Los Angeles-based trio LA LOM make their first Billboard chart look with debut album The Los Angeles League of Musicians, because the 13-track set launches at No. 5 on the Tropical Albums chart (dated Aug. 24).

“I know I wasn’t thinking about charts when we made the record,” Zac Sokolow, LA LOM’s guitar participant, tells Billboard. “We’ve been really excited to have the opportunity to share our original music with people around the world, and we’re really happy to hear that the record is resonating with people.”

The Los Angeles League of Musicians was launched Aug. 9 on Verve/VLG. That provides the label its first entry and prime 10 on a Latin chart in over a decade, since Natalie Cole’s Natalie Cole En Español debuted at No. 1 on each, Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in January 2013.

The Los Angeles League of Musicians (LA LOM is its acronym), opens at No. 5 on Tropical Albums with slightly over 2,000 equal album items earned within the U.S. for the monitoring week of Aug. 9-15, in keeping with Luminate. Most of the album’s first week sum contains conventional album gross sales, with a small quantity of items via streaming exercise. That equates to 358,000 official on-demand U.S. streams for the album’s songs.

On Tropical Albums, one unit equals one album sale, 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a track on the album.

With The Los Angeles League of Musicians, LA LOM banks its first entry on a Billboard chart and its first prime 10 on any rating.

Notably, it’s simply the third album to debut within the prime 5 on Tropical Albums up to now in 2024, after Prince Royce’s Llamada Perdida (No. 2 begin in March) and Marc Anthony’s Muevense (No. 4 debut in May). Further LA LOM marks the third prime 5 debut by a gaggle this decade, becoming a member of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico’s En Cuarentena and Buena Vista Social Club’s Ahora Me Da Pena EP, each which achieved a No. 3 opening in April 2021 and May 7, 2022, respectively.

“We all have a background playing different styles of music that we heard around Los Angeles, the city we all grew up in,” Sokolow provides. “Everything from classic soul, rockabilly, country, jazz, to traditional music from Eastern Europe. When we play cumbia, we bring all these elements from the city to our music. The tropical/cumbia that’s most popular around LA is probably the pop cumbia style from Mexico you hear on the radio, but there are also some really great bands that play music influenced by the chicha from Peru, or the vallenato style from Colombia. We play our own style from Los Angeles.”

Thanks to LA LOM’s U.S. rising footprint, the group, composed of Zac Sokolow (guitar), Jake Faulkner (bass), and Nicholas Baker (drums/percussion), concurrently makes its debut on the Emerging Artists chart, at No. 18. The tally ranks the most well-liked growing artists of the week, utilizing the identical method because the all-encompassing Billboard Artist 100, which measures artist exercise throughout a number of Billboard charts.

Further, the album takes LA LOM to its first look on Top Current Album Sales, the place it arrives at No. 44.

“What you hear on the record is pretty close to the way we play live, but we always play the best when we are playing to a room full of dancers,” Sokolow concludes. “We’ve been pretty busy touring the last couple months and have dates coming up all over the world. Make sure to come see us when we make it to your town!”