Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Projected to Have Biggest Opening Week of the Year
04.08.2022 - 01:51
/ variety.com
Thania Garcia Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” is expected to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (knocking out Bad Bunny’s seven-week stint with “Un Verano Sin Ti”), marking one of the biggest opening weeks of the year. Should it enter atop the chart, “Renaissance” will be the first album recorded by a woman in 2022 to land at No.
1.The 16-track album was released on July 29 and according to data from Luminate via Billboard, it has earned over 275,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its opening four days (through Aug. 1).
A majority of that total derives from the album sales which are at an estimated 175,000 — the rest of the tally comes from streaming-generated activity. Even so, “Renaissance” has three more days to collect additional units in the week ending Aug. 4. A majority of the album’s intial sales can be tracked to direct-to-consumer sales of the album.
Beyoncé’s official web storefront is selling deluxe boxed set editions of the “Renaissance” which includes a T-shirt and a CD — which many in the BeyHive have seen and bought as collectible items. She has also already sold over 25,000 copies on vinyl — Beyoncé’s largest sales week ever for a vinyl album.On its first day of release,” Renaissance” amassed over 50.6 million on-demand official streams in the U.S. and on its second and third days of release, the tracks garnered 30.9 million and 21.7 million clicks, respectively.In addition to achieving the biggest opening week of the year, “Renaissance” would be the first effort released by a woman in 2022 to top the albums chart.
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