A Day to Remember #1 Album Sales/Travis Scott #1 BB200- 9/24

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Guess the album-sales race wasn't as close as HITS thought.

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Travis Scott Scores First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight'
9/11/2016 by Keith Caulfield

Travis Scott claims his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his new effort, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, debuts straight in at No. 1. The set, which was released on Sept. 2 through Grand Hustle/Epic Records, earned 88,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 53,000 were in traditional album sales.

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 Sept. 24-dated chart (where Scott bows at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight is exclusively available through the Apple Music streaming service, and the iTunes Store for purchase. It’s the fifth album to hit No. 1 in 2016 initially as an Apple and iTunes exclusive, following Frank Ocean’s Blonde, DJ Khaled’s Major Key, Drake’s Views and Future’s Evol. (Scott, Khaled and Future also share the same label: Epic Records.)

The songs on Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight generated 50.2 million streams during its first tracking week, equating to 33,000 SEA units. The remainder of the album’s total units for the week were generated by track equivalent albums (TEA) -- just 2,000 units. The TEA number is low because only one of the album’s songs is available or purchase a la carte from the album.

Scott’s new album follows his debut effort, Rodeo, which peaked at No. 3 on the tally in 2015. Rodeo launched with 85,000 units (70,000 in pure album sales).

Rock band A Day to Remember bows at a career-high peak of No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with Bad Vibrations, as the set starts with 67,000 units (62,000 in pure album sales). It’s also the best-selling album of the week, and debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.

A Day to Remember previously reached No. 37 with Common Courtesy (on the chart dated Jan. 11, 2014), No. 11 with What Separates Me From You (Dec. 4, 2010) and No. 21 with Homesick (Feb. 21, 2009).

Bad Vibrations also enters at No. 1 on the Independent Albums chart -- the group’s third leader on the tally. It previously led the list with What Separates Me From You and Homesick.

Drake’s Views rises one rung to No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 60,000 units (down 15 percent) -- still driven mostly by SEA units (42,000). The Suicide Squad soundtrack climbs 6-4 with 55,000 units (down 12 percent).

Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots dips 2-5 in its second week, with 42,000 units (down 71 percent), while last week’s No. 1 album, Barbra Streisand’s Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, falls to No. 6 with 41,000 units (down 73 percent).

Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface rises 10-7 with just more than 30,000 units (down 1 percent), Rihanna’s Anti moves 9-8 with 30,000 units (down 6 percent) and Beyonce’s Lemonade falls 7-9 with nearly 30,000 units (down 21 percent).

Ocean’s Blonde rounds out the top 10, descending 5-10 with 29,000 units (down 58 percent).

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Britney Spears fell out of the Top 10!

And...

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Hip Hop Album Sales: Travis Scott Earns First #1 Album With "Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight"
September 12, 2016 | 9:17 AM
by Victoria Hernandez


Travis Scott scores his first #1 album on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart with Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight. Drake, Rihanna, Beyonce and Frank Ocean join the Houston singer in the Top 10 of the list. Isaiah Rashad debuts in the Top 20 with The Sun’s Tirade. Young Thug and De La Soul see significant dropoff in the second week sales of their projects. No, My Name is Jeffery slips from 8 to 31 — a 65 percent decrease — with and the Anonymous Nobody falling from 12 to 102, a 74 percent drop.

Travis Scott’s Birds In The Trap Sing A Lot Of McKnight

Travis Scott’s Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight lands at #1 out of the gate. The LP sold nearly 88,000 equivalent album units its first week as an Apple Music exclusive. It is the fifth Apple Music exclusive to reach the top spot this year, according to Billboard, joining the company of Drake’s VIEWS, DJ Khaled’s Major Key, Future’s EVOL and Frank Ocean’s Blonde. Birds was streamed 50.2 million times. Scott’s first album, Rodeo, landed at #3 upon its release last year with 85,000 units of total activity.

Isaiah Rashad Shines Brightly With “The Sun’s Tirade”

Isaiah Rashad continues TDE’s success with The Sun’s Tirade opening at #17. The album sold 19,000 equivalent album units and was streamed 11.6 million times across all major platforms. This is a significant improvement from Cilvia Demo, which debuted at #40 in 2014 with 8,500 units (those sales figures did not include streams at the time). TDE also saw chart success this year with Kendrick Lamar’s untitled unmastered. debuting at #1 in March and ScHoolboy Q’s Blank Face LP landing at #2 upon its July release.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 09/08/2016

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 Travis Scott – Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight – 87,972 (52,577) [50,170,304]

#3 Drake – VIEWS – 60,458 (9,483) [63,655,288]

#4 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 55,377 (22,174) [26,416,378]

#8 Rihanna – ANTI – 30,144 (6,107) [27,242,192]

#9 Beyonce — LEMONADE — 29,991 (20,981) [1,910,144]

#10 Frank Ocean – Blonde – 28,586 (15,621) [19,448,035]

#16 DJ Khaled – Major Key – 19,800 (4,300) [17,498,856]

#17 Isaiah Rashad – The Sun’s Tirade – 19,481 (11,166) [11,602,440]

#20 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 16,659 (4,782) [16,127,233]

#21 Kanye West – The Life of deleted – 16,562 (0) [23,768,309]

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It's Tuesday morning 9am EST and Billboard still does not have the new charts up at Billboard.biz.

Something is going on at Billboard. Too few employees, too many charts to update.

They don't have any of the new August RIAA certs on their charts.

And zero mention of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album scanning 10 million copies. Billboard always does an article when an album scans 10 million copies.

[Enigma.]

Does anyone have an explanation why The Eminem Show is constantly in top 100? I see some songs quite high on Spotify charts but why exactly THAT is the Eminem album people are streaming and not TMMLP or his GH?

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^Top Album Sales

EMINEM|EMINEM SHOW ( 58) 3,610

Steady album sales...

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Top 10 Country Albums Chart: September 12, 2016
Posted By Matt Bjorke on Tuesday September 13, 2016

Florida Georgia Line remains #1 for one more week before Jason Aldean's latest takes over the slot while Blake Shelton, Cole Swindell, Joey+Rory and Kelsea Ballerini are among the benefactors of an iTunes $5.99 album sale.

CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots 30,900 156,700
2 Blake Shelton If I'm Honest 14,100 449,400
3 Chris Stapleton Traveller 10,700 1,558,700
4 Dolly Parton Pure & Simple 7,700 40,600
5 Cole Swindell You Should Be Here 7,000 189,900
6 Joey+Rory Hymns 6,300 455,700
7 Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 5,800 187,000
8 Justin Moore Kinda Don't Care 5,500 60,900
9 Hillary Scott & Family Love Remains 5,300 65,500
10 Keith Urban Ripcord 5,200 255,500
11 Jake Owen American Love 3,600 48,200
12 Dierks Bentley Black 3,500 184,900
13 Various Artists Now Country 9 3,300 86,000
14 Sam Hunt Montevallo 3,300 1,211,900
15 Luke Bryan Kill The Lights 3,200 1,041,900

-- Thomas Rhett Tangled Up 3,100 460,700
-- Carrie Underwood Storyteller 2,800 648,700
-- Maren Morris Hero 2,600 98,000
-- Various Artists Mud Digger 7 2,600 2,600
-- Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood 2,300 433,000
-- Jon Pardi California Sunrise 2,100 61,700
-- Sturgill Simpson Sailor's Guide To Earth 1,800 124,800
-- Reba McEntire My Kind Of Christmas 1,600 3,700
-- Tim McGraw Damn Country Music 1,600 213,800
-- Old Dominion Meat and Candy 1,500 146,900
-- Drake White Spark 1,300 13,800
-- Chris Young I'm Comin' Over 1,200 230,100
-- Jennifer Nettles Playin' With Fire 1,000 84,200
-- Cody Jinks I'm Not The Devil 1,000 14,900
-- Cody Johnson Gotta Be Me 700 28,600
-- Dylan Scott Dylan Scott 700 12,700
-- Bre Illinois 700 151,100
-- Ryan Follese Ryan Follese EP 700 700
-- Chris Lane Girl Problems 600 10,200
-- Dallas Smith Side Effects 600 600
-- Granger Smith Remington 500 65,700
-- LOCASH The Fighters 500 16,200
-- Loretta Lynn Full Circle 500 65,600
-- David Nail Fighter 400 19,400
-- Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material 400 178,900

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Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Joey + Rory's 'Hymns' Returns; Dolan Twins' Comp Debuts
9/15/2016 by Keith Caulfield

On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Sept. 24), Travis Scott scored his first No. 1 with Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, as the set earned 88,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 8 (according to Nielsen Music).

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:

— Sia, This Is Acting - No. 13 — As Sia’s new single, “The Greatest” featuring Kendrick Lamar, scores the Hot Shot Debut on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 52 (marking her 10th chart hit), her album This Is Acting zooms 22-13 on the Billboard 200. The set earned 24,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week -- owed in part to tracks and streams of “The Greatest.” The track was added to the album's tracklist on the Google Play edition of the album.

— Various Artists, Epic Lit - No. 27 — Epic’s compilation of current and rising hits debuts with almost 15,000 units. The 19-song album’s debut is mostly powered by streaming equivalent units: a little more than 10,000. A bit more than 4,000 units were generated by track equivalent units.

A tiny handful of units -- 0.05 percent -- were powered by traditional album sales. Why such a small number of sales for the album? Likely because of its limited availability and its high price: It’s sold only through the iTunes Store -- for $24.51. That’s far higher than the typical price of a compilation album, which is around $9.99.

Epic Lit follows Epic’s earlier compilation, Epic AF, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. That set was only available on streaming services, and not sold as an album. Epic AF falls off the latest chart, though it was No. 70 in the previous week. The album suddenly lost momentum because two of its tracks also appear on Epic Lit, and now Epic Lit is earning track and streaming units for those songs, instead of Epic AF (French Montana’s “No Shopping” and “Lockjaw”).

— Fleetwood Mac, The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac - No. 50 — The greatest-hits package flies from No. 156 to No. 50 thanks to a 99-cent sale price in the Google Play store. It earned 10,000 units (up 118 percent) and sold 6,000 copies (up 91 percent). It’s the highest rank for the album since 2002 (Nov. 16; No. 44).

— Joey + Rory, Hymns - No. 95 — Joey + Rory’s Hymns jumps back onto the Billboard 200 at No. 95, thanks to buzz generated by a Sept. 4 interview with Rory Feek on CBS Sunday Morning. The album -- which debuted and peaked at No. 4 in March -- returns to the list with 6,000 units (up 78 percent), with just over 6,000 in traditional album sales (up 79 percent). It’s the album’s best sales week since the chart dated July 16 (7,000).

On CBS Sunday Morning, Feek discussed the passing of his wife, Joey, their marriage and rise to fame, and his new documentary film To Joey, With Love.

Hymns has sold 456,000 copies, according to Nielsen Christian SoundScan, and it is Joey + Rory’s best-selling album. It is also the top-selling Christian or gospel album of the year, and the No. 2 biggest-selling country set, behind only Chris Stapleton’s Traveller (874,000).

Joey + Rory are nominated for vocal duo of the year at the upcoming Country Music Association Awards (CMA Awards), which will be held Nov. 2. It’s their third nomination, following previous nods in the same category in 2010 and 2009.


— Various Artists, The Dolan Twins: Tunesdays - No. 96 — One step below Joey + Rory on the Top Album Sales chart is the latest curated compilation from Heard Well Records, The Dolan Twins: Tunesdays. The 13-song album includes tracks by K.Flay, Hoodie Allen and Ryan Hemsworth.

With 6,000 copies sold in its first week, it’s the best sales frame yet for the Heard Well label. The company -- co-founded by social media star Connor Franta -- specializes in compilations curated by social media influencers like Franta, Tyler Oakley, Lohanthony, JC Caylen and Andrea Russett.

On the Compilation Albums chart, the new Tunesdays set bows at No. 2. It’s the ninth charting effort from Heard Well on the tally, and the highest charting yet.

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Sept 18, 2016 10:13:12 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

— Sia, This Is Acting - No. 13 — As Sia’s new single, “The Greatest” featuring Kendrick Lamar, scores the Hot Shot Debut on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 52 (marking her 10th chart hit), her album This Is Acting zooms 22-13 on the Billboard 200. The set earned 24,000 equivalent album units in the latest tracking week -- owed in part to tracks and streams of “The Greatest.” The track was added to the album's tracklist on the Google Play edition of the album.

— Various Artists, Epic Lit - No. 27 — Epic Lit follows Epic’s earlier compilation, Epic AF, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. That set was only available on streaming services, and not sold as an album. Epic AF falls off the latest chart, though it was No. 70 in the previous week. The album suddenly lost momentum because two of its tracks also appear on Epic Lit, and now Epic Lit is earning track and streaming units for those songs, instead of Epic AF (French Montana’s “No Shopping” and “Lockjaw”).

Both of these moves seem so shady to me. First off, "The Greatest" is already earmarked for an upcoming album; just because one version got changed to have it as a bonus track doesn't necessarily mean it should count for the album as an entire entity. Regarding Epic Lit, I feel like the marketers know what they're doing by sneaking single-only tracks onto it, just so the albums can be big solely built around TEA and SEA and their label gets controversy and/or name recognition.