'Indigo' by rapper RM, leader of the Iconic Group BTS (방탄소년단), shoots to #1 on the United World chart with 339,000 equivalent sales, the top-selling album globally of the past week! 'Indigo', released on December 2 via Big Hit Music, is RM's 1st full-length album and 3rd overall following his eponymous mixtape in 2015 and 'Mono' in 2018! 'Indigo' is an archive of RM's late twenties, and features 10 tracks with guest stars Anderson Paak, Colde, Erykah Badu, Kim Sawol, Mahalia, Park Ji Yoon, Paul Blanco, Tablo of Epik High & Youjeen of Cherry Filter. "Wild Flower" ft. Youjeen is the powerful lead single! "Wild Flower" has so far reached #4 on the Circle Download Chart in South Korea and #83 on the Billboard Hot 100, drawing 4.1 million streams and 29,000 downloads in its first tracking week in the US, topping both the Digital Song Sales and World Digital Song Sales charts! Dazed listed "Wild Flower" at #17 on its year-end rank of the 40 best K-pop songs released in 2022, while music writer Taylor Glasby wrote that the song's position on the list was "a testament to its powerful and emotive immediacy", describing it as a "beautifully paced, produced and performed snapshot of a superstar's psyche, as fascinating as it is profoundly stirring.” 'Indigo' debuted atop the Billboard World Album Chart in the US and at #15 on the Billboard 200, landing at #2 on the Circle Album chart in Korea, #3 in Lithuania, #4 on the Oricon Album chart in Japan, #7 in Finland, #12 in New Zealand, #19 in Canada, #21 in Switzerland, #25 in Denmark, #26 in Australia, #29 in Austria, #44 in Spain, #54 in Belgium (Flanders), #55 in Sweden, #57 in Germany, #64 in Ireland, #67 in the Netherlands & #85 in Belgium (Wallonia).
'Cheshire', the sixth extended play of the hugely popular girl group ITZY, lands at #2 on the United World chart with 300,000 equivalent sales units, the World's 2nd best-selling album of the week! Released via JYP Entertainment and Republic Records on November 30, 2022, the album features 4 tracks, including the pre-released English-language single "Boys Like You", and the lead single also titled "Cheshire". 'Cheshire' was a commercial success, landing at #2 on the Billboard World Album chart and #25 on the Billboard 200. It debuted atop Korea's Circle Album Chart, becoming Itzy's 5th number-one album on the rank. 'Cheshire' also landed at #10 on the Oricon Album chart!
Metro Boomin lands at #3 on the United World Chart with his all star sophomore album 'Heroes & Villains' album, after shifting 240,000 equivalent units in its 1st week! Released via Republic Records and Boominati on December 2, the album features ASAP Rocky, Chris Brown, Don Toliver, Future, Gunna, John Legend, Mustafa, Travis Scott, 21 Savage, Young Nudy, Young Thug, The Weeknd and the late TakeOff. The album serves as the second project of a trilogy following his first album 'Not All Heroes Wear Capes' (2018). A deluxe edition of the album, titled 'Heroes & Villains' (Heroes Version), was released on December 5, 2022, containing instrumental versions of all songs from the standard edition. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 and landed at #1 in Canada, Denmark, Lithuania, New Zealand & Switzerland, #2 in Sweden, #3 in Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway & the UK, #4 in Belgium (Flanders), #5 in Australia, #10 in Italy, #11 in Belgium (Wallonia), #20 in France and #28 in Spain.
Taylor Swift's chart-topping album 'Midnights' slips 1-4 on the United World Chart after 4 non consecutive weeks at #1, earning another 211.000 equivalent sales globally and over 4 Million excluding China. According to Republic Records the Album has sold around 6 Million in total including China! Its the #1 top-selling album of 2022 and tops the United World Year-To-Date chart! 'Midnights' is Taylor's 10th studio album inspired by her sleepless nights, and was written and produced by Swift with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. It's is a major commercial success across all formats of music consumption, having broken numerous records globally. It achieved the Spotify feat for the most single-day streams of an album and has reached #1 in 30 territories, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and the US. In the United States, it opened with over 1.5 million units, becoming 2022's fastest and best-selling album, logged the largest vinyl sales week of the 21st century, marked Swift's 11th number-one album on the Billboard 200, and spawned 10 top-ten songs on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, the most for any album in history! The Album is already 2x Platinum in the US (2M) and Canada (160,000), Platinum in Australia (70,000), New Zealand (15,000) and the UK (300,000) and Gold in Austria, Denmark, Italy, Poland & Spain!
Korean Superstar Girl Group Red Velvet lands at #5 with its 6th special Mini Album 'The Reve Festival 2022 ~ Birthday' earning 200,000 equivalent album sales in its first week. The EP is the second installment of 'The ReVe Festival 2022', and the fifth overall of The ReVe Festival series. 'The ReVe Festival 2022 – Birthday' contains 5 tracks. The lead single "Birthday" samples George Gershwin's composition Rhapsody in Blue. "Bye Bye" is a R&B pop dance song, "On a Ride" is a pop dance bop, "Zoom" is an R&B pop dance song while "Celebrate" is an R&B ballad. The album landed at #2 on the Circle Album chart in Korea and has reached #22 on the Oricon album chart in Japan!
'Her Loss', the collaborative studio album by Drake and 21 Savage, slips 3-6 on the United World chart, after landing at #1, and earns another 113,000 equivalent sales units in its 5th week and 1.177.000 so far! 'Her Loss' debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 404,000 album-equivalent units, including 12,000 pure album sales. Its tracks earned a total of 513.56 million on-demand streams. The album is Drake and 21 Savage's 12th and 3rd number-one album in the US, respectively. It has also reached #1 in Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Lithuania, Norway, Switzerland and the UK, #2 in Australia, Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Slovakia & Sweden, #3 in Italy, #4 in Belgium (Flanders) & Finland, #5 in the Czech Republic and Top 10 in Belgium (Wallonia), France, Germany & Spain! It has already been certified Silver in the UK for 60.000 units!
Michael Bublé's 'Christmas’ Album slips 4-7 on the United World Chart, selling another 102.000 units and 14.940 Million copies so far worldwide in its 72nd week on the chart! 'Christmas' is Bublé's 7th studio album and 1st Christmas album, first released on October 25, 2011, in the US. 'Christmas' is Bublé's 3rd chart-topper in the US following 2007's 'Call Me Irresponsible' and 2009's 'Crazy Love'! It's Buble's most successful album, one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century and one of the best-selling Christmas albums of All Time worldwide. The Album has reached #1 in Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden & the UK, #2 in Finland, Latvia, Lithuania & Mexico, #3 in Belgium & South Africa, #7 in the Czech Republic and #8 in Spain.
Harry Styles' chart-topping 3rd studio album, 'Harrys House', slips 5-8 on the United World Chart, earning another 86.000 equivalent units and 3.680.000 so far in its 29th week on the rank! Powered by its awesome single 'As It was', Harry's 2nd song to debut at #1 in both the UK and US, 'Harry's House' debuted at #1 on the UK Albums Chart with 113,000 album-equivalent units, becoming the fastest-selling album of 2022 in the country! It also debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200 with 521,500 album-equivalent units, including 330,000 album sales, the largest opening week of 2022 in the US at the time. It has reached No. 1 in various other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland! The Album is already Platinum in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, the UK & the US and Gold in Austria & Poland.
Bad Bunny's former chart-topping 'Un Verano Sin Ti' slips 6-9 on the United World Chart, scoring another 74.000 equivalent units and 3.859.000 so far! 'Un Verano Sin Ti' ('A Summer Without You') is the 4th solo studio album, and 5th overall by Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny. Released on May 6, 2022, by Rimas Entertainment, the album includes 23 tracks and is a huge critical and commercial success, having debuted atop the US Billboard 200, marking Bad Bunny's 2nd #1 album and 2nd all-Spanish language album to top the chart! It's the first Spanish-language album in history to earn a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200 with 274,000 album-equivalent units, Bunny's 2nd #1 album and 2nd all-Spanish language album to top the Billboard 200. The album also achieved the biggest streaming week for a Latin album ever, accumulating 356.66 Million official streams in the US, the most for any album since Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy' (2021), and was the most-streamed album on Spotify in 2022! It spent 13 nonconsecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200, becoming the album with the most weeks at No. 1 in 2022 and the 9th album overall to spend more than 10 weeks on top of the chart since 2000. 'Un Verano Sin Ti' is also the 1st album to spend its first six months on the chart in the top two, since the Billboard 200 began publishing in 1956! It topped the 2022 Billboard 200 Year-End Chart, the first all-Spanish album to do so. 'Un Verano Sin Ti is the 2nd-best-selling non-English-language album in U.S. history, just behind Linda Ronstadt's 'Canciones de Mi Padre' at 2.5 million units! The Album also hit #1 in Spain and is 4x platinum having sold 160,000 units in the country. It's Bunny's first album to reach #2 in Australia, #3 in Switzerland, #4 in Canada & Italy and #5 in the Netherlands! It has been certified Diamond in Mexico and Platinum in Italy!
Mariah Carey's magic 'Merry Christmas' re-enters the United World Chart at #10, selling another 61,000 equivalent units and 15 Million since its original release. It's Mariah's 4th studio album and her first Christmas album. Released by Columbia Records on October 28, 1994, between Music Box (1993) and Daydream (1995), the album features cover versions of popular Christmas songs in addition to original material. Carey worked with Walter Afanasieff, with whom she wrote all of the original tracks, as well as producing her interpretations of the covered material. Three singles were released from the album, including "All I Want for Christmas Is You" which went on to become one of the best-selling singles of all time and the best-selling Christmas ringtone in the United States. The album reached #3 on the Blllboard 200, and has sold 5.7 million copies in the United States as of December 2019, and has been certified 8x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Internationally, it reached #1 in Japan, Latvia, and Lithuania, #2 in Australia, the Netherlands & Sweden, #3 in Italy, #4 in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway & Switzerland, #5 in Estonia, #6 in Finland, #9 in Greece & Portugal and #10 in New Zealand!
In 2005, the album was re-released as a special edition DualDisc, featuring "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and a special anniversary version of "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town" on the CD side. The DVD side features the entire album in enhanced PCM stereo and music videos. In 2010, Carey released a sequel Christmas album, 'Merry Christmas II You'. In 2019, an anniversary deluxe edition was released featuring live renditions, newer songs like "Oh Santa!" and "The Star", and numerous remixes in commemoration of the album's twenty-fifth anniversary. As of 2021, Merry Christmas has sold 15 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling holiday albums of all time. The album has been certified 6x Platinum in Australia, 3x Platinum in Canada, Denmark & Norway, 2x Platinum in Japan, Platinum in Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore & the UK and Gold in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland!
