The Philly Specials’ charity album A Philly Particular Christmas Occasion makes a festive debut throughout Billboard’s charts, opening at No. 1 on Unbiased Albums; within the prime 10 on Prime Album Gross sales (No. 2), Prime Vacation Albums (No. 2), Vinyl Albums (No. 2); and at No. 16 on the all-genre Billboard 200 (all charts dated Dec. 7).
It’s the third and remaining launch within the charity collection, introduced by The Philly Specials (former Philadelphia Eagles soccer participant Jason Kelce and his teammates Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata).
Occasion arrives with the most important gross sales week for any vacation album in 4 years, and the most important gross sales week for a vacation album on vinyl within the trendy period (since Luminate started electronically monitoring gross sales in 1991). A Philly Particular Christmas Occasion bought 32,000 copies in its first week (ending Nov. 28), with 22,000 of that sum on vinyl. The album was commercially launched on CD, vinyl and digital obtain on Nov. 22.
The final vacation set with a much bigger gross sales week total was when Carrie Underwood’s My Reward bought 33,000 practically three months into its launch, on the Dec. 19, 2020-dated charts. Beforehand, the most important gross sales week within the trendy period for a vacation set on vinyl was when Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack pushed by way of 20,000 copies in late 2022 (Dec. 31, 2022 chart date).
The brand new Occasion album boasts collaborations with the likes of Boyz II Males, Stevie Nicks, Mt. Pleasure and Jason’s brother (and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish) Travis Kelce and consists of covers of tunes like “Possibly This Christmas,” “Final Christmas” and “Please Come Dwelling for Christmas.”
Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week primarily based solely on conventional album gross sales. The chart’s historical past dates again to Might 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend data from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales had been the only measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by way of the listing dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with monitor equal album models and streaming equal album models.
As for the remainder of the highest 10 of the newest Prime Album Gross sales chart, the Depraved movie soundtrack debuts at No. 1 (85,000), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX debuts at No. 3 (32,000), ATEEZ’s Golden Hour: Half.2 falls 1-4 in its second week (24,000; down 87%), Marilyn Manson’s One Assassination Below God: Chapter 1 debuts at No. 5 (20,000), Zach Bryan’s The Nice American Bar Scene re-enters the chart at No. 6 (18,000; up 14,517% after it was issued on vinyl and CD for the primary time), Sabrina Carpenter’s Brief n’ Candy is regular at No. 7 (16,000; up 9%), ENHYPEN’s chart-topping Romance: Untold falls 4-8 (15,000; down 70%), Ice Dice’s Man Down debuts at No. 9 (practically 15,000) and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess rises 11-10 (13,000; up 16%).
