Reneé Rapp Scores First No. 1 on Top Album Sales Chart With ‘BITE ME’

Reneé Rapp scores her first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart as her new project, BITE ME, bows atop the list dated Aug. 16. It’s her second top 10 on the tally, following the No. 10-peaking Snow Angel in 2023. BITE ME launches with Rapp’s best sales week ever, 47,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending Aug. 7, according to Luminate.

BITE ME’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across 11 vinyl variants (including signed editions) and five CD variants (including signed editions). Vinyl purchases accounted for 63% of the album’s first-week sales (30,000 of 47,000) and the set launches at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart.

BITE ME also starts at No. 3 on the overall Billboard 200, marking Rapp’s first top 10 on that list.

Also in the new top 10 of Top Album Sales, $uicidBoy$ land their highest charting album yet with the No. 2 bow of THY KINGDOM COME, Yeat nabs his third top 10-charted project with DANGEROUS SUMMER’s start at No. 3, and the live album from Billy Strings and Bryan Sutton, Live at the Legion, debuts at No. 7.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales 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 week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units. The new Aug. 16, 2025-dated Top Album Sales chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 13.

Back on the Top Album Sales ranking, $uicideBoy$ scores their highest-charting set ever as THY KINGDOM COME debuts at No. 2 with 23,000 copies sold. Vinyl purchases fueled the set’s first-week, with 83% of its sales owed to vinyl (19,000 of 23,000), garnering the hip-hop act its best week ever on vinyl. The project debuts at No. 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart, boosted by its availability across six vinyl variants.

Yeat clocks his third top 10-charted effort on Top Album Sales as DANGEROUS SUMMER starts at No. 3 with 16,000 sold (aided by its availability across three CD variants, all signed, exclusive to his webstore).

TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping The Star Chapter: TOGETHER falls to No. 4 (15,000 sold, down 76%) after premiering at No. 1 a week ago. Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out rises 8-5 (11,000, though down 5%) and TWICE’s THIS IS FOR steps 10-6 (8,000, down 6%).

Billy Strings and Bryan Sutton’s Live at the Legion enters at No. 7 on Top Album Sales, following its physical release on CD and vinyl on Aug. 1. It sold nearly 6,000 copies in the latest tracking week, up from a negligible sum in the previous week. (It was previously available to purchase only as a digital download, upon its initial release on April 7.) The set captures the pair’s concert at Nashville’s American Legion Post #82 on April 7, 2024.

Vinyl purchases make up the majority of Live at the Legion’s sales for the week, with 88% of its sales (a little over 5,000) coming from vinyl purchases. Assisted by its availability across three variants, the set starts at No. 4 on Vinyl Albums.

Live at the Legion also reenters the Bluegrass Albums chart at No. 1, for its first week atop the tally, with 6,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the ninth No. 1 for Strings and first for Sutton.

Rounding out the rest of the top 10 on the latest Top Album Sales chart: Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist’s Alfredo 2 falls 5-8 in its second week (nearly 6,000, down 62%), Tyler Childers’ Snipe Hunter drops 2-9 in its second frame (a little over 5,000, down 80%) and ENHYPEN’s chart-topping DESIRE : UNLEASH rises 14-10 (5,000, up 5%).