The Billboard Top Album Sales chart, tracking albums solely based on traditional sales, reveals the enduring popularity of physical and digital album purchases. Despite the rise of streaming, album sales continue to hold a significant place in the music industry.
The Billboard Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based solely on traditional album sales . The chart's history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week it began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the albums chart through the list dated Dec.
6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units. debuts with 38,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 19, according to Luminate. Of that sum, album sales comprise 20,500, SEA units comprise 16,500 and TEA units comprise the remaining sum.Ego TrippinAs for the rest of the top 10 on Top Album Sales, Stray Kids’ opens at No. 1 with 180,000 sold (it’s the sixth leader for the group); Taylor Swift’s chart-topping film soundtrack rises 6-3 with 29,000 (down 5%); Chappell Roan’s former leader jumps 8-4 with 28,000 (up 34%); and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet goes 7-5 with 26,000 (down 8%). falls 2-8 with 19,000 in its second week (down 76%); Vince Guaraldi Trio’s TV soundtrack bumps 10-9 with 16,000 (up 20%); and Taylor Swift’s former No. 1,
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