Luminate’s mid-year report for 2023 reveals the highest albums by sale thus far — each bodily and digital mixed — with Taylor Swift and Okay-pop albums dominating the checklist.
It’s been a giant 12 months for Taylor Swift, and the music trade’s mid-year knowledge from Luminate displays that — along with Okay-pop teams’ continued phenomenal worldwide success. Over half of the highest ten best-selling albums of 2023 up to now are from Korean pop teams or solo releases from members of BTS throughout the band’s hiatus.
Among the many prime handful of albums by sale for the primary half of 2023 are Taylor Swift’s Midnights, three albums from Okay-pop bands — TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Title Chapter: TEMPTATION, Stray Children’ 5-Star, and lady group TWICE’s Able to Be), and nation star Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Time.
The second half of the checklist is rounded out by Korean boy band Seventeen’s tenth mini-album “FML,” Metallica’s eleventh studio album, 72 Seasons, two solo albums from members of BTS (Suga’s Agust D venture D-Day and Jimin’s FACE), and Melanie Martinez’s PORTALS.
Notably, this checklist doesn’t account for Whole Equal Album (TEA) consumption or on-demand streams and solely considers verifiable bodily and digital album gross sales. It additionally highlights simply how necessary bodily gross sales are to driving Okay-pop gross sales, touchdown a number of acts on this checklist because of their legions of tremendous followers prepared to purchase bodily albums in a number of codecs (vinyl, CD, and digital gross sales) to assist their favourite artists.
High Albums by Whole Gross sales (Digital & Bodily)
- Taylor Swift – Midnights – 607,000 copies
- TOMORROW X TOGETHER – The Title Chapter: TEMPTATION – 399,000 copies
- Stray Children – 5-Star – 327,000 copies
- TWICE – Able to Be – 286,000 copies
- Morgan Wallen – One Factor at a Time – 242,000 copies
- Seventeen – Seventeen tenth Mini-Album “FML” – 236,000 copies
- Metallica – 72 Seasons – 215,000 copies
- Agust D (Suga of BTS) – D-Day – 200,000 copies
- Jimin (BTS) – FACE – 196,000 copies
- Melanie Martinez – PORTALS – 194,000 copies