Taylor Swift, SEVENTEEN and Morgan Wallen top IFPI Global Album Charts

28 March 2024 - Press release

IFPI releases three more Global Charts for 2023, celebrating the biggest albums of the year across different formats 

SEVENTEEN, who reached #1 on IFPI’s Global Album and Global Album Sales Charts, pose with their awards. (Photo courtesy of PLEDIS Entertainment)

  

IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide, has announced three additional Global Album Charts, highlighting the biggest releases of 2023 by sales and the top selling vinyl and streaming albums of the year.

The news follows last week’s launch of the IFPI Global Music Report, which announced annual growth in recorded music revenues of 10.2% globally, including acceleration in subscription streaming revenues and double-digit growth across physical formats.

Fresh from their IFPI Global Album Chart success, Korean group SEVENTEEN also took #1 in the IFPI Global Album Sales Chart, which measures unit sales across all physical formats, as well as full album downloads – a combination sometimes known as “pure sales”. Their album FML sold 6.4 million units globally in 2023, breaking the record for most pre-orders ever for an album in South Korea. 

The IFPI Global Album Sales Chart saw an unprecedented 19 of the Top 20 albums come from South Korean acts, demonstrating their global dominance of the physical album format. The only non-Korean artist present in the Top 20 was IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year, Taylor Swift, whose album 1989 (Taylor’s Version) also topped the IFPI Global Vinyl Album Chart.

Taylor Swift held each of the top three places in the IFPI Global Vinyl Album Chart, and had an incredible seven albums reach the Top 20 of that Chart overall, with the releases of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (#1), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (#2) and Midnights (#3) joined by folklore (#7), Lover (#9), evermore (#13) and Red (Taylor’s Version) (#15).

Fellow American artist Morgan Wallen scored his first ever IFPI Global Chart #1 in the IFPI Global Streaming Album Chart, which counts global streams from both ad-supported and subscription platforms and calculates a weighted global unit number taking into account differing economics across regions. Wallen’s 2023 album One Thing at a Time was the biggest streaming album of the year on this basis, with Wallen also appearing at #9 with Dangerous: The Double Album.

Lewis Morrison, Director of Global Charts & Certifications at IFPI said: “Congratulations to SEVENTEEN and Taylor Swift for their second IFPI Global Charts awards of 2023, and to Morgan Wallen for his first ever global #1. Each of these artists created (or in the case of Taylor, reimagined) incredible music which found a global audience and achieved enormous commercial success in 2023, and the charts themselves highlight the multitude of ways in which music fans are engaging with their favourite albums all over the world.

“As highlighted in IFPI’s Global Music Report, revenues from both digital and physical music formats continue to see healthy growth, and the combination of fantastic artistry, format variety and the tireless work of record labels is the foundation on which this growth is built. Well done to everyone who featured in each of the album charts, which are a great summary of a fantastic year for global recorded music.”

 

IFPI Global Album Sales Chart 2023

Position	Artist	Album	Units
1	SEVENTEEN	FML	6.4m
2	Stray Kids	5-STAR	5.3m
3	NCT DREAM	ISTJ	4.6m
4	SEVENTEEN	SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN	4.5m
5	Stray Kids	ROCK-STAR	4.2m
6	Taylor Swift	1989 (Taylor’s Version)	2.8m
7	Jung Kook	GOLDEN	2.7m
8	EXO	EXIST	2.3m
9	IVE	I’ve MINE	2.2m
10	V	Layover	2.2m
11	ZEROBASEONE	YOUTH IN THE SHADE	2.2m
12	aespa	MY WORLD	2.1m
13	TOMORROW X TOGETHER	The Name Chapter : FREEFALL	2.0m
14	(G)I-DLE	I feel	2.0m
15	NCT 127	Fact Check	1.9m
16	ENHYPEN	DARK BLOOD	1.7m
17	IVE	I’ve IVE	1.7m
18	Jimin	FACE	1.7m
19	ENHYPEN	ORANGE BLOOD	1.7m
20	aespa	Drama	1.5m

 

IFPI Global Vinyl Album Chart 2023

Position	Artist	Album	Units
1	Taylor Swift	1989 (Taylor's Version)	1,400k
2	Taylor Swift	Speak Now (Taylor's Version)	684k
3	Taylor Swift	Midnights	562k
4	Travis Scott	UTOPIA	415k
5	Pink Floyd	The Dark Side of The Moon	402k
6	Olivia Rodrigo	GUTS	398k
7	Taylor Swift	folklore	377k
8	Lana Del Rey	Did you know that…	352k
9	Taylor Swift	Lover	323k
10	Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	323k
11	The Rolling Stones	Hackney Diamonds	305k
12	Lana Del Rey	Born To Die	256k
13	Taylor Swift	evermore	237k
14	Queen	Greatest Hits	227k
15	Taylor Swift	Red (Taylor’s Version)	225k
16	Tyler, The Creator	IGOR	218k
17	Michael Jackson	Thriller	217k
18	Metallica	72 Seasons	206k
19	Harry Styles	Harry's House	204k
20	boygenius	the record	200k

 

IFPI Global Streaming Album Chart 2023

Position	Artist	Album
1	Morgan Wallen	One Thing At A Time
2	SZA	SOS
3	Taylor Swift	Midnights
4	Bad Bunny	Un Verano Sin Ti
5	Metro Boomin	HEROES & VILLAINS
6	Taylor Swift	Lover
7	The Weeknd	Starboy
8	KAROL G	Mañana Será Bonito
9	Morgan Wallen	Dangerous: The Double Album
10	Taylor Swift	1989
11	Miley Cyrus	Endless Summer Vacation
12	Travis Scott	UTOPIA
13	Harry Styles	Harry's House
14	Taylor Swift	folklore
15	Drake & 21 Savage	Her Loss
16	Drake	For All The Dogs
17	The Weeknd	After Hours
18	Taylor Swift	reputation
19	Zach Bryan	American Heartbreak
20	Olivia Rodrigo	SOUR