SEVENTEEN scores its sixth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Nov. 2) as SPILL THE FEELS enters atop the list with 64,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 24, according to Luminate. All six of the group’s leaders have come since 2021, and the act now ties TOMORROW X TOGETHER for the second-most No. 1s in the 2020s decade. Only Taylor Swift, with eight No. 1s since 2020, has more chart-toppers this decade.
Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, rapper Yeat nabs his biggest sales week ever with the No. 2 debut of Lyfestyle, Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker’s reissue of Long After Dark arrives at No. 6, Kylie Minogue’s Tension II starts at No. 7, Jerry Cantrell’s I Want Blood bows at No. 8 and Dan + Shay kick off the holiday season with It’s Officially Christmas: The Double Album entering at No. 10.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 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 units and streaming equivalent album units.
SPILL THE FEELS’ sales were bolstered by its availability across 17 CD variants, each containing collectible branded paper ephemera (such as photocards, posters, lyric books and stickers, some randomized). Of the set’s 64,000 copies sold, 99% were CDs and the remaining sales were digital downloads.
Yeat logs his biggest sales week ever as Lyfestyle bows at No. 2 with 60,000 sold. Lyfestyle’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across many variants, exclusively sold through the artist’s webstore. Lyfestyle’s opening-week sales actually exceed the cumulative sales of the rapper’s entire album catalog before this past week. Until Lyfestyle’s release, his catalog of albums had sold a combined 35,000 copies.
Jelly Roll’s Beautifully Broken dips 1-3 in its second week (33,000; down 71%), Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet is steady at No. 4 (11,000; down 17%) and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess falls 3-5 (nearly 11,000; down 26%).
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ Long After Dark, first released in 1982, makes its debut on Top Album Sales at No. 6, following its deluxe remastered reissue on Nov. 18. In the tracking week, the album – with all versions, new and old, combined – sold 10,000 copies. The reissue was available in multiple permutations, including a deluxe digital download, two vinyl variants, and two CD/Blu-ray audio combo editions (most inclusive of additional unearthed bonus tracks).
Kylie Minogue’s Tension II starts at No. 7 on Top Album Sales with 9,000 copies sold. It’s the sequel set to her 2023 release Tension. The new album was issued in four CD variants, four vinyl editions, two download editions and a cassette tape.
Jerry Cantrell’s I Want Blood bows at No. 8 with nearly 9,000 sold, marking his best sales week as a soloist since 2002. It’s also his first top 10-charting effort as a solo artist on the ranking. The set was available across five vinyl variants, three CD editions and a download.
Charli XCX’s Brat falls 2-9 with almost 9,000 sold (down 82%).
Rounding out the top 10 on the new Top Album Sales chart is the debut of Dan + Shay’s It’s Officially Christmas: The Double Album at No. 10 with 6,000 sold. It’s the first holiday release from the duo – and the first seasonal effort to reach the top 10 on Top Album Sales in 2024. The set was issued in two vinyl variants, two CD variants and a digital download.
