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Post by thebigham on Oct 20, 2023 13:57:31 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/nct-127-fact-check-number-1-top-album-sales-chart-1235450327/?fbclid=IwAR2f_yeJQT-_kKhC8p78GHFVkXTVFApQVcQpj6u7hPvuwf23okOQWuvxSGQNCT 127 Lands Fourth No. 1 on Album Sales Chart With ‘Fact Check’By Keith Caulfield 10/20/2023 Plus: (G)I-DLE, Sufjan Stevens, Van Halen, Drake, Reba McEntire and Roger Waters all debut in the top 10. NCT 127 lands its fourth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Oct. 21) as the Korean pop ensemble’s new release, Fact Check: The Fifth Album, starts atop the list with 29,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 12, according to Luminate. Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, the latest releases from (G)I-DLE, Sufjan Stevens, Van Halen, Drake, Reba McEntire and Roger Waters all debut. 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 units and streaming equivalent album units. (G)I-DLE notches its third top 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales, and its highest charting set yet, as Heat bows at No. 2 with 20,000 sold. Sufjan Stevens also logs his highest charting album, and fourth top 10, as Javelin pierces the chart at No. 3 with 14,000 sold. Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Guts dips 2-4 with 13,000 (down 13%). Van Halen’s boxed set The Collection II starts at No. 5 with 11,000 sold. The package contains remastered editions of the band’s four Sammy Hagar-era studio albums, along with a disc of rarities. Drake’s For All the Dogs starts at No. 6 with 10,000 sold, Reba McEntire’s Not That Fancy flies in at No. 7 with 9,000 and Taylor Swift’s former leader Lover rises 12-8 with 8,500. Roger Waters’ The Dark Side of the Moon Redux debuts at No. 9 with just over 8,000 sold. It’s a cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, with additional lyrics. Rounding out the top 10 is Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Midnights, rising 15-10 with 8,000 sold (up 5%). In the week ending Oct. 12, there were 1.671 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 1.4% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.355 million (down 1%) and digital albums comprised 316,000 (down 3.2%). There were 598,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Oct. 12 (up 4.3% week-over-week) and 747,000 vinyl albums sold (down 4.8%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 26.758 million (up less than 1% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 35.629 million (up 18.6%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 77.191 million (up 5.5% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 62.802 million (up 9.8%) and digital album sales total 14.388 million (down 9.8%).
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Post by thebigham on Oct 22, 2023 18:39:29 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/bad-bunny-nadie-sabe-lo-que-va-a-pasar-manana-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235451431/Bad Bunny’s ‘Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200by Keith Caulfield 10/22/23 Plus, TOMORROW X TOGETHER and Offset arrive in the top 10. Bad Bunny claims his third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 28), as Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana starts atop the tally. The set earned 184,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 19, according to Luminate. Almost all of the album’s opening week was driven by streaming activity of its songs. Nadie was announced on Oct. 9 and released Oct. 13. Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Name Chapter: Freefall bows at No. 3, while Offset’s Set It Off starts at No. 5. 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, compiled by Luminate. 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. The new Oct. 28, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 24. Of Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana’s 184,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 19, SEA units comprise 176,000 (making it the most streamed album of the week, equaling 239.56 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 7,500 (it was only available to purchase as a digital download album) and TEA units comprise 500. Bad Bunny previously led the Billboard 200 with Un Verano Sin Ti (for 13 nonconsecutive weeks in 2022) and El Ultimo Tour del Mundo (one week in 2020). As the Nadie album is essentially all-Spanish, it is the 21st mostly non-English language album to hit No. 1, and the fourth all-Spanish album to reach No. 1. Bad Bunny has three of the four all-Spanish No. 1s, while Karol G has the fourth (Mañana Será Bonito, this March). Drake’s For All the Dogs falls to No. 2 (164,000 equivalent album units; down 59%) after debuting at No. 1 a week ago. TOMORROW X TOGETHER lands its fourth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as The Name Chapter: Freefall debuts at No. 3 with 114,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 106,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 8,000 (equaling 11.53 million on-demand official streams of the set’s nine songs) and TEA units comprise 500. Zach Bryan’s self-titled former No. 1 rises 5-4 with 73,000 equivalent album units earned (up 37%), owed to the album’s release on vinyl and CD on Oct. 13. Of the album’s 73,000 units earned, album sales comprise 24,000 (up 2,686%). Offset nabs his third top 10-charting title on the Billboard 200 — all of which have debuted in the top five — as Set It Off debuts at No. 5. It bows with 70,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 44,500 (equaling 59.14 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 21 songs), album sales comprise 25,000 and TEA units comprise 500. (Migos, with Offset as a member, notched three top 10 sets, including two No. 1s.) Five former No. 1s round out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200: Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time falls 2-6 (69,000 equivalent album units; down 4%), Rod Wave’s Nostalgia descends 3-7 (53,000; down 10%), Taylor Swift’s Lover rises 10-8 (52,000; up 36%), Taylor Swift’s Midnights dips 7-9 (51,000; though up 20%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts falls 4-10 (49,000; down 16%).
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Post by thebigham on Oct 29, 2023 19:08:16 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/blink-182-one-more-time-album-debuts-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235457561/#recipient_hashed=9d16ec00b546bbbbd568688bf2789938d470f99538b43074cd2dbd20ee37a045&recipient_salt=5f0b7330b143a374fa57a8fd9f243e90827de0ad64c84bef782a55da73b6e8ceBlink-182 Reunion Album ‘One More Time’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200By Keith Caulfield 10/29/2023 Plus, The Rolling Stones' first studio album of original material since 2005, "Hackney Diamonds," launches in the top three. Blink-182’s One More Time bows atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Nov. 4), securing the rock trio its third chart-topping set. The new full-length studio album begins with 125,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 26, according to Luminate, largely powered by traditional album sales. One More Time is Blink-182’s first album with the group’s longtime lineup of drummer Travis Barker, vocalist/bassist Mark Hoppus and guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge since DeLonge departed the group in 2015 for seven years, and the first studio effort from that trio since 2012’s Dogs Eating Dogs EP. (Barker, Hoppus and DeLonge comprised Blink-182 during the band’s mainstream breakthrough in 1999 through 2014.) Blink-182 previously hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 2016’s California (with the lineup of Barker, Hoppus and guitarist/vocalist Matt Skiba) and 2001’s Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. One More Time was led by a pair of No. 1s on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart: “Edging” (No. 1 for 13 consecutive weeks in 2022-23, the band’s longest run at No. 1 with any of its five leaders) and the title track (No. 1 for two weeks, thus far, including on the most recently published chart, dated Oct. 28). “Edging” marked the first No. 1 for Blink-182 on the Alternative Airplay chart since 2016’s “Bored to Death,” and One More Time is the first Blink-182 album to generate at least two No. 1s on the survey. Both “Edging” and “One More Time” also reached the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, hitting Nos. 61 and 62, respectively – the band’s highest-charting Hot 100 entries since 2004’s “I Miss You” reached No. 42. Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, The Rolling Stones extend their record for the most top 10-charting albums in the history of the list, as Hackney Diamonds debuts at No. 3, marking the group’s 38th top 10 effort. It’s the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s first studio album of all-original material since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. 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, compiled by Luminate. 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. The new Nov. 4, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Tuesday (Oct. 31). Of One More Time’s 125,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 26, album sales comprise 101,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 23,000 (equaling 30.19 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000. Sales of One More Time were bolstered by its availability across 11 vinyl variants (which combined to sell 49,000 copies — the largest sales week for a rock album on vinyl in 2023), a standard CD, a cassette, and a deluxe boxed set with a branded shirt and a CD contained inside. The trio also released a late-in-the-week deluxe digital edition of the album, exclusively sold on the band’s webstore beginning on Oct. 25, which boasts two new bonus songs. Drake’s chart-topping For All the Dogs is a non-mover at No. 2 with 120,000 equivalent album units earned (down 27%). It also scores its first frame at No. 1 on the recently launched Top Streaming Albums chart. The Rolling Stones’ new studio album Hackney Diamonds debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 101,000 equivalent album units earned. It’s the band’s first effort of all-original material since 2005’s A Bigger Bang, which debuted and peaked at No. 3. Hackney Diamonds marks the Stones’ 38th top 10-charting album, extending the group’s record for the most top 10 albums on the chart (since the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in 1956). Hackney Diamonds boasts special guests Lady Gaga, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The set was led by the singles “Angry” and “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” with Gaga. Both reached the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, while “Angry” has also reached the top 10 of the Adult Alternative Airplay tally. Of Hackney Diamonds’ first-week units, album sales comprise 94,000, SEA units comprise 6,000 (equaling 8.41 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,000. The album’s sales were enhanced by its availability across more than 30 vinyl variants (totaling 36,000 sold), two deluxe boxed sets (with either a branded shirt or a hat, plus a CD), a digipack CD, a CD/blu-ray box set and a standard CD and download album. Bad Bunny’s Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana falls 1-4 in its second week on the Billboard 200 with 97,000 equivalent album units earned (down 47%). The rest of the top 10 on the new Billboard 200 consists of former No. 1s, as Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time climbs 6-5 (69,000; up less than 1%); Taylor Swift’s Midnights rises 9-6 (52,000; up 3%); Taylor Swift’s Lover ascends 8-7 (52,000; down less than 1%); Zach Bryan’s self-titled album falls 4-8 (just over 51,000; down 29%); Rod Wave’s Nostalgia dips 7-9 (51,000; down 4%); and Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts is a non-mover at No. 10 (45,000; down 9%).
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Post by thebigham on Oct 30, 2023 18:06:12 GMT -5
Cher’s ‘Christmas’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Holiday Albums Chart
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Post by thebigham on Oct 30, 2023 19:16:07 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/the-rolling-stones-first-act-billboard-200-top-10-albums-each-decade-1960s-1235457987/The Rolling Stones Are First Act With Billboard 200 Top 10 Albums Each Decade Since the 1960sBy Keith Caulfield 10/30/2023 The legendary band's new Hackney Diamonds debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. The Rolling Stones become the first act with newly-charted top 10 titles on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the 1960s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, 2000s, ‘10s and now the ‘20s. The band’s new studio album, Hackney Diamonds, debuts at No. 3 on the chart dated Nov. 4. It’s the group’s first album of original material since 2005’s A Bigger Bang (which also debuted, and peaked, at No. 3). The new Nov. 4-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Oct. 31. Additionally, The Rolling Stones extend its record for the most top 10 albums, overall, among all artists in the Billboard 200’s history, which dates back to March 1956 (when the tally began publishing on a regular, weekly basis), as Hackney Diamonds marks the act’s 38th top 10-charting set. Barbra Streisand has the second-most, with 34, while The Beatles and Frank Sinatra are tied with the third-most, each with 32. Hackney Diamonds is The Rolling Stones’ first album since the death of their drummer, Charlie Watts, in 2021, which left the group a trio comprising Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood. Before his passing, Watts worked on the new project, and he appears on two of the album’s songs (“Mess It Up” and “Live by the Sword”). Former bandmember Bill Wyman also appears on “Sword,” playing bass guitar. The 12-song album also features contributions from Elton John, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, among others. The Rolling Stones claimed their first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 with 12 x 5, which reached the top 10 dated Dec. 12, 1964 (climbing 11-3, its peak position). The Stones logged 13 top 10 albums in the 1960s (12 x 5; The Rolling Stones, Now!; Out of Our Heads; December’s Children [And Everybody’s]; Big Hits [High Tide and Green Grass]; Aftermath; Got Live If You Want It!; Between the Buttons; Flowers; Their Satanic Majesties Request; Beggars Banquet; Through the Past, Darkly and Let It Bleed), 12 in the ‘70s (‘Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!,’ Sticky Fingers, Hot Rocks 1964-1971, Exile on Main St., More Hot Rocks , Goats Head Soup, It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll, Made in the Shade, Metamorphosis, Black and Blue, Love You Live and Some Girls), six in the ‘80s (Emotional Rescue, Tattoo You, ‘Still Life’ [American Concert 1981], Undercover, Dirty Work and Steel Wheels), three in the ‘90s (Voodoo Lounge, Stripped and Bridges to Babylon), two in the 2000s (Forty Licks and A Bigger Bang), one in the ‘10s (Blue & Lonesome) and now one, so far, in the ‘20s (Hackney Diamonds).
Of those 38 top 10s, nine have reached No. 1: Out of Our Heads, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St., Goats Head Soup, It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll, Black and Blue, Some Girls, Emotional Rescue and Tattoo You.
Notably, one other act has newly-charted Billboard 200 top 10s in each decade from the ‘60s through the ‘10s: Barbra Streisand, who would match The Rolling Stones’ new achievement with a new top 10 of her own this decade.
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, compiled by Luminate. 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.
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Post by thebigham on Nov 5, 2023 11:39:51 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/tyler-the-creator-wolf-returns-top-10-album-sales-chart-1235463018/Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Wolf’ Returns to Top 10 on Album Sales Chart After Vinyl ReissueBy Keith Caulfield 11/3/2023 Plus: Blink-182, The Rolling Stones and Cher debut in the top five. Tyler, the Creator’s Wolf returns to the top 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Nov. 4), re-entering the list at No. 4 following its reissue on vinyl for its 10th anniversary. The album sold 26,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 26 (up 4,982%), according to Luminate, with nearly all of that sum driven by vinyl sales. The album originally debuted and peaked at No. 3 on Top Album Sales in 2013. Wolf, first released in 2013, was reintroduced on vinyl on Oct. 20 in either a multi-disc collectible boxed set or a standard pink-colored vinyl edition. On the Vinyl Albums chart, which ranks the top-selling vinyl releases of the week, Wolf re-enters at No. 3. The set peaked at No. 2 on the list in 2014. 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 units and streaming equivalent album units. Blink-182’s reunion album One More Time starts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales with 101,000 copies sold, marking the third leader for the rock group. The Rolling Stones’ new Hackney Diamonds – the band’s first studio album of original material since 2005 – launches at No. 2 with 94,000 copies sold. TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Name Chapter: Freefall drops to No. 3 with 28,000 (down 73%) after debuting atop the list a week ago. Cher’s first holiday album, Christmas, starts at No. 5 with 20,000 sold. It also bows at No. 1 on the Top Holiday Albums tally, which returns to Billboard’s chart rankings for the season. Taylor Swift’s former leader Lover rises 10-6 (10,000; up 12%) and Olivia Rodrigo’s chart-topping Guts bumps 8-7 (9,000; down 13%). Taylor Swift’s Midnights climbs 12-8 (nearly 9,000; up 1%) and Taylor Swift’s Folklore ascends 18-9 (8,000; up 17%). Boygenius’ The Rest rounds out the top 10, dipping 6-10 in its second week with nearly 8,000 sold (down 35%). In the week ending Oct. 26, there were 1.767 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 4.1% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.424 million (up 3.2%) and digital albums comprised 344,000 (up 8.1%). There were 601,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Oct. 26 (down 7.9% week-over-week) and 811,000 vinyl albums sold (up 14%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 26.012 million (down 1.4% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 37.152 million (up 16.2%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 80.656 million (up 3.9% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 65.607 million (up 7.9%) and digital album sales total 15.049 million (down 10.5%).
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Post by thebigham on Nov 5, 2023 15:59:18 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235463917/Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With Biggest Week in Nearly a DecadeBy Keith Caulfield 11/5/2023 The re-recorded set bows with the largest week for any album in nearly eight years and Swift's biggest sales week ever. Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Nov. 11), scoring the superstar her 13th No. 1 on the chart. The set debuts with 1.653 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 2, according to Luminate. That marks the largest week for any album, by units earned, since Adele’s 25 launched with 3.482 million units earned in the week ending Nov. 25, 2015. Further, of 1989 (Taylor’s Version)’s first-week units, traditional album sales comprise 1.359 million of that sum — Swift’s single-largest sales week for any of her albums. It surpasses her previous high, logged when the original 1989 album debuted with 1.287 million sold in the week ending Nov. 2, 2014. The first-week sales of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) are the largest for any album since Adele’s 25 bowed with 3.378 million. In total, since Luminate began electronically tracking music sales in 1991, the debut of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) marks the sixth-largest sales week for any album. The top six biggest weeks are (all in debut frames): Adele’s 25 (3.378 million), *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached (2.416 million, in 2000), *NSYNC’s Celebrity (1.878 million, 2001), Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP (1.76 million, 2000), Backstreet Boys’ Black & Blue (1.591 million, 2000) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (1.359 million). The sales of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) were enhanced by its availability in 15 collectible physical formats: five color vinyl variants, eight CD editions and two cassette editions. Of the five vinyl variants, Target carries a color variant that includes one bonus track (“Sweeter Than Fiction”). The album is also available to buy in two digital download editions: a standard 21-song version and a deluxe 22-song version (which adds a re-recorded version of the album’s “Bad Blood,” featuring Kendrick Lamar). (Notably, Swift did not offer an autographed edition of the new album to purchase, as she did in time for the first weeks of her last three No. 1s: Speak Now [Taylor’s Version], Midnights and Red [Taylor’s Version]. Signed editions of her albums are a major sales driver.) With Swift’s total of No. 1s on the Billboard 200 albums chart rising to 13 (Swift’s lucky number), she extends her record for the most leaders among women in the chart’s history, dating back to March of 1956, when the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis. Among all artists, The Beatles have the most No. 1s (19), followed by Jay-Z (14) and Drake and Swift (tied with 13 each). All 13 of Swift’s full-length studio albums and re-recorded projects from 2008’s Fearless, her second studio album, through 2023’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) have debuted at No. 1. Swift announced 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on Aug. 9, while performing at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., as part of her The Eras Tour. Pre-order sales for the album began shortly afterward via Swift’s official webstore. 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, compiled by Luminate. 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. The new Nov. 11, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Nov. 7. Of 1989 (Taylor’s Version)’s 1.653 million equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 2, album sales comprise 1.359 million, SEA units comprise 288,000 (equaling 375.49 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 21 songs) and TEA units comprise 6,000. The original 1989 album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart dated Nov. 15, 2014, and spent 11 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. It is tied with Swift’s first leader, Fearless, for her most weeks at No. 1 with a single album. The 1989 album boasts three songs that hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the most No. 1s generated from any Swift album. She sent “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space” and “Bad Blood,” featuring Kendrick Lamar, to No. 1 in 2014-15. 1989 (Taylor’s Version) includes re-recordings of the original 1989 album’s standard 13 songs plus the three tracks from its deluxe edition. The new 1989 (Taylor’s Version) adds five additional previously unreleased “From the Vault” re-recordings, bringing the total number of songs on the standard version of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) to 21. Million-Selling Week: With 1.359 million copies sold in its first week, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) marks the sixth Swift album to have sold at least a million in a single week, following the debut weeks of Midnights, reputation, the original 1989, Red and Speak Now. She is the only act with six different albums to each sell at least 1 million copies in a single week since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991. In total, there have been 25 instances — by 23 different albums — in which an album sold at least 1 million copies in a week in the Luminate era. One of those albums, Adele’s 25, sold more than 1 million in three separate weeks. 2023’s Biggest-Selling Album: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) has already become the year’s top-selling album. It surpasses the year’s previous best-seller, Swift’s own 2022 release Midnights, which has sold 791,000 in 2023. Swift now has the top-three-selling albums of the year, as Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is the No. 3-seller, with 755,000 sold since its release in July. Modern-Era Single-Week Vinyl Sales Record: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) sold 693,000 copies on vinyl in its first week. That marks the largest sales week for a vinyl album since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. Swift breaks her own modern-era vinyl sales record, set by the debut of her last studio album of all-new material, Midnights, which sold 575,000 copies in its opening week (ending Oct. 27, 2022). Biggest Sales Week for a CD Album Since 2015: Of 1989 (Taylor’s Version)’s first-week sales across all formats (CD, vinyl, digital download and cassette), its combined eight CD editions sold 554,000 copies. That marks the single-largest sales week for an album on CD since Adele’s 25 sold 1.03 million copies on CD in its fifth week of release (week ending Dec. 24, 2015). Swift’s Biggest Streaming Week for a Re-Recorded Album: As 1989 (Taylor’s Version) earned 288,000 SEA units, which equates to 375.49 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 21 songs, the album tallies Swift’s biggest streaming week, by total streams for its songs, for any of her four re-recorded projects. Her previous biggest streaming sum for a re-recorded project was the opening week of Red (Taylor’s Version), which saw its collected 30 songs generate 303.23 million streams. (Swift’s biggest streaming week overall for any album is the debut frame of Midnights, with 549.26 million clicks — which is also the single-largest week for any album by a woman.) At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, SEVENTEEN debuts with SEVENTEENTH Heaven: 11th Mini Album, marking the Korean pop group’s fourth top 10-charting effort. The set launches with 100,000 equivalent album units earned, driven almost entirely by CD sales (98,000 in total), bolstered by its availability across 16 collectible CD variants. The rest of the top 10 comprises former No. 1s. Drake’s For All the Dogs falls 2-3 (95,000 equivalent album units earned, down 21%); Bad Bunny’s Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana is a non-mover at No. 4 (73,000; down 25%); Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is steady at No. 5 (64,000; down 7%); Rod Wave’s Nostalgia rises 9-6 (46,000; down 9%); Taylor Swift’s Midnights dips 6-7 (45,000; down 15%); Taylor Swift’s Lover falls 7-8 (just over 44,000; down 15%); Zach Bryan’s self-titled album descends 8-9 (44,000; down 14%); and SZA’s SOS climbs 11-10 (42,000; down 5%). Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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Post by thebigham on Nov 12, 2023 16:12:06 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version-second-week-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235469859/Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ Spends Second Week Atop Billboard 200By Keith Caulfield 11/12/2023 Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) logs a second week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Nov. 18), following its blockbuster debut. In the week ending Nov. 9, the set earned 245,000 equivalent album units (down 85%) in the U.S., according to Luminate. The re-recorded effort charged in at No. 1 with 1.653 million units a week ago — marking the largest week for any album in nearly a decade. Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Jung Kook’s debut album, Golden, bows at No. 2, while the late Jimmy Buffett’s new studio album, Equal Strain on All Parts, starts at No. 6. 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, compiled by Luminate. 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. The new Nov. 18, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Nov. 14. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Of 1989 (Taylor’s Version)’s 245,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 9, album sales comprise 122,000, SEA units comprise 121,500 (equaling 159.54 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 36 songs) and TEA units comprise 1,500. On the final day of the tracking week, Swift introduced a new deluxe digital download edition of the album, exclusively available in her official webstore for one day only. The new version includes one bonus track, “very *friendly* person! (Acoustic Version) (Taylor’s Version).” BTS’ Jung Kook sees his solo debut album, Golden, bow at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 210,200 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 164,800 (it’s the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 29,800 (equaling 41.59 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 10 songs) and TEA units comprise 15,600. Golden’s sales were largely driven by CD purchases, with 128,500 sold, while digital download album contributed 36,300. It was not available to purchase on any other format. Golden was preceded by a pair of top 10-charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, the No. 1 “Seven,” featuring Latto, and the No. 5-peaking “3D,” with Jack Harlow. Golden is Jung Kook’s first charting album on the Billboard 200, and he becomes the sixth member of BTS (of the seven total members) to have achieved a top 10-charting effort. BTS itself has logged seven top 10s, including six No. 1s. Golden was issued in 16 collectible CD editions, all with the same tracklist, but alternative packaging and covers, with different merchandise (some randomized) contained inside. Among the variants were retail-exclusive sold through Barnes & Noble, Target and Walmart. Golden was also available to purchase across nine different digital download editions: a standard version, one with three music videos, a version with a “digitally signed” cover, two alternative cover versions, and four “voice memo” versions (each of the four came with a different short voice memo recorded by the artist as a bonus track). A trio of former No. 1s is next on the Billboard 200: Drake’s For All the Dogs is a non-mover at No. 3 (81,000 equivalent album units; down 15%), Morgan Wallen’s One Thing At a Time rises 5-4 (65,000; up 2%) and Bad Bunny’s Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana falls 4-5 (60,000; down 19%). The late Jimmy Buffett debuts at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 with the final studio album he completed during his lifetime, Equal Strain on All Parts. The set starts with a little over 53,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 51,000, SEA units comprise a little over 2,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. Buffett died on Sept. 1 at the age of 76 of skin cancer. The new 14-song album, which marks Buffett’s 14th top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200, features contributions from Emmylou Harris, Angelique Kidjo, Lennie Gallant, Will Kimbrough, Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Paul McCartney. Equal Strain on All Parts was issued as a standard digital album, a standard CD and in two vinyl editions — a widely available Key West Blue-colored version, and an indie store exclusive Paradise Blue-colored version that contains a poster inside. Of the album’s 51,000 sold, CD sales comprise 26,000, digital album sales comprise 15,000 and vinyl sales comprise 10,000. Closing out the new top 10 are four former chart-toppers: Rod Wave’s Nostalgia dips 6-7 (45,000 equivalent album units; down 3%); Zach Bryan’s self-titled set rises 9-8 (nearly 45,000; up 2%); Taylor Swift’s Midnights falls 7-9 (43,000; down 3%); and SZA’s SOS is steady at No. 10 (42,000; down less than 1%). Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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Post by thebigham on Nov 13, 2023 9:03:05 GMT -5
YTD SPS: hitsdailydouble.com/ytd_project_activityChart Date: 11/10/2023 (WEEK ENDING: 11/09/2023) 1 MORGAN WALLEN | ONE THING AT A TIME BIG LOUD/MERCURY/REPUBLIC (UMG) 4,910,000 2 SZA | SOS TDE/RCA (SME) 2,831,000 3 TAYLOR SWIFT | MIDNIGHTS REPUBLIC (UMG) 2,796,000 4 TAYLOR SWIFT | 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) REPUBLIC (UMG) 1,988,000 5 MORGAN WALLEN | DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM BIG LOUD/MERCURY/REPUBLIC (UMG) 1,946,000 6 TRAVIS SCOTT | UTOPIA CACTUS JACK/EPIC (SME) 1,544,000 7 TAYLOR SWIFT | LOVERREPUBLIC (UMG) 1,543,000 8 TAYLOR SWIFT | SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) REPUBLIC (UMG) 1,507,000 9 METRO BOOMIN | HEROES & VILLAINS BOOMINATI/REPUBLIC (UMG) 1,438,000 10 BAD BUNNY | UN VERANO SIN TI RIMAS (THE ORCHARD) 1,434,000 11 ZACH BRYAN | AMERICAN HEARTBREAK 1,369,000 12 DRAKE & 21 SAVAGE | HER LOSS 1,306,000 13 TAYLOR SWIFT | FOLKLORE 1,291,000 14 PESO PLUMA | GENESIS 1,159,000 15 LUKE COMBS | GETTIN' OLD 1,126,000 16 KAROL G | MANANA SERA BONITO 1,110,000 17 TAYLOR SWIFT | 1989 1,097,000 18 BAILEY ZIMMERMAN | RELIGIOUSLY. THE ALBUM. 1,018,000 19 OLIVIA RODRIGO | GUTS 989,000 20 TAYLOR SWIFT | REPUTATION 978,000 21 TAYLOR SWIFT | RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) 963,00022 THE WEEKND | STARBOY 961,000 23 MILEY CYRUS | ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION 956,000 24 DRAKE | FOR ALL THE DOGS 907,000 25 NOAH KAHAN | STICK SEASON 890,000 26 HARRY STYLES | HARRY'S HOUSE 887,000 27 ZACH BRYAN | ZACH BRYAN 879,000 28 BARBIE THE ALBUM | SOUNDTRACK 868,000 29 LIL BABY | MY TURN 864,000 30 ELTON JOHN | DIAMONDS 857,00031 LIL BABY | IT'S ONLY ME 856,000 32 DRAKE | CERTIFIED LOVER BOY 832,000 33 BEYONCE | RENAISSANCE 825,000 34 FLEETWOOD MAC | RUMOURS 821,000 35 OLIVIA RODRIGO | SOUR 813,000 36 TAYLOR SWIFT | EVERMORE 795,000 37 LUKE COMBS | THIS ONE'S FOR YOU 778,000 38 POST MALONE | HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING 776,000 39 EMINEM | CURTAIN CALL 775,000 40 MORGAN WALLEN | IF I KNOW ME 765,000 41 SZA | CTRL 759,000 42 QUEEN | GREATEST HITS 1 756,000 43 KENDRICK LAMAR | GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY 739,000 44 LIL UZI VERT | PINK TAPE 731,000 45 FUTURE | I NEVER LIKED YOU 729,000 46 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL | CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS 696,000 47 LIL DURK | ALMOST HEALED 695,000 48 DRAKE | TAKE CARE 687,000 49 THE WEEKND | THE HIGHLIGHTS 686,000 50 KENDRICK LAMAR | d**n. 685,000
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Post by thebigham on Nov 17, 2023 10:07:00 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/jung-kook-golden-number-one-top-album-sales-chart-1235479487/Jung Kook’s ‘Golden’ Debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales ChartBy Keith Caulfield 11/16/2023 Plus: Jimmy Buffett, Jason Aldean, Dave Matthews Band, Coheed and Cambria & Caroline Polachek shake up top 10. Jung Kook’s first solo album, Golden, debuts atop Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Nov. 18), selling 164,800 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 9, according to Luminate. Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, the late Jimmy Buffett’s new studio album Equal Strain On all Parts bows at No. 3, Jason Aldean’s latest effort Highway Desperado starts at No. 6, anniversary reissues of Dave Matthews Band’s Before These Crowded Streets and Coheeed and Cambria’s The Second Stage Turbine Blade prompt their re-entries, while the physical release of Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You pushes the album to a No. 9 debut. 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 units and streaming equivalent album units. Of the 164,800 copies sold of Golden, physical sales comprise 128,500 (all CD sales) and digital downloads comprise 36,500. As with many major K-pop releases, Golden was issued in 16 collectible CD editions, all with the same tracklist, but alternative packaging and covers, with different merchandise (some randomized) contained inside. Among the variants were retail-exclusive sold through Barnes & Noble, Target and Walmart. Golden was also available to purchase across nine different digital download editions: a standard version, one with three music videos, a version with a “digitally signed” cover, two alternative cover versions, and four “voice memo” versions (each of the four came with a different short voice memo recorded by the artist as a bonus track). Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) slips to No. 2 with 122,000 copies sold (down 91%) after debuting at No. 1 the week previous. The late Jimmy Buffett, who died on Sept. 1, debuts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales with the final studio album he completed during his lifetime: Equal Strain On all Parts. It launches with 51,000 copies sold. The set was issued as a standard digital album, a standard CD and in two vinyl editions – a widely available Key West Blue-colored version, and an indie store exclusive Paradise Blue-colored version that contains a poster inside. Of the album’s 51,000 sold, CD sales comprise 26,000, digital album sales comprise 15,000 and vinyl sales comprise 10,000. SEVENTEEN’s SEVENTEENTH Heaven: 11th Mini Album falls 2-4 on Top Album Sales with 22,000 (down 77%) while The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds dips 3-5 with 17,000 (down 48%). Jason Aldean’s new studio album Highway Desperado drives in at No. 6 in its first week, selling 16,500 copies. It’s the 11th top 10, all consecutive, for the country star. He first visited the region with Relentless, hitting No. 4 in 2007. Dave Matthews Band’s former No. 1, Before These Crowded Streets, re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 7 with nearly 15,000 sold, following a new 25th anniversary pressing on vinyl. (Essentially all of its sales for the week were on vinyl.) It was available in four vinyl variants: a standard black-colored edition, with clear, yellow and red/blue marbled version. Another anniversary vinyl pressing brings an album back to the chart, as Coheed and Cambria’s The Second Stage Turbine Blade reaches the top 10 for the first time, as it re-enters at No. 8 with 13,000 sold (its best sales week ever). Nearly all of that sum is driven by vinyl sales, as the album garnered a new vinyl pressing for its 20th anniversary. It was available in five color variants: black transparent, yellow opaque, white with black splatter, yellow with white and black splatter and green with white and yellow splatter. Second Stage now marks the ninth top 10-charting effort for the act on Top Album Sales. Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, debuts at No. 9 on Top Album Sales with a little over 11,000 copies sold (up from a negligible sum the week previous), following the album’s release on physical formats on Nov. 3. It was available in four vinyl variants, a CD and cassette tape. The album was initially released as a digital download and via streaming services in February. Rounding out the new top 10 is TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s former leader The Name Chapter: Freefall, which drops 5-10 with 10,000 sold (down 31%). In the week ending Nov. 9, there were 2.074 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 33.1% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.651 million (down 38.6%) and digital albums comprised 423,000 (up 2.5%). There were 796,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Nov. 9 (down 35.5% week-over-week) and 845,000 vinyl albums sold (down 41%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 30.041 million (up 1.3% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 39.430 million (up 18.4%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 85.832 million (up 6% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 69.947 million (up 10.3%) and digital album sales total 15.885 million (down 9.7%).
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Post by thebigham on Nov 19, 2023 17:41:28 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/stray-kids-rock-star-number-1-billboard-200-1235494895/Stray Kids Score Fourth No. 1 on Billboard 200 With ‘ROCK-STAR’By Keith Caulfield 11/19/2023 Plus, Chris Stapleton and Chris Brown debut in the top 10 with their latest releases. Stray Kids’ ROCK-STAR debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Nov. 25), scoring the Korean pop ensemble its fourth chart-topper. The set launches with 224,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 16, according to Luminate, largely powered by traditional album sales. The act — who is performing on the 2023 Billboard Music Awards Nov. 19, and is a finalist in two categories — previously opened at No. 1 with 5-STAR (earlier in 2023), MAXIDENT and ODDINARY (both in 2022). Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, the latest releases from Chris Stapleton and Chris Brown debut. 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, compiled by Luminate. 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. The new Nov. 25, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Nov. 21. Of ROCK-STAR’s 224,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 16, album sales comprise 213,000 (with 98% of that sum driven by CD sales and 2% via digital downloads), SEA units comprise 11,000 (equaling 15.68 million on-demand official streams of the set’s eight tracks) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. ROCK-STAR was issued in 11 collectible CD editions, all with the same tracklist but alternative packaging, with different merchandise (some randomized) contained inside. Among the variants were retail-exclusives sold through Barnes & Noble, Target and Walmart. ROCK-STAR was also available to purchase across four different digital download editions: a standard version and three alternative cover versions (with the latter titles sold exclusively in the act’s webstore). All four of Stray Kids’ chart entries have debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making them the first act to see their first four chart entries debut at No. 1 since Alicia Keys in 2001-07. She bowed at No. 1 with Songs in A Minor (2001), The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), the live set Unplugged (2005) and As I Am (2007). Honorable mention (and looking at groups) goes to One Direction, who debuted at No. 1 with its first chart entry, the studio album Up All Night in 2012. Later that year, in October 2012, the iTunes Store-exclusive six-song live set iTunes Festival: London 2012 debuted and peaked at No. 140. And then the act logged three No. 1s in a row with Take Me Home in December 2012, Midnight Memories in December 2013 and Four in December 2014.) Stray Kids logged its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 on the April 2, 2022-dated chart, with ODDINARY debuting atop the list. They followed it with MAXIDENT (Oct. 22, 2022), 5-STAR (June 17, 2023) and now ROCK-STAR. With nearly 20 months separating Stray Kids’ four No. 1 albums, the act has the fastest accumulation of four No. 1s since Taylor Swift notched four leaders in just under 16 months with Folklore, Evermore, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version) between August of 2020 and November of 2021. As the ROCK-STAR album is mostly in the Korean language, it is the 22nd mostly non-English language album to hit No. 1, and the sixth of 2023. The other five are Bad Bunny’s Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana, NewJeans’ 2nd EP ‘Get Up,’ Stray Kids’ 5-STAR, Karol G’s Mañana Será Bonito and TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Name Chapter: Temptation. Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) falls to No. 2 with 159,000 equivalent album units earned (down 35%) after spending its first two weeks at No. 1. Chris Stapleton notches his fifth consecutive top three-charting album – the entirety of his charting efforts – as Higher bows at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 90,500 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 57,000 (boosted by its availability across six vinyl variants), SEA units comprise 32,000 (equaling 41.54 million official on-demand streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise 1,500. Drake’s former No. 1 For All the Dogs falls 3-4 on the new Billboard 200 with 72,000 equivalent album units earned (down 11%). The album should see a gain on next week’s chart, dated Dec. 2, following the release of a deluxe edition of the album on Nov. 17 which added six additional songs. The new iteration is dubbed For All the Dogs: Scary Hours Edition. (All versions of For All the Dogs are combined for tracking and charting purposes.) Morgan Wallen’s chart-toping One Thing at a Time dips 4-5 on the Billboard 200 with 68,000 equivalent album units earned (up 4%). Jung Kook’s Golden falls 2-6 in its second week with 56,000 units (down 73%). Taylor Swift’s former leader Midnights rises 9-7 with nearly 52,000 (up 19%), while Bad Bunny’s chart-topping Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana falls 5-8 with 49,000 (down 19%). Chris Brown earns his 12th top 10-charting album on the Billboard 200 as his latest studio effort 11:11 debuts at No. 9 with just over 45,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 38,000 (equaling 50.97 million official on-demand streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 6,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000. Rounding out the new top 10 is Zach Bryan’s self-titled chart-topper, which dips 8-10 with 45,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%). Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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Post by thebigham on Nov 22, 2023 22:43:40 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/the-beatles-red-and-blue-albums-billboard-chart-return-1235509918/The Beatles’ Red & Blue Albums Make Billboard Chart Return After ReissueBy Keith Caulfield 11/22/2023 The 1973 compilations 1962-1966 and 1967-1970, dubbed the Red and Blue Albums, re-enter the Album Sales chart's top 10. The Beatles’ compilation albums 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 (also known as the Red and Blue Albums, owed to the distinctive cover art), re-enter Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Nov. 25) at Nos. 6 and 5, respectively, following their expanded reissue on Nov. 10. The titles sold 22,000 and 24,000 in the week ending Nov. 16 in the U.S., according to Luminate. Each told sold less than 500 copies in the previous week. For both titles, it is their largest sales week since the week ending Dec. 24, 1994, when they sold 37,000 and 40,000, respectively. Upon their original release in 1973, the 1962-1966 album contained 26 songs, while 1967-1970 held 28 tunes. (On the Billboard 200 chart, 1967-1970 reached No. 1, while 1962-1966 peaked at No. 3.) For the 2023 reissue, 21 songs were added to the two albums — 12 songs on 1962-1966 and nine on 1967-1970. The latter’s additional cuts include the recently released new single “Now and Then,” which debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 – marking the Fab Four’s 35th top 10-charting hit. The two albums were available to purchase as a digital download, a double-CD or three-vinyl LP set. They were also combined into a singular boxed set – 1962-1970 – that contained all of the material, and available only as a four-CD or six-vinyl LP box. (The box debuts at No. 24 on Top Album Sales with 7,000 sold.) The trio of releases dot a number of other Billboard album charts, let’s take a look: 1962-1966: Billboard 200 – No. 20 (Re-entry) Top Rock & Alternative Albums – No. 6 (Debut) Top Rock Albums – No. 4 (Debut) Catalog Albums – No. 3 (Re-entry) Vinyl Albums – No. 17 (Debut) Tastemaker Albums – No. 5 (Debut) 1967-1970: Billboard 200 – No. 15 (Re-entry) Top Rock & Alternative Albums – No. 3 (Debut) Top Rock Albums – No. 3 (Debut) Catalog Albums – No. 2 (Re-entry) Vinyl Albums – No. 11 (Debut) Tastemaker Albums – No. 4 (Debut) 1962-1970: Vinyl Albums – No. 13 (Debut) Tastemaker Albums – No. 15 (Debut) Top Current Album Sales – No. 17 (Debut) 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 units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums and Catalog Albums rank the week’s most popular rock and alternative, rock, and catalog (older) albums across all genres, by equivalent album units. Vinyl Album tallies the week’s top-selling vinyl releases. Tastemaker Albums measures the top-selling titles at independent and small chain record stores. Top Current Album Sales ranks the week’s top-selling new/current albums (non-catalog/older titles). Elsewhere in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Stray Kids’ ROCK-STAR debuts at No. 1 with 213,000 copies sold, Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is a non-mover at No. 2 with 69,000 sold (down 43%), while Chris Stapleton’s Higher launches at No. 3 with 57,000. After debuting at No. 1 a week ago, Jung Kook’s Golden falls to No. 4 with 34,000 sold (down 79%). Aespa’s Drama: The 4th Mini Album starts at No. 7 with 18,000 sold. Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life re-enters at No. 8 with 14,000 sold (up from less than 500 sold the week previous) following a new color vinyl pressing. Rounding out the top 10 is the debut of AJR’s The Maybe Man at No. 9 with 13,000 and Jimmy Buffett’s Equal Strain On all Parts, falling 3-10 in its second week with nearly 13,000 sold (down 75%). In the week ending Nov. 16, there were 2.302 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 11% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.93 million (up 16.9%) and digital albums comprised 372,000 (down 11.9%). There were 956,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Nov. 16 (up 20.2% week-over-week) and 964,000 vinyl albums sold (up 14.1%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 30.998 million (up 2.3% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 40.395 million (up 18.1%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 88.134 million (up 6.3% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 71.877 million (up 10.6%) and digital album sales total 16.257 million (down 9.5%).
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Post by thebigham on Nov 26, 2023 15:12:04 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/drakes-for-all-the-dogs-returns-number-one-billboard-200-chart-scary-hours-deluxe-1235510532/Drake’s ‘For All the Dogs’ Back at No. 1 on Billboard 200 After ‘Scary Hours’ Deluxe ReleaseBy Keith Caulfield 11/26/2023 Plus: Dolly Parton earns her highest-charting album ever with the debut of "Rockstar" & ENHYPEN nabs its third top 10 with "Dark Blood." Drake’s For All the Dogs jumps back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated Dec. 2), for a second week atop the list, rising 4-1 with 145,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 23 (up 102%), according to Luminate. Nearly all of its units were driven by streaming activity. The album’s return to the top is fueled largely by its deluxe reissue on Nov. 17 with six new songs, dubbed For All the Dogs Scary Hours Edition. All versions of the album are combined for tracking and charting purposes. Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Dolly Parton achieves her highest-charting album ever — and third top 10 — as Rockstar opens at No. 3, while ENHYPEN logs its third top 10 with the No. 4 arrival of Orange Blood. 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, compiled by Luminate. 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. The new Dec. 2, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Tuesday (Nov. 28). Of For All the Dogs’ 145,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 23, SEA units comprise 141,500 (up 99%, equaling 190.23 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 29 tracks, inclusive of its six added songs), album sales comprise 2,000 (up 884%) and TEA units comprise 1,500 (up 456%). Taylor Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is a non-mover at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, earning 138,000 equivalent album units (down 14%). Dolly Parton’s Rockstar makes a splashy debut at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, scoring the legend her highest-charting album ever and her third top 10. She previously visited the region with Blue Smoke (No. 6 in 2014) and Trio (her collaborative set with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris; No. 6 in 1987). Rockstar launches with 128,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 23. Of that sum, album sales comprise 118,500, SEA units comprise 8,000 and TEA units comprise 1,500. The arrival marks Parton’s biggest week, by units earned, since the chart began measuring by units in December 2014. Further, with 118,500 copies sold, Parton achieves her biggest sales week for an album in the modern era, since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991. She more than doubles her previous biggest week, notched in 1993 when Slow Dancing With the Moon sold 50,500 copies in its second week on the chart (rising 54-19 on the March 20, 1993-dated list). The star-studded Rockstar was promoted as Parton’s first rock album (she’s primarily released country music in her nearly 60-year career), and its recording was sparked by Parton’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. The 30-song set has a mix of original songs and covers, and boasts a cavalcade of guest stars — 40 in all. Among them are Pat Benatar, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Elton John, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Chris Stapleton, Ringo Starr, Sting and Steven Tyler. Rockstar’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across a variety of editions and formats, in addition to some non-traditional music retailers including Cracker Barrel, Dollar General and HSN. The album’s CD edition was available in four editions — a standard version and three variants, each with alternative cover art: for HSN, with three bonus tracks; a Dallas Cowboys version, and a Tennessee Volunteers edition with a bonus track. The latter two were tied to a pair of high-profile live TV performances from Parton: during the Georgia Bulldogs vs. Tennessee Volunteers football game on Nov. 19, and during halftime of the Washington Commanders vs. Dallas Cowboys football game on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 23). Rockstar was pressed on more than 10 vinyl variants, including exclusive editions (all in different colors, some with different cover art) for Amazon, Barnes & Noble, independent record stores, Parton’s webstore, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame store, Target and Walmart. Parton’s webstore also carried a deluxe digital download version of the album with three exclusive bonus tracks. Rockstar was also offered in multiple deluxe boxed sets, sold through Parton’s webstore, containing either a vinyl or CD version of the album with a branded T-shirt of various designs. ENHYPEN nabs its third top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as Orange Blood bows at No. 4 with 90,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 87,000, SEA units comprise 3,000 (equaling 4.68 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The Korean pop ensemble previously hit the top 10 with Dark Blood (No. 4, in June) and Manifesto: Day 1 (No. 6, 2022). Nearly all of Orange Blood’s first-week activity was generated by CD sales (86,000), enhanced by the album’s availability across a dozen collectible CD packages (including exclusive versions sold by Barnes & Noble, Target and Walmart; all with branded merchandise inside, some with randomized elements). The top 10 of the Billboard 200 is rounded out by six former No. 1s: Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is steady at No. 5 (68,000 equivalent album units earned; down less than 1%); Taylor Swift’s Midnights rises 7-6 (56,000; up 9%); Stray Kids’ ROCK-STAR falls 1-7 in its second week (51,000; down 77%); Taylor Swift’s Lover bolts 14-8 (nearly 51,000; up 16%); Taylor Swift’s Folklore climbs 18-9 (45,000; up 22%); and SZA’s SOS bumps 12-10 (44,000; up less than 1%). (Many albums on the chart, including Swift’s Midnights, Lover and Folklore, see sizable sales gains owed to holiday shopping promotions and early Black Friday campaigns that kicked in during the tracking week.) Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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Post by thebigham on Nov 27, 2023 18:24:35 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/pro/pnk-billboard-monthly-boxscore-report/P!nk Crowns Billboard’s Monthly Boxscore Report With $51 MillionBY ERIC FRANKENBERG 11/27/2023 Split between two tours, P!nk is October's highest-grossing touring act from 10 shows in arenas and stadiums. P!nk played 10 shows, split between two separate tours, in October. In all, those dates grossed $51.2 million and sold 271,000 tickets, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. That’s enough to rule Billboard’s monthly Top Tours chart, marking her third month at No. 1 since the charts launched in February 2019. P!nk began the month in San Diego, playing an Oct. 3 show at Snapdragon Stadium. After three more stadium shows on the Summer Carnival tour, she transitioned to the arena-focused Trustfall Tour, playing dates in California, Denver, and Kansas City. She’s the first artist to lead the Top Tours list via multiple tours. It’s rare enough for an artist to play two tours within a year of one another, but it does happen, per recent treks by Bad Bunny and Post Malone, among others. Both tours’ setlist, personnel and staging are relatively similar, though the Trustfall Tour puts an extra accent on its namesake album. The October Summer Carnival shows earned $30.9 million and sold 190,000 tickets, while the six Trustfall shows brought in $20.2 million and 81,100 tickets. That means that on average, P!nk’s stadium dates averaged more than twice as much revenue as her arena concerts, at $7.7 million and $3.4 million, respectively. The transition from stadiums to arenas, particularly in North America, makes sense as the weather shifts and outdoor concerts become less viable. Still, with active stadium tours in Oceania and South America, P!nk’s monthly gold medal in (primarily) arenas is significant. In fact, P!nk is the first artist to crown the Top Tours chart while touring arenas in 2023 – though she did so with the help of four stadium performances. Trans-Siberian Orchestra staged the last arena win in December of last year. Before that, Bad Bunny was tops in February and March of 2022, before ruling the chart in stadiums later that year. P!nk was No. 2 in August, when she and Beyoncé became the first women to ever rank Nos. 1-2 together. She previously topped the chart in March and July of 2019, while barreling toward the end of the Beautiful Trauma World Tour. That trek grossed $397.3 million and sold 3.1 million tickets, standing tall as the third highest-grossing tour by a woman in the Boxscore archives, behind Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour ($579.8 million in 2023) and Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour ($407.7 million in 2008-09). P!nk is one of just three woman-identifying acts to lead the Top Tours chart. She follows Beyoncé, who ran the ranking in four of the previous five months. Plus, the Spice Girls were No. 1 in June 2019. Both in terms of unique artists, and in total months, women have been No. 1 for less than 20% of the time since the monthly chart premiered. Including the Summer Carnival Tour from earlier this year, and current through the Nov. 14 Trustfall show in Miami, P!nk has grossed $309.4 million and sold just over 2 million tickets in 2023. Eight of P!nk’s October dates appear on the Top Boxscores chart, at No. 7 with $9 million from Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on Oct. 7, and at No. 10 with $8.1 million from the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. on Oct. 5. Unsurprisingly, the stadium shows come up first, even above double-header arena engagements in San Francisco and Kansas City. Top Boxscores is led by RBD. The Latin pop group grossed $19.5 million over four nights at Los Angeles’ BMO Stadium (Oct. 18-20, 22). Without any other reported shows in October, it’s enough to make the venue No. 1 on Top Stadiums. Those dates power RBD’s No. 2 finish on Top Tours with $39.4 million overall, scoring a second consecutive month in the runner-up position. Through Nov. 19, the Soy Rebelde Tour has grossed $182.6 million and sold 1.1 million. It’ll likely cross $200 million before the end of the year, becoming the second tour by a Latin act to ever do so. Bad Bunny’s World’s Hottest Tour grossed $314.1 million last year. Last month, RBD joined Beyoncé, Coldplay, Drake and Morgan Wallen in the top five, making the most genre-diverse top five ever. October’s ranking isn’t quite as spread-out – SZA and The Weeknd double up for R&B, and Luis Miguel adds more Latin star-power – but it does block rock, the most traditionally steady genre on the touring circuit, from the upper echelon altogether. Paul McCartney, the Eagles, John Mayer and Depeche Mode follow at Nos. 6-9, giving rock its due in the top 10. Still, October marks only the third month since the charts’ 2019 beginning without a rock act in the top five. Previously, KISS was held off at No. 6 in April 2019, and Elton John in the same spot in October ’19. The Top Tours chart is spiked with four co-headline billings. Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull & Ricky Martin kicked off The Trilogy Tour on Oct. 14, earning $20.9 million from the first eight shows. Iglesias had previously toured with Pitbull and Martin, though these are the first concerts for the trio as a group. Elsewhere, Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks grossed $10.5 million from one date at Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium, at No. 3 on Top Boxscores. The other two co-headline pairs are blink-and-you’ll-miss-it team-ups. Ben Gibbard pulls double duty as the lead of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, each celebrating a 20th anniversary of landmark 2003 albums. Their collaborative – or split-personality – tour brought in $11.5 million in October, finishing with a total of $22.1 million since its September kick-off. Finally, Ms. Lauryn Hill & The Fugees are No. 30 with $7.8 million and 61,500 tickets from five shows, showcasing Hill’s run of ‘90s R&B and hip-hop, alongside Wyclef Jean and Pras. While we noted that P!nk and Beyoncé achieved a first-time top-two finish for women only a couple months ago, Hill is part of an even-more-sparse Boxscore history: She is just the second female rap artist to ever appear on the chart, following Cardi B via her co-headline appearance with Bruno Mars on the inaugural February 2019 list.
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Post by thebigham on Dec 2, 2023 10:41:20 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/enhypen-top-10-album-sales-chart-orange-blood-1235515280/ENHYPEN Score Sixth Top 10 on Album Sales Chart With ‘Orange Blood’By Keith Caulfield 11/28/2023 Plus: Half of the top 10 are Taylor Swift titles, Dolly Parton debuts at No. 1, and Cher's Christmas vaults 23-10. ENHYPEN score their sixth top 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Dec. 2), as the Korean pop ensemble’s Orange Blood bows at No. 2. The set sold 87,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 23, according to Luminate. Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Dolly Parton notches her first No. 1 on the 32-year-old list with the arrival of Rockstar; Taylor Swift has half of the top 10 thanks to sale pricing and promotions for Black Friday, and Cher’s Christmas vaults 23-10 after its release on vinyl. 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 units and streaming equivalent album units. Of the 87,000 copies sold of Orange Blood, physical sales comprise 86,000 (all on CD) and digital download album sales comprise 1,000. Its sales were bolstered by its availability across a dozen collectible CD packages (including exclusive versions sold by Barnes & Noble, Target and Walmart; all with branded merchandise inside, some with randomized elements). As previously reported, Dolly Parton’s Rockstar rules Top Album Sales with her biggest sales week of the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991), with 118,500 copies sold. Its sales were enhanced by a variety of iterations available on vinyl and CD. Taylor Swift has half of the top 10 on Top Album Sales for a third time, thanks to sale pricing and promotions previewing the Black Friday shopping holiday on Nov. 24. (Swift previously had five of the top 10 on the Nov. 11-dated list, and six of the top 10 on the July 22-dated chart.) On the latest Top Album Sales ranking, Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) falls 2-3 (64,000; down 7%), Folklore jumps 14-6 (20,000; up 77%), Midnights rallies 11-7 (19,000; up 57%), Lover leaps 16-8 (18,000; up 80%) and S Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) shoots 15-9 (17,000; up 72%). All are former No. 1s on the tally. Stray Kids’ ROCK-STAR falls 1-4 in its second week on Top Album Sales, selling 46,000 copies (down 78%). Jung Kook’s chart-topping Golden dips 4-5 with 20,000 sold (down 42%). Rounding out the top 10 is Cher’s Christmas, which returns to the region, zipping 23-10 with 14,000 sold (up 82%) following the set’s release on vinyl on Nov. 17. It sold a little over 6,000 copies on vinyl. Christmas debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the Nov. 4-dated chart. In the week ending Nov. 23, there were 2.34 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 1.7% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.98 million (up 2.6%) and digital albums comprised 361,000 (down 3.1%). There were 923,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Nov. 23 (down 3.4% week-over-week) and 1.046 million vinyl albums sold (up 8.6%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 31.921 million (up 2.9% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 41.441 million (up 17.1%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 90.474 million (up 6.1% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 73.857 million (up 10.4%) and digital album sales total 16.617 million (down 9.4%).
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