Billboard 200: 6/27/15: Muse 84,000

[Daryl the Beryl]

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6598303/muse-first-no-1-album-billboard-200-chart

Muse Earns Its First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart
By Keith Caulfield | June 17, 2015

British rock band Muse achieves its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as its seventh studio effort, Drones, bows atop the list. The set -- which was released on June 8 through Helium-3/Warner Bros. Records -- moved 84,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 14, according to Nielsen Music.

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).

Drones’ first week was driven largely by traditional album sales, as the set also starts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart with 79,000 copies sold.

The group had previously topped out at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, with its 2012 album The 2nd Law. It debuted and peaked in the runner-up slot. Muse formed in 1994 and charted its first Billboard hits 10 years later with the album Absolution and the single “Time Is Running Out.” In total, the band has collected eight charting albums on the Billboard 200 (six studio efforts, plus two live concert sets).

Last week’s No. 1 album, Florence + The Machine’s chart-topping debut How Big How Blue How Beautiful, slips to No. 4 in its second week, with 37,000 units (down 73 percent).

With Muse replacing fellow British rock band Florence + The Machine at No. 1, it’s the chart’s first instance of back-to-back No. 1 debuts from British acts. (The Billboard 200’s regularly published weekly chart history dates back to 1956.)

Further, the last time there were back-to-back British bands at No. 1 was nearly 30 years ago, when Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms rose 5-1 in its 13th chart week, bumping Tears For Fears’ Songs From the Big Chair 1-2 in its 22nd week.

More Brits-atop-the-chart factoids: the last time a British act replaced another British act at No. 1 (solo, group, band or otherwise) was on Nov. 12, 2011, when rock group Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto debuted atop the list, temporarily displacing diva Adele’s 21 from the top slot (moving 1-4). Finally, the last time two British groups went back to back was on July 19, 1997, when the electronic dance group The Prodigy bowed at No. 1 with The Fat of the Land, pushing pop vocal group Spice Girls down 1-3 with Spice.

Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, Taylor Swift’s 1989 stays put at No. 2 with 64,000 units (down 2 percent).

In the No. 3 slot is Icelandic rock band Of Monsters and Men, which debuts with its new album Beneath the Skin (61,000 units; 57,000 in pure album sales). It’s the highest charting album yet for the group, and their best sales week ever -- surpassing the debut and peak of their last album, 2012’s My Head Is An Animal (which bowed at No. 6 with their previous best sales frame: 55,000).

Another British rock band, The Rolling Stones, re-enters at No. 5 with their classic former No. 1 Sticky Fingers (36,000 units; 34,000 in pure album sales). The album, which spent four weeks atop the list shortly after its release in 1971, has been absent from the tally since 1981. This is its highest rank since Aug. 14, 1971, when it was No. 5. The album was reissued on June 9 in a variety of deluxe, remastered and expanded editions, thus sparking its return to the chart. For charting and sales tracking purposes, nearly all versions of the album are merged together on Billboard’s charts and in Nielsen Music’s database. (However, one of Sticky Fingers’ new editions -- dubbed the super deluxe version -- tracks separately due to its additional extra content. It debuts at No. 65 with 9,000 units, nearly all from album sales.)

The Sticky Fingers redux is the third expansive reissue the Stones have released in recent years, following 2010’s reboot of its 1972 No. 1 Exile On Main St. and the 2011 reissue of the 1978 No. 1 Some Girls. The former returned to the chart at No. 2, while the latter came back in at No. 46.

Ed Sheeran’s x descends 5-6 with 34,000 units (down 7 percent) in its 51st chart week. The British singer/songwriter is one of five European acts in the top six on the chart — only American-born Swift (at No. 2) is the lone non-European act in the region.

As for the rest of the top 10: Sam Hunt’s Montevallo moves 31,000 units (up 11 percent) to grow 13-7 — its highest chart rank since its debut week (Nov. 15, 2014 at No. 3). Hunt’s rise is owed to buzz generated by the CMT Awards (June 10) where he won breakthrough video of the year (for “Leave the Night On”) and performed his single “House Party.”

A$AP Rocky dips 3-8 with At.Long.Last.A$AP (just over 29,000 units; down 42 percent), Maroon 5’s V rises 10-9 (29,000 units; down 3 percent) and Meghan Trainor’s Title drops 8-10 (27,000 units; down 10 percent).

[Enigma.]

Why did Royal Blood re-enter?

[Gary]

bb200

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Drones, Muse 1
2 2 2 33 1989, Taylor Swift 1
3 0 New 1 Beneath The Skin, Of Monsters And Men 3
4 1 – 2 How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 1
5 0 Re-Entry 63 Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones 1
6 5 7 51 x, Ed Sheeran 1
7 13 12 33 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
8 3 1 3 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
9 10 11 41 V, Maroon 5 1
10 8 8 22 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
11 6 4 5 Pitch Perfect 2, Soundtrack 1
12 9 17 7 JEKYLL + HYDE, Zac Brown Band 1
13 11 6 4 Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
14 16 9 18 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
15 17 10 13 Furious 7, Soundtrack 1
16 19 16 18 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
17 0 Re-Entry 6 Royal Blood, Royal Blood 17
18 20 15 52 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
19 18 14 6 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
20 0 New 1 Southernality, A Thousand Horses 20
21 26 20 21 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
22 0 New 1 NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 8, Various Artists 22
23 4 – 2 Everything Is 4, Jason Derulo 4
24 25 19 26 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 2
25 24 21 28 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 14
26 28 25 19 Magazines Or Novels, Andy Grammer 19
27 0 New 1 Love Life, Tamia 27
28 27 22 34 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
29 12 – 2 Peace Is The Mission, Major Lazer 12
30 45 62 5 GG Fight Song (EP), Rachel Platten 30
31 41 41 70 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
32 7 – 2 Django And Jimmie, Willie Nelson / Merle Haggard 7
33 34 29 19 Reflection, Fifth Harmony 5
34 32 24 28 Listen, David Guetta 4
35 29 13 7 Stages, Josh Groban 2
36 33 28 37 Queen Of The Clouds, Tove Lo 14
37 31 18 56 Just As I Am, Brantley Gilbert 2
38 47 42 35 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
39 36 31 36 Hozier, Hozier 2
40 0 New 1 Cauterize, Tremonti 40
41 39 39 16 Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack U, Skrillex & Diplo 26
42 30 23 6 NOW 54, Various Artists 3
43 48 36 13 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
44 35 34 9 Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
45 0 New 1 Pharmacy, Galantis 45
46 38 38 46 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
47 42 35 27 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
48 22 3 3 Touch Down 2 Cause Hell, Boosie BadAzz 3
49 52 44 8 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
50 50 45 22 Uptown Special., Mark Ronson 5
51 44 37 16 Dark Sky Paradise, Big Sean 1
52 54 63 36 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
53 59 54 27 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4
54 49 43 42 My Everything, Ariana Grande 1
55 15 – 2 Summer Forever, Billy Currington 15
56 51 40 29 Globalization, Pitbull 18
57 53 53 23 SremmLife, Rae Sremmurd 5
58 56 56 17 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
59 58 51 121 Pitch Perfect, Soundtrack 3
60 55 48 37 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
61 57 50 20 Wanted On Voyage, George Ezra 19
62 62 59 96 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
63 67 67 145 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 2
64 60 57 36 Talking Dreams, Echosmith 38
65 0 New 1 Sticky Fingers (Super Deluxe), The Rolling Stones 65
66 70 55 46 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
67 74 64 132 Here's To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line 4
68 43 5 3 Empires, Hillsong UNITED 5
69 46 – 2 Silverball, Barenaked Ladies 46
70 69 81 8 Love Story, YelaWolf 3
71 73 65 4 The First Time, Kelsea Ballerini 31
72 21 – 2 In Colour, Jamie xx 21
73 75 68 176 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
74 72 61 10 My House (EP), Flo Rida 14
75 76 33 4 True Colors, Zedd 4
76 68 60 14 Spring Break... Checkin' Out, Luke Bryan 3
77 84 75 368 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
78 88 89 67 Trilogy, The Weeknd 4
79 64 49 6 Special Effects, Tech N9ne 4
80 14 – 2 Remember My Name, Lil Durk 14
81 66 46 31 Nick Jonas, Nick Jonas 6
82 86 74 31 Greatest Hits So Far..., Zac Brown Band 20
83 80 70 43 Vessel, twenty one pilots 58
84 71 52 14 Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1, Soundtrack 1
85 83 76 40 Dream Your Life Away, Vance Joy 17
86 87 86 230 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 3
87 85 90 137 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 2
88 78 91 219 The Eminem Show, Eminem 1
89 106 100 38 The Big Revival, Kenny Chesney 2
90 79 71 148 +, Ed Sheeran 5
91 81 124 119 Take Care, Drake 1
92 89 78 32 Motion, Calvin Harris 5
93 139 138 8 Ultimate Sinatra, Frank Sinatra 32
94 97 87 67 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell 3
95 90 84 41 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
96 163 66 133 PS The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 53
97 96 97 46 Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You, Queen 42
98 107 83 11 The Album About Nothing, Wale 1
99 101 134 89 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 14
100 93 105 116 Native, OneRepublic 4
101 61 32 4 Hollywood: A Story Of A Dozen Roses, Jamie Foxx 10
102 99 109 48 These Things Happen, G-Eazy 3
103 102 93 30 FOUR, One Direction 1
104 100 115 169 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, Eagles 1
105 110 101 112 Save Rock And Roll, Fall Out Boy 1
106 95 85 360 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 10
107 0 New 1 Fun Home: A New Broadway Music, The Broadway Cast Recording 107
108 160 152 98 Greatest Hits, 2Pac 3
109 111 112 38 Sundown Heaven Town, Tim McGraw 3
110 103 102 87 Nothing Was The Same, Drake 1
111 135 107 245 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 1
112 108 96 79 Beyonce, Beyonce 1
113 0 New 1 Ten Songs From Live At Carnegie Hall, Ryan Adams 113
114 0 New 1 Finding Neverland: The Album, Various Artists 114
115 113 95 113 Red, Taylor Swift 1
116 118 123 17 Sex Playlist, Omarion 49
117 158 103 96 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 11
118 104 94 19 NOW 53, Various Artists 2
119 114 114 81 Frozen, Soundtrack 1
120 122 153 19 Full Speed, Kid Ink 14
121 0 New 1 Folks Like Us, Montgomery Gentry 121
122 115 111 225 21, Adele 1
123 130 161 87 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 29
124 40 – 2 You Shall Live, Marvin Sapp 40
125 112 73 9 Love Somebody, Reba 3
126 0 New 1 Jurassic World, Soundtrack 126
127 123 116 85 PRISM, Katy Perry 1
128 131 121 43 Blacc Hollywood, Wiz Khalifa 1
129 119 127 84 The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem 1
130 0 New 1 The King & I, The 2015 Broadway Cast Recording 130
131 129 129 92 AM, Arctic Monkeys 6
132 137 125 11 Southern Style, Darius Rucker 7
133 159 155 193 Tailgates & Tanlines, Luke Bryan 2
134 134 170 76 Because The Internet, Childish Gambino 7
135 117 99 12 Kidz Bop 28, Kidz Bop Kids 10
136 147 136 124 Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars 1
137 109 – 2 Major Without A Deal, Troy Ave 109
138 133 118 16 Fan Of A Fan: The Album, Chris Brown & Tyga 7
139 132 119 54 Platinum, Miranda Lambert 1
140 138 135 201 Mothership, Led Zeppelin 7
141 136 181 127 The Very Best Of The Beach Boys: Sounds Of Summer, The Beach Boys 16
142 154 143 317 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 3
143 92 58 4 #1 To Infinity, Mariah Carey 29
144 0 Re-Entry 148 Chief, Eric Church 1
145 140 126 232 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 22
146 0 Re-Entry 85 Bad Blood, Bastille 11
147 121 72 7 Suffer In Peace, Tyler Farr 4
148 143 145 26 Luca Brasi 2: A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition, Kevin Gates 38
149 91 27 3 Outlaw In Me, The Lacs 27
150 150 – 122 Dr. Dre -- 2001, Dr. Dre 2
151 120 108 15 Piece By Piece, Kelly Clarkson 1
152 142 165 116 Based On A True Story ..., Blake Shelton 3
153 176 – 85 ...And Justice For All, Metallica 6
154 0 New 1 DC To Light, Morgan Page 154
155 0 Re-Entry 96 Ultimate Hits, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 19
156 0 Re-Entry 30 Restart, newsboys 38
157 151 – 117 Bad, Michael Jackson 1
158 169 157 39 X, Chris Brown 2
159 149 141 215 Teenage Dream, Katy Perry 1
160 164 – 59 Graduation, Kanye West 1
161 195 180 69 Greatest Hits, Red Hot Chili Peppers 18
162 162 160 182 Back In Black, AC/DC 4
163 145 139 25 Reclassified, Iggy Azalea 16
164 141 113 88 MTV Unplugged In New York, Nirvana 1
165 173 – 31 Almost Famous, Soundtrack 43
166 127 140 59 Talk Dirty, Jason Derulo 4
167 144 – 63 4, Beyonce 1
168 170 148 110 Number One Hits, Tim McGraw 27
169 37 – 2 All Your Favorite Bands, Dawes 37
170 186 158 50 Ultraviolence, Lana Del Rey 1
171 0 Re-Entry 6 In Return, ODESZA 42
172 177 144 12 Chaos And The Calm, James Bay 15
173 98 – 2 Under One Sky, The Tenors 98
174 156 110 299 Nevermind, Nirvana 1
175 189 163 89 Pure Heroine, Lorde 3
176 0 New 1 Welcome To Cam Country (EP), Cam 176
177 180 – 7 Love Stuff, Elle King 45
178 161 171 35 Family, Lynyrd Skynyrd 154
179 0 Re-Entry 10 Run, AWOLNATION 17
180 174 168 71 The Wrong Side Of Heaven...Volume 1, Five Finger Death Punch 2
181 188 167 46 5 Seconds Of Summer, 5 Seconds Of Summer 1
182 157 142 6 NOW That's What I Call #1's, Various Artists 34
183 0 Re-Entry 29 747, Lady Antebellum 2
184 168 177 194 Recovery, Eminem 1
185 0 Re-Entry 106 Babel, Mumford & Sons 1
186 128 130 255 Hot Rocks 1964-1971, The Rolling Stones 4
187 0 Re-Entry 71 Dazed And Confused, Soundtrack 70
188 198 188 65 Riser, Dierks Bentley 6
189 165 149 9 Into The Wild Life, Halestorm 5
190 182 – 46 Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys 10
191 179 172 158 Red River Blue, Blake Shelton 1
192 184 – 7 How Can It Be, Lauren Daigle 30
193 0 New 1 Hear, North Point InsideOut 193
194 185 187 351 Metallica, Metallica 1
195 190 132 234 Fearless, Taylor Swift 1
196 193 156 103 Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney 3
197 0 Re-Entry 128 Sublime, Sublime 13
198 0 Re-Entry 30 Sweet Talker, Jessie J 10
199 155 106 44 Long.Live.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
200 178 151 91 Love In The Future, John Legend 4

[Gary]

Vinyl

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 New 1 #1 1 wk Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones 1
2 0 New 1 Drones, Muse 2
3 1 – 2 In Colour, Jamie xx 1
4 0 New 1 Ten Songs From Live At Carnegie Hall, Ryan Adams 4
5 0 New 1 Ultimate Sinatra, Frank Sinatra 5
6 5 5 26 1989, Taylor Swift 1
7 4 4 8 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
8 23 – 2 Betty's Blends, Volume Two, Chris Robinson Brotherhood 8
9 13 12 63 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 1
10 0 New 1 Run The Jewels, Run The Jewels 10
11 12 11 143 Abbey Road, The Beatles 1
12 0 Re-Entry 10 Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens 1
13 11 13 82 AM, Arctic Monkeys 1
14 16 8 48 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 3
15 0 New 1 I Dont Want To Let You Down EP, Sharon Van Etten 15
16 17 15 43 Kind Of Blue, Miles Davis 3
17 10 7 6 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
18 2 – 2 How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 2
19 15 10 31 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 3
20 24 19 50 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
21 0 New 1 Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys 21
22 20 21 40 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles 1
23 9 3 3 Progeny: Highlights From Seventy-Two, Yes 3
24 0 Re-Entry 20 Back To Black, Amy Winehouse 1
25 3 – 2 All Your Favorite Bands, Dawes 3

[Gary]

Catalog

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Re-Entry 13 #1 1 wk Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones 1
2 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 Sticky Fingers (Super Deluxe), The Rolling Stones 2
3 1 1 42 GG Pitch Perfect, Soundtrack 1
4 3 6 476 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 3
5 2 3 403 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, Eagles 1
6 10 17 32 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 1
7 4 23 527 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 1
8 6 2 1167 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
9 9 – 511 ...And Justice For All, Metallica 3
10 7 7 13 Vessel, twenty one pilots 4
11 5 21 157 The Eminem Show, Eminem 2
12 0 Re-Entry 5 Restart, newsboys 12
13 8 8 70 +, Ed Sheeran 1
14 16 16 29 Here's To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line 5
15 11 15 3 Frozen, Soundtrack 11
16 15 34 51 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 1
17 22 19 39 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 3
18 24 38 137 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 1
19 12 5 34 Red, Taylor Swift 2
20 0 Re-Entry 43 Ultimate Hits, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 1
21 25 – 2 Almost Famous, Soundtrack 21
22 0 Re-Entry 99 Greatest Hits, 2Pac 15
23 26 – 12 The Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam, Dwight Yoakam 12
24 14 11 1010 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 1
25 28 – 20 The Very Best Of Travis Tritt, Travis Tritt 5
26 17 35 87 Bad, Michael Jackson 1
27 0 Re-Entry 70 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 2
28 23 18 1159 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 1
29 13 – 39 Take Care, Drake 2
30 18 20 79 21, Adele 1
31 27 24 863 Back In Black, AC/DC 1
32 19 37 30 Based On A True Story ..., Blake Shelton 15
33 32 – 8 Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys 8
34 20 9 11 MTV Unplugged In New York, Nirvana 1
35 31 27 10 AM, Arctic Monkeys 14
36 33 44 24 Icon: Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton 10
37 44 28 30 Save Rock And Roll, Fall Out Boy 1
38 30 26 96 The Ultimate Hits, Garth Brooks 1
39 39 – 170 The Very Best Of The Beach Boys: Sounds Of Summer, The Beach Boys 1
40 0 Re-Entry 33 Chief, Eric Church 8
41 21 33 40 Family, Lynyrd Skynyrd 16
42 37 – 28 Dr. Dre -- 2001, Dr. Dre 14
43 0 Re-Entry 24 Dazed And Confused, Soundtrack 32
44 0 New 1 Jurassic Park, Soundtrack 44
45 40 25 186 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 1
46 35 36 93 Red River Blue, Blake Shelton 2
47 43 30 887 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty 1
48 49 – 70 Dark Horse, Nickelback 12
49 0 Re-Entry 20 American Idiot, Green Day 10
50 47 – 148 Super Hits, Willie Nelson 12

[Gary]

digital

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Drones, Muse 1
2 0 New 1 Beneath The Skin, Of Monsters And Men 2
3 0 Re-Entry 2 Royal Blood, Royal Blood 3
4 4 5 33 1989, Taylor Swift 1
5 1 – 2 How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 1
6 7 4 5 Pitch Perfect 2, Soundtrack 1
7 2 1 3 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
8 11 6 4 Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
9 0 New 1 Southernality, A Thousand Horses 9
10 14 7 6 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
11 0 New 1 Pharmacy, Galantis 11
12 0 New 1 Love Life, Tamia 12
13 18 12 33 GG Montevallo, Sam Hunt 2
14 15 10 50 x, Ed Sheeran 1
15 13 – 2 Silverball, Barenaked Ladies 13
16 16 9 7 JEKYLL + HYDE, Zac Brown Band 1
17 0 New 1 Sticky Fingers (Super Deluxe), The Rolling Stones 17
18 0 New 1 Cauterize, Tremonti 18
19 0 Re-Entry 38 Pitch Perfect, Soundtrack 1
20 0 Re-Entry 10 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
21 21 14 18 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
22 0 Re-Entry 13 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
23 0 Re-Entry 6 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
24 0 Re-Entry 17 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
25 0 Re-Entry 36 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1

[Gary]

Top Current

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Drones, Muse 1
2 0 New 1 Beneath The Skin, Of Monsters And Men 2
3 2 5 33 1989, Taylor Swift 1
4 1 – 2 How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 1
5 0 Re-Entry 12 Royal Blood, Royal Blood 5
6 0 New 1 NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 8, Various Artists 6
7 6 12 7 JEKYLL + HYDE, Zac Brown Band 1
8 0 New 1 Southernality, A Thousand Horses 8
9 7 4 5 Pitch Perfect 2, Soundtrack 1
10 14 9 51 x, Ed Sheeran 1
11 3 1 3 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
12 15 8 6 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
13 11 6 4 Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
14 0 New 1 Love Life, Tamia 14
15 20 17 33 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
16 4 – 2 Django And Jimmie, Willie Nelson / Merle Haggard 4
17 16 7 7 Stages, Josh Groban 2
18 19 10 22 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
19 17 11 6 NOW 54, Various Artists 3
20 0 New 1 Cauterize, Tremonti 20
21 21 15 18 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
22 23 18 52 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
23 13 2 3 Touch Down 2 Cause Hell, Boosie BadAzz 2
24 30 21 8 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
25 31 26 41 V, Maroon 5 1
26 34 27 21 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
27 33 24 46 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
28 28 20 18 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
29 26 13 49 Just As I Am, Brantley Gilbert 2
30 39 28 13 PS To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
31 0 New 1 Pharmacy, Galantis 31
32 37 31 70 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
33 25 – 2 Silverball, Barenaked Ladies 25
34 29 23 26 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
35 9 – 2 Summer Forever, Billy Currington 9
36 40 32 36 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
37 46 46 17 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
38 53 47 35 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
39 43 55 8 Love Story, YelaWolf 2
40 42 35 36 Hozier, Hozier 2
41 27 3 3 Empires, Hillsong UNITED 3
42 8 – 2 Everything Is 4, Jason Derulo 8
43 12 – 2 In Colour, Jamie xx 12
44 47 34 27 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
45 50 44 19 NOW 53, Various Artists 1
46 44 45 9 Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
47 0 New 1 Ten Songs From Live At Carnegie Hall, Ryan Adams 47
48 0 New 1 Fun Home: A New Broadway Music, The Broadway Cast Recording 48
49 51 42 14 Spring Break... Checkin' Out, Luke Bryan 3
50 5 – 2 Remember My Name, Lil Durk 5
51 24 – 2 You Shall Live, Marvin Sapp 24
52 52 30 14 Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1, Soundtrack 2
53 36 19 4 Hollywood: A Story Of A Dozen Roses, Jamie Foxx 5
54 100 86 8 GG Ultimate Sinatra, Frank Sinatra 20
55 0 New 1 The King & I, The 2015 Broadway Cast Recording 55
56 0 New 1 Folks Like Us, Montgomery Gentry 56
57 0 New 1 Finding Neverland: The Album, Various Artists 57
58 0 New 1 Jurassic World, Soundtrack 58
59 66 60 96 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
60 58 52 12 Kidz Bop 28, Kidz Bop Kids 4
61 49 16 3 Outlaw In Me, The Lacs 16
62 59 39 13 Furious 7, Soundtrack 2
63 0 New 1 DC To Light, Morgan Page 63
64 65 53 4 The First Time, Kelsea Ballerini 22
65 83 77 27 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4
66 75 63 8 Magazines Or Novels, Andy Grammer 27
67 74 66 26 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 23
68 18 – 2 Peace Is The Mission, Major Lazer 18
69 63 56 6 NOW That's What I Call #1's, Various Artists 18
70 64 58 43 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
71 48 – 2 Under One Sky, The Tenors 48
72 55 36 6 Special Effects, Tech N9ne 4
73 60 37 9 Love Somebody, Reba 2
74 22 – 2 All Your Favorite Bands, Dawes 22
75 76 61 11 Southern Style, Darius Rucker 4
76 70 57 26 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 3
77 77 72 40 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
78 0 New 1 Hear, North Point InsideOut 78
79 78 74 32 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
80 62 – 2 Major Without A Deal, Troy Ave 62
81 82 73 16 Wanted On Voyage, George Ezra 17
82 80 70 9 Into The Wild Life, Halestorm 3
83 0 Re-Entry 25 The Big Revival, Kenny Chesney 2
84 0 New 1 Ones And Zeros, Young Guns 84
85 84 29 4 True Colors, Zedd 4
86 79 54 7 Suffer In Peace, Tyler Farr 3
87 92 81 60 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell 3
88 81 48 6 Traveller, Chris Stapleton 8
89 91 80 37 WOW Hits 2015, Various Artists 23
90 94 – 15 SremmLife, Rae Sremmurd 4
91 0 Re-Entry 10 The Album About Nothing, Wale 1
92 0 Re-Entry 11 Lead Us Back: Songs Of Worship, Third Day 13
93 0 New 1 I Dont Want To Let You Down EP, Sharon Van Etten 93
94 95 – 7 How Can It Be, Lauren Daigle 16
95 93 69 16 Dark Sky Paradise, Big Sean 1
96 0 New 1 FFS, FFS 96
97 96 87 19 Queen Of The Clouds, Tove Lo 14
98 0 Re-Entry 23 Greatest Hits So Far..., Zac Brown Band 19
99 89 – 2 Benedicta: Marian Chant From Norcia, The Monks Of Norcia 89
100 0 New 1 Pete Townshend's Classic Quadrophenia, Pete Townshend/Alfie Boe/Billy Idol/Phil Daniels/The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Ziegler 100

[Daryl the Beryl]

Jun 18, 2015 5:34:01 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Why did Royal Blood re-enter?

iTunes discount

[Gary]

TAS

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wk Drones, Muse 1
2 – – 1 Beneath The Skin, Of Monsters And Men 2
3 – – 1 Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones 3
4 2 5 33 1989, Taylor Swift 1
5 1 – 2 How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 1
6 0 Re-Entry 6 Royal Blood, Royal Blood 6
7 – – 1 NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 8, Various Artists 7
8 6 12 7 JEKYLL + HYDE, Zac Brown Band 1
9 – – 1 Southernality, A Thousand Horses 9
10 7 4 5 Pitch Perfect 2, Soundtrack 1
11 14 9 51 x, Ed Sheeran 1
12 3 1 3 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
13 15 8 6 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
14 11 6 4 Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
15 – – 1 Love Life, Tamia 15
16 20 17 33 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3
17 4 – 2 Django And Jimmie, Willie Nelson / Merle Haggard 4
18 16 7 7 Stages, Josh Groban 2
19 19 10 22 Title, Meghan Trainor 1
20 17 11 6 NOW 54, Various Artists 3
21 – – 1 Cauterize, Tremonti 21
22 21 15 18 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
23 23 18 52 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
24 13 2 3 Touch Down 2 Cause Hell, Boosie BadAzz 2
25 30 21 8 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
26 31 26 41 V, Maroon 5 1
27 34 27 21 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
28 33 24 46 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
29 28 20 18 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
30 26 13 42 Just As I Am, Brantley Gilbert 2
31 39 28 13 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
32 – – 1 Pharmacy, Galantis 32
33 37 31 69 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
34 – – 1 Sticky Fingers (Super Deluxe), The Rolling Stones 34
35 25 – 2 Silverball, Barenaked Ladies 25
36 29 23 20 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
37 9 – 2 Summer Forever, Billy Currington 9
38 46 46 105 Pitch Perfect, Soundtrack 3
39 40 32 36 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
40 47 47 17 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
41 54 48 35 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
42 43 56 8 Love Story, YelaWolf 2
43 42 35 36 Hozier, Hozier 2
44 27 3 3 Empires, Hillsong UNITED 3
45 8 – 2 Everything Is 4, Jason Derulo 8
46 12 – 2 In Colour, Jamie xx 12
47 48 34 27 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
48 51 44 19 NOW 53, Various Artists 1
49 44 45 9 Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
50 – – 1 Ten Songs From Live At Carnegie Hall, Ryan Adams 50
51 – – 1 Fun Home: A New Broadway Music, The Broadway Cast Recording 51
52 52 42 14 Spring Break... Checkin' Out, Luke Bryan 3
53 5 – 2 Remember My Name, Lil Durk 5
54 24 – 2 You Shall Live, Marvin Sapp 24
55 53 30 14 Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1, Soundtrack 2
56 36 19 4 Hollywood: A Story Of A Dozen Roses, Jamie Foxx 5
57 0 Re-Entry 6 Ultimate Sinatra, Frank Sinatra 20
58 – – 1 The King & I, The 2015 Broadway Cast Recording 58
59 63 73 15 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 59
60 – – 1 Folks Like Us, Montgomery Gentry 60
61 60 68 35 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, Eagles 60
62 – – 1 Finding Neverland: The Album, Various Artists 62
63 – – 1 Jurassic World, Soundtrack 63
64 91 96 138 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 2
65 70 61 96 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
66 69 – 57 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 29
67 59 53 12 Kidz Bop 28, Kidz Bop Kids 4
68 75 67 260 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
69 50 16 3 Outlaw In Me, The Lacs 16
70 61 39 13 Furious 7, Soundtrack 2
71 – – 1 DC To Light, Morgan Page 71
72 68 54 4 The First Time, Kelsea Ballerini 22
73 93 85 27 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4
74 81 64 6 Magazines Or Novels, Andy Grammer 27
75 80 70 22 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 26
76 18 – 2 Peace Is The Mission, Major Lazer 18
77 86 – 2 ...And Justice For All, Metallica 77
78 66 57 6 NOW That's What I Call #1's, Various Artists 18
79 67 59 41 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
80 49 – 2 Under One Sky, The Tenors 49
81 56 36 6 Special Effects, Tech N9ne 4
82 62 37 9 Love Somebody, Reba 2
83 22 – 2 All Your Favorite Bands, Dawes 22
84 82 62 11 Southern Style, Darius Rucker 4
85 83 75 34 Vessel, twenty one pilots 58
86 74 – 194 The Eminem Show, Eminem 1
87 76 58 26 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 3
88 0 Re-Entry 28 Restart, newsboys 38
89 85 80 35 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
90 – – 1 Hear, North Point InsideOut 90
91 87 82 30 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
92 65 – 2 Major Without A Deal, Troy Ave 65
93 92 81 15 Wanted On Voyage, George Ezra 17
94 84 76 141 +, Ed Sheeran 5
95 0 Re-Entry 114 Here's To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line 4
96 95 93 80 Frozen, Soundtrack 1
97 89 78 9 Into The Wild Life, Halestorm 3
98 0 Re-Entry 115 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 2
99 0 Re-Entry 154 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
100 0 Re-Entry 208 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 3

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*Top 25 happy*

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hiphopdx.com/news/id.34300/title.hip-hop-album-sales-aap-rocky-drake-diplo

Hip Hop Album Sales: A$AP Rocky, Drake & Diplo
by DANIELLE HARLING

posted Wednesday June 17, 2015

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 06/14/2015

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.

#8. A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.A$AP - 29,136 (16,275) [13,514,851]

#15. Various Artists – Furious 7 Soundtrack - 23,484 (4,054) [6,651,906]

#16. Drake – If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late - 22,385 (8,545) [13,618,915]

#18. Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour - 21,642 (10,877) [7,828,295]

#23. Jason Derulo – Everything Is 4 - 18,741 (6,120) [4,990,428]

#24. Nicki Minaj – The Pinkprint - 18,370 (3,554) [9,447,023]

#27. Tamia – Love Life - 17,258 (15,684) [679,419]

#29. Major Lazer – Peace Is The Mission - 15,925 (3,945) [6,730,536]

#34. David Guetta – Listen - 14,268 (1,470) [5,045,253]

#41. Skrillex & Diplo - Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack U - 13,161 (1,771) [5,575,417]

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www.metalinsider.net/columns/metal-by-numbers/metal-by-numbers-618-tremonti-on-top

Metal By Numbers 6/18: Tremonti on top
Posted by Matt Brown on June 18, 2015

Notable Debuts:

Tremonti, Cauterize (Fret12) #20, 13,075 sold

Ex-Creed/current Alter Bridge guitarist releases his second solo album, which manages to outdo his first.



Lorna Shore, Psalms (Workhorse) 870 sold

New Jersey deathcore act has finally released its debut album.



Disarmonia Mundi, Cold Inferno (Coroner) 520 sold

This is the fifth release from this strictly studio melodic death metal band.



Maruta, Remain Dystopian (Relapse) 270 sold

This isn’t a new debut per se (it came out June 2nd) but it’s the first time I’m seeing it on here.



Notable Sales:

Halestorm, Into the Wild Life (Atlantic) #82, 3,100 sold

Just under 100,000 sold.



Faith No More, Sol Invictus (Ipecac) #101, 2,600 sold

A drop of 33%.



Kid Rock, First Kiss (Warner Bros.) #104, 2,550 sold

If your first kiss is during a Kid Rock song…well, we’ve all done stupid things.



Slipknot, .5: The Gray Chapter (Roadrunner) #133, 2,150 sold

A 24% boost with more boosts likely to follow when their next US tour starts next month.



Armored Saint, Win Hands Down (Metal Blade) #156, 1,725 sold

A 56% drop isn’t so bad for second week.



In This Moment, Black Widow (Atlantic) #193, 1,425 sold

Just under 120,000 sold.



Sleeping With Sirens, Madness (Epitaph) #199, 1,400 sold

This popped back up on the charts.

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roughstock.com/news/2015/06/35829-country-album-chart-report-for-june-18-2015/

Country Album Chart Report for June 18, 2015
Posted by Matt Bjorke

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xSpWkEgiV0DgEpWMRPiKpqsVzlBtK0F6Uf0Z60mZ6sg/edit?pli=1#gid=0

Top 10 CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 NEW Various Now Country 8 19,300 19,300
2 Zac Brown Band Jekyll+Hyde 17,200 382,800
3 NEW A Thousand Horses Southernality 16,900 16,900
4 Sam Hunt Montevallo 15,200 578,900
5 W.Nelson/M.Haggard Django & Jimmie 14,400 44,900
6 Brantley Gilbert Just Who I Am [Platinum] 8,500 836,000
7 Eric Church The Outsiders 8,200 971,400
8 Little Big Town Pain Killer 8,000 253,500
9 Billy Currington Summer Forever 7,300 28,100
10 Jason Aldean Old Boots, New Dirt 6,700 969,300

Next 5

11 Florida Georgia Line Anything Goes 6,500 689,900
12 Luke Bryan Spring Break...CheckOut 5,000 227,600
13 NEW Montgomery Gentry Folks Like Us 4,600 4,600
14 Luke Bryan Crash My Party 4,300 2,463,000
15 The Lacs Outlaw In Me 4,100 24,300

Notables

- Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 4,000 26,300
-- Carrie Underwood Greatest Hits...Decade #1 4,000 359,100
-- Reba Love Somebody 3,200 143,900
-- Chris Stapleton Traveller 2,900 43,000
-- Miranda Lambert Platinum 2,500 718,700
-- Cam Welcome To Cam Country 2,000 3,400
-- Old Dominion Old Dominion EP 1,200 18,800
-- Various Now Country 7 900 238,300
-- Aaron Watson The Underdog 700 56,500

[Green Baron]

Royal Blood got gypped out of a Top 10 album by the Billboard policy I believe. Was #7 on Sales.

[bat1990]

My goodness. What on earth is 1989's estimated total hard sales? It just won't stop selling

[Daryl the Beryl]

Jun 19, 2015 13:29:49 GMT -5 Green Baron said:

Royal Blood got gypped out of a Top 10 album by the Billboard policy I believe. Was #7 on Sales.

:'(

[Daryl the Beryl]

Jun 18, 2015 6:49:54 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

Jun 18, 2015 5:34:01 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Why did Royal Blood re-enter?

iTunes discount

More:

— Royal Blood, Royal Blood – No. 17 —Royal Blood makes a killing as the band’s self-titled album zooms back onto the June 27-dated chart at No. 17 (a new peak) with 22,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 14 (up 958 percent) according to Nielsen Music. The jump was caused largely by deep-discounting in the Google Play store, where the set was marked down to 99-cents during the tracking week. In turn, it sold 21,000 in pure album sales (up 1,170 percent). The band also played SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show on June 9.

[Enigma.]

I have no problem with the fact that these Google Play discounts don't guarantee a top 10 placing on BB200 any more.

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www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6605235/rolling-stones-sticky-fingers-returns

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: The Rolling Stones' 'Sticky' Returns

By Keith Caulfield | June 19, 2015 3:00 PM EDT

On the latest Billboard 200 chart (dated June 27), rock band Muse tallied its first No. 1 album with Drones. As Muse replacing fellow British rock band Florence + The Machine’s How Big How Blue How Beautiful at No. 1, it’s the chart’s first instance of back-to-back No. 1 debuts from British acts. (The Billboard 200’s regularly published weekly chart history dates back to 1956.)

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).

— Royal Blood, Royal Blood – No. 17 —Royal Blood makes a killing as the band’s self-titled album zooms back onto the June 27-dated chart at No. 17 (a new peak) with 22,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 14 (up 958 percent) according to Nielsen Music. The jump was caused largely by deep-discounting in the Google Play store, where the set was marked down to 99-cents during the tracking week. In turn, it sold 21,000 in pure album sales (up 1,170 percent). The band also played SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show on June 9.

— Various Artists, Now That’s What I Call Country, Volume 8 - No. 22 — The Now That’s What I Call Country, Volume 8 compilation bows at No. 22 with 19,000 units earned. It's the 105th title from long-running Now series to chart. It also starts at No. 1 on Top Country Albums, the first chart-topping compilation since 2008’s first Now… Country set.

— The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers (Super Deluxe) - No. 65 — The Rolling Stones’ classic Sticky Fingers album was reissued on multiple formats on June 9, including a “super deluxe” version, which arrives at No. 65 with 9,000 units (nearly all from traditional album sales). The set tracks separately from the main Sticky Fingers album (which re-enters at No. 5 with 36,000 units) due to its abundance of bonus content. The Sticky Fingers redux is the third such expansive reissue that the Stones have undertaken in recent years, following reboots of Exile On Main St. (in 2010) and Some Girls (in 2011). Billboard estimates that the three remastered and reissued albums have sold a combined 606,000 copies in the U.S. since their reintroduction to the marketplace. That sum equates to 21 percent of The Rolling Stones’ overall album sales since the start of 2010.

— The Broadway Cast Recording, Fun Home - No. 107 — Fun Home’s cast album debuts on the Billboard 200 (6,000 units, up 130 percent; of that sum, 5,000 were traditional album sales, up 116 percent) after its Tony Award win (June 7) for best musical. The Tony Awards pumped an overall 70 percent gain in cast album sales in the two weeks ending June 14. (68,000 cast albums were sold in the two weeks ending June 14, versus the 40,000 sold in the two frames ending May 31.)

— Cam, Welcome to Cam Country (EP) – No. 176 — Country singer/songwriter Cam debuts at No. 176 with Welcome to Cam Country (EP) with 4,000 overall units (up 688 percent) and with 2,000 sold (up 1,292 percent). The set surges in its 11th week on sale as Cam (real name: Camaron Ochs) benefits from a June 10 visit to the syndicated radio program The Bobby Bones Show. The EP also debuts at No. 31 on Top Country Albums, while her single “Burning House” arrives at No. 43 on Hot Country Songs.

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Jun 19, 2015 16:43:35 GMT -5 bat1990 said:

My goodness. What on earth is 1989's estimated total hard sales? It just won't stop selling

Look in the 2015 YTD thread.

Each week I post the estimated pure album sales.

It's also listed here this week:

keelyskorner.com/2015/06/17/first-look-on-tv-powerball-189/

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 6/14/15)

1) Muse – Drones –
2) Of Monsters & Men – Beneath The Sun –
3) Taylor Swift – 1989 – (After )

Other Debuts

6) Various Artists – Now Country 8 –
8) A Thousand Horses – Southernality –
14) Tamia – Love Life –
20) Tremonti – Cauterize –

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www.billboard.com/files/pdfs/Bulletin/june-19-2015-billboard-bulletin.pdf

4,043,000 albums were sold last week in the USA.

1,826,000 were digital albums.

2,217,000 were physical albums (cds, cassettes and vinyl).

Album sales are down -4.0% in 2015.