Dangerous Bunny Beats Taylor Swift in Tight Race to No. 1

Dangerous Bunny‘s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” ascends to No. 1 after its first complete monitoring week, changing into the reggaeton megastar’s fourth album to hit the height. It was once a good race to the summit because the 17-song set climbed to No. 1 with simply 1,000 gadgets over Taylor Swift‘s “Lover (Are living From Paris)” vinyl reissue, which the singer put it on the market in her webstore Jan. 7.

Within the monitoring week finishing Jan. 16, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” earned 203,500 gadgets as Swift’s “Lover: Are living From Paris” reentered the record with 202,500 gadgets (all from album gross sales) following its reissue on vinyl (161,000 offered for the week), and first-ever unlock as a virtual obtain.

Dangerous Bunny debuted at No. 2 within the earlier week with best 5 days of process as Billboard (and its knowledge spouse Luminate) best rely gadgets Friday via Thursday, whilst “Debí” was once launched on a Sunday (Jan. 5). “Debí’s” climb to the highest was once in large part powered through its first complete week of streaming process, which tallied up 264 million streams. The Spanish-language album was once best to be had as a typical LP and as a virtual obtain for acquire. Conventional album gross sales logged just below 8,000 of the album’s process for the week.

It’s slightly the other tale for Swift whose album was once solely to be had best to buy as both a vinyl LP or obtain. Swift’s vinyl copies nearly straight away offered out, propelling “Lover (Are living From Paris)” to simply surpass its earlier top of No. 58 at the Billboard 200 chart. Upon that preliminary — and really restricted — drop in February 2023, the “Are living From Paris” version went directly to promote for smartly over $1,000 on second-hand retail retail outlets and webstores.

It’s the top-selling album of the week and the highest-charting reside album at the Billboard 200 in over 5 years (additionally the single-largest gross sales week for a reside album on vinyl since Luminate started monitoring gross sales in 1991). No longer since Lionel Richie’s 2019 unlock, “Hi From Las Vegas,” has a reside album charted this top.

Out of doors of Swift and Dangerous Bunny, there are not any new releases within the the Best 10 this week: SZA’s “SOS” holds at No. 3, adopted through Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX” at No. 4, Lil Child’s “Wham” slips to no. 5 after per week at No. 1 and Sabrina Wood worker’s “Brief n’ Candy” is at No. 6. Billie Eilish’s “Hit Me Laborious and Comfortable” assists in keeping at No. 7; Morgan Wallen’s “One Factor at a Time” is at No. 9; and Gracie Abrams’ “The Secret of Us” rounds out the highest at No. 10.