LordeFourth album of “Virgin”, started at number 2 Billboard 200 The album chart, drawing into 71,000 album-samily units, a figure that received a major boost from the singer’s strong vinyl sales.
As Billboard, “Virgin” sold 31,000 copies on Vinyl during its first week, its best weekly tally in LP format. Eight separate vinyl variants were available in Lord’s album, including the signed version. With additional sales in digital and CD formats, “Virgin” completely sold 41,000 copies, which was accounting for more than half of its total unit clan.
The album sales began on album number 1 on the chart, although it had to settle for number 6 on the streaming chart. The album’s songs raised 37.07 million on-demand streams, translated into 29,000 seas (streaming equivalent albums) units.
These numbers marked an uttric from the first week performance of Lord’s previous album, “Solar Power”, which started with 56,000 units and entered Billboard 200 in 2021 in 2021 at number 5. The album started with a much lower number of on-demand currents at 28.38 million compared to “Virgin”. The four -year -old release also sold low copies, officially, with 34,000 in all formats (although there was a dispute at the time as Bilboard did not recognize sales for the “music box” release that included a bar code inside a physical box in retail).
Unlike “Solar Power”, Lord released a CD version of “Virgin”, although the billboard did not break the sale immediately for that format. The compact disc fucking to be completely transparent for naked eyes among fans, taking into account a cover design, which depicted the singer’s pelvic area X-ray-which inspired pladits for their design, but mixed reactions when CDs became playable on some systems, but not other.
Even with an increase in units this time, Lord was essentially fixed to the second place of the unavoidable chart leader, Morgan Waliness‘Independent “I am the problem, which earned 173,000 more units in his seventh straight week at number 1.
The top 10 had two other brands of new entries: Catase’s “Beautiful Caos” began at number 4, with 44,000 equivalent album units. And RussS bent down at number 10 with “32,000. Both of them were similar to Lord Lord, with an unusually high percentage of their yogas, sales accounting for vs. streaming.
Physical sales in the album were also a factor that made the biggest jump of the week. The former chart-topping “music” of Playboi Carti made a big jump from number 28 to number 8 due to the arrival of the vinyl edition.
Soundtrack for Netflix film “Kpop demon hunters“Another adequate producer, which was growing from number 8 to number 3 in its second week on the chart, with 62,000 units. Unlike all the above albums, this strength was weighed towards streaming, its songs attracted 77.42 million on-demand streams for the week.
Holdover albums included Karol ji’s “Tropicochwata”, up to two places in the week 2; “Sos of SZA,” up to number 7 in three places; And Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short ‘N Sweet”, three spots down on number 9, to come out in less than two months with a follow -up album.
