For the first time in FOREVER, the majority of the top 10 albums on SoundScan are from rock artists
Okay, so bragging rights for physical album sales aren’t what they used to be, but I couldn’t help notice that the majority of the top ten best-selling CDs/vinyl from last week’s American SoundScan charts are from rock artists. To wit:
- David Byrne, American Uptopia (63,000 physical copies sold)
- Judas Priest, Firepower (48,000)
- Jimi Hendrix, Both Sides of the Sky (34,000)
- Logic, Bobby Tarantino II (32,000)
- Various, The Greatest Showman Soundtrack (30,000)
- Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Tearing at the Seams (27,000)
- Three Days Grace, Outsider (15,000)
- Between the Buried and Me, Automata I (15,000)
- Various: Black Panther: The Album (11,000)
- Metallica, Hardwired…To Self-Destruct (11,000)
Again, physical sales don’t carry the bragging rights they once did. But still…
The 13 year theory coming to life?
This isn’t surprising. I think it’s mostly only rock fans who still buy physical albums anyway, because it’s mostly only rock fans who still appreciate the album and physically owning a copy of it.