What Are the Top Physical Sales of 2023 So Far?

The music business’s high bodily gross sales of 2023 to date have been revealed per information from Luminate, additional highlighting the connection between Ok-pop followers and bodily music gross sales.

Whereas streaming continues to dominate as the preferred music consumption technique, bodily gross sales are additionally up throughout all codecs — and tremendous followers are serving to to drive these numbers, in response to mid-year information from Luminate. 

Luminate defines a brilliant fan as a music listener aged 13+ who engages with an artist and their content material in a number of methods — streaming, social media, buying bodily merch or music, or attending stay performances. On this case, tremendous followers have been contributors who self-reported as participating with their favourite artists in 5 or extra methods. 

Within the US, tremendous followers account for 15% of the inhabitants, and so they affect an artist’s relationship with their listeners. Followers who purchase bodily music within the type of CDs, cassettes, or vinyl are 128% extra prone to be tremendous followers, and so they spend 80% more cash on music every month than the typical listener.

Prime Bodily Gross sales of 2023 So Far — CD & Vinyl

Luminate information reveals that Ok-pop followers are greater than 69% extra prone to buy a vinyl document within the subsequent twelve months than different main style tremendous followers, and so they’re greater than 67% extra possible to purchase music to point out their help for an artist. Ok-pop followers drive CD gross sales (46%) and cassette gross sales (23%) greater than followers of different genres, and one in 4 Ok-pop followers have bought a cassette within the final yr.

Prime CD Album Gross sales

1. TOMORROW X TOGETHER – The Title Chapter: TEMPTATION – 395,000 copies
2. Stray Children – 5-Star – 322,000 copies
3. TWICE – Able to Be – 258,000 copies
4. Seventeen – Seventeen tenth Mini Album “FML” – 233,000 copies
5. Agust D (Suga of BTS) – D-Day – 186,000 copies
6. Taylor Swift – Midnights – 176,000 copies
7. Jimin (BTS) – FACE – 168,000 copies
8. Ateez – The World EP 2: Outlaw – 129,000 copies
9. ENHYPEN – Darkish Blood – 127,000 copies
10. Stray Children – Maxident – 114,000 copies

Prime Vinyl Album Gross sales

1. Taylor Swift – Midnights – 251,000 copies
2. Lana Del Rey – Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Below Ocean Blvd – 132,000 copies
3. Taylor Swift – folklore – 107,000 copies
4. Tyler, The Creator – IGOR – 104,000 copies
5. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours – 103,000 copies
6. boygenius – The File – 100,000 copies
7. Melanie Martinez – PORTALS – 93,000 copies
8. Michael Jackson – Thriller – 85,000 copies
9. Pink Floyd – Darkish Aspect of the Moon – 85,000 copies
10. Lana Del Rey – Born to Die – 84,000 copies