Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” reaches No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart

After its first full week of activity, Bad Bunny’s Debi Tirar More photos climbs 2-1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated January 25), making the superstar his fourth leader on the list. Bunny’s album was released on an off-cycle Sunday (January 5) and therefore entered the chart a week ago with only five days of activity (the chart tracking week extends from Friday to Thursday) .

During the tracking week ending January 16, Debi Tirar More photos earned 203,500 equivalent album units (up 67%) in the US, according to Luminate – largely driven by streaming activity. The set was only available as a standard 17-song streaming album and as a digital download for purchase (widely through all digital retailers, as well as Bunny’s official online store). Traditional album sales generated just under 8,000 album sales for the week.

Bunny previously topped the Billboard 200 with Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana (in 2023), A Verano Sin Ti (2022) and The Ultimo World Tour (2020).

At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Taylor Swift’s 2023 album Lovers: Live from Paris reappears, with 202,500 equivalent album units earned, all from album sales, following its reissue on vinyl (161,000 sold for the week), as well as its first release as a digital album for download. The album was exclusively available for purchase as a vinyl LP or download from Swift’s online store. It is the 18th top 10 effort for Swift and the highest-charting live album in over five years. It is the best-selling album of the week and is also the largest sales week for a live album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the United States based on multimetric consumption measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units include album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA), and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit is equivalent to one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 official ad-supported audio and video streams or 1,250 official paid/subscription on-demand audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new table dated January 25, 2025 will be published in its entirety on Billboard» on January 22 (a day later than usual, due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States on January 20). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on X, formerly Twitter, and Instagram.

Of Debi Tirar More photos‘203,500 equivalent album units earned in the week ending January 16, SEA units account for 195,000 (up 72%), which equates to 264.03 million official on-demand streams of songs from overall; it holds first place on the top streaming albums chart for a second week), traditional album sales stand at 7,500 (down by 3%, down 6-8 from top album sales) and TEA units include 1,000 (up 123%).

The album’s 264.03 million streams of songs mark the largest streaming week for an album since Kendrick Lamar’s. GNX arrived with 379.72 million (ranking of December 7, 2024), and the biggest Latin music album since Bunny’s A Verano Sin Ti debuted with 356.55 million (chart as of May 21, 2022).

As during its opening week, Debi Tirar More photos was on sale for $4.99 on the iTunes Store, as well as Bunny’s online store.

As Debi Tirar More photos is primarily in the Spanish language, it is the 28th mostly non-English album to reach the top spot, and the first of 2025. Four mostly non-English tracks topped the list in 2024, and all were efforts in Korean. Of the 28 mostly non-English albums that reached No. 1, 18 are mostly Korean, six are mostly (or entirely) Spanish, one is mostly Italian, one is entirely French, and two are mostly a mix of Spanish, Italian and French.

Taylor Swift Lovers: Live from Paris returns to the Billboard 200, re-entering second place with 202,500 equivalent album units earned (up from nothing the previous week). The eight-song set was recorded in 2019 and had a limited release on vinyl in 2023 (exclusively through Swift’s online store), and spent one week on the Billboard 200 in March, at No. 58.

Lovers: Live from Paris is the highest-charting live album on the Billboard 200 in more than five years, since Lionel Richie’s Hello from Las Vegas debuted and reached number two on the chart dated August 31, 2019. Additionally, as Lovers: Live from Paris marks Swift’s 18th top 10, she is tied with Mariah Carey for the third top 10 among women in the history of the Billboard 200. Only Madonna (with 23) and Barbra Streisand (34) have more among women. (Meanwhile, all 20 of Swift’s Billboard 200 chart entries, dating back to her debut in 2006, have now peaked in the top 20.)

Lovers: Live from Paris is Swift’s second top 10 live set, following Folklore: Long Pond studio sessions (No. 3 in May 2023).

Of Lovers: Live from Paris“202,500 units earned in the tracking week ending January 16, album sales accounting for the entire number (it re-enters the top spot for top album sales), with vinyl sales accounting for 161,000 ( largest sales week for a live album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991) with digital download sales accounting for the remainder of sales. of SEA or TEA units to fuel its return, since the album was not available on streaming services (thus customers could not directly stream songs from the album), nor through digital retailers such as ‘iTunes, so customers could not purchase songs directly from the album.

THE Lovers: Live from Paris The album commemorates Swift’s The City of Lover concert on September 9, 2019 at the Olympia in Paris. This was the only concert Swift held to promote the 2019 album. Loverafter her planned Lover Fest 2020 hike was canceled due to COVID-19. Swift did not return to live shows until The Eras tour kicked off in March 2023.

The City of Lover live concert was made into an ABC-TV special on May 17, 2020 (titled Taylor Swift: the city of lovers), and only included the eight songs that also appear on the Lovers: Live from Paris album. The album was initially released as a double vinyl, on heart-shaped color vinyl, in early 2023, exclusively through Swift’s online store. The limited edition sold 13,500 copies in its one and only week of availability, and debuted and then peaked at number 58 on the Billboard 200 (chart dated March 4, 2023).

Earlier in January 2025, Lovers: Live from Paris has been restocked on Swift’s online store, for a limited time, on the same double vinyl box set, on heart-shaped color vinyl. At the time, customers were told the set would ship no later than January 20.

In addition to the vinyl release, Lovers: Live from Paris debuted as a digital download album, exclusively through Swift’s online store, for a limited time. On January 16, the last day of the week tracking the latest chart, the set was made available in the Swift store in four variations for six hours only, each priced at $4.99. One was the standard eight-song album, and the other three each contained the standard eight songs plus a single live bonus track from an album. Lover taken from the album made during The Eras tour (“False God”, “I Think He Knows” and “Paper Rings”).

No version of Lovers: Live from Paris The album was available during the tracking week on streaming services, nor through any digital retailers outside of Swift’s online store. The album’s eight main songs were released as standalone tracks in May 2020 (the same week as the premiere of Taylor Swift: the city of lovers TV Special) largely through digital retailers and streamers.

As for the rest of the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200 ranking, four former No. 1s occupy Nos. 3 to 6. The SZAs SOS is stable at No. 3 (102,000 equivalent album units earned; down 10%), that of Kendrick Lamar GNX is a non-mover at No. 4 (64,000; down 4%), Lil Baby’s BANG falls 1-5 in its second week (55,000; down 60%) and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short and sweet slips 5-6 (48,000; down 6%).

That of Billie Eilish Hit me hard and soft is stationary at No. 7 (40,000 equivalent album units earned; down 7%), the Wicked film soundtrack falls 6-8 (39,000; down 15%), topping Morgan Wallen’s charts One thing at a time drop from 8 to 9 (nearly 39,000; down 4%) and that of Gracie Abrams Our secret drops from 9 to 10 (36,000; down 4%).

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