Conan Grey’s newest studio album, Wishbone, bows at No. 1 on Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart, marking his first chief there. Concurrently, the gathering arrives at No. 3 on the general Billboard 200, granting the singer-songwriter his highest-charting mission but on the latter listing. Each tallies, dated Aug. 30, shall be posted in full to Billboard’s web site on Tuesday (Aug. 26).
Additionally within the prime 10 of the Prime Album Gross sales chart, Billie Eilish, Niall Horan, Maroon 5, Chevelle, Probability The Rapper and Selena all make waves.
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 data from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales have been the only measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart via the listing 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.
Wishbone bought 53,000 copies in its first week (Grey’s finest gross sales week ever) with bodily purchases comprising practically all of its gross sales. Vinyl gross sales accounted for simply over 30,000 bought — Grey’s finest week ever on vinyl. Wishbone additionally bows at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart, marking his second chief. The set’s opening-week gross sales have been bolstered by its availability throughout seven CD variants (together with signed editions) and 7 vinyl editions (some signed).
On the Billboard 200, Grey has charted 5 entries total, with three of them reaching the highest 10 (Child Crow in 2020, No. 5; Superache in 2022, No. 9 and Wishbone in 2025, No. 3). On the Prime Album Gross sales chart, he’s additionally notched 5 entries, with 4 hitting the highest 10 (Child Crow, No. 2; Superache, No. 22; Discovered Heaven in 2024 at No. 2 and Wishbone, No. 1).
Elsewhere on the newest Prime Album Gross sales chart, Billie Eilish’s HIT ME HARD AND SOFT surges 44-2 with 18,000 copies bought (up 988%), following the discharge of a one-year anniversary vinyl variant. Vinyl purchases made up practically all of its gross sales for the week. (The 18,000 determine is the whole gross sales of all of the variations of the album, previous and new, mixed.) The anniversary version of the vinyl was pressed on bio-vinyl darkish blue and orange splatter with its cowl printed on silver mirror foil board and comprises a poster.
One other anniversary helps Niall Horan’s chart-topping Heartbreak Climate reenter the chart at No. 3, as a collection of five-year anniversary merchandise assist push the album again onto the rating. Collectively, all of the variations of the album, previous and new, bought 12,000 copies within the monitoring week (up from a negligible sum the earlier week).
Heartbreak Climate was reissued for its fifth anniversary in two new vinyl variants (an opaque child blue coloration variant with new cowl artwork, and a deluxe double-LP set pressed on sea-blue and white splatter vinyl with expanded packaging and 9 bonus tracks), a CD variant (with new cowl art work and eight bonus tracks) and a digital obtain (with eight bonus tracks).
Maroon 5 collects its eighth prime 10 on the Prime Album Gross sales chart as its newest launch, Love Is Like, arrives at No. 4 with practically 11,000 copies bought. TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping The Star Chapter : TOGETHER climbs 7-5 (8,000, down 18%) and Chevelle nabs its sixth prime 10 with the No. 6 debut of Shiny as Blasphemy (practically 7,000).
Probability The Rapper’s new studio effort Star Line begins at No. 7 with practically 7,000 bought, scoring the third prime 10 for the artist. Selena’s former No. 1 Dreaming of You reenters the chart at No. 8 with 6,000 bought (up from a negligible sum within the week earlier) after plenty of thirtieth anniversary reissue merchandise have been launched. Dreaming of You was remastered for its thirtieth anniversary, and reissued throughout 4 vinyl variants, a CD and a digital obtain.
The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack climbs 15-9 on Prime Album Gross sales with its finest gross sales week but (practically 5,500 — up 3%). The album has solely been obtainable to buy as a digital obtain, however will see the affect of its launch on CD (on Aug. 22) within the monitoring week ending Aug. 28 (as mirrored on the Sept. 6-dated Prime Album Gross sales chart).
Closing out the highest 10 of the newest Prime Album Gross sales chart is TWICE’s THIS IS FOR, which is regular at No. 10 with 5,000 bought (down 22%).
