David Byrne’s ‘Who Is the Sky?’ Makes Top 10 Debut on 4 Billboard Album Charts

David Byrne’s archetypal medium successful much than 7 years, Who Is the Sky?, debuts successful the apical 10 crossed 4 Billboard medium charts: Top Album Sales (No. 10), Vinyl Albums (No. 5), Indie Store Album Sales (No. 4) and Top Current Album Sales (No. 9), each dated Sept. 20. It’s his archetypal caller medium since American Utopia was released successful March 2018.

The caller acceptable was preceded by the deed opus “Everybody Laughs,” featuring the Ghost Train Orchestra, which reached No. 2 connected the Adult Alternative Airplay illustration successful August, marking Byrne’s highest charting way ever connected the 29-year-old ranking.

As a soloist, Byrne’s illustration past dates to March of 1981, erstwhile his collaborative medium with Brian Eno, My Life successful the Bush of Ghosts, debuted connected the wide all-genre Billboard 200. Byrne is besides the frontman of Talking Heads, who made its Billboard illustration debut astir 48 years ago, erstwhile the Talking Heads: 77 set bowed connected the Billboard 200 dated Oct. 8, 1977.

Talking Heads collected 13 charted titles connected the Billboard 200, including 8 that reached the apical 40. As a soloist, Byrne has logged 14 entries connected the Billboard 200, including Who Is the Sky? (No. 172), with 2 of those titles visiting the apical 40.

Back connected the latest Top Album Sales chart, arsenic Byrne’s Who Is the Sky? launches astatine No. 10 with 8,500 sold successful the United States successful the week ending Sept. 11, it joins 5 different debuts and reentries successful the apical 10. Rich Man – The 6th Mini Album by aespa bows astatine No. 4 (23,000), ZEROBASEONE’s NEVER SAY NEVER starts astatine No. 5 (21,000), MONSTA X’s THE X debuts astatine No. 6 (19,000), Slipknot’s 1999 self-titled debut effort reenters astatine No. 7 (10,000, up 948%) aft it was reissued for its 25th day (all versions of the album, aged and new, are combined for tracking and charting purposes), and Rob Thomas’ All Night Days bows astatine No. 9 (9,000).

As for the non-debuts and reentries successful the apical 10 connected Top Album Sales, Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend holds astatine No. 1 for a 2nd week (27,000, down 88% successful its sophomore frame), Stray Kids’ erstwhile No. 1...