Billboard 200 12/12/15 | Adele 3.38 Million!

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The total breakdown of the first week from Billboard:

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The region-by-region breakdown is really interesting. Wish they'd do that for more albums, as they have the data anyway.

If I did the math right, here are the regions ordered by proportion of 25 buyers:

Northeast: 1.335%
West North Central 1.181%
Middle Atlantic: 1.162%
Pacific: 1.133%
South Atlantic: 1.054%
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National Average: 1.05%
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East North Central: 0.978%
Mountain: 0.965%
South Central:0.957%

Someone can double check this if something looks off, but I think that's right.

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Album sales are now down -5.0%

YEAR TO DATE SALES STATS

Category - 2015 - 2014 - Change

Total Albums - 204,331,000 - 215,011,000 - -5.0%

CD - 101,644,000 - 113,288,000 - -10.3%
Digital - 92,682,000 - 93,902,000 - -1.3%
Vinyl - 9,515,000 - 7,382,000 -+ 28.9%
Other - 490,000 - 438,000 - +11.9%

Current - 99,382,000 - 107,907,000 - -7.9%
Catalog - 104,898,000 - 107,104,000 - -2.1%
Deep Catalog - 87,366,000 - 88,399,000 - -1.2%

Catalog counts from November 28, December 5 and 12 charts:
Catalog albums on the Billboard 200: 54, 55, 55

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Metal By Numbers 12/2: Rushing the holidays
Posted by Matt Brown on December 2, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.

Ah, December. Some love it, some hate it. For the rest of us, we embrace the oncoming chill of winter as the metal gods intended (unless you’re in Florida, in which case, punch a shark as the metal gods intended). It also means that the Best of 2015 lists are coming, and Metal Insider will certainly be participating. But lets not forget the albums being released this month. Wouldn’t want to overlook any potential end year favorites.

Notable Debuts:

Rush, R40 Live (Rounder)#12, 23,975 sold

Rush’s latest live album from their recent (and final?) tour is their highest charting live recording since 2008’s Snakes & Arrows Live.



Wage War, Blueprints (Fearless) #165, 2,300 sold

The metalcore act’s debut album gets a respectable debut on the charts.


Notable Sales:

Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Letters From The Labyrinth (Republic) #18, 18,375 sold

A second week 60% drop doesn’t take this out of the top 20.



Five Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six (Prospect Park) #54, 6,900 sold

This nabs a 14% boost.



Shinedown, Threat To Survival (Atlantic) #82, 4,775 sold

At week ten, this gains a 22% boost bring it to over 123,000 sold.



Def Leppard, Def Leppard (Mailboat) #85, 4,725 sold

A 9% drop with just under 50,000 sold.



Disturbed, Immortalized (Reprise) #97, 4,075 sold

A 23% increase and not far off from the 200,000 mark.



Breaking Benjamin, Dark Before Dawn (Hollywood) #112, 3,400 sold

A 17% boost makes this over 280,000 sold.



Puscifer, Money Shot (Puscifer Entertainment) #143, 2,650 sold

A 4% drop is not on the money.



Bring Me The Horizon, That’s The Spirit (Columbia) #147, 2,625 sold

Just under the 100,000 mark.



Iron Maiden, The Book of Souls (BMG) #177, 2,075 sold

Turned down by 11%, but still doing pretty solidly.