ILLIT Achieves First No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart With ‘BREAK EVEN’

ILLIT scores its first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart as the act’s new EP BREAK EVEN starts atop the list dated Nov. 14. The four-song project sold 32,000 copies in the United States in the week ending Nov. 5, according to Luminate, marking the group’s largest sales week to date.

In total, BREAK EVEN is ILLIT’s fifth top 10, all achieved consecutively, on the Top Album Sales chart.

BREAK EVEN’s album sales were largely driven by its availability across more than 24 CD variants (all containing collectible items such as photocards, stickers and posters, with some randomized).

Elsewhere in a very busy top 10 on the latest Top Album Sales chart, Queens of the Stone Age’s Perfecth starts at No. 2, landing the rock band it sixth top 10. Michael Jackson’s Thriller surges 14-3 following the classic set’s reissue on three vinyl variants and cassette tape. Nickelback captures its ninth top 10 with the arrival of Everything Under the Sun at No. 5.

IVE notches its first top 10 on Top Album Sales, and best sales week, as Looks Can Kill enters at No. 6 with 10,000 sold. Rock band blink-182 sees its 2001 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket reenters at No. 8 after it was reissued on vinyl for its 25th anniversary. Another album that got a 25th anniversary reissue, Mariah Carey’s Glitter soundtrack, also reenters at No. 9.

Rounding out the top 10 is $uicideboy$’ 2020 album Stop Staring at the Shadows, which debuts at No. 10 following its first vinyl release.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on pure album sales (physical and digital download purchases combined). The chart’s history dates to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard 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 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 (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.