‘A Philly Particular Christmas Birthday celebration’ Posts File-Breaking Debut

The Philly Specials’ charity album A Philly Particular Christmas Birthday celebration makes a festive debut throughout Billboard’s charts, opening at No. 1 on Unbiased Albums; within the peak 10 on Most sensible Album Gross sales (No. 2), Most sensible Vacation Albums (No. 2), Vinyl Albums (No. 2); and at No. 16 at the all-genre Billboard 200 (all charts dated Dec. 7).

It’s the 3rd and ultimate free up within the charity sequence, introduced by way of The Philly Specials (former Philadelphia Eagles soccer participant Jason Kelce and his teammates Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata).

Birthday celebration arrives with the most important gross sales week for any vacation album in 4 years, and the biggest gross sales week for a vacation album on vinyl within the trendy technology (since Luminate started electronically monitoring gross sales in 1991). A Philly Particular Christmas Birthday celebration bought 32,000 copies in its first week (finishing Nov. 28), with 22,000 of that sum on vinyl. The album used to be commercially launched on CD, vinyl and virtual obtain on Nov. 22.

The ultimate vacation set with a larger gross sales week total used to be when Carrie Underwood’s My Present bought 33,000 just about 3 months into its free up, at the Dec. 19, 2020-dated charts. Up to now, the most important gross sales week within the trendy technology for a vacation set on vinyl used to be when Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack driven thru 20,000 copies in overdue 2022 (Dec. 31, 2022 chart date).

The brand new Birthday celebration album boasts collaborations with the likes of Boyz II Males, Stevie Nicks, Mt. Pleasure and Jason’s brother (and Kansas Town Chiefs tight finish) Travis Kelce and comprises covers of tunes like “Possibly This Christmas,” “Closing Christmas” and “Please Come House for Christmas.”

Billboard’s Most sensible Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based totally simplest 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 knowledge from SoundScan, now Luminate. Natural album gross sales had been the only real size used by the Billboard 200 albums chart during the checklist dated Dec. 6, 2014, and then that chart switched to a strategy that blends album gross sales with monitor similar album devices and streaming similar album devices.

As for the remainder of the tip 10 of the most recent Most sensible Album Gross sales chart, the Depraved movie soundtrack debuts at No. 1 (85,000), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX debuts at No. 3 (32,000), ATEEZ’s Golden Hour: Section.2 falls 1-4 in its 2nd week (24,000; down 87%), Marilyn Manson’s One Assassination Underneath God: Bankruptcy 1 debuts at No. 5 (20,000), Zach Bryan’s The Nice American Bar Scene re-enters the chart at No. 6 (18,000; up 14,517% after it used to be issued on vinyl and CD for the primary time), Sabrina Wood worker’s Brief n’ Candy is stable at No. 7 (16,000; up 9%), ENHYPEN’s chart-topping Romance: Untold falls 4-8 (15,000; down 70%), Ice Dice’s Guy Down debuts at No. 9 (just about 15,000) and Chappell Roan’s The Upward push and Fall of a Midwest Princess rises 11-10 (13,000; up 16%).