Girl Gaga scores her third No. 1 on Billboard’s Jazz Albums and Conventional Jazz Albums charts, as Harlequin debuts atop each tallies (dated Oct. 12). The companion set to her movie Joker: Folie à Deux, earned 25,000 equal album models within the U.S. within the week ending Oct. 3, in accordance with Luminate. Of that sum, 16,000 are conventional album gross sales.
Gaga beforehand topped each rankings along with her collaborative albums with Tony Bennett: Love for Sale (in 2021) and Cheek to Cheek (2014).
Harlequin earns the most important debut week, by models earned, for any jazz album, or conventional jazz album, since Love for Sale earned 41,000 models in its opening week (Oct. 16, 2021-dated charts).
Equal album models comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. All Oct. 12, 2024-dated charts might be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Tuesday, Oct. 8. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Harlequin’s first-week models, streaming equal album-units comprise almost 9,000 – equaling 11.34 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs. The latter determine marks the most important debut streaming week for a jazz album in over a yr, since Laufey’s Bewitched bowed with 22.36 million clicks (Sept. 23, 2023-dated chart).
Harlequin additionally debuts at No. 20 on the general Billboard 200 and No. 3 on each Vinyl Albums and High Album Gross sales.
Jazz Albums and Conventional Jazz Albums rank the week’s hottest jazz and conventional jazz albums, respectively, by equal album models earned. The Billboard 200 ranks the week’s hottest albums throughout all genres, by models. Vinyl Albums and High Album Gross sales tally the week’s top-selling vinyl albums, and total albums, by conventional album gross sales.
Additionally on High Album Gross sales, Billy Strings’ Freeway Prayer debuts at No. 1 with 19,000 offered in its first week – the act’s greatest gross sales week ever. It’s additionally the primary No. 1 for the artist. Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess slips one spot to No. 2 (18,000; down 67%), Sabrina Carpenter’s Brief n’ Candy is regular at No. 4 (14,000; down 3%), Katy Perry’s 143 falls 2-5 (9,000; down 77%), Luke Bryan’s Thoughts of a Nation Boy bows at No. 6 (almost 8,000), Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Folklore vaults 33-7 (7,500; up 153% after a inventory replenishment of its CD at retail), Stray Youngsters’ former chief ATE is a non-mover at No. 8 (7,000; down 6%), P1Harmony’s Unhappy Track falls 3-9 (6,000; down 77%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Exhausting and Smooth climbs 15-10 (almost 6,000; up 8%).
Billboard’s High Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week primarily based solely on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to Could 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece rely info from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales had been the only real measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by means of the listing dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with monitor equal album models and streaming equal album models.