The Philly Specials’ charity album A Philly Particular Christmas Occasion makes a festive debut throughout Billboard’s charts, opening at No. 1 on Impartial Albums; within the high 10 on High Album Gross sales (No. 2), High Vacation Albums (No. 2), Vinyl Albums (No. 2); and at No. 16 on the all-genre Billboard 200 (all charts dated Dec. 7).
It’s the third and last launch within the charity collection, offered by The Philly Specials (former Philadelphia Eagles soccer participant Jason Kelce and his teammates Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata).
Occasion arrives with the largest gross sales week for any vacation album in 4 years, and the most important gross sales week for a vacation album on vinyl within the trendy period (since Luminate started electronically monitoring gross sales in 1991). A Philly Particular Christmas Occasion offered 32,000 copies in its first week (ending Nov. 28), with 22,000 of that sum on vinyl. The album was commercially launched on CD, vinyl and digital obtain on Nov. 22.
The final vacation set with an even bigger gross sales week general was when Carrie Underwood’s My Present offered 33,000 practically three months into its launch, on the Dec. 19, 2020-dated charts. Beforehand, the largest gross sales week within the trendy period for a vacation set on vinyl was when Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack pushed by way of 20,000 copies in late 2022 (Dec. 31, 2022 chart date).
The brand new Occasion album boasts collaborations with the likes of Boyz II Males, Stevie Nicks, Mt. Pleasure and Jason’s brother (and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish) Travis Kelce and contains covers of tunes like “Perhaps This Christmas,” “Final Christmas” and “Please Come House for Christmas.”
Billboard’s High 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 have been the only measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by way of the record dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a strategy that blends album gross sales with monitor equal album items and streaming equal album items.
As for the remainder of the highest 10 of the newest High Album Gross sales chart, the Depraved movie soundtrack debuts at No. 1 (85,000), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX debuts at No. 3 (32,000), ATEEZ’s Golden Hour: Half.2 falls 1-4 in its second week (24,000; down 87%), Marilyn Manson’s One Assassination Below God: Chapter 1 debuts at No. 5 (20,000), Zach Bryan’s The Nice American Bar Scene re-enters the chart at No. 6 (18,000; up 14,517% after it was issued on vinyl and CD for the primary time), Sabrina Carpenter’s Quick n’ Candy is regular at No. 7 (16,000; up 9%), ENHYPEN’s chart-topping Romance: Untold falls 4-8 (15,000; down 70%), Ice Dice’s Man Down debuts at No. 9 (practically 15,000) and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess rises 11-10 (13,000; up 16%).
