Bad rabbits”I should have taken more pictures” rises to No. 1 after its first full tracking weekand became the reggaeton star’s fourth album to reach the top. It was a tight race to the top as the 17-song set climbed to No.1 with just 1,000 units to spare Taylor Swifts”Lover (Live From Paris)” vinyl reissue, which the singer put up for sale on her online store on January 7.
In the tracking week ending January 16, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” gained 203,500 units as Swift’s “Lover: Live From Paris” re-entered the chart with 202,500 units (all from album sales) after its vinyl reissue (161,000 sold for the week) , and the first ever release as a digital download.
Bad Bunny debuted at No. 2 in the previous week with only five days of activity because Billboard (and its data partner Luminate) only counts units Friday through Thursday, while “Debí” was released on a Sunday (January 5). “Debí’s” climb to the top was largely fueled by the first full week of streaming activity, which tallied 264 million streams. The Spanish-language album was only available as a standard LP and as a digital download for purchase. Traditional album sales logged just under 8,000 of the album’s activity for the week.
It’s quite the opposite story for Swift whose album was exclusively available for purchase as either a vinyl LP or download. Swift’s vinyl copies sold out almost immediately, allowing “Lover (Live From Paris)” to easily surpass its previous peak of No. 58 on Billboard 200 chart. After the first – and very limited – drop in February 2023, the “Live From Paris” edition continued to sell for well over $1,000 in thrift stores and online stores.
It is the week’s best-selling album and the top-charting live album on the Billboard 200 in over five years (also the single biggest sales week for a live album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991). Not since Lionel Richie’s 2019 release, “Hello From Las Vegas,” has a live album reached this high.
Outside of Swift and Bad Bunny, there are no new releases in the top 10 this week: SZA’s “SOS” holds at No. 3, followed by Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX” at No. 4, Lil Baby’s “Wham” lands at zero . 5 after a week at No. 1 and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” is at No. 6. Billie Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft” remains at No. 7; Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” is at No. 9; and Gracie Abrams’ “The Secret of Us” rounds out the top at No. 10.
