Joe Jonas Scores First Solo Top 10 on Album Sales Chart With ‘Music for People Who Believe in Love’

Joe Jonas scores his first solo top 10-charting effort on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart as his second solo album, Music for People Who Believe in Love, debuts at No. 3 on the chart dated June 7. The set sold 17,000 copies in the United States in the week ending May 29, according to Luminate. Of that sum, vinyl purchases comprise 4,000 – a personal best sales week for Jonas as a soloist on vinyl.

Jonas has issued one solo studio album previously, 2011’s Fastlife, which debuted and peaked at No. 15 on Top Album Sales. Jonas is also a member of Jonas Brothers, and that trio has logged seven top 10s on Top Album Sales (including four No. 1s). DNCE also counts Joe as a member, and that group has reached Top Album Sales once, with its self-titled project, reaching No. 14 in 2016.

Elsewhere in the top 10 of the Top Album Sales chart, Playboi Carti, BAEKHYUN and Stereolab all shake-up the region with moves reentries and debuts.

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.

Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem holds at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart for a second week (28,000; down 79% from its debut of 133,000). Playboi Carti’s MUSIC reenters the list at No. 2 with nearly 18,000 (up from a negligible sum the week previous) following the fulfillment of deluxe boxed sets, exclusively sold via his webstore, to customers during the tracking week. BAKHYUN’s Essence of Reverie debuts at No. 4 with nearly 10,500. Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping GNX rises two spots to No. 5 with 8,000 (up 16%).

Rounding out the rest of the top 10: Jin’s Echo falls 2-6 in its second week (just over 6,000; down 82%), BOYNEXTDOOR’s 4th EP: No Genre dips 3-7 in its second week (6,000; down 57%), Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Short n’ Sweet rises 11-8 (nearly 6,000; up 2%), Stereolab’s Instant Holograms on Metal Film debuts at No. 9 (almost 6,000) and Sleep Token’s former leader Even in Arcadia falls 4-10 (5,500; down 29%).