Travis Scott's Utopia spends another week at #1 on Billboard 200 thanks to $5 vinyl

[Teletubby 138,508]

• Travis Scott’s Utopia makes it a month at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Sept. 2), as the set spends a fourth total and consecutive week in the lead with 161,000 equivalent album units this week.

Of Utopia’s 161,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 24, album sales comprise 92,000 (down 7%), SEA units comprise 69,000 (down 20%, equaling 92.07 million on-demand official streams of the streaming set’s 19 songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum (down 19%).

For a second week in a row, the album’s sales profit from a promotional offer in Scott’s official webstore, which deep-discounted the Utopia vinyl LP (available in multiple variants) from $50 to only $5 for a limited time. Of Utopia’s 92,000 sales for the week, vinyl accounted for 89,000.

• Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time is a non-mover at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 91,000 equivalent album units earned (down 4%).

• Hozier captures his 3rd top 10-charting set — all of which have reached the top five — as Unreal Unearth debuts at No. 3.
The album bows with 62,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 39,000, SEA units comprise 23,000 (equaling 29.58 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 16 songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Unreal Unearth’s first-week album sales were bolstered by vinyl sales, which accounted for 60% of its opening-week sales figure (23,000 of 39,000). The album was released in five different vinyl iterations.

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/travis-scott-utopia-fourth-week-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235401642/

[ALGAYDO 30,555]

The top two… 

[Taylucifer 5,074]

so Billboard doesn't allow for bundling but does allow for this? right...

[LadyxGaGa 1,314]

1 hour ago, Taylucifer said:

so Billboard doesn't allow for bundling but does allow for this? right...

wait that’s right

 

 

or

 

i thought there was like a pay thing where u couldn’t get ur album under $6 or it doesn’t count towards charts

 

 

[Teletubby 138,508]

5 hours ago, Taylucifer said:

so Billboard doesn't allow for bundling but does allow for this? right...

Billboard allows 2 fan packs per album release since July.
they may change their rules and ban selling vinyl for $5 soon as they did with digital sales from webstores after some fan bases were mass buying multiple versions.

 

4 hours ago, LadyxGaGa said:

i thought there was like a pay thing where u couldn’t get ur album under $6 or it doesn’t count towards charts

albums must be sold for a minimum of $3.49

[Levine 22,961]

I only recently realized that he's very loved and famous among the Fortnite community. Here in Italy kids go crazy about him (without even knowning what he's singing but we all know nowdays you have to go viral to sell).

 

[Dennis 8,391]

12 hours ago, ALGAYDO said:

The top two… 

You have no idea how popular Morgan Wallen is in the real world. So many of my friends listen to him and I'm honestly shamed into silence, I don't bother commenting on their music choices  We are really a minority here on GGD

[Taylucifer 5,074]

On 8/28/2023 at 8:03 PM, Teletubby said:

Billboard allows 2 fan packs per album release since July.
they may change their rules and ban selling vinyl for $5 soon as they did with digital sales from webstores after some fan bases were mass buying multiple versions.

oh I see, definitely think there should be a limitation on how discounted they can sell albums for