Reneé Rapp scores her first No. 1 on Billboard’s Prime Album Gross sales chart as her new undertaking, BITE ME, bows atop the record dated Aug. 16. It’s her second prime 10 on the tally, following the No. 10-peaking Snow Angel in 2023. BITE ME launches with Rapp’s greatest gross sales week ever, 47,000 copies offered in the US within the week ending Aug. 7, in response to Luminate.
BITE ME’s first-week gross sales had been bolstered by its availability throughout 11 vinyl variants (together with signed editions) and 5 CD variants (together with signed editions). Vinyl purchases accounted for 63% of the album’s first-week gross sales (30,000 of 47,000) and the set launches at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart.
BITE ME additionally begins at No. 3 on the general Billboard 200, marking Rapp’s first prime 10 on that record.
Additionally within the new prime 10 of Prime Album Gross sales, $uicidBoy$ land their highest charting album but with the No. 2 bow of THY KINGDOM COME, Yeat nabs his third prime 10-charted undertaking with DANGEROUS SUMMER’s begin at No. 3, and the dwell album from Billy Strings and Bryan Sutton, Dwell on the Legion, debuts at No. 7.
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 Could 25, 1991, the primary week Billboard started tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece depend info from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album gross sales had been the only measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart by way of the record dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a technique that blends album gross sales with monitor equal album (TEA) models and streaming equal album (SEA) models. The brand new Aug. 16, 2025-dated Prime Album Gross sales chart shall be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Aug. 13.
Again on the Prime Album Gross sales rating, $uicideBoy$ scores their highest-charting set ever as THY KINGDOM COME debuts at No. 2 with 23,000 copies offered. Vinyl purchases fueled the set’s first-week, with 83% of its gross sales owed to vinyl (19,000 of 23,000), garnering the hip-hop act its greatest week ever on vinyl. The undertaking debuts at No. 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart, boosted by its availability throughout six vinyl variants.
Yeat clocks his third prime 10-charted effort on Prime Album Gross sales as DANGEROUS SUMMER begins at No. 3 with 16,000 offered (aided by its availability throughout three CD variants, all signed, unique to his webstore).
TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping The Star Chapter: TOGETHER falls to No. 4 (15,000 offered, down 76%) after premiering at No. 1 per week in the past. Clipse’s Let God Kind Em Out rises 8-5 (11,000, although down 5%) and TWICE’s THIS IS FOR steps 10-6 (8,000, down 6%).
Billy Strings and Bryan Sutton’s Dwell on the Legion enters at No. 7 on Prime Album Gross sales, following its bodily launch on CD and vinyl on Aug. 1. It offered practically 6,000 copies within the newest monitoring week, up from a negligible sum within the earlier week. (It was beforehand out there to buy solely as a digital obtain, upon its preliminary launch on April 7.) The set captures the pair’s live performance at Nashville’s American Legion Put up #82 on April 7, 2024.
Vinyl purchases make up nearly all of Dwell on the Legion’s gross sales for the week, with 88% of its gross sales (a little bit over 5,000) coming from vinyl purchases. Assisted by its availability throughout three variants, the set begins at No. 4 on Vinyl Albums.
Dwell on the Legion additionally reenters the Bluegrass Albums chart at No. 1, for its first week atop the tally, with 6,000 equal album models earned. It’s the ninth No. 1 for Strings and first for Sutton.
Rounding out the remainder of the highest 10 on the most recent Prime Album Gross sales chart: Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist’s Alfredo 2 falls 5-8 in its second week (practically 6,000, down 62%), Tyler Childers’ Snipe Hunter drops 2-9 in its second body (a little bit over 5,000, down 80%) and ENHYPEN’s chart-topping DESIRE : UNLEASH rises 14-10 (5,000, up 5%).
