With ‘5SOS5,’ 5 Seconds Of Summer achieve Their Fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart.
5 Seconds of Summer earns their fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Oct. 8), with their new studio album, 5SOS5. According to Luminate, the set sold 36,000 copies in the United States in the week ending September 29. All five of the quartet’s full-length studio albums have debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the week’s best-selling albums based solely on traditional album sales. The chart’s history begins on May 25, 1991, when Billboard began tabulating charts using electronically monitored piece count data from SoundScan, now Luminate. The Billboard 200 albums chart used only album sales until the list dated December 6, 2014, when it switched to a methodology that combined album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. Follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on Twitter and Instagram for all chart news.
5SOS5 sold 36,000 copies in its first week, with physical sales accounting for 30,000 (13,000 on vinyl, 16,500 on CD, and 500 on cassette) and digital downloads accounting for 6,000. The availability of the set across six vinyl variants boosted sales, giving the band its best sales week on wax. CDs continued to lead the overall sales charge, owing to the availability of multiple versions in collectible packaging (including alternate cover art for each of the four band members) and deluxe boxed sets.
BLACKPINK’s Born Pink drops to No. 2 in its second week, selling 26,000 copies (a 65% decrease).
Following the set’s 30th-anniversary remastered reissue on Sept. 23, Alice in Chains’ Dirt re-enters Top Album Sales at a new high of No. 3 (23,000 sold; up 4,947%).
The album, which was released in 1992, returns to the list for the first time since 1994. It achieves its highest chart position, surpassing its initial No. 6 debut and peak on the Oct. 17, 1992-dated chart.
Dirt’s re-entry is being fueled largely by sales of its double vinyl album, which has sold 22,500 copies across three different pressings (a widely available standard black LP, a red-colored variant exclusive to Walmart, and an orange-colored LP only available through the band’s webstore). That vinyl sum, the band’s highest since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991, is also enough to propel the album to the top of the Vinyl Albums chart.
NCT 127’s 2 Baddies descends from No. 2 to No. 4 in its second week with 13,000 copies sold (down 77%).
Marina and The Diamonds’ Electra Heart re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 5 with 10,500 sold (up 9,480%), marking the 10-year-old set’s first visit to the top 10. It’s back on the list following a 10th anniversary expanded reissue on magenta-colored vinyl (Sept. 23). (Sept. 23). Effectively all of it sales were on vinyl LP, easily the act’s best week on vinyl, aiding its debut at No. 3 on Vinyl Albums.
Kelsea Ballerini’s new studio album Subject to Change debuts at No. 6 with 9,500 sold – marking the singer’s third top 10 on the tally.
There were 617,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Sept. 29 (down 12.4% week-over-week) and 689,000 vinyl albums sold (up 4.3%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 25.434 million (down 7.9% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 28.552 million (up 0.9%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 69.597 million (down 7.9% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 54.378 million (down 3.3%) and digital album sales total 15.219 million (down 21.1%).
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