Billboard 200: 6/20/15: Florence & The Machine #1 137,000

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www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6590835/florence-machine-first-no-1-album-billboard-200

Florence + the Machine Scores First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart
By Keith Caulfield | June 10, 2015

Rock act Florence + The Machine claims its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as their third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, debuts atop the list. The set was released on June 2 and shifted 137,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 7, according to Nielsen Music. Previously, the act -- which is led by singer Florence Welch -- topped out at No. 6 with their last album, 2011’s Ceremonials. Florence + The Machine’s 2009 debut, Lungs, peaked at No. 14.

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).


How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful sold 128,000 copies in its first week -- easily Florence + The Machine’s best sales week yet. It trumps the 105,000 sales start of Ceremonials, which was previously their high-water mark.

The new album was led by the single “What Kind of Man,” which peaked at No. 8 on the Alternative Songs chart, and No. 7 on Hot Rock Songs.

Notably, Florence + The Machine’s album is one of many colorfully titled chart-topping sets. It follows other No. 1 “blue” albums like last year’s Turn Blue by The Black Keys. Also among the blue No. 1s: Jay Z’s three different The Blueprint albums, Blake Shelton’s Red River Blue, Mac Miller’s Blue Slide Park, Madonna’s True Blue, Backstreet Boys’ Black & Blue, The Blues Brothers’ Brief Case Full of Blues, Diana Ross’ Lady Sings the Blues soundtrack, and The Rolling Stones’ Black and Blue.

Back on the current Billboard 200 chart, Taylor Swift’s 1989 holds at No. 2 with 66,000 units (down 5 percent) while last week’s leader, A$AP Rocky’s At.Long.Last.A$AP, slips to No. 3 with 50,000 units (down 66 percent).

Jason Derulo’s fourth album, Everything Is 4, takes a bow at -- appropriately -- No. 4 as it starts with 37,000 units. It matches his chart high, initially earned when his last album, Talk Dirty, debuted and peaked at No. 4 a little over a year ago. Everything Is 4 launches with 22,000 copies sold in traditional album sales -- Derulo’s third-largest sales frame. Talk Dirty debuted with 44,000 sold -- his best sales week. (His second-biggest week was logged by his self-titled debut, in 2010, when it started with 42,000.)

The new album’s first single, “Want To Want Me,” is a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and has sold 1.1 million downloads. The song is his sixth consecutive top 40 hit on the Hot 100, following five top 40-charters from his Talk Dirty album.

Ed Sheeran’s x rises 7-5 with 36,000 units (up 2 percent) and the Pitch Perfect 2 soundtrack descends 4-6 with 34,000 units (down 34 percent).

Two country legends are up next on the chart, as Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard’s new collaborative album, Django and Jimmie, debuts at No. 7 with 31,000 units (30,000 in pure album sales). It’s Nelson’s fourth top 10 set and Haggard’s first. Nelson logged his first top 10 back in 1982 with the No. 2-peaking Always On My Mind, and then more recently claimed his second and third top 10s with To All the Girls (No. 9 in 2013) and Band of Brothers (No. 5 in 2014).

As for Haggard -- who arrived on the Billboard 200 in 1967, two years after he debuted on the Top Country Albums chart -- Django and Jimmie marks his highest charting album yet on the Billboard 200. Until this week, he’d only earned one previous top 40 set, when his first duets effort with Nelson, Pancho & Lefty, peaked at No. 37 in 1983.

Rounding out the new top 10 is Meghan Trainor’s Title (holding at No. 8 with just over 30,000 units; down 12 percent), Zac Brown Band’s Jekyll + Hyde (17-9 with 30,000 units; up 22 percent) and Maroon 5’s V (11-10 with 29,000 units; up 4 percent).

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Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard rule!

[Enigma.]

That's fantastic result for Nelson & Haggard, who would have thought

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Hip Hop Album Sales: Lil Durk, Jason Derulo & Boosie Badazz
by DANIELLE HARLING
posted Wednesday June 10, 2015

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 06/07/2015

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.

#3. A$AP Rocky - At.Long.Last.A$AP - 50,283 (31,758) [19,414,197]

#4. Jason Derulo – Everything Is 4 - 37,495 (120,132) [5,943,735]

#12. Major Lazer – Peace Is The Mission - 27,940 (15,822) [6,786,376]

#14. Lil Durk – Remember My Name - 27,615 (23,564) [2,178,891]

#17. Various - Fast & Furious 7 - 26,549 (4,655) [7,219,970]

#19. Drake – If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late - 23,694 (9,262) [14,211,071]

#22. Boosie Badazz – Touch Down To Cause Hell - 21,555 (18,816) [2,349,174]

#23. Dom Kennedy – By Dom Kennedy - 20,678 (9,117) [186,745]

#25. Nicki Minaj – The Pinkprint - 19,265 (3,915) [9,698,525]

#32. David Guetta – Listen - 15,274 (1,717) [5,167,006]

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Albums on the Billboard 200 that have not been certified with the RIAA:

Sales estimates are from the 6/13 chart:

Maroon 5 942k
Drake 930k
Fall Out Boy 446k
Kendrick Lamar 592k
Fall Out Boy 765k
Katy Perry 1,6340,000
5 Seconds of Summer 700k
Childish Gambino 456k

Only albums over 425k and that have been on the chart for 4+ weeks are listed

[Gary]

BB200

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 1
2 2 2 32 1989, Taylor Swift 1
3 1 – 2 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
4 0 New 1 Everything Is 4, Jason Derulo 4
5 7 8 50 x, Ed Sheeran 1
6 4 3 4 Pitch Perfect 2, Soundtrack 1
7 0 New 1 Django And Jimmie, Willie Nelson / Merle Haggard 7
8 8 5 21 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
9 17 13 6 GG JEKYLL + HYDE, Zac Brown Band 1
10 11 14 40 V, Maroon 5 1
11 6 1 3 Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
12 0 New 1 Peace Is The Mission, Major Lazer 12
13 12 20 32 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
14 0 New 1 Remember My Name, Lil Durk 14
15 0 New 1 Summer Forever, Billy Currington 15
16 9 11 17 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
17 10 9 12 Furious 7, Soundtrack 1
18 14 12 5 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
19 16 19 17 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
20 15 16 51 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
21 0 New 1 In Colour, Jamie xx 21
22 3 – 2 Touch Down 2 Cause Hell, Boosie BadAzz 3
23 0 New 1 By Dom Kennedy, Dom Kennedy 23
24 21 26 27 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 14
25 19 21 25 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 2
26 20 28 20 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
27 22 30 33 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
28 25 25 18 Magazines Or Novels, Andy Grammer 19
29 13 18 6 Stages, Josh Groban 2
30 23 22 5 NOW 54, Various Artists 3
31 18 7 55 Just As I Am, Brantley Gilbert 2
32 24 27 27 Listen, David Guetta 4
33 28 35 36 Queen Of The Clouds, Tove Lo 14
34 29 36 18 Reflection, Fifth Harmony 5
35 34 54 8 Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
36 31 32 35 Hozier, Hozier 2
37 0 New 1 All Your Favorite Bands, Dawes 37
38 38 39 45 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
39 39 49 15 Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack U, Skrillex & Diplo 26
40 0 New 1 You Shall Live, Marvin Sapp 40
41 41 42 69 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
42 35 40 26 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
43 5 – 2 Empires, Hillsong UNITED 5
44 37 43 15 Dark Sky Paradise, Big Sean 1
45 62 62 4 Fight Song (EP), Rachel Platten 41
46 0 New 1 Silverball, Barenaked Ladies 46
47 42 48 34 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
48 36 34 12 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
49 43 41 41 My Everything, Ariana Grande 1
50 45 51 21 Uptown Special., Mark Ronson 5
51 40 38 28 Globalization, Pitbull 18
52 44 37 7 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
53 53 57 22 SremmLife, Rae Sremmurd 5
54 63 59 35 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
55 48 55 36 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
56 56 66 16 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
57 50 60 19 Wanted On Voyage, George Ezra 19
58 51 50 120 Pitch Perfect, Soundtrack 3
59 54 65 26 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4
60 57 70 35 Talking Dreams, Echosmith 38
61 32 10 3 Hollywood: A Story Of A Dozen Roses, Jamie Foxx 10
62 59 68 95 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
63 0 New 1 One Lost Day, Indigo Girls 63
64 49 47 5 Special Effects, Tech N9ne 4
65 0 New 1 Kicker, Zella Day 65
66 46 53 30 Nick Jonas, Nick Jonas 6
67 67 77 144 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 2
68 60 61 13 Spring Break... Checkin' Out, Luke Bryan 3
69 81 72 7 Love Story, YelaWolf 3
70 55 67 45 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
71 52 46 13 Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1, Soundtrack 1
72 61 64 9 My House (EP), Flo Rida 14
73 65 31 3 The First Time, Kelsea Ballerini 31
74 64 76 131 Here's To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line 4
75 68 74 175 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
76 33 4 3 True Colors, Zedd 4
77 0 New 1 Four Year Strong, Four Year Strong 77
78 91 99 218 The Eminem Show, Eminem 1
79 71 63 147 +, Ed Sheeran 5
80 70 75 42 Vessel, twenty one pilots 58
81 124 136 118 PS Take Care, Drake 1
82 0 New 1 Ahora, Chiquis Rivera 82
83 76 81 39 Dream Your Life Away, Vance Joy 17
84 75 84 367 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
85 90 91 136 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 2
86 74 79 30 Greatest Hits So Far..., Zac Brown Band 20
87 86 98 229 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 3
88 89 135 66 Trilogy, The Weeknd 4
89 78 86 31 Motion, Calvin Harris 5
90 84 110 40 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
91 27 – 2 Outlaw In Me, The Lacs 27
92 58 29 3 #1 To Infinity, Mariah Carey 29
93 105 114 115 Native, OneRepublic 4
94 0 New 1 Something Rotten!: A Very New Musical, Original Broadway Cast Recording 94
95 85 83 359 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 10
96 97 118 45 Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You, Queen 42
97 87 93 66 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell 3
98 0 New 1 Under One Sky, The Tenors 98
99 109 127 47 These Things Happen, G-Eazy 3
100 115 138 168 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, Eagles 1
101 134 147 88 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 14
102 93 88 29 FOUR, One Direction 1
103 102 115 86 Nothing Was The Same, Drake 1
104 94 92 18 NOW 53, Various Artists 2
105 0 New 1 The Thief And The Fallen, Jedi Mind Tricks 105
106 100 131 37 The Big Revival, Kenny Chesney 2
107 83 80 10 The Album About Nothing, Wale 1
108 96 100 78 Beyonce, Beyonce 1
109 0 New 1 Major Without A Deal, Troy Ave 109
110 101 117 111 Save Rock And Roll, Fall Out Boy 1
111 112 140 37 Sundown Heaven Town, Tim McGraw 3
112 73 73 8 Love Somebody, Reba 3
113 95 107 112 Red, Taylor Swift 1
114 114 124 80 Frozen, Soundtrack 1
115 111 120 224 21, Adele 1
116 0 New 1 Three, Gloriana 116
117 99 116 11 Kidz Bop 28, Kidz Bop Kids 10
118 123 132 16 Sex Playlist, Omarion 49
119 127 125 83 The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem 1
120 108 95 14 Piece By Piece, Kelly Clarkson 1
121 72 71 6 Suffer In Peace, Tyler Farr 4
122 153 167 18 Full Speed, Kid Ink 14
123 116 133 84 PRISM, Katy Perry 1
124 0 New 1 Currency Of Man, Melody Gardot 124
125 0 New 1 Last Of Our Kind, The Darkness 125
126 0 Re-Entry 212 Number Ones, Michael Jackson 13
127 140 145 58 Talk Dirty, Jason Derulo 4
128 130 179 254 Hot Rocks 1964-1971, The Rolling Stones 4
129 129 137 91 AM, Arctic Monkeys 6
130 161 172 86 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 29
131 121 130 42 Blacc Hollywood, Wiz Khalifa 1
132 119 128 53 Platinum, Miranda Lambert 1
133 118 106 15 Fan Of A Fan: The Album, Chris Brown & Tyga 7
134 170 187 75 Because The Internet, Childish Gambino 7
135 107 134 244 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 1
136 181 – 126 The Very Best Of The Beach Boys: Sounds Of Summer, The Beach Boys 16
137 125 112 10 Southern Style, Darius Rucker 7
138 135 169 200 Mothership, Led Zeppelin 7
139 138 129 7 Ultimate Sinatra, Frank Sinatra 32
140 126 101 231 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 22
141 113 97 87 MTV Unplugged In New York, Nirvana 1
142 165 165 115 Based On A True Story ..., Blake Shelton 3
143 145 152 25 Luca Brasi 2: A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition, Kevin Gates 38
144 0 Re-Entry 62 4, Beyonce 1
145 139 141 24 Reclassified, Iggy Azalea 16
146 26 – 2 Out Of The Wasteland, Lifehouse 26
147 136 153 123 Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars 1
148 147 – 37 The Essential Billy Joel, Billy Joel 15
149 141 176 214 Teenage Dream, Katy Perry 1
150 0 Re-Entry 121 Dr. Dre -- 2001, Dr. Dre 2
151 0 Re-Entry 116 Bad, Michael Jackson 1
152 120 142 40 Welcome To The New, MercyMe 4
153 69 44 4 BUSH, Snoop Dogg 14
154 143 122 316 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 3
155 106 – 43 Long.Live.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
156 110 102 298 Nevermind, Nirvana 1
157 142 126 5 NOW That's What I Call #1's, Various Artists 34
158 103 56 95 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 11
159 155 149 192 Tailgates & Tanlines, Luke Bryan 2
160 152 150 97 Greatest Hits, 2Pac 3
161 171 182 34 Family, Lynyrd Skynyrd 154
162 160 159 181 Back In Black, AC/DC 4
163 66 178 132 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 53
164 0 Re-Entry 58 Graduation, Kanye West 1
165 149 121 8 Into The Wild Life, Halestorm 5
166 88 108 5 Traveller, Chris Stapleton 14
167 30 – 2 Forever, Alesso 30
168 177 198 193 Recovery, Eminem 1
169 157 168 38 X, Chris Brown 2
170 148 170 109 Number One Hits, Tim McGraw 27
171 150 160 13 Bombs Away, Sheppard 31
172 0 Re-Entry 15 It's The Girls!, Bette Midler 3
173 0 Re-Entry 30 Almost Famous, Soundtrack 43
174 168 166 70 The Wrong Side Of Heaven...Volume 1, Five Finger Death Punch 2
175 79 15 3 Sol Invictus, Faith No More 15
176 0 Re-Entry 84 ...And Justice For All, Metallica 6
177 144 119 11 Chaos And The Calm, James Bay 15
178 151 154 90 Love In The Future, John Legend 4
179 172 183 157 Red River Blue, Blake Shelton 1
180 0 Re-Entry 6 Love Stuff, Elle King 45
181 0 Re-Entry 2 Room 93 (EP), Halsey 159
182 0 Re-Entry 45 Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys 10
183 0 New 1 Win Hands Down, Armored Saint 183
184 0 Re-Entry 6 How Can It Be, Lauren Daigle 30
185 187 192 350 Metallica, Metallica 1
186 158 163 49 Ultraviolence, Lana Del Rey 1
187 0 New 1 Connector, I The Mighty 187
188 167 – 45 5 Seconds Of Summer, 5 Seconds Of Summer 1
189 163 173 88 Pure Heroine, Lorde 3
190 132 158 233 Fearless, Taylor Swift 1
191 0 Re-Entry 101 Get Rich Or Die Tryin', 50 Cent 1
192 174 155 10 Human, Three Days Grace 16
193 156 – 102 Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney 3
194 189 – 70 The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance 2
195 180 197 68 Greatest Hits, Red Hot Chili Peppers 18
196 0 Re-Entry 85 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day, Kid Cudi 4
197 169 157 39 I Dont Dance, Lee Brice 5
198 188 199 64 Riser, Dierks Bentley 6
199 0 Re-Entry 104 Confessions, Usher 1
200 77 24 3 Hoy Mas Fuerte, Gerardo Ortiz 24

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TAS

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 1
2 5 3 32 1989, Taylor Swift 1
3 1 – 2 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
4 – – 1 Django And Jimmie, Willie Nelson / Merle Haggard 4
5 – – 1 Remember My Name, Lil Durk 5
6 12 12 6 JEKYLL + HYDE, Zac Brown Band 1
7 4 2 4 Pitch Perfect 2, Soundtrack 1
8 – – 1 Everything Is 4, Jason Derulo 8
9 – – 1 Summer Forever, Billy Currington 9
10 – – 1 By Dom Kennedy, Dom Kennedy 10
11 6 1 3 Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
12 – – 1 In Colour, Jamie xx 12
13 2 – 2 Touch Down 2 Cause Hell, Boosie BadAzz 2
14 9 16 50 x, Ed Sheeran 1
15 8 9 5 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
16 7 10 6 Stages, Josh Groban 2
17 11 13 5 NOW 54, Various Artists 3
18 – – 1 Peace Is The Mission, Major Lazer 18
19 10 11 21 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
20 17 21 32 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
21 15 17 17 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
22 – – 1 All Your Favorite Bands, Dawes 22
23 18 18 51 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
24 – – 1 You Shall Live, Marvin Sapp 24
25 – – 1 Silverball, Barenaked Ladies 25
26 13 8 41 Just As I Am, Brantley Gilbert 2
27 3 – 2 Empires, Hillsong UNITED 3
28 20 24 17 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
29 23 41 19 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
30 21 23 7 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
31 26 28 40 V, Maroon 5 1
32 – – 1 One Lost Day, Indigo Girls 32
33 24 30 45 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
34 27 32 20 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
35 – – 1 Four Year Strong, Four Year Strong 35
36 19 5 3 Hollywood: A Story Of A Dozen Roses, Jamie Foxx 5
37 31 42 68 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
38 – – 1 Ahora, Chiquis Rivera 38
39 28 26 12 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
40 32 46 35 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
41 – – 1 Kicker, Zella Day 41
42 35 38 35 Hozier, Hozier 2
43 56 51 7 Love Story, YelaWolf 2
44 45 69 8 Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
45 – – 1 Something Rotten!: A Very New Musical, Original Broadway Cast Recording 45
46 46 35 104 Pitch Perfect, Soundtrack 3
47 47 54 16 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
48 34 48 26 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
49 – – 1 Under One Sky, The Tenors 49
50 16 – 2 Outlaw In Me, The Lacs 16
51 44 47 18 NOW 53, Various Artists 1
52 42 43 13 Spring Break... Checkin' Out, Luke Bryan 3
53 30 33 13 Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1, Soundtrack 2
54 48 55 34 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
55 – – 1 The Thief And The Fallen, Jedi Mind Tricks 55
56 36 34 5 Special Effects, Tech N9ne 4
57 – – 1 Last Of Our Kind, The Darkness 57
58 – – 1 Currency Of Man, Melody Gardot 58
59 53 63 11 Kidz Bop 28, Kidz Bop Kids 4
60 68 90 34 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, Eagles 60
61 39 36 12 Furious 7, Soundtrack 2
62 37 39 8 Love Somebody, Reba 2
63 73 87 14 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 63
64 – – 1 Three, Gloriana 64
65 – – 1 Major Without A Deal, Troy Ave 65
66 57 62 5 NOW That's What I Call #1's, Various Artists 18
67 59 73 40 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
68 54 22 3 The First Time, Kelsea Ballerini 22
69 0 Re-Entry 56 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 29
70 61 74 95 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
71 14 – 2 Out Of The Wasteland, Lifehouse 14
72 41 20 3 #1 To Infinity, Mariah Carey 20
73 0 Re-Entry 17 It's The Girls!, Bette Midler 3
74 0 Re-Entry 193 The Eminem Show, Eminem 1
75 67 81 259 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
76 58 59 25 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 3
77 – – 1 Win Hands Down, Armored Saint 77
78 33 6 3 Sol Invictus, Faith No More 6
79 – – 1 Connector, I The Mighty 79
80 70 82 21 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 26
81 64 64 5 Magazines Or Novels, Andy Grammer 27
82 62 67 10 Southern Style, Darius Rucker 4
83 75 76 33 Vessel, twenty one pilots 58
84 76 52 140 +, Ed Sheeran 5
85 80 – 34 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
86 – – 1 ...And Justice For All, Metallica 86
87 82 88 29 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
88 55 60 6 Suffer In Peace, Tyler Farr 3
89 78 68 8 Into The Wild Life, Halestorm 3
90 49 66 5 Traveller, Chris Stapleton 8
91 96 – 137 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 2
92 81 84 14 Wanted On Voyage, George Ezra 17
93 85 95 26 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4
94 29 4 3 True Colors, Zedd 4
95 93 – 79 Frozen, Soundtrack 1
96 72 89 90 Red, Taylor Swift 1
97 60 85 38 Welcome To The New, MercyMe 4
98 0 Re-Entry 96 Take Care, Drake 1
99 88 79 256 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 18
100 43 27 4 BUSH, Snoop Dogg 8

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Vinyl

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 New 1 #1 1 wk In Colour, Jamie xx 1
2 0 New 1 How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 2
3 0 New 1 All Your Favorite Bands, Dawes 3
4 4 2 7 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
5 5 9 25 1989, Taylor Swift 1
6 0 New 1 Four Year Strong, Four Year Strong 6
7 0 Re-Entry 3 Deja Entendu, Brand New 3
8 1 – 2 Multi-Love, Unknown Mortal Orchestra 1
9 3 – 2 Progeny: Highlights From Seventy-Two, Yes 3
10 7 7 5 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
11 13 15 81 AM, Arctic Monkeys 1
12 11 18 142 Abbey Road, The Beatles 1
13 12 12 62 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 1
14 0 Re-Entry 2 The Story So Far, The Story So Far 1
15 10 19 30 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 3
16 8 13 47 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 3
17 15 14 42 Kind Of Blue, Miles Davis 3
18 0 New 1 Kindred Spirit (EP), Rocky Votolato & Chuck Ragan 18
19 14 20 21 Hozier, Hozier 2
20 21 23 39 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles 1
21 9 25 5 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 9
22 0 New 1 Crack The Skye, Mastodon 22
23 0 New 1 Betty's Blends, Volume Two, Chris Robinson Brotherhood 23
24 19 24 49 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
25 0 Re-Entry 2 MTV Unplugged In New York, Nirvana 8

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keelyskorner.com/category/soundscan/

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 6/7/15) - Top Current Albums

1) Florence & The Machine – How Big How Blue How Beautiful –
2) Taylor Swift – 1989 – (After 32 weeks – )
3) A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.A$AP – 31,758 (After 2 weeks – )

Other Debuts

4) Willie Nelson / Merle Haggard – Django & Jimmie –
5) Lil Durk – Remember My Name –
8) Jason Derulo – Everything Is 4 –
9) Billy Carrington – Summer Forever –
10) Dom Kennedy – By Dom Kennedy –
12) Jaime XX – In Colour –
18) Major Lazer – Peace Is The Mission –
22) Dawes – All Your Favorite Brands –
24) Marvin Sapp – You Shall Live –
34) Four Year Strong – Four Year Strong –

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Country Album Chart Report For June 11, 2015
Posted by Matt Bjorke

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/172kLuk5hsRAaHdkBYmwgmDq8cQPE4FyDRaZslZpUxNQ/edit?pli=1

Top 10 CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans

NEW W.Nelson/M.Haggard Django & Jimmie 30,500 30,500
2 Zac Brown Band Jekyll+Hyde 22,900 365,500
NEW Billy Currington Summer Forever 20,800 20,800
4 Sam Hunt Montevallo 14,000 549,600
5 Brantley Gilbert Just Who I Am [Platinum] 9,900 827,500
6 Little Big Town Pain Killer 9,200 245,500
7 Eric Church The Outsiders 7,000 963,200
8 Jason Aldean Old Boots, New Dirt 6,600 962,600
9 The Lacs Outlaw In Me 5,900 20,200
10 Luke Bryan Spring Break...CheckOut 5,800 222,600

Next 5

11 Florida Georgia Line Anything Goes 5,500 683,400
12 Reba Love Somebody 4,500 140,100
NEW Gloriana Three 4,500 4,500
14 Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 4,200 22,300
15 Luke Bryan Crash My Party 4,200 2,458,700

Notables

-- Chris Stapleton Traveller 3,400 51,200
-- Carrie Underwood Greatest Hits...Decade #1 3,300 355,100
NEW Kane Brown Closer 3,200 3,200
-- Miranda Lambert Platinum 2,900 716,100
-- Dierks Bentley RISER 1,600 334,700
NEW Logan Brill Shuteye 1,100 1,100
-- Old Dominion Old Dominion EP 900 17,700
-- Big Smo Country Livin' 800 146,200
-- Keith Urban Fuse 800 454,900
--- Rascal Flatts Rewind 800 227,600
-- Aaron Watson The Underdog 500 55,800

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Metal By Numbers 6/11: Out of the Darkness - uses Top Current Albums
Posted by Matt Brown

Notable Debuts:

The Darkness, Last of Our Kind (Kobalt) #56, 4,950 sold

The band’s fourth studio album tops the debuts this week.



Armored Saint, Win Hands Down (Metal Blade) #71, 3,900 sold

The band returns with its seventh album and first in five years.



Helloween, My God-Given Right (Nuclear Blast) #108, 2,600 sold

The German power metallers reach the milestone of album number fifteen.



Art of Anarchy, Art of Anarchy (Century Media) #188, 1,550 sold

A new supergroup that is decidedly not being fronted by Scott Weiland.



Paradise Lost, The Plague Within (Century Media) 1,250 sold

The band’s fourteenth album makes its debut.



Skinless, Only The Ruthless Remain (Relapse) 1,100 sold

This is the band’s fifth studio album.



Goatsnake, Black Age Blues (Southern Lord) 720 sold

The band returns with its first studio album in fifteen years.



Nekrogoblikon, Heavy Meta (Mystery Box) 620 sold

The band’s latest features more goblins and Andrew W.K.



Melvins, The Bulls & The Bees / Electroretard (Ipecac) 590 sold

Because there always needs to be some Melvins on here, here’s rerelease of an EP and LP in one convenient package.



Leprous, The Congregation (Inside Out) 500 sold

This is the fourth album from the Norwegian prog metallers.


Notable Sales:

Faith No More, Sol Invictus (Ipecac) #72, 3,850 sold

A 40% drop this week with over 41,000 sold.


Halestorm, Into the Wild Life (Atlantic) #80, 3,500 sold

This sold the same amount as last week.



Kid Rock, First Kiss (Warner Bros.) #102, 2,750 sold

I know it’s from the Onion, but this article is actually pretty on point.



Slipknot, .5: The Gray Chapter (Roadrunner) #163, 1,750 sold

A 4% boost with just under 330,000 sold.



Sammy Hagar & The Circle, At Your Service (Mailboat) #174, 1,625 sold

A 29% drop might find this album out of service pretty soon.



In This Moment, Black Widow (Atlantic) #182, 1,575 sold

This sold about the same as last week.

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www.billboard.com/files/pdfs/Bulletin/june-12-2015-billboard-bulletin.pdf

4,140,000 albums were sold last week in the USA.

1,930,000 were digital albums.

2,210,000 were physical albums (cds, cassettes and vinyl).

Album sales are down -3.6% in 2015.

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WEEK 23 YEAR TO DATE SALES STATS

Category - 2015 - 2014 - Change

Total Albums - 103,578,000 - 107,436,000 - -3.6%
CD - 50,321,000 - 55,940,000 - -10.0%
Digital - 48,035,000 - 47,757,000 - +0.6%
Vinyl - 4,996,000 - 3,520,000 - +41.9%
Other - 227,000 - 219,000 - 3.7%

Current - 49,643,000 - 52,443,000 - -5.3%
Catalog - 53,935,000 - 54,993,000 - -1.9%

Deep Catalog - 44,705,000 - 44,969,000 - -0.6%

Digital Tracks - 475,218,000 - 529,611,000 - -10.3%
Store Singles - 1,620,000 - 1,047,000 - +54.7%

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

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www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6598066/billboard-200-chart-moves-tony-awards-spur-78-sales-gain-for-cast-albums

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Tony Awards Spur 78% Sales Gain for Cast Albums
By Keith Caulfield | June 12, 2015 10:12 PM EDT

Let’s take a closer look at some of the action on the chart:

— Zac Brown Band, Jekyll + Hyde – No. 9 — The group’s album zooms 17-9 on the Billboard 200 with 30,000 units (up 22 percent) and 23,000 albums sold (up 32 percent) thanks to delayed fulfillment of albums tied to a concert ticket/CD promotion.

— Marvin Sapp, You Shall Live - No. 40 — Marvin Sapp scores the biggest sales week for a gospel album in seventh months, as his new You Shall Live debuts with 12,000 copies sold. It starts at No. 40 on the Billboard 200 with just over 12,000 overall equivalent album units. You Shall Live tallies the largest sales week for a gospel album since Trip Lee’s Rise moved 23,000 in its debut at No. 1 on the list dated Nov. 15, 2014. You Shall Live is Sapp’s fourth No. 1 on the Top Gospel Albums chart, following I Win (No. 1 for four weeks in 2012), Here I Am (No. 1 for 23 weeks in 2010) and Thirsty (No. 1 for 39 weeks in 2007-2008).

— Original Broadway Cast Recording, Something Rotten! A Very New Musical - No. 94 — The annual Tony Awards (broadcast live on CBS, June 7) trigger a 78 percent gain in cast album sales for the week ending June 7. Overall volume for the genre rose to 32,000 in sales for the week, a figure that is expected to climb in the frame ending June 14, once the first full week of post-show impact has been registered.

A notable beneficiary of the Tony Awards is best musical nominee Something Rotten!, as its cast album bows at No. 94 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on Cast Albums with 6,000 sold. It’s the biggest sales frame for a cast recording since the debut of If/Then (15,000; on the June 21, 2014-dated chart). Something Rotten! won a Tony Award for best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical (for Christian Borle) and garnered a performance slot for its cast on the broadcast. Additionally, best musical winner Fun Home sees its companion album charge with a 107 percent sales gain to 2,000 sold. Despite that gain, it is pushed down 1-3 on Cast Albums by two arriving titles: Something Rotten! at No. 1 and the original Broadway cast recording of An American in Paris at No. 2, with 3,000 sold.

— The Tenors, Under One Sky – No. 98 — The quartet also bows at No. 1 on Classical Crossover Albums — their fourth straight chart-topper. They tie The Piano Guys for the third-most leaders among duos or groups. (Il Divo leads, with seven No. 1s.)

— Melody Gardot, Currency of Man - No. 124 — The vocalist arrives at No. 124 with her latest effort, Currency of Man, which also debuts at No. 1 on both the Jazz Albums and Traditional Jazz Albums charts — her second leader on the two lists. She previously topped the tallies in 2012 with The Absence.

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I always find it fascinating when longtime musicians are only recently scoring first Top 10 albums, or even first or second Top 40 albums, despite probably having recorded dozens of albums over the years. Everyone knows of Willie Nelson yet prior to 2013 he only scored one Top 10 record, and Merle Haggard only had one Top 40 album before this week? It's crazy that for almost every album he's released, there have been at least 40 albums that were always ahead in sales.