne ( 76 )
189 184 609 21 ‒ Adele ( 1 )
190 181 111 Toxicity ‒ System Of A Down ( 1 )
191 187 379 Greatest Hits ‒ The Notorious B.I.G. ( 1 )
192 161 84 The Mockingbird & The Crow ‒ HARDY ( 4 )
193 200 93 Bell Bottom Country ‒ Lainey Wilson ( 51 )
194 182 202 Flower Boy ‒ Tyler, The Creator ( 2 )
195 ReEntry 201 Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon ‒ Pop Smoke ( 1 )
196 169 161 Happier Than Ever ‒ Billie Eilish ( 1 )
197 New 1 Mr. Skii ‒ Luh Tyler ( 197 )
198 193 34 Larger Than Life ‒ Brent Faiyaz ( 11 )
199 119 2 SIS (Soft Is Strong) (EP) ‒ KATSEYE ( 119 )
200 185 210 I Will Always Love You: The Best Of Whitney Houston ‒ Whitney Houston ( 14 )

[ampersand]

It’s amazing that the original 1989 is still charting, even with the TV out. Has this happened with any of her other re-records?

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/lainey-wilson-whirlwind-top-10-debut-album-sales-chart-1235767617/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Lainey Wilson Nabs First Top 10 on Billboard’s Album Sales Chart With ‘Whirlwind’
By Keith Caulfield
09/4/2024

Plus: Travis Scott, Sabrina Carpenter, Thomas Rhett and FONTAINES D.C. debut in the top 10 too.

Lainey Wilson scores her first top 10, with her best sales week ever, on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Sept. 7) as her fifth studio album Whirlwind arrives at No. 3 with 34,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 29, according to Luminate. The set is the follow-up to her breakthrough album Bell Bottom Country, which was her only other charting set on Top Album Sales, peaking at No. 15 in November 2022.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart, Travis Scott’s Days Before Rodeo charges in at No. 1 with the second-largest sales week of 2024, Sabrina Carpenter notches her biggest sales week ever – and the year’s second-largest for a vinyl album – with the No. 2 bow of Short n’ Sweet, Thomas Rhett achieves his seventh top 10 with the No. 5 debut of About a Woman, and FONTAINES D.C. land its first top 10 – and best sales week – with the No. 8 start of Romance.

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.

Whirlwind begins with 34,000 copies sold, and of that sum, physical sales comprise 22,000 (16,000 on CD and 6,000 on vinyl) and digital download album sales comprise 12,000.

The set’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across eight vinyl variants, three CD editions (including a signed edition sold in Wilson’s webstore, and a Walmart-exclusive CD containing a branded patch and a bonus track), a standard digital download album, and a deluxe digital album variant with four bonus “worktape” recordings (sold via Wilson’s webstore).

Travis Scott’s 2014 mixtape Days Before Rodeo roars at No. 1 on Top Album Sales with 331,000 copies sold – the second-largest sales week of 2024 and Scott’s best sales week ever. (The year’s largest sales week remains the debut frame of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, with 1.914 million copies sold.) Days was released on Aug. 23 commercially and widely through streaming services for the first time. Digital download album sales comprise 300,000 of Days’ first-week sum, while CD sales account for the remaining 31,000.

Days’ first-week sales figure was aided by its availability across eight digital album variants, seven of which included bonus tracks (ranging from unreleased studio cuts, to live tracks, to remixes), and most were sold exclusively via Scott’s official webstore. The album’s CD sales were generated by a stand-alone CD, as well as a CD that was part of a deluxe boxed set containing a branded hat – both of which were exclusive to Scott’s webstore.

In the coming weeks, the album will profit from two vinyl variants that are yet to ship to customers, in addition to two deluxe boxed sets containing the vinyl LP and branded merchandise – all of which are exclusive to Scott’s webstore.

Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet starts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 184,000 sold – her biggest sales week and the fifth-largest sales debut week of 2024.

Short n’ Sweet’s sales were enhanced by its availability across nine vinyl variants, five CD editions, two cassettes and four digital album download variants (three of which were exclusive to her webstore). Vinyl sales combined totaled 105,000 – Carpenter’s best week on vinyl and the second-largest sales week of the year for a vinyl album. Short n’ Sweet also debuts at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. (The largest vinyl sales week in 2024 for an album is owned by the debut week of Swift’s Poets, with 859,000.)

As for the rest of Short n’ Sweet’s first-week sales, it sold 33,000 on CD; 45,000 digital download albums; and 2,000 cassettes.

Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is pushed down 3-4, despite a 20% gain in sales to 18,000 sold for the week.

Thomas Rhett racks up his seventh top 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales as his latest studio album, About a Woman, arrives at No. 5 with 13,000 sold. Of that sum, nearly 4,000 were from vinyl LP sales – Rhett’s best vinyl sales week ever. Its sales were helped by its availability across more than a dozen vinyl variants.

Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion falls to No. 6 after debuting atop the list a week ago. It sold 12,000 copies in its second week (down 84%).

Stray Kids’ former No. 1 ATE dips 4-7 with 12,000 sold (down 17%).

FONTAINES D.C.’s Romance starts at No. 8 with nearly 9,000 sold – the first top 10 and best sales week for the act. The set was available across six vinyl variants (which sold a combined 6,000 – the act’s best week on vinyl).

Closing out the Top Album Sales’ top 10 are EHYPEN’s chart-topping Romance: Untold (moving 5-9 with 8,000; down 19%) and

Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft (7-10 with 7,000; down 9%).

[Darkest Hour]

Nearly 4,000 vinyl sales from more than a dozen vinyl variants is truly a different tier of flop.

[areyoureadytojump]

hitsdailydouble.com/near_truths_item&id=342514&title=NEAR-TRUTHS%253A-TICKETS-AND-CITATIONS

DON’T HATE THE PLAYER—HATE THE GAMING: The charts are royally fucked up. Billboard's Luminate has decimated the significance of its storied chart, once the richest metric of the state of play in the biz. The jockeying for #1—the only spot on the chart that matters anymore—has too often become a contest of manipulation as combatants scramble for one-off tricks like gamers deploying cheat codes.

That a 10-year-old SoundCloud mixtape with an SEA of about 30k could have come within inches of taking the #1 chart spot from the hottest pop act in the business only underscores how broken the current system is.

The spirited attempt by Travis Scott to wrest the crown from Island’s Sabrina Carpenter—she reportedly held onto #1 with just a .02% advantage (about 600 units)—might almost have been a protest effort to demonstrate that the present chart environment is bullshit, particularly given that hip-hop’s commercial relevance has taken some hits of late. What better time to demonstrate how the fix is in? Scott, manager David Stromberg and Sony’s Darren Stupak managed to create enough chaos with digital sales of the 2014 set (accompanied by some late-inning items direct from his hard drive) to show their muscle and make the point. Word has it that Luminate Partnerships Manager Nelson Thomas was at the center of the weekend’s prolonged tabulation controversy.

Carpenter scored Island’s first #1 album since Shawn Mendes summited the chart in 2020, and she’s approaching the 1m mark in ATD as of this writing; her album’s first week saw 2024’s third-biggest chart debut. As of this writing, Sabrina holds three of the top five spots (including #1) on the Spotify U.S. chart and four of the top six globally. Prognosticators are prognosticating that she’ll do 10m units globally.

Republic has been able to take the art of the chart to a new level—props to lieutenant Jim Roppo in particular—and Taylor Swift’s astounding retail game has helped her rule the chart for an astounding 15 nonconsecutive weeks and successfully defend the #1 spot against big debuts by Billie Eilish, Zach Bryan and Gracie Abrams, to name but three.

In any case, it shouldn’t be possible to game the chart by unleashing old mixtapes and manipulating the cost of digital downloads when this in no way expresses the true state of the marketplace. Scott has made his point; is the chart cabal paying attention?

[jdanton2]

Sept 6, 2024 16:03:09 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

hitsdailydouble.com/near_truths_item&id=342514&title=NEAR-TRUTHS%253A-TICKETS-AND-CITATIONS

DON’T HATE THE PLAYER—HATE THE GAMING: The charts are royally fucked up. Billboard's Luminate has decimated the significance of its storied chart, once the richest metric of the state of play in the biz. The jockeying for #1—the only spot on the chart that matters anymore—has too often become a contest of manipulation as combatants scramble for one-off tricks like gamers deploying cheat codes.

That a 10-year-old SoundCloud mixtape with an SEA of about 30k could have come within inches of taking the #1 chart spot from the hottest pop act in the business only underscores how broken the current system is.

The spirited attempt by Travis Scott to wrest the crown from Island’s Sabrina Carpenter—she reportedly held onto #1 with just a .02% advantage (about 600 units)—might almost have been a protest effort to demonstrate that the present chart environment is bullshit, particularly given that hip-hop’s commercial relevance has taken some hits of late. What better time to demonstrate how the fix is in? Scott, manager David Stromberg and Sony’s Darren Stupak managed to create enough chaos with digital sales of the 2014 set (accompanied by some late-inning items direct from his hard drive) to show their muscle and make the point. Word has it that Luminate Partnerships Manager Nelson Thomas was at the center of the weekend’s prolonged tabulation controversy.

Carpenter scored Island’s first #1 album since Shawn Mendes summited the chart in 2020, and she’s approaching the 1m mark in ATD as of this writing; her album’s first week saw 2024’s third-biggest chart debut. As of this writing, Sabrina holds three of the top five spots (including #1) on the Spotify U.S. chart and four of the top six globally. Prognosticators are prognosticating that she’ll do 10m units globally.

Republic has been able to take the art of the chart to a new level—props to lieutenant Jim Roppo in particular—and Taylor Swift’s astounding retail game has helped her rule the chart for an astounding 15 nonconsecutive weeks and successfully defend the #1 spot against big debuts by Billie Eilish, Zach Bryan and Gracie Abrams, to name but three.

In any case, it shouldn’t be possible to game the chart by unleashing old mixtapes and manipulating the cost of digital downloads when this in no way expresses the true state of the marketplace. Scott has made his point; is the chart cabal paying attention?

it is interesting that since they dislike the Billboard numbers so much why did they not post their chart last week?

[Choco]

HDD never misses a chance to throw shade but sadly for them the minute Billboard starts giving rough estimates earlier on the week no one will even check HDD again

[Coco Yu'Kneek- Saint]

This is sad Sabrina remains top of the charts and unbothered while he is digging through cushions on his couch look for extra copies to count as sales of his old ass mixtape .

[areyoureadytojump]

The drama continues:

www.vulture.com/article/travis-scott-sabrina-carpenter-charts.html

“Travis Scott’s Label Disputes Sabrina Carpenter’s No. 1”

One of the closest chart races in recent memory ended with Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet barely eking out the No. 1 spot over Travis Scott’s Days Before Rodeo, the 2014 mixtape he released for the first time. But before the final numbers came out September 3, Scott’s label was disputing the results.

Vulture obtained a letter that Cactus Jack Records sent to representatives for Billboard and Luminate, which tabulates weekly data for the Billboard charts. Written ahead of the Billboard 200’s publication, the letter alleges the process behind that week’s albums chart was “unreliable and incomplete,” focusing on a portion of sales Cactus Jack claimed were not included in Days Before Rodeo’s final number and could have pushed Scott to No. 1. (The writer of the unsigned letter claims they are “not reaching out as management for an upset artist” but instead on behalf of Cactus Jack Records and Scott’s Cactus Jack store.)

A spokesperson for Luminate confirmed the company received a letter from a label disputing that week’s Billboard 200, adding that the company routinely corresponds with labels to verify data for the week’s charts. In this case, the company is standing by its data. “We are confident that our numbers are correct in accordance with our processes and methodology,” the spokesperson said. Cactus Jack declined to comment. Representatives for Scott and Billboard have not responded to Vulture’s requests for comment.

As part of a final push for No. 1, Scott released multiple deluxe digital editions of Days Before Rodeo during the last day of tracking on August 29, including a final release around 11:20 p.m. ET. That final edition spurred “an extremely high volume of orders,” Cactus Jack’s letter claims, causing delays in the final minutes of tracking. The letter says an executive at Single, the music-selling app for Shopify, alerted Cactus Jack that “about 1000 units” of Days Before Rodeo were delayed and not reported to Luminate but would be counted during the next tracking week (text screenshots attached to the letter show the alleged conversation). At that point, a representative for Cactus Jack allegedly responded to Single, “All good not worth the headache.” Single declined to comment on its clients’ sales.

According to the letter, Cactus Jack was not initially concerned about those units because data available to labels on August 31 showed Scott with a 11,000-unit lead over Carpenter. But after independent retail numbers were reported on Sunday, Carpenter had taken the lead. While data like streaming numbers are reported to Luminate every day, indie record stores only report sales at the end of the week. The letter suggests Carpenter’s indie sales had been weighted more heavily than a normal album sale, even though Luminate stopped that practice at the beginning of 2024 to improve accuracy. “It clearly bumped Sabrina’s final number of units just above Travis by almost the exact amount of units we erroneously ‘lost’ that would have counted toward week 1,” the letter says. Representatives for Carpenter have not responded to Vulture’s requests for comment.

Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet ended up debuting at No. 1 with 362,000 album units, while Days Before Rodeo logged “a little over” 361,000, Billboard reported. The letter claims Scott’s units in question “comprised 1,291 actual units verified to have timestamps between 11:45–11:59pm.”

The letter alleges Cactus Jack attempted to notify Luminate about the units before September 3, claiming Luminate responded that it could not update the data because it had already been sent to other labels, and because Cactus Jack reported the data late. (Luminate declined to comment further.) But the letter also claims Single attempted to communicate with Luminate about the data over the weekend, attaching emails that do not appear to directly reference the units in question.

The letter also notes that Cactus Jack was previously able to count delayed orders in the final numbers for Scott’s 2023 album Utopia, but those units had been added before data was reported to labels. “Upholding the legitimacy of the data should be of paramount importance more so than fielding questions from upset competitors,” the letter says.

Cactus Jack’s letter adds that it “is especially concerning” that the Luminate employee whom Cactus Jack and Single corresponded with had previously worked for Carpenter’s label, Island Records, alleging he would have “a personal incentive” for Carpenter to earn a No. 1. “Occam’s razor principle dictates the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct,” the letter says. According to the employee’s LinkedIn, he left Island in May 2021, four months after the label signed Carpenter in January. Vulture has reached out to the employee. Luminate also works with both Scott’s parent label, Sony Music Entertainment, and Island’s parent, Universal Music Group, according to its website.

“All of this paints a deeply troubling picture especially given the drastic swing reported,” the letter claims. It concludes by asking Luminate “to give one final consideration” to units in question.