Billboard 200 4/2/16 - Rihanna #1

[Gary]

Rihanna's 'Anti' Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
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By Keith Caulfield | March 20, 2016 3:45 PM EDT



Rihanna’s Anti moves back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, collecting its second week at the top. The diva’s set earned another 54,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 17, according to Nielsen Music.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new April 2-dated chart (where Anti is No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, March 22.

Anti is Rihanna’s second No. 1 album (following her previous studio effort, Unapologetic, in 2012) and her first to spend more than one week at No. 1.

Of Anti’s total units for the week, 17,000 were in pure album sales. The rest of its sum -- a sizable 69 percent -- was comprised of TEA and SEA units, thanks to the popularity of its tracks (like the smash single “Work,” which has spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart).


Rihanna Rolls Out Four New Dance Remixes of 'Work'

Adele’s former No. 1 album, 25, holds at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 with 51,000 units (down 15 percent), while Justin Bieber’s Purpose climbs 5-3 with 48,000 units (down 9 percent).

Joey + Rory’s Hymns returns to its peak position, as the country/Christian effort steps 6-4 with just over 44,000 units (down 1 percent). Nearly all of its units were powered by traditional album sales (44,000 copies sold in the week, down less than 1 percent), which pushes the title from No. 3 to its first week at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. The list ranks the top selling albums of the week, based on pure album sales.

With the ascent, Hymns becomes only the sixth Christian or gospel album to be the best selling album of the week. It follows Lecrae's Anomaly (2014), Chris Tomlin's Burning Lights (2013), TobyMac's Eye on It (2012), LeAnn Rimes' You Light Up My Life -- Inspirational Songs (1997) and Bob Carlisle's Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace) (1997).

The No. 1 rise for Hymns follows the death of the duo’s Joey Feek, who died from cancer on March 4. The album was recorded last year, as Feek was undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments.


Joey + Rory's Chart History, From Their Debut Album to the Bittersweet Success of 'Hymns'

Notably, Hymns logs the third-smallest weekly sales figure for a No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking music purchases in 1991. It trails only the No. 1 debut of Amos Lee’s Mission Bell (40,000 in 2011) and the Descendants TV soundtrack (30,000 in 2015).

Back on the new Billboard 200, Kendrick Lamar’s Untitled Unmastered falls from No. 1 to No. 5 in its second chart week, moving 38,000 units (down 78 percent).

Rock band Killswitch Engage starts at No. 6 with Incarnate (35,000 units, with 33,000 in pure album sales). It’s the third top 10 effort for the group, and their highest charting set yet, following a pair of No. 7-peaking albums in 2013 and 2009 (Disarm the Descent and its self-titled album, respectively).

Chris Stapleton’s Traveller is a non-mover at No. 7 with 34,000 units (down 13 percent), while Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface is also steady at No. 8 (33,000 units; down 4 percent). Kevin Gates’ Islah rises one rung to No. 9 with 30,000 units (up less than 1 percent).


Flatbush Zombies Talk Spacing Out Releases & Long-Awaited Debut '3001: A Laced Odyssey'

Hip-hop trio Flatbush Zombies rounds out the top 10, as the act’s debut full-length album, 3001: A Laced Odyssey, beams in at No. 10 with 28,000 units (24,000 in pure album sales). The set recently notched a top 40 hit on the Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks chart with “Bounce,” which debuted and peaked at No. 32 in February.

[NeRD]

Yes Rihanna. Only a bad bitch.

[Gary]

Sales chart #1's <50K

30K Descendants 8/22/15
40K Mission Bell - Amos Lee 2/12/11
44K Hymns - Joey + Rory 4/2/16
44K Showroom of Compassion 1/29/11
45K Pink Friday -Nicki Minaj 2/19/11
48K Uncaged - Zac Brown Band 8/11/12

[hitseeker.]

YES RIH! :'(

[ry4n]

17,000 sales to be #1. Dire.

[kanimal]

As Hits noted, the Joey + Rory album received a physical sales spike from Cracker Barrel. That's why it appears so low on the BuzzAngle chart, which presumably doesn't receive data from Cracker Barrel.

[Mayman]

Dang. Her streaming power is unreal. Good job Rih.

[areyoureadytojump]

Link to the article here:

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7263934/rihanna-anti-returns-to-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Breaking%20News&utm_term=biz_breakingnews

[badrobot]

I'm surprised there's no comment on how low Rihanna is on pure album sales for a #1 SPS. Must surely be the biggest difference between the 2 charts.

*edited due to glaring typo*

[HolidayGuy]

Another hot-mess instance of the BB 200. But, that's why we have Top Album Sales.

[Gary]

Mar 21, 2016 13:19:06 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Another hot-mess instance of the BB 200. But, that's why we have Top Album Sales.

But the BB 200 gets published everywhere. TAS does not.

There is an article out now in Forbes citing 'Anti' as by far, the lowest selling #1 album in history, which it is selling 17K and being #1.

But, since that is what everyone reads, that is what gets written about. 

You aren't going to find well...gee....Joey & Rory actually sold more than any in the country but they streamed less and have fewer singles therefore they are #4

 

Unless you have read the details before, too confusing.

[forg]

Mar 20, 2016 20:47:43 GMT -5 badrobot said:

I'm surprised there's no comment on how low Rihanna is on pure album sales for a #1 SPS. Must surely be the biggest difference between the 2 charts.

*edited due to glaring typo*

Well I guess people are just too bored to comment about it, hard to get excited with Billboard 200 these days

[KeepDeanWeird]

I think it's more concerning that a superstar like RiRi with an across-the-board radio single (that's still gaining), strong single sales and amazing streaming, can only move 17,000 total units of her album. (And, yes, I know the 1MM redemption is a factor.) It's still a shocker for the industry and not a reflection of Rihanna. It is a good thing that TEA/SEA are included now. I do wonder, though, like singles being deleted/not issued in the 90s, if record companies attempt to be more aggressive on withholding full albums. It would be a mistake because music consumption has shifted again and not every artist is Taylor or Adele.

[areyoureadytojump]

Mar 21, 2016 17:22:59 GMT -5 forg said:

Mar 20, 2016 20:47:43 GMT -5 badrobot said:

I'm surprised there's no comment on how low Rihanna is on pure album sales for a #1 SPS. Must surely be the biggest difference between the 2 charts.

*edited due to glaring typo*

Well I guess people are just too bored to comment about it, hard to get excited with Billboard 200 these days

The BB200 thread each week is having less and less comments.

Posters here like the HITS thread more to comment on album sales.

Pulse centers around the Hot 100 thread now.

[Enigma.]

The thing is, that charts always try to reflect what's really popular and sales are not the only factor any more. There was a time when one could only hear an album by buying it from the store or borrowing from someone but that's not the case these days.

[areyoureadytojump]

New RIAA certs:

www.billboard.com/biz/charts/the-billboard-200

Drake/Future, What A Time To Be Alive 1xP
Chris Brown, Royalty Gold
Drake, If You Are Reading This It's Too Late 2xP
Jeremih, Late Nights Gold
Drake, Take Care 4xP

[HolidayGuy]

A trivia note: This marks the seventh instance that a No. 1-selling album also did not peak at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Feb. 21, 2015; Various Artists, NOW 53 (99,000)
March 28, 2015: Madonna (116,000)
April 25, 2015: All-Time Low (75,000)
Sept. 26, 2015: Five Finger Death Punch (114,000)
Oct. 3, 2015: Bring Me the Horizon (55,000)
Oct. 17, 2015: Don Henley (87,000)
April 2, 2016: Joey + Rory (44,000)

[Mayman]

Does anyone know what the current sales are for 19, 21, and 25 from Adele? I'm trying to calculated a few things and I'm not sure what the current sales for them are.

[areyoureadytojump]

Mar 23, 2016 18:14:18 GMT -5 Mayman said:

Does anyone know what the current sales are for 19, 21, and 25 from Adele? I'm trying to calculated a few things and I'm not sure what the current sales for them are.

They are in the 2016 YTD thread here:

pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/156105/album-sales-adele-bowie-stapleton

[Mayman]

Mar 23, 2016 18:19:02 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

Mar 23, 2016 18:14:18 GMT -5 Mayman said:

Does anyone know what the current sales are for 19, 21, and 25 from Adele? I'm trying to calculated a few things and I'm not sure what the current sales for them are.

They are in the 2016 YTD thread here:

pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/156105/album-sales-adele-bowie-stapleton

Thank you so much!

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/biz/articles/7272584/billboard-200-chart-moves-chris-stapletons-traveller-hits-a-million-sold-jeff

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Chris Stapleton's 'Traveller' Hits a Million Sold, Jeff Buckley Reaches New High
By Keith Caulfield | March 24, 2016

On the most recent Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 2), Rihanna’s Anti returned to No. 1, while Killswitch Engage arrived in the top 10 with Incarnate (No. 6).

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).

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

— Chris Stapleton, Traveller - No. 7 — It’s a been a good month for Chris Stapleton on the charts. The singer/songwriter claims his first top 10 on the Country Airplay chart dated April 2 with “Nobody to Blame,” while the track’s parent album, Traveller, recently reached 1 million copies sold in the U.S.

“Nobody” steps 11-10 on Country Airplay in its 20th chart week (with 24.7 million audience in the week ending March 20, according to Nielsen Music).

He’s charted on the Country Airplay list twice before, with 2013’s No. 46-peaking “What Are You Listening To?” and then the new album’s “Tennessee Whiskey” earlier this year, at No. 57.

Meanwhile, Traveller’s sales jumped past the 1 million mark in the week ending March 10, and continue to grow, as its total sum now stands at 1.05 million (thanks to another 27,000 sold in the new tracking week).

Traveller is the most-recently-released country album to sell a million copies since Sam Hunt’s Montevallo, which bowed on Oct. 28, 2014, and reached a million in the week ending Jan. 14.

Meanwhile, Traveller holds at No. 7 on the latest Billboard 200 chart. It has been in the top 15 for the past 20 straight weeks — since it re-entered the chart at No. 1 (Nov. 21, 2015) following the Country Music Association (CMA) awards on Nov. 4, when he won three trophies and performed a show-stopping medley with Justin Timberlake.

— Mike Posner, The Truth (EP) - No. 39 — Mike Posner collects his second top 40 album on the Billboard 200, as his nearly year-old The Truth (EP) moves into the top 40 (48-39; 13,000 equivalent album units, up 3 percent in the week ending March 17). 97 percent of its units are from streaming and track equivalent albums, thanks to its hit single “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” (which bullets 10-11 on the Billboard Hot 100). The digital EP’s sales are tiny (less than 1,000 sold for the week), as it’s currently only available at select retailers — and not iTunes. He'll release the full-length At Night, Alone. (which includes "Pill" and is now available for pre-order) May 6.

— Jeff Buckley, You and I - No. 58 — Nearly 19 years after Jeff Buckley’s death, the singer/songwriter claims his highest-charting album ever on the Billboard 200 with the arrival of You and I.

The from-the-vaults set, consisting mostly of unearthed covers, bows at No. 58 with 10,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending March 17. 9,000 of that figure were pure album sales.

Buckley, who died on May 29, 1997 from an accidental drowning, previously reached No. 64 with his first posthumous release, Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk (June 13, 1998, its debut frame).

Buckley released one album during his lifetime, the studio effort Grace, which climbed to No. 149 in 1995 and spent seven weeks on the chart. The album was released in August 1994 and sold 175,000 copies before Buckley died. It found many fans after his passing, as the set’s total sales now stand at 1.06 million.

You and I is Buckley’s fifth album to chart on the Billboard 200. He also reached the list with the live sets Mystery White Boy: Live ‘95 — ‘96 (No. 133 in 2000) and Grace Around the World (No. 125 in 2009).

— Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory - No. 111 — Sale-pricing and promotion on select catalog rock titles in the iTunes Store pump gains for titles like Hybrid Theory (6,000 units; up 74 percent) and Evanescence’s Fallen (No. 94; 7,000; up 160 percent).

— Shinedown, Threat to Survival - No. 121 — The album jumps 188-121 after it was sale-priced for 99 cents in the Google Play store during the tracking week, a promotion the band promoted through its social networks. The set sold 4,000 copies for the week (up 52 percent) and earned 6,000 overall units (up 34 percent).

[Gary]

Billboard 200 Turns 60! Celebrate Its Birthday With These Essential Chart Facts

3/24/2016 by Keith Caulfield


Happy birthday to the Billboard 200 albums chart!

60 years ago, on March 24, 1956, the United States’ premier album chart began publishing on a regular basis. The first No. 1 was Harry Belafonte’s Belafonte, which spent 31 weeks atop the chart. It was the first of 1,026 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 (through the April 2-dated tally).

Let’s take a look back at some major milestones in the history of the Billboard 200.

March 24, 1956 — Billboard launches its first regularly published weekly albums chart, Best Selling Popular Albums. This chart would eventually become known as the Billboard 200. Previous to the bow of the Best Selling Popular Albums chart, Billboard had tracked album popularity — but not consistently. The first overall album chart actually appeared 11 years earlier, on March 24, 1945. That chart was published on an irregular basis until it became a weekly fixture in our magazine on March 24, 1956.

May 5, 1956 — Elvis Presley’s self-titled debut studio album hits No. 1. The King of Rock & Roll’s set, fueled by the classic single “Blue Suede Shoes,” spent 10 weeks at No. 1.


May 25, 1959 — The album chart splits in two: Best Selling Monophonic LPs and Best Selling Stereophonic LPs. The names and depths of the charts would change slightly over time, but Billboard would publish two charts for mono and stereo albums until Aug. 10, 1963.

May 5, 1962 — The West Side Story film soundtrack begins its record 54-week run at No. 1.

Aug. 17, 1963 — The mono and stereo LP charts fold back into one overall chart known as Top LP's. The 150-position chart would grow to 175 positions on April 1, 1967.

Feb. 1, 1964 — The Beatles arrive on the Billboard 200 with Meet the Beatles! The set debuts at No. 92 on the Feb. 1, 1964-dated chart, and would hit No. 1 two weeks later (Feb. 15). The album spent 11 weeks at No. 1 and was the first of a record 19 chart-toppers for the band.


May 13, 1967 — The chart's depth increases to 200 positions, where it has remained ever since.

April 26, 1969 — The original cast recording of Hair reaches No. 1 for its first of 13 weeks atop the chart. It is, so far, the most recent musical cast album to hit No. 1.

Feb. 19, 1972 — The name of the chart changes from Top LP's to Top LP's & Tapes.

June 7, 1975 — Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy becomes the first album to debut at No. 1. Only six albums would debut at No. 1 until June 29, 1991 (more on that in a moment).

Feb. 26, 1983 — Michael Jackson’s Thriller starts its 37-week run at No. 1 — the longest for an album by an artist. (Only the West Side Story film soundtrack, with 54 weeks at No. 1, earned more weeks atop the chart.)


Oct. 20, 1984 — The word tapes is dropped from the chart's name, as it becomes known as Top 200 Albums. It later transitions to Top Pop Albums (Jan. 5, 1985) and then The Billboard 200 Top Albums (Sept. 7, 1991). Its current name -- Billboard 200 -- is adopted on March 14, 1992.

March 7, 1987 — Rap resides at No. 1 for the first time, as Beastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill jumps from No. 2 to No. 1. The hip-hop trio’s album ruled the list for seven weeks.

May 25, 1991 — It was a week of "historic change" for Billboard, as we noted in a letter from our then-publisher, Howard Lander. That week, we launched our first two sales charts using electronically monitored point-of-sale purchase information, courtesy of SoundScan Inc. (now known as Nielsen Music). The first No. 1 on the revamped chart was Michael Bolton's Time, Love & Tenderness.

Lander wrote, "For more than 30 years, our sales charts have relied on rankings of best-selling records obtained from stores, over the telephone or by messenger service. Until now, the only technological changes have been the introduction of computer to tally the data more quickly and the recent usage of fax machines -- but the basic methodology has remained the same… With (this week's charts) we are proud to begin using actual piece counts our two leading charts: Top Pop Albums and Top Country Albums."

That same week, we launched the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart, which ranked the best selling older titles (which were restricted from charting on the Billboard 200). The chart is later renamed Catalog Albums.


June 29, 1991 — Skid Row’s Slave to the Grind is the first album to debut at No. 1 after the Billboard 200 began using SoundScan data to power its ranking — and the first to open atop the list since Michael Jackson’s Bad in 1987. Six more albums bowed at No. 1 in 1991. The influx of openings at No. 1 is owed to the chart’s increased accuracy thanks to SoundScan’s point-of-sale data, instead of having to rely on ranked reports obtained from stores.

Nearly 25 years later, it’s normal for albums to debut at No. 1, and, generally speaking, few albums reach No. 1 unless they’ve debuted there. For example, since January of 2014, of the 44 albums that reached No. 1 for the first time, all but three of them debuted at No. 1.

Jan. 24, 1998 — The soundtrack to Titanic sails to the top of the chart, for its first of 16 weeks at No. 1.

April 8, 2000 — *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached debuts at No. 1, and sets a then-record for the largest sales week for an album since Nielsen began tracking sales: 2.42 million sold in its first week. The record would prove to be unbeaten until 2015…


Nov. 22, 2003 — The Top Comprehensive Albums chart launches, which combines both current and catalog titles together in one overall chart. The chart would continue weekly publication through the Nov. 28, 2009.

Dec. 5, 2009 — The Billboard 200 brings catalog titles back onto the chart, so both older and newer titles could chart alongside one another. (Essentially, the Top Comprehensive Albums chart became the new Billboard 200.) At the same time, a new chart for only current albums was established, and it was aptly titled Top Current Albums.

Dec. 13, 2014 — The Billboard 200 becomes a multi-metric popularity chart ranking overall consumption, measuring traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums. The new methodology was devised to provide a better sense of an album's popularity by reflecting not just sales, but overall activity. (A pure sales chart was simultaneously launched as well: Top Album Sales. It maintains the previously methodology employed by the Billboard 200, comprising Nielsen's sales data exclusively.) The first No. 1 on the consumption-based chart was Taylor Swift's 1989 (earning its fourth nonconsecutive week at No. 1).

Dec. 12, 2015 — Adele’s 25 debuts at No. 1, earning 3.48 million equivalent album units in its debut week, of which 3.38 million were in traditional album sales — a new single-week record.

[areyoureadytojump]

Thanks to oldbloke:

YEAR TO DATE SALES STATS

Category - 2016 - 2015 - Change

Total Albums - 43,067,000 - 51,629,000 - -16.6% overall

CD - 21,623,000 - 24,700,000 - -12.5%
Digital - 18,676,000 - 24,468,000 - -23.7%
Vinyl - 2,660,000 - 2,344,000 - +13.5%
Other - 109,000 - 117,000 - -6.8%

Current - 19,022,000 - 25,146,000 - -24.4%
Catalog - 24,044,000 - 26,482,000 - -9.2%
Deep Catalog - 20,324,000 - 22,006,000 - -7.6%

Digital Tracks - 176,460,000 - 238,728,000 - -26.1%
Store Singles - 319,000 - 813,000 - -60.8%

[areyoureadytojump]

roughstock.com/news/2016/03/40035-country-albums-chart-march-20-2016

Country Albums Chart: March 20, 2016
Posted By Matt Bjorke

Check out our weekly rundown of the Top 10 Country Albums (in actual raw album sales figures) for the most-recent chart week.

CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Joey+Rory Hymns 44,100 220,300
2 Chris Stapleton Traveller 27,100 1,049,800
3 Randy Houser Fired Up 21,500 21,500
4 Loretta Lynn Full Circle 8,100 28,800
5 Sam Hunt Montevallo 7,000 1,078,000
6 Granger Smith Remington 7,000 31,000
7 Thomas Rhett Tangled Up 6,100 330,500
8 Luke Bryan Kill The Lights 4,800 919,100
9 Blake Shelton Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits 4,200 256,600
10 Carrie Underwood Storyteller 4,300 534,700
11 Tim McGraw Damn County Music 4,000 131,300
12 Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood 3,900 334,400
13 Joey+Rory Country Classics 3,800 32,700
14 Vince Gill Down To My Last Bad Habit 3,200 36,900
15 Chris Young I'm Comin' Over 2,900 171,300

-- Old Dominion Meat And Candy 2,600 85,000
-- Zac Brown Band Jekyll+Hyde 2,300 624,200
-- Brett Eldredge Illinois 2,200 120,400
-- Cam Untamed 2,100 105,500
-- Hank Williams Jr. It's About Time 1,900 60,800
-- Brothers Osborne Pawn Shop 1,800 47,800
-- Chris Janson Buy Me A Boat 1,700 83,700
-- Jason Aldean Old Boots, New Dirt 1,700 1,109,700
-- Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 1,500 114,000
-- Carrie Underwood Greatest Hits: Decade #1 1,400 484,700
-- Maddie & Tae Start Here 1,100 91,000
-- George Strait Cold Beer Conversation 1,000 228,500
-- Steve Moakler Steve Moakler EP 800 800
-- Megan & Liz Deux 800 800
-- Jason Isbell Something More Than Free 700 133,800
-- Soul Circus Cowboys Tailgate Country 700 2,500
-- Gene Watson Real Country Music 500 1,200
-- Rodney Carrington Laughter's Good 400 25,800
-- Ashley McBryde Jalopies & Expensive Guitars 400 400

[onebuffalo]

^^^No mention of Garth Brooks debuting at #1 on BOTH country and top 200 charts in 1991 with Ropin' The Wind, the first country album to do so.

[divasummer]

^ Whitney being the first Female to debut at Num.1 ^

[Daryl the Beryl]

Hard rock sales

www.metalinsider.net/columns/metal-by-numbers/metal-by-numbers-323-a-killer-debut

Metal By Numbers 3/23: A killer debut

Posted by Matt Brown on March 23, 2016

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

As you may have already heard, the monster debut for this week is Killswitch Engage, who continue the trend of keeping metal high up the charts in the early months of 2016. Good thing too, because 2016 has also been keeping up the trend of having musical icons dying left and right, so we need something keep spirits up. But let’s not dwell too much on these things. Maybe go argue about the line-up for Warped Tour instead to distract you from everyday life. Oh, and in case you were wondering, the Black Album sold another 6,000.



Notable Debuts:

Killswitch Engage, Incarnate (Roadrunner) #3, 33,175 sold

This marks Killswitch Engage’s highest chart position yet.



Affiance, Gaia (Self-Released) #149, 1,800 sold

The band’s crowd-funded EP nabbed a better debut than their last album.



Outline In Color, Struggle (Standby) 1,175 sold

The last time we included this band in MBN, Bram mentioned they didn’t have a Wikipedia page. And they still don’t. But hey, good first week I suppose.





Notable Sales:

Disturbed, Immortalized (Reprise) #26, 7,775 sold

After 30 weeks, this has crossed the 300,000 mark.



Anthrax, For All Kings (Megaforce) #49, 4,800 sold

A 42% drop, but this is still hangs on in the top 50.



Shinedown, Threat To Survival (Atlantic) #54, 4,150 sold

A huge boost of 52%.



Megadeth, Dystopia (UMe) #57, 3,925 sold

This isn’t far from the 100,000 mark.



Five Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six (Prospect Park) #67, 3,700 sold

A 1% drop isn’t much change from last week. Obviously.



Red, Of Beauty and Rage (Essential) #122, 2,250 sold

This has been back on the charts for 10 weeks with nearly 110,000 sold.



Breaking Benjamin, Dark Before Dawn (Hollywood) #143, 1,875 sold

A tiny 1% boost.



After The Burial, Dig Deep (Sumerian) #180, 1,475 sold

This goes deeper after a 16% drop.

Bring Me The Horizon, That’s The Spirit (Columbia) #186, 1,450 sold

A tiny 1% boost.



Various Artists, Now That’s What I Call Rock (Sony) #194, 1,350 sold

Right about now, this is close to dropping off after a 14% drop.

Heatseekers

Ice Nine Kills, Every Trick In The Book (Fearless) 560 sold

This dropped off last week, but touring has kept it afloat. They’re one of those Warped Tour bands.



Last In Line, Heavy Crown (Frontiers) 510 sold

A 31% drop sucks royally.



The Plot In You, Happiness In Self Destruction (Stay Sick) 390 sold

This sold about the same amount as last week.



Red Sun Rising, Polyester Zeal (Razor & Tie) 360 sold

A slight drop of 10%.



Church of Misery, …And Then There Were None (Rise Above) 330 sold

A miserable 21% drop.



Fleshgod Apocalypse, King (Nuclear Blast) 310 sold

A 10% drop isn’t fleshed out.



Silent Planet, The Night God Slept (Solid State) 300 sold

Once again, this album gets boosted back up onto the charts.



Avantasia, Ghostlights (Nuclear Blast) 260 sold

A 14% isn’t very a(d)vantasious (this is what’s called a stretch, kids.)



Obscura, Akróasis (Relapse) 250 sold

A boost of 7%.



Holy Grail, Times of Pride & Peril (Prothetic) 250 sold

A perilous drop of 42%.



Deströyer 666, Wildfire (Season of Mist) 240 sold

A %16(66) drop.



Delain, Lunar Prelude (Napalm) 240 sold

A 19% drop is pretty delame.
Abbath, Abbath (Season of Mist) 240 sold

A 35% drop, but you should probably try to catch him on the Decibel Tour.

[Gary]

Top 50 on the BB200 based on streaming. The first number is the streaming rank, the second is the sales rank, the third is the BB200 rank



stream sales BB200 ARTIST TITLE
1 10 1 RIHANNA ANTI
2 12 3 BIEBER*JUSTIN PURPOSE
3 25 11 TILLER*BRYSON T R A P S O U L
4 49 16 G-EAZY WHEN IT'S DARK OUT
5 21 13 THE WEEKND BEAUTY BEHIND THEMADNESS
6 95 22 FUTURE EVOL
7 163 28 DRAKE AND FUTURE WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
8 14 9 GATES*KEVIN ISLAH
9 75 18 FETTY WAP FETTY WAP
10 15 8 TWENTY ONE PILOTS BLURRYFACE
11 100 27 FUTURE DS2
12 5 5 LAMAR*KENDRICK "UNTITLED UNMASTERED"
13 58 32 COLE*J. 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE
14 104 40 DRAKE IF YOU'RE READING THIS, IT'S
15 38 29 2 CHAINZ COLLEGROVE
16 79 25 GOMEZ*SELENA REVIVAL
17 16 19 HAMILTON / O.B.C.R. HAMILTON / O.B.C.R.
18 170 57 JEREMIH "LATE NIGHTS: THE ALBUM"
19 134 44 MENDES*SHAWN HANDWRITTEN
20 53 35 BROWN*CHRIS ROYALTY
21 158 70 DRAKE TAKE CARE
22 142 20 FLO RIDA MY HOUSE
23 176 80 DRAKE "NOTHING WAS THE SAME
24 69 46 SHEERAN*ED X
25 117 50 CARA*ALESSIA KNOW-IT-ALL
26 197 39 POSNER*MIKE THE TRUTH
27 34 34 1975 "I LIKE IT WHEN YOU
28 77 47 ONE DIRECTION MADE IN THE A.M.
29 66 24 SIVAN*TROYE "BLUE NEIGHBOURHOOD"
30 121 67 LAMAR*KENDRICK "GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY"
31 32 26 HUNT*SAM MONTEVALLO
32 70 51 HALSEY BADLANDS
33 46 36 YO GOTTI ART OF HUSTLE
34 159 77 G-EAZY "THESE THINGS HAPPEN"
35 177 61 THE CHAINSMOKERS BOUQUET
36 36 41 LAMAR*KENDRICK "TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY"
37 175 81 BEYONCE BEYONCE
38 20 17 PUTH*CHARLIE NINE TRACK MIND
39 31 33 PANIC! AT THE DISCO DEATH OF A BACHELOR
40 116 69 SMITH*SAM IN THE LONELY HOUR
41 72 54 SIA THIS IS ACTING
42 187 91 MINAJ*NICKI PINKPRINT
43 55 52 TWENTY ONE PILOTS VESSEL
44 192 97 MAJOR LAZER "PEACE IS THE MISSION"
45 193 102 BIG SEAN DARK SKY PARADISE
46 2 2 ADELE 25
47 194 118 RAE SREMMURD SREMMLIFE
48 186 53 DNCE SWAAY
49 180 108 SCOTT*TRAVIS RODEO
50 68 60 MARTINEZ*MELANIE CRY BABY

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Hip Hop Album Sales: Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar & Flatbush Zombies
March 21, 2016 | 10:00 AM
by Victoria Hernandez

The week of March 17, Flatbush Zombies debut on Billboard's Top 200 chart with its 3001: A Laced Odyssey album. Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar are also in the Top 10 on the list. Meanwhile, 2 Chainz' Collegrove album with Lil Wayne drops to #29, a 71 percent decrease in sales after debuting at #4 last week.

Rihanna's ANTI album is back at #1 on this week's Top 200 chart after spending the past two weeks at #3. The singer pushed 54,370 total units this week, including more than 36 million streams. The single "Work," which features Drake also sits at the top spot on the Digital Genre R&B/Hip Hop singles chart.

In its second week on the chart, Kendrick Lamar's untitled unmastered. sits at #5 with 38,402 total sales. This is a 78 percent dropoff after last week's chart-topping performance. The Compton, California rapper's other two major label releases, To Pimp a Butterfly and good kid m.A.A.d City, are also still charting, at #41 and #67 respectively.

Flatbush Zombies debut in the Top 10 with its independent 3001: A Laced Odyssey album. The project sold 28,291 total units and was streamed 5,758,286 times. The single "Bounce" charted at #32 on Billboard's Twitter Top Tracks chart.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 03/17/2016

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.

#1 Rihanna - ANTI - 54,370 (17,035) [36,385,676]

#5 Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered. - 38,402 (26,830) [15,108,596]

#9 Kevin Gates - Islah - 30,418 (12,885) [16,897,976]

#10 Flatbush Zombies - 3001: A Laced Odyssey - 28,291 (23,692) [5,758,286]

#11 Bryson Tiller - Trapsoul - 28,070 (8,152) [24,688,579]

#13 The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness - 26,595 (9,068) [17,970,181]

#16 G-Eazy - When It's Dark Out - 24,224 (4,888) [18,663,979]

#18 Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap - 19,044 (3,706) [15,415,946]

#20 Flo Rida - My House - 18,359 (1,790) [8,536,909]

#22 Future - EVOL - 17,036 (2,961) [17,410,451]

[HolidayGuy]

It's interesting to see how titles perform with those other metrics in the mix, but I stick to Album Sales for comparisons/historical stats- at least for the top 100 positions, and for as long as it's published.