Billboard 200 - 8/22 - Descendants #1 (30K/42K)

[Gary]

'Descendants' Soundtrack Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
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By Keith Caulfield | August 09, 2015 3:00 PM EDT


The soundtrack to Disney Channel's Descendants debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, marking the fourth soundtrack to hit No. 1 in 2015. The set starts with 42,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 6.

It's the companion album to the TV movie of the same name, which premiered July 31 on the network.


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). The new Aug. 22-dated chart (where Descendants debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard's websites on Tuesday, Aug. 11.

The arrival of the Descendants album atop the chart came in a very soft week for both new album releases and sales. The soundtrack's overall 42,000 unit total is the smallest weekly sum for a No. 1 album since the chart began ranking titles by equivalent units in Dec. 2014.

Further, of its 42,000 start, just 30,000 were pure album sales. (It also enters at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.) That's the lowest sales figure for a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, or Top Album Sales, since Nielsen Music began powering the charts' rankings in 1991. It falls below the previous low, when Amos Lee's Mission Bell debuted at No. 1 with just over 40,000 sold (week ending Jan. 30, 2011).

The Billboard 200 should perk up next week, when Luke Bryan's Kill the Lights and Dr. Dre's Compton (both released on Aug. 7) are expected to post strong debuts at the top of the list.

Descendants is a fairy tale-inspired live action film about the children of some of Disney's classic villains. The movie was directed and choreographed by Kenny Ortega (who also helmed the three High School Musical films).

The music-driven film earned 10.5 million total viewers in its first four days, according to Disney. That makes it the fourth biggest cable TV movie since 2007, behind three other Disney Channel films: High School Musical 2 (18.2 million), Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (13.3 million) and Teen Beach Movie (11.9 million).

Descendants is the fourth soundtrack to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2015 (following Empire, Furious 7 and Pitch Perfect 2) -- the most to lead the list since 2009. That year, four soundtracks also topped the chart: Hannah Montana: The Movie, Fabolous' Loso's Way, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Michael Jackson's This Is It.

As for the rest of the Billboard 200's new top 10, Future's former No. 1 DS2 holds at No. 2 with 37,000 units (down 30 percent) and Taylor Swift's 1989 rises 4-3 with 35,000 (down 25 percent). Ed Sheeran's X climbs 6-4 with 30,000 (down 13 percent). Sam Hunt's Montevallo ascends 9-5 with just over 27,000 (down just 1 percent). Last week's No. 1, Jill Scott's Woman, slides to No. 6 with 27,000 (down 57 percent).

Lil Dicky's Professional Rapper is the second and final debut in the top 10, arriving at No. 7 with 26,000 units (of which 22,000 are pure album sales). The comedian/rapper's set was funded by a Kickstarter campaign, which also fuels its debut sales week.

In addition, Professional Rapper enters at No. 1 on the Comedy Albums chart with the largest sales week for a comedy album in just over a year. The last to sell more in a week was when "Weird Al" Yankovic's Mandatory Fun was in its second week at No. 1 (week ending July 27, 2014; chart dated Aug. 9) with 33,000 sold.

Twenty One Pilots' Blurryface zooms 20-8 with 25,000 units (up 45 percent). The rise is owed to the vinyl LP release of the set on July 31. The LP edition sold 7,000 copies for the week, aiding the album's overall 75 percent sales gain (to 17,000 copies), and enables its No. 1 debut on the Vinyl Albums chart.

Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door reenters the top 10 on the Billboard 200, jumping back on the list at No. 9 after it was reeisued on July 31. The album, first released in 1979, shifted 24,000 units for the week (23,000 from pure album sales). In Through the Out Door originally spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1979, and was last on the chart in 1980.

Closing out the new top 10 is Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late, which moves 13-10 with 23,000 (up 6 percent).

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

Probably didn't help that the movie was nearly universally panned. As cheesey and over the top as the high school
Musical movies were, they hit the demographic right. Descedants felt cheap and rushed.

[rimetm]

Woo, new record for lowest pure album sales ever for a #1.

Also, for figures in case the article gets lost to the sands of time, here's the summary:

#01 - NEW - Descendants - Soundtrack - 42,000 (30,000)
#02 - #02 - DS2 - Future - 37,000 (??,???)
#03 - #04 - 1989 - Taylor Swift - 35,000 (??,???)
#04 - #06 - X - Ed Sheeran - 30,000 (??,???)
#05 - #09 - Montevallo - Sam Hunt - 27,000-27,500 (??,???)
#06 - #01 - Woman - Jill Scott - 27,000 (??,???)
#07 - NEW - Professional Rapper - Lil' D***y - 26,000 (22,000)
#08 - #20 - Blurryface - Twenty One Pilots - 25,000 (17,000) (Vinyl: 7,000)
#09 - R-E - In Through the Out Door - Led Zeppelin - 24,000 (23,000)
#10 - #13 - If You're Reading This, It's Too Late - Drake - 23,000 (??,???)

[kanimal]

Aug 9, 2015 14:32:01 GMT -5 YourFaveIsAFlop said:

Probably didn't help that the movie was nearly universally panned. As cheesey and over the top as the high school
Musical movies were, they hit the demographic right. Descedants felt cheap and rushed.

Confused...

The TV ratings were strong, and the album markedly outsold the Teen Beach 2 soundtrack (and obliterated initial industry forecasts).  The TEA+SEA boost is solid as well (and also way better than expected - as neither Hits nor Billboard initially expected this to receive any real boost from track sales).

The problem with this week isn't how Descendants performed -- it's the fact that nothing else was able to perform better.

[areyoureadytojump]

Link for the above article:

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6656768/descendants-soundtrack-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart

For when it changes, lol...

[Enigma.]

I think I read it tomorrow

[rimetm]

(Editor's note: Nielsen Music revised its data on Aug. 9, after our initial story was posted. The unit totals for a few titles have since changed, as have the rankings of two albums in the top 10.)

...if they're relatively aware Nielsen don't finalize until at least late Sunday, why do they keep posting early on Sunday?! Anyway:

#01 - NEW - Descendants - Soundtrack - 42,000 (30,000)
#02 - #02 - DS2 - Future - 37,000 (??,???)
#03 - #04 - 1989 - Taylor Swift - 35,000 (??,???)
#04 - #06 - X - Ed Sheeran - 30,000 (??,???)
#05 - #01 - Woman - Jill Scott - 27,000-27,500 (??,???)
#06 - #09 - Montevallo - Sam Hunt - 27,000 (??,???)
#07 - NEW - Professional Rapper - Lil' D***y - 26,000 (22,000)
#08 - #20 - Blurryface - Twenty One Pilots - 25,000 (17,000) (Vinyl: 7,000)
#09 - R-E - In Through the Out Door - Led Zeppelin - 24,000 (23,000)
#10 - #13 - If You're Reading This, It's Too Late - Drake - 23,000 (??,???)

Looks like the finalization just broke the really close two; no estimates have changed otherwise.

[HolidayGuy]

LOL at the thread title- and that there already was a revision.

So messy when BB reports historical album sales figures, as pure-album-sales info is what the albums chart was for nearly five decades, whatever the methodology. Even in spots for the archives searches, it lists some pre-Dec. 2014 titles as charting on both Top Album Sales and the Billboard 200.

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6656838/drake-million-selling-album-if-youre-reading-this

Drake's 'If You're Reading This' Becomes First Million-Selling Album Released in 2015
By Keith Caulfield | August 10, 2015 4:13 PM EDT

The only other million-seller this year is Taylor Swift's "1989" album, which dropped in 2014.

Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late becomes the first album released in 2015 to sell a million copies in the U.S., as the set sold another 8,000 copies in the week ending Aug. 7, according to Nielsen Music. Its cumulative total now stands at 1.007 million.

The album was released on Feb. 12 through Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

If You're Reading This It's Too Late is the second album to sell a million copies in 2015, after Taylor Swift's 1989 (which was released in 2014). 1989 has sold 1.463 million in 2015 and 5.124 million total.

If You're Reading This It's Too Late is Drake's fourth million-selling album, following Nothing Was the Same (released in 2013; 1.72 million), Take Care (2011; 2.26 million) and Thank Me Later (2010; 1.8 million).

[Enigma.]

Billboard probably re-ran the last week's chart later in the week because in my original bookkeeping Jason Aldean was #59 but this week chart says his last week's position was #60.

This is so frustrating.. I can't keep eye on the chart in daily basis just to watch if they have made corrections.

[Gary]

Billboard 200

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Descendants, Soundtrack 1
2 2 1 3 DS2, Future 1
3 4 2 41 1989, Taylor Swift 1
4 6 8 59 x, Ed Sheeran 1
5 1 – 2 Woman, Jill Scott 1
6 9 9 41 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
7 0 New 1 Professional Rapper, Lil Dicky 7
8 20 17 12 Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
9 0 Re-Entry 42 In Through The Out Door, Led Zeppelin 1
10 13 13 26 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
11 8 7 6 Dreams Worth More Than Money, Meek Mill 1
12 0 Re-Entry 17 Coda, Led Zeppelin 6
13 0 Re-Entry 31 Presence, Led Zeppelin 1
14 14 12 30 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
15 15 14 60 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
16 19 15 29 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
17 0 New 1 Yung Rich Nation, Migos 17
18 10 3 4 Black Rose, Tyrese 1
19 35 33 44 Hozier, Hozier 2
20 26 19 15 JEKYLL + HYDE, Zac Brown Band 1
21 5 – 2 Southpaw: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture, Soundtrack 5
22 87 91 39 GG Greatest Hits So Far..., Zac Brown Band 20
23 18 16 49 V, Maroon 5 1
24 27 26 10 Peace Is The Mission, Major Lazer 12
25 28 29 35 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
26 29 25 78 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
27 31 22 13 Fight Song (EP), Rachel Platten 20
28 23 21 17 Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
29 0 New 1 Saint Asonia, Saint Asonia 29
30 25 18 34 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 2
31 34 23 42 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
32 16 5 3 Angels And Alcohol, Alan Jackson 5
33 33 27 24 Dark Sky Paradise, Big Sean 1
34 0 New 1 Water For Your Soul, Joss Stone 34
35 22 10 4 Kidz Bop 29, Kidz Bop Kids 4
36 32 35 36 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 14
37 66 94 8 Some Type Of Love EP, Charlie Puth 37
38 39 38 43 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
39 3 – 2 VII: Sturm Und Drang, Lamb Of God 3
40 24 31 27 Magazines Or Novels, Andy Grammer 19
41 37 30 26 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
42 38 39 24 Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack U, Skrillex & Diplo 26
43 43 24 31 SremmLife, Rae Sremmurd 5
44 60 54 44 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
45 36 28 27 Reflection, Fifth Harmony 5
46 52 41 21 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
47 97 93 49 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
48 40 4 3 Currents, Tame Impala 4
49 78 87 38 FOUR, One Direction 1
50 50 37 11 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
51 75 89 15 Love Stuff, Elle King 45
52 0 New 1 Blood, Lianne La Havas 52
53 41 6 3 Something More Than Free, Jason Isbell 6
54 49 47 64 Just As I Am, Brantley Gilbert 2
55 55 51 10 Everything Is 4, Jason Derulo 4
56 53 46 21 Furious 7, Soundtrack 1
57 44 44 54 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
58 45 32 7 Dark Before Dawn, Breaking Benjamin 1
59 42 42 6 VHS, X Ambassadors 7
60 0 New 1 Born To Play Guitar, Buddy Guy 60
61 0 New 1 Copacetic, Knuckle Puck 61
62 63 61 104 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
63 73 63 7 Unbreakable Smile, Tori Kelly 2
64 57 49 14 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
65 118 67 104 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 11
66 103 86 45 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
67 21 – 2 Double Vision, Prince Royce 21
68 82 75 10 How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 1
69 7 – 2 Not An Apology, Bea Miller 7
70 74 58 376 Legend: The Best Of..., Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
71 62 50 37 Globalization, Pitbull 18
72 59 53 25 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
73 58 55 18 My House (EP), Flo Rida 14
74 77 48 6 Wildheart, Miguel 2
75 70 70 45 Queen Of The Clouds, Tove Lo 14
76 64 71 50 My Everything, Ariana Grande 1
77 85 96 95 Nothing Was The Same, Drake 1
78 71 66 52 Trigga, Trey Songz 1
79 91 81 35 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4
80 93 85 51 Vessel, twenty one pilots 58
81 0 Re-Entry 110 Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney 3
82 94 76 14 NOW 54, Various Artists 3
83 68 40 8 Before This World, James Taylor 1
84 79 45 54 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
85 69 69 153 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 2
86 76 78 140 Here's To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line 4
87 95 110 127 Take Care, Drake 1
88 54 82 184 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
89 72 68 36 Listen, David Guetta 4
90 65 90 28 Wanted On Voyage, George Ezra 19
91 104 101 227 The Eminem Show, Eminem 1
92 109 99 46 The Big Revival, Kenny Chesney 2
93 99 92 75 Trilogy, The Weeknd 4
94 88 74 97 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 14
95 96 77 141 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 53
96 83 79 30 Uptown Special., Mark Ronson 5
97 173 – 83 PS Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A. 37
98 0 Re-Entry 6 Home, Soundtrack 40
99 113 141 13 How Can It Be, Lauren Daigle 30
100 100 43 145 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 2
101 108 95 13 Pitch Perfect 2, Soundtrack 1
102 84 103 238 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 3
103 80 59 130 Back To Black, Amy Winehouse 2
104 143 162 74 Midnight Memories, One Direction 1
105 115 80 54 5 Seconds Of Summer, 5 Seconds Of Summer 1
106 119 109 75 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell 3
107 128 129 11 Empires, Hillsong UNITED 5
108 11 – 2 We Came As Romans, We Came As Romans 11
109 67 60 368 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 10
110 48 – 2 Covered: Alive In Asia, Israel & New Breed 48
111 0 Re-Entry 16 The Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam, Dwight Yoakam 87
112 0 New 1 Without Words: Synesthesia, Bethel Music 112
113 92 62 7 Teen Beach 2, Soundtrack 10
114 105 121 120 Save Rock And Roll, Fall Out Boy 1
115 126 114 8 35 Biggest Hits, Tim McGraw 47
116 114 106 156 +, Ed Sheeran 5
117 112 83 7 Coming Home, Leon Bridges 6
118 101 64 7 Pageant Material, Kacey Musgraves 3
119 123 126 253 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 1
120 116 – 3 Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection, Queen 48
121 120 111 15 Stages, Josh Groban 2
122 146 120 16 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
123 30 – 2 The Blade, Ashley Monroe 30
124 139 65 56 These Things Happen, G-Eazy 3
125 141 125 95 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 29
126 129 148 209 Mothership, Led Zeppelin 7
127 136 142 124 Based On A True Story ..., Blake Shelton 3
128 51 – 2 Ashes & Dust, Warren Haynes Featuring Railroad Earth 51
129 144 140 106 Greatest Hits, 2Pac 3
130 134 134 92 The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem 1
131 110 130 124 Native, OneRepublic 4
132 98 100 8 The Original High, Adam Lambert 3
133 153 139 125 Bad, Michael Jackson 1
134 106 105 41 The Essential Billy Joel, Billy Joel 15
135 102 102 121 Red, Taylor Swift 1
136 0 New 1 Marvelous Missing Link (Found), Insane Clown Posse 136
137 122 118 233 21, Adele 1
138 184 192 93 ...And Justice For All, Metallica 6
139 0 Re-Entry 123 Dr. Dre -- 2001, Dr. Dre 2
140 161 185 4 Welcome To Cam Country (EP), Cam 140
141 138 135 87 Beyonce, Beyonce 1
142 132 124 13 Majestic, Kari Jobe 12
143 142 108 9 NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 8, Various Artists 22
144 0 New 1 That Was Then, This Is Now, Josh Wilson 144
145 147 157 201 Tailgates & Tanlines, Luke Bryan 2
146 169 173 24 The Very Best Of Travis Tritt, Travis Tritt 124
147 81 – 2 One More For The Fans, Lynyrd Skynyrd 81
148 130 117 44 Talking Dreams, Echosmith 38
149 149 145 12 True Colors, Zedd 4
150 111 72 4 Sometime Last Night, R5 6
151 89 – 172 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, Eagles 1
152 167 179 112 American Idiot, Green Day 1
153 0 Re-Entry 23 Icon: George Strait, George Strait 62
154 145 133 12 The First Time, Kelsea Ballerini 31
155 163 196 5 Old Dominion (EP), Old Dominion 155
156 121 119 9 Beneath The Skin, Of Monsters And Men 3
157 179 154 22 Spring Break... Checkin' Out, Luke Bryan 3
158 148 143 89 Frozen, Soundtrack 1
159 133 174 132 Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars 1
160 155 151 51 Blacc Hollywood, Wiz Khalifa 1
161 137 115 20 Chaos And The Calm, James Bay 15
162 157 156 93 PRISM, Katy Perry 1
163 154 153 190 Back In Black, AC/DC 4
164 0 New 1 The Most Lamentable Tragedy, Titus Andronicus 164
165 0 Re-Entry 10 Mirrorball: Live & More, Def Leppard 16
166 151 104 325 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 3
167 150 138 40 Motion, Calvin Harris 5
168 159 159 62 Platinum, Miranda Lambert 1
169 0 New 1 Mighty, Kristene DiMarco 169
170 168 – 199 Recovery, Eminem 1
171 0 New 1 Living Legend, Gunplay 171
172 177 189 25 Sex Playlist, Omarion 49
173 140 155 240 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 22
174 165 163 100 AM, Arctic Monkeys 6
175 171 172 79 The Wrong Side Of Heaven...Volume 1, Five Finger Death Punch 2
176 175 200 29 Born Sinner, J. Cole 1
177 160 176 95 Pure Heroine, Lorde 3
178 0 Re-Entry 5 Ultimate Alabama: 20 #1 Hits, Alabama 52
179 181 171 223 Teenage Dream, Katy Perry 1
180 125 131 239 Fearless, Taylor Swift 1
181 189 182 164 Red River Blue, Blake Shelton 1
182 182 181 46 X, Chris Brown 2
183 193 – 39 Cole World: The Sideline Story, J. Cole 1
184 156 197 31 Rivers In The Wasteland, NEEDTOBREATHE 3
185 158 122 7 Bronco, Canaan Smith 29
186 0 Re-Entry 109 Devil Without A Cause, Kid Rock 4
187 0 New 1 Collaborations: 25th Anniversary Collection, Dave Koz 187
188 162 164 14 Special Effects, Tech N9ne 4
189 196 – 87 Man On The Moon: The End Of Day, Kid Cudi 4
190 0 Re-Entry 71 Riser, Dierks Bentley 6
191 187 183 23 Piece By Piece, Kelly Clarkson 1
192 199 184 16 Ultimate Sinatra, Frank Sinatra 32
193 0 Re-Entry 32 747, Lady Antebellum 2
194 0 Re-Entry 108 Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi 1
195 0 Re-Entry 50 It Goes Like This, Thomas Rhett 6
196 191 198 911 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 1
197 188 88 84 Because The Internet, Childish Gambino 7
198 0 Re-Entry 89 The Chronic, Dr. Dre 3
199 0 Re-Entry 104 Up All Night, One Direction 1
200 0 Re-Entry 15 Southern Style, Darius Rucker 7

[Gary]

Top Album Sales


This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Descendants, Soundtrack 1
2 1 – 2 Woman, Jill Scott 1
3 0 New 1 In Through The Out Door, Led Zeppelin 3
4 0 New 1 Professional Rapper, Lil Dicky 4
5 0 New 1 Coda, Led Zeppelin 5
6 0 New 1 Presence, Led Zeppelin 6
7 4 1 3 DS2, Future 1
8 7 6 41 1989, Taylor Swift 1
9 20 18 12 Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
10 6 2 4 Black Rose, Tyrese 1
11 0 New 1 Yung Rich Nation, Migos 11
12 13 11 59 x, Ed Sheeran 1
13 0 New 1 Saint Asonia, Saint Asonia 13
14 17 12 41 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
15 10 4 3 Angels And Alcohol, Alan Jackson 4
16 0 New 1 Water For Your Soul, Joss Stone 16
17 12 7 4 Kidz Bop 29, Kidz Bop Kids 2
18 2 – 2 VII: Sturm Und Drang, Lamb Of God 2
19 3 – 2 Southpaw: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture, Soundtrack 3
20 24 20 30 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
21 0 Re-Entry 18 Greatest Hits So Far..., Zac Brown Band 20
22 27 19 15 JEKYLL + HYDE, Zac Brown Band 1
23 25 21 60 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
24 18 3 3 Something More Than Free, Jason Isbell 3
25 45 40 44 Hozier, Hozier 2
26 0 New 1 Copacetic, Knuckle Puck 26
27 0 New 1 Blood, Lianne La Havas 27
28 0 New 1 Born To Play Guitar, Buddy Guy 28
29 31 24 77 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
30 34 27 26 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
31 29 5 3 Currents, Tame Impala 5
32 28 17 7 Dark Before Dawn, Breaking Benjamin 1
33 15 8 6 Dreams Worth More Than Money, Meek Mill 1
34 36 26 14 NOW 54, Various Artists 3
35 33 15 54 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
36 38 25 28 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
37 30 14 8 Before This World, James Taylor 1
38 40 35 29 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
39 0 Re-Entry 38 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
40 39 34 35 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
41 14 – 2 Double Vision, Prince Royce 14
42 48 44 44 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
43 50 43 10 How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 1
44 41 33 14 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
45 71 85 11 Love Stuff, Elle King 29
46 23 – 2 Covered: Alive In Asia, Israel & New Breed 23
47 8 – 2 We Came As Romans, We Came As Romans 8
48 51 37 21 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
49 55 61 43 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
50 47 48 15 Stages, Josh Groban 2
51 44 50 49 V, Maroon 5 1
52 0 Re-Entry 15 The Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam, Dwight Yoakam 52
53 22 – 2 Ashes & Dust, Warren Haynes Featuring Railroad Earth 22
54 0 Re-Entry 5 Home, Soundtrack 31
55 0 New 1 Without Words: Synesthesia, Bethel Music 55
56 53 51 50 Just As I Am, Brantley Gilbert 2
57 0 Re-Entry 97 Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney 3
58 0 New 1 Marvelous Missing Link (Found), Insane Clown Posse 58
59 57 41 9 NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 8, Various Artists 7
60 66 91 9 How Can It Be, Lauren Daigle 16
61 59 42 65 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 29
62 68 64 23 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 53
63 16 – 2 The Blade, Ashley Monroe 16
64 0 New 1 That Was Then, This Is Now, Josh Wilson 64
65 0 Re-Entry 34 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
66 0 Re-Entry 81 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 11
67 88 97 10 ...And Justice For All, Metallica 63
68 49 29 7 Teen Beach 2, Soundtrack 7
69 62 45 7 Coming Home, Leon Bridges 5
70 63 46 26 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
71 74 47 268 Legend: The Best Of..., Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
72 54 55 25 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
73 58 39 130 Back To Black, Amy Winehouse 2
74 67 36 6 Wildheart, Miguel 2
75 64 60 17 Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
76 84 70 16 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
77 56 30 7 Pageant Material, Kacey Musgraves 3
78 87 87 17 The Very Best Of Travis Tritt, Travis Tritt 76
79 78 83 104 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
80 85 88 11 Empires, Hillsong UNITED 3
81 0 Re-Entry 22 FOUR, One Direction 1
82 0 New 1 The Most Lamentable Tragedy, Titus Andronicus 82
83 0 New 1 Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A. 83
84 5 – 2 Not An Apology, Bea Miller 5
85 98 100 13 Mirrorball: Live & More, Def Leppard 16
86 69 68 11 Majestic, Kari Jobe 12
87 60 32 4 Sometime Last Night, R5 4
88 81 53 11 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
89 0 New 1 Collaborations: 25th Anniversary Collection, Dave Koz 89
90 0 New 1 Mighty, Kristene DiMarco 90
91 43 – 2 One More For The Fans, Lynyrd Skynyrd 43
92 0 Re-Entry 24 Bad, Michael Jackson 23
93 99 86 42 Vessel, twenty one pilots 58
94 35 – 7 2015 Warped Tour Compilation, Various Artists 16
95 94 – 90 Based On A True Story ..., Blake Shelton 3
96 0 Re-Entry 109 American Idiot, Green Day 1
97 93 – 29 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 26
98 96 73 7 Unbreakable Smile, Tori Kelly 2
99 97 84 27 NOW 53, Various Artists 1
100 72 69 6 VHS, X Ambassadors 8

[Gary]

Catalog

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk In Through The Out Door, Led Zeppelin 1
2 0 New 1 Coda, Led Zeppelin 2
3 0 New 1 Presence, Led Zeppelin 3
4 26 20 20 GG The Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam, Dwight Yoakam 4
5 0 Re-Entry 34 Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney 5
6 4 3 535 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 1
7 6 8 484 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 3
8 23 6 78 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 2
9 11 15 519 ...And Justice For All, Metallica 3
10 7 4 1175 Legend: The Best Of..., Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
11 3 2 63 Back To Black, Amy Winehouse 1
12 10 11 28 The Very Best Of Travis Tritt, Travis Tritt 5
13 43 – 8 Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A. 13
14 14 17 6 Mirrorball: Live & More, Def Leppard 14
15 18 18 95 Bad, Michael Jackson 1
16 15 10 21 Vessel, twenty one pilots 4
17 12 21 38 Based On A True Story ..., Blake Shelton 12
18 17 26 28 American Idiot, Green Day 10
19 20 23 165 The Eminem Show, Eminem 2
20 0 New 1 Icon: George Strait, George Strait 20
21 21 27 32 Icon: Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton 10
22 32 32 48 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Miranda Lambert 4
23 2 – 405 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, Eagles 1
24 9 31 145 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 1
25 0 Re-Entry 33 The Chronic, Dr. Dre 2
26 30 30 218 Devil Without A Cause, Kid Rock 2
27 0 New 1 Ultimate Alabama: 20 #1 Hits, Alabama 27
28 8 40 45 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 3
29 22 25 1167 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 1
30 16 45 38 Save Rock And Roll, Fall Out Boy 1
31 5 7 1018 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 1
32 13 14 42 Red, Taylor Swift 2
33 19 12 40 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 1
34 34 42 78 Dark Horse, Nickelback 12
35 28 35 37 Here's To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line 5
36 25 28 87 21, Adele 1
37 29 24 48 Family, Lynyrd Skynyrd 16
38 48 22 21 Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones 1
39 40 47 98 Red River Blue, Blake Shelton 2
40 0 Re-Entry 29 Dr. Dre -- 2001, Dr. Dre 14
41 0 Re-Entry 161 Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi 3
42 24 36 124 Fearless, Taylor Swift 3
43 1 – 2 Amused To Death, Roger Waters 1
44 27 29 11 Frozen, Soundtrack 11
45 0 Re-Entry 102 The Ultimate Hits, Garth Brooks 1
46 38 19 193 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 1
47 0 Re-Entry 155 Super Hits, Willie Nelson 12
48 42 – 59 Tailgates & Tanlines, Luke Bryan 4
49 31 34 78 +, Ed Sheeran 1
50 44 – 149 The Foundation, Zac Brown Band 1

[Gary]

Vinyl

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 New 1 #1 1 wk Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
2 0 New 1 Presence, Led Zeppelin 2
3 0 New 1 In Through The Out Door, Led Zeppelin 3
4 0 New 1 Coda, Led Zeppelin 4
5 1 1 3 Currents, Tame Impala 1
6 0 New 1 The Most Lamentable Tragedy, Titus Andronicus 6
7 6 20 7 Coming Home, Leon Bridges 1
8 7 7 28 Back To Black, Amy Winehouse 1
9 0 Re-Entry 6 Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones 1
10 5 5 34 1989, Taylor Swift 1
11 11 4 51 Kind Of Blue, Miles Davis 3
12 3 – 2 Moving Pictures, Rush 3
13 0 New 1 Copacetic, Knuckle Puck 13
14 13 – 2 Amused To Death, Roger Waters 13
15 8 6 7 Deja Entendu, Brand New 3
16 12 2 3 Something More Than Free, Jason Isbell 2
17 16 13 56 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 3
18 10 14 34 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
19 9 11 71 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 1
20 15 10 16 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
21 0 Re-Entry 120 Sigh No More, Mumford & Sons 1
22 20 15 29 Hozier, Hozier 2
23 18 12 151 Abbey Road, The Beatles 1
24 14 9 90 AM, Arctic Monkeys 1
25 22 17 56 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 1

[Gary]

Digital


This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Professional Rapper, Lil Dicky 1
2 0 New 1 Descendants, Soundtrack 2
3 0 New 1 Yung Rich Nation, Migos 3
4 6 1 3 DS2, Future 1
5 8 5 41 1989, Taylor Swift 1
6 1 – 2 Woman, Jill Scott 1
7 0 Re-Entry 2 Greatest Hits So Far..., Zac Brown Band 7
8 0 New 1 Saint Asonia, Saint Asonia 8
9 0 New 1 Blood, Lianne La Havas 9
10 16 10 41 GG Montevallo, Sam Hunt 2
11 14 17 58 x, Ed Sheeran 1
12 18 15 12 Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
13 0 Re-Entry 5 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
14 2 – 2 Southpaw: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture, Soundtrack 2
15 0 New 1 Water For Your Soul, Joss Stone 15
16 9 4 4 Black Rose, Tyrese 1
17 0 Re-Entry 26 Hozier, Hozier 2
18 20 – 21 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
19 0 New 1 Without Words: Synesthesia, Bethel Music 19
20 0 Re-Entry 2 Home, Soundtrack 20
21 0 New 1 In Through The Out Door, Led Zeppelin 21
22 21 25 21 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
23 23 24 15 JEKYLL + HYDE, Zac Brown Band 1
24 17 2 3 Something More Than Free, Jason Isbell 2
25 0 Re-Entry 4 Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney 12

[Gary]

Current

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Descendants, Soundtrack 1
2 1 – 2 Woman, Jill Scott 1
3 0 New 1 Professional Rapper, Lil Dicky 3
4 4 1 3 DS2, Future 1
5 7 6 41 1989, Taylor Swift 1
6 20 18 12 GG Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
7 6 2 4 Black Rose, Tyrese 1
8 0 New 1 Yung Rich Nation, Migos 8
9 13 11 59 x, Ed Sheeran 1
10 0 New 1 Saint Asonia, Saint Asonia 10
11 17 12 41 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
12 10 4 3 Angels And Alcohol, Alan Jackson 4
13 0 New 1 Water For Your Soul, Joss Stone 13
14 12 7 4 Kidz Bop 29, Kidz Bop Kids 2
15 2 – 2 VII: Sturm Und Drang, Lamb Of God 2
16 3 – 2 Southpaw: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture, Soundtrack 3
17 24 20 30 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
18 94 – 27 PS Greatest Hits So Far..., Zac Brown Band 18
19 27 19 15 JEKYLL + HYDE, Zac Brown Band 1
20 25 21 60 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
21 18 3 3 Something More Than Free, Jason Isbell 3
22 44 38 44 Hozier, Hozier 2
23 0 New 1 Copacetic, Knuckle Puck 23
24 0 New 1 Blood, Lianne La Havas 24
25 0 New 1 Born To Play Guitar, Buddy Guy 25
26 31 24 78 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
27 34 27 26 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
28 29 5 3 Currents, Tame Impala 5
29 28 17 7 Dark Before Dawn, Breaking Benjamin 1
30 15 8 6 Dreams Worth More Than Money, Meek Mill 1
31 36 26 14 NOW 54, Various Artists 3
32 33 15 54 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
33 38 25 34 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
34 30 14 8 Before This World, James Taylor 1
35 40 34 29 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
36 86 83 48 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
37 39 33 35 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
38 14 – 2 Double Vision, Prince Royce 14
39 47 41 44 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
40 49 40 10 How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 1
41 41 32 14 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
42 65 76 12 Love Stuff, Elle King 28
43 23 – 2 Covered: Alive In Asia, Israel & New Breed 23
44 8 – 2 We Came As Romans, We Came As Romans 8
45 50 36 21 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
46 53 54 43 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
47 46 44 15 Stages, Josh Groban 2
48 43 46 49 V, Maroon 5 1
49 22 – 2 Ashes & Dust, Warren Haynes Featuring Railroad Earth 22
50 0 Re-Entry 6 Home, Soundtrack 31
51 0 New 1 Without Words: Synesthesia, Bethel Music 51
52 51 47 57 Just As I Am, Brantley Gilbert 2
53 0 New 1 Marvelous Missing Link (Found), Insane Clown Posse 53
54 55 39 9 NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 8, Various Artists 6
55 61 80 13 How Can It Be, Lauren Daigle 16
56 16 – 2 The Blade, Ashley Monroe 16
57 0 New 1 That Was Then, This Is Now, Josh Wilson 57
58 0 Re-Entry 38 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
59 48 29 7 Teen Beach 2, Soundtrack 7
60 58 42 7 Coming Home, Leon Bridges 5
61 59 43 26 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
62 52 50 25 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
63 62 35 6 Wildheart, Miguel 2
64 60 53 17 Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
65 75 62 16 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
66 54 30 7 Pageant Material, Kacey Musgraves 3
67 70 74 104 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
68 76 77 11 Empires, Hillsong UNITED 3
69 88 – 25 FOUR, One Direction 1
70 0 New 1 The Most Lamentable Tragedy, Titus Andronicus 70
71 5 – 2 Not An Apology, Bea Miller 5
72 63 60 21 Majestic, Kari Jobe 12
73 56 31 4 Sometime Last Night, R5 4
74 73 49 11 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
75 0 New 1 Collaborations: 25th Anniversary Collection, Dave Koz 75
76 0 New 1 Mighty, Kristene DiMarco 76
77 42 – 2 One More For The Fans, Lynyrd Skynyrd 42
78 35 – 7 2015 Warped Tour Compilation, Various Artists 15
79 82 95 34 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 23
80 83 65 7 Unbreakable Smile, Tori Kelly 2
81 84 75 27 NOW 53, Various Artists 1
82 66 61 6 VHS, X Ambassadors 8
83 0 New 1 Living Legend, Gunplay 83
84 72 – 20 Wanted On Voyage, George Ezra 17
85 71 82 51 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
86 93 87 22 Spring Break... Checkin' Out, Luke Bryan 3
87 74 57 10 Django And Jimmie, Willie Nelson / Merle Haggard 4
88 67 9 3 Everyday Jesus, Anthony Brown & group therAPy 9
89 68 71 9 Beneath The Skin, Of Monsters And Men 2
90 87 73 34 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 3
91 81 70 13 Pitch Perfect 2, Soundtrack 1
92 0 Re-Entry 2 Nina Revisited... A Tribute To Nina Simone, Various Artists 56
93 57 22 6 Magic Mike XXL, Soundtrack 5
94 90 72 23 Dark Sky Paradise, Big Sean 1
95 11 – 2 Pound Syndrome, Hopsin 11
96 0 Re-Entry 4 Gravity, Big & Rich 50
97 19 – 2 Shockwave Supernova, Joe Satriani 19
98 0 Re-Entry 30 The Big Revival, Kenny Chesney 2
99 0 Re-Entry 2 Bringin It Home (EP), Big Smo 57
100 0 Re-Entry 33 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4

[Gary]

Charts are posted for this week. I will post more album chart corrections as they come in this week. For the next three Tuesdays, I have vacations or other commitments, so someone else will need to post.


FYI - ukmix posts 3-4 times the volume of charts that I do, if all else fails, you guys can copy from them, unless someone else wants to take them directly from the Billboard site

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lmfao at the #1 albums total and "lil d***y"

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New RIAA certs:

5 Seconds of Summer Gold
Katy Perry, Prism Gold, 1xP, 2xP
Katy Perry, Teenage Dream 3xP
Taylor Swift, Fearless 7xP

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hiphopdx.com/news/id.35018/title.hip-hop-album-sales-migos-future-drake

Hip Hop Album Sales: Migos, Future & Drake
by VICTORIA HERNANDEZ
posted Monday August 10, 2015 at 07:30AM PST

Migos makes its Billboard Top 200 debut.

Migos appears on the Billboard Top 200 chart with its debut album YRN: Yung Rich Nation. Future's Dirty Sprite 2 is the highest-selling Rap album for the third week in a row. Comedian and rapper Lil Dicky debuts in the top 10. Drake surpassed Meek Mill for the first time since the Philadelphia rapper's Dreams Worth More Than Money was released. Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly and A$AP Rocky's At.Long.Last.A$AP fell out of this week's top 10 Rap and R&B albums.

Migos Debuts in the Top 20

Migos' debut album, YRN: Yung Rich Nation, lands at the # 17 spot on the chart. The project saw 18,082 units of total activity and sold 14,596 albums. The group's mixtapes have more than one million downloads between the projects.

Future's Dirty Sprite 2 Still Tops the Charts

Dirty Sprite 2 remains at the #2 spot for the second week in a row. Future was dethroned by Jill Scott in last week's album sales, but now sits behind the Descendants soundtrack. Dirty Sprite 2 moved 37,013 total units this week.

Drake Passes Meek Mill

Drake's If Youre Reading This Its Too Late passes Meek Mill's Dreams Worth More Than Money for the #10 spot on the chart. The Philadelphia rapper's project debuted at #1 five weeks ago and this is the first week it fell out of the top 10. The two rappers have been feuding after Meek Mill accused Drake of using a ghostwriter. None of the diss tracks released are included in the album sales numbers.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 08/6/2015

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 Future - Dirty Sprite 2 - 37,013 (19,868) [18,375,617]

#7 Lil Dicky - Professional Rapper - 25,935 (21,799) [3,454,831]

#10 Drake - If Youre Reading This Its Too Late - 22,668 (7,985) [15,652,642]

#11 Meek Mill - Dreams Worth More Than Money - 21,960 (7,078) [13,505,819]

#17 Migos - YRN: Yung Rich Nation - 18,082 (14,596) [2,580,693]

#21 Eminem and Others - Southpaw: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture - 14,742 (10,100) [1,874,302]

#25 J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive - 14,432 (6,439) [8,188,753]

#30 Nicki Minaj - Pinkprint - 13,246 (3,017) [9,112,368]

#33 Big Sean - Dark Sky Paradise - 12,354 (2,864) [7,973,033]

#43 Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife - 10,626 (1,689) [7,477,173]

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roughstock.com/news/2015/08/36873-country-album-chart-report-for-august-11-2015

Country Album Chart Report for August 11, 2015
Posted By Matt Bjorke on Tuesday August 11, 2015 at 02:12PM PST

With no new albums this week, Sam Hunt rides a digital album sale on iTunes and returns to #1 with Montevallo. The album has now sold 680k to date. Alan Jackson has the #2 slot with Angels & Alcohol. The album has sold 76k in 3 weeks. Thanks to that iTunes sale, Zac Brown Band's Greatest Hits...So Far sits at #3 with their Jekyll+Hyde sitting at #4. Rounding out the Top 5 is Jason Isbell with Something More Than Free. He's sold nearly 65 thousand copies of this latest project to date.

Top Ten Recap

Sitting at #6 is Eric Church's The Outsiders for another week while Little Big Town's Pain Killer is at #7. Chase Rice's Ignite The Night is up to #8 thanks to the iTunes Sale. At #9 is Jason Aldean with Old Boots, New Dirt with Florida Georgia Line's Anything Goes is at #10.

Notables

Notables include news about the latest from Easton Corbin, Luke Bryan, Chase Rice, the Now That's What I Call Country #8 series, Big & Rich, Lee Brice, Old Dominion, Willie & Merle and "Tomatoes" Cam, Reba, Kelsea Ballerini, Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood and more!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UhiPjVZvGJCnrOOmVDaLGfzh8a5TBFebfxo8JIRfJXM/edit?pli=1#gid=0

Top 10 CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Sam Hunt Montevallo 12,900 680,000
2 Alan Jackson Angels & Alcohol 12,200 76,100
3 Zac Brown Band Greatest Hits...So Far 9,800 194,000
4 Zac Brown Band Jekyll+Hyde 8,700 472,600
5 Jason Isbell Something More Than Free 8,700 64,500
6 Eric Church The Outsiders 8,300 1,030,700
7 Little Big Town Pain Killer 7,000 316,800
8 Chase Rice Ignite The Night 6,600 276,100
9 Jason Aldean Old Boots, New Dirt 6,300 1,014,400
10 Florida Georgia Line Anything Goes 5,300 730,400

Next

5 11 Brantley Gilbert Just As I Am 4,800 882,500
12 Various Now Country 8 4,800 84,100
13 Ashley Monroe The Blade 4,600 17,100
14 Blake Shelton Bringing Back The Sunshine 4,500 412,400
15 Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material 4,100 105,300

Notables

-- W.Nelson/M.Haggard Django & Jimmie 3,200 90,700
-- Big & Rich Gravity 2,800 37,700
-- Kenny Chesney The Big Revival 2,600 406,100
-- Carrie Underwood Greatest Hits #1 2,400 381,800
-- Darius Rucker Southern Style 2,400 148,000
-- Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 2,100 46,300
-- Miranda Lambert Platinum 2,000 734,800
-- Reba Love Somebody 2,000 161,800
-- Lee Brice I Don't Dance 1,600 208,900
-- Frankie Ballard Sunshine & Whiskey 1,500 95,400
-- Dierks Bentley Riser 1,400 348,600
-- Cam Welcome To Cam Country 1,300 10,400
-- Old Dominion Old Dominion EP 1,300 26,900
-- Aaron Watson The Underdog 1,000 60,600
-- Mickey Guyton Bittersweet 800 3,200

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www.metalinsider.net/columns/metal-by-numbers/metal-by-numbers-appendix-2015s-biggest-selling-metal-so-far

Metal by Numbers appendix: 2015’s biggest selling metal so far
Posted by Bram Teitelman on August 12, 2015

If you’re a regular reader of Metal Insider (which come on now, you should be), you’re likely familiar with “Metal by Numbers,” a weekly look at album sales for hard rock and metal albums. Streaming has changed the game, so to speak, with numbers decreasing almost weekly. In a week like this one where the #1 album in the country has sold less than 30,000 copies, that’s pretty obvious. Yet people still buy music. We’re going to take a look at the biggest selling records of 2015. There isn’t a ton of metal and hard rock on here, but spoiler alert: some of them came out long before 2015.

Breaking Benjamin, Dark Before Dawn (Hollywood Records) 209,000 sold

Looks like their comeback is a success. They have the 37th biggest- selling album of the year so far.



AC/DC, Rock or Bust (Columbia Records) 143,400 sold

This is no bust. While the band sold more albums last year when it was released, that’s a solid haul, and the 63rd biggest selling album of 2015 so far.



Marilyn Manson, The Pale Emperor (Loma Vista) 124,200 sold

While on the low side of what Manson generally sells, it’s one of the few rock albums released in 2015 to be on this list.



Halestorm, Into the Wild Life (Atlantic) 114,500 sold

Lzzy Hale and friends have another success on their hands.



Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti (Atlantic) 112,400 sold

The re-releases of the band’s catalog is likely helping things out.



AC/DC, Back in Black (Columbia) 110,000 sold

This is one of the biggest selling albums of all time, and will probably keep selling as long as there are sporting events.



Metallica, Master of Puppets (Blackened Recordings) 107,800 sold

Interesting that this is outselling the Black Album. At least this year.



Nickelback, No Fixed Address (Republic) 101,000 sold

Last year’s album is the band’s lowest-selling in recent history – but they still have 2015’s 104th biggest-selling album.



Foo Fighters, Sonic Highways (RCA) 87,800 sold

Even though the HBO series and album were released last year, this continues to sell.



Kid Rock, Devil Without a Cause (Atlantic) 86,000 sold

Kid’s Atlantic debut is diamond. That’s 10 million copies. Which is likely why it’s racked up almost 100,000 in the first seven months of the year.



Nickelback, Dark Horse (Roadrunner) 84,500 sold

Wow, another one from Nickelback. Everyone makes fun of them, but they’re laughing all the way to the bank.



Slipknot, 5: The Gray Chapter (Roadrunner) 84,000 sold

This is has sold 344,000 copies so far, and now we know how many of them were sold this year.



Sleeping With Sirens, Madness (Epitaph) 79,200 sold

While we have no idea what this band sounds like, there’s almost 80,000 people that do.



Guns N’ Roses, Greatest Hits (Interscope) 78,500 sold

Turns out that to sell about 100,000 copies/year of your greatest hits album, all you have to do is come out with the best debut album ever.



Nirvana, Nevermind (Interscope) 77,250 sold

Whether it’s Montage of Heck residual sales, or the fact that this is the defining album of a generation, it keeps selling.



Metallica, Metallica (Blackened) 77,100 sold

It’s interesting that Master is consistently selling more than the this, the biggest- selling album of the SoundScan era.



Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin 4 (Atlantic) 75,000 sold

This will always sell, but the remastered edition probably has helped out this year.



Nirvana, Unplugged In New York (Interscope) 74,000 sold

See above.

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www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6663850/one-direction-four-sells-1-million?utm_source=twitter

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: One Direction's 'Four' Reaches 1 Million Sold in U.S.
By Keith Caulfield | August 13, 2015 9:11 PM EDT

All four of the group’s albums have sold at least a million copies.

On the latest Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 22), Disney’s Descendants soundtrack opened at No. 1, marking the fourth soundtrack to lead the tally in 2015. The set moved 42,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 6, according to Nielsen Music.

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).

Now, let’s take a closer look at some of the action on the Aug. 15 chart:

— One Direction, Four - No. 49 — The quartet’s fourth album has now sold 1 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music. The album shifted another 4,000 copies in the week ending Aug. 6, bringing its cumulative total to just over the million mark. All four of the group’s albums have each sold more than a million.

On the latest Billboard 200 chart, Four rises 78-49 in its 38th week on the list.

Their best-selling effort is their first album, Up All Night, with 2.05 million sold. It is followed by Take Me Home (2.02 million) and Midnight Memories (1.51 million).

Elsewhere on the charts this week, One Direction celebrated the highest debut of 2015 on the Billboard Hot 100, as their new single “Drag Me Down” bowed at No. 3. It’s the lead single from their forthcoming fifth album, due out later this year through SYCO/Columbia Records.

— Joss Stone, Water for Your Soul – No. 34 — Joss Stone’s seventh album, Water for Your Soul, starts at No. 34 with 12,000 units and also charts new territory for the singer: it marks her debut on Reggae Albums with its No. 1 bow.

— Buddy Guy, Born to Play Guitar - No. 60 — Veteran artist Buddy Guy nabs his 11th chart entry on the Billboard 200 with Born to Play Guitar (No. 60; 9,000 units). The set, which features guests like Joss Stone and Van Morrison, also earns the six-time Grammy Award winner his fifth No. 1 on the Blues Albums chart.

— Soundtrack, Home – No. 98 — The July 28 home video release of the animated film sends its companion soundtrack back to the chart. It reenters at No. 98 with 6,000 units earned for the week (up 101 percent). Of that sum, nearly 5,000 were pure album sales (up 111 percent).

— Titus Andronicus, The Most Lamentable Tragedy – No. 164 — Rock band Titus Andronicus collects its first No. 1 on a national Billboard chart, as The Most Lamentable Tragedy charges 7-1 on Heatseekers Albums. (It also bows at No. 164 on the Billboard 200.) The set, the group’s fourth studio album and Merge Records debut, vaults to the top of the Heatseekers list in its second chart week due to its irregular release date of Tuesday, July 28. It bowed on the chart from just three days of sales (July 28-30) with 2,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen Music. Then, on the new chart, it rises to No. 1 with 4,000 (up 97 percent) as it tallies its first full week at retail (July 31-Aug. 6).

Merge announced The Most Lamentable Tragedy’s release date in April, and stuck by the Tuesday street date even when Friday became the standard new release day on July 10.

— Dave Koz, Collaborations: 25th Anniversary Collection – No. 187 — As Dave Koz’s new album starts at No. 187 on the Billboard 200, it also gives the saxophonist a ninth No. 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart (it debuts atop the list). Koz now ties Fourplay for the second-most No. 1s in the chart’s 28-year history. Only Kenny G has more No. 1s, with 16.

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