HITS 6/15: DMB 285k; KSG 125k; Dierks 105k; Sugarland 27k

[jeiboy]

Dave Matthews Band will score its seventh #1 album when Come Tomorrow debuts at the top of HITS’ Top 50 Albums Chart next Friday. Here’s what we know today”







Dave Matthews Band (RCA) 230-260k total activity, 225-250k album

Kids See Ghosts (G.O.O.D Music/Def Jam) 100-110k, 55-60k

Dierks Bentley (Capitol Nashville) 90-95k, 85-90k

Sugarland (Big Machine) 25-28k, 22-25k







In other news...uh... What were we just talking about?







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[Gary]

Good to see DMB - no streaming of course


Is that a concert bundle?

[Zach]

I expected DMB to get #1 but didn't think they'd sell quite that much. Great for them.

[Deleted]

Yes, DMB has a concert bundle boost.

[Mayman]

I think KSG will go up later on in the predictions.

[ddlz]

I like Kids See Ghosts more than Ye, so I hope it does well.

[fearlessarrow]

I was expecting Sugarland to do more so I'm kind of shocked by the predictions. I know they haven't had an album in a while and they haven't been able to get a hit yet from their current album (the lead single "Still the Same" bombed and the second single "Babe" is currently top 30 on country radio), but I didn't think the dropoff would be this hard, I was more thinking 50k+.

Even though it's with a tour bundle, Dierks' number looks fairly good, so that's something I can be happy about.

[owenlovesmusic]

What about Ne-Yo?

[Naos]

Jun 9, 2018 22:02:34 GMT -5 owenlovesmusic said:

What about Ne-Yo?

I'd say 13-18k?

[willapted33]

I expected more like 150 - 160k for KSG, especially after Ye overperformed

[Troublemaker]

Numbers have been updated:

Dave Matthews Band (RCA) 270-290k total activity, 265-280k

Kids See Ghosts (G.O.O.D Music/Def Jam) 115-125k, 60-65k

Dierks Bentley (Capitol Nashville) 95-105k, 90-95k

Sugarland (Big Machine) 24-27k, 21-24k

Superfly (Freebandz/Epic) 14-17k, 4-5k

[fearlessarrow]

Yesss Dierks' predictions went up!!!

[Mayman]

Not surprised KSG moved up a bit.

3 albums breaking 100k in one week, when was the last time that happened?

[owenlovesmusic]

Where’s Ne-Yo, again?

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Probably below Superfly. I guess his album won't get much streaming either and with no songs on iTunes, album sales should be pretty much what it gets.

[Naos]

Go RCA! Finally getting something with great sales. They haven't had something this high in awhile.

[Glove Slap]

DMB is a huge touring act, bundles are perfect for them. Phish is another act that would likely score a big opening with a bundle due to most of their success being in touring.

[HolidayGuy]

Did Sugarland have a last-minute album/concert-ticket redemption? I can't see the projections including that, but who knows. Unless the numbers will be reported for future weeks.

[Glove Slap]

Jun 12, 2018 9:39:59 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Did Sugarland have a last-minute album/concert-ticket redemption? I can't see the projections including that, but who knows. Unless the numbers will be reported for future weeks.

It must have been last minute because it's not mentioned on their page on Ticketmaster, but shows up on the dates. Maroon 5 announced their bundle less than week before their album came out and that showed up on their page from what I remember.

[HolidayGuy]

^Thanks. My partner got tickets for the Allentown Fair show, and there was no redemption then. Figures, after I purchased the digital album.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

A TOP 20 YOU CAN, LIKE, JAM TO

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Dave Matthews Band will notch its seventh #1 on Friday when Come Tomorrow debuts on our Top 50. KIDS SEE GHOSTS and Dierks Bentley also log impressive debuts.

1. *Dave Matthews Band (RCA) 275-285k Total, 270-280k Albums
2. *Kids See Ghosts (G.O.O.D/Def Jam) 130-140k, 72-77k
3. *Dierks Bentley (Capitol Nashville) 98-103k, 92-97k
4. Post Malone (Republic) 92-97k, 9-11k
5. Kanye West (G.O.O.D/Def Jam) 72-77k, 24-27k
6. Cardi B (Atlantic) 44-48k, 3-4k
7. Juice Wrld (Interscope) 40-44k, <1k
8. The Greatest Showman (Atlantic) 35-38k, 20-23k
9. Lil Baby (QC/Motown/Capitol) 32-35k, <1k
10. Jason Aldean (Broken Bow/BMG) 32-35k, 23-26k
11. Shawn Mendes (Island) 31-34k, 10-12k
12. *Sugarland (Big Machine/BMLG) 30-33k, 27-30k
13. Luke Combs (River House/Columbia Nashville) 27-30k, 8-9k
14. Maroon 5 (222/Interscope) 24-27k, 3-4k
15. J. Cole (Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope) 24-27k, 3-4k
16. Post Malone (Republic) 24-27k, 2-3k
17. A$AP Rocky (RCA) 21-24k, 1-2k
18. Migos (QC/Motown/Capitol) 20-23k, 1-2k
19. Black Panther (TDE/Aftermath/Interscope) 19-22k, 2-3k
20. Imagine Dragons (Kidinakorner/Interscope) 19-22k, 5-6k

*DEBUTS

We drafted six or seven possible jokes about the North Korea summit, but gave up in confusion. For the genuine yuks, we refer you to The New York Times

[Troublemaker]

Kanye’s “Kids See Ghosts” numbers keeps going up, happy for him though

Ne-yo isn’t even top20, ouch!

[Glove Slap]

DMB will have a huge fall next week, possibly one of the biggest given that their die hards all bought tickets at first opportunity.

Post could very well be Quadruple or Quintuple Platinum by the end of the year.

The KCG number is good. It may seem a bit underwhelming after ye and its acclaim (KCG, not ye), but at the end of the day, the big star in all this is Kanye, so even if his solo project got the weakest reviews, it had a larger audience willing to check it out.

[Mayman]

Jun 12, 2018 19:02:21 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

DMB will have a huge fall next week, possibly one of the biggest given that their die hards all bought tickets at first opportunity.

Post could very well be Quadruple or Quintuple Platinum by the end of the year.

The KCG number is good. It may seem a bit underwhelming after ye and its acclaim (KCG, not ye), but at the end of the day, the big star in all this is Kanye, so even if his solo project got the weakest reviews, it had a larger audience willing to check it out.

Post got platinum on release, correct? So anything it gets now should be added with 1,000,000 to see when it is able to get the next certification?

[Linnethia Monique]

Cardi is perched!

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Regarding ticket album bundles:

BUNDLE MAGIC

How do adult-skewing acts fight for chart share in a youth-dominated, streaming-driven market? They leverage their strengths. RCA has proved particularly effective in this sphere with veteran acts that appeal to upper-demo audiences and sell boatloads of tickets. One of these, Dave Matthews Band, is on its way to a #1 chart bow this week (possibly close to 300k) for new set Come Tomorrow bolstered by a big ticket bundle. By offering the album as a package with each ticket sold—for only a nominally higher fee—such artists can compensate for a lack of streaming (and, in Matthews’ case, airplay as well).

This success follows another huge RCA chart win aided by bundling—by pop superstar P!nk. Though she scored hits with her 2017 set Beautiful Trauma and was selling albums and singles, P!nk wasn’t streaming, as her chart competitors were. She was helped to a 407k #1 bow with a bundle last October—the year’s biggest debut by a female artist until Taylor dropped—and popped up to #2 just a few weeks ago, thanks to more ticket redemptions.

It’s time to stop trying to delegitimize or ignore ticket bundling and recognize it for what it is: Another tool in the toolbox artists can utilize for chart success, based on one indisputable metric of popularity.

[Gary]

yes, it is another measure popularity and becoming a legit measure at that

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

TOMORROW LAND

Friday, June 15, 2018

The members of RCA’s Dave Matthews Band are celebrating their seventh #1, as Come Tomorrow lands on top of the HITS Top 50 with 297k, supercharged by an impressive ticket bundle. Meanwhile, Kanye West and Kid Cudi (aka Kids See Ghosts) scare up a #2 bow, moving around 141k for G.O.O.D./Def Jam.

The next big release comes from Capitol Nashville’s Dierks Bentley, whose ninth studio album, The Mountain, lands at #3 with more than 102k.

As for the remaining debuts, Rise rock band Dance Gavin Dance rounds out the Top 10 with 33k for Artificial Selection. And Sugarland’s Bigger (Big Machine/BMLG) is #12 with 29k.

It’s worth noting that Post Malone’s Stoney (Republic) has hopped up to #14, meaning that the House of Lipman’s superstar has two albums in the Top 15. His beerbongs & bentleys, which has been out for 13 weeks now, is #4, down a mere 7%.

Speaking of doubling down, Kanye’s Ye (G.O.O.D./Def Jam) remains Top 5 in week two, tacking on 78k. Fun fact: Between Kids See Ghosts and his latest solo set (with only seven tracks per release), Yeezy racked up 168m+ streams.

Let’s talk marketshare. UMG is #1 with 55%, Sony Music follows with 28%, WMG is #3 with 16% and the indies claim 1%.

Streeting this week are albums by G.O.O.D./Def Jam’s Nas, RCA’s Christina Aguilera and TDE/Interscope’s Jay Rock. And then, of course, the following week there’s Drake. How big will the YMCMB/Republic giant’s bow be? We don’t know the answer to that, but one thing’s certain: The op-ed suggesting that Paul Manafort "may be in big trouble" is probably underselling it.

[willapted33]

ok 141k is more what I was expecting from Kanye + Cudi, congrats to both of them

[areyoureadytojump]

SPS

hitsdailydouble.com/sales_plus_streaming

LW TW ARTIST | TITLE
LABEL
TOTAL CHANGE ALBUMS TEA SEA

-- 1 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND | COME TOMORROW
RCA
297,291 -- 288,604 1,063 7,624

-- 2 KIDS SEE GHOSTS | KIDS SEE GHOSTS
G.O.O.D/DEF JAM
140,527 -- 78,523 1,510 60,494
-- 3 DIERKS BENTLEY | THE MOUNTAIN
CAPITOL NASHVILLE
102,459 -- 93,438 2,261 6,760
2 4 POST MALONE | BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS
REPUBLIC
92,277 -7% 9,108 7,543 75,626
1 5 KANYE WEST | YE
G.O.O.D/DEF JAM
77,885 -63% 22,820 1,423 53,642
5 6 CARDI B | INVASION OF PRIVACY
ATLANTIC
47,819 -1% 3,408 5,250 39,161
6 7 JUICE WRLD | GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCE
GRADE A/INTERSCOPE
44,908 6% 1,095 1,809 42,004
7 8 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN | SOUNDTRACK
ATLANTIC
37,730 -10% 22,079 3,383 12,268
8 9 LIL BABY | HARDER THAN EVER
QUALITY CONTROL/MOTOWN/CAPITOL
35,407 -7% 334 939 34,134
-- 10 DANCE GAVIN DANCE | ARTIFICIAL SELECTION
RISE
33,299 -- 28,675 152 4,472

4 11 LUKE COMBS | THIS ONE'S FOR YOU TOO
RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE
31,928 -40% 9,573 4,340 18,015
-- 12 SUGARLAND | BIGGER
BIG MACHINE/BMLG
28,844 -- 25,159 1,757 1,928
9 13 SHAWN MENDES | SHAWN MENDES
ISLAND
28,648 -23% 7,107 3,012 18,529
16 14 POST MALONE | STONEY
REPUBLIC
26,792 3% 2,040 1,844 22,908
13 15 MAROON 5 | RED PILL BLUES
222/INTERSCOPE
25,670 -13% 2,586 7,136 15,948
11 16 J. COLE | KOD
DREAMVILLE/ROC NATION/INTERSCOPE
25,049 -16% 2,929 696 21,424
20 17 IMAGINE DRAGONS | EVOLVE
KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE
22,356 1% 5,717 5,109 11,530
18 18 MIGOS | CULTURE II
QUALITY CONTROL/MOTOWN/CAPITOL
21,657 -4% 1,236 1,408 19,013
12 19 BTS | LOVE YOURSELF 'TEAR'
BIGHIT
20,808 -30% 9,559 859 10,390
21 20 ED SHEERAN | DIVIDE
ATLANTIC
20,714 -2% 4,348 2,797 13,569
14 21 A$AP ROCKY | TESTING
RCA
20,372 -26% 685 375 19,312
19 22 BLACK PANTHER | SOUNDTRACK
TDE/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE
20,347 -8% 2,198 1,519 16,630
15 23 JASON ALDEAN | REARVIEW TOWN
BROKEN BOW/BMG
19,627 -28% 10,210 2,230 7,187
23 24 XXXTENTACION | ?
BAD VIBES FOREVER
19,000 -1% 750 802 17,448
22 25 TAYLOR SWIFT | REPUTATION
BIG MACHINE/BMLG
17,827 -8% 5,494 2,301 10,032
24 26 KANE BROWN | KANE BROWN
RCA NASHVILLE/ZONE 4
17,638 -2% 4,424 2,663 10,551
26 27 13 REASONS WHY: SEASON 2 | VARIOUS ARTISTS
INTERSCOPE
16,510 -2% 345 2,511 13,654
25 28 KHALID | AMERICAN TEEN
RIGHT HAND MUSIC/RCA
16,425 -4% 1,293 793 14,339
30 29 HAMILTON | ORIGINAL BROADWAY MUSICAL
UPTOWN/ATLANTIC
16,242 8% 5,365 424 10,453
27 30 KENDRICK LAMAR | DAMN.
TDE/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE
15,408 -3% 2,303 571 12,534
10 31 PUSHA T | DAYTONA
G.O.O.D/DEF JAM
14,802 -53% 3,560 343 10,899
-- 32 SUPERFLY | SOUNDTRACK
EPIC
14,513 -- 2,910 973 10,630
31 33 RICH THE KID | THE WORLD IS YOURS
RICH FOREVER/INTERSCOPE
14,260 -4% 179 623 13,458
35 34 LIL UZI VERT | LUV IS RAGE 2
GENERATION NOW/ATLANTIC
13,929 0% 179 281 13,469
29 35 RAE SREMMURD | SR3MM
EARDRUMA/INTERSCOPE
13,742 -10% 190 624 12,928
34 36 LIL SKIES | LIFE OF A DARK ROSE
ATLANTIC
13,690 -2% 239 430 13,021
33 37 CAMILA CABELLO | CAMILA
SYCO/EPIC
13,504 -6% 1,509 2,391 9,604
28 38 PLAYBOI CARTI | DIE LIT
INTERSCOPE
13,482 -16% 146 175 13,161
36 39 BAZZI | COSMIC
IAMCOSMIC/ATLANTIC
13,295 -2% 489 1,581 11,225
-- 40 NE-YO | GOOD MAN
MOTOWN/CAPITOL
12,938 -- 6,696 1,261 4,981
-- 41 JORJA SMITH | LOST & FOUND
FAMM
12,798 -- 4,667 471 7,660
32 42 NAV | RECKLESS
XO/REPUBLIC
12,643 -13% 142 137 12,364
38 43 THE WEEKND | MY DEAR MELANCHOLY,
XO/REPUBLIC
12,086 -8% 1,763 502 9,821
41 44 YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE AGAIN | UNTIL DEATH CALL MY NAME
ATLANTIC
11,905 -7% 366 391 11,148
45 45 MICHAEL JACKSON | ESSENTIAL MICHAEL JACKSON
EPIC/LEGACY
11,882 3% 1,488 1,691 8,703
44 46 DRAKE | MORE LIFE
YMCMB/REPUBLIC
11,598 -4% 182 267 11,149
-- 47 NOW COUNTRY, VOL. 11 | VARIOUS ARTISTS
NOW
11,570 -- 11,570 -- --
46 48 THOMAS RHETT | LIFE CHANGES
VALORY/BMG
11,564 2% 1,604 1,552 8,408
43 49 SZA | CTRL
TDE/RCA
11,511 -5% 1,215 315 9,981
40 50 CHARLIE PUTH | VOICENOTES
ARTIST PARTNER/ATLANTIC
11,449 -11% 2,630 1,565 7,254