According to a published report from Billboard, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album, Unlimited Love, sold 97,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week of release to land at position No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It marks the band’s first chart-topping effort since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. Of “Unlimited Love”‘s 97,500 units earned for the week, album sales comprise 82,500; SEA units comprise 14,500; and TEA units comprise 500. “Unlimited Love” is the first new LP with guitarist John Frusciante since Stadium Arcadium and Rick Rubin’s first album back in the producer’s chair for the band since By The Way.
Billboard 200: #1(new) @ChiliPeppers, Unlimited Love 97,500 [18.96 million on-demand streams | 82,500 pure sales].
— chart data (@chartdata) April 10, 2022