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\n\tJennifer Lopez<\/a> achieves her third No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Top Album Sales chart (dated March 2), as her new studio album This Is Me\u2026 Now<\/em> opens atop the tally. Lopez was last at No. 1 more than 20 years ago, when J to Tha L-O! The Remixes<\/em> spent two weeks atop the chart in February and March of 2002. She scored her first No. 1 on the list with J.Lo<\/em> in 2001.<\/p>\n \n\tIn total, This Is Me\u2026 Now<\/em> marks Lopez\u2019s ninth top 10 on Top Album Sales and 13th chart entry overall. The new release is a sister project to Lopez\u2019s third album, This Is Me\u2026 Then<\/em>, which was released 2002 and peaked at No. 2 on the chart.<\/p>\n \n\tAlso debuting in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Yeat\u2019s 2093<\/em>, Blackberry Smoke\u2019s Be Right Here<\/em> and IDLES\u2019 TANGK<\/em>.<\/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. The new March 2-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2018s website on Feb. 27. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the tracking week ending Feb. 22, This Is Me\u2026 Now<\/em> sold 14,000 copies in the U.S. Of that sum, physical sales comprise 11,000 (6,000 on CD and 5,000 on vinyl) and digital download sales comprise 3,000. The album was available in four CD variants (including one that had a signed insert), nine vinyl editions (all were color variants, including one with a signed insert) and three digital album variations (a standard version, a deluxe edition with two bonus tracks and a commentary edition sold via Lopez\u2019s official webstore).<\/p>\n \n\tThis Is Me\u2026 Now<\/em> also debuts at No. 1 on Top Current Album Sales<\/a>, No. 1 on Tastemaker Albums<\/a>, No. 7 on Vinyl Albums<\/a>, No. 7 on Independent Albums<\/a> and No. 38 on the Billboard 200. Top Current Album Sales ranks the week\u2019s top-selling new\/current albums (non-catalog\/older titles). Vinyl Album tallies the week\u2019s top-selling vinyl releases. Tastemaker Albums measures the top-selling titles at independent and small chain record stores. Independent Albums ranks the most popular independently released albums of the week, by units.<\/p>\n \n\tOn the Billboard 200, This Is Me\u2026 Now<\/em> marks Lopez\u2019s 13th total chart entry and 11th top 40-charting effort. It\u2019s her first studio album in nearly a decade, and her first release outside the major label system, as the new set was issued via Nuyorican\/BMG.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThis is the first step of an immediate strategy with a long-term goal as the incredible content to support the album continues to roll out,\u201d says Cyndi Lynott, SVP marketing at BMG, \u201cincluding the This Is Me\u2026Now: A Love Story<\/a><\/em> Amazon Original, a documentary entitled The Greatest Love Story Never Told<\/a><\/em>, and of course her massive summer tour.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMeanwhile, Yeat debuts at No. 2 with 2093<\/em> \u2013 his second entry on Top Album Sales and first to reach the top 40. The set sold 12,000 copies, all from digital downloads, as the album was not available to purchase in any physical configurations. The set\u2019s digital sales were boosted by its availability across three variations. 2093<\/em> was released initially as a 22-song standard album on Feb. 16, boasting features from Future and Lil Wayne. A day later, the album was reissued in a deluxe edition, dubbed 2093 P2<\/em>, with two bonus tracks, including one featuring Drake. Then, on Feb. 21, the album saw another reissue, termed 2093 P3<\/em>, with four bonus tracks. This version of the album was only available as a digital download via the artist\u2019s official webstore (and the four bonus tracks were only available as part of the full album purchase).<\/p>\n \n\tTaylor Swift\u2019s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em> rises 4-3 with 11,000 sold (though down 25%) and Swift\u2019s former leader Lover<\/em> climbs 6-4 with 9,000 (down 24%). Toby Keith\u2019s chart-topper 35 Biggest Hits<\/em> rises 9-5 with nearly 9,000 sold (up 28%).<\/p>\n \n\tBlackberry Smoke clocks its fourth top 10-charting set on Top Album Sales as Be Right Here<\/em> arrives at No. 6 with 8,500 sold.<\/p>\n \n\tTaylor Swift\u2019s former No. 1s Midnights<\/em> and Folklore<\/em> are up next, non-movers at Nos. 7 and 8, with nearly 7,500 (down 32%) and 7,000 (down 17%), respectively.<\/p>\n \n\tP1Harmony\u2019s Killin\u2019 It<\/em> falls 2-9 in its second week with 7,000 sold (down 60%).<\/p>\n \n\tIDLES\u2019 TANGK<\/em> starts at No. 10, marking the second top 10 for the act. The set starts with 7,000 sold.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the week ending Feb. 22, there were 1.166 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 7.3% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 858,000 (down 5.3%) and digital albums comprised 308,000 (down 12.6%).<\/p>\n \n\tThere were 408,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Feb. 22 (down 6.1% week-over-week) and 446,000 vinyl albums sold (down 4.6%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 3.342 million (down 32.1% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 3.759 million (down 47.1%).<\/p>\n \n\tOverall year-to-date album sales total 9.507 million (down 35.8% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 7.137 million (down 41%) and digital album sales total 2.37 million (down 12.7%).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n