TOMORROW X TOGETHER Is No. 1 – Billboard

TOMORROW X TOGETHER lands its third No. 1 on Billboard’s High Album Gross sales chart (dated Could 28), as Minisode 2: Thursday’s Baby debuts atop the tally. The set offered 65,500 within the U.S. within the week ending Could 19, in keeping with Luminate, marking the third-largest gross sales week of 2022 for any album.

The South Korean pop quintet has beforehand hit No. 1 on High Album Gross sales with The Chaos Chapter: Freeze (in 2021) and Minisode1: Blue Hour (2020).

Additionally within the high 10 of the brand new High Album Gross sales chart: new albums from Florence + The Machine, Kendrick Lamar, The Black Keys and The Rolling Stones all debut, whereas Slipknot’s Iowa and One Path’s 4 each return to the highest 10 after they have been every reissued on vinyl LP.

Billboard’s High Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based mostly solely on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to Could 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend data from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales have been the only measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart via the checklist dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a strategy that blends album gross sales with observe equal album models and streaming equal album models. The brand new Could 28, 2022-dated chart shall be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Could 24.  For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.

Minisode 2: Thursday’s Baby enters at No. 1 on High Album Gross sales with the third-largest gross sales week of any album in 2022 – 65,500 offered. It additionally marks one of the best gross sales week but for the group. Successfully all of that sum was offered via CDs whereas solely about 500 have been offered by way of digital obtain. The five-track album was not out there on every other configuration, akin to vinyl LP or cassette.

Like many Okay-pop releases, the CD configuration of the album was issued in collectible packages (eight complete, together with unique variations for Goal and Barnes & Noble), every with an ordinary set of inner paper objects and randomized components, akin to photocards and put up playing cards.

Florence + The Machine’s new studio album Dance Fever debuts at No. 1 on High Album Gross sales with 42,500 copies offered – with 17,000 of that sum on vinyl LP. (It additionally debuts at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart, which ranks the top-selling vinyl albums of the week.)

Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Huge Steppers begins at No. 3 on High Album Gross sales with 35,500 offered – all from its digital obtain. The album, which additionally launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, gained’t be launched on CD till Could 27.

The Black Keys’ Dropout Boogie bows at No. 4 on High Album Gross sales with 27,500 copies offered – of which 13,500 are vinyl LPs. It’s No. 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart.

The Rolling Stones’ dwell archival album, Reside on the El Mocambo, debuts at No. 5 on High Album Gross sales with 11,500 offered. The discharge chronicles two secret concert events the Stones staged on the El Mocambo membership in Toronto in March of 1977. It contains the band’s full set from the March 5 present and three bonus tracks from the March 4 live performance.

Slipknot’s Iowa album, launched in 2001, re-enters High Album Gross sales at No. 6 with 7,500 offered (up from a negligible sum the earlier week), following a brand new green-colored vinyl urgent of the set. Successfully all the album’s gross sales have been by way of vinyl.

Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Bitter rises 8-7 with 7,000 offered (up 8%) and Lamar’s good child, m.A.A.d metropolis jumps 12-8 with 6,500 offered (up 33%).

One Path’s chart-topping 4, launched in 2014, re-enters the chart at No. 9 after its City Outfitters-exclusive red-colored vinyl urgent was restocked. In complete, the album, throughout all configurations, offered 6,500 copies (up 1,820%) with a bit of over 6,000 of that from vinyl LP gross sales.

Arcade Fireplace’s We rounds out the highest 10 of the High Album Gross sales chart, falling from No. 1 to No. 10 in its second week, promoting 6,000 copies (down 77%).

Within the week ending Could 19, there have been 1.765 million albums offered within the U.S. (up 4% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so forth.) comprised 1.347 million (up 1.1%) and digital albums comprised 418,000 (up 1.1%).

There have been 648,000 CD albums offered within the week ending Could 19 (up 4.2% week-over-week) and 690,000 vinyl albums offered (up 5.6%). 12 months-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 12.639 million (down 12% in comparison with the identical timeframe a 12 months in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales complete 14.746 million (up 3.9%).

Total year-to-date album gross sales complete 35.676 million (down 7.9% in comparison with the identical year-to-date timeframe a 12 months in the past). 12 months-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 27.572 million (down 4%) and digital album gross sales complete 8.104 million (down 19%).