TWICE & LE SSERAFIM Make History as First Two All-Woman Groups at Nos 1 & 2 on Top Album Sales Chart

TWICE and LE SSERAFIM make historical past on Billboard’s 32-year-old Top Album Sales chart (dated March 9), because the South Korean feminine pop teams debut at Nos. 1 and a pair of — marking the primary time two all-women teams have been within the prime two positions on the identical time.

Top Album Sales’ chart historical past dates to May 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend info from SoundScan, now Luminate.

TWICE’s With YOU-th launches at No. 1 with 90,000 copies offered within the U.S. within the week ending Feb. 29, based on Luminate. LE SSERAFIM’s Easy begins at No. 2 with 34,000 copies offered. The majority of every album’s gross sales come from CD purchases in assorted collectible editions, as is common with main Ok-pop releases

Also within the prime 10 of the brand new Top Album Sales chart, the newest albums from French Montana and Ace Frehley arrive, whereas BTS’ former No. 1 Love Yourself: Tear re-enters the chart within the prime 10 following its launch on vinyl.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based mostly solely on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to May 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend info from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales have been the only measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by way of the record dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with observe equal album models and streaming equal album models. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.

For TWICE, With YOU-th marks the fourth No. 1 on Top Album Sales and fifth prime 10 total. For LE SSERAFIM, Easy is the act’s third prime 10 set.

At No. 3 on Top Album Sales, French Montana’s Mac & Cheese 5 debuts with 22,500 copies offered. Of that sum, bodily gross sales comprise 19,000 (9,000 on vinyl — his finest week on the configuration, 10,000 on CD) and digital gross sales comprise about 3,500. Sales have been boosted by the album’s availability throughout six CD variants (three different covers, and three signed editions every with a distinct cowl) and three vinyl variants (all with different covers) — and all have been offered by way of the artist’s webstore. The bodily albums have been deeply discounted to $5 for normal vinyl and CD editions, and $10 for the signed CD editions. The digital album was additionally issued in three variants: an ordinary album (clear and specific), a deluxe version (with one bonus observe, clear and specific) and a brilliant deluxe version, dubbed the “Versions” variant (with all the album’s customary specific tracks, plus variations of every music in clear, sped-up, slowed-down, instrumental and acapella mixes).

Mac & Cheese 5 is French Montana’s fourth prime 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales and his highest-charting set but, surpassing the No. 4 peak of his three earlier prime 10 units.

Ace Frehley logs his highest-charting album ever on Top Album Sales, as his newest launch, 10,000 Volts, prices in at No. 4 with 13,000 copies offered. Of that sum, vinyl gross sales comprise 5,500, marking the previous KISS guitarist’s largest gross sales week on vinyl since Luminate started monitoring gross sales in 1991. In complete, 10,000 Volts is Frehley’s fifth prime 10-charting set on Top Album Sales.

BTS’ former No. 1 Love Yourself: Tear re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 5 with about 9,500 offered — practically all from vinyl gross sales, because the album was launched on the configuration for the primary time through the monitoring week. With practically 9,500 copies offered on vinyl, the album additionally bows at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart, BTS’ second chief on that record, following Love Yourself: Her in 2023.

Four former No. 1s, all from Taylor Swift, are subsequent on Top Album Sales. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) falls 3-6 (9,000; down 19%); Lover dips 4-7 (7,000; down 22%); Midnights slips 7-8 (6,000; down 19%); and Folklore descends 8-9 (practically 6,000; down 21%). Bob Marley and The Wailers’ Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers, rises 11-10 (practically 6,000; although down 17%), marking the set’s first week within the prime 10 since April 17, 2021, when it ranked at No. 9. (The album earlier peaked at No. 5 on the Sept. 20, 2014-dated chart.) The hits album returns to the highest 10 on the newest chart following publicity and promotion generated by the discharge and success of the Marley biopic movie Bob Marley: One Love.

In the week ending Feb. 29, there have been 1.276 million albums offered within the U.S. (up 9.4% in comparison with the earlier week). Of that sum, bodily albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, and so forth.) comprised 976,000 (up 13.8%) and digital albums comprised 300,000 (down 2.9%).

There have been 533,000 CD albums offered within the week ending Feb. 29 (up 30.6% week-over-week) and 438,000 vinyl albums offered (down 1.7%). Year-to-date CD album gross sales stand at 3.875 million (down 29.9% in comparison with the identical time-frame a yr in the past) and year-to-date vinyl album gross sales complete 4.197 million (down 47.3%).

Overall year-to-date album gross sales complete 10.783 million (down 35.3% in comparison with the identical year-to-date time-frame a yr in the past). Year-to-date bodily album gross sales stand at 8.113 million (down 40.2%) and digital album gross sales complete 2.669 million (down 13.7%).