Billboard 200 11/7/15: PTX #1 (98K/88K), Demi #2 (98K/77K)

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Catalog chart


This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 1 3 546 #1 5 wks Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 1
2 2 4 495 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 2
3 31 – 62 GG good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 1
4 3 5 530 ...And Justice For All, Metallica 3
5 4 7 31 The Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam, Dwight Yoakam 4
6 11 10 98 21, Adele 1
7 6 8 39 The Very Best Of Travis Tritt, Travis Tritt 5
8 5 9 32 Vessel, twenty one pilots 4
9 7 28 326 Thriller, Michael Jackson 1
10 10 12 53 Red, Taylor Swift 2
11 12 11 176 The Eminem Show, Eminem 2
12 15 23 39 American Idiot, Green Day 7
13 9 31 88 +, Ed Sheeran 1
14 18 24 1186 Legend: The Best Of..., Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
15 17 19 106 Bad, Michael Jackson 1
16 14 15 1178 The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd 1
17 16 6 1029 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 1
18 19 25 112 The Ultimate Hits, Garth Brooks 1
19 37 – 21 51 Songs Kids Really Love To Sing, Kids Choir 12
20 22 20 43 Icon: Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton 10
21 13 16 89 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 2
22 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 Back To The Future, Soundtrack 22
23 8 13 895 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty 1
24 0 Re-Entry 3 The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem 12
25 24 29 134 Fearless, Taylor Swift 3
26 26 26 22 Frozen, Soundtrack 11
27 0 New 1 That's Christmas To Me, Pentatonix 27
28 35 36 723 Metallica, Metallica 1
29 21 21 155 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 1
30 29 17 229 Devil Without A Cause, Kid Rock 2
31 23 18 87 Dark Horse, Nickelback 12
32 30 37 6 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 20
33 25 27 879 Back In Black, AC/DC 1
34 42 – 201 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 1
35 47 – 163 Super Hits, Willie Nelson 12
36 46 – 57 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Miranda Lambert 4
37 27 40 13 Mirrorball: Live & More, Def Leppard 14
38 20 14 19 Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A 1
39 0 New 1 The Very Best Of Tracy Lawrence, Tracy Lawrence 39
40 0 New 1 Everything In Transit, Jack's Mannequin 40
41 0 Re-Entry 3 Drew's Famous Halloween Party Music Volume 1, Various Artists 32
42 39 49 167 The Sickness, Disturbed 1
43 38 35 348 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 1
44 0 Re-Entry 32 The Best Of John Denver Live, John Denver 18
45 43 32 170 Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi 3
46 0 Re-Entry 48 Based On A True Story ..., Blake Shelton 12
47 36 39 51 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 1
48 41 – 114 Yourself Or Someone Like You, matchbox 20 1
49 0 Re-Entry 7 Christmas, Francesca Battistelli 11
50 0 Re-Entry 120 Loaded: The Best Of Blake Shelton, Blake Shelton 1

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www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6746208/kidz-bop-44th-hit-album-adele-21-chart-moves

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Kidz Bop's 44th Hit Album, Adele's '21' Rises
By Keith Caulfield | October 30, 2015

Now, let’s take a closer look at some of the action on the Nov. 7 chart:

— Kidz Bop Kids, Kidz Bop 30 - No. 12 — The Kidz Bop Kids’ latest child-friendly covers set, Kidz Bop 30, starts at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 chart with 28,000 equivalent units earned in the week ending Oct. 22, according to Nielsen Music. It’s the 44th chart entry for the Kidz Bop Kids, but the first numbered Kidz Bop album to debut outside the top since 2010’s Kidz Bop 17 also launched at No. 12. Over on the Kid Albums chart, the new set starts at No. 1, marking the 32nd leader for Razor & Tie’s long-running series. Remarkably, since the series launched in 2001 (with the first title bowing on the Oct. 27, 2011 chart), Kidz Bop titles have been No. 1 on the Kid Albums chart for 289 weeks. In total, the Kidz Bop franchise has sold 15.9 million albums in the U.S.

— Original Broadway Cast Recording, Hamilton: An American Musical - No. 21 — After the album’s CD was released widely on Oct. 16 (following its mostly digital bow on Sept. 25), it earns a 118 percent unit gain (to 18,000 units) and a 179 percent sales lift (to 15,000 copies sold). It zooms 45-21 on the chart. Hamilton has sold 55,000 in four weeks, and is already the second-largest selling cast album of 2015. It will likely overtake the year’s current best seller, the original Broadway cast album of Wicked (58,000) in the next week.

— Sam Hunt, Montevallo - No. 16 — The country star’s debut full-length album celebrates a year on the chart, as it dips 17-16 in its 52nd week on the tally. It has never left the top 50 of the list, and has been among the week’s top 25 albums consistently since the Jan. 24-dated chart. The album has now sold 800,000 copies.

— OMI, Me 4 U - No. 51 — The “Cheerleader” singer’s album arrives with nearly 9,000 in equivalent album units, powered largely by TEA and SEA. Of its first-week, 3,000 units were comprised of pure album sales.

— Adele, 21 - No. 79 — Excitement generated by the release of Adele’s new single “Hello” helps draw attention to her previous album, 21, which vaults 114-79 on the latest Billboard 200 — its highest rank in more than a year. The set last ranked higher on the May 24, 2014-dated chart, when it was No. 69.

21 also returns to the top 100 for the first time since May 30, marking its 191st week within the region. Since Nielsen Music began powering the list’s ranking on May 25, 1991, only one album has spent more time in the top 100: Metallica’s self-titled set, with 232 weeks.

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YEAR TO DATE SALES STATS

Category - 2015 - 2014 - Change

Total Albums - 179,201,000 - 188,927,000 - -5.1% - not bad!

CD - 88,234,000 - 98,748,000 - -10.6%
Digital - 81,995,000 - 83,254,000 - -1.5%
Vinyl - 8,543,000 - 6,543,000 - +30.6%
Other - 431,000 - 382,000 - +12.8%

Current - 84,909,000 - 93,164,000 - -8.9%
Catalog - 94,285,000 - 95,763,000 - -1.5%
Deep Catalog - 78,434,000 - 78,928,000 - -0.6%