John Fogerty’s new Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years (John’s Version) collection, a set of re-recorded hits from his years as frontman of Creedence Clearwater Revival, makes a top 10 debut on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart. The set launches at No. 9 with nearly 8,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending Aug. 28, according to Luminate.
The project also bows on the Americana/Folk Albums chart (No. 13) and Independent Albums (No. 35).
Creedence Clearwater Revival earned 16 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from 1968-76, including nine top 10s (six of which peaked at No. 2). Among Creedence’s Hot 100 hits that Fogerty re-recorded for the new album: “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Down on the Corner” and “Up Around the Bend” — all of which were top five-charting singles.
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.
Stray Kids collect its seventh No. 1 on Top Album Sales, as KARMA bows atop the list with the second-largest sales week of 2025: 296,000 copies sold. Only the debut frame of The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow posted a bigger sales week, when it started with 359,000.
KARMA and Legacy are two of eight debuts or reentrys in the top 10 this week, joined by Laufey’s A Matter of Time (No. 2 debut), Deftones’ private music (No. 3 debut), Tyler, The Creator’s Cherry Bomb (No. 4 reentry), Three Days Grace’s Alienation (No. 6 debut), The Who’s Live at the Oval, 1971 (No. 7 debut) and The Warning’s Live From Auditorio Nacional, CDMX (No. 8 debut). The only holdovers in the top 10 are the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack (which climbs 9-5) and TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping The Star Chapter : TOGETHER (falling 5-10).
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