As the act’s SEVENTEEN 10th Mini Album: FML debuts at the top of the list, SEVENTEEN maintains its unblemished record on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated May 13). This is the 13-member Korean pop ensemble’s fifth consecutive No. 1 out of five total entries. All of them have debuted at No. 1. According to Luminate, the album sold 132,000 copies in the US during the week of May 4–8, making it SEVENTEEN’s highest sales week to date and the fourth-largest album sales week of 2023.
The CD edition of FML, like many K-pop releases, came in collectible CD packages (totaling 14, including exclusives for Barnes & Noble, Target, and the Weverse webstore), each of which contained a regular assortment of products and randomized elements (postcards, mini posters, bookmarks, and stickers).
FML was also offered as a conventional digital download album and in 17 different digital download versions, each with a different cover image, that could be purchased only from the act’s official website.
Four of them contain two additional tracks, which vary from record to album and consist of an instrumental tune and a voice memo from a certain member of the group. The remaining 13 alternative digital albums, one for every member of the group, all feature a different cover but the same standard tracklist. The first-week album sales for FML consisted of 98% CDs and 2% digital album downloads. No other retail format (such as vinyl or cassette) was offered for the set.
The National, Grateful Dead, and ILLENIUM all make appearances in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart with their most recent albums.
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The Top Album Sales chart on Billboard lists the best-selling albums of the week using only conventional album sales. The chart’s history began on May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard started compiling charts using electronically monitored piece count data from SoundScan, which is now Luminate.
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Up until the list dated December 6, 2014, the Billboard 200 albums chart only used pure album sales as a statistic. Thereafter, the chart used a methodology that combines pure album sales with track-equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. Follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on Twitter and Instagram to stay up to date with all chart developments.
After premiering at No. 1 a week ago, August D’s D-Day drops to No. 2 (25,000; a 79 percent decline).
With little more than 24,000 copies sold, The National’s First Two Pages of Frankenstein debuts at No. 3 (with slightly more than 15,000 of the total coming from vinyl sales). It’s the act’s fifth top-10-charting single.
Dave’s Picks, Volume 46: Grateful Dead debuts at No. 4 with 21,000 sales at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, CA, on September 9, 1972. It’s the most recent in the band’s storied concert series featuring old music.
The following three albums on the list of best-selling albums are all past No. 1s: Metallica’s 72 Seasons drops from No. 1 to No. 3 (down by 49%), Taylor Swift’s Midnights drops from No. 5 to No. 6 (down by 30%), and Melanie Martinez’s Portals drops from No. 7 to No. 7 (down by 47%).
The self-titled album by ILLENIUM starts at No. 8 with 7,000 sales, the majority of which were vinyl sales (almost 6,000). The dance/electronic act is in the second top 10.
The former number one album on the new Top Album Sales chart, Ready to Be: 12th Mini Album by TWICE (climbing 22-9 with over 7,000; down 10%), and Swift’s Folklore (14-10 with 6,500; down 26%) round out the top 10.
In the U.S., 1.827 million records were sold in the week ending May 4 (a decrease of 37.5% from the week before). Physical albums—CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.—accounted for 1.482 million of that total (down 42.6%), while digital albums made for 344,000 (down 1.6%).
The week ending May 4 saw sales of 712,000 CD albums (down 6.3% from the prior week) and 762,000 vinyl records (down 57.9%). Sales of CD albums have reached 11.936 million, up 5% from the same period last year, while sales of vinyl albums have reached 17.058 million, up 27.3%.
Total album sales for the year are 35.534 million, an increase of 10.3% from the same period last year. Physical album sales for the year are currently at 29.181 million, up 17%, while digital album sales are at 6.353 million, down 12.7%.
