BABYMETAL has a big week on the Billboard charts (dated Aug. 23), as the band’s new album, Metal Forth, debuts in the top 10 across multiple rankings — including the act’s first-ever top 10 on the overall Billboard 200. On that tally, the set enters at No. 9 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Aug. 14 – marking the group’s best week ever by units earned. Further, of that sum, album sales comprise 33,500 — the act’s biggest sales week. The set debuts at No. 2 on the Top Album Sales chart, marking BABYMETAL’s second top 10 on that chart.
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Metal Forth also debuts in the top 10 on Top Hard Rock Albums (No. 1, the act’s second leader), Top Rock & Alternative Albums (No. 2), Top Rock Albums (No. 2), Indie Store Album Sales (No. 4), Vinyl Albums (No. 2) and World Albums (No. 1, the band’s third topper).
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.
Metal Forth arrives in a very busy top 10 on the Top Album Sales chart, where seven albums debut on the latest ranking. At No. 1, mgk’s Lost Americana bows with 40,500 sold, while Jonas Brothers’ Greetings From Your Hometown starts at No. 3 (26,000), Ethel Cain’s Willoughby Tucker I’ll Always Love You launches at No. 4 (23,000) and The Black Keys round out the top five with the No. 5 debut of No Rain, No Flowers (12,000).
Malcolm Todd’s self-titled set starts at No. 6 (nearly 11,000), TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping The Star Chapter : TOGETHER falls 4-7 (10,000), Halestorm’s Everest opens at No. 8 (8,500), ENHYPEN’s former No. 1 Desire : Unleash rises 10-9 (nearly 7,000) and TWICE’s THIS IS FOR descends 6-10 (nearly 7,000).
