1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart, notching its fourth time at the top.Īlso this week, several recent chart-toppers hold strong: Bad Bunny’s “ Un Verano Sin Ti” is No. Styles’s song “As It Was” also returned to No. Each of the three solo albums by Styles, who rose to fame as part of the British boy band One Direction, has opened at the top of the chart. It moved 182,000 copies on the LP format, more than any other album has sold in a single week since at least 1991, when Luminate’s predecessor, SoundScan, began keeping reliable sales data.Īs Billboard noted, vinyl sales alone would have been enough to propel “Harry’s House” to No. Where “Harry’s House” really shone was vinyl. Styles’s streaming number was strong, but less robust than the totals for recent albums by Bad Bunny and Kendrick Lamar.
No title has had a million sales in a single week since Swift’s “Reputation” nearly five years ago, and in the last 18 months, only four albums - including “Harry’s House” - have crossed 500,000. Since the 1990s it has been done at least 20 times, by acts like Adele, Whitney Houston, ’N Sync, Eminem and Taylor Swift.īut streaming has rejiggered the music industry’s math, and the prospect of selling a million copies of an album - or even getting a million “equivalent sales units,” a new yardstick that incorporates old-fashioned purchases and streaming clicks - has largely disappeared from the strategy book. The latest release to hit that adjusted milestone is Harry Styles’s “Harry’s House,” which had the equivalent of 521,500 sales in the United States over the last week, thanks to strong streaming numbers and the biggest vinyl take in three decades.įor years, moving a million copies of an album in one week was a coveted achievement for any blockbuster release. As a shorthand for success selling albums in the streaming age, that may now be the case.
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