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Taylor Swift achieves her 11th No. 1 medium connected the Billboard 200 illustration (dated Nov. 5) arsenic Midnights arrives with the biggest week for immoderate medium successful astir 7 years. The acceptable launches with 1.578 cardinal equivalent medium units earned successful the U.S. successful the week ending Oct. 27, according to Luminate. The past medium to tally a larger week was the debut framework of Adele’s 25, erstwhile it bowed with 3.482 cardinal units (Dec. 12, 2015-dated chart).
Midnights was released connected Oct. 21 aft being announced 2 months earlier by Swift astatine the MTV Video Music Awards (Aug. 28). No euphony from the medium was released until the acceptable dropped connected Oct. 21, erstwhile she besides issued the euphony video for Midnights’ archetypal single, “Anti-Hero.” Midnights is Swift’s 10th full-length workplace medium and initially bowed arsenic a 13-track modular release. Three hours aft Midnights’ arrival, Swift released a deluxe mentation of the medium (its “3am Edition”) with 7 bonus tracks.
Swift present ties Barbra Streisand for the astir No. 1 albums among women. Swift is besides the sixth enactment with much than 10 No. 1 albums connected the Billboard 200 since the illustration began regularly publishing connected a play ground successful 1956. She joins The Beatles (who pb with a grounds 19 No. 1s), Jay-Z (14), Drake, Bruce Springsteen and Streisand (each with 11).
Midnights is already the year’s top-selling medium by wide income done the year, and tallies the largest income week for an medium since her ain reputation debuted successful 2017, the third-largest streaming week ever for an album, and the biggest income week for a vinyl medium successful the modern epoch (since Luminate began tracking euphony income successful 1991).
Also successful the apical 10 of the caller Billboard 200: albums from Arctic Monkeys, YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Jeezy and DJ Drama debut.
The Billboard 200 illustration ranks the astir fashionable albums of the week successful the U.S. based on multi-metric depletion arsenic measured successful equivalent medium units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise medium sales, way equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each portion equals 1 medium sale, oregon 10 idiosyncratic tracks sold from an album, oregon 3,750 ad-supported oregon 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand authoritative audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The caller Nov. 5, 2022-dated illustration volition beryllium posted successful afloat on Billboard‘s website connected Tuesday (Nov. 1). For each illustration news, travel @billboard and @billboardcharts connected some Twitter and Instagram.
Of Midnights’ 1.578 equivalent medium units earned, medium income comprise 1.140 million, SEA units comprise 419,000 (equaling 549.26 cardinal on-demand authoritative streams of the set’s 20 full tracks) and TEA units comprise 19,000.
Third-Biggest Streaming Week Ever: Midnights logs the third-largest streaming week ever for an album, by full on-demand authoritative streams. It besides captures the biggest streaming week for a non-R&B/hip-hop medium and immoderate medium by a woman. The Nos. 1 and 2 biggest streaming weeks were logged by the debut frames of Drake’s Scorpion (745.92 million) and Certified Lover Boy (743.67 million), respectively.
Previously, Swift’s biggest streaming week for an medium was tallied by the archetypal week of Red (Taylor’s Version), with 303.23 cardinal successful 2021.
2022’s Top-Selling Album: With 1.140 cardinal sold, Midnights is easy 2022’s top-selling medium already. Previously, 2022’s top-seller — adding up each income generated done the twelvemonth — was Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, with 633,000 copies sold done Oct. 27. (In presumption of full equivalent medium units, Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti is 2022’s biggest album, with 2.911 cardinal units earned.)
Breaking down Midnights’ first-week income of 1.140 million, carnal income comprise 980,000 (575,000 connected vinyl, 395,000 connected CD and 10,000 connected cassette) and integer medium downloads comprise 161,000.
Biggest Sales Week Since Swift’s Own reputation: The 1.140 cardinal income fig for Midnights marks the largest income week for immoderate medium since Swift’s ain reputation debuted with 1.216 cardinal copies sold (chart dated Dec. 2, 2017).
Swift Has Five Albums With Million-Plus Sales Weeks: Midnights is the 22nd medium to merchantability astatine slightest 1 cardinal copies successful a azygous week since Luminate began tracking euphony income successful 1991. In total, determination person been 24 instances — by 22 antithetic albums — successful which an medium sold astatine slightest 1 cardinal copies successful a week. One of those albums, Adele’s 25, sold much than 1 cardinal successful 3 abstracted weeks. Swift is the lone creator with 5 antithetic albums to each merchantability astatine slightest 1 cardinal copies successful a azygous week successful the Luminate epoch — Midnights, reputation, 1989, Red, and Speak Now.
Further, present with five, Swift remains the lone enactment with astatine slightest 3 antithetic albums that deed the million-sales play threshold. Three acts person a brace of albums that each managed a million-plus income week: Backstreet Boys, Eminem and *NSYNC.
New Modern-Era Vinyl Sales Record: Midnights handily breaks the modern-era grounds for single-week vinyl medium income successful the U.S. with 575,000 vinyl LPs sold. That’s the largest week for an medium connected vinyl since Luminate began tracking euphony income successful 1991. It surges past the erstwhile high, acceptable earlier this year, erstwhile Harry’s House debuted with 182,000 vinyl copies (week ending May 26, 2021).
Midnights is besides already 2022’s top-seller connected vinyl year-to-date. Previously, the year’s top-seller connected vinyl was Harry’s House, with 377,000 sold done the year.
Midnights’ 395,000 successful CD income is the largest income week for an medium connected CD since reputation launched with 507,000 copies sold.
Midnights arrived aft months of pre-release promotion and pre-orders — and its income fig is bolstered by an array of disposable versions and variants of the album. It is disposable to acquisition successful a modular integer medium (both cleanable and explicit); a deluxe integer medium (clean and explicit, each with 7 further songs); an iTunes-exclusive mentation with a bonus spoken connection way (clean and explicit); 4 modular CD editions (each with a antithetic cover, some cleanable and explicit); 4 vinyl LP editions (each with a antithetic screen and colored vinyl); and a cassette tape. Target is besides selling an exclusive “Lavender” variation of the medium connected CD and colored-vinyl LP, with the CD boasting 3 bonus tracks.
Plus, successful the weeks starring up to release, Swift’s webstore sold pre-orders of signed copies of the 4 modular CD albums and the 4 modular vinyl LPs. Midnights is besides disposable successful deluxe boxed acceptable with a CD variation of the medium and a Swift-branded T-shirt, exclusively for Capital One cardholders.
Some superfans whitethorn person besides been enticed to acquisition each 4 variants of the medium connected either CD oregon vinyl, arsenic the backmost covers of the 4 albums acceptable unneurotic similar a puzzle to show a timepiece look (a literal notation to Midnights!). Swift shared the quality done her societal media successful mid-September, saying: “If you enactment each the backmost covers together, she’s a clock. It’s a clock… It makes a clock.” (Swift’s authoritative webstore sells hardware to clasp the 4 CDs oregon the 4 vinyl LPs unneurotic arsenic a wall clock.) The thought of assembling aggregate versions of an album’s backmost screen (or cover) unneurotic to uncover a larger implicit representation isn’t unsocial to Swift, arsenic different acts (frequently successful the K-pop world) person employed a akin selling idea.
It’s not antithetic for galore artists to connection variants of an album, from aggregate colour vinyl editions to collectible CD packages and beyond. Swift herself has rolled retired albums successful a akin manner successful the past — she had 4 antithetic Target-exclusive variants for Lover successful 2015. In 2022, acts ranging from Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ozzy Osbourne to BLACKPINK and Madonna person each leaned successful to the signifier of offering aggregate iterations of a carnal medium wherever usually the lone quality is successful packaging oregon the colour of a vinyl LP.
Lil Baby’s It’s Only Me falls to No. 2 connected the Billboard 200 (110,000 equivalent medium units; down 49%) aft debuting atop the database a week earlier. Bad Bunny’s chart-topping Un Verano Sin Ti drops retired of the apical 2 for the archetypal clip since its release, arsenic the acceptable moves 2-3 with 67,000 units (down 7%). When the medium deed its 18th week successful the apical two, it became the archetypal acceptable to walk its archetypal 18 weeks successful the apical 2 since the illustration since August of 1963, erstwhile Billboard combined its abstracted stereo and mono medium charts into 1 azygous medium chart. (See more history connected the Billboard 200, which began publishing arsenic a regular, play fixture successful March of 1956.)
Morgan Wallen’s erstwhile No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is simply a non-mover astatine No. 4 with 43,000 equivalent medium units (down 4%) and The Weeknd’s The Highlights is stationary astatine No. 5 with 39,000 (down little than 1%).
Arctic Monkeys people their 4th apical 10-charting medium connected the Billboard 200 arsenic The Car drives successful astatine No. 6 successful its archetypal week. It earned 37,500 equivalent medium units; of that sum, medium income comprise 28,500, SEA units comprise 9,000 (equaling 11.76 cardinal on-demand authoritative streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Ma’ I Got a Family starts astatine No. 7 connected the Billboard 200 with 37,000 equivalent medium units earned. Of that, SEA units comprise 36,500 (equaling 52.54 cardinal on-demand authoritative streams of the set’s songs). The caller acceptable is the 12 th apical 10-charting effort for the prolific rapper, and his 5th apical 10 successful 2022 — the astir of immoderate enactment this year. He made his Billboard 200 debut successful 2017 and got his archetypal apical 10 successful 2018 with Until Death Call My Name. In total, his latest debut is the artist’s 25th charting effort.
Styles’ Harry’s House is simply a non-mover astatine No. 8 connected the Billboard 200 with 32,000 equivalent medium units earned (up 1%).
Jeezy and DJ Drama’s Snofall starts astatine No. 9 connected the Billboard 200, marking the 11th apical 10 for the erstwhile and the archetypal for the latter. It bows with 31,000 equivalent medium units earned. SEA units comprise 28,000 (equaling 38.45 cardinal on-demand authoritative streams of the set’s songs), medium income comprise 2,500 and TEA units comprise 500.
Rounding retired the caller apical 10 is Beyonce’s erstwhile No. 1 Renaissance, which falls 6-10 with 30,000 equivalent medium units earned (down 10%).
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