With ‘Patient Number 9,’ Ozzy Osbourne Achieves His First No. 1 On Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart.

Ozzy Osbourne earns his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart with Patient Number 9, his latest studio album, which debuts at the top of the 31-year-old tally. According to Luminate, the set sold 52,500 copies in the United States in the week ending September 15. In addition, the album debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Hard Rock Albums, Top Current Album Sales, Tastemaker Albums, and Vinyl Albums charts.

Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, and Top Hard Rock Albums are the equivalent album unit rankings of the week’s most popular rock and alternative, rock, and hard rock releases. Top Current Album Sales lists the top-selling current albums for the week (excluding older albums, referred to as catalog). Tastemaker Albums ranks the best-selling albums in independent and small chain record stores for the week. Vinyl Albums tracks the week’s best-selling vinyl albums.

Patient Number 9 is Osbourne’s seventh top ten album on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart since its release in 1991. Ordinary Man (No. 2 in 2020), Scream (No. 4, 2010), Black Rain (No. 3, 2007), Down to Earth (No. 4, 2001), Ozzmosis (No. 4, 1995), and No More Tears were his previous top ten hits (No. 7, 1991).

Osbourne’s solo chart history began in 1981, when Blizzard of Ozz debuted on the Billboard 200 on April 18, 1981, and peaked at No. 21 in August of that year. Before that, the band Black Sabbath, which included Osbourne, debuted on the Billboard 200 on August 29, 1970, with its self-titled album, eventually peaking at No. 23 that December.

Patient Number 9 sold 52,500 copies in its first week, with physical sales accounting for 44,500 (16,500 on vinyl, 27,500 on CD, and 500 on cassette) and digital downloads accounting for 8,000.

Patient also debuts at No. 1 on Vinyl Albums, with 16,500 copies sold – Osbourne’s best sales week for a vinyl album since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. The album was available in a variety of vinyl colour variants that were only available through the artist’s official webstore, independent record stores, Amazon, Revolver, Target, and Walmart, as well as a picture disc that was only available at Urban Outfitters. Furthermore, The Patient album was sold in deluxe packages that included either a vinyl LP or a CD as well as a Patient Number 9 comic book.

NAV’s Demons Protected by Angels debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 26,000 units sold. With nearly 20,000 sold, Jackson Wang’s Magic Man debuts at No. 3 and Kane Brown’s Different Man debuts at No. 4.

TWICE’s number-one single Between 1 and 2: 11th Mini Album drops 2-5 with 12,000 (a 50% decrease) and Megadeth’s The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead! With 11,000 (down 75%), it falls 1-7 in its second week.

Stick Figure’s Wisdom debuts at No. 7 with 10,000 sold, while The Midnight debuts at No. 10 with 7,000 sold, and Heroes debuts at No. 8 with 7,000 sold. Harry Styles’ chart-topping Harry’s House drops 5-9 percent to nearly 7,000 (a 20% decrease).

Stranger Things: Original Soundtrack Season 4 of the Netflix series enters the top 10 for the first time, re-entering at No. 10 with 6,000 units sold (up 3,159%). The album peaked at No. 19 on the July 16 chart. On September 9, the album was released on CD and cassette (it had previously been commercially available to purchase only as a download album). The album sold 4,000 CDs and 2,000 cassettes in the week ending September 15.

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