Metallica’s 72 Seasons opens at No. 1 on Billboard’s High Album Gross sales chart (dated April 29) with the most important gross sales week in over three-and-a-half years for any rock or arduous rock album. The set bows with 134,000 copies offered in america within the week ending April 20, based on Luminate. It’s the eighth No. 1 on High Album Gross sales for the band.
72 Seasons marks the group’s first authentic album in almost seven years, since 2016’s chart-topping Hardwired… To Self-Destruct.
Additionally on High Album Gross sales, Waterparks notches its highest charting set and finest gross sales week ever – as Mental Property bows at No. 2. Plus, Yung Bleu and Prof each log their first prime 10s with the arrivals of Love Scars II and Horse, respectively.
Billboard’s High Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week primarily based solely on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to Might 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 by means of the listing dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a strategy that blends album gross sales with monitor equal album items and streaming equal album items. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.
72 Seasons bows with the most important gross sales week for any rock or arduous rock album since Worry Inoculum’s debut with 248,000 offered (No. 1, chart dated Sept. 14, 2019).
Of 72 Seasons’ 134,000 offered, bodily gross sales comprise 106,500 (59,000 on CD, 42,500 on vinyl and 5,000 on cassette) and digital obtain gross sales comprise almost 27,500. The vinyl gross sales sum marks Metallica’s largest gross sales week for an album on the format since Luminate started monitoring gross sales in 1991.
Waterparks collects its highest-charting set and finest gross sales week but as Mental Property debuts at No. 2 with 16,000 copies offered. It’s the third prime 10 for the rock act. Melanie Martinez’s former No. 1 Portals falls 2-3 with 13,000 offered (down 33%), Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Midnights climbs 5-4 with almost 13,000 (down 6%) and Morgan Wallen’s former chief One Factor at a Time vaults 15-5 with 12,000 (up 102%) after a brand new vinyl version of the album was launched.
Yung Bleu bows at No. 6 with Love Scars II, scoring his first prime 10 and finest gross sales week but, because the album begins with 10,000 offered. Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Underneath Ocean Blvd. falls 4-7 with 9,000 offered (down 35%). Rapper Prof achieves his first prime 10 and finest gross sales week with the No. 8 begin of Horse (9,000 offered). TWICE’s former No. 1 Able to Be dips 8-9 with almost 9,000 (down 18%) and TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping The Identify Chapter: Temptation slips 9-10 with almost 8,000 (down 14%).
Within the week ending April 20, there have been 2.023 million albums offered within the U.S. (up 0.4% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so forth.) comprised 1.675 million (up 0.4%) and digital albums comprised 348,000 (up 0.4%).
There have been 693,000 CD albums offered within the week ending April 20 (up 0.3% week-over-week) and 965,000 vinyl albums offered (up 0.4%). Yr-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 10.464 million (up 3.8% in comparison with the identical timeframe a 12 months in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales whole 14.487 million (up 27.7%).
General year-to-date album gross sales whole 30.786 million (up 9.7% in comparison with the identical year-to-date timeframe a 12 months in the past). Yr-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 25.116 million (up 16.4%) and digital album gross sales whole 5.670 million (down 12.6%).
