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Post by thebigham on Jan 27, 2024 14:21:55 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kali-uchis-orquideas-number-one-billboard-album-sales-chart-1235586855/Kali Uchis Scores First No. 1 on Top Album Sales With ‘Orquideas’By Keith Caulfield 01/22/2024 The set scores her biggest sales week ever, and the largest week for a Spanish-language album on vinyl in the modern era. Kali Uchis scores her first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Jan. 27), as Orquídeas arrives atop the list with her biggest sales week ever – 31,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 18, according to Luminate. Of that sum, vinyl sales accounted for 20,000 – marking the largest week for a Spanish-language album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. The effort also launches at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums ranking, No. 1 on Top Latin Albums (her first leader there) and starts at a career-high No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Elsewhere in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Jimin’s former No. 1 FACE re-enters at No. 4 following its vinyl release and Kid Cudi’s new album Insano starts at No. 5. 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. All of Billboard’s new Jan. 27, 2024-dated charts will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 23. Of the 31,000 copies sold of Orquídeas, physical sales comprise 30,000 (20,000 on vinyl, 10,000 on CD and negligible sum on cassette) and digital download album sales comprise 1,000. Its sales were bolstered by its availability across seven vinyl variants and four CD editions, including exclusive versions sold through independent record stores, Target, Urban Outfitters and the artist’s webstore. Six Taylor Swift albums populate the top 10, all former No. 1s, led by Folklore, which pushes 3-2 with 19,000 (up 92%, owed to a replenishment of CD stock at retail). 1989 (Taylor’s Version) falls 1-3 (13,000; down 20%), Midnights dips 2-6 (8,000; down 29%), Lover descends 5-8 (7,000; down 28%), Evermore falls 7-9 (6,000; down 8%) and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) drops 6-10 (5,000; down 25%). Jimin’s FACE re-enters at No. 4 with nearly 10,000 sold (up 3,501%) following the set’s release on vinyl. It sold 8,000 copies on vinyl in the week ending Jan. 18, and enters at No. 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart. FACE was issued in only one vinyl edition, and included a photo book, postcard and photocard inside its packaging. Kid Cudi scores his sixth top 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales, as his latest studio album Insano starts at No. 5 with 8,500 sold. Of that sum, physical sales comprise 7,000 (about 5,500 on vinyl and 1,500 on CD) and digital downloads comprise 1,500. The album’s sales were enhanced by its availability across four vinyl variants and four CD editions. Stray Kids’ chart-topping ROCK-STAR falls 4-7 on Top Album Sales, with nearly 8,000 sold (down 19%). In the week ending Jan. 18, there were 1.083 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 9.3% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 822,000 (down 12.1%) and digital albums comprised 261,000 (down 0.6%). There were 370,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Jan. 18 (down 15.7 week-over-week) and 449,000 vinyl albums sold (down 8.8%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 1.316 (down 27.2% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 1.566 million (down 45.9%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 3.694 million (down 35.5% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 2.895 million (down 38.8%) and digital album sales total 799,000 (down 19.5%).
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Post by thebigham on Jan 28, 2024 15:24:09 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/21-savage-american-dream-second-week-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235591015/21 Savage’s ‘American Dream’ Spends Second Week Atop Billboard 200By Keith Caulfield 01/28/2024 Plus: Green Day lands its 12th top 10-charting set with the debut of Saviors. 21 Savage’s American Dream holds steady at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week (on the chart dated Feb. 3), following its debut atop the tally a week ago. It earned 78,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 25 (down 40%), according to Luminate, down from the 133,000 it earned in its opening frame. With a second week at No. 1, American Dream matches the two-week No. 1 run of the rapper’s I Am > I Was, in 2019, tying for 21 Savage’s most weeks at No. 1 among his four leaders. His two other No. 1s — his collaborative sets Savage Mode II (with Metro Boomin) and Her Loss (with Drake) — each spent one week at the summit. Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Green Day lands its 12th top 10-charting set, as its latest studio album, Saviors, debuts at No. 4. Its arrival comes two weeks before the band celebrates its 30th anniversary on Billboard’s charts. The trio premiered on Billboard’s tallies dated Feb. 19, 1994, when its Dookie album launched on the Billboard 200, among other lists. 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 Feb. 3, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 30. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Of American Dream’s 78,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Jan. 25, SEA units comprise 77,000 (down 40%, equaling 103.16 million on-demand official streams of the 15 songs on the album), album sales comprise 1,000 (72%), and TEA units comprise a negligible sum (down 56%). Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time rises 3-2 with 63,000 equivalent album units earned (up 4%) and Drake’s former leader For All the Dogs climbs 4-3 with 53,000 units (up 1%). Green Day’s Saviors starts at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with 49,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 39,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 9,500 (equaling 12.25 million official on-demand streams of the album’s 15 songs) and TEA units comprise 500. Saviors is the 12th top 10-charting set for Green Day, stretching back to its first entry on the list, Dookie, which entered the chart at No. 127 on the Feb. 19, 1994-dated list, and peaked at No. 2 on Jan. 28, 1995. Saviors was led by the single “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” which reached No. 2 on the Alternative Airplay chart, capturing the group its 25th top 10-charting tune on the tally. Noah Kahan’s Stick Season rises 6-5 on the Billboard 200 with 48,000 equivalent album units earned (up 7%), while the rest of the top 10 comprises former No. 1s: Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) dips 5-6 (47,000; down 6%); SZA’s SOS bumps 9-7 (41,000; down less than 1%); Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday 2 falls 7-8 (39,000; down 11%); Zach Bryan’s self-titled album rises 12-9 (38,000; up 4%); and Taylor Swift’s Lover is a non-mover at No. 10 (nearly 38,000; down 2%). 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 Feb 2, 2024 13:50:54 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/green-days-saviors-number-one-billboard-album-charts-1235596060/Green Day’s ‘Saviors’ Starts at No. 1 on Multiple Billboard Album Chartsby Keith Caulfield 2/1/2024 "Saviors" arrives atop seven different U.S. charts, and bows with the band's best vinyl sales week ever. Green Day’s latest studio album, Saviors, makes an eye-catching debut across Billboard’s charts, as it debuts atop seven different U.S. album charts (all dated Feb. 3). Plus, the set scores the band its best sales week ever on vinyl in the U.S. All told, Saviors starts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales, Top Current Album Sales, Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums, Vinyl Albums and Tastemaker Albums. In the tracking week ending Jan. 25, Saviors sold 39,000 copies in the U.S., according to Luminate. Of that sum, physical sales comprise 30,000 (18,000 on vinyl – the band’s best week ever on vinyl; 11,000 on CD and 1,000 on cassette) and digital album download sales comprise 9,000. Saviors is Green Day’s fifth No. 1 on Top Album Sales and Top Current Album Sales; fourth No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums, third No. 1 on Vinyl Albums and fifth leader on Tastemaker Albums. 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. Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums rank, respectively, the week’s most popular rock and alternative, rock, and alternative albums 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). The first-week sales of Saviors were bolstered by its availability across more than 15 vinyl variants (all with the same tracklist, just different colored vinyl), an autographed CD sold through the band’s webstore and two deluxe boxed sets containing a CD and an artist branded t-shirt (both exclusive to Green Day’s Webstore). A quartet of former No. 1s follows Saviors on the new Top Album Sales chart: Taylor Swift’s Folklore is a non-mover at No. 2 (11,000; down 42%), as is Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) at No. 3 (nearly 11,000; down 18%). Kali Uchis’ Orquideas falls 1-4 in its second week with 7,000 (down 78%), while Taylor Swift’s Midnights rises 6-5 (nearly 7,000; down 15%). NMIXX notches its first top 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales as Fe3O4: Break debuts at No. 6 with a little over 6,000 sold. Its sales were encouraged by its availability in five collectible CD packages, all containing branded paper merchandise (including some randomized), including two signed editions sold through the act’s official webstore. Stray Kids’ former No. 1 ROCK-STAR is steady at No. 7 (6,000; down 19%) and Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Lover is stationary at No. 8 (nearly 6,000; down 9%). The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds returns to the top 10, re-entering the chart at No. 9 with just over 5,000 sold, following the release of a new deluxe edition containing seven live bonus tracks recorded in October 2023. Taylor Swift’s former leader Evermore rounds out the top 10, dipping 9-10 with 5,000 sold (down 12%). In the week ending Jan. 25, there were 1.103 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 1.8% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 823,000 (up 0.1%) and digital albums comprised 280,000 (up 7.4%). There were 388,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Jan. 25 (up 5.1 week-over-week) and 429,000 vinyl albums sold (down 4.6%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 1.704 million (down 26.9% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 1.995 million (down 45.8%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 4.797 million (down 35% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 3.718 million (down 38.5%) and digital album sales total 1.079 million (down 19%).
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Post by thebigham on Feb 4, 2024 21:30:32 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/morgan-wallen-one-thing-at-a-time-ties-most-weeks-number-one-billboard-200-country-album-1235597582/Morgan Wallen’s ‘One Thing at a Time’ Ties for Most Weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200 by a Country Albumby Keith Caulfield 2/4/24 With an 18th week atop the list, the set matches Garth Brooks' Ropin' the Wind for the most weeks at No. 1 among country releases. Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is back at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for an 18th nonconsecutive week, rising 2-1 on the list dated Feb. 10. In doing so, it ties Garth Brooks’ Ropin’ the Wind for the most weeks totaled No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart among country albums. Ropin’ the Wind logged 18 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1991-92. (Country albums are defined as those that have appeared on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.) One Thing at a Time earned 66,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 1 (up 4%), according to Luminate. One Thing at a Time continues to have the most weeks at No. 1 among all albums since Adele’s 21 logged 24 nonconsecutive weeks atop the tally in 2011-12. One Thing at a Time debuted atop the chart dated March 18, 2023, and spent its first 12 weeks at No. 1 through early June. It then logged another three weeks in a row atop the list in late June and early July, nabbed its 16th week in charge on the Oct. 14 chart, followed by its 17th frame atop the Jan. 20 chart. In the album’s 48 weeks on the list, it has never dipped below No. 6. One Thing at a Time finished 2023 as both the No. 1 year-end Billboard 200 album and Luminate’s year-end top album. 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 Feb. 10, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Feb. 6. For all chart news, follow Billboard and Billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram. Of One Thing at a Time’s 66,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 1, SEA units comprise 64,000 (up 4%, equaling 87.32 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 1,500 (down 8%), and TEA units comprise 500 (down 1%). Since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March of 1956, only 15 albums have spent at least 18 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Here’s a recap. Most Weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200:Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Year(s) 54, West Side Story, soundtrack, 1962-63) 37, Thriller, Michael Jackson, 1983-84 31, Rumours, Fleetwood Mac, 1977 31, South Pacific, soundtrack, 1958-59 31, Calypso, Harry Belafonte, 1956-57 24, 21, Adele, 2011-12 24, Purple Rain, soundtrack, Prince and The Revolution, 1984-85 24, Saturday Night Fever, soundtrack, 1978 21, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, M.C. Hammer, 1990 20, The Bodyguard, Whitney Houston/soundtrack, 1992-93 20, Blue Hawaii, Elvis Presley/soundtrack, 1961-62 18, One Thing at a Time, Morgan Wallen, 2023-24 18, Ropin’ the Wind, Garth Brooks, 1991-92 18, Dirty Dancing, soundtrack, 1987-88 18, More of the Monkees, The Monkees, 1967 Two former No. 1s directly follow One Thing at a Time on the latest Billboard 200: 21 Savage’s American Dream falls 1-2 in its third week (61,000 equivalent album units; down 23%) Drake’s For All the Dogs is a non-mover at No. 3 (51,000; down 4%). Noah Kahan’s Stick Season rises 5-4 with 47,000 equivalent album units, though down 2% for the week. The rest of the top 10 comprises former chart-toppers: Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) climbs 6-5 (45,000 equivalent album units; down 3%), SZA’s SOS steps 7-6 (42,000; up 3%), Taylor Swift’s Lover bumps 10-7 (40,000; up 6%), Zach Bryan’s self-titled album ascends 9-8 (nearly 40,000; up 3%), Taylor Swift’s Midnights climbs 11-9 (38,000; up 1%) and Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album goes 13-10 (37,000; up 6%).
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Post by thebigham on Feb 9, 2024 9:56:52 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/taylor-swift-lover-surpasses-2-million-in-us-album-sales-1235603579/Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’ Surpasses 2 Million in U.S. Album SalesBy Keith Caulfield 2/8/2024 It's her 10th album to sell at least 2 million in traditional album sales in the U.S. In the first five weeks of 2024, Taylor Swift won two Grammy Awards (including a record-breaking fourth for album of the year, for Midnights), announced a new studio album (onstage at the Grammys!), got her ninth No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with the revived Lover hit “Cruel Summer,” topped Billboard’s annual Power 100 list for the first time, and saw two of her albums surpass the 2 million U.S. sales mark: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and Lover. 1989 (Taylor’s Version), released in 2023, jumped past the 2 million mark – counting only traditional album sales (purchases of CD, vinyl, cassette and digital download copies) – in the week ending Jan. 11, according to Luminate. Meanwhile, Lover, released in 2019, flew past the 2 million threshold in the week ending Jan. 18. They mark her ninth and 10th albums to sell at least 2 million in the U.S.
Swift’s top-selling album in the U.S. is Fearless, with 7.286 million copies sold. Plus, on the latest Top Album Sales chart, Taylor Swift's former No. 1 Lover locks up its 200th nonconsecutive week on the tally, as it rises 8-4 on the list dated Feb. 10. It sold 8,000 copies in the week ending Feb. 1 (the tracking week captured on the Feb. 10-dated chart) – up 21% compared to its sales in the previous week. Only two other Swift albums have spent at least 200 weeks on Top Album Sales: her self-titled album, with 286 weeks (and counting), and Fearless, with 224 weeks. Elsewhere on the new Top Album Sales chart, Grateful Dead score its first No. 1 as Dave’s Picks, Volume 49: Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford U., Palo Alto, CA (4/27/85 & 4/28/85) debuts atop the list. It sold 21,000 in its first week. Rock supergroup The Smile sees its new album Wall of Eyes starts at No. 2 (14,500) while Taylor Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is steady at No. 3 (10,000; down 9%). Green Day’s Saviors slips 1-5 in its second week with 7,000 (down 82%), while Alkaline Trio’s Blood, Hair and Eyeballs bows at No. 6 with just over 6,000. Stray Kids’ chart-topping ROCK-STAR is stationary at No. 7 with 6,000 (down 2%) and Taylor Swift’s former leader Midnights falls 5-8 with nearly 6,000 (down 13%). Two debuts close out the top 10, as Static-X’s Project Regeneration, Volume 2 launches at No. 9 with nearly 5,000, and Future Islands’ People Who Aren’t There Anymore bows at No. 10 with 4,000. In the week ending Feb. 1, there were 1.118 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 1.3% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 827,000 (up 0.5%) and digital albums comprised 291,000 (up 3.6%). There were 404,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Feb. 1 (up 3.9% week-over-week) and 418,000 vinyl albums sold (down 2.4%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 2.108 million (down 31% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 2.413 million (down 46.4%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 5.915 million (down 36.1% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 4.545 million (down 40.2%) and digital album sales total 1.370 million (down 17.7%). 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.
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Post by thebigham on Feb 12, 2024 16:16:25 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/toby-keith-35-biggest-hits-number-1-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235605907/Toby Keith’s ’35 Biggest Hits’ Tops Billboard 200 Albums ChartBy Keith Caulfield 02/12/2024 It marks the late country superstar's fifth No. 1 and first since 2010. Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits re-enters the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Feb. 17) at No. 1, following the country superstar’s death on Feb. 5 of stomach cancer. It’s the fifth chart-topper for Keith on the all-genre chart, and first since 2010. The best-of collection earned 66,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week ending Feb. 8 (up 953%). The album was originally released in 2008 and initially peaked at its debut rank of No. 2 on the list dated May 24, 2008. It contains 31 of Keith’s 42 top 10 hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, including 15 of his 20 No. 1s. 35 Biggest Hits is Keith’s first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since 2010’s Bullets in the Gun. He also topped the tally with Big Dog Daddy (2007), Shock’N Y’all (2003) and Unleashed (2002). During his lifetime, he logged 14 top 10-charting albums (inclusive of his five No. 1s). The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric 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 Feb. 17, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Feb. 13. Of 35 Biggest Hits’ 66,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Feb. 8, SEA units comprise 46,000 (up 689%, equaling 64.04 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 35 songs), album sales comprise 11,000 (up 3,251%) and TEA units comprise 9,000 (up 6,966%). 35 Biggest Hits is the first posthumous No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since Pop Smoke’s Faith debuted at No. 1 on the July 31, 2021, chart, following his death on Feb. 19, 2020. The last retrospective album to hit No. 1 posthumously was Prince’s The Very Best Of, which topped the chart dated May 7, 2016, following his death on April 21 of that year. 35 Biggest Hits is the first retrospective album to reach No. 1 since BTS’ Proof opened at No. 1 on the June 25, 2002 chart. Also, as 35 Biggest Hits replaces another country album at No. 1 — Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at Time, which dips to No. 2 — it’s first time in more than nine years that one country album has replaced another at No. 1. It last happened in late October and early November of 2014, when three country albums each debuted at No. 1 and spent one week in succession: Blake Shelton’s Bringing Back the Sunshine (Oct. 18), Jason Aldean’s Old Boots, New Dirt (Oct. 25) and Florida Georgia Line’s Anything Goes (Nov. 1). Back on the new Billboard 200, One Thing at a Time slips one spot to No. 2 with 65,000 equivalent album units (down 2%). Four more former No. 1s follow Wallen’s, as SZA’s SOS steps 6-3 (53,000; up 28%), 21 Savage’s American Dream falls 2-4 (51,000; down 16%), Taylor Swift’s Midnights rises 9-5 (51,000; up 35%) and Drake’s For All the Dogs descends 3-6 (49,000; down 4%). SZA and Swift both gain thanks in part to exposure during the Grammy Awards’ CBS-TV broadcast (Feb. 4). The former performed and won best R&B song (for SOS single “Snooze”), while the latter won two trophies (both for Midnights: album of the year and best pop vocal album). Noah Kahan’s Stick Season slips 4-7 on the Billboard 200 with 49,000 equivalent album units earned (though up 4%), Taylor Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is pushed down 5-8 with 48,000 units (up 7%) and Taylor Swift’s former leader Lover is also squeezed down despite a gain, falling 7-9 with 45,000 units (up 13%). Zach Bryan’s self-titled chart-topper rounds out the top 10, falling 8-10 with 42,000 units (while up 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 Feb 17, 2024 13:59:18 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/pro/2024-grammy-bump-taylor-swift-billboard-charts/10 Taylor Swift Albums Among 44 Projects That Saw a Billboard 200 Bump After 2024 GrammysBy Keith Caulfield 2/13/2024 SZA, Taylor Swift, Travis Scott and Olivia Rodrigo are among the highest-ranked artists posting gains following exposure on the Grammys. On the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Feb. 17), 44 albums post unit gains thanks to exposure during the CBS broadcast of the Grammy Awards on Feb. 4. (Any artist who was a presenter, performer, on-air winner or a nominee mentioned during a presentation of an on-air award was considered in our research.) The highest-ranked Grammy gainer on the chart is SZA’s former No. 1 SOS, which climbs 6-3 with 53,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 8 (up 27%), according to Luminate. On the Grammy Awards, SZA won the best R&B song award for “Snooze” and performed a medley of “Snooze” and “Kill Bill.” The latter was also nominated for record of the year and song of the year. (SZA additionally won Grammys for best progressive R&B album [for SOS] and best pop duo/group performance for the set’s “Ghost in the Machine,” featuring Phoebe Bridgers, but those awards were not presented during the TV broadcast.) SZA’s previous album, 2017’s Ctrl, also logs a gain, rising 38-30 with 20,000 units (up 12%). Taylor Swift, who was a multiple nominee and two-time winner at the 2024 Grammy Awards, has 10 gaining albums on the chart, with three in the top 10. Swift took home the prizes for album of the year and best pop vocal album (both for Midnights). With the album of the year win, she became the first act to claim the trophy four times. She was nominated for four more awards – record of the year, song of the year, pop solo performance (all for “Anti-Hero”) and best pop duo/group performance (“Karma,” featuring Ice Spice). Swift’s highest-ranked gaining title on the Billboard 200 is her former No. 1 Midnights, which rises 9-5 with 51,000 units (up 35%). Here’s a recap of all the artists that post gains on the Billboard 200 (dated Feb. 17) following their exposure on the Grammy Awards. On the broadcast, nine competitive award categories were presented (in chronological order): best pop solo performance, best música urbana album, best country album, best R&B song, best pop vocal album, song of the year, best new artist, record of the year and album of the year. There are a total of 94 competitive categories in total. The vast majority of awards are not presented during the television broadcast. Performer and winner SZA sizzles with SOS (rising 6-3 with 53,000; up 38%) and Ctrl (38-30 with 20,000; up 12%). Noah Kahan, who was among the best new artist nominees, sees his Stick Season post an increase, but is pushed down the chart 4-7 (49,000; up 4%). Swift has a whopping 10 titles on the chart, all of which gain: Midnights (9-5 with 51,000; up 35%), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (5-8 with 48,000; up 7%), Lover (7-9 with 45,000; up 13%), Folklore (13-14 with 32,000; up 15%), Reputation (16-15 with 30,000; up 15%), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (26-25 with 23,000; up 10%), Evermore (34-26 with 21,000; up 11%), Red (Taylor’s Version) (33-28 with 21,000; up 8%), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (73-63 with 14,000; up 12%) and 1989 (67-65 with 14,000; up 7%). Zach Bryan, whose self-titled album was among the nominees for best country album, posts a unit gain with that set (8-10 with 42,000; up 5%), Elisabeth (113-116 with 10,000; up 2%) and Summertime Blues (159-154 with 9,000; up 2%). The best country album prize was won by Lainey Wilson’s Bell Bottom Country. Bryan, however, did win a Grammy this year (his first ever), but it was not presented on the broadcast. He won for best country duo/group performance for his first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit, “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves. (As for Wilson, Bell Bottom Country flies 118-95 with 11,000 units; up 10%). Travis Scott, who performed a medley of three songs from his Utopia album (“My Eyes, “I Know?” and “Fe!n”) with Playboi Carti, sees Utopia hold steady at No. 12, though with a 10% unit gain (to 36,000). Utopia was also a nominee for best rap album, which was won by Killer Mike’s Michael. Scott also gains with his prior albums Astroworld (69-68 with 14,000; up 5%) and Rodeo (195-187 with 8,000; up 3%). Performer and multiple nominee Olivia Rodrigo rises with a pair of albums: Guts (17-16 with 28,000; up 10%) and Sour (32-31 with 20,000; up 5%). On the show, she performed Guts single “Vampire.” Rodrigo was nominated for six Grammys this year, including album of the year and best pop vocal album (for Guts), record of the year, song of the year, best pop solo performance (for “Vampire”) and best rock song (Guts’ “Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl”). Performer Luke Combs, who sang his nominated cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” with Chapman herself on the show, sees gains for three of his albums on the chart. Gettin’ Old bumps 31-22 (24,000; up 25%), This One’s for You rises 49-45 (17,000; up 8%) and What You See Is What You Get climbs 82-75 (13,000; up 7%). “Fast Car” was nominated for, but did not win, best country solo performance. Meanwhile, Tracy Chapman re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 59 with her 1988 self-titled chart-topping album (which contains her original version of “Fast Car”), earning 15,000 units (up 658%). It’s the album’s first appearance on the chart since 1989. It’s also Chapman’s first visit to the chart with any album since the Dec. 12, 2015-dated chart, with her Greatest Hits album spent one week on the list at No. 105. The Barbie soundtrack bounces 35-32 on the Billboard 200 with 20,000 units earned (up 8%). The album basks in the glow of a pair of performances on the show – Dua Lipa’s show-opening medley (which included a small segment of the album’s “Dance the Night”) and Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” Both songs earned multiple nominations this year: “Dance” for song of the year and best song written for visual media, “What Was I Made For” for record of the year, song of the year, best pop solo performance, best song written for visual media, and best music video. Mark Ronson, who presented the record of the year award on the show (with his mother-in-law, Meryl Streep), was a five-time nominee this year for his work on the Barbie album. Of the five nominations, he took home the trophy for best compilation soundtrack for visual media for Barbie. (Streep herself is a seven-time Grammy nominee, and scored a nod this year for best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording for Big Tree.) Speaking of Lipa and Eilish, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia rises 126-108 (10,000 units; up 9%), while Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever climbs 136-132 (10,000; up 4%) and When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? steps 124-112 (10,000; up 6%). Miley Cyrus, who performed on the show and won two awards, vaults 139-37 with Endless Summer Vacation (18,000; up 101%). Cyrus won her first Grammys this year: best pop solo performance and record of the year for “Flowers,” which she performed. 21 Savage, who joined Burna Boy and Brandy for a medley performance, sees two of his albums post gains: Her Loss, with Drake (48-49 with 17,000; up 1%), and Savage Mode II, with Metro Boomin (99-100 with 11,000; up 2%). 21 Savage also scored five nominations this year, though none of the categories he was competing in were presented during the show. Lana Del Rey, who scored five nominations this year, including for song of the year (“A&W”) and album of the year (Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.), has a trio of albums that gain on the chart. Born To Die bolts 65-51 (16,000; up 18%), Did You Know re-enters at No. 97 (11,000; up 50%) and Ultraviolence re-enters at No. 189 (8,000; up 21%). Del Rey was also brought up onstage by Swift when the latter won album of the year for Midnights. (Del Rey is featured on a song on Midnights, and was also vying for album of the year with Did You Know.) Karol G, who won her first Grammy Award during the broadcast, for best música urbana album for Mañana Será Bonito, logs a pair of gaining albums on the chart. Mañana moves 64-67 with 14,000 units (up 1%), while Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season) rises 94-87 with 12,000 units (up 6%). Rounding out the chart’s gainers are: best new artist nominee Jelly Roll (Whitsitt Chapel, moving 60-58 with 15,000 units; up 6%), performer Billy Joel (The Essential Billy Joel rises 171-107 with 10,000; up 23%), nominee Doja Cat (nominated twice this year, including for best pop solo performance for “Paint the Town Red,” sees her 2021 album Planet Her post a 1% gain to 10,000 units, though falling 117-124); nominee Ed Sheeran (nominated for best pop vocal album for Subtract, but gains with Divide, rising 151-141 with 9,000 units; up 4%); nominee Tyler Childers (five nominations, including for best country album, for Rustin’ in the Rain; though he gains with Purgatory, climbing 150-149 with 9,000; up 1%); and winner Boygenius. The rock trio was nominated for six awards (including album of the year, for The Record, and record of the year) and won three trophies that were not televised. The Record re-enters at No. 191 with 8,000 units and a gain of 59%. 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 Feb 17, 2024 14:14:32 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/paul-mccartney-wings-band-on-the-run-returns-charts-50th-anniversary-reissue-1235609877/Paul McCartney & Wings’ ‘Band on the Run’ Returns to Charts After 50th Anniversary ReissueBy Keith Caulfield 2/16/2024 The set re-enters at No. 5 on Top Album Sales and returns to Billboard 200 after more than a decade. Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band on the Run stages a return to Billboard’s charts (dated Feb. 17) following the set’s 50th anniversary reissue on Feb. 2. The album re-enters the Top Album Sales chart at No. 5, debuts at No. 7 on the Vinyl Albums tally, re-enters at No. 6 on Tastemaker Albums and debuts at No. 37 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums. On the overall Billboard 200 chart, where the album hit No. 1 in 1974, the set re-enters at No. 156 – its first appearance on the chart since Jan. 1, 2011. Band on the Run was reissued in a variety of formats, including a single-LP vinyl release cut at half-speed, a double-LP vinyl set at half-speed with a bonus “underdubbed” version of the album, and as a double-CD set (also with the underdubbed mixes). The 50th anniversary reissues are combined with the original album for sales tracking and charting purposes. 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. Top Rock & Alternative Albums ranks the week’s most popular rock and alternative albums 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. Band on the Run sold 8,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 8 (up 14,681%) according to Luminate. Elsewhere on Top Album Sales, Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) returns to No. 1 for a seventh nonconsecutive week, climbing two spots with 12,000 copies sold (up 18%). Taylor Swift has a clean sweep of the top three, as former No. 1 Midnights bolts 8-2 (11,000; up 91%) following its double win at the Grammy Awards (Feb. 4) for album of the year and best pop vocal album, plus Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Lover rises 4-3 with nearly 11,000 sold (up 51%). Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits re-enters at No. 4 on Top Album Sales with nearly 11,000 sold (up 3,251%) following his death on Feb. 5 of stomach cancer. Phish’s Round Room, originally released in 2002, re-enters at No. 6 with 6,000 sold (up 2,789%) following its release on vinyl on Feb. 2. Stray Kids’ chart-topping ROCK-STAR is steady at No. 7 with 6,000 (down 1%). The soundtrack to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes debuts at No. 8 with 6,000 sold following its release on CD and vinyl on Feb. 2. The album was initially released via digital download and streaming services on Nov. 17, 2023. Rounding out the top 10 is Green Day’s former leader Saviors, slipping 5-9 with nearly 6,000 (down 20%) and Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Folklore, rising 15-10 with almost 6,000 (up 48%). In the week ending Feb. 8, there were 1.168 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 4.5% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 829,000 (up 0.2%) and digital albums comprised 339,000 (up 16.6%). There were 391,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Feb. 8 (down 3.2% week-over-week) and 433,000 vinyl albums sold (up 3.6%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 2.499 million (down 31.7% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 2.847 million (down 46.3%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 7.082 million (down 35.8% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 5.373 million (down 40.4%) and digital album sales total 1.709 million (down 15.8%).
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Post by thebigham on Feb 25, 2024 11:07:09 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/usher-coming-home-number-one-debut-top-album-sales-chart-1235610487/Usher’s ‘Coming Home’ Debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales ChartBy Keith Caulfield 2/19/2024 Usher lands his fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Feb. 24) as his new studio album, Coming Home, arrives atop the list. The set sold 53,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 15, according to Luminate. Usher previously topped the list with Looking 4 Myself (in 2012), Raymond V Raymond (2010), Here I Stand (2008) and Confessions (2004). Elsewhere in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, the latest albums from P1Harmony, Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign, and iTZY arrive. 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. The new Feb. 24, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Feb. 21, one day later than usual, owed to the Presidents’ Day holiday in the U.S. on Feb. 19. Of Coming Home’s 53,000 copies sold, digital sales comprise 47,500 and physical sales comprise 5,500 (4,000 on CD and 1,500 on vinyl). Its start marks the largest sales week for an R&B album in more than four years, since Lionel Richie’s live set Hello From Las Vegas sold 65,000 copies in its first week (on the list dated Aug. 31, 2019). Richie’s first-week sales were boosted by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer. Ticket/album bundles ceased to count toward chart sales as of Oct. 9, 2020. (R&B albums are defined as those that have charted on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart.) Coming Home was available to purchase in its first week as a standard digital download, a standard CD, five different vinyl variants, two deluxe boxed sets and a deluxe digital album with a bonus track and alternative cover art. The latter was promoted as a SKIMS exclusive (alongside Usher’s new starring role in a SKIMS campaign) and sold for a limited time via SKIMS’ official store and Usher’s own webstore. Both versions of the digital album were deeply discounted during the set’s opening week. Coming Home was released on Feb. 9, two days before Usher took the stage as the 2024 Super Bowl halftime headliner. The 2024 Super Bowl was the most-watched broadcast in American TV history, with 123.4 million viewers across CBS and the game’s simulcasts across Nickelodeon, Univision, Paramount+ and other digital platforms. Usher didn’t perform any material from the new album during the halftime show, focusing instead on familiar favorites from the past, such as “My Boo” (with Alicia Keys), “U Got It Bad” (with H.E.R.) “OMG” (with Will.i.am) and the show-closing “Yeah!” (with Lil Jon and Ludacris). P1Harmony’s Killin’ It debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 18,000 copies sold – nearly all from CD sales. Like many K-pop projects, the set was issued in collectible CD packages, 16 in total, each containing branded merchandise and randomized elements. It’s the best sales week for P1Harmony, its highest-charting effort, and second top 10. Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s collaborative album Vultures 1 starts at No. 3 with 18,000 sold – all from digital downloads. Vultures 1, released on Feb. 10, was initially only available to purchase as a digital download. The original 16-track set sold through leading digital retailers, as well as Ye’s own official webstore. Physical versions of the album on CD and vinyl are expected to be released at a later date, and Ye’s store is accepting pre-orders for both presently. The set’s first-week sales were boosted by aggressive sale pricing. Vultures 1 is the 12th top 10 for Ye and first for Ty. Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) falls 1-4 with 15,000 copies sold (though up 28%). iTZY’s Born to Be bows at No. 5 with 14,000 copies sold, largely from CD sales. It’s the fifth top 10-charting effort for the Korean pop act. As is customary for many K-pop project, the album was available in multiple collectible CD editions – 10 in total – all containing branded merchandise with randomized elements. Taylor Swift has three more albums in the top 10, as Lover falls 3-6 (12,000; up 13%), Midnights dips 2-7 (11,000; down less than 1%) and Folklore rises 10-8 (9,000; up 57%). Toby Keith’s 35 Biggest Hits drops 4-9 with 7,000 sold (down 35%) and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season climbs 14-10 with nearly 7,000 (up 48%) following its deluxe reissue on Feb. 9 with additional tracks. In the week ending Feb. 15, there were 1.258 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 7.8% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 906,000 (up 9.3%) and digital albums comprised 353,000 (up 4%). There were 435,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Feb. 15 (up 11.3% week-over-week) and 467,000 vinyl albums sold (up 7.7%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 2.933 million (down 31.5% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 3.314 million (down 46.7%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 8.341 million (down 35.5% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 6.279 million (down 40.5%) and digital album sales total 2.062 million (down 12.7%).
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Post by thebigham on Feb 25, 2024 22:36:39 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kanye-west-ty-dolla-sign-vultures-1-number-one-second-week-billboard-200-chart-1235614585/Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign’s ‘Vultures 1’ Spends Second Week Atop Billboard 200By Keith Caulfield 02/25/2024 Plus: Yeat lands his highest charting album yet with No. 2 debut of "2093." Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s collaborative album Vultures 1 spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated March 2), earning 75,000 equivalent album units in its second week in the U.S. (down 50%), according to Luminate. Vultures 1 is Ye’s first album to spend multiple weeks at No. 1 since 2011’s Watch the Throne, with Jay-Z, spent two weeks in charge. In total, of Ye’s 11 No. 1s, three have spent multiple weeks at No. 1: Vultures 1, Watch the Throne and 2005’s Late Registration, all with two weeks atop the list. Meanwhile, Yeat notches his highest-charting album yet on the Billboard 200 as his latest release, 2093, debuts at No. 2. 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 March 2, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Feb. 27. Of Vultures 1’s 75,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Feb. 22, SEA units comprise 72,000 (down 44%, equaling 95.25 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 2,000 (down 89%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 25%). Rapper Yeat notches his highest-charting title yet on the Billboard 200, as his newest album, 2093, debuts at No. 2. It earned 70,000 equivalent album units in its first week — the artist’s best week by units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 58,000 (equaling 79.15 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 12,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. 2093 was released initially as a 22-song standard album on Feb. 16, boasting features from Future and Lil Wayne. A day later, the album was reissued in a deluxe edition, dubbed 2093 P2, with two bonus tracks, including one featuring Drake. Then, on Feb. 21, the album saw another reissue, termed 2093 P3, with four bonus tracks. The latter version of the album was only available as a digital download via the artist’s official webstore during the tracking week (and the four bonus tracks were only available as part of the full album purchase). All versions of the album are combined for tracking and charting purposes. Yeat made his debut on the Billboard 200 a little over two years ago with Up 2 Me, when it bowed on the list dated Jan. 22, 2022. It eventually peaked at No. 59. Since then, he’s logged four more entries, and all of them have started in the top 10: 2 Alive (No. 6 in 2022), Lyfe (No. 10 in 2022), AfterLyfe (No. 4 in 2023) and now 2093 (No. 2). Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time rises 4-3 on the new Billboard 200 with 64,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%), while Noah Kahan’s Stick Season slips 3-4 with 60,000 (down 29%). SZA’s former No. 1 SOS rounds out the top five, as it’s steady at No. 5 with 46,000 (down 9%). Five former No. 1s finish off the second half of the top 10: Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is a non-mover at No. 6 (just over 44,000 equivalent album units; down 12%); Taylor Swift’s Lover is stationary at No. 7 (a little more than 43,000; down 11%); Drake’s For All the Dogs climbs 10-8 (43,000; down 4%); Taylor Swift’s Midnights dips 8-9 (40,000; down 14%); and 21 Savage’s American Dream rises 11-10 (37,000; down 12%).
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Post by thebigham on Feb 26, 2024 20:35:45 GMT -5
Top Album Sales chart: www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/jennifer-lopez-this-is-me-now-bows-at-number-one-on-top-album-sales-chart-1235615874/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterJennifer Lopez’s ‘This Is Me… Now’ Bows at No. 1 on Top Album Sales ChartBy Keith Caulfield 2/26/2024 It's the third No. 1 for the entertainer, and her first leader in over 20 years. Jennifer Lopez achieves her third No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated March 2), as her new studio album This Is Me… Now opens atop the tally. Lopez was last at No. 1 more than 20 years ago, when J to Tha L-O! The Remixes spent two weeks atop the chart in February and March of 2002. She scored her first No. 1 on the list with J.Lo in 2001. In total, This Is Me… Now marks Lopez’s ninth top 10 on Top Album Sales and 13th chart entry overall. The new release is a sister project to Lopez’s third album, This Is Me… Then, which was released 2002 and peaked at No. 2 on the chart. Also debuting in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Yeat’s 2093, Blackberry Smoke’s Be Right Here and IDLES’ TANGK. 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. The new March 2-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Feb. 27. In the tracking week ending Feb. 22, This Is Me… Now sold 14,000 copies in the U.S. Of that sum, physical sales comprise 11,000 (6,000 on CD and 5,000 on vinyl) and digital download sales comprise 3,000. The album was available in four CD variants (including one that had a signed insert), nine vinyl editions (all were color variants, including one with a signed insert) and three digital album variations (a standard version, a deluxe edition with two bonus tracks and a commentary edition sold via Lopez’s official webstore). This Is Me… Now also debuts at No. 1 on Top Current Album Sales, No. 1 on Tastemaker Albums, No. 7 on Vinyl Albums, No. 7 on Independent Albums and No. 38 on the Billboard 200. Top Current Album Sales ranks the week’s top-selling new/current albums (non-catalog/older titles). Vinyl Album tallies the week’s top-selling vinyl releases. Tastemaker Albums measures the top-selling titles at independent and small chain record stores. Independent Albums ranks the most popular independently released albums of the week, by units. On the Billboard 200, This Is Me… Now marks Lopez’s 13th total chart entry and 11th top 40-charting effort. It’s her first studio album in nearly a decade, and her first release outside the major label system, as the new set was issued via Nuyorican/BMG. “This is the first step of an immediate strategy with a long-term goal as the incredible content to support the album continues to roll out,” says Cyndi Lynott, SVP marketing at BMG, “including the This Is Me…Now: A Love Story Amazon Original, a documentary entitled The Greatest Love Story Never Told, and of course her massive summer tour.” Meanwhile, Yeat debuts at No. 2 with 2093 – his second entry on Top Album Sales and first to reach the top 40. The set sold 12,000 copies, all from digital downloads, as the album was not available to purchase in any physical configurations. The set’s digital sales were boosted by its availability across three variations. 2093 was released initially as a 22-song standard album on Feb. 16, boasting features from Future and Lil Wayne. A day later, the album was reissued in a deluxe edition, dubbed 2093 P2, with two bonus tracks, including one featuring Drake. Then, on Feb. 21, the album saw another reissue, termed 2093 P3, with four bonus tracks. This version of the album was only available as a digital download via the artist’s official webstore (and the four bonus tracks were only available as part of the full album purchase). Taylor Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Version) rises 4-3 with 11,000 sold (though down 25%) and Taylor Swift’s former leader Lover climbs 6-4 with 9,000 (down 24%). Toby Keith’s chart-topper 35 Biggest Hits rises 9-5 with nearly 9,000 sold (up 28%). Blackberry Smoke clocks its fourth top 10-charting set on Top Album Sales as Be Right Here arrives at No. 6 with 8,500 sold. Taylor Swift’s former No. 1s Midnights is a non-mover at No. 7 with nearly 7,500 sold (down 32%). Taylor Swift's Folklore is non-mover at 8 with 7,000 sold (down 17%). P1Harmony’s Killin’ It falls 2-9 in its second week with 7,000 sold (down 60%). IDLES’ TANGK starts at No. 10, marking the second top 10 for the act. The set starts with 7,000 sold. In the week ending Feb. 22, there were 1.166 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 7.3% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 858,000 (down 5.3%) and digital albums comprised 308,000 (down 12.6%). There were 408,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Feb. 22 (down 6.1% week-over-week) and 446,000 vinyl albums sold (down 4.6%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 3.342 million (down 32.1% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 3.759 million (down 47.1%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 9.507 million (down 35.8% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 7.137 million (down 41%) and digital album sales total 2.37 million (down 12.7%).
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Post by thebigham on Mar 3, 2024 15:19:01 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/twice-with-with-you-th-number-one-debut-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235620779/TWICE Achieves First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘With YOU-th’By Keith Caulfield 03/3/2024 Plus: LE SSERAFIM claims second top 10 with arrival of "Easy." TWICE achieves its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as With YOU-th debuts atop the tally (dated March 9) with 95,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 29, according to Luminate, largely from traditional album sales. It’s the fifth top 10 for the Korean pop ensemble in total, all earned consecutively. With YOU-th is the first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 by an all-female group since BLACKPINK’s Born Pink opened at No. 1 in 2022, and only the third since 2008, when Danity Kane’s Welcome to the Dollhouse debuted atop the list. Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, fellow all-female Korean pop group LE SSERAFIM debuts at No. 8 with Easy, marking the act’s second top 10-charting effort. 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 March 9-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 5. Of With YOU-th’s 95,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Feb. 29, album sales comprise 90,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week, as it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales; it’s also the largest sales week for an album in 2024), SEA units comprise 4,500 (equaling 6.33 million official on-demand streams of the set’s six songs) and TEA units comprise 500. Sales of With YOU-th were bolstered by its availability across 14 CD variants (including exclusives for Barnes & Noble, Target, Walmart and the act’s webstore, all with branded paper merchandise inside the packages as well as some randomized elements) and three vinyl variants (all picture discs, including one Target-exclusive version). As With YOU-th is mostly in the Korean language, it is the 24th mostly non-English language album to hit No. 1, and the first of 2024. Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time climbs 3-2 with 67,000 equivalent album units earned (up 5%), while Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 falls 1-3 in its third week with 64,000 (down 14%). Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is a non-mover at No. 4 with 57,000 units (down 4%), SZA’s former leader SOS is also stationary, at No. 5, with 47,000 (up 1%), Drake’s chart-topping For All the Dogs rises 8-6 with 43,000 (up 1%), and Taylor Swift’s former No. 1 1989 (Taylor’s Version) dips 6-7 with 41,000 (down 7%). LE SSERAFIM’s Easy starts at No. 8 with 41,000 equivalent album units earned, marking the second top 10-charting effort for the pop group. The act previously hit the top 10 with last year’s Unforgiven, debuting and peaking at No. 6. Of Easy’s 41,000 first-week units, album sales comprise 34,000, SEA units comprise 7,000 (equaling 9.86 million official on-demand streams of the set’s five songs) and TEA units equal a negligible sum. Sales of Easy were aided by its availability across 14 CD variants (including exclusives for Barnes & Noble, Target and Walmart, all with branded paper merch inside their packages, including some randomized). Rounding out the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 are a pair of chart-topping sets: Taylor Swift’s Lover falls 7-9 with 40,000 equivalent album units (down 8%) and 21 Savage‘s American Dream is steady at No. 10 with 38,000 units (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 Mar 10, 2024 11:02:48 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/twice-le-sserafim-make-history-woman-groups-number-one-two-top-album-sales-chart-1235628771/TWICE & LE SSERAFIM Make History as First Two All-Woman Groups at Nos. 1 & 2 on Top Album Sales ChartBy Keith Caulfield 3/9/2024 It's the first time two all-woman groups have ranked in the top two slots concurrently in the 32-year history of the list. TWICE and LE SSERAFIM make history on Billboard’s 32-year-old Top Album Sales chart (dated March 9), as the South Korean female pop groups debut at Nos. 1 and 2 — marking the first time two all-women groups have been in the top two positions at the same time. Top Album Sales’ chart history dates to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. TWICE’s With YOU-th launches at No. 1 with 90,000 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 29, according to Luminate. LE SSERAFIM’s Easy starts at No. 2 with 34,000 copies sold. The majority of each album’s sales come from CD purchases in assorted collectible editions, as is usual with major K-pop releases Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, the latest albums from French Montana and Ace Frehley arrive, while BTS’ former No. 1 Love Yourself: Tear re-enters the chart in the top 10 following 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. For TWICE, With YOU-th marks the fourth No. 1 on Top Album Sales and fifth top 10 overall. For LE SSERAFIM, Easy is the act’s third top 10 set. At No. 3 on Top Album Sales, French Montana’s Mac & Cheese 5 debuts with 22,500 copies sold. Of that sum, physical sales comprise 19,000 (9,000 on vinyl — his best week on the configuration, 10,000 on CD) and digital sales comprise about 3,500. Sales were boosted by the album’s availability across six CD variants (three alternative covers, and three signed editions each with a different cover) and three vinyl variants (all with alternative covers) — and all were sold through the artist’s webstore. The physical albums were deeply discounted to $5 for standard vinyl and CD editions, and $10 for the signed CD editions. The digital album was also issued in three variants: a standard album (clean and explicit), a deluxe edition (with one bonus track, clean and explicit) and a super deluxe edition, dubbed the “Versions” variant (with all of the album’s standard explicit tracks, plus versions of each song in clean, sped-up, slowed-down, instrumental and acapella mixes). Mac & Cheese 5 is French Montana’s fourth top 10-charting effort on Top Album Sales and his highest-charting set yet, surpassing the No. 4 peak of his three earlier top 10 sets. Ace Frehley logs his highest-charting album ever on Top Album Sales, as his latest release, 10,000 Volts, charges in at No. 4 with 13,000 copies sold. Of that sum, vinyl sales comprise 5,500, marking the former KISS guitarist’s biggest sales week on vinyl since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. In total, 10,000 Volts is Frehley’s fifth top 10-charting set on Top Album Sales. BTS’ former No. 1 Love Yourself: Tear re-enters Top Album Sales at No. 5 with about 9,500 sold — nearly all from vinyl sales, as the album was released on the configuration for the first time during the tracking week. With nearly 9,500 copies sold on vinyl, the album also bows at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart, BTS’ second leader on that list, following Love Yourself: Her in 2023. Four former No. 1s, all from Taylor Swift, are next on Top Album Sales: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) falls 3-6 (9,000; down 19%); Lover dips 4-7 (7,000; down 22%); Midnights slips 7-8 (6,000; down 19%); and Folklore descends 8-9 (nearly 6,000; down 21%). Bob Marley and The Wailers’ Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers, rises 11-10 (nearly 6,000; though down 17%), marking the set’s first week in the top 10 since April 17, 2021, when it ranked at No. 9. (The album earlier peaked at No. 5 on the Sept. 20, 2014-dated chart.) The hits album returns to the top 10 on the latest chart following publicity and promotion generated by the release and success of the Marley biopic film Bob Marley: One Love. In the week ending Feb. 29, there were 1.276 million albums sold in the U.S. (up 9.4% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 976,000 (up 13.8%) and digital albums comprised 300,000 (down 2.9%). There were 533,000 CD albums sold in the week ending Feb. 29 (up 30.6% week-over-week) and 438,000 vinyl albums sold (down 1.7%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 3.875 million (down 29.9% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 4.197 million (down 47.3%). Overall year-to-date album sales total 10.783 million (down 35.3% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 8.113 million (down 40.2%) and digital album sales total 2.669 million (down 13.7%).
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Post by thebigham on Mar 10, 2024 14:17:56 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/morgan-wallen-one-thing-at-a-time-breaks-record-most-weeks-number-one-billboard-200-country-album-1235628977/Morgan Wallen’s ‘One Thing at a Time’ Breaks Record for Most Weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200 for a Country AlbumBy Keith Caulfield 03/10/2024 With a 19th week at No. 1, the set surpasses Garth Brooks' "Ropin' the Wind" for the most weeks at No. 1 among country albums. Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated March 16), rising 2-1, and captures a 19th nonconsecutive week atop the list, breaking the record for the most weeks at No. 1 by a country album. It surpasses Garth Brooks’ Ropin the Wind, which held the record with 18 weeks, earned nonconsecutively, during its run atop the list in 1991-92. (Country albums are defined as those that have appeared on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. The list began in 1964.) One Thing at a Time earned 68,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 7 (up less than 1%), according to Luminate. One Thing at a Time continues to have the most weeks at No. 1 among all albums since Adele’s 21 logged 24 nonconsecutive weeks atop the tally in 2011-12. One Thing at a Time debuted atop the chart dated March 18, 2023, and spent its first 12 weeks at No. 1 through early June. It revisited the summit for three weeks in a row last June and July, and then posted single-week runs at No. 1 in October, January and February. In the album’s 53 weeks on the list, it has never dipped below No. 6. One Thing at a Time finished 2023 as both the No. 1 year-end Billboard 200 album and Luminate’s year-end top album. 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 March 16, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 12. Of One Thing at a Time’s 68,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending March 7, SEA units comprise 65,000 (down less than 1%, equaling 89.63 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs), album sales comprise 2,000 (up 15%), and TEA units comprise 1,000 (up 24%). Since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956, only 12 albums have spent at least 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Here’s a recap. Most Weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200:Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Year(s) 54, West Side Story, soundtrack, 1962-63) 37, Thriller, Michael Jackson, 1983-84 31, Rumours, Fleetwood Mac, 1977 31, South Pacific, soundtrack, 1958-59 31, Calypso, Harry Belafonte, 1956-57 24, 21, Adele, 2011-12 24, Purple Rain, soundtrack, Prince and The Revolution, 1984-85 24, Saturday Night Fever, soundtrack, 1978 21, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, M.C. Hammer, 1990 20, The Bodyguard, Whitney Houston/soundtrack, 1992-93 20, Blue Hawaii, Elvis Presley/soundtrack, 1961-62 19, One Thing at a Time, Morgan Wallen, 2023-24 At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Noah Kahan’s Stick Season hits a new peak, rising 4-2 with 53,000 equivalent album units earned (down 8%). The album previously topped out at No. 3 on the June 24, 2023-dated list, and returned to that rank on the Feb. 24, 2024, tally. The rest of the top 10 consists of former No. 1s. Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 is a non-mover at No. 3 with nearly 53,000 equivalent album units earned (down 18%), SZA’s SOS rises 5-4 (50,000 units; down 1%) and Drake’s For All the Dogs rounds out the top five, climbing 6-5 (42,000; down 4%). Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) steps 7-6 (39,000 equivalent album units earned; down 5%), Taylor Swift’s Lover bumps 9-7 (38,000; down 3%) and Zach Bryan’s self-titled set rallies 12-8 (38,000; up 3%). Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album ascends 11-9 with nearly 38,000 units (up 1%), for its 138th nonconsecutive week in the top 10. It extends its record for the most weeks in the top 10 among albums by a singular artist. The only album with more weeks in the top 10 is the original cast recording of My Fair Lady, with 173 weeks in the region, beginning in 1956. Closing out the top 10 on the new Billboard 200 is Travis Scott’s Utopia, which jumps 17-10 with 36,000 equivalent album units earned (up 12%). 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 Mar 17, 2024 14:34:05 GMT -5
My apologies for being so late posting the Top Album Sales chart:
(G)I-DLE Scores Fourth Top 10 on Album Sales Chart With ‘2’ By Keith Caulfield 3/13/2024
Plus: Bruce thingyinson and ScHoolboy Q debut in the top 10.
(G)I-DLE collects its fourth top 10-charting album on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated March 16), as the South Korean pop group’s latest release, 2, debuts at No. 4 with 8,500 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending March 7, according to Luminate.
Also in the top 10 of the latest Top Album Sales chart, Iron Maiden frontman Bruce thingyinson lands his first solo top 10 as his new set The Mandrake Project bows at No. 5. Plus, ScHoolboy Q’s new Blue Lips starts at No 6, marking his fourth top 10-charting effort.
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.
TWICE’s With YOU-th holds at No. 1 on Top Album Sales with nearly 17,000 sold (down 82%), after debuting atop the list a week ago.
LE SSERAFIM’s Easy is also a non-mover, sitting at No. 2 in its second week with 10,500 (down 69%).
Taylor Swift’s chart-topping 1989 (Taylor’s Version) rises 6-3 with nearly 9,000 (down 5%).
(G)I-DLE’s 2 debuts at No. 4 with 8,500 sold – essentially all from CD sales. The set was available in four collectible CD editions, including one Target-exclusive variant. All packages contained branded paper merchandise, some of which is randomized.
Bruce thingyinson’s The Mandrake Project starts at No. 5 with 8,000 sold, landing the Iron Maiden singer his first solo top 10 effort. The set was available to purchase as a standard digital album, in four CD variations (a standard edition, two with enhanced packaging, and one with a signed insert), and a pair of vinyl LPs (including one with a signed insert).
ScHoolboy Q’s Blue Lips debuts at No. 6 with nearly 8,000 sold – with more than half of that sum from vinyl sales (4,000 – his best week ever on vinyl). The set was issued in just one vinyl edition, pressed on translucent blue-colored vinyl.
Four former No. 1s round out the latest top 10:
Taylor Swift’s Lover is steady at No. 7 (7,000; down 2%),
Taylor Swift’s Folklore rises 9-8 (6,000; up 2%),
Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts jumps 16-9 (5,500; up 14%) and
Taylor Swift’s Midnights dips 8-10 (nearly 5,500; down 10%).
In the week ending March 7, there were 1.153 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 9.6% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 850,000 (down 12.9%) and digital albums comprised 304,000 (up 1.4%).
There were 442,000 CD albums sold in the week ending March 7 (down 17.1% week-over-week) and 403,000 vinyl albums sold (down 7.9%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 4.318 million (down 30.3% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 4.601 million (down 47.8%).
Overall year-to-date album sales total 11.936 million (down 36% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 8.963 million (down 40.6%) and digital album sales total 2.973 million (down 16.2%).
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