ATEEZ’s ‘Golden Hour: Part.1’ Debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales Chart

ATEEZ scores its third No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated June 15) as Golden Hour: Part.1 opens atop the tally with 127,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending June 6, according to Luminate. That sum marks both the largest sales week for any K-pop album in 2024, and the year’s fifth-largest sales week among all albums.

Also in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart: The Marias log its first top 10 with the No. 4 debut of Submarine, Crowder’s The Exile enters at No. 7, Shaboozey nets his first chart entry with the No. 8 start of Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going and Black Sabbath’s boxed set Anno Domini: 1989 – 1995 bows at No. 10.

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 units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Golden Hour: Part.1’s first week sales were largely powered by CD sales, as the set was available in 25 CD variants, along with six vinyl variants, all containing branded paper merch and other collectibles. It was also issued as standard digital download album.

Taylor Swift’s chart-topping The Tortured Poets Department rises 3-2 on Top Album Sales with 27,000 copies sold (down 35%), while Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft climbs 4-3 with 25,000 (down 39%).

The Marias score its first top 10 and largest sales week yet as Submarine starts at No. 4 with 17,000 copies sold. Its sales were supported by eight vinyl variants (which totaled 15,000 of its overall sales), a standard CD, a CD with an alternative cover, and a boxed set containing a T-shirt and a CD.

Twenty One Pilots’ Clancy falls 1-5 in its second week on Top Album Sales with 12,000 sold (down 90%) while TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping minisode 3: TOMORROW is a non-mover at No. 6 with 8,000 sold (down 11%).

Crowder collects his fourth top 10-charting set on Top Album Sales as The Exile bows at No. 7 with 8,000 sold. In its first week, the album was issued as a standard CD, a signed CD and a standard digital download album.

Shaboozey scores his first entry on Top Album Sales, with his third album, as Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going debuts at No. 8 with nearly 8,000 sold (all from digital downloads). RM’s Right Place, Wrong Person falls 2-9 with just over 7,000 sold (down 83%).

Rounding out the top 10 is Black Sabbath’s boxed set Anno Domini: 1989 – 1995, which bows at No. 10 with 7,000 sold.

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