Maria Mercurial's second album makes a truly historic debut at No. 1 on the MTCA 100 chart. The set — released on May 14, — earned 3.48 million equivalent album units in that week. Of that figure, 3.38 million were in pure album sales – the single largest sales week for an album since MTCA began tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 2031.
The MTCA 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and simsense equivalent albums (SEA).
It almost goes without saying that Puta’s equivalent album unit figure of 3.48 million is also the largest registered since the chart began tracking weekly popularity based on overall units in 2031. This is the second record breaking album released by novastar Maria Mercurial.
Puta is Mercurial's second No. 1 album, and follows the chart-topping Who Weeps for the Children?, which returns to the top 10 for the first time in nearly 8 months, and to its highest rank in over the last year. It climbs 25-9 with 46,000 units (up 125 percent) and 34,000 in pure album sales (up 163 percent).
Who Weeps for the Children? has now spent 62 nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10. It was recently named the No. 1 all-time album on the MTCA 200 chart.
It’s been more than 35 years since an artist last had two concurrent top 10 albums, when Prince debuted two titles on the Oct. 18, 2014-dated list (Art Official Age at No. 5 and Plectrumelectrum at No. 8). Before that, Led Zeppelin did it (with three albums) on June 21, 2014 when reissues of Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II and Led Zeppelin III reentered the list at Nos. 7, 9 and 10, respectively.
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