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Post by Gary on Jul 24, 2016 17:36:09 GMT -5
Drake's 'Views' No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart for 11th Week, NeedToBreathe Debuts at No. 2
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By Keith Caulfield | July 24, 2016 5:00 PM EDT
Drake’s Views remains steady at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for an 11th nonconsecutive week, as the set earned another 89,000 equivalent album units (down 3 percent) in the week ending July 21, according to Nielsen Music.
Views has now earned the most weeks at No. 1 for an album since Taylor Swift’s 1989 spent its 11th and final week atop the list on the chart dated Feb. 21, 2015. The last album to lead for more than 11 weeks was the Frozen soundtrack (13 weeks, 2014).
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 Aug. 6-dated chart (where Views is No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, July 26.
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As noted previously, Views has the most weeks at No. 1 for an album by a solo male artist since Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All wrapped a 17-week run at No. 1 on Oct. 30, 1992. Furthermore, in the last 20 years, only eight albums (including Views) have spent 11 or more weeks at No. 1.
The bulk of Views’ weekly units are derived from streaming equivalent album units, as the set continues to be hugely popular on streaming services. In the latest tracking week, 64 percent of the album’s units came from streams. Eighteen percent are from track equivalent albums, and another 18 percent came from traditional album sales.
Speaking of album sales, the top-selling album of the week is NeedToBreathe’s HardLove, which debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart and at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The set earned 50,000 units, of which 46,000 were in traditional album sales.
HardLove is the band’s highest-charting album on the Billboard 200, surpassing the No. 3 debut and peak of its 2014 album Rivers in the Wasteland. That set bowed with the group’s best sales week: 49,000.
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Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface climbs 4-3 with 36,000 units (up less than 1 percent), rising to the album’s highest rank since the Jan. 23-dated list (when it was also No. 3). The former No. 1 album has spent the last eight consecutive weeks in the top 10, and has yet to depart the top 40 in its entire 62-week chart run.
Rihanna’s Anti rises 6-4 (34,000 units; up 1 percent), the original Broadway cast record of Hamilton is steady at No. 5 (32,000 units; down 10 percent), and the Epic AF compilation hits a new high, jumping 11-6 with 31,000 units (up 17 percent). The latter benefits from a newly-released version of the album that includes the new track “No Shopping” by French Montana featuring Drake. In addition, other Epic AF cuts like DJ Khaled’s “I Got the Keys” and “For Free” continue to rise in popularity.
Adele’s 25 is up 9-7 (31,000 units; down 4 percent), while Beyonce’s Lemonade slips 7-8 (30,000 units; down 9 percent).
The new Kidz Bop 32 album bows at No. 9 with 29,000 units (with 28,000 of that from traditional album sales). It’s the 24th top 10 for the Kidz Bop series, stretching back to Kidz Bop 7 in 2005. Earlier in 2016, Kidz Bop 31 launched at No. 6 with 45,000 units (43,000 in pure album sales).
Closing out the top 10 is ScHoolboy Q’s Blank Face LP, as it descends 2-10 in its second week with 28,000 units (down 63 percent).
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Post by Gary on Jul 24, 2016 17:39:23 GMT -5
So looks like the #1 album of the week with 18% of 89,000 units coming from album sales, moved about 16,000 copies
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jul 24, 2016 19:34:24 GMT -5
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Post by Mike is BAD on Jul 25, 2016 2:24:57 GMT -5
The only reason Kidz Bop is on here is because there are like so many 3 year olds obsessed with them and pretty much every parent of a toddler bought the album, sheesh.
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on Jul 25, 2016 5:04:14 GMT -5
All those 3 year olds watching for the next Kidz Bop album. Thirst?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2016 5:30:17 GMT -5
The only reason Kidz Bop is on here is because there are like so many 3 year olds obsessed with them and pretty much every parent of a toddler bought the album, sheesh. Well, fortunately these albums seem to be on their way out. Only about 28k parents were suckered into buying this one, as opposed to the 43k last time. If this keeps up, the series will just die out. |
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Post by HolidayGuy on Jul 25, 2016 8:37:25 GMT -5
This looks to be the 18th instance in which there have been dual No. 1s on Album Sales and the multi-metric chart since December 2014 (nine out of the last 10 weeks, to boot). Just three of the instances were albums that previously had hit No. 1 on the multi-metric chart.
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Post by Gary on Jul 25, 2016 8:47:32 GMT -5
The only reason Kidz Bop is on here is because there are like so many 3 year olds obsessed with them and pretty much every parent of a toddler bought the album, sheesh. Well, fortunately these albums seem to be on their way out. Only about 28k parents were suckered into buying this one, as opposed to the 43k last time. If this keeps up, the series will just die out. That decline is due to album sales in general, not Kidz Bop.
Not sure parents are "getting suckered into it". Not 3 year olds, more like ages 6 to 10. They are good to allow kids to sing along to current songs without the profanity. This will be around a while longer.
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Post by Gary on Jul 25, 2016 8:57:06 GMT -5
This looks to be the 18th instance in which there have been dual No. 1s on Album Sales and the multi-metric chart since December 2014 (nine out of the last 10 weeks, to boot). Just three of the instances were albums that previously had hit No. 1 on the multi-metric chart. Or another way to put it, (in Billboard writing style),
This is JUST the 18th occurrence out of the 88 weeks that streaming has been used as a popularity metric on the album chart or ONLY 20.5% of the time that the biggest selling album was not #1.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Jul 25, 2016 11:59:00 GMT -5
^Indeed.  On the positive for sales, there hasn't been a new SoundScan-era low this year for the No. 1-selling album in a given week. |
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jul 25, 2016 14:11:32 GMT -5
Bold numbers are pure album sales. Two albums sold 0 copies this week. www.hiphopdx.com/news/id.39751/title.drakes-views-sits-at-1-for-11th-weekDrake's "VIEWS" Sits At #1 For 11th WeekJuly 25, 2016 | 10:47 AM by Victoria Hernandez Tally another week at #1 for Drake. VIEWS has now spent 11 weeks at the top of Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart. Logic’s Bobby Tarantino project saw a surge in sales this week and ScHoolboy Q remains in the Top 10, but experienced a significant drop. We are still witnessing Kanye West and Chance The Rapper make history as both chart in the Top 30 strictly off streaming. Drake’s “VIEWS” Remain From The Top Drake has his 11th week at #1 with VIEWS. This ties Taylor Swift’s 1989, which spent the same amount of time at the top spot between the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015, according to Billboard. The Frozen soundtrack reigned for 13 weeks in 2014. ScHoolboy Q Drops Off ScHoolboy Q experiences a 63 percent drop in the sales of Blank Face LP, but the project remains in the Top 10 overall. Groovy Q’s album pushed 27,715 sales with 20 million streams. The project debuted at #2 last week with nearly 74,000 album equivalent units. Logic Sees Huge Leap In Album Sales Logic’s Bobby Tarantino project saw a 135 percent jump in sales this week and charts at #29 with 26,648 units. The Maryland rapper debuted three weeks ago and landed at #16 in competition with Snoop Dogg’s Coolaid and Desiigner’s New English. Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 07/21/2016Note: 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 Drake – VIEWS – 88,901 ( 16,271) [85,510,726] #4 Rihanna – ANTI – 34,498 ( 6,739) [30,491,228] #8 Beyonce – LEMONADE – 30,063 ( 19,839) [2,767,716] #10 ScHoolboy Q – Blank Face LP – 27,715 ( 12,067) [20,174,643] #12 Logic – Bobby Tarantino – 26,648 ( 16,493) [13,009,601] #20 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 17,906 ( 4,115) [18,243,867] #21 Kevin Gates – ISLAH – 17,277 ( 4,934) [14,131,963] #25 Kanye West – The Life of deleted – 16,019 ( 0) [21,545,368] #27 G-Eazy – When It’s Dark Out – 14,773 ( 3,992) [13,206,578] #29 Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book – 14,234 ( 0) [21,351,638] |
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Post by forg on Jul 25, 2016 19:54:05 GMT -5
Kidz Bop is pretty harmless and there's a market for them so why not serve them
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Post by rimetm on Jul 25, 2016 22:30:37 GMT -5
At least three albums sold no copies to my knowledge: Coloring Book (Streaming only), Epic AF (Glorified Playlist...), and The Life of deleted (Finally nobody bought it from the site or Tidal this week).
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Post by Enigma. on Jul 26, 2016 6:35:31 GMT -5
It's bizarre that Ghostbusters soundtrack is so low... there are several big stars on it from Fall Out Boy to G-Eazy and Zayn
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2016 5:00:40 GMT -5
It's bizarre that Ghostbusters soundtrack is so low... there are several big stars on it from Fall Out Boy to G-Eazy and Zayn I'm guessing that this is because the movie itself didn't do so well, along with people actively disliking the FOB theme. I'm pretty sure most people didn't bother checking out more if their first impression sucked. |
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Post by esoteric76 on Jul 28, 2016 13:31:04 GMT -5
Well, fortunately these albums seem to be on their way out. Only about 28k parents were suckered into buying this one, as opposed to the 43k last time. If this keeps up, the series will just die out. That decline is due to album sales in general, not Kidz Bop.
Not sure parents are "getting suckered into it". Not 3 year olds, more like ages 6 to 10. They are good to allow kids to sing along to current songs without the profanity. This will be around a while longer.
Totally. Plus they've been touring and people are seeing them and enjoying it with their kids (and buying the CDs as souvenirs) |
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Post by Gary on Jul 29, 2016 12:17:27 GMT -5
Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Twenty One Pilots' 'Blurryface' Surpasses 1 Million U.S. Sales
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By Keith Caulfield | July 29, 2016 5:19 AM EDT
On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Aug. 6), Drake’s Views scored an 11th week at No. 1, while NeedToBreathe bowed in the runner-up slot with H A R D L O V E.
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).
Let’s take a closer look at some of the action on the chart:
Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Heart Returns, Sia Rises & Charlie Puth Jumps Back Into Top 40
— Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface – No. 3 — Twenty One Pilots celebrates its first million-selling album in the U.S., as Blurryface crosses the million sales mark. The album sold another 13,000 copies in the week ending July 21, according to Nielsen Music, bringing its total sales to 1.005 million. Sixty-two weeks ago, the album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and the set has never left the top 40.
On the latest chart, the set rises 4-3 with 36,000 units earned (up less than 1 percent), notching the album’s highest rank since the Jan. 23-dated list, when it also placed at No. 3.
Here are the sales of the act’s previous full-length albums: Vessel (released in 2013; 569,000 sold), Regional at Best (2011; 3,000 — the album has been out of print since 2012) and its self-titled debut effort (2009; 115,000).
— Soundtrack, Ghostbusters – No. 18 — The soundtrack to the Ghostbusters redux debuts at No. 18 on the Billboard 200 with 19,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 21, according to Nielsen Music. Of the album’s total units for the week, 10,000 were in traditional album sales, while a sturdy 8,000 units were generated by track equivalent albums -- thanks to the solid sales of its cuts like 5 Seconds of Summer’s new “Girls Talk Boys” (46,000 downloads sold).
The new Ghostbusters album is the third Ghostbusters soundtrack to reach the top 20, following the first film’s companion set (No. 6 peak in 1984) and Ghostbusters II (No. 14 in 1989).
Notably, the new Ghostbusters album is just the fourth soundtrack to reach the top 20 in 2016, following Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Prince and the Revolution’s Purple Rain and TV soundtrack The Passion: New Orleans.
With the new Ghostbusters’ 10,000 sold, the collection also enters at No. 1 on the Soundtracks chart, where the original Ghostbusters soundtrack spirits its way up the chart, rising 18-10.
Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Luke Bryan Scores His Fourth Million-Selling Album
— Coldplay, A Head Full of Dreams – No. 32 — Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams jumps back into the Billboard 200’s top 40 (45-32 with 14,000 units; up 35 percent) for the first time since the April 2-dated list. The rise is concurrent with the band’s U.S. tour launch on July 16 in New Jersey. The trek continues across America through Sept. 3 in Santa Clara, Calif.
— Michael Jackson, Number Ones – No. 59 — Michael Jackson’s greatest-hits collection Number Ones flies back onto the Billboard 200 at No. 59 with 9,000 equivalent album units (up 523 percent) in the week ending July 21, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 5,000 were traditional album sales (up 263 percent). The gain is owed to a $5.99 sale price in the iTunes Store, which led to a 1,104 percent rise in download sales. With 5.3 million sold, Number Ones is Jackson’s best-selling hits package in the Nielsen era (1991-present), and third-biggest seller overall in that span of time (behind Thriller, with 6.7 million, and Dangerous, with 6.5 million).
— Dave Matthews Band, Crash – No. 89 — Dave Matthews Band’s Crash charges back onto the Billboard 200 for the first time since 1998, as the set re-enters at No. 89. The return is owed to the album’s vinyl LP debut on July 15, which helped generate a big sales and unit gain for the set. The album climbs back onto the list with 7,000 units earned (up 491 percent) and 6,000 sold (up 1,432 percent). Ninety percent of the album’s sales for the week were vinyl LPs, which enables its No. 1 debut on the Vinyl Albums chart. Crash originally debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1996.
— Gwen Stefani, This Is What the Truth Feels Like – No. 114 – Following Stefani’s July 15 performance on NBC’s Today and July 20 interview on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, her album returns to the list with 6,000 units (up 83 percent), with 4,000 of that sum in album sales (up 108 percent).
— Snoop Dogg, Coolaid – No. 120 — The CD bow of Coolaid on July 15 yields an overall 59 percent unit gain for the album (to 6,000) for the week. Coolaid was initially released as a stream on June 29, followed by its commercial digital debut on July 1.
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