Lainey Wilson scores her first prime 10, along with her finest gross sales week ever, on Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart (dated Sept. 7) as her fifth studio album Whirlwind arrives at No. 3 with 34,000 copies offered within the U.S. within the week ending Aug. 29, in keeping with Luminate. The set is the follow-up to her breakthrough album Bell Backside Nation, which was her solely different charting set on Prime Album Gross sales, peaking at No. 15 in November 2022.
Whirlwind additionally arrives within the prime 10 throughout an array of Billboard album charts, together with Unbiased Albums (No. 1), Prime Nation Albums (No. 3), the Billboard 200 (No. 8), Vinyl Albums (No. 3) and Indie Retailer Album Gross sales (No. 10).
Additionally within the prime 10 of the most recent Prime Album Gross sales chart, Travis Scott’s Days Earlier than Rodeo costs in at No. 1 with the second-largest gross sales week of 2024, Sabrina Carpenter notches her largest gross sales week ever – and the 12 months’s second-largest for a vinyl album – with the No. 2 bow of Quick n’ Candy, Thomas Rhett achieves his seventh prime 10 with the No. 5 debut of A few Lady, and FONTAINES D.C. land its first prime 10 – and finest gross sales week – with the No. 8 begin of Romance.
Billboard’s Prime 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 by way of the checklist 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 X, previously often called Twitter, and Instagram.
Whirlwind begins with 34,000 copies offered, and of that sum, bodily gross sales comprise 22,000 (16,000 on CD and 6,000 on vinyl) and digital obtain album gross sales comprise 12,000.
The set’s first-week gross sales have been bolstered by its availability throughout eight vinyl variants, three CD editions (together with a signed version offered in Wilson’s webstore, and a Walmart-exclusive CD containing a branded patch and a bonus monitor), a typical digital obtain album, and a deluxe digital album variant with 4 bonus “worktape” recordings (offered by way of Wilson’s webstore).
Scott’s 2014 mixtape Days Earlier than Rodeo roars at No. 1 on Prime Album Gross sales with 331,000 copies offered – the second-largest gross sales week of 2024 and Scott’s finest gross sales week ever. (The 12 months’s largest gross sales week stays the debut body of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division, with 1.914 million copies offered.) Days was launched on Aug. 23 commercially and extensively by way of streaming providers for the primary time. Digital obtain album gross sales comprise 300,000 of Days’ first-week sum, whereas CD gross sales account for the remaining 31,000.
Days’ first-week gross sales determine was aided by its availability throughout eight digital album variants, seven of which included bonus tracks (starting from unreleased studio cuts, to reside tracks, to remixes), and most have been offered completely by way of Scott’s official webstore. The album’s CD gross sales have been generated by a stand-alone CD, in addition to a CD that was a part of a deluxe boxed set containing a branded hat – each of which have been unique to Scott’s webstore.
Within the coming weeks, the album will revenue from two vinyl variants which might be but to ship to prospects, along with two deluxe boxed units containing the vinyl LP and branded merchandise – all of that are unique to Scott’s webstore.
Sabrina Carpenter’s Quick n’ Candy begins at No. 2 on Prime Album Gross sales with 184,000 offered – her largest gross sales week and the fifth-largest gross sales debut week of 2024.
Quick n’ Candy’s gross sales have been enhanced by its availability throughout 9 vinyl variants, 5 CD editions, two cassettes and 4 digital album obtain variants (three of which have been unique to her webstore). Vinyl gross sales mixed totaled 105,000 – Carpenter’s finest week on vinyl and the second-largest gross sales week of the 12 months for a vinyl album. Quick n’ Candy additionally debuts at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. (The most important vinyl gross sales week in 2024 for an album is owned by the debut week of Swift’s Poets, with 859,000.)
As for the remainder of Quick n’ Candy’s first-week gross sales, it offered 33,000 on CD; 45,000 digital obtain albums; and a couple of,000 cassettes.
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is pushed down 3-4, regardless of a 20% acquire in gross sales to 18,000 offered for the week.
Thomas Rhett racks up his seventh prime 10-charting effort on Prime Album Gross sales as his newest studio album, A few Lady, arrives at No. 5 with 13,000 offered. Of that sum, almost 4,000 have been from vinyl LP gross sales – Rhett’s finest vinyl gross sales week ever. Its gross sales have been helped by its availability throughout greater than a dozen vinyl variants.
Submit Malone’s F-1 Trillion falls to No. 6 after debuting atop the checklist every week in the past. It offered 12,000 copies in its second week (down 84%). Stray Children’ former No. 1 ATE dips 4-7 with 12,000 offered (down 17%).
FONTAINES D.C.’s Romance begins at No. 8 with almost 9,000 offered – the primary prime 10 and finest gross sales week for the act. The set was accessible throughout six vinyl variants (which offered a mixed 6,000 – the act’s finest week on vinyl).
Closing out the Prime Album Gross sales’ prime 10 are EHYPEN’s chart-topping Romance: Untold (shifting 5-9 with 8,000; down 19%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Laborious and Mushy (7-10 with 7,000; down 9%).
