Weekly U.S. vinyl album sales jump to their second-largest week since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991, led by Adele30.
chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first weekbegan tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now MRC Data. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by thealbums chart through the list dated Dec.
6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.leads Top Album Sales for a second straight week, selling 225,000 copies across all formats .