HITS 11/20: Bieber #1 (504k/616k), One Direction (414k/470k)

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

Nov 18, 2015 13:38:38 GMT -5 felipe said:

Nov 18, 2015 10:04:15 GMT -5 Verisimilitude said:

Please, that wasn't promo. THIS is promo:

LOL Who is that?

Not the best timing to release an album either, right?

Macy gray at the VMAs in 2001. She debuted at #11 with 93k sold

[felipe]

Nov 18, 2015 13:56:19 GMT -5 YourFaveIsAFlop said:

Nov 18, 2015 13:38:38 GMT -5 felipe said:

LOL Who is that?

Not the best timing to release an album either, right?

Macy gray at the VMAs in 2001. She debuted at #11 with 93k sold

Oh, I didn't think sales were that high after 9/11.

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

Maybe she benefitted from bush saying the best thing Americans could do to defeat terrorism was go shopping

[Enigma.]

Oh, that Macy Gray outfit is the best ever, love it to pieces

[felipe]

Nov 19, 2015 7:21:41 GMT -5 YourFaveIsAFlop said:

Maybe she benefitted from bush saying the best thing Americans could do to defeat terrorism was go shopping

Do you recall who was #1 that week and how much it sold?

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

Nov 19, 2015 7:42:51 GMT -5 felipe said:

Nov 19, 2015 7:21:41 GMT -5 YourFaveIsAFlop said:

Maybe she benefitted from bush saying the best thing Americans could do to defeat terrorism was go shopping

Do you recall who was #1 that week and how much it sold?

Jay-Z's The Blueprint had its second week at #1 with 271k

[Chris Ng]

Nov 18, 2015 13:44:10 GMT -5 colson said:

Macy Gray

A week
After the 9/11 incident. That's we've never heard of her?

[YourFaveIsAFlop]

Nov 19, 2015 8:33:23 GMT -5 Chris Ng said:

Nov 18, 2015 13:44:10 GMT -5 colson said:

Macy Gray

A week
After the 9/11 incident. That's we've never heard of her?

Uh what? She's a multi-platinum selling Grammy winner. Just because you don't know her...

[areyoureadytojump]

All the SoundScan Top Tens are in this thread:

pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/61044/weekly-soundscan-top-1997-links?page=3

The link has the 2001 charts.

[anafan]

When Justin Bieber appeared onstage at West Hollywood ­nightclub 1OAK on Nov. 13 to ­perform the Jack U hit "Where Are U Now?," the pop singer was not only serenading the 500 superfans in attendance but symbolically addressing throngs of Beliebers who have the power -- and the cash -- to take his new album, Purpose, to No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Behind the scenes, a retail war was brewing that pinned the 21-year-old star against the United Kingdom's most popular boy band, One Direction, both of whom released albums that same day. Who won? The music industry.

Justin Bieber Heading for Sixth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 as He Pulls Ahead of One Direction

As of press time, Purpose, released by Def Jam, is projected to reach 450,000 units in sales with another 100,000 in TEA (or track-­equivalent albums, whereby 10 individual downloads of songs from an album equal one album unit) and SEA (or stream-equivalent albums, whereby 1,500 streams equal one album) ­anticipated for a total of 550,000 units. Meanwhile, One Direction's Made in the A.M., the group's fifth album for Sony's Columbia Records, is expected to scan about 425,000, with potentially another 50,000 consumption-equivalent units for a total of 475,000.

Weeks of promotional ­activities pitted the two against each other. In Bieber's case, the 21-year-old staged five ­listening events, dubbed "An Evening With Justin Bieber," at arenas like Staples Center in Los Angeles and Allstate Arena in Chicago during release week, where fans had the option of paying $18 for a ticket or $22 for a ticket bundled with a digital copy of Purpose. A live stream of the event was offered as well for $9.99 and came with an option to redeem a download of Purpose.

Bieber also aligned with Lyft and 1-800-Flowers for ­promotions, offering Lyft riders a digital copy of Purpose for $5 (along with a $5 credit on their next ride) and a "Sorry"-branded bouquet of roses (a reference to the second single from Purpose) bundled with a ­redeemable digital copy of the album.


For its part, One Direction sold tickets to appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live! that were bundled with ­redeemable CD copies of Made in the A.M. (typically, access to such TV shows is free). The group also sold tickets (again bundled with ­redeemable CDs) to prerelease ­listening events with One Live Media at movie theaters.

As for traditional retailers, Target offered ­customers five different One Direction album covers. As a result of that ­marketing tactic, Made in the A.M. outsold Purpose (81,000 to 28,000 units) in sales gathered over Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the discount chain. 1D and Bieber were neck and neck at Walmart, where the band sold 22,000 units to Bieber's 19,000.

But the real fight will come down to digital. At iTunes, Bieber scanned 270,000 units during the ­weekend, according to sources, versus 190,000 One Direction downloads. A week earlier, 1D was in the lead, with 170,000 in ­preorders during a six-week ­availability period, while Bieber had 110,000 in a three-week period. Usually, artists with shorter preorder windows have a bigger lift during the debut week, but the one ­experienced by Bieber is greater than anticipated.

"It's understandable that Bieber is winning in consumption because he has much bigger singles at radio," says one label ­executive, which means that Bieber is ­generating more SEA and TEA than One Direction.

In the end, the competition resulted in "both albums way overperforming," says Ish Cuebas, vp music and new media at Trans World -- and not cannibalizing sales as initially feared.

www.billboard.com/articles/news/6769951/justin-bieber-one-direction-digital-album-sales

[divasummer]

Hasn't both of them come out at Num.1 with each of their releases?
I forget did Bieber's christmas cd come out at num.1?


LoL, it seems like 1D started to bundle their cd's with tickets to events too.

[areyoureadytojump]

^^I love those Billboard articles with extra sales information!

[felipe]

How do these tickets bundled with CDs work? Like you buy a ticket to a show and you get the cd for free? Do those count for Billboard?

[areyoureadytojump]

^No, not free. The price of the cd is included in the price of the concert ticket. SoundScan or Nielsen Music (as it is called now) counts it.

[divasummer]

It's included but I believe you have to choose to pay an additional $5.00 or in a lot of cases $10.00 extra for the ticket to receive the cd.

[Duca]

Chart Date: 11/20/2015
Status: Final

LW TW Artist / Album Label Sales Index % Change
-- 1
JUSTIN BIEBER
PURPOSE
DEF JAM 504,281 --
-- 2
ONE DIRECTION
MADE IN THE A.M.
SYCO/COLUMBIA 414,778 --
-- 3
LOGIC
THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY
DEF JAM 110,092 --
-- 4
JEEZY
CHURCH IN THESE STREETS
DEF JAM 83,365 --
-- 5
CHRIS YOUNG
I'M COMIN OVER
SONY NASHVILLE/RCA 56,750 --
-- 6 TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA
LETTERS FROM THE LABYRITH
LAVA/REPUBLIC 43,536 --
1 7 CHRIS STAPLETON
TRAVELLER
MERCURY NASHVILLE 41,779 -50%
-- 8 KIRK FRANKLIN
LOSING MY RELIGION
RCA 29,820 --
2 9 ERIC CHURCH
MR. MISUNDERSTOOD
EMI NASHVILLE 27,535 -58%
5 10 NOW 56
VARIOUS ARTISTS
NOW/UME 25,483 -30%
11 11 PENTATONIX
THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME
RCA 25,109 39%
-- 12 ALESSIA CARA
KNOW-IT-ALL
DEF JAM 21,635 --
-- 13 JEFF LYNNE'S ELO
ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE
COLUMBIA 19,381 --
-- 14 TY DOLLA SIGN
FREE TC
WMG 15,805 --
13 15 THE WEEKND
BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS
XO/REPUBLIC 15,457 -8%
8 16 CARRIE UNDERWOOD
STORYTELLER
19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 15,353 -39%
15 17 TAYLOR SWIFT
1989
BIG MACHINE 13,012 -12%
-- 18 GRANT*NATALIE
BE ONE
CURB 12,685 --
14 19 KIDZ BOP KIDS
KIDZ BOP 30
RAZOR & TIE 11,425 -26%
12 20 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
SOUNDS GOOD FEELS GOOD
CAPITOL 11,299 -33%
4 21 TIM MCGRAW
DAMN COUNTRY MUSIC
BIG MACHINE/BMLG 10,984 -73%
-- 22 ED SHEERAN
X
ASYLUM UK 10,868 39%
16 23 LUKE BRYAN
KILL THE LIGHTS
CAPITOL NASHVILLE 10,333 -29%
20 24 SAM HUNT
MONTEVALLO
MCA NASHVILLE 10,234 -21%
25 25 THOMAS RHETT
TANGLED UP
VALORY/BMLG 10,178 -14%
24 26 ADELE
21
COLUMBIA 10,167 -11%
-- 27 MUTEMATH
VITALS
WOJTEK 9,941 --
18 28 PENTATONIX
PENTATONIX
RCA 9,863 -36%
-- 29 CASTING CROWNS
A LIVE WORSHIP EXPERIENCE
REUNION 8,678 --
23 30 BLAKE SHELTON
RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS
WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 8,368 -41%
31 31 BRYSON TILLER
T R A P S O U L
RCA 8,133 -8%
-- 32 TWENTY ONE PILOTS
BLURRYFACE
FUELED BY RAMEN 7,803 -6%
29 33 HAMILTON
ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST
UPTOWN 7,610 -48%
3 34 ELLIE GOULDING
DELIRIUM
INTERSCOPE 7,597 -82%
47 35 FETTY WAP
FETTY WAP
WMG 7,327 -17%
-- 36 MICHAEL BUBLE
CHRISTMAS
REPRISE 7,120 --
-- 37 CHRIS ISAAK
FIRST COMES THE NIGHT
CONCORD 6,944 --
32 38 MEGHAN TRAINOR
TITLE
EPIC 6,789 -12%
30 39 ELVIS PRESLEY
IF I CAN DREAM
RCA 6,752 -26%
22 40 SAM SMITH
IN THE LONELY HOUR
CAPITOL 6,612 -51%
37 41 SELENA GOMEZ
REVIVAL
INTERSCOPE 6,475 -6%
-- 42 NEIL YOUNG & BLUENOTE CAFE
BLUENOTE CAFE
REPRISE 6,057 --
43 43 HALSEY
BADLANDS
ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL 5,737 0%
-- 44 A GREAT BIG WORLD
WHEN MORNING COMES
BLACK MAGNETIC/EPIC 5,654 --
41 45 DRAKE & FUTURE
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
YMCMB/REPUBLIC/EPIC 5,098 -11%
-- 46 SAWYER FREDERICKS
SAWYER FREDERICKS
REPUBLIC 4,855 --
-- 47 KURT COBAIN
MONTAGE OF HECK: THE HOME RECORDINGS
UME 4,743 --
10 48 OLD DOMINION
MEAT AND CANDY
RCA NASHVILLE 4,594 -78%
7 49 SARA BAREILLES
WHAT'S INSIDE: SONGS FROM WAITRESS
EPIC 4,542 -83%
45 50 DEMI LOVATO
CONFIDENT
SAFEHOUSE/HOLLYWOOD/ISLAND 4,305 -25%

[Duca]

SALES PLUS STREAMING CHART

Chart Date: 11/20/2015
LW TW Artist / Album Label SPS Index % Change
- 1
JUSTIN BIEBER
PURPOSE
DEF JAM 619,949 --
- 2
ONE DIRECTION
MADE IN THE A.M.
SYCO/COLUMBIA 470,021 --
- 3
LOGIC
THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY
DEF JAM 128,122 --
- 4
JEEZY
CHURCH IN THESE STREETS
DEF JAM 91,576 --
- 5
CHRIS YOUNG
I'M COMIN OVER
SONY NASHVILLE/RCA 64,241 --
1 6 CHRIS STAPLETON
TRAVELLER
MERCURY NASHVILLE 52,308 -52%
- 7 TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA
LETTERS FROM THE LABYRITH
LAVA/REPUBLIC 43,918 --
5 8 THE WEEKND
BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS
XO/REPUBLIC 37,321 -4%
- 9 ALESSIA CARA
KNOW-IT-ALL
DEF JAM 33,936 --
- 10 KIRK FRANKLIN
LOSING MY RELIGION
RCA 31,821 --
2 11 ERIC CHURCH
MR. MISUNDERSTOOD
EMI NASHVILLE 31,171 -57%
10 12 FETTY WAP
FETTY WAP
WMG 30,457 -4%
28 13 PENTATONIX
THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME
RCA 27,334 67%
6 14 NOW 56
VARIOUS ARTISTS
NOW/UME 25,483 -30%
15 15 DRAKE & FUTURE
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
YMCMB/REPUBLIC/EPIC 23,600 0%
12 16 TAYLOR SWIFT
1989
BIG MACHINE 23,092 -12%
38 17 ED SHEERAN
X
ASYLUM UK 22,572 47%
- 18 TY DOLLA SIGN
FREE TC
WMG 22,261 --
14 19 SAM HUNT
MONTEVALLO
MCA NASHVILLE 20,337 -17%
- 20 JEFF LYNNE'S ELO
ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE
COLUMBIA 19,976 --
18 21 THOMAS RHETT
TANGLED UP
VALORY/BMLG 19,877 -9%
23 22 BRYSON TILLER
T R A P S O U L
RCA 19,240 1%
22 23 SELENA GOMEZ
REVIVAL
INTERSCOPE 18,823 -1%
8 24 CARRIE UNDERWOOD
STORYTELLER
19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 18,630 -39%
21 25 MEGHAN TRAINOR
TITLE
EPIC 18,132 -8%
3 26 ELLIE GOULDING
DELIRIUM
INTERSCOPE 17,822 -70%
25 27 ADELE
21
COLUMBIA 15,748 -11%
19 28 LUKE BRYAN
KILL THE LIGHTS
CAPITOL NASHVILLE 15,490 -24%
41 29 TWENTY ONE PILOTS
BLURRYFACE
FUELED BY RAMEN 14,919 0%
20 30 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
SOUNDS GOOD FEELS GOOD
CAPITOL 14,311 -30%
17 31 FUTURE
DS2
EPIC 13,963 -37%
26 32 BLAKE SHELTON
RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS
WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 13,768 -31%
16 33 SAM SMITH
IN THE LONELY HOUR
CAPITOL 13,681 -43%
32 34 SHAWN MENDES
HANDWRITTEN
ISLAND 13,361 -11%
- 35 GRANT*NATALIE
BE ONE
CURB 13,315 --
27 36 PENTATONIX
PENTATONIX
RCA 12,909 -30%
4 37 TIM MCGRAW
DAMN COUNTRY MUSIC
BIG MACHINE/BMLG 12,590 -71%
29 38 KIDZ BOP KIDS
KIDZ BOP 30
RAZOR & TIE 12,208 -25%
42 39 HALSEY
BADLANDS
ASTRALWERKS/CAPITOL 12,170 9%
36 40 ELLE KING
LOVE STUFF
RCA 12,107 -7%
39 41 DRAKE
IF YOU'RE READING THIS, IT'S TOO LATE
YMCMB/REPUBLIC 11,461 -4%
37 42 DEMI LOVATO
CONFIDENT
SAFEHOUSE/HOLLYWOOD/ISLAND 11,052 -13%
- 43 MUTEMATH
VITALS
WOJTEK 10,997 --
45 44 J. COLE
2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE
ROC NATION/COLUMBIA 10,569 -1%
- 45 HAMILTON
ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST
UPTOWN 10,392 -38%
- 46 MICHAEL BUBLE
CHRISTMAS
REPRISE 10,197 --
- 47 CASTING CROWNS
A LIVE WORSHIP EXPERIENCE
REUNION 9,765 --
- 48 TRAVIS SCOTT
RODEO
EPIC 8,588 --
48 49 FALL OUT BOY
AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO
DCD2/ISLAND 8,401 -3%
- 50 A GREAT BIG WORLD
WHEN MORNING COMES
BLACK MAGNETIC/EPIC 7,917 --

[Duca]

THIS CHART STORY HAS PURPOSE

Def Jam’s Justin Bieber is this week’s sales champ, prevailing over SYCO/Columbia’s One Direction, as his Purpose tops the HITS Album Sales Chart with 504k and the Sales Plus Streaming (SPS) Chart with 620k. FYI, those numbers signify the biggest debut of 2015 (in both categories)—until next week—as well as the biggest sales-plus-streaming number ever.

Hats off to manager Scooter Braun for running one of the most impressive campaigns in recent memory.

1D’s Made in the AM certainly put up a good fight. The two releases traded the lead until Bieber pulled away decisively over the weekend. Both titles overperformed hugely.

1D landed at #2 with 414k in sales, which bests 2014’s Four, and 470k at SPS.

For a more granular look at both titles, see below.

But back to Def Jam: Team Bartels is living it up, as three other Top 15 album-chart debuts garnish Bieber’s monster bow: Logic (#3, 110k), Jeezy (#4, 83k) and Alessia Cara (#12, 22k). Pass the Dom Pérignon, buddy.

In other sales news, RCA Nashville’s Chris Young bows at #5 with 57k, and Lava/Republic’s Trans-Siberian Orchestra (#6), RCA’s Kirk Franklin (#8), Columbia’s Electric Light Orchestra (#13) and WMG’s Ty Dolla Sign (#14) all make noise in album land.

RCA’s Pentatonix are once again poised to have the #1 yuletide album this season. 2014’s platinum-plus That’s Christmas to Me enjoys a strong sales bump this week, moving up to #11 with another 25k.

Streeting this week is Adele’s 25 (XL/Columbia). Could it score the biggest first week in recorded history? We’ll know soon.

[kanimal]

Notice that the chart says 0% for live events even though 1D bundled albums with tickets to their talk show appearances (such as the Kimmel concert). Would those fall under D2C, or did Hits forget to include those sales?

[Verisimilitude]

BIEBER, 1D BOTH SMASH SPOTIFY FIRST-WEEK RECORD

Justin Bieber's chart-topping Purpose (RBMG/Def Jam) and One Direction's similarly overperforming #2 finisher, Made in the A.M. (SYCO/Columbia) have both smashed first-week records on Spotify.

The two albums blew past the existing global streaming record for an album in the first week of release previously held by The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness, which generated 90m streams.

Bieber now holds the all-time global record with a stunning 205m streams; he also broke the U.S. record with 77m streams. 1D finished the week with 106m streams worldwide.

[Daryl the Beryl]

Ouch at Great Big World.

[Carriefan1190]

Dang at Bieber shattering expectations, but it's funny that Adele is probably gonna outsell him like 8 to 1 next week.

[forg]

Over 1 million sold for the top 3, nice!