Mumford & Sons return to the highest 10 on Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart, because the band’s first album in over six years, Rushmere, debuts at No. 3 on the April 12-dated record. It’s the sixth prime 10-charting effort for the group total.
The album additionally takes a bow within the prime 10 on Prime Various Albums (No. 2), Prime Rock Albums (No. 2), Americana/Folks Albums (No. 2), Unbiased Albums (No. 2), Prime Rock & Various Albums (No. 3), Vinyl Albums (No. 3) and Indie Retailer Album Gross sales (No. 5).
Elsewhere within the prime 10 on the Prime Album Gross sales chart, Ariana Grande’s Everlasting Sunshine reenters atop the record following its Everlasting Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Forward expanded reissue, whereas the most recent efforts from Lucy Dacus, Alison Krauss + Union Station and NAV all arrive within the area.
Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based mostly solely on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to Might 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend info from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales had been the only real measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart via the record dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with monitor equal album (TEA) items and streaming equal album (SEA) items.
Rushmere launches with 20,500 copies offered within the U.S. within the week ending April 3, in keeping with Luminate. Vinyl accounts for almost half of that sum. The set’s first-week gross sales had been bolstered by its availability throughout six vinyl variants (together with a signed model), 4 CD variants (together with two signed variations), a cassette tape and a regular digital obtain.
Atop the chart, Ariana Grande’s 2024 album Everlasting Sunshine reenters at No. 1 with 61,000 offered (up 5,338%). Its gross sales surge was brought on by the discharge of its Everlasting Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Forward expanded reissue with six beforehand unreleased songs. (All variations of the album, previous and new, are mixed for monitoring and charting functions below the title Everlasting Sunshine.)
Gross sales of Everlasting Sunshine had been aided by its availability in quite a lot of permutations launched for the Brighter Days Forward launch. The unique Everlasting Sunshine album had 13 tracks, and the core Brighter Days Forward album added six cuts: one prolonged model of the album-opening “Inro (Finish of the World)” and 5 new songs.
Grande’s webstore offered three unique variants of the obtain version of the album: the 19-track version, a model with the 19 tracks plus instrumentals of the identical cuts, and one other model with the 19 tracks and a cappella renditions of every minimize (all with various cowl paintings). Grande additionally launched two vinyl variants and 6 CD editions of the reissue (some signed by the artist), containing the 19 tracks plus the three bonus tracks initially discovered on the album’s “barely deluxe” reissues final 12 months. Vinyl accounted for 26,000 of the set’s gross sales for the week – it reenters at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart.
Lucy Dacus nabs her first prime 10 on Prime Album Gross sales, and together with her largest gross sales week but, as Without end Is a Feeling bows at No. 2 with 24,000 offered. Gross sales of the mission had been helped by its availability throughout 9 vinyl variants (some signed), three CD variants (together with a signed version), a cassette tape and a regular obtain album. (Vinyl accounted for 17,500 of the album’s first-week gross sales. It debuts at No. 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart.)
Girl Gaga’s former chief MAYHEM falls 2-4 on Prime Album Gross sales (almost 10,500; down 22%), Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX dips 4-5 (nearly 9,500; down 18%) and Sabrina Carpenter’s former No. 1 Quick n’ Candy rises 7-6 (simply over 9,000; down 4%).
Alison Krauss and Union Station’s Arcadia – the primary album from Krauss and Union Station in 14 years – debuts at No. 7 with almost 9,000 offered. Krauss and Union Station final launched a brand new studio mission with Paper Airplane in 2011. The brand new set was issued throughout three vinyl variants, three CD variants (together with a signed version) and a regular obtain album.
NAV’s OMW2 Rexdale rounds out the debuts within the prime 10 on Prime Album Gross sales, because it enters at No. 8 with almost 7,500 offered. It was out there to buy on vinyl, two CD variants (together with a signed version), 4 deluxe boxed units (containing a replica of the usual CD and branded clothes), a regular obtain album, and eight artist webstore-exclusive variants of the obtain album (every with bonus tracks and various cowl paintings).
Closing out the highest 10: Selena Gomez and benny blanco’s I Stated I Love You First falls 1-9 in its second week (7,000; down 90%) and Chappell Roan’s chart-topping The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is a non-mover at No. 10 (almost 7,000; down 4%).
