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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 16, 2015 17:29:05 GMT -5
I give up. Does anyone have the sales figures for Man Against Machine, this week's #1 country CD? Thanks! CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans 1 Garth Brooks Man Against Machine 15,400 547,400 2 Jason Aldean Old Boots New Dirt 13,000 785,500 3 Sam Hunt Montevallo 12,900 240,800 4 Carrie Underwood Greatest Hits: Decade #1 12,700 232,800 5 Florida Georgia Line Anything Goes 9,100 524,800 6 Luke Bryan Crash My Party 6,200 2,345,800 7 Blake Shelton Bringing Back The Sunshine 4,500 294,800 8 George Strait The Cowboy Rides Away 4,500 289,100 9 Eric Church The Outsiders 4,000 825,100 10 Brantley Gilbert Just As I Am 3,500 716,200 11 Miranda Lambert Platinum 3,500 610,700 12 Lady Antebellum 747 3,400 229,400 13 Zac Brown Band Greatest Hits...So Far 3,300 94,300 14 Sturgill Simpson MetaModern Sounds... 3,200 85,100 15 Tim McGraw Sundown Heaven Town 3,000 220,300 -- Chase Rice Ignite The Night 3,000 151,300 -- Kenny Chesney The Big Revival 2,900 324,300 -- Dustin Lynch Where Its At 2,100 82,000 -- Dierks Bentley RISER 1,900 286,400 -- Brad Paisley Moonshine In The Trunk 1,400 150,400 -- Home Free Crazy Life 1,000 62,000 -- Keith Urban FUSE 1,000 427,400 -- Jake Owen Days Of Gold 900 214,300 Justin Moore Off The Beaten Path 600 333,100 Scotty McCreery See You Tonight 400 264,200 Old Dominion Old Dominion - EP 400 6,400 |
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Jan 16, 2015 17:58:21 GMT -5
How is it unfair to genres that are naturally less popular? The songs from them generally stream and sell less songs. For example, Chris Tomlin, Slipknot, Tony Bennett and Lecrae have albums in the Top Album sales chart but are on the lower 100 of the Billboard 200 as they sell and stream less songs. |
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jan 16, 2015 22:25:09 GMT -5
So if they stream and sell less songs, that would make them less popular wouldn't it?
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Jan 16, 2015 22:38:52 GMT -5
Yeah... I guess so. But let's agree to disagree. We have our own opinions.
Another thing I am worried about is that it is now harder to track total album sales with the new rules. We don't exactly know how much each album sold.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Jan 16, 2015 23:01:22 GMT -5
We never knew any more than we do now. We are still getting pure sales figures for the top 10 at a minimum, plus notable debuts and top r&b/rap and country albums. We know more about streaming and track sales now than we ever have
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 16, 2015 23:24:39 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6443614/guardians-galaxy-soundtrack-millionBillboard 200 Chart Moves: 'Guardians' Soundtrack Surpasses 1 Million in SalesBy Keith Caulfield | January 16, 2015 On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart, Taylor Swift's 1989 ruled for a ninth nonconsecutive week atop the list, shifting 155,000 units in the week ending Jan. 11 (according to Nielsen Music). Just one album debuted in the top 30, with hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd entering at No. 5 with SremmLife (49,000). The Billboard 200 chart measures multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Let's take a closer look at some of the action on the chart: -- Ed Sheeran, x - No. 2 -- Ed Sheeran's x continues its climb back up the list, as it rises 3-2 -- its highest rank since the list dated July 19, 2014 (when it fell 1-2 in its second chart week). The album moved 76,000 units in the most recent tracking week, with 46 percent of that sum coming from traditional album sales. -- Soundtrack, Guardians of the Galaxy - No. 8 -- The Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack skips ahead of the 1 million sales mark, as the all-oldies compilation sold another 35,000 copies in the week ending Jan. 11, according to Nielsen Music. (On the Billboard 200, it falls 5-8 with 35,000 in overall equivalent units, including SEA and TEA.) The former No. 1 set's cumulative sales stand at just over 1 million: 1,003,000 to be more precise. It's the most recently released soundtrack to sell a million copies since, you guessed it, Frozen, which jumped past the million mark nearly a year ago (in the week ending Feb. 16, 2014). Frozen has moved 3.9 million copies in total since its release on Nov. 26, 2013. Both Guardians of the Galaxy and Frozen were released by the Disney Music Group (Guardians on Marvel/Hollywood and Frozen through Walt Disney Records). -- Sia, 1000 Forms of Fear - No. 20 -- Sia's buzzy new video for "Elastic Heart" helps its parent album soar to its highest position since August, with overall units for the week up by 102 percent (to 17,000). Its pure album sales surge by 155 percent to 7,000. -- AC/DC, Back In Black - No. 70 -- The mega-selling set climbs (73-70) to its highest position since the Dec. 8, 2012 chart, when it re-entered at No. 67 following its digital retail debut. The album is one of the 10 biggest selling releases ever in the U.S., with 22 million sold, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. -- Rihanna, Unapologetic – No. 120 -- While the masses patiently wait for the diva to release her next studio album, her last set returns for the first time since May 2014, thanks to a $5.99 sale price in the iTunes Store. It's up 59 percent in units for the week. -- Lecrae, Anomaly – No. 125 -- With an 18th week on the chart, his former No. 1 set Anomaly becomes his longest-charting album. (It climbs 147-125). It passes the 17-week runs of both Rehab (released in 2010) and Gravity (2012).
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Post by imbondz on Jan 17, 2015 1:06:07 GMT -5
They should just scale the BB200 down to BB100. Who cares that the #200 album sold 800 copies
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Jan 17, 2015 2:23:15 GMT -5
They should just scale the BB200 down to BB100. Who cares that the #200 album sold 800 copies In a matter of a few years, the #200 album would sell less than 1,000 copies. |
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Jan 17, 2015 2:37:48 GMT -5
I would like to apologise for my earlier comments if I made anyone angry ( YourFaveIsAFlop and Devil Marlena Nylund). I just felt tired of seeing albums spend much more weeks on the Top Rock Albums than on the Billboard 200. I guess I'll have to accept that, then. And as a Christian, I feel kind of upset that Christian music is given less recognition. So if my comments hurt anyone, I'm sorry. |
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jan 17, 2015 2:40:12 GMT -5
No need to apologize for having an opinion. And I hope no one was hurt by it.  I wasn't. It's all good! |
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 17, 2015 8:36:59 GMT -5
They should just scale the BB200 down to BB100. Who cares that the #200 album sold 800 copies No. Sales aren't that bad yet. What they should do is get rid of the Catalog albums. They clog up the chart and keep current artists off the '200. |
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Jan 17, 2015 8:44:41 GMT -5
They should just scale the BB200 down to BB100. Who cares that the #200 album sold 800 copies No. Sales aren't that bad yet. What they should do is get rid of the Catalog albums. They clog up the chart and keep current artists off the '200. That would be good but that would once again change the definition of the Billboard 200. Top selling albums --> Most popular albums -->? We don't know what Billboard has in store for us next... Don't forget that will result in Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and Bob Marley having their legendary chart runs abruptly cut. |
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Post by surfy on Jan 17, 2015 16:49:08 GMT -5
Wait. What's happening with the catalog albums?
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Post by trustypepper on Jan 17, 2015 17:27:13 GMT -5
I have no problem with the catalog albums on the BB200, I actually love it. I think it's awesome to see albums that are decades old mixed in with the recent releases
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 17, 2015 22:28:30 GMT -5
Wait. What's happening with the catalog albums? Nothing. IMO, I want them off the BB200. |
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Post by esoteric76 on Jan 21, 2015 12:13:55 GMT -5
Wait. What's happening with the catalog albums? Nothing. IMO, I want them off the BB200. Except that Billboard was given a ton of pressure to make things this way after the tragic passing of Michael Jackson. People wanted to see his albums scale the upper regions of the chart, and they were nowhere to be seen since catalog albums were not allowed. The restructuring gives us a better picture of these "historic" events, so I think Billboard did the right thing. People are going to complain either way. |
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Jan 21, 2015 12:22:52 GMT -5
I think a compromise position exists though. Why not, like recurrent songs on the Hot 100, say that a catalog album will fall off the chart after X number of weeks unless it returns to the Top 50. That way albums that get a big spike from an event, or from a discount, or whatever still have the opportunity to chart, but 1/3 of the chart isn't old albums.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Jan 21, 2015 22:58:22 GMT -5
I think a compromise position exists though. Why not, like recurrent songs on the Hot 100, say that a catalog album will fall off the chart after X number of weeks unless it returns to the Top 50. That way albums that get a big spike from an event, or from a discount, or whatever still have the opportunity to chart, but 1/3 of the chart isn't old albums. Ok, that's something we can agree on |
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