Bruce Springsteen 'Letter to You' album makes Billboard chart history
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It's a record-breaking hit.
âLetter to You,â the latest album from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Album Sales, Vinyl Albums and Tastemaker Albums charts, and No. 2 on the overall Billboard 200 album chart for the Nov. 7-dated issue, the music industry trade journal announced.
That makes the Boss the first act with a new Top 5-charting album in the United Sates in each of the last six decades, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
That's going back to âBorn to Runâ at No. 3 in 1975.
Country star Luke Combsâ deluxe reissue of âWhat You See Is What You Getâ is No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for Nov. 7. The Combs re-release was a hit thanks to a large number of streaming equivalent albums on the chart.
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The Billboard 200 chart ranks albums based on âmulti-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units,â according to Billboard. Units are composed of album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums, with metrics factored in for full albums, individual songs and streams from an album.
âLetter to Youâ scored with 96,000 equivalent album units while the reissue of âWhat You See Is What You Getâ notched 109,000 equivalent album units.
The rest of the U.S. Top 10 albums:
- 3. Pop Smokeâs âShoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moonâ with 61,000 equivalent album units
- 4. Ty Dolla $ign's âFeaturing Ty Dolla $ignâ (44,000)
- 5. Juice WRLDâs âLegends Never Dieâ (42,000)
- 6. 21 Savage and Metro Boominâs âSavage Mode IIâ (36,000)
- 7. Lil Babyâs âMy Turnâ (35,000)
- 8. âHamilton: An American Musicalâ (29,000)
- 9. Machine Gun Kellyâs âTickets to My Downfallâ (28,000)
- 10. Harry Stylesâ âFine Lineâ (27,000)
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The full chart will be released on Nov. 3.
Elsewhere, Springsteen's âLetter to You,â released on Oct. 23, debuted at No. 1 in Australia, Belgian, Ireland, Italy, Norway and the United Kingdom.
âIn case you missed it â THE UNIVERSE HAS VOTED! LETTER TO YOU! NUMBER 1! EVERY (blanking) PLACE!â tweeted E Street Band member Steven Van Zandt on Oct. 31.
âLetter to Youâ was produced by Springsteen and Ron Aniello.
Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Contact him at @chrisfhjordan; cjordan@app.com.