Billboard 200: 5/2/15: Shawn Mendes #1: 119,000

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Shawn Mendes' 'Handwritten' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart
By Keith Caulfield | April 22, 2015 10:52 AM EDT

Sixteen-year old Shawn Mendes has grown from Vine stardom to topping the Billboard 200 chart, as his debut full-length album Handwritten arrives at No. 1.

The set, which was released on April 14 through Island Records, starts with 119,000 units earned in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

Traditional album sales comprised the bulk of Mendes’ album launch with 106,000 copies sold. It also bows at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.

Mendes is the youngest artist to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart in nearly five years. The last younger artist with a No. 1 was Justin Bieber on the May 29, 2010-dated chart, when his My World 2.0 was in its fourth and final week at the top. (Bieber was 16 years and 2 months old at the time -- younger than Mendes, who is 16 years and 8 months old.)

Mendes tops the Billboard 200 following the top five success of his self-titled EP, which debuted and peaked at No. 5 last year. It sold 48,000 copies in its first week and has sold 101,000 to date.

Mendes also notably opens at No. 1 without the support of an airplay hit – none of his songs have reached Billboard’s airplay charts. However, the born-from-the-Web act has unsurprisingly made a splash on the Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks chart. On that tally, which measures the week’s most shared songs on Twitter, Mendes has logged three top 20 hits, with “Life of the Party” reaching No. 1. He’s also climbed as high as No. 15 on the Social 50 chart, which tracks the most active artists on social networking sites (like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram).

Although Mendes hasn’t dented an airplay survey yet, that doesn’t mean radio stations have entirely ignored his songs. His single “Something Big” was played on six mainstream top 40 stations in the most recent tracking week (for a total of 81 plays). Its music video has done steady business on YouTube, garnering nearly 14 million global views since its release five months ago.

Mendes’ Handwritten is the second No. 1 album for Island Records in 2015, following Fall Out Boy’s American Beauty/American Psycho (released on DCD2/Island).

Last week’s No. 1 album, the Furious 7 soundtrack, slips to No. 2 with 79,000 units (down 29 percent). After five weeks on sale, the set has sold 127,000 copies. It has outsold the three previous Fast and the Furious soundtracks: 2013’s Fast & Furious 6 (80,000), 2011’s Fast Five (94,000) and 2009’s Fast & Furious (69,000). Before that was 2006’s Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift, with 235,000.

Country diva Reba McEntire bows at No. 3 with Love Somebody (62,000 units), notching her ninth top 10 album. Her previous set, 2010’s All the Women I Am, debuted and peaked at No. 7 with first week sales of 64,000. Over on the Top Country Albums chart, Love Somebody debuts at No. 1, marking the 12th chart topper for McEntire.

Love Somebody is the first album release for the Nash Icon Music label, which signed McEntire to a recording deal last year. Nash Icon is a joint venture between Big Machine Label Group and Cumulus Media.

Rapper Tyler, The Creator starts at No. 4 with his quasi-surprise release Cherry Bomb (58,000 units). The album was announced on April 8, with a release date of April 14, but it bowed slightly earlier than expected via digital retailers on April 13. The physical version of the album started arriving in stores on April 17.

Traditional album sales equated to 51,000 of the set’s overall unit start. Of the 51,000 sales, downloads comprised 49,000, while the physical version of the album sold nearly 2,000 copies.

Tyler, The Creator’s last album, 2013’s Wolf, debuted and peaked at No. 3 off an 89,000 sales start.

Rock band Halestorm collects the fourth and final debut in the new top 10, as its Into the Wild Life launches at a career-high No. 5 with 56,000 units. The band also celebrates its best sales week ever for an album, as the new set sold 52,000 copies (well beyond their previous best week, when 2012’s The Strange Case Of… debuted with 24,000 sold).

As for the rest of the latest top 10: the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack slides 3-6 (43,000 units; down 9 percent), Taylor Swift’s 1989 falls out of the top five for the first time, dipping 5-7 in its 25th chart week (38,000; down 13 percent), and Sam Smith’s In the Lonely Hour descends 6-8 (37,000; down 13 percent). Ed Sheeran’s x is steady at No. 9 with (36,000; down 9 percent) and Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late falls 8-10 (35,000; down 12 percent).

[Enigma.]

Last week’s No. 1 album, the Furious 7 soundtrack, slips to No. 2 with 79,000 units (down 29 percent). After five weeks on sale, the set has sold 127,000 copies.

I guess this means traditional sales but pretty unclear way to put it I'd say...

[jenglisbe]

The language is all very confusing.

And is it the 25th chart week for 1989, or 23rd? I just saw a stat saying it had 22 weeks in the top 5, but now this is saying 24.

I'm pleasantly surprised by the way Drake's album has held on.

[cause_for_celebration]

I wish they also had a Top Album Streams, to go alongside the Top Album Sales chart.

[Deleted]

24 weeks in the top 5 after debuting ain't bad for T-Swift, good for her!

[chartfreak]

I never understand if the numbers above are pure sales or include all that streaming stuff??

[areyoureadytojump]

^The bold numbers are SPS numbers.

[areyoureadytojump]

Apr 22, 2015 13:27:04 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Last week’s No. 1 album, the Furious 7 soundtrack, slips to No. 2 with 79,000 units (down 29 percent). After five weeks on sale, the set has sold 127,000 copies.

I guess this means traditional sales but pretty unclear way to put it I'd say...

It's traditional sales. RTD numbers do not include SPS.

The BB200 SPS charts that have leaked do not have RTD sales.

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Apr 22, 2015 13:36:09 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

The language is all very confusing.

And is it the 25th chart week for 1989, or 23rd? I just saw a stat saying it had 22 weeks in the top 5, but now this is saying 24.

I'm pleasantly surprised by the way Drake's album has held on.

25th chart week.

Last week:

5 5 5 24 1989, Taylor Swift 4xP

[Gary]

BB200

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
2 1 2 5 Furious 7, Soundtrack 1
3 0 New 1 Love Somebody, Reba 3
4 0 New 1 Cherry Bomb, Tyler, The Creator 4
5 0 New 1 Into The Wild Life, Halestorm 5
6 3 9 10 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
7 5 5 25 1989, Taylor Swift 1
8 6 6 44 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
9 9 12 43 x, Ed Sheeran 1
10 8 14 10 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
11 4 11 33 V, Maroon 5 1
12 10 13 14 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
13 15 22 25 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
14 7 4 5 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
15 12 15 6 Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1, Soundtrack 1
16 19 33 20 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 16
17 58 47 26 GG Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
18 0 New 1 Second Hand Heart, Dwight Yoakam 18
19 16 26 18 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 2
20 31 39 27 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
21 11 1 3 The Album About Nothing, Wale 1
22 0 New 1 Barter 6, Young Thug 22
23 17 25 8 Dark Sky Paradise, Big Sean 1
24 26 29 28 Hozier, Hozier 2
25 21 28 14 Uptown Special, Mark Ronson 5
26 13 19 13 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
27 14 – 2 My House (EP), Flo Rida 14
28 22 27 34 My Everything, Ariana Grande 1
29 20 30 23 Nick Jonas, Nick Jonas 6
30 0 New 1 How Can It Be, Lauren Daigle 30
31 46 49 62 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
32 0 New 1 Instant Gratification, Dance Gavin Dance 32
33 27 35 19 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
34 2 – 2 Future Hearts, All Time Low 2
35 18 3 3 Ludaversal, Ludacris 3
36 24 7 3 Southern Style, Darius Rucker 7
37 25 21 9 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
38 37 51 29 Queen Of The Clouds, Tove Lo 14
39 61 64 88 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
40 74 82 46 Platinum, Miranda Lambert 1
41 47 63 20 Listen, David Guetta 22
42 48 58 3 NOW That’s What I Call ACM Awards: 50 Years, Various Artists 42
43 0 New 1 Eyes Wide Open, Sabrina Carpenter 43
44 38 38 11 Reflection, Fifth Harmony 5
45 39 32 6 Spring Break... Checkin' Out, Luke Bryan 3
46 29 40 38 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
47 30 17 4 Kidz Bop 28, Kidz Bop Kids 10
48 50 48 28 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
49 42 36 12 Wanted On Voyage, George Ezra 19
50 36 10 3 Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens 10
51 64 59 59 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell 3
52 45 42 19 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4
53 44 54 15 SremmLife, Rae Sremmurd 5
54 32 24 11 NOW 53, Various Artists 2
55 35 31 7 Piece By Piece, Kelly Clarkson 1
56 57 73 11 Magazines Or Novels, Andy Grammer 27
57 53 84 8 Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack U, Skrillex & Diplo 26
58 0 New 1 Live From The Woods At Fontanel, NEEDTOBREATHE 58
59 108 136 29 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
60 51 69 32 Dream Your Life Away, Vance Joy 17
61 145 152 57 PS Riser, Dierks Bentley 6
62 34 8 3 Kintsugi, Death Cab For Cutie 8
63 54 56 21 Globalization, Pitbull 18
64 40 16 3 Human, Three Days Grace 16
65 59 66 24 Motion, Calvin Harris 5
66 49 41 22 FOUR, One Direction 1
67 69 86 124 Here's To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line 4
68 56 53 38 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
69 43 45 137 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 2
70 55 61 8 Fan Of A Fan: The Album, Chris Brown & Tyga 7
71 70 77 33 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
72 72 76 28 Talking Dreams, Echosmith 38
73 0 Re-Entry 3 I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album By Earl Sweatshirt, Earl Sweatshirt 12
74 67 65 17 Reclassified, Iggy Azalea 16
75 66 71 140 +, Ed Sheeran 5
76 52 116 32 I Dont Dance, Lee Brice 5
77 41 57 6 Rebel Heart, Madonna 2
78 71 50 8 First Kiss, Kid Rock 2
79 0 Re-Entry 18 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates, Daryl Hall John Oates 34
80 78 80 81 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 14
81 84 98 360 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
82 75 68 73 Frozen, Soundtrack 1
83 116 122 30 The Big Revival, Kenny Chesney 2
84 88 89 222 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 3
85 86 105 79 Nothing Was The Same, Drake 1
86 79 81 77 PRISM, Katy Perry 1
87 80 97 168 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
88 76 87 129 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 2
89 81 60 5 Strangers To Ourselves, Modest Mouse 3
90 73 96 71 Beyonce, Beyonce 1
91 0 New 1 Glitterbug, The Wombats 91
92 82 117 59 Trilogy, The Weeknd 4
93 87 90 211 The Eminem Show, Eminem 1
94 0 Re-Entry 282 The Foundation, Zac Brown Band 9
95 85 93 108 Native, OneRepublic 4
96 104 111 352 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 10
97 23 – 2 Strange Trails, Lord Huron 23
98 62 23 3 The Past, The Present, The Future, Jodeci 23
99 94 131 111 Take Care, Drake 1
100 96 148 35 Blacc Hollywood, Wiz Khalifa 1
101 92 115 217 21, Adele 1
102 98 106 30 Sundown Heaven Town, Tim McGraw 3
103 63 44 4 Home, Soundtrack 40
104 173 183 63 The Wrong Side Of Heaven...Volume 1, Five Finger Death Punch 2
105 118 – 14 The Very Best Of, Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons 33
106 0 Re-Entry 28 Going To Hell, The Pretty Reckless 5
107 101 112 76 The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem 1
108 103 118 40 These Things Happen, G-Eazy 3
109 133 121 5 Run, AWOLNATION 17
110 0 Re-Entry 96 Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney 3
111 99 140 9 Sex Playlist, Omarion 49
112 105 124 38 Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You, Queen 42
113 0 New 1 Coming Up For Air, Kodaline 113
114 68 18 3 Day Of The Dead, Hollywood Undead 18
115 0 Re-Entry 47 It Goes Like This, Thomas Rhett 6
116 146 158 108 Based On A True Story ..., Blake Shelton 3
117 112 110 116 Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars 1
118 93 91 12 Non-Fiction, Ne-Yo 5
119 0 Re-Entry 27 Greatest Hits 1974-78, The Steve Miller Band 18
120 102 100 104 Save Rock And Roll, Fall Out Boy 1
121 109 108 84 AM, Arctic Monkeys 6
122 198 – 55 Fuse, Keith Urban 1
123 100 146 174 Back In Black, AC/DC 4
124 89 55 4 Mr. Wonderful, Action Bronson 7
125 135 132 48 Just As I Am, Brantley Gilbert 2
126 106 134 31 X, Chris Brown 2
127 115 67 7 Lead Us Back: Songs Of Worship, Third Day 20
128 28 – 2 No Pier Pressure, Brian Wilson 28
129 91 150 35 Vessel, twenty one pilots 58
130 0 Re-Entry 185 Tailgates & Tanlines, Luke Bryan 2
131 114 139 92 Greatest Hits, 2Pac 3
132 90 79 39 5 Seconds Of Summer, 5 Seconds Of Summer 1
133 0 New 1 Better Than Home, Beth Hart 133
134 107 125 26 Sadnecessary, Milky Chance 17
135 60 20 3 Tokyo Dome Live In Concert, Van Halen 20
136 110 119 237 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 1
137 77 88 23 Greatest Hits So Far..., Zac Brown Band 20
138 0 Re-Entry 169 Loaded: The Best Of Blake Shelton, Blake Shelton 18
139 117 130 83 Love In The Future, John Legend 4
140 0 Re-Entry 17 The Very Best Of Travis Tritt, Travis Tritt 124
141 121 78 60 Thrive, Casting Crowns 6
142 111 135 81 Pure Heroine, Lorde 3
143 0 Re-Entry 141 Chief, Eric Church 1
144 131 174 18 Luca Brasi 2: A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition, Kevin Gates 38
145 0 Re-Entry 23 747, Lady Antebellum 2
146 147 142 311 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 3
147 0 New 1 Crown (EP), The-Dream 147
148 129 85 4 2015 Academy Of Country Music Awards ZinePak, Various Artists 64
149 144 – 41 Trigga, Trey Songz 1
150 0 Re-Entry 39 Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos 54
151 0 Re-Entry 44 Aerosmith's Greatest Hits, Aerosmith 43
152 113 104 25 Sweet Talker, Jessie J 10
153 119 167 207 Number Ones, Michael Jackson 13
154 143 147 6 Bombs Away, Sheppard 31
155 142 180 11 Full Speed, Kid Ink 14
156 0 New 1 Kids In Love, The Mowgli's 156
157 196 172 79 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 29
158 126 161 68 Because The Internet, Childish Gambino 7
159 167 188 224 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 22
160 171 177 343 Metallica, Metallica 1
161 134 154 207 Teenage Dream, Katy Perry 1
162 137 126 90 Halcyon, Ellie Goulding 9
163 0 Re-Entry 19 Love Ran Red, Chris Tomlin 8
164 0 Re-Entry 86 50 Number Ones, George Strait 1
165 170 179 33 The Essential Billy Joel, Billy Joel 15
166 155 171 79 Greatest Hits 1970-2002, Elton John 12
167 97 75 4 Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit., Courtney Barnett 20
168 178 191 102 Number One Hits, Tim McGraw 27
169 0 Re-Entry 4 Eric Paslay, Eric Paslay 31
170 132 46 14 Kidz Bop 27, Kidz Bop Kids 3
171 0 Re-Entry 136 Boston, Boston 3
172 0 Re-Entry 204 All The Right Reasons, Nickelback 1
173 130 173 51 Talk Dirty, Jason Derulo 4
174 0 Re-Entry 13 The Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam, Dwight Yoakam 87
175 128 149 67 The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance 2
176 149 153 145 Songs About Jane, Maroon 5 6
177 0 New 1 Anatomy Of A Love Song, Kenny Lattimore 177
178 177 194 57 G I R L, Pharrell Williams 2
179 164 164 164 Dark Horse, Nickelback 2
180 138 144 105 Red, Taylor Swift 1
181 0 Re-Entry 258 Ten, Pearl Jam 2
182 172 157 28 This Is All Yours, alt-J 4
183 165 – 111 Bad, Michael Jackson 1
184 156 101 13 2015 Grammy Nominees, Various Artists 9
185 199 160 152 Red River Blue, Blake Shelton 1
186 120 70 4 Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue, Van Morrison 23
187 140 109 58 Greatest Hits: Chapter One, Kelly Clarkson 11
188 185 193 903 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 1
189 161 123 4 Chaos And The Calm, James Bay 15
190 200 – 100 Babel, Mumford & Sons 1
191 151 182 19 Prayer, Robin Schulz 42
192 174 178 114 Pitch Perfect, Soundtrack 3
193 0 New 1 Edge Of The Sun, Calexico 193
194 195 – 249 Hot Rocks 1964-1971, The Rolling Stones 4
195 168 185 186 Recovery, Eminem 1
196 0 Re-Entry 2 Pray: Live, The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir 128
197 95 83 5 Madness, Sleeping With Sirens 13
198 0 Re-Entry 29 Restart, newsboys 38
199 122 92 18 Annie, Soundtrack 12
200 181 181 5 FROOT, Marina And The Diamonds 8

[Gary]

TAS

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
2 – – 1 Love Somebody, Reba 2
3 – – 1 Into The Wild Life, Halestorm 3
4 – – 1 Cherry Bomb, Tyler, The Creator 4
5 2 12 5 Furious 7, Soundtrack 2
6 4 7 25 1989, Taylor Swift 1
7 – – 1 Second Hand Heart, Dwight Yoakam 7
8 3 3 5 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
9 7 9 44 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
10 18 26 25 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
11 8 15 43 x, Ed Sheeran 1
12 6 13 6 Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1, Soundtrack 2
13 – – 1 Barter 6, Young Thug 13
14 12 21 10 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
15 13 19 14 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
16 – – 1 How Can It Be, Lauren Daigle 16
17 5 1 3 The Album About Nothing, Wale 1
18 – – 1 Instant Gratification, Dance Gavin Dance 18
19 38 51 27 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
20 21 25 10 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
21 25 34 3 NOW That’s What I Call ACM Awards: 50 Years, Various Artists 21
22 1 – 2 Future Hearts, All Time Low 1
23 15 4 3 Southern Style, Darius Rucker 4
24 9 16 33 V, Maroon 5 1
25 69 73 12 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
26 47 63 61 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
27 19 8 4 Kidz Bop 28, Kidz Bop Kids 4
28 11 2 3 Ludaversal, Ludacris 2
29 20 17 11 NOW 53, Various Artists 1
30 23 6 3 Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens 6
31 – – 1 Eyes Wide Open, Sabrina Carpenter 31
32 17 20 9 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
33 28 24 6 Spring Break... Checkin' Out, Luke Bryan 3
34 30 29 28 Hozier, Hozier 2
35 27 31 19 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
36 16 22 13 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
37 76 87 46 Platinum, Miranda Lambert 1
38 29 33 38 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
39 75 82 88 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
40 – – 1 Live From The Woods At Fontanel, NEEDTOBREATHE 40
41 33 36 8 Dark Sky Paradise, Big Sean 1
42 42 49 28 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
43 24 5 3 Kintsugi, Death Cab For Cutie 5
44 26 10 3 Human, Three Days Grace 10
45 0 Re-Entry 2 I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album By Earl Sweatshirt, Earl Sweatshirt 7
46 39 35 8 First Kiss, Kid Rock 2
47 37 28 7 Piece By Piece, Kelly Clarkson 1
48 95 94 42 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell 3
49 34 43 6 Rebel Heart, Madonna 1
50 49 54 18 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 3
51 0 Re-Entry 17 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates, Daryl Hall John Oates 34
52 31 18 3 The Past, The Present, The Future, Jodeci 18
53 48 61 14 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 26
54 50 41 5 Strangers To Ourselves, Modest Mouse 3
55 52 46 7 Wanted On Voyage, George Ezra 17
56 0 Re-Entry 38 Riser, Dierks Bentley 6
57 – – 1 Glitterbug, The Wombats 57
58 14 – 2 No Pier Pressure, Brian Wilson 14
59 10 – 2 Strange Trails, Lord Huron 10
60 61 79 28 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
61 54 67 51 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 29
62 0 Re-Entry 22 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
63 – – 1 Coming Up For Air, Kodaline 63
64 59 50 4 2015 Academy Of Country Music Awards ZinePak, Various Artists 33
65 – – 1 Better Than Home, Beth Hart 65
66 45 38 4 Home, Soundtrack 31
67 55 56 73 Frozen, Soundtrack 1
68 0 Re-Entry 39 Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos 54
69 0 Re-Entry 28 Going To Hell, The Pretty Reckless 5
70 53 52 34 My Everything, Ariana Grande 1
71 43 – 13 I Dont Dance, Lee Brice 5
72 0 Re-Entry 9 Greatest Hits 1974-78, The Steve Miller Band 72
73 44 11 3 Day Of The Dead, Hollywood Undead 11
74 40 58 33 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
75 65 44 7 Lead Us Back: Songs Of Worship, Third Day 13
76 0 Re-Entry 12 The Very Best Of Travis Tritt, Travis Tritt 76
77 64 62 13 2015 Grammy Nominees, Various Artists 7
78 81 93 252 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
79 67 76 19 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4
80 90 92 7 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 63
81 80 69 23 Nick Jonas, Nick Jonas 6
82 56 39 4 Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue, Van Morrison 11
83 0 Re-Entry 2 Pray: Live, The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir 70
84 – – 1 Anatomy Of A Love Song, Kenny Lattimore 84
85 51 45 4 Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit., Courtney Barnett 10
86 92 – 109 Here's To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line 4
87 0 Re-Entry 17 Love Ran Red, Chris Tomlin 8
88 – – 1 Edge Of The Sun, Calexico 88
89 0 Re-Entry 36 Under The Pink, Tori Amos 12
90 74 53 53 Thrive, Casting Crowns 6
91 35 14 3 Tokyo Dome Live In Concert, Van Halen 14
92 72 30 14 Kidz Bop 27, Kidz Bop Kids 3
93 41 59 135 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 2
94 98 90 5 Run, AWOLNATION 9
95 0 Re-Entry 15 It's The Girls!, Bette Midler 3
96 0 Re-Entry 96 Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney 3
97 0 Re-Entry 13 The Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam, Dwight Yoakam 87
98 60 97 25 Dream Your Life Away, Vance Joy 17
99 71 – 72 Back In Black, AC/DC 49
100 0 Re-Entry 167 Loaded: The Best Of Blake Shelton, Blake Shelton 18

[Gary]

Vinyl

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 3 1 3 #1 2 wks Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens 1
2 0 New 1 Get Behind Me Satan, The White Stripes 2
3 0 New 1 Run The Jewels (EP), Run The Jewels 3
4 0 New 1 Instant Gratification, Dance Gavin Dance 4
5 13 8 35 Kind Of Blue, Miles Davis 3
6 0 New 1 Into The Wild Life, Halestorm 6
7 0 New 1 The Basement Tape, Bob Dylan 7
8 20 – 6 I Love You, Honeybear, Father John Misty 1
9 0 New 1 E.P., The Replacements 9
10 0 New 1 Untethered Moon, Built To Spill 10
11 0 New 1 Strange Days, The Doors 11
12 0 New 1 Room On Fire, The Strokes 12
13 6 2 3 Kintsugi, Death Cab For Cutie 2
14 11 10 18 1989, Taylor Swift 1
15 0 New 1 Building Nothing Out Of Something, Modest Mouse 15
16 0 New 1 Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos 16
17 0 New 1 Picaresque, The Decemberists 17
18 0 New 1 The Darjeeling Limited, Soundtrack 18
19 18 6 5 Strangers To Ourselves, Modest Mouse 1
20 0 New 1 Songs From The Laundry Room (EP), Foo Fighters 20
21 0 New 1 FROOT, Marina And The Diamonds 21
22 14 13 40 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 3
23 9 7 23 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 3
24 0 Re-Entry 3 Songs Of Innocence, U2 3
25 0 New 1 Social Distortion, Social Distortion 25

[Gary]

Catalog

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Re-Entry 25 #1 1 wk The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates, Daryl Hall John Oates 1
2 2 2 519 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 1
3 0 Re-Entry 23 Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos 3
4 0 Re-Entry 448 Greatest Hits 1974-78, The Steve Miller Band 1
5 12 8 15 The Very Best Of Travis Tritt, Travis Tritt 5
6 4 4 1159 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
7 7 3 468 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 3
8 8 11 21 Here's To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line 5
9 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 Under The Pink, Tori Amos 9
10 1 1 24 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 1
11 49 – 29 GG Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney 5
12 35 40 6 The Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam, Dwight Yoakam 12
13 3 15 855 Back In Black, AC/DC 1
14 38 – 112 Loaded: The Best Of Blake Shelton, Blake Shelton 1
15 27 27 22 Based On A True Story ..., Blake Shelton 15
16 0 New 1 The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell: Volume 1, Five Finger Death Punch 16
17 13 9 1151 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 1
18 5 6 62 +, Ed Sheeran 1
19 11 13 71 21, Adele 1
20 0 Re-Entry 140 The Foundation, Zac Brown Band 1
21 23 – 12 The Very Best Of, Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons 1
22 20 18 1002 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 1
23 0 Re-Entry 54 Ten, Pearl Jam 1
24 0 Re-Entry 33 Boston, Boston 14
25 17 5 9 Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin 1
26 14 – 2 AM, Arctic Monkeys 14
27 0 Re-Entry 30 Chief, Eric Church 8
28 0 Re-Entry 441 Aerosmith's Greatest Hits, Aerosmith 1
29 34 20 129 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 1
30 15 14 65 Dark Horse, Nickelback 12
31 45 33 3 Restart, newsboys 31
32 18 10 149 The Eminem Show, Eminem 2
33 10 7 43 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 1
34 0 Re-Entry 54 Tailgates & Tanlines, Luke Bryan 4
35 29 29 88 The Ultimate Hits, Garth Brooks 1
36 31 21 705 Metallica, Metallica 1
37 0 New 1 The Strange Case Of..., Halestorm 37
38 19 12 210 Devil Without A Cause, Kid Rock 2
39 16 17 33 Family, Lynyrd Skynyrd 16
40 0 Re-Entry 5 Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes 22
41 0 New 1 Get Behind Me Satan, The White Stripes 41
42 24 28 79 Bad, Michael Jackson 1
43 0 Re-Entry 159 The Sickness, Disturbed 1
44 40 34 85 Red River Blue, Blake Shelton 2
45 28 32 153 Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi 3
46 26 16 25 Save Rock And Roll, Fall Out Boy 1
47 6 22 6 Vessel, twenty one pilots 6
48 33 26 31 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 3
49 30 46 16 Icon: Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton 10
50 0 Re-Entry 132 Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 1

[Gary]

Digital

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
2 0 New 1 Cherry Bomb, Tyler, The Creator 2
3 0 New 1 Into The Wild Life, Halestorm 3
4 1 4 4 Furious 7, Soundtrack 1
5 0 New 1 Love Somebody, Reba 5
6 0 New 1 Barter 6, Young Thug 6
7 6 12 10 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
8 13 20 25 GG Montevallo, Sam Hunt 2
9 7 13 25 1989, Taylor Swift 1
10 5 6 5 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
11 0 Re-Entry 7 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
12 3 1 3 The Album About Nothing, Wale 1
13 12 17 10 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
14 0 New 1 Eyes Wide Open, Sabrina Carpenter 14
15 0 New 1 Instant Gratification, Dance Gavin Dance 15
16 0 Re-Entry 2 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 9
17 0 New 1 How Can It Be, Lauren Daigle 17
18 16 21 42 x, Ed Sheeran 1
19 0 New 1 Second Hand Heart, Dwight Yoakam 19
20 0 Re-Entry 14 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
21 0 New 1 Live From The Woods At Fontanel, NEEDTOBREATHE 21
22 20 – 11 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
23 17 15 44 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 1
24 0 Re-Entry 9 Platinum, Miranda Lambert 1
25 0 Re-Entry 3 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates, Daryl Hall John Oates 14

[Gary]

TCA

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
2 0 New 1 Love Somebody, Reba 2
3 0 New 1 Into The Wild Life, Halestorm 3
4 0 New 1 Cherry Bomb, Tyler, The Creator 4
5 2 12 5 Furious 7, Soundtrack 2
6 4 7 25 1989, Taylor Swift 1
7 0 New 1 Second Hand Heart, Dwight Yoakam 7
8 3 3 5 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
9 7 9 44 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
10 18 26 25 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
11 8 15 43 x, Ed Sheeran 1
12 6 13 6 Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1, Soundtrack 2
13 0 New 1 Barter 6, Young Thug 13
14 12 21 10 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
15 13 19 14 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
16 0 New 1 How Can It Be, Lauren Daigle 16
17 5 1 3 The Album About Nothing, Wale 1
18 0 New 1 Instant Gratification, Dance Gavin Dance 18
19 38 51 27 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
20 21 25 10 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
21 25 34 3 NOW That’s What I Call ACM Awards: 50 Years, Various Artists 21
22 1 – 2 Future Hearts, All Time Low 1
23 14 4 3 Southern Style, Darius Rucker 4
24 9 16 33 V, Maroon 5 1
25 67 71 18 GG Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
26 46 62 62 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
27 19 8 4 Kidz Bop 28, Kidz Bop Kids 4
28 11 2 3 Ludaversal, Ludacris 2
29 20 17 11 NOW 53, Various Artists 1
30 23 6 3 Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens 6
31 0 New 1 Eyes Wide Open, Sabrina Carpenter 31
32 17 20 9 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
33 28 24 6 Spring Break... Checkin' Out, Luke Bryan 3
34 30 29 28 Hozier, Hozier 2
35 27 31 19 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
36 15 22 13 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
37 73 85 46 PS Platinum, Miranda Lambert 1
38 29 33 38 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
39 72 80 88 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
40 0 New 1 Live From The Woods At Fontanel, NEEDTOBREATHE 40
41 33 36 8 Dark Sky Paradise, Big Sean 1
42 41 49 28 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
43 24 5 3 Kintsugi, Death Cab For Cutie 5
44 26 10 3 Human, Three Days Grace 10
45 0 Re-Entry 2 I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album By Earl Sweatshirt, Earl Sweatshirt 7
46 39 35 8 First Kiss, Kid Rock 2
47 37 28 7 Piece By Piece, Kelly Clarkson 1
48 86 90 52 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell 3
49 34 43 6 Rebel Heart, Madonna 1
50 48 54 18 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 3
51 31 18 3 The Past, The Present, The Future, Jodeci 18
52 47 60 18 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 23
53 49 41 5 Strangers To Ourselves, Modest Mouse 3
54 51 46 8 Wanted On Voyage, George Ezra 17
55 0 Re-Entry 44 Riser, Dierks Bentley 6
56 0 New 1 Glitterbug, The Wombats 56
57 16 – 2 No Pier Pressure, Brian Wilson 16
58 59 77 32 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
59 10 – 2 Strange Trails, Lord Huron 10
60 0 Re-Entry 24 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
61 0 New 1 Coming Up For Air, Kodaline 61
62 57 50 4 2015 Academy Of Country Music Awards ZinePak, Various Artists 33
63 0 New 1 Better Than Home, Beth Hart 63
64 44 38 4 Home, Soundtrack 31
65 53 56 73 Frozen, Soundtrack 1
66 0 Re-Entry 32 Going To Hell, The Pretty Reckless 5
67 52 52 34 My Everything, Ariana Grande 1
68 42 – 19 I Dont Dance, Lee Brice 5
69 43 11 3 Day Of The Dead, Hollywood Undead 11
70 40 58 35 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
71 63 44 7 Lead Us Back: Songs Of Worship, Third Day 13
72 62 61 13 2015 Grammy Nominees, Various Artists 7
73 65 74 19 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4
74 77 67 23 Nick Jonas, Nick Jonas 6
75 54 39 4 Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue, Van Morrison 11
76 0 Re-Entry 2 Pray: Live, The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir 67
77 0 New 1 Anatomy Of A Love Song, Kenny Lattimore 77
78 0 Re-Entry 22 Love Ran Red, Chris Tomlin 7
79 50 45 4 Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit., Courtney Barnett 10
80 71 53 58 Thrive, Casting Crowns 6
81 0 New 1 Edge Of The Sun, Calexico 81
82 35 14 3 Tokyo Dome Live In Concert, Van Halen 14
83 69 30 14 Kidz Bop 27, Kidz Bop Kids 3
84 87 88 5 Run, AWOLNATION 9
85 91 – 18 It's The Girls!, Bette Midler 3
86 58 91 30 Dream Your Life Away, Vance Joy 17
87 0 New 1 Kids In Love, The Mowgli's 87
88 0 New 1 Be Still And Know... Hymns & Faith, Amy Grant 88
89 66 47 4 Mr. Wonderful, Action Bronson 3
90 0 Re-Entry 11 Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar, Robert Plant 10
91 70 55 22 FOUR, One Direction 1
92 60 23 3 Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Nightwish 23
93 0 Re-Entry 5 I Love You, Honeybear, Father John Misty 12
94 0 Re-Entry 20 Man Against Machine, Garth Brooks 4
95 90 – 13 Uptown Special, Mark Ronson 6
96 100 – 4 FROOT, Marina And The Diamonds 4
97 56 57 5 Madness, Sleeping With Sirens 6
98 0 New 1 No Life Til Leather, Metallica 98
99 0 Re-Entry 6 Run The Jewels 2, Run The Jewels 48
100 93 84 29 WOW Hits 2015, Various Artists 23

[HolidayGuy]

Outside of albums that have big-selling singles, or a number of tracks that sell decently, pure album sales comprise the majority of points on the Billboard 200. As for the other components, the silly TEA adds more than streaming, though there is not a Billboard-published chart for it.

I take it that Tori Amos' albums had some sales-pricing somewhere.

[areyoureadytojump]

^A number of Tori's albums were reissued last week as Deluxe editions.

[HolidayGuy]

^Ah- didn't know. Thanks. :)

EDIT: With All Time Low's album dropping 1-22 in sales this week, Rebel Heart no longer has the year's biggest positional drop from No. 1.

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www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.33532/title.178413


Hip Hop Album Sales: Tyler The Creator, Drake, Kendrick Lamar
by Jay Balfour

Tyler, The Creator's Cherry Bomb is the #4 album in the country. The Odd Future frontman's fourth album was one of four new albums in the Top 5 and was edged out of the #3 spot by just a few thousand units. Drake clung to his spot in the Top 10 but just released the physical version of his If You're Reading This It's Too Late yesterday, the sales of which will show up on next week's report. A few spots down the list, Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly fell to its lowest charting position yet at #14.

This week's chart also finds Wale slipping ten spots to #21, followed closely by Big Sean at #22. Young Thug meanwhile makes his first ever appearance on the chart as a solo artist at #26 with his new Lil Wayne-inspired mixtape Barter 6. J. Cole finds himself at #32 on the list with his still-steady 2014 Forest Hills Drive and Ludacris' Ludaversal fell from #18 to #34.

Tyler The Creator Debuts At #4

Falling just short of his previous album's first week's Billboard 200 standing, Tyler, The Creator's fourth album debuted at #4 on the chart this past week after selling just over 50,000 unites. Cherry Bomb outsold the #2 album on the chart, the soundtrack to Furious 7, by almost 25,000 units but lagged behind considerably in streams. With more than six million streams across platforms, Tyler's latest clocked a total activity count of just over 58,000 after a seven-day period.

Drake Falls To #10

After re-entering the Top 10 at #8 last week Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late fell two spots to #10 after posting up just 12,496 album sales. The latest numbers bring the total album sales for Drake's latest up to 835,155 since its surprise release in February. Meanwhile, the album again topped the charts' streaming column with more than 20 million streams in a single week. With yesterday's release of a physical, collector's edition of the album, sales for If You're Reading This It's Too Late can be expected to surge on next week's report.
Kendrick Lamar Falls Out Of Top 10

Despite outselling Drake on a pure album sales basis, Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly fell several spots from #7 to #14 in the latest sales report. With another 19,063 album sales this week alone, Lamar has now sold a total of 532,279 copies of To Pimp A Butterfly. The album was streamed more than nine million times between the last two Sunday's.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 04/19/2015

Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard's new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album's streaming count is available in brackets.

#2. Various - Furious 7 - 78,935 (26,506) [12,080,267]

#4. Tyler The Creator - Cherry Bomb - 58,267 (50,664) [6,116,808]

#10. Drake - If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late - 35,447 (12,496) [20,188,101]

#14. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly - 27,800 (19,063) [9,057,250]

#15. Empire Cast - Original Soundtrack From Season 1 - 23,685 (17,794) [3,143,777]

#19. Nicki Minaj - Pinkprint - 21,124 (5,659) [9,318,698]

#21. Wale - The Album About Nothing - 20,357 (14,718) [4,182,178]

#22. Big Sean - Dark Sky Paradise - 19,895 (7,424) [8,962,780]

#24. Mark Ronson - Uptown Special - 18,935 (2,975) [4,391,017]

#26. Young Thug - Barter 6 - 18,697 (17,149) [N/A]

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keelyskorner.com/category/soundscan/

5/2 Top Current Albums

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 4/19/15) -

1) Shawn Mendes – Handwritten –
2) Reba – Love Somebody –
3) Hailstorm – Into The Wild Life –

Other Debuts

4) Tyler The Creator – Cherry Bomb –
7) Dwight Yoakam – Second Hand Heart –
13) Young Thug – Barter 6 –
16) Lauren Dangle – How Can It Be –
18) Dance Gavin Dance – Instant Gratification –
31) Sabrina Carpenter – Eyes Wide Open –

[areyoureadytojump]

roughstock.com/news/2015/04/34486-country-album-chart-report-april-22-2015/

Country Album Chart Report For April 22, 2015
Posted by Matt Bjorke on April 22, 2015

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bOYOZyLEOdMwI1iscGxXl8JaU5jEgdvt0SqHCgqAB_8/edit?pli=1#gid=

Country Albums Chart Position Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Reba McEntire Love Somebody 58,500 58,500
2 Dwight Yoakam Second Hand Heart 21,400 21,400
3 Sam Hunt Montevallo 18,300 459,700
4 Florida Georgia Line Anything Goes 12,900 633,800
5 Various ACM AWARDS 50 12,300 34,100
6 Darius Rucker Southern Style 12,100 81,100
7 Little Big Town Pain Killer 11,400 183,000
8 Eric Church The Outsiders 10,900 908,600
9 Luke Bryan Spring Break...Checkin' Out 9,200 173,500
10 Miranda Lambert Platinum 8,400 682,100
11 Luke Bryan Crash My Party 7,800 2,424,400
12 Jason Aldean Old Boots, New Dirt 7,400 911,000
13 Cole Swindell Cole Swindell 5,800 357,000
14 Dierks Bentley Riser 5,100 319,500
15 Chase Rice Ignite The Night 4,800 219,200

-- Blake Shelton Bringing Back The Sunshine 4,700 354,700
-- Various 2015 ACM ZinePak 4,200 26,300
-- Lee Brice I Don't Dance 4,100 178,600
-- Travis Tritt Very Best of Travis Tritt 4,100 506,100
-- Carrie Underwood Greatest Hits...Decade #1 4,000 328,400
-- Brantley Gilbert Just As I Am 2,800 761,200
-- Thomas Rhett It Goes Like This 2,800 250,200
-- Lady Antebellum 747 2,500 257,900
-- Keith Urban Fuse 2,100 444,500
Zane Williams Texas Like That 1,500 1,500

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www.metalinsider.net/columns/metal-by-numbers/metal-by-numbers-422-halestorm-go-wild

5/2 Top Current Albums:

Metal By Numbers 4/22: Halestorm go wild
Posted by Matt Brown

Notable Debuts:

Halestorm, Into the Wild Life (Atlantic) #4, 52,575 sold

The band lands its best debut yet with album number three landing in the top 5.

Dance Gavin Dance, Instant Gratification (Rise) #18, 14,675 sold

This band also lands its best debut yet in the top 20 with album seven.

Metallica, No Life ‘Til Leather (Blackened/Rhino) #98, 2,900 sold

Only Metallica could get a cassette tape into the top 100 in 2015.

Notable Sales:

Kid Rock, First Kiss (Warner Bros.) #46, 6,650 sold

Kiss 10% of sales goodbye. Kid Rock has sold 237,000 copies of this album in two months, but you can buy a ticket to his concert for just about double the cost of the album.

The Pretty Reckless, Going To Hell (Razor & Tie) #66, 4,375 sold

Thanks to a price drop and tour with Halestorm, this gets an enormous boost and sits just under 170,000 sold.

Hollywood Undead, Day of the Dead (Interscope) #69, 4,225 sold

A 38% drop is dead on.

Van Halen, Tokyo Dome In Concert (Rhino) #82, 3,675 sold

A 53% drop. Maybe this will see a jump in sales later?

Nightwish, Endless Forms Most Beautiful (Nuclear Blast)#92, 3,150 sold

A not so beaut iful drop of 33%.

Sleeping With Sirens, Madness (Epitaph) #99, 2,900 sold

A 42% drop. U mad?

AC/DC, Rock or Bust (Columbia) #112, 2,675 sold

At week 20, this is just under 520,000 sold. Also, how about that Phil Rudd?

Foo Fighters, Sonic Highways (RCA) #135, 2,225 sold

A small boost of 3%.

All That Remains, The Order of Things (Razor & Tie) #143, 2,050 sold

This gets boosted back onto the charts by 50%.

Slipknot, .5: The Grey Chapter (Roadrunner) #158, 1,950 sold

In case you missed it, read how the band stole their debut album.

Marilyn Manson, The Pale Emperor (Loma Vista) #171, 1,825 sold

A 10% drop with over 105,000 sold.

Red, Of Beauty and Rage (Essential) #185, 1,700 sold

A 16% drop, but has now sold over 60,000.

Falling In Reverse, Just Like You (Epitaph) #187, 1,675 sold

A 5% drop. Some joke about falling.

In This Moment, Black Widow (Atlantic) #184, 1,650 sold

A tiny boost of 2%.

[HolidayGuy]

After almost 30 years, Dwight Yoakam lands his first top 10 album on Billboard's album sales chart.

[areyoureadytojump]

oldbloke:

WEEK 16 YEAR TO DATE SALES STATS

Category - 2015 - 2014 - Change

Total Albums - 74,176,000 - 76,173,000 - -2.6%

CD - 35,716,000 - 39,495,000 - -9.6%
Digital - 34,698,000 - 34,042,000 - +1.9%
Vinyl - 3,596,000 - 2,457,000 - +46.4%
Other - 166,000 - 178,000 - -6.7%

Current - 35,949,000 - 37,244,000 - -3.5%
Catalog - 38,227,000 - 38,929,000 - -1.8%

Deep Catalog - 31,712,000 - 31,860,000 - -0.5%

Digital Tracks - 340,891,000 - 379,038,000 - -10.1%
Store Singles - 1,213,000 - 729,000 - _66.4%

Catalog = albums over 18 months old
Deep Catalog = albums over 3 years old

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www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6546007/little-big-town-girl-crush-top-20

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Little Big Town Returns to Top 20 in 'Girl Crush' Rush
By Keith Caulfield | April 24, 2015 6:26 PM EDT

On the latest Billboard 200 chart (dated May 2), Shawn Mendes debuted at No. 1 with his first full-length album, Handwritten. The set, released April 14 on Island Records, moved 119,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 19 (according to Nielsen Music). It led a total of four debuts in the top 10, as it was joined by new arrivals from Reba McEntire (Love Somebody, No. 3), Tyler, The Creator (Cherry Bomb, No. 4) and Halestorm (Into the Wild Life, No. 5).

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the week’s most popular albums based on their overall consumption. That overall unit figure combines pure 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:

— Taylor Swift, 1989 - No. 7 — After 24 consecutive weeks (six months!) in the top five, Taylor Swift's 1989 slips out of the region for the first time, dipping 5-7 with a 13 percent decline in equivalent album units. It was only the ninth album to spend its first 24 weeks in the top five since the chart combined its separate mono and stereo listings into one all-encompassing tally in 1963.

— Little Big Town, Pain Killer – No. 17 — Following the country quartet’s performance of its song “Girl Crush” on the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards (April 19), the single’s parent album Pain Killer flies 58-17 with 136 percent overall unit gain. The album sold 11,000 copies last week — up 165 percent — to its best sales frame since last November. Its No. 17 rank is its highest placing since its debut week (dated Nov. 8, 2014) when it arrived at No. 7. As for “Girl Crush” itself, the song logged the largest sales week for a country track in 2015: it sold 97,000 downloads (up 126 percent).

— Dance Gavin Dance, Instant Gratification – No. 32 — The rock band claims its first top 40 album as Instant Gratification arrives at No. 32. The group also claims its biggest sales week ever, as the album sold 15,000 in its first week.

— Sabrina Carpenter, Eyes Wide Open – No. 43 — The latest Disney Channel actor-turned-Disney Music Group recording artist has arrived on the Billboard 200: Sabrina Carpenter. The 15-year old actress/singer, who stars in the TV series Girl Meets World, debuts at No. 43 with her first full-length album, Eyes Wide Open. (It bows with 12,000 equivalent album units moved in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music.)

The Hollywood Records set follows her debut EP, Can’t Blame a Girl For Trying, which reached No. 16 on Heatseekers Albums last year and has sold 17,000 copies.

— Dierks Bentley, Riser – No. 61 — The country star performed the album's title track on the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards on April 19, sparking the set's 91 percent unit gain and jump from No. 145 to No. 61. The song tallies a 1,801 percent gain to 4,000 downloads sold.

— Earl Sweatshirt, I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside – No. 73 — Following a month of digital exclusivity, the album was released on CD on April 14, thus prompting its overall 207 percent unit gain (to 7,000 for the week). It re-enters at No. 73.

— Daryl Hall / John Oates, The Very Best of Daryl Hall John Oates - No. 79 — Sale-pricing in the iTunes Store aid the set's overall 246 percent unit increase (and re-entry at No. 79). The album surpassed 1 million in total sales in January.

— Beth Hart, Better Than Home - No. 133 — The singer/songwriter collects her first non-collaborative chart entry since 2000, as Better Than Home enters with 5,000 units. (Since 2000, she's tallied three charting sets with blues luminary Joe Bonamassa.) Her last solo set to chart was Screamin’ For My Supper, which peaked at No. 143 on March 4, 2000.