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\n\tENHYPEN<\/a> score their sixth top 10 on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Top Album Sales<\/a> chart (dated Dec. 2), as the Korean pop ensemble\u2019s Orange Blood<\/em> bows at No. 2. The set sold 87,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n \n\tAlso in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Dolly Parton<\/a> notches her first No. 1 on the 32-year-old list with the arrival of Rockstar<\/em>; Taylor Swift<\/a> has half of the top 10 thanks to sale pricing and promotions for Black Friday, and Cher<\/a>\u2019s Christmas<\/em> vaults 23-10 after its release on vinyl.<\/p>\n \n\tBillboard<\/em>\u2019s Top Album Sales<\/a> chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart\u2019s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard<\/em> 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<\/a> 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. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n \n\tOf the 87,000 copies sold of Orange Blood<\/em>, physical sales comprise 86,000 (all on CD) and digital download album sales comprise 1,000. Its sales were bolstered by its availability across a dozen collectible CD packages (including exclusive versions sold by Barnes & Noble, Target and Walmart; all with branded merchandise inside, some with randomized elements).<\/p>\n \n\tAs previously reported<\/a>, Parton\u2019s Rockstar<\/em> rules Top Album Sales with her biggest sales week of the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991), with 118,500 copies sold. Its sales were enhanced<\/a> by a variety of iterations available on vinyl and CD.<\/p>\n \n\tSwift has half of the top 10 on Top Album Sales for a third time, thanks to sale pricing and promotions previewing the Black Friday shopping holiday on Nov. 24. (Swift previously had five of the top 10 on the Nov. 11-dated list, and six of the top 10 on the July 22-dated chart.) On the latest Top Album Sales ranking, Swift\u2019s 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em> falls 2-3 (64,000; down 7%), Folklore<\/em> jumps 14-6 (20,000; up 77%), Midnights<\/em> rallies 11-7 (19,000; up 57%), Lover<\/em> leaps 16-8 (18,000; up 80%) and Speak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em> shoots 15-9 (17,000; up 72%). All are former No. 1s on the tally.<\/p>\n \n\tStray Kids\u2019 ROCK-STAR<\/em> falls 1-4 in its second week on Top Album Sales, selling 46,000 copies (down 78%). Jung Kook\u2019s chart-topping Golden<\/em> dips 4-5 with 20,000 sold (down 42%).<\/p>\n \n\tRounding out the top 10 is Cher\u2019s Christmas<\/em>, which returns to the region, zipping 23-10 with 14,000 sold (up 82%) following the set\u2019s release on vinyl on Nov. 17. It sold a little over 6,000 copies on vinyl. Christmas<\/em> debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the Nov. 4-dated chart.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the week ending Nov. 23, there were 2.34 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 1.7% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.98 million (up 2.6%) and digital albums comprised 361,000 (down 3.1%).<\/p>\n \n\tThere were 923,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Nov. 23 (down 3.4% week-over-week) and 1.046 million vinyl albums sold (up 8.6%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 31.921 million (up 2.9% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 41.441 million (up 17.1%).<\/p>\n \n\tOverall year-to-date album sales total 90.474 million (up 6.1% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 73.857 million (up 10.4%) and digital album sales total 16.617 million (down 9.4%).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n