Billboard 200 10/1/16 Jason Aldean

[Gary]

Jason Aldean Achieves Third Straight No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart
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By Keith Caulfield | September 18, 2016 3:00 PM EDT



Jason Aldean earns his third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with arrival of They Don’t Know. The set, which was released on Sept. 9 through Macon/Broken Bow Records, earned 138,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 15, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 131,000 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 Oct. 1-dated chart (where Aldean enters at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Sept. 20.

Jason Aldean Set to Debut at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart With 'They Don't Know'

They Don’t Know is also Aldean’s third consecutive No. 1 on the chart. His last two chart entries, which also happen to be his last two studio albums, likewise opened atop the list. His last album, 2014’s Old Boots, New Dirt, launched at No. 1 with 278,000 copies sold. Two years before that, Night Train rolled in at No. 1 with 409,000 sold.

In total, They Don’t Know is Aldean’s sixth top 10 effort, and seventh charting album. He previously hit the top 10 with My Kinda Party (No. 2 in 2010), Wide Open (No. 4 in 2009) and Relentless (No. 4 in 2007). His self-titled debut album peaked at No. 37 in 2005.

They Don’t Know is the first country album to rule the Billboard 200 late 2015, when Chris Stapleton’s Traveller spent two weeks atop the list on the Nov. 21 and Nov. 28-dated charts. (Traveller reentered the chart, straight in at No. 1 on the Nov. 21-dated list, following his big night on last year’s Country Music Association Awards.)

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They Don’t Know is the first country album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in over a year -- since Luke Bryan’s Kill the Lights bowed in the penthouse on Aug. 29, 2015.

This year marks the first since 2001 that we've waited until a chart dated in October for a country album to top the Billboard 200. That year, one country set reigned: Garth Brooks' Scarecrow, on the Dec. 1, 2001, chart.

Drake’s former No. 1, Views, rises one rung to No. 2 with 59,000 units. Streams of the set’s songs continue to drive the album’s high rank on the chart. In the latest tracking week, Views’ streaming equivalent units totaled 43,000. (That equals 63.8 million streams of Views’ songs.) Views was the most-streamed album of the week, by total streams of its songs.

The Suicide Squad soundtrack also rises a notch, to No. 3, with 52,000 units. Unlike Views, the Suicide Squad soundtrack’s units are evenly distributed across traditional album sales (19,000 copies sold), track equivalent albums (16,000), and streaming equivalent albums (17,000).

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At No. 4 is the second of five debuts in the top 10, as Bastille’s Wild World enters with 43,000 units (35,000 copies sold). It’s the band’s highest charting album, first top 10, and best sales week yet. It trumps the No. 11 debut and peak of its first album, Bad Blood, which arrived with 34,000 sold in its first week, back in 2013. Bastille also charted a pair of EPs, with Haunt (No. 104 in 2013) and Vs.: Other People’s Heartache Pt. III (No. 87 in 2014).

The Head and the Heart also score its highest-charting album yet, as Signs of Light bows at No. 5 with 40,000 units (37,000 in traditional album sales). The group previously hit the top 10 once, at No. 10, with its last album, Let’s Be Still in 2013 (42,000 sold in its first week -- still the act’s best sales frame).

On the Top Rock Albums chart, which ranks the week’s best-selling rock albums, The Head and the Heart debut at No. 1 with Signs of Light, while Bastille’s Wild World enters at No. 2.

Back on the new Billboard 200, last week’s No. 1, Travis Scott’s Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, falls to No. 6 with 38,000 units (down 57 percent).

The Beatles notch their 32nd top 10 album, as Live at the Hollywood Bowl debuts at No. 7 with 36,000 units (35,000 in traditional album sales). The group last hit the top 10 in 2013 with On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2 (No. 7).

The Beatles boast the third-most top 10s in the Billboard 200's history. The Rolling Stones lead with 36, followed by Barbra Streisand, with 34.

The new album -- like its 1977 predecessor, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl -- features songs from The Beatles’ three Hollywood Bowl performances in 1964 and 1965. The 1977 album peaked at No. 2, and eventually fell out of print.

The 1977 album’s 13 songs are on the new 2016 album, along with four bonus tracks. The 2016 set was newly mixed and remastered, and directly sourced from the original three track tapes of the concerts.

Travis Scott Scores First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight'

Jack White’s new archival compilation, Acoustic Recordings: 1998-2016, enters at No. 8 with 32,000 copies sold (30,000 in traditional album sales). The 26-song set includes alternative versions, mixes and previously unreleased recordings from White and his bands The White Stripes and The Raconteurs. Acoustic Recordings is the third top 10 set for White, following a pair of No. 1s: Lazaretto in 2014 and Blunderbuss in 2012.

The new set was a hot seller on vinyl LP, with 12,000 copies sold on the format, and a debut at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. Acoustic’s vinyl sales mark the biggest week for a vinyl set since Blink-182’s California started with 20,000 LPs sold back in July.

The sizable vinyl sales are usual for White, who is a fan of the format and set a vinyl sales record in 2013 with Lazaretto. That album launched with 40,000 vinyl LPs sold -- the largest sales week for a vinyl LP since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking sales in 1991.

Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman (rising 11-9 with 30,000 units; up 19 percent) and Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots (dipping 5-10 with 30,000 units; down 29 percent).

[Gary]

1. Jason Aldean 131K/138K
2. Drake 59K
3. Suicide Squad 52K
4. Bastille 35K/43K
5. The Head and The Heart 40K
6. Travis Scott 38K
7. Beatles 35K/36K
8. Jack White 30K/32K
9. Ariana Grande 30K
10. Florida Georgia Line 30K

Most top 10's all time: #1 Rolling Stones 36, #2 Barbra Streisnd 34, #3 Beatles 32

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well ridance Blurryface and ANTI, out of top 10 for awhile. How many weeks they spent on top 10 so far?

[Gary]

Sept 18, 2016 18:00:50 GMT -5 Bigfatliar 3 said:

well ridance Blurryface and ANTI, out of top 10 for awhile. How many weeks they spent on top 10 so far?

34 and 32

[lyhom]

lmao I didn't even realize that jason aldean's album was even out

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^Didn't you see the HITS thread last week? It said Aldean would be #1.

[lyhom]

Sept 18, 2016 20:17:42 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

^Didn't you see the HITS thread last week? It said Aldean would be #1.

I don't read these threads very often as you can tell lmao

I knew it was coming out but I didn't realize it was so soon

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Sept 18, 2016 20:42:21 GMT -5 lyhom said:

Sept 18, 2016 20:17:42 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

^Didn't you see the HITS thread last week? It said Aldean would be #1.

I don't read these threads very often as you can tell lmao

I knew it was coming out but I didn't realize it was so soon

Funny then that his new album is titled "They Don't Know" ha ha

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Sept 18, 2016 18:00:50 GMT -5 Bigfatliar 3 said:

well ridance Blurryface and ANTI, out of top 10 for awhile. How many weeks they spent on top 10 so far?

Considering there were 5 debuts this week, I'm guessing they'll be back next week.

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Chart Watch: A Not-So-Perfect Debut for Lady Gaga's 'Perfect Illusion'
by Paul Grein, Writer
September 19, 2016

Top Albums

Jason Aldean lands his third #1 album in a row as They Don’t Know debuts in the top spot on The Billboard 200. Aldean also debuted in the top spot with Night Train in October 2012 and Old Boots, New Dirt in October 2014.

They Don’t Know is the first country album to hit #1 in 2016. This is the latest in the calendar year that a country album has hit #1 in 15 years. The last time that we were this deep into the year before a country album hit #1 since 2001, when Garth Brooks’s Scarecrow hit #1 in the (SoundScan) week ending Nov. 18.

They Don’t Know also enters Top Country Albums at #1, displacing Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots. It’s Aldean’s fifth #1 country album. Trivia note: “They Don’t Know” was also the title of a Tracey Ullman single which made the top 10 in 1984.

Drake’s Views inches up from #3 to #2 in its 20th week. Views is the first album to spend its first 20 weeks in the top five since Taylor Swift’s 1989. That blockbuster spent its first 24 weeks in the top five in 2014-15.

The Suicide Squad soundtrack rebounds from #4 to #3 in its sixth week. It’s #1 on Top Soundtracks for the sixth week.

Bastille’s sophomore album, Wild World, debuts at #4. It’s the first top 10 album for the British rock group. Their debut, Bad Blood, peaked at #11 in September 2013. Both albums share their titles with hits of the 1970s. Neil Sedaka had a #1 with “Bad Blood” in 1975. Cat Stevens had a #11 hit with “Wild World” in 1971. Bastille’s album enters The U.K.’s Official Albums Chart at #1. Both of the group’s albums have reached #1 in their home country.

The Head and the Heart’s Signs of Light debuts at #5. It’s the folk band’s second top 10 album in a row. Let’s Be Still reached #10 in October 2013.

Travis Scott’s Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight drops from #1 to #6 in its second week.

The Beatles’ Live at the Hollywood Bowl debuts at #7. It’s the band’s 32nd top 10 album. Only three other acts have had as many or more top 10 albums since March 1956, when the album chart became a weekly feature in Billboard. The Rolling Stones lead with 36, followed by Barbra Streisand with 34. The late Frank Sinatra has also had 32.

Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a remixed, remastered and expanded version of an earlier Beatles album, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, which reached #2 in 1977. This marks the second time that a revamped (and retitled) version of a previous Beatles album has made the top 10. Let It Be…Naked, a new version of the 1970 album Let It Be, reached #5 in late 2003. The new album was released to coincide with the release of a Beatles documentary, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, which was directed by Ron Howard.

Jack White’s Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 debuts at #8. The 26-song set includes alternative versions, mixes and previously unreleased recordings. It’s White’s third top 10 album as a solo artist, following the chart-topping studio albums Blunderbuss and Lazaretto. But here’s a more impressive stat: This is White’s 11th top 10 album overall, counting three albums with The White Stripes, two with The Raconteurs and three with The Dead Weather. White has amassed these 11 top 10 albums in a little more than 13 years.

Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman rebounds from #11 to #9 in its 17th week. The album debuted and peaked at #2 in May.

Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots drops from #5 to #10 in its third week.

Six albums—A Day to Remember’s Bad Vibrations, Barbra Streisand’s Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, twenty one pilots’ Blurryface, Rihanna’s ANTI , Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Frank Ocean’s Blonde —drop out of the top 10 this week.

Wilco’s Schmilco debuts in the top 20. Wilco isn’t the first artist to have this idea for an album title. Nilsson titled a 1971 album Nilsson Schmilsson.

Look for Drake to return to #1 next week, for a 13th week on top. The week’s top new albums will be Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine, Aaron Lewis’s Sinner, and Usher’s Hard II Love.

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The Beatles Earn 32nd Top 10 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Live at the Hollywood Bowl'
9/19/2016 by Keith Caulfield

The Beatles is one of only four acts with at least 30 top 10 albums.

The Beatles continue to build their incredible legacy on the Billboard charts, as the band’s new Live at the Hollywood Bowl album debuts at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Oct. 1). The set is the group’s 32nd top 10 album.

Only three other acts have at least 30 top 10 albums: Frank Sinatra (with 33), Barbra Streisand (34) and The Rolling Stones (with a record 36).

The Billboard 200’s chart history dates back to March 24, 1956, when the tally began with the name Best Selling Popular Albums. It was Billboard’s first regularly published weekly albums chart, and eventually became known as the Billboard 200.

The new Live at the Hollywood Bowl album launches with 36,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 15, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 35,000 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 album -- like its 1977 predecessor, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl -- features songs from The Beatles’ three Hollywood Bowl performances in 1964 and 1965. The 1977 album peaked at No. 2 and eventually fell out of print.

The 1977 album’s 13 songs are on the new 2016 album, along with four bonus tracks. The 2016 set was newly mixed and remastered and directly sourced from the original three track tapes of the concerts.

Here’s a look at all 32 of The Beatles’ top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 chart:

Peak Year, Title, Peak Position

1964, Meet the Beatles!, No. 1 (11 weeks)
1964, Introducing… The Beatles, No. 2
1964, The Beatles’ Second Album, No. 1 (five weeks)
1964, A Hard Day’s Night (Soundtrack), No. 1 (14 weeks)
1964, Something New, No. 2
1965, The Beatles’ Story, No. 7
1965, The Beatles ’65, No. 1 (nine weeks)
1965, Beatles VI, No. 1 (six weeks)
1965, Help! (Soundtrack), No. 1 (nine weeks)
1966, Rubber Soul, No. 1 (six weeks)
1966, Yesterday and Today, No. 1 (five weeks)
1966, Revolver, No. 1 (six weeks)
1967, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, No. 1 (15 weeks)
1968, Magical Mystery Tour (Soundtrack), No. 1 (eight weeks)
1968, The Beatles (White Album), No. 1 (nine weeks)
1969, Yellow Submarine (Soundtrack), No. 2
1969, Abbey Road, No. 1 (11 weeks)
1970, Hey Jude, No. 2
1970, Let It Be (Soundtrack), No. 1 (four weeks)
1973, The Beatles 1962-1966, No. 3
1973, The Beatles 1967-1970, No. 1 (one week)
1976, Rock ‘N’ Roll Music, No. 2
1977, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, No. 2
1994, Live at the BBC, No. 3
1995, Anthology 1, No. 1 (three weeks)
1996, Anthology 2, No. 1 (one week)
1996, Anthology 3, No. 1 (one week)
2000, 1, No. 1 (eight weeks)
2003, Let It Be… Naked, No. 5
2003, Love, No. 4
2013, On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2, No. 7
2016, Live at the Hollywood Bowl, No. 7

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Hip Hop Album Sales: Drake, Suicide Squad & Travis Scott
September 19, 2016 | 12:14 PM
by Victoria Hernandez


This week in Hip Hop, Drake creeps back up the charts along with the Suicide Squad soundtrack. Travis Scott stays in the Top 10 with the second week of Bird season. Isaiah Rashad sees a 63 percent drop in the second week of The Sun’s Tirade, which lands at #93 with 7,000 sales units.

Drake’s “VIEWS” Climbs Back Up

Drake’s VIEWS album lands at the #2 spot in its 20th week on the chart. This sales period, it sold nearly 59,000 equivalent album units, surpassed only by country singer Jason Aldean’s They Don’t Know. Drizzy dropped to #4 a few weeks ago.

Suicide Squad Keeps Killing Sales

The Suicide Squad soundtrack, which boasts the hit song “Sucker For Pain” with Lil Wayne and Wiz Khalifa, is still raking in numbers. In its sixth week on the chart fans are still bumping the tunes to the #3 album in the country even if the Will Smith movie has run its course in theaters.

Travis Scott Remains In Top 10

Travis Scott continues his success with Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight. The LP lands at #6 with 38,000 equivalent album units after debuting at the top of the charts a week ago. The Houston rapper continues to build hype through the La Flame documentary video.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 09/15/2016

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.

#2 Drake – VIEWS – 58,603 (8,366) [63,802,371]

#3 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 51,8217 (18,786) [25,871,800]

#6 Travis Scott – Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight – 37,701 (12,661) [35,887,741]

#13 Frank Ocean – Blonde – 27,561 (9,672) [26,834,896]

#14 Rihanna – ANTI – 26,003 (4,646) [25,548,858]

#15 Beyonce — LEMONADE — 22,719 (15,718) [1,663,754]

#20 DJ Khaled – Major Key – 19,144 (4,131) [16,911,959]

#21 Kanye West – The Life of deleted – 19,114 (0) [24,298,258]

#29 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 13,991 (9,857) [16,289,621]

#31 Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book – 13,485 (0) [20,228,759]

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Country Album Sales Chart: September 19, 2016
Posted By Matt Bjorke on Monday September 19, 2016
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CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Jason Aldean They Don't Know 131,000 131,000
2 Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots 20,500 177,200
3 Chris Stapleton Traveller 9,500 1,568,200
4 Whiskey Myers Mud 7,400 7,400
5 Keith Urban Ripcord 6,500 262,100
6 Dolly Parton Pure & Simple 6,100 46,700
7 Trio Complete Trio Collection 5,200 5,200
8 Blake Shelton If I'm Honest 5,200 454,600
9 Dierks Bentley Black 5,100 190,000
10 Hillary Scott & Family Love Remains 4,700 70,200
11 Joey+Rory Hymns 4,600 460,400
12 Justin Moore Kinda Don't Care 4,200 65,100
13 Chely Wright I Am The Rain 4,100 4,100
14 Cole Swindell You Should Be Here 3,500 193,400
15 Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 3,400 190,400

-- Luke Bryan Kill The Lights 2,900 1,044,800
-- Sam Hunt Montevallo 2,900 1,214,800
-- Carrie Underwood Storyteller 2,900 651,500
-- Sturgill Simpson Sailor's Guide To Earth 2,800 127,600
-- Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood 2,600 435,700
-- Maren Morris Hero 2,200 100,200
-- The Time Jumpers Kid Sister 1,700 1,700
-- Old Dominion Meat and Candy 1,500 148,400
-- Casey Donahew All Night Party 1,400 13,900
-- Reba McEntire My Kind Of Christmas 1,100 4,800
-- Cyndi Lauper Detour 900 36,800
-- D.Parton/L.Ronstadt My Dear Companion: Selections 800 800
-- Brett Young Brett Young EP 800 14,800
-- Billy Ray Cyrus Thin Line 700 700
-- Cam Untamed 600 139,700
-- William Michael Morgan William Michael Morgan EP 500 15,500
-- LOCASH The Fighters 500 16,700
-- Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material 500 179,400
-- Chris Lane Girl Problems 500 10,700
-- Granger Smith Remington 500 66,200

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Metal By Numbers 9/21: The charts are a harsh, cold world

Posted by Matt Brown on September 21, 2016

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
I’ve been writing this column for four years now, and while that might not sound like a super long time, it’s interesting to see how things have changed regarding record sales. Sure, there are obvious variables that have been in places for a long time now (digital music, musical piracy), but even in the relatively short span of four years there have been changes such as the rise music streaming, which is now accounted for in album sales. And now that I’ve been doing this long enough to see bands move through two or three album cycles, it’s intriguing to see sales patterns shift for bands old a new. Of Mice & Men, for example, is our top debut this week for metal, but they’re in a very different position from their last album. The #13 spot is nothing to shack a stick at and 14,000 copies sold is a number most bands would be celebrating with backflips. But compared to the #4 and 51,000 copies their previous album did in 2014? Big difference, and that was only a few months shy of three years ago. Now, you could pin it on the band’s overall popularity which is sometimes a valid reason for a drop in sales, but there a plenty of other big bands that land a spot in the top five but sell way less than their previous album did, and vice versa. Conversely, there other bands that are inching up one album at a time, and you can see one or two in our debuts below. P.S. Metallica’s Black Album sold another 4,700 this week.

Notable Debuts:

Of Mice & Men, Cold World (Rise)
Debut #13
14,175 sold

Of Mice & Men land a solid debut with their fourth album, though it didn’t have nearly as big of a debut as their previous album.

Norma Jean, Polar Similar (Solid State)
Debut #29
7,800 sold

The band’s seventh album charts higher than its predecessor.

Devin Townsend Project, Transcendence (InsideOut)
Debut #38
5,500 sold

HevyDevy is back with his seventh album under the DTP moniker, outdoing his previous album and making this one his best US debut yet.



Artifex Pereo, Passengers(Tooth & Nail)
Debut #119
1,750 sold

This is the second album from this Louisville post-hardcore act.


Rev Theory, The Revelation (Another Century)
Debut #135
1,500 sold

The band’s fourth studio album is their first in five years.

Evergrey, The Storm Within (AFM)
Debut #167
1,150 sold

The band’s tenth album is their highest charting yet in the US.


Breakdown of Sanity, Coexistence (Self-Released)
1,025 sold

This is the fourth album from this unsigned Switzerland band.

Letters From The Fire, Worth the Pain (Sand Hill)
960 sold

This is the band’s debut album. Also, they covered “Eleanor Rigby”.

Steve ‘N’ Seagulls, Brothers In Farms (Spinefarm)
400 sold

Who knew that hillbillies could come from Finland? The band’s sophomore album, which finds the metal/bluegrass band taking on a pair of Guns N’ Roses songs, as well as Foo Fighters, Deep Purple and many more, has a solid debut.

Cruel Hand, Your World Won’t Listen (Hopeless)
370 sold

This is the band’s fifth album.

Pain, Coming Home (Nuclear Blast)
330 sold

This is the eighth album from the band and their first in five years.

Notable Sales:

A Day To Remember, Bad Vibrations (ADTR)
#15 (from 1)
12,100 sold

An 80% drop didn’t take this down too far in week two.

Crown The Empire, Retrograde (Rise)
#39 (re-entry)
5,350 sold

This rocketed back up the charts after dropping off a week or so ago. Impressive.

Skillet, Unleashed (Atlantic)
#44 (from 31)
4,850 sold

A 10% drop doesn’t trip this up with 95,000 sold in total.


Disturbed, Immortalized (Reprise)
#71 (from 60)
3,250 sold

An 8% boost is another drop in the bucket.

Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six (Prospect Park)
#100 (from 83)
2,200 sold

A 3% dip down in sales isn’t going to slow this down much, label lawsuit or not, and it will cross over 400,000 in a few weeks.

Prophets of Rage, The Party’s Over (Prophets of Rage)
#125 (from 79)
1,600 sold

A 33% drop does not merit a party.

Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie (Universal)
#127 (from 94)
1,600 sold

A drop of 10% on week 15, but it crossed over 100,000-sold last week.


Steven Tyler, We’re All Somebody from Somewhere (Dot Records)
#149 (from #95)
1,350 sold

A 24% drop isn’t for everybody.

Deftones, Gore (Reprise)
#171 (from 115)
1,100 sold

A 26% drop isn’t a deft move. The album has sold over 125,000.

Chevelle, The North Corridor (Epic)
#184 (from 150)
1,050 sold

A drop of 14% in week 10.

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Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Ariana Grande Back in Top 10; Nick Cave Earns His Highest-Charting Album Yet
By Keith Caulfield | September 22, 2016 11:55 PM EDT

— Ariana Grande, Dangerous Woman - No. 9 — The pop princess’ album returns to the top 10 for the first time since the June 25-dated list, as Dangerous Woman earned a 19 percent unit gain in the week ending Sept. 15. The set steps 11-9 with 30,000 units -- and 46 percent of that sum was driven by streaming equivalent albums. (The album is up across the board -- in streaming units, track equivalent units and traditional album sales.) Chalk up its rise in part to the popularity of its latest single, “Side to Side,” featuring Nicki Minaj. Grande and Minaj teamed up to perform the track on the Aug. 28 MTV Video Music Awards, and the song’s music video premiered the following day. The track is off to a fast start on the Billboard Hot 100, where it is bulleted at No. 19 in only its third week on the list.

— Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Skeleton Tree - No. 27 — The singer/songwriter earns his highest-charting album ever, as Skeleton Tree bows at No. 27. It starts with just over 15,000 units -- nearly all from traditional album sales. Skeleton Tree is Cave’s 16th album with The Bad Seeds, and seventh to reach the Billboard 200 (all with The Bad Seeds). Cave previously went as high as No. 29 with 2013’s Push the Sky Away. The new album performed particularly sturdy on vinyl, as it sold 4,000 copies on the format, and debuts at No. 3 on the Vinyl Albums chart.

— Gavin DeGraw, Something Worth Saving - No. 35 — DeGraw tallies his ninth charting effort on the Billboard 200 with Something Worth Saving. The set launches with 13,000 units (11,000 in traditional album sales). The album’s single “She Sets the City On Fire” hold steady at its No. 16 peak on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart (up 7 percent in plays in the week ending Sept. 18). The tune is DeGraw’s 13th hit on the Adult Pop Songs list.

DeGraw is currently on tour with Andy Grammer. The trek kicked off Aug. 28 and continues through Nov. 9 in Boca Raton, Fla.

— ZZ Top, Live: Greatest Hits From Around the World - No. 111 — The veteran rock trio’s first official live album hits the Billboard 200, marking the group’s 21st charting effort. It bows with 6,000 units (5,000 in traditional album sales). ZZ Top has been charting on the Billboard 200 since the May 6, 1972-dated list, when Rio Grande Mud bowed at No. 151. The act reached the top 10 for the first of seven times in 1974 with Tres Hombres (peaking at No. 8).

— Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Trio: The Complete Trio Collection - No. 124 — The new collection (6,000 units, nearly all from traditional album sales) gathers together the two previously released collaborative Trio albums, and adds in a bevy of bonus material. The first Trio set peaked at No. 6 in 1987, and Trio II reached No. 62 in 1999. The new effort’s 20 additional cuts include alternative mixes of songs from both albums, plus 11 previously unreleased recordings.

— Matchbox Twenty, Yourself Or Someone Like You - No. 113 — The band’s breakthrough debut album collects its 120th week on the list, as it returns to the chart for the first time since 2012 -- thanks to a 99-cent sale tag in the Google Play store. The album sold 5,000 downloads in the tracking week (up 368 percent) -- the vast majority of the set’s 6,000 units earned for the week. The album was last on the Billboard 200 dated June 16, 2012 (No. 198), and this is its highest rank since June 19, 1999 (No. 90).

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Soundscan Surprises, Week Ending 9/15
Back-catalog sales numbers of note from Nielsen SoundScan.

The definition of “back catalog” is: “at least 18 months old, have fallen below №100 on the Billboard 200 and do not have an active single on our radio.”

Matchbox Twenty’s Yourself or Someone Like You jumped EIGHTY-NINE spots in the last week TO NUMBER ONE. There isn’t a whole lot of news there except that the album is twenty years old, his wife is having health issues, Rob Thomas played at Red Rocks on Monday, and he apparently wants a twentieth anniversary reunion tour (who doesn’t, buddy?).

Speaking of anniversaries, the Ramones’ 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition was just released; of its 1,492 copies sold to date, 1,468 were sold last week. Faith No More is back on the list and I had to Google again (sorry). There’s some sort of deluxe re-release going on and a teaser for a new video for a sort-of-new song? More importantly, had you ever heard of St. Paul and the Broken Bones? They just released a new album, so their old one is selling a few copies. Here’s a cool Tiny Desk Concert they did in 2014:

Finally, Halloween is around the corner, and apparently also the name of the artist listed on the collection, Monster Mash & Other [Terrifying] Tunes. Watch your back, Halloween; Joey + Rory’s A Farmhouse Christmas is coming down the pike.

1. MATCHBOX TWENTY YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU 5,215 copies
9. WIZ KHALIFA ROLLING PAPERS 2,669 copies
53. RAMONES 40TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION 1,468 copies
55. FAITH NO MORE KING FOR A DAY/FOOL FOR LIFE 1,447 copies
98. FAITH NO MORE ALBUM OF THE YEAR 1,150 copies
160. ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES HALF THE CITY 923 copies
168. HALLOWEEN MONSTER MASH & OTHER TUNES 907 copies
188. JOEY + RORY A FARMHOUSE CHRISTMAS 881 copies