HITS 5/26: Twenty One Pilots #1 134k Albums / 139k SPS

[Adam (UTR)]

Twenty-One Pilots will take the top spot on both our sales and SPS charts next week. Here are this week’s key debuts:

Twenty-One Pilots (Fueled By Ramen) 125-130k sales, 130-140k SPS
Zedd (Interscope) 30-35k, 35-40k
Brandon Flowers (Island) 27-30k, 30-35k
Jamie Foxx (RCA) 21-24k, 24-27k
Faith No More (Reclamation/Ipecac) 21-24k, 22-25k
Gerardo Ortiz (Sony Latin) 17-20k, 18-21k
The Story So Far (Pure Noise) 17-20k, 18-21k
Mariah Carey (Legacy/Columbia) 14-16k, 16-18k
Kelsea Ballerini (Black River) 13-15k, 15-17k
Trey Songz (Atlantic) 11-13k, 12-14k

(HDD)

[ILLUSION]

Surprised that Zedd is opening below 50k. Mariah's numbers are embarrassing.

[onebuffalo]

May 20, 2015 11:59:48 GMT -5 ILLUSION said:

Surprised that Zedd is opening below 50k. Mariah's numbers are embarrassing.

I agree. Coco will not like that. Kelsea Ballerini is set to do about 90-95% of Mariah Carey's sales.

[Wave.]

LAWD, LAWD, AND LAWD.

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

The only new material on the Mariah release is Infinity right? I'm not sure who would buy a whole album for 1 new song, except Mariah completists.

[jma]

:O:O:O:O:O:O at Twenty One Pilots....well deserved though, their album is amazing!

[Dreams]

Does that mean Mariah's gonna make the top 10?! :o I'm happy if so!! This is her 389234289342984234th compilation, I'm satisfied with those numbers.

Ouch @ Brandon though. :( So close to being #2.

[Enigma.]

Not necessarily #2, but 2nd best debut

Anyway, amazing for Twenty One Pilots!

[bigfan101]

May 20, 2015 12:03:01 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

May 20, 2015 11:59:48 GMT -5 ILLUSION said:

Surprised that Zedd is opening below 50k. Mariah's numbers are embarrassing.

I agree. Coco will not like that. Kelsea Ballerini is set to do about 90-95% of Mariah Carey's sales.

With those numbers, I wouldn't be surprised if Kelsea finished ahead of Mariah. She definitely is on a quick upward trend.

[bunifah]

Those Mariah numbers.. Chile

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

Have there been any big greatest hits compilations released since the switch over to SPS? Do we know how they handle TEA & SEA from the old tracks, does it depend on what album the track is actually bought or streamed from?

[HolidayGuy]

Carrie Underwood's Greatest Hits was released in early December.

If the numbers for #1 to Infinity hold or finish in that vicinity, that probably wouldn't be enough for top 10, in either sales or SPS. For this week's chart, No. 10 sales had 21,265, and No. 10 on SPS had 34,417. Even considering it's a compilation with one new track, I thought with all the promotion, the numbers would be a bit higher, at least topping 30K.

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

May 20, 2015 13:04:53 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Carrie Underwood's Greatest Hits was released in early December.

Do we know if sales/streams of all of her singles counted toward SPS for that, or just sales/streams of Something in The Water & Little Toy Guns?

[HolidayGuy]

^I imagine any track sales from the album count, and not just new tracks. I will try to find out specifics. :)

[Dreams]

May 20, 2015 13:04:53 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Carrie Underwood's Greatest Hits was released in early December.

If the numbers for #1 to Infinity hold or finish in that vicinity, that probably wouldn't be enough for top 10, in either sales or SPS. For this week's chart, No. 10 sales had 21,265, and No. 10 on SPS had 34,417. Even considering it's a compilation with one new track, I thought with all the promotion, the numbers would be a bit higher, at least topping 30K.

Ohhh I see. I still haven't totally figured out how the new chart works. WELP.

[Linnethia Monique]

Lets talk about twenty one pilots kicking that Major Label Sophomore Slump in the ass!

[Kurt]

14887fan might be able to answer this more concretely, but I'm guessing based on the figures that Carrie only got SEA/TEA for "Something In The Water" (and negligible figures for "Little Toy Guns," which didn't have an official pre-release, just leaked audio):

Dec 17, 2014 16:48:31 GMT -5 14887fan said:

Billboard

Carrie Underwood scores her fifth consecutive top five album, as her Greatest Hits: Decade #1 bows at No. 4 with 103,000 units (94,000 in pure album sales). This is the first best-of collection for the singer, who previously logged four albums that reached the top two: her Some Hearts debut (No. 2 in 2005), followed by three No. 1s: Carnival Ride (2007), Play On (2009) and Blown Away (2012).

Underwood's latest set is the highest-charting greatest hits album since the chart dated Aug. 25, 2012, when Frank Sinatra's Nothing But the Best re-entered at No. 3 (thanks to deep discounting by Amazon MP3). Underwood logs the biggest sales week for a best-of since Whitney Houston's Whitney: The Greatest Hits shifted 112,000 on the chart dated March 17, 2012 (in the wake of Houston's death), and the biggest sales debut for a hits set since Sinatra's Nothing arrived with 99,000 (at No. 2) on the May 31, 2008 chart.

She killed it.

[maine]

twenty one pilots!!!!!

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

How many total copies has Vessel sold? It peaked at #58, so it can't be very many. For them to open up with 6 figures now without a crossover single is pretty amazing.

[jjose712]

May 20, 2015 12:10:14 GMT -5 Dreams said:

Does that mean Mariah's gonna make the top 10?! :o I'm happy if so!! This is her 389234289342984234th compilation, I'm satisfied with those numbers.

Ouch @ Brandon though. :( So close to being #2.

I don't think so, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and Sam Smith are selling more that that every week, and i doubt 50 shades of grey soundrack, Zach Brown Band, Mumford and sons or Josh Groban will sell less than that either.

It's true that once you have a certain age it's more difficult to sell, but usually that affect way more to singles than to albums

[HolidayGuy]

The 9,000 TEA/streaming figure for Underwood's album equated to 9,000- if "Somethin' in the Water" sold notably less than 90,000 for that particular week, then the sum would include all of the album's previously released tracks' sales for that week (streaming numbers are a lot smaller than TEA).

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

May 20, 2015 13:45:01 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

The 9,000 TEA/streaming figure for Underwood's album equated to 9,000- if "Somethin' in the Water" sold notably less than 90,000 for that particular week, then the sum would include all of the album's previously released tracks' sales for that week (streaming numbers are a lot smaller than TEA).

It sold 125k its first week out, I can't imagine that several months later it was still selling/streaming the equivalent of 90k in a week.

[SHOOTER]

May 20, 2015 11:44:58 GMT -5 Adam (UTR) said:

Twenty-One Pilots (Fueled By Ramen) 125-130k sales, 130-140k SPS

Vessel debuted at #58 with 6k (236k to date).

[SHOOTER]

May 20, 2015 11:44:58 GMT -5 Adam (UTR) said:

Zedd (Interscope) 30-35k, 35-40k

Clarity debuted at #38 with 12k (206k to date).

[SHOOTER]

May 20, 2015 11:44:58 GMT -5 Adam (UTR) said:

Brandon Flowers (Island) 27-30k, 30-35k

Flamingo debuted at #8 with 41k (137k to date).

[SHOOTER]

May 20, 2015 11:44:58 GMT -5 Adam (UTR) said:

Jamie Foxx (RCA) 21-24k, 24-27k

Peep This peaked at #78.

Unpredictable debuted at #2 with 597k (1.9m to date).

Intuition debuted at #3 with 265k (1m to date).

Best Night of My Life debuted at #6 with 144k (409k to date).

[cjay]

I don't think Mariah's numbers are embarrassing. Her saving grace here is that she already has 2 well selling compilations (#1s and greatest hits). And her hardcore fan base already own TWO versions of TEOM, and E=MC^2. So what need is there to have this compilation?

[Caviar]

Embarrassing numbers for Mariah. This is lower than Ciara! O well.

[SHOOTER]

May 20, 2015 11:44:58 GMT -5 Adam (UTR) said:

Faith No More (Reclamation/Ipecac) 21-24k, 22-25k

Post-SoundScan:

Angel Dust debuted at #10 (680k to date).

King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime debuted at #10 (250k to date).

Album of the Year debuted at #40 (213k to date).

[Linnethia Monique]

May 20, 2015 14:17:13 GMT -5 Caviar said:

Embarrassing numbers for Mariah. This is lower than Ciara! O well.

Ciara's is all new music with an Urban and Rhythmic hit attached to it, while this is Mariah's umpteenth Greatest Hits with only 1 new song as an addition. Instead of saying, "How embarrassing," I want to know what figure you had dancing in your head in which this would be considered a "success."