YUNGBLUD Debuts In The Billboard Top 10 Album Sales Chart

According to Luminate, YUNGBLUD’s self-titled third studio album debuts at No. 3 with 13,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending Sept. 8 – his first top 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Sept. 17) – and his best sales week yet.

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.

Physical sales accounted for 12,000 of the 13,000 copies sold in the first week of YUNGBLUD (6,500 on vinyl, 5,500 on CD, and a negligible sum on cassette), while digital downloads accounted for 1,000.

YUNGBLUD did well in independent record stores, debuting at No. 2 on the Tastemakers Albums chart, with nearly 5,000 copies sold. (Tastemakers ranks the top-selling indie albums of the week.) The album’s in-store sales were boosted by eight in-store performances by YUNGBLUD during the tracking week (dubbed by the artist as the American as F**k In-Store Tour).

Furthermore, the set debuts at No. 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart, with 6,500 vinyl LPs sold (50% of the album’s overall first week sales).

Megadeth’s The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead! debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales with 45,000 units sold, marking the rock band’s first chart-topper on the 31-year-old chart. The band had previously reached No. 2 with Countdown to Extinction in 1992 and Dystopia in 2016. Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Hard Rock Albums, Top Current Album Sales, and Tastemaker Albums all debut at No. 1.

TWICE’s Between 1&2: 11th Mini Album falls 1-2 on Top Album Sales in its second week (24,000; down 74%). Silk Sonic is the collaboration of Bruno Mars and Anderson. Paak’s An Evening With Silk Sonic falls 3-4 (10,000; down 73%), Harry Styles’ chart-topping Harry’s House rises 8-5 (8,000; up 10%), Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers falls 2-6 (nearly 8,000; down 80%), and ENHYPEN’s former leader Manifesto: Day 1 remains at No. 7 (7,000; down 11%).

Mr. Saturday Night, Jon Pardi’s third top ten album, debuts at No. 8 with 5,000 units sold. SEVENTEEN’s former No. 1 SEVENTEEN 4th Album Repackage: Sector 17 jumps 14-9 (down 5%).

Three Sides of One by King’s X, the rock band’s first studio album in 14 years, debuts at No. 10 with 4,000 sold. It’s the act’s first top ten in his 31-year career.

In the week ending September 8, 1.658 million albums were sold in the United States (a 5.7% decrease from the previous week). Physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) accounted for 1.292 million (down 6.5%), while digital albums accounted for 367,000 (down 2.6%).

In the week ending September 8, there were 606,000 CD albums sold (down 9.4% week over week) and 677,000 vinyl albums sold (down 3.5%). Year-to-date CD album sales are at 23.476 million (down 8.5% from the same period last year), while year-to-date vinyl album sales are at 26.545 million (up 0.2%).

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