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aespa Scores Fifth Top 10 on Album Sales Chart With ‘Armageddon’
aespa has achieved its fifth top 10-charting effort on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart as their new album, Armageddon – The 1st Album, debuts impressively at No. 2 on the chart dated July 20. Remarkably, all five of the group’s entries on this chart have debuted in the top 10.
Also making waves in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department continues to hold the No. 1 spot for the sixth week, showing an astounding 154% sales increase. The 30th anniversary reissue and first vinyl pressing of Selena’s Amor Prohibido pushes it back onto the chart at No. 4, while Agust D (aka BTS’ SUGA) sees his D-Day album re-enter at No. 8 following its release on vinyl.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based solely on traditional album sales. This chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began compiling its charts using electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Until December 6, 2014, the Billboard 200 albums chart used only pure album sales for its calculations but has since switched to a methodology that combines album sales with track-equivalent album units and streaming-equivalent album units.
The album Armageddon arrives with 18,000 copies sold in the U.S. for the week ending July 11, according to Luminate. Widely released on CD on July 5, after initially being available as a digital download and via streaming services, its CD sales account for nearly all the 18,000 sold in this period. The album was issued in eight collectible CD variants, each containing paper merchandise.
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department remains robust at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart, with 90,000 copies sold—up by 154% from the previous week. CD sales make up 67,000, marking a 127% rise, digital album downloads total 19,000, significantly up by 1,266%, and vinyl sales stand at 4,000, down 10%.
The overall weekly increase for The Tortured Poets Department was partly driven by sales from Swift’s official webstore, which restocked seven previously released CD variants of the album, including a signed edition. These items were available for purchase for just a few hours on Sunday, July 7, and shipped shortly afterward. In addition, Swift released three new digital album download variants of the album on Thursday, July 11, sold only that day for $4.99 each on her webstore, featuring the 16-song standard tracklist plus one bonus live acoustic track recorded during her The Eras Tour stop in Stockholm.
ATEEZ’s former No. 1 album Golden Hour: Part.1 rises from 7 to 3, registering nearly 13,000 copies sold, a 3% increase from the previous week.
Following its reissue for the 30th anniversary, Selena’s Amor Prohibido re-enters the Top Album Sales chart at No. 4 with 11,000 copies sold, marking its best sales week since 1995. Initially released in 1994 and spending 20 weeks at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums in 1994-95, the album was reissued on July 4 across digital and physical formats, including its first-ever vinyl pressing.
Amor Prohibido now debuts at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart with 10,000 copies sold, the best week ever for the late singer on vinyl. The album was made available in four vinyl variants: a standard clear color edition, a Target-exclusive pink color version (containing a poster), a Spotify-exclusive clear coke bottle edition, and a picture-disc variant sold via Selena’s webstore.
The album was also reissued on CD and cassette, the latter exclusively available from Selena’s webstore.
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft climbs to No. 5 on Top Album Sales with 10,000 copies sold, marking a 12% decrease. Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess steps up to No. 6 with 9,000 copies sold, a 26% decline, and Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene shoots from 21 to 7 after its first full tracking week, with 8,500 copies sold, up by 66%. Released on July 4, the album initially sold 5,000 copies on that day, debuting at No. 21. The album is only available as a digital download at the moment, with its CD and vinyl editions due to release on October 11.
Agust D’s chart-topping album D-Day re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 8 with nearly 8,000 copies sold following its vinyl release on July 5. Completing the top 10 are Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 albums Lover at No. 9 with just over 5,000 copies sold (down 3%), and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) at No. 10 with nearly 5,000 copies sold (down 5%).
Source: Billboard
