TWICE Ratings 6th Best 10 on Album Gross sales Chart With ‘STRATEGY’

TWICE rankings its 6th height 10 in a row at the Best Album Gross sales chart as STRATEGY debuts at No. 2 at the Dec. 21-dated record. The set bought 81,000 copies within the U.S. within the week finishing Dec. 18, in line with Luminate. Additionally shaking up the tip 10: ROSÉ’s solo debut rosie enters at No. 3, Sabrina Chippie’s year-old Fruitcake debt at No. 4, J. Cole’s 2014 Woodland Hills Force reenters at No. 5 following a tenth anniversary reissue and Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack jumps 17-10.

Billboard’s Best Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week primarily based handiest 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 rely data from SoundScan, now Luminate. Natural album gross sales have been the only real size used by the Billboard 200 albums chart throughout the record dated Dec. 6, 2014, and then that chart switched to a strategy that blends album gross sales with observe similar album gadgets and streaming similar album gadgets.

Of STRATEGY’s first-week gross sales of 81,000, CD gross sales contain 72,000, with the rest gross sales comprising vinyl and virtual obtain albums. The album’s first-week gross sales have been aided via its availability throughout greater than 15 CD and vinyl editions, all inclusive of collectible paper ephemera (some randomized).

At No. 1 on Best Album Gross sales, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division nets a tenth nonconsecutive week on height, with 201,000 copies bought (down 45%), because it continues to benefit from the Goal-exclusive liberate of the CD and vinyl editions of the Anthology model of the album.

ROSÉ’s solo debut set rosie arrives at No. 3 on Best Album Gross sales with 70,000 copies bought. Pop workforce BLACKPINK, of which she is a member, has logged 3 height 10s, together with two No. 1s: THE ALBUM in 2020 and BORN PINK in 2022. Of rosie’s first-week gross sales of 70,000, CD gross sales contain 30,000, vinyl gross sales contain 29,000 and the rest gross sales are constructed from virtual obtain album purchases and cassettes. The set’s first-week gross sales have been strengthened via its availability throughout greater than 15 bodily variants of the album throughout CD and vinyl editions, many together with collectible ephemera (some randomized).

Sabrina Chippie’s 2023 vacation effort Fruitcake debuts at No. 4 on Best Album Gross sales (39,000 bought) following its large liberate on CD, vinyl (in 3 variants) and cassette on Dec. 6. The set rankings the largest gross sales week for a vacation album in 4 years, and the biggest gross sales week within the trendy technology for a vacation album on vinyl.

J. Cole’s chart-topping 2014 Woodland Hills Force returns to the tip 10, reentering at No. 5 (33,000; up 2,648%), following its tenth anniversary reissue on CD, vinyl and virtual obtain – with some variations together with bonus tracks. The Depraved movie soundtrack, a former No. 1, falls 2-6 with 30,000 (down 41%); Chippie’s Quick n’ Candy slips 5-7 with 28,000 (despite the fact that, up 25%); Chappell Roan’s former chief The Upward thrust and Fall of a Midwest Princess falls 3-8 (just about 21,000; down 16%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Onerous and Cushy falls 4-9 (18,000; down 21%).

Last out the tip 10 is Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas TV soundtrack, leaping 17-10 with just about 14,000 copies bought (up 13%). The set, which peaked at No. 2 in Dec. 2022, returns to the tip 10 for the primary time because the Jan. 7, 2023-dated record when it ranked at No. 8.