It’s a busy week on the Top Album Sales chart (dated May 2), as six albums debut in the top 10, including the ninth leader for TOMORROW X TOGETHER. The group’s latest release, 7TH YEAR: A Moment of Stillness in the Thorns, starts atop the chart with 67,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending April 23, according to Luminate.
Also in the top 10, five more albums debut, while Ye’s BULLY and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack both score big gains.
ZAYN’s new studio album KONNAKOL starts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales, selling 24,000 copies in its opening frame. It marks the third top 10 for the singer-songwriter, all of which have reached the top three. BTS’s former leader ARIRANG dips 2-3 with nearly 24,000 sold (down 25%).
The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack surges 19-4 with 19,000 sold (up 444%) after the release of two vinyl variants of the album exclusively via independent record stores for Record Store Day (April 18). Meanwhile, Ye’s BULLY bounces 31-5 with 13,000 sold (up 412%) after physical sales of the album from his webstore shipped to customers.
Pink Floyd’s Record Store Day-exclusive live set, Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975, debuts at No. 6 with 13,000 sold. PLAVE’s Caligo Pt.2 debuts at No. 7 with 12,000 sold, landing the virtual boy band its first top 10. Jeff Buckley’s 2001 album Live a L’Olympia debuts at No. 8 with 10,000 sold, following its first vinyl release and CD reissue for Record Store Day. It’s the first top 10-charted title on Top Album Sales for the late Buckley, who died in 1997.
Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving is pushed down 5-9 on Top Album Sales despite an 18% sales gain (to 8,000), while Bruno Mars’ Record Store Day-exclusive Collaborations starts at No. 10 (just over 8,000). Mars serves as the Record Store Day 2026 Ambassador, and the compilation includes such teamings as the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits “Nothin’ On You” (B.o.B featuring Mars) “Uptown Funk” (Mark Ronson featuring Mars) and “Die With a Smile” (Lady Gaga and Mars).
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 (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
