In addition, P1Harmony, Keith Urban, Future, Lil Tecca, Grateful Dead, and Seether make their top 10 debuts.
On October 5, Katy Perry's latest studio album, 143, debuts at No. 2 with 38,000 copies sold in the United States in the week of September 26, marking her greatest sales week since 2017. This marks her sixth top 10-charting set on Billboard's Top Album Sales chart.
Her five prior major label full-length studio recordings, Witness (No. 1, 2017), Prism (No. 1, 2013), Teenage Dream (No. 1, 2010), Smile (No. 3 in 2020), and One of the Boys (No. 9, 2008), all made it to the top 10.
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess soars 6-1, giving Chappell Roan her highest sales week to date and her first week at No. 1 in the most recent Top Album Sales chart, which also features her in the top 10. In the meantime, the most recent albums by Keith Urban, P1Harmony, Lil Tecca, Future, Grateful Dead, and Seether arrive in the area.
The best-selling albums of the week are ranked by Billboard's Top Album Sales list using just conventional album sales data. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically controlled piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. From the list of Dec. 6, 2014, the Billboard 200 albums chart used just pure album sales as its measurement. From that point on, the chart adopted a methodology that combines album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units.
The availability of 143 in eight vinyl variations (including a signed edition), four CD variants (also including a signed edition), a cassette tape, and numerous digital download variants (including two that are only available through her webstore and include bonus tracks) helped Perry's first-week sales.
Regarding Roan, who debuted at No. 1, her album sold 56,000 copies, a 328% increase in sales from the previous week. In honor of the album's first anniversary on September 22, four new vinyl variations and a cassette tape were released, which is responsible for the growth. 50 000 vinyl copies of the album have been sold; this is easily Roan's best week on vinyl and the sixth-highest week for any vinyl record in 2024.
With 28,000 copies sold, Sad Song debuts at No. 3 and P1Harmony records its highest sales week to date. For the pop group, it's also their third top-10 charting set. The album's availability in 24 collectible CD variations, a vinyl edition, and a cassette helped boost first-week sales. Every variation includes branded paper goods, such as postcards and photocards.
With 15,000 sales, Sabrina Carpenter's Short n' Sweet moves up one position to No. 4 (up 1%).
With 13,000 copies of his new album Plan A sold, Lil Tecca posts his highest sales week ever and his first top 10 ranking. The rapper had never before sold over 4,500 copies of an album in a single week. Two CD versions (one of which was a signed edition) and many digital download versions (two of which had bonus tracks) were instrumental in boosting sales of the new collection.
With 12,000 sales, High debuts at No. 6 as Keith Urban scores his seventh top 10 on Top Album Sales. Four vinyl and three CD versions, some of which were retail-exclusive and included branded paper ephemera, contributed to its successful first week.
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With 10,000 sales, Future's Mixtape Pluto debuts at No. 7 and marks his highest week of sales since 2020. With the help of three vinyl variations, vinyl sales accounted for about 7,500 of that total. Additionally, the set was offered as a digital download and on CD. The album was released in a 17-song extended version (available on download) in addition to the usual 11-song version on vinyl, CD, and download.
After dropping 13% to No. 8, Stray Kids, the former No. 1 ATE, now ranks No. 8.
The debuts from the Grateful Dead's massive archival live boxed sets, Friend of the Devils: April 1978, which starts at No. 9 (7,500), and Seether's The Surface Seems So Far, which comes in at No. 10 (just over 7,000), round out the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart.
The Dead package – sold exclusively via the band’s official webstore – records eight gigs conducted in April 1978 and is available either as a digital download or 19-CD boxed set, with pricing ranging from $159.98 to $199.98.
The latest release by Seether, titled Surface, is the group's ninth studio album and eighth top-10 charting effort overall.
