Andrea Bocelli lands his 12th top 10-charting effort on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Nov. 9) with his new compilation, Duets: 30th Anniversary. The star-studded set — which includes previously released collaborations as well as newly-recorded pairings — enters the chart at No. 6 with 20,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending Oct. 31, according to Luminate.
Duets: 30th Anniversary also debuts atop Billboard’s overall Classical Albums chart and Classical Crossover Albums chart. It marks his 22nd and 16th leaders on the lists, respectively, extending his record for the most No. 1s in each chart’s history. On the Billboard 200, the new Duets set enters at No. 24, landing Bocelli his 21st top 40-charting set on the all-genre ranking.
The project, which celebrates Bocelli’s 30th anniversary in music, includes new performances with the likes of Chris Stapleton, Gwen Stefani and Shania Twain, alongside previously released duets with Sarah Brightman, Céline Dion, Ed Sheeran and many others.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units.
The Classical Albums chart ranks the most popular classical albums of the week, ranked by equivalent album units. The Classical Crossover Albums chart ranks the top-selling classical crossover titles of the week.
The rest of the top 10 on the latest Top Album Sales chart is filled with debuts and re-entries – only one title is a holdover from the previous week.
Tyler, the Creator’s CHROMAKOPIA bows at No. 1 with 142,000 copies sold (his best sales week ever and third No. 1) while Halsey’s The Great Impersonator debuts at No. 2 with 81,000. Both albums’ sales were bolstered by an array of boxed sets and variants in their first week of availability.
Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) re-enters at No. 3 on Top Album Sales with 37,000 sold (up 1,954%) following its release on vinyl and cassette. Kelsea Ballerini’s Patterns opens at No. 4 with 35,000 sold (her second-largest sales week), aided by multiple physical and digital variants (including a signed CD and a signed vinyl).
Grateful Dead’s latest live archival project, Dave’s Picks, Volume 52: The Downs at Sante Fe, Santa Fe, NM – 9/11/83, bows at No. 5 with 20,000 sold. SEVENTEEN’s chart-topping SPILL THE FEELS falls 1-7 in its second week (18,000; down 72%).
iTZY lands its sixth top 10-charting set on Top Album Sales as GOLD debuts at No. 8 with 14,000 sold. The album’s sales were supported by its availability across 11 collectible CD variants, each containing collectible paper ephemera. Aespa’s Whiplash starts at No. 9 with nearly 14,000 sold, marking the sixth top 10 for the act. Whiplash was issued in five different CD variants.
Rounding out the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart is Green Day’s chart-topping American Idiot, which re-enters at No. 10 with nearly 13,000 sold (up 1,989%). The album was first released in 2004, and was reissued on Oct. 25 for its 20th anniversary in an array of deluxe editions, some containing a wealth of bonus tracks. American Idiot spent three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2004-05.
