Billboard 200: 3/1/14: Eric Church #1: 288,000

[onebuffalo]

Feb 20, 2014 18:23:16 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Every week he posts this personal chart, and every week (or close to it), someone asks what it's about. I believe it's based on number of weeks on the chart.

Shouldn't that belong in the personal charts section? What are the criteria for gold and platinum, anyway?

[HolidayGuy]

Well, maybe "personal" isn't the best word, as I don't believe it's based on his like of an album. He has some sort of threshold for number of weeks, for titles to reach gold, platinum, etc. designations.

[ListenToItTwice]

Feb 20, 2014 18:41:00 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Well, maybe "personal" isn't the best word, as I don't believe it's based on his like of an album. He has some sort of threshold for number of weeks, for titles to reach gold, platinum, etc. designations.

Every week we speculate about it, and he never comes back and just tells us :/

[onebuffalo]

Cartman2002 should explain it for all of us.

[ListenToItTwice]

cartman2002

[jughead]

Yes @ Red finally crossing the 4-million mark! Probably gonna be her last album to achieve that feat.

[HolidayGuy]

www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/chart-alert/5915591/chart-moves-bruno-mars-jukebox-hits-2-million-sales-wicked

Chart Moves: Bruno Mars' 'Jukebox' Hits 2 Million Sales, 'Wicked' Album Logs Big Week for Broadway
By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles | February 21, 2014

This week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Eric Church scored his second No. 1 album, as "The Outsiders" sold 288,000 copies in the week ending February 16. It was the only debut within the top 10, as the next-highest debut belongs to the Glitch Mob's second album, "Love Death Immortality," at No. 13 with 22,000.

Let's take a look at some of movers and shakers on the chart this week:

-- Bruno Mars, "Unorthodox Jukebox" - No. 5 - In the week ending February 9, the album surpassed 2 million in sales, becoming Mars' second -- of two -- albums to reach that sales threshold. At the present, with 2.10 million, it's only a little over 100,000 copies away from matching the sum of his first album, "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" (2.21 million).

-- Garth Brooks, "Blame It All On My Roots" - No. 40 - The box set has its first weekly sales gain (9,000; up 46%) since the SoundScan sales week ending December 22 (199,000; up 16%). Credit the uptick to Valentine's Day shopping and promotion by the album's exclusive retailer, Walmart.

-- Original Broadway Cast Recording, "Wicked" - No. 66 - Thanks to Valentine's Day sale pricing at iTunes for $6.99, the album sells 6,000 (up 152%) for the week. It's the largest sales week for a cast recording since "Kinky Boots" debuted with 7,000 on the June 15, 2013, chart. (It also doesn't hurt that much of the "Wicked" album is voiced by Idina Menzel, who also is a key player in the success of the movie "Frozen" and its soundtrack.)

-- Neil Finn, "Dizzy Heights" - No. 130 - The Crowded House front man charts his first entry as a soloist on the Billboard 200 with this release, which also bows at No. 22 on Alternative Albums. This month in 1987, Crowded House was rising up the top 40 on the Hot 100 with its first hit, the eventual No. 2-peaking "Don't Dream It's Over."

-- The Beatles, "1962-1966" - No. 154 - The Beatles' catalog of albums see large sales gains this week thanks to CBS' concert special "The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles." The show premiered on Feb. 9, and then repeated on Feb. 12. This title is up by 104%.

-- Queen, "Greatest Hits" - No. 176 - The album was recently announced as the first to sell more than six million copies in the U.K., according to the Official U.K. Charts Company. In the U.S., it is the band's biggest-selling album, as well (7.2 million).

[areyoureadytojump]

5,392,000 albums were sold in the USA last week.

2,203,000 were digital albums.

3,189,000 were cds/vinyl albums/cassettes.

www1.billboard.biz/bbbiz/photos/pdf/2013/current.pdf

Album sales are down -15.9% for 2014

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Top Rock Albums

1 3 76 Night Visions Imagine Dragons
2 2 20 Pure Heroine Lorde
3 5 24 Bad Blood Bastille
4 New 1 +++ Crosses
5 6 29 All The Little Lights Passenger
6 1 2 After The Disco Broken Bells
7 10 23 AM Arctic Monkeys
8 New 1 Acoustic At The Ryman Band Of Horses
9 12 107 Born To Die Lana Del Rey
10 11 5 High Hopes Bruce Springsteen
11 14 44 Save Rock And Roll Fall Out Boy
12 8 3 Restoring Force Of Mice & Men
13 New 1 Between The Bars (EP) The Civil Wars
14 New 1 Sweetheart 2014 Various Artists
15 21 13 The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell: Volume 2 Five Finger Death Punch
16 New 1 Benji Sun Kil Moon
17 20 25 Hail To The King Avenged Sevenfold
18 17 42 I Love You. The Neighbourhood
19 28 13 The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 Nickelback
20 New 1 You're Gonna Miss It All Modern Baseball
21 24 13 Baptized Daughtry
22 New 1 Ledges Noah Gundersen
23 26 73 Babel Mumford & Sons
24 New 1 Glory Kutless
25 16 5 Fading West Switch foot

26 4 2 Hydra Within Temptation
27 22 4 Mind Over Matter Young The Giant
28 31 28 Rise Skillet
29 New 1 Girls: Volume 2 Soundtrack
30 New 1 Dizzy HEIGHTS Neil Finn
31 45 28 The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell: Volume 1 Five Finger Death Punch
32 30 13 The 1975 The 1975
33 9 2 Satanist Behemoth
34 23 14 Inside Llewyn Davis Soundtrack
35 34 11 Common Courtesy A Day To Remember
36 33 21 Mechanical Bull Kings Of Leon
37 15 3 Croz David Crosby
38 Re-Entry 10 On Air: Live At The BBC Volume 2 The Beatles
39 35 98 My Head Is An Animal Of Monsters And Men
40 32 34 Modern Vampires Of The City Vampire Weekend
41 New 1 Small Town Heroes Hurray For The Riff Raff
42 41 19 Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die! Panic! At The Disco
43 36 92 The Lumineers The Lumineers
44 New 1 Sun Structures Temples
45 New 1 Broods (EP) Broods
46 New 1 Hotel Valentine Cibo Matto
47 49 21 From Here To Now To You Jack Johnson
48 43 29 Blood In This Moment
49 40 16 Reflektor Arcade Fire
50 Re-Entry 16 Lightning Bolt Pearl Jam

^All are on the Billboard 200 this week

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

1 2 10 Beyonce Beyonce
2 1 2 Love, Marriage & Divorce Toni Braxton & Babyface
3 3 16 The Marshall Mathers LP 2 Eminem
4 5 22 Nothing Was The Same Drake
5 7 24 Love In The Future John Legend
6 8 20 The 20/20 Experience (2 Of 2) Justin Timberlake
7 6 10 Black Panties R. Kelly
8 4 71 The Heist Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
9 10 14 Sail Out (EP) Jhene Aiko
10 9 69 good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
11 14 24 Love And War Tamar Braxton
12 16 30 Blurred Lines Robin Thicke
13 13 6 My Own Lane Kid Ink
14 15 27 Rebellious Soul K. Michelle
15 12 10 Because The Internet Childish Gambino
16 17 13 I Am Yo Gotti
17 18 49 The 20/20 Experience Justin Timberlake
18 11 2 Unconditional Love Ruben Studdard
19 19 9 Underground Luxury B.o.B
20 20 32 Magna Carta... Holy Grail Jay Z
21 New 1 Days + Nights Daley
22 24 26 Three Kings TGT
23 22 25 Stay Trippy Juicy J
24 21 5 Give The People What They Want Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings

^The above albums are on the BB200 this week

25 New 1 The Rebirth Eric Bellinger

26 26 65 Unapologetic Rihanna
27 23 11 Call Me Crazy, But... (EP) Sevyn Streeter
28 28 2 NOW That's What I Call Slow Jams Various Artists
29 33 23 B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME 2 Chainz
30 25 23 The Electric Lady Janelle Monae
31 29 35 Born Sinner J. Cole
32 27 35 Yeezus Kanye West
33 34 24 Downtown: Life Under The Gun (EP) August Alsina
34 31 57 Long.Live.A$AP A$AP Rocky
35 39 66 Trilogy The Weeknd
36 43 24 Appreciation Day Jaheim
37 47 26 Something Else Tech N9ne
38 36 31 Hits Of The 90's Various Artists
39 41 69 Kaleidoscope Dream Miguel
40 38 23 Kiss Land The Weeknd
41 42 24 Trap Lord A$AP Ferg
42 32 4 Beach House (EP) Ty Dolla $ign
43 49 46 I Am Not A Human Being II Lil Wayne
44 35 3 Cilvia: Demo Isaiah Rashad
45 Re-Entry 57 O.N.I.F.C. Wiz Khalifa
46 37 18 20 TLC
47 30 3 Recovery Algebra Blessett
48 Re-Entry 17 MMG: Self Made 3 Various Artists
49 Re-Entry 24 Talk A Good Game Kelly Rowland
50 48 30 Watching Movies With The Sound Off Mac Miller

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Top Country Albums

1 New 1 The Outsiders Eric Church
2 1 63 Here's To The Good Times Florida Georgia Line
3 2 28 Crash My Party Luke Bryan
4 3 5 That Girl Jennifer Nettles
5 New 1 Sunshine & Whiskey Frankie Ballard
6 6 12 Blame It All On My Roots: Five Decades Of Influences Garth Brooks
7 5 48 Same Trailer Different Park Kacey Musgraves
8 8 47 Based On A True Story ... Blake Shelton
9 9 70 Night Train Jason Aldean
10 12 4 NOW That's What I Call Country Ballads 2 Various Artists
11 13 23 Fuse Keith Urban
12 New 1 4 Album Collection Eric Church
13 15 123 Hunter Hayes Hunter Hayes
14 7 19 Bakersfield Vince Gill & Paul Franklin
15 17 16 It Goes Like This Thomas Rhett
16 16 41 Golden Lady Antebellum
17 14 69 Red Taylor Swift
18 11 5 The River & The Thread Rosanne Cash
19 18 22 Off The Beaten Path Justin Moore
20 23 18 See You Tonight Scotty McCreery
21 4 2 Eric Paslay Eric Paslay
22 27 20 Redneck Crazy Tyler Farr
23 21 84 Uncaged Zac Brown Band
24 20 39 True Believers Darius Rucker
25 28 11 Days Of Gold Jake Owen

26 10 2 Early Morning Shakes Whiskey Myers
27 35 22 A.M. Chris Young
28 31 19 Frame By Frame Cassadee Pope
29 36 95 Hard 2 Love Lee Brice
30 24 5 Write You A Song Jon Pardi

^The above albums are on the BB200 this week

31 26 46 Pioneer The Band Perry
32 38 45 Caught In The Act: Live Eric Church
33 30 12 Danielle Bradbery Danielle Bradbery
34 33 40 Love Is Everything George Strait
35 32 10 Feels Like Carolina Parmalee
36 29 75 Tornado Little Big Town
37 19 2 Love Story Tim McGraw
38 25 10 Nashville: Season 2: Volume 1 Soundtrack
39 48 36 NOW That's What I Call Country Volume 6 Various Artists
40 34 17 Ready Set Roll (EP) Chase Rice
41 37 18 To All The Girls... Willie Nelson
42 46 51 How Country Feels Randy Houser
43 Re-Entry 24 Bring You Back Brett Eldredge
44 44 54 Two Lanes Of Freedom Tim McGraw
45 45 16 Drinks After Work Toby Keith
46 43 54 Set You Free Gary Allan
47 22 2 Calicountry Moonshine Bandits
48 41 21 The Bluegrass Album Alan Jackson
49 47 11 4 Album Collection Luke Bryan
50 New 1 Dylan Scott (EP) Dylan Scott

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Folk Albums

1 1 59 All The Little Lights Passenger
2 New 1 Acoustic At The Ryman Band Of Horses
3 Re-Entry 2 Between The Bars (EP) The Civil Wars
4 19 2 Sweetheart 2014 Various Artists
5 New 1 Benji Sun Kil Moon
6 2 5 The River & The Thread Rosanne Cash
7 New 1 Ledges Noah Gundersen
8 5 73 Babel Mumford & Sons
9 4 15 Inside Llewyn Davis Soundtrack
10 3 3 Croz David Crosby
11 6 92 The Lumineers The Lumineers
12 8 22 From Here To Now To You Jack Johnson

^The above albums are on the BB200 this week

13 New 1 Utah: A Collection Of Recorded Moments From The Wasatch Mountains Jamestown Revival
14 11 28 The Civil Wars The Civil Wars
15 10 26 Paradise Valley John Mayer
16 9 26 The Lost Recordings Jim Croce
17 New 1 I Was Going To Be An Astronaut Greg Laswell
18 14 17 God Of Every Story Laura Story
19 13 18 Let's Be Still The Head And The Heart
20 18 18 Magpie And The Dandelion The Avett Brothers
21 12 10 Live At The Cellar Door Neil Young
22 New 1 The Lights From The Chemical Plant Robert Ellis
23 Re-Entry 18 Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song Amos Lee
24 22 4 Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son Damien Jurado
25 15 3 The Essential Pete Seeger Pete Seeger