Billy Idol lands his first high 10-charting effort ever on Billboard’s almost 34-year-old Prime Album Gross sales chart, as his new album Dream Into It debuts at No. 7 on the Might 10-dated chart. The undertaking is the long-lasting rocker’s first full-length studio undertaking in over a decade, since 2014’s Kings & Queens of the Underground.
Dream Into It additionally debuts on the Vinyl Albums (No. 19), Indie Retailer Album Gross sales (No. 21) and Impartial Albums (No. 41) charts.
Elsewhere within the high 10 on the Prime Album Gross sales chart, the newest releases from Ghost, Grateful Useless, d4vd, Tucker Wetmore, Goose and Viagra Boys all debut within the area.
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 rely info from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales have been the only real measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by way of the checklist dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a strategy that blends album gross sales with monitor equal album (TEA) items and streaming equal album (SEA) items.
Dream Into It offered 6,500 copies in the USA within the week ending Might 1, in line with Luminate – largely pushed by bodily purchases (about 2,500 on vinyl and three,500 on CD). Digital obtain purchases comprised about 500 copies.
Dream Into It is Idol’s tenth charting title on the Prime Album Gross sales chart, which started in 1991. In that span of time, he had beforehand gone has excessive as No. 12 with the 2021 EP The Roadside.
Idol has a protracted historical past on Billboard’s charts, together with a dozen charting titles every on the Billboard 200 (relationship again to 1981) and Billboard Sizzling 100 songs charts, in addition to 16 entries on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.
Additionally on the newest Prime Album Gross sales chart, rock band Ghost nabs its second No. 1 with its finest gross sales week ever, as Skeletá debut atop the checklist with 77,000 copies offered. Grateful Useless’s newest archival stay set, Dave’s Picks Quantity 54: Baltimore Civic Heart, Baltimore, MD – 3/26/73, bows at No. 2 with 19,500 copies offered. It’s the forty sixth high 10-charting set for the act on Prime Album Gross sales. Rounding out the highest three is d4vd’s new Withered, beginning with 14,500 copies – the primary high 10 and finest gross sales week for the act.
Tucker Wetmore’s What To not debuts at No. 4 with 7,500 (his first high 10 and finest gross sales week), Kendrick Lamar’s former No. 1 GNX slips 3-5 (almost 7,500; down 7%), Goose will get its first high 10 and finest gross sales week with the beginning of Every part Should Go at No. 6 (7,000) and Viagra Boys spherical out the debuts within the high 10 as Viagr Aboys bows at No. 8 with 6,500 (the primary high 10 and finest gross sales week for the act).
Closing out the highest 10 are two former leaders: Sabrina Carpenter’s Quick n’ Candy slips 2-9 (almost 6,500; down 24%) and Woman Gaga’s MAYHEM falls 4-10 (5,000; down 23%).
