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Lainey Wilson Scores First Top 10 on Billboard Album Sales Chart with ‘Whirlwind’
Lainey Wilson achieved her first top 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Sept. 7) with her fifth studio album Whirlwind, which secured the No. 3 spot by selling 34,000 copies in the U.S. during the week ending Aug. 29, as per Luminate. This follows her breakthrough album Bell Bottom Country, which peaked at No. 15 in November 2022.
Whirlwind also entered the top 10 on various Billboard album charts, including Independent Albums (No. 1), Top Country Albums (No. 3), the Billboard 200 (No. 8), Vinyl Albums (No. 3), and Indie Store Album Sales (No. 10).
Also in the latest Top Album Sales chart’s top 10, Travis Scott’s Days Before Rodeo surged in at No. 1 with 331,000 copies sold, marking the second-largest sales week of 2024. Sabrina Carpenter posted her highest sales week ever with Short n’ Sweet debuting at No. 2, while Thomas Rhett entered at No. 5 with About a Woman. FONTAINES D.C. achieved their first top 10 with Romance landing at No. 8.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the week’s top-selling albums based purely on traditional album sales. The chart began on May 25, 1991, incorporating electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Until Dec. 6, 2014, the Billboard 200 albums chart relied solely on album sales, but has since adopted a methodology that includes track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units.
Whirlwind’s initial week saw 34,000 copies sold, with physical sales accounting for 22,000 (16,000 on CD and 6,000 on vinyl) and digital downloads making up 12,000. The album’s robust initial week sales were driven by its availability in eight vinyl variants, three CD editions (including a signed edition sold on Wilson’s webstore and a Walmart-exclusive CD with a bonus track), a standard digital download album, and a deluxe digital album version with four additional “worktape” recordings sold via Wilson’s webstore.
Scott’s 2014 mixtape Days Before Rodeo topped the Top Album Sales chart with 331,000 copies sold — the second-largest sales week of 2024 and Scott’s best sales week to date. Digital downloads comprised 300,000 of the first-week sales, while CD sales contributed 31,000. The album was available in eight digital album variants, seven of which included bonus tracks and were sold exclusively on Scott’s webstore. Additionally, CD sales were through a stand-alone CD and a deluxe boxed set containing branded merchandise.
In the upcoming weeks, the album will benefit from two vinyl variants that have not yet shipped to customers, along with two deluxe boxed sets encompassing the vinyl LP and branded merchandise, all exclusive to Scott’s webstore.
Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet debuted at No. 2 with 184,000 copies sold, her largest sales week and the fifth-largest debut week of 2024. The sales spike was due to nine vinyl variants, five CD editions, two cassettes, and four digital album download versions. Vinyl sales reached 105,000, Carpenter’s best week on vinyl and the second-largest sales week for a vinyl album this year. Short n’ Sweet also debuted at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart.
The rest of Short n’ Sweet’s first-week sales included 33,000 CDs, 45,000 digital downloads, and 2,000 cassettes.
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess dropped to No. 4 despite a 20% increase in sales to 18,000 copies. Thomas Rhett secured his seventh top 10 appearance with About a Woman debuting at No. 5 with 13,000 sold, including nearly 4,000 vinyl LPs, his best week on vinyl. The album’s sales profile was boosted by over a dozen vinyl variants.
Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion fell to No. 6, selling 12,000 copies in its second week, down 84%. Stray Kids’ former No. 1 ATE slipped to No. 7 with 12,000 sold, a 17% decrease. FONTAINES D.C. made their top 10 debut at No. 8 with nearly 9,000 copies sold, mostly from six vinyl variants totaling 6,000 sales — their best week on vinyl.
Rounding out the top 10, EHYPEN’s Romance: Untold moved to No. 9 with 8,000 sold, down 19%, and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft dipped to No. 10 with 7,000 sold, an 9% drop.
Source: Billboard, Luminate
