Ger Posted October 21, 2022 Posted October 21, 2022 (edited) CHART FINAL: MIDNIGHTS' MASSIVE WEEK Taylor Swift records the biggest debut of her career with her 10th studio album, Midnights (Republic). The record-breaking LP opens with 1.53m on the HITS Top 50, earning the biggest bow of the year, and biggest since Adele’s 25 in 2015. Midnights’ milestones include selling the most vinyl units ever in one week (around 500k) and becoming the most streamed album in a week by a female artist—surpassing Ariana Grande’s thank u, next—with an estimated 540m+ audio and video streams. [Update since Page 57] Chart Date: 10/28/2022 (WEEK ENDING: 10/27/2022) MARKETSHARE: UMG 81% SME 13% WMG 5% OTHERS 1% Status: Final LW TW ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL TOTAL CHANGE ALBUMS TEA SEA -- 1 TAYLOR SWIFT | MIDNIGHTS REPUBLIC (UMG) 1,537,699 -- 1,119,401 1,690 416,608 1 2 LIL BABY | IT'S ONLY ME QUALITY CONTROL/MOTOWN (UMG) 113,961 -46% 764 245 112,951 2 3 BAD BUNNY | UN VERANO SIN TI RIMAS (THE ORCHARD) 70,558 -2% 2,834 328 67,396 4 4 MORGAN WALLEN | DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM BIG LOUD/REPUBLIC (UMG) 43,346 -4% 998 633 41,715 5 5 THE WEEKND | THE HIGHLIGHTS XO/REPUBLIC (UMG) 39,428 2% 662 344 38,423 -- 6 YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE AGAIN | MA' I GOT A FAMILY NEVER BROKE AGAIN/ATLANTIC (WMG) 38,737 -- 402 211 38,123 6 7 HARRY STYLES | HARRY'S HOUSE COLUMBIA (SME) 31,231 -5% 5,486 429 25,316 -- 8 JEEZY & DJ DRAMA | SNOFALL JEEZY/DEF JAM (UMG) 30,695 -- 2,569 329 27,798 -- 9 ARCTIC MONKEYS | THE CAR DOMINO (WMG) 28,852 -- 19,303 79 9,470 9 10 BEYONCE | RENAISSANCE PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA (SME) 28,590 -6% 3,625 712 24,252 10 11 ZACH BRYAN | AMERICAN HEARTBREAK WARNER (WMG) 26,823 -5% 659 408 25,755 -- 12 KENDRICK LAMAR | GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY TDE/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE (UMG) 25,563 -- 12,721 39 12,803 8 13 BAILEY ZIMMERMAN | LEAVE THE LIGHT ON WARNER NASHVILLE (WMG) 22,796 -28% 1,119 743 20,935 -- 14 LE SSERAFIM | ANTIFRAGILE SOURCE/GEFFEN (UMG) 22,515 -- 19,848 43 2,624 12 15 STEVE LACY | GEMINI RIGHTS L-M/RCA (SME) 21,642 -2% 77 195 21,369 15 16 DRAKE | CERTIFIED LOVER BOY OVO/REPUBLIC (UMG) 21,547 6% 21 51 21,475 16 17 FUTURE | I NEVER LIKED YOU FREEBANDZ/EPIC (SME) 21,212 5% 54 68 21,091 13 18 ROD WAVE | BEAUTIFUL MIND ALAMO (SME) 20,974 -2% 40 38 20,896 -- 19 MEGHAN TRAINOR | TAKIN' IT BACK EPIC (SME) 20,621 -- 10,573 1,125 8,923 -- 20 CARLY RAE JEPSEN | THE LONELIEST TIME SCHOOLBOY/INTERSCOPE (UMG) 19,281 -- 10,314 178 8,788 18 21 OLIVIA RODRIGO | SOUR GEFFEN (UMG) 18,816 1% 2,778 90 15,949 19 22 TAYLOR SWIFT | FOLKLORE REPUBLIC (UMG) 18,800 3% 5,283 146 13,371 20 23 LIL BABY | MY TURN QUALITY CONTROL/MOTOWN (UMG) 18,151 0% 44 32 18,074 22 24 TAYLOR SWIFT | RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) REPUBLIC (UMG) 17,280 2% 4,594 131 12,555 29 25 TAYLOR SWIFT | LOVER REPUBLIC (UMG) 17,233 13% 4,400 164 12,670 23 26 POST MALONE | HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING REPUBLIC (UMG) 16,969 3% 513 142 16,314 21 27 NARDO WICK | WHO IS NARDO WICK? FLAWLESS/RCA (SME) 16,852 -4% 13 36 16,803 35 28 CHRIS BROWN | INDIGO RCA (SME) 16,625 14% 55 369 16,201 28 29 LIL DURK | 7220 ALAMO (SME) 16,010 4% 19 62 15,929 25 30 POST MALONE | TWELVE CARAT TOOTHACHE MERCURY/REPUBLIC (UMG) 15,568 -1% 469 350 14,748 11 31 STRAY KIDS | MAXIDENT JYP/IMPERIAL/REPUBLIC (UMG) 15,339 -41% 12,395 55 2,890 30 32 JUICE WRLD | GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCE GRADE A/INTERSCOPE (UMG) 15,318 1% 223 33 15,062 38 33 DRAKE | HONESTLY, NEVERMIND OVO/REPUBLIC (UMG) 15,286 8% 35 108 15,143 26 34 MORGAN WALLEN | IF I KNOW ME BIG LOUD (STEM) 15,179 -3% 291 184 14,704 31 35 EMINEM | CURTAIN CALL 2 SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE (UMG) 15,152 1% 540 185 14,427 27 36 LUKE COMBS | THIS ONE'S FOR YOU RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE (SME) 15,114 -2% 463 165 14,486 17 37 NOAH KAHAN | STICK SEASON REPUBLIC (UMG) 14,482 -27% 635 93 13,754 33 38 SZA | CTRL TDE/RCA (SME) 14,294 -2% 261 19 14,013 36 39 QUEEN | GREATEST HITS 1 HOLLYWOOD (UMG) 14,282 -2% 2,014 341 11,928 37 40 LUKE COMBS | WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE (SME) 14,230 -1% 400 206 13,624 44 41 FLEETWOOD MAC | RUMOURS WARNER (WMG) 14,020 1% 3,212 312 10,496 46 42 POP SMOKE | SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR THE MOON VICTOR VICTOR/REPUBLIC (UMG) 13,981 1% 63 48 13,870 40 43 DOJA CAT | PLANET HER KEMOSABE/RCA (SME) 13,926 -1% 284 102 13,541 45 44 BAD BUNNY | YHLQMDLG RIMAS (THE ORCHARD) 13,844 0% 49 34 13,761 47 45 TAYLOR SWIFT | 1989 BIG MACHINE/BMLG (UMG) 13,791 3% 834 261 12,696 48 46 KENDRICK LAMAR | MR. MORALE & THE BIG STEPPERS PGLANG/TDE/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE (UMG) 13,791 3% 1,748 47 11,996 41 47 ELTON JOHN | DIAMONDS ISLAND (UMG) 13,787 -2% 982 453 12,351 50 48 KANYE WEST | GRADUATION G.O.O.D./DEF JAM (UMG) 13,453 3% 242 103 13,108 39 49 BTS | PROOF BIGHIT/GEFFEN (UMG) 13,436 -5% 3,645 169 9,622 -- 50 BRENT FAIYAZ | WASTELAND LOST KIDS/VENICE (STEM) 13,406 -- 42 46 13,318 MIDNIGHTS MADNESS Taylor Swift’s Midnights (Republic) has already broken several records. It's given Swift her biggest-ever first week; it’s earned more streams than any other album by a female artist; and it's responsible for more vinyl-album sales in a single week than any other title in the modern chart era. Still, the question remains: How big will its first-week total be? On Tuesday, we projected 1.46m+, but it’s trended a little better than we expected. Will it hit 1.5m? More? We'll have the final figure on the HITS Top 50 later today; keep refreshing! [Update since Page 56] Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Has Already Sold 1 Million Albums in the U.S. UPDATE (Oct. 26): According to initial reports to Luminate, the album, which was released on Oct. 21, has earned more than 1.4 million equivalent album units in the U.S. through its first five days of release (through Oct. 25). Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise more than 1.05 million across all available formats (multiple digital album download, CD, vinyl and cassette variants). Vinyl LP sales for the title have surpassed 515,000. Plus, the album’s 20 tracks (the standard set’s 13 tracks plus seven tracks added to a deluxe edition) have registered more than 423 million on-demand official streams (audio and video combined) in the U.S. in the album’s first five days. As reported on Oct. 25, Midnights has the largest streaming week for an album in 2022, by total streams for its collected songs. It is also the largest streaming week ever for an album by a non-R&B/hip-hop title, or for any album by a female artist. In its first five days, Midnights has the fifth-most streams in a single week by an album ever. The largest streaming week was registered by the opening frame of Drake’s Scorpion, with 745.92 million (July 14, 2018-dated chart). PREVIOUSLY (Oct. 25): According to initial reports to Luminate, the album, which was released on Oct. 21, has earned more than 1.3 million equivalent album units in the U.S. through its first four days of release (through Oct. 24). Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise more than 1 million across all available formats (multiple digital album download, CD, vinyl and cassette variants). Vinyl LP sales for the title have surpassed 500,000. In terms of albums by female artists, Midnights surpasses the debut week of Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next (it launched with 307.07 million streams for its collected songs on the chart dated Feb. 23, 2019). [Update since Page 51] A TAILORED TOP 20 Taylor Swift achieves the fifth million-selling first week of her career with the debut of Midnights (Republic). She not only sets the record for the most first-week streams by a female artist—which is about 500m besting Ariana Grande’s 307m for Thank U, Next—but she also becomes the first artist to surpass 1m since ticket/merch bundles were disallowed on the charts. The last album to open north of 1m was Swift’s Reputation (Republic) in November 2017 with 1.24m. [Update since Page 50] [Billboard Oct 24th Update] According to initial reports to Luminate, the album, which was released on Oct. 21, has earned more than 1.2 million equivalent album units in the U.S. through its first three days of release (through Oct. 23). Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise more than 955,000 across all available formats (multiple digital album download, CD, vinyl and cassette variants). Vinyl LP sales for the title is nearing 500,000. [Update since Page 45] NEW RELEASE: SWIFT VICTORY Taylor Swift’s Midnights (Republic) is headed for a huge bow. A full-week total in the 1.4m-1.6m range makes Midnights the first album to debut at or past the million mark in the post-bundling era. The album has already destroyed the one-week vinyl sales record that Harry Styles set earlier this year. In only its first two days of release, Midnights is fast approaching 500k in vinyl albums alone. That more than doubles the 182k of Styles’ Harry’s House (Columbia) in May. [Update since Page 36] Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Off to Record-Breaking Start in U.S. According to initial reports to Luminate, the album, which was released on Oct. 21, has sold more than 800,000 copies in the U.S. through its first day across all available formats (multiple digital album download, CD, vinyl and cassette variants). It has already logged the largest sales week for any album since 2017, is the top-selling album of 2022 year-to-date, and has set a modern-era record for single-week vinyl album sales. Further, Midnights handily breaks the modern-era record for single-week vinyl album sales in the U.S., with over 400,000 copies sold so far. That’s the largest week for an album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991. It surpasses the previous high, set earlier this year, when Harry’s House debuted with 182,000 vinyl copies (week ending May 26, 2021). [Update since Page 22] ONE-DAYS: SWIFT VICTORY Taylor Swift’s Midnights (Republic) is headed for a huge bow. First-day sales and streams suggest a full-week total in the 1m-1.2m range as Midnights is set to become the first album to debut at or past the million mark in the post-bundling era. This will be Tay's fifth album to debut north of 1m. Full-week streaming projections are now close to 500m and could increase thanks to her 3AM version of Midnights, which includes seven tracks that are unavailable on any of the set's physical versions. Meanwhile, as we've noted, Spotify confirms that Tay has broken the first-day record for streams of an album, with 88m U.S. and 185m worldwide. She's also busted first-day records at Apple Music and Amazon Music. [Update since Page 11] CLOCKIN' AFTER MIDNIGHTS: IS TAY ABOUT TO BREAK SOME RECORDS? We have only overnight numbers to pore over, but having hauled out the ol’ abacus, we believe Taylor Swift’s brand-new Republic release, Midnights, may well be on the way to breaking at least two key first-week records: Adele’s post-bundling-era bow of 839k for 30 and Harry Styles’ 182k in vinyl sales for Harry’s House (that set’s first-week total activity was 521k, giving him the biggest debut of 2022 so far). We’re still counting on our fingers and toes, but we’re pretty sure Tay can blow past these benchmarks on her way to a stunning first-week total. We’re not quite ready to predict what that number will be, but for now, just set up your Midnights souvenir clock; we’ll keep you posted. Edited October 28, 2022 by Ger-55
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Ms. Togekiss Posted October 21, 2022 Posted October 21, 2022 Someone tag the 30 apologists and OTHs that were having their kiis in November 2021
HEAVYONIT Posted October 21, 2022 Posted October 21, 2022 Tswift stans are undoubtedly the most annoying stans But congrats to Tay
The Next Day Posted October 21, 2022 Posted October 21, 2022 This woman is unreal. Even as just a casual fan I'm in ******* awe. Like WHAT THE ****???
Virgos Groove Posted October 21, 2022 Posted October 21, 2022 Where are all those Adele "stans" from last year??? I just wanna talk
Brando Posted October 21, 2022 Posted October 21, 2022 3 minutes ago, Black Jesus said: Tswift stans are undoubtedly the most annoying stans Liddos find ways to be 10x more annoying with 1/10th of success, but go off.
MardinBeksloy Posted October 21, 2022 Posted October 21, 2022 somebody tag those OTHs who hid behind Adele
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