Billboard 200 1/23/16: Adele #1 194k/164k

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www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6836462/adele-25-no-1-billboard-200-rachel-platten-wildfire

Adele's '25' Still No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart, Rachel Platten Bows in Top Five
1/10/2016 by Keith Caulfield

Adele’s 25 becomes the first album by a woman to spend its first seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart since 1987 (and the first since Nielsen Music's electronically-scanned point-of-sale data began powering the chart in 1991), as the set rules the list for a seventh straight frame.

25 earned 194,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Jan. 7, according to Nielsen Music (down 47 percent). Of that sum, 164,000 were in pure album sales (down 47 percent as well).

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). The new Jan. 23, 2016-dated chart (where 25 is No. 1 for a seventh week) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Jan. 12.

The only other album by a woman to chart its first seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 was Whitney Houston’s second album, Whitney, which bowed atop the list dated June 17, 1987, and ruled for 11 straight frames (through the chart dated Sept. 5). Whitney was also the first album by a woman to debut at No. 1 (in an era when the chart was tabulated through ranked reports that retailers submitted to Billboard).

Among all albums, 25 is the first to score its first seven weeks at No. 1 since early 2002, when Creed’s Weathered claimed its first eight chart weeks at No. 1.

With 164,000 copies sold in its latest tracking week, 25’s total sales climb to 7.6 million in the U.S.

Justin Bieber’s Purpose stays steady at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, with 124,000 units (down 43 percent) and 54,000 in pure album sales (down 47 percent).

Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface is also a non-mover, as it holds at No. 3 with 52,000 units (down 35 percent) and 27,000 in pure album sales (down 42 percent).

The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness closes out the top four, as it climbs two spots to No. 4 with just over 45,000 units (down 43 percent).

Rachel Platten’s major label debut album, Wildfire, bows at No. 5 with with 45,000 units (of which 29,000 are in pure album sales). The set was released through Columbia Records on Jan. 1.

The singer/songwriter broke through in 2015 with the album’s lead single, “Fight Song.” It spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary songs chart, four weeks atop Adult Pop Songs and peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“Fight Song” closed 2015 as the No. 9 biggest-selling pop digital download song, with 2.48 million sold.

Wildfire’s latest single, “Stand By You,” became Platten’s second top 10 hit on the Adult Pop Songs chart in December.

Wildfire is the only new arrival in the top 10 -- and one of only three new-to-market albums to debut on the entire 200-position chart -- as so few albums were released on Jan. 1. The next-highest debut is Passion’s Salvation’s Tide is Rising at No. 19.

As for the rest of the top 10, One Direction’s Made in the A.M. slips 4-6 (44,000 units; down 41 percent), Chris Stapleton’s Traveller zips 12-7 (41,000 units; down 11 percent), Fetty Wap’s self-titled album dips 5-8 (36,000 units; down 33 percent) and Bryson Tiller’s Trapsoul hits a new peak, as it rises 10-9 (35,000 units; down 33 percent). Taylor Swift’s 1989 wraps up the top 10, descending one spot to No. 10 (32,000 units; down 40 percent).

[THINKIN BOUT YOU]

How many top 10 weeks for 1989?

[Rhythm Nation]

Jan 10, 2016 19:41:13 GMT -5 THINKIN BOUT YOU said:

How many top 10 weeks for 1989?

58 weeks!

Though now in the shadow of Adele, 1989 has continued to do amazingly well in the last few weeks/months and deserves more credit - what an incredible chart run and consistent sales. Not to mention the achievement that after four massive eras Taylor is still outdoing herself. Who was the last artist to have five consecutive 4xplatinum studio albums?

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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 01/07/2016

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.

#4 The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness - 45,322 (15,905) [20,842,403]

#8 Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap - 35,689 (9,050) [15,971,543]

#9 Bryson Tiller - Trapsoul - 35,361 (14,453) [21,019,224]

#12 Chris Brown - Royalty - 29,503 (17,737) [9,649,700]

#13 G-Eazy - When It's Dark Out - 29,188 (11,322) [14,105,665]

#17 Drake and Future - What a Time To Be Alive - 23,640 (4,918) [15,816,892]

#21 Future - Dirty Sprite 2 - 22,505 (7,999) [12,813,346]

#24 Drake - If Youre Reading This Its Too Late - 20,801 (9,389) [11,023,928]

#31 J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive - 17,715 (6,406) [10,661,164]

#39 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly - 13,590 (8,977) [4,586,147]

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If you know where to look...

and...

Albums on the Billboard 200 that have not been certified with the RIAA:

Sales estimates are from the 1/16 chart:

twenty one pilots 592k
Drake/Future 508k
Luke Bryan 851k
Kendrick Lamar 779k
Empire Sdtk. 475k
Josh Groban 637k

Only albums over 450k and that have been on the chart for 4+ weeks are listed

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Top 10 Country Albums Chart: January 11, 2016
Posted By Matt Bjorke

CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Chris Stapleton Traveller 32,800 717,700
2 Luke Bryan Kill The Lights 13,900 864,600
3 Sam Hunt Montevallo 10,500 979,800
4 Carrie Underwood Storyteller 8,900 474,300
5 Thomas Rhett Tangled Up 7,500 264,600
6 Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood 7,400 286,600
7 Chris Young I'm Comin' Over 6,700 137,000
8 Carrie Underwood Greatest Hits: Decade #1 6,600 468,400
9 Blake Shelton Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits 5,800 195,100
10 Cam Untamed 4,800 72,800
11 Chris Janson Buy Me A Boat 3,100 64,900
12 Little Big Town Pain Killer 2,800 429,100
13 Zac Brown Band Jekyll+Hyde 2,700 603,300
14 Don Henley Cass County 2,400 225,000
15 Old Dominion Meat And Candy 2,300 53,300

-- George Strait Cold Beer Conversation 2,200 214,200
-- Jason Aldean Old Boots, New Dirt 2,000 1,093,800
-- Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 2,000 96,100
-- Tim McGraw Damn Country Music 2,000 97,500
-- Brantley Gilbert Just As I Am 1,900 950,000
-- Jana Kramer Thirty-One 1,800 49,800
-- Brett Eldredge Illinois 1,700 101,500
-- Jason Isbell Something More Than Free 1,600 122,000
-- Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material 1,500 156,300
-- Maddie & Tae Start Here 1,500 79,700
-- Alabama Southern Drawl 900 68,900
-- Backroad Anthem Torn EP 900 1,400
-- Joey+Rory Country Classics 600 23,700
-- Home Free Country Evolution 600 28,300
-- Garth Brooks Man Against Machine 500 672,600
-- Easton Corbin About To Get Real 300 54,800

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^^It'll be quite a statement if Chris Stapleton's 2015 album can pass Luke Bryan's in sales.

[jenglisbe]

Jan 12, 2016 21:35:25 GMT -5 brinkeronline said:

^^It'll be quite a statement if Chris Stapleton's 2015 album can pass Luke Bryan's in sales.

With Stapleton undoubtedly getting a Grammys performance (and perhaps at least 1 win on air), I have little doubt this will happen.

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www.metalinsider.net/columns/metal-by-numbers/metal-by-numbers-113-the-charts-look-very-different-today

Metal By Numbers 1/13: The charts look very different today
Posted by Matt Brown on January 13, 2016

Notable Sales:

Disturbed, Immortalized (Reprise) #53, 5,200 sold

At week 20, this is just under 240,000 sold.



Five Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six (Prospect Park) #59, 4,650 sold

A 38% post-holiday sales drop.



Shinedown, Threat To Survival (Atlantic) #79, 3,325 sold

A 32% drop with over 156,000 sold.



Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Letters From The Labyrinth (Republic) #82, 3,125 sold

This drops by 63% with just under 140,000 sold, y’know, because the holidays are over. But considering they had one of the best-selling albums of last year for a record that only came out in November, don’t feel too bad for them.



Breaking Benjamin, Dark Before Dawn (Hollywood) #87, 2,875 sold

This is in the same chart position as last week.



Slipknot, .5: The Gray Chapter (Roadrunner) #90, 2,850 sold

A 53% drop with over 380,000 sold.



Bring Me The Horizon, That’s The Spirit (Columbia) #93, 2,800 sold

A 54% drop with over 120,000 sold.



Baroness, Purple (Abraxan Hyms) #116, 2,200 sold

A 45% drop brings this to about 24,000 sold in three weeks.



Motörhead, Bad Magic (UDR) #130, 2,025 sold

This continues to sell in its second week of resurgence, and the label just sent out the band’s cover of “Sympathy for the Devil” to radio. Also, that Bowie/Lemmy picture that was floating around the internet earlier this week? Fake.



Iron Maiden, The Book of Souls (BMG) #167, 1,500 sold

This ran to the hills with a 35% drop.



Coheed and Cambria, The Color Before The Sun (300 Entertainment) #170, 1,500 sold

A boost of 18% brings this back up on the charts.



Def Leppard, Def Leppard (Mailboat) #177, 1,425 sold

At week 10, this is just under 70,000 sold. No f-f-f-f-foolin’.



Rush, R40 Live (Rounder)#178, 1,425 sold

A 41% drop.



Slayer, Repentless (Nuclear Blast) #191, 1,275 sold

A 38% drop. Too bad it’s not Christmas still or I’d make a “slay ride” joke.

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www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6843977/billboard-200-chart-moves-joey-alexander

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: 12-Year-Old Pianist Joey Alexander Has Big Gain, Hits No. 1 on Jazz Albums
1/15/2016 by Keith Caulfield

On the most recent Billboard 200 chart (dated Jan. 23), Adele’s 25 spent a seventh straight frame at No. 1, while the top debut belonged to Rachel Platten’s Wildfire at No. 5.

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).

The Taylor Swift-endorsed Platten is the latest developing act to find chart success in early January, thanks to the strategy of dropping an album early in the month when there is little competition from brand-new superstar albums. Few A-list artists populate the new release calendar each January, as most tend to push out new efforts in the fourth quarter, in the hopes of raking in big Christmas-fueled sales.

One of the best examples of a new artist scoring a big chart triumph in January is when Kesha issued her debut set, Animal, on Jan. 5, 2010. The then-rising singer was in the middle of a nine-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the album’s lead single, “Tik Tok.” Kesha blasted in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated Jan. 23, selling 152,000 in pure album sales in its first week (back when the chart ranked titles on straight album sales). The party-ready pop star bumped Susan Boyle from the top slot, after her six-week run with debut album I Dreamed a Dream.

Five years after Kesha, Meghan Trainor followed her No. 1 Hot 100 hit “All About That Bass” with her first full-length album, Title. The latter, released on Jan. 13, blasted in at No. 1 on the list dated Jan. 31 with 238,000 equivalent album units and 195,000 in pure album sales.

Now, let’s take a closer look at some of the action on the latest Billboard 200 chart:

— Joey Alexander, My Favorite Things - No. 59 — 12-year-old jazz pianist Joey Alexander makes a big chart splash thanks to his profile on CBS’ 60 Minutes (Jan. 3). The album re-enters chart Billboard 200 at No. 59 (a new peak) with 9,000 sold in pure album sales — up by 3,563 percent. My Favorite Things also gives Alexander his first No. 1 on both the Jazz Albums and Traditional Jazz Albums charts. It flies 22-1 on the former, and re-enters at No. 1 on the latter.

Alexander also dots the Jazz Digital Songs chart, as he places five cuts on the 25-position list, including his album’s title cut at No. 6 (1,000 downloads sold; up 1,722 percent).

— Duran Duran, Paper Gods - No. 45 — A concert ticket/album bundle for the band’s upcoming tour triggers its returns to the list (12,000 units, up 1,367 percent). The trek kicks off March 28 in Durham, N.C. and continues through August.

— DNCE, Swaay (EP) - No. 51 — As the quartet’s single “Cake by the Ocean” continues to rise up the charts (it moves into the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, climbing 41-26), its parent EP also travels upwards. The Swaay EP vaults 92-51 with 10,000 units (up 6 percent).

— Metallica, Metallica - No. 64 — A little gain can sometimes make a big difference on the chart, especially in early January. Case in point: Metallica’s self-titled album gains by just 1 percent in units for the week (growing to 9,000) but it zooms 112-64. Why the huge jump from such a small unit gain? The rest of the chart is still recuperating from the Christmas shopping season, so most titles on the chart decline in total consumption. Metallica’s album, on the other hand, was promoted by digital retailers during the tracking week, which helps its overall activity and sales (7,000 sold for the week, up 6 percent).

— Fleetwood Mac, Greatest Hits - No. 87 — Perhaps surprisingly, this 1988 release was the third-largest selling album of 2015 in the U.S. for Warner Bros. Records, with 257,000 sold. Ahead of it: Josh Groban’s Stages (637,000) and Kid Rock’s First Kiss (354,000). The classic Rumours-era lineup of Fleetwood Mac reunited in 2014 for a successful world tour, which played more than 100 shows in 2014 and 2015. Clearly, fans were energized by the reunion and tour, and turned to buying the Greatest Hits album. Its sales in 2015 grew 114 percent compared to its haul in 2014 (120,000).