Billboard 200 - 10/8/16 -- Drake is back

[Gary]

Drake's 'Views' Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart for 13th Week

9/25/2016 by Keith Caulfield

Plus: Top 10 debuts from Mac Miller, Aaron Lewis, Usher and Casting Crowns.

Drake’s Views jumps back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, rising 2-1, and notches its 13th nonconsecutive week in the penthouse. Views’ return to No. 1 – after a seven-week break from the top slot – is the longest gap between weeks at No. 1 for an album in over three years.


Views earned 53,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 22, 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 Oct. 8-dated chart (where Views returns to No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Sept. 27.

Mumford & Sons’ Babel was the last set to take a longer break from No. 1, when it was absent from the top slot for 17 weeks. Babel debuted atop the list dated Oct. 13, 2012, and then spent the next two weeks at No. 1 (Oct. 20 and 27-dated lists). It moved out of the No. 1 slot for the next 17 weeks, and then hopped back to No. 1 on the March 2, 2013 chart, following its Grammy Award win for album of the year. It then spent another frame at No. 1 on March 9.

Views has the longest run at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since the Frozen soundtrack also spent 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2014 (Jan. 18-May 17).

Views maintains the most weeks at No. 1 for an album by an artist since Adele’s 21 notched 24 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 (March 12, 2011-June 23, 2012), and the most weeks atop the list for a man since Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All ruled for 17 straight frames in 1992 (June 13-Oct. 3).

Mac Miller scores the week’s highest new entry on the new Billboard 200, as The Divine Feminine starts at No. 2 with 48,000 units (32,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the hip-hop artist’s fourth consecutive top five-charting album – the totality of his full-length releases. His last set, GO:OD AM debuted and peaked at No. 4 a year ago with 87,000 units (73,000 in album sales). Before that, he clocked a No. 3-peaking set with Watching Movies With the Sound Off (in 2013) and a No. 1 with Blue Slide Park (2011). His only other charting album on the Billboard 200 was the 2011 EP On and On and Beyond, which peaked at No. 55.

The Suicide Squad soundtrack holds steady at No. 3 with 46,000 units (down 11 percent) in its seventh week on the list.

Aaron Lewis claims his highest charting album yet – and largest sales week – as Sinner bows at No. 4 with 42,000 units (39,000 in traditional album sales). The Staind frontman’s third country music effort follows The Road (No. 30 in 2012) and the EP Town Line (No. 7 in 2011). His previous sales high came when Town Line launched with 38,000 copies sold.

After more than four years since his last release, Usher returns to the Billboard 200 with his new album, Hard II Love. The effort debuts at No. 5 with 38,000 units (28,000 in traditional album sales). It’s his eighth top 10 album, and first set since Looking 4 Myself debuted at No. 1 on the June 30, 2012-dated list.

Usher recently scored his 32nd top 40-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the new album’s “No Limit,” featuring Young Thug. 19 years ago this month, Usher’s first top 40 hit, “You Make Me Wanna…,” peaked at No. 2 on the Oct. 25, 1997-dated list.

Jason Aldean’s They Don’t Know falls from No. 1 to No. 6 in its second week, with 38,000 units (down 73 percent), while Travis Scott’s Birds In the Trap Sing McKnight dips 6-7 with 32,000 units (down 16 percent). Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface hops 12-8 with a little more than 28,000 units (down 2 percent).

The fourth and final new entry in the latest top 10 is from Casting Crowns, as the band’s The Very Next Thing launches at No. 9 with 28,000 units (and 26,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the sixth top 10 effort for the act.

Florida Georgia Line rounds out the top 10 with its Dig Your Roots, which maintains at No. 10 for another week with 25,000 units (down 15 percent).

[Gary]

1. Drake 53000
2. Mac Miller 48000
3. Suicide Squad 46000
4. Aaron Lewis 42000
5. Usher 38000
6. Jason Aldean 38000
7. Travis Scott 32000
8. 21 Pilots 28000
9. Casting Crowns 28000
10 Florida Georgia Line 25000

[Gary]

Adele's '25' Hits Diamond Status in Less Than a Year
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By Gil Kaufman | September 27, 2016 7:58 AM EDT


Adele is once again in a league of her own. In an era when mutli-platinum album sales are typically reserved for an elite group of artists, the British singer has reached a career pinnacle that most superstars are lucky to summit once, to say nothing of doing it twice in a row. According to the RIAA, Adele's smash 25 reached diamond status last Thursday (Sept. 22), certifying it for 10 million in sales in the U.S. alone. She received the 10X Platinum plaque on the final night of her six-show stint at Madison Square Garden.


On the strength of the seven-times platinum single "Hello" as well as hit singles "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" and "When We Were Young," 25 reached diamond in a little over 10 months. Her previous album, 2011's 21, propelled by hits "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You," took almost two years to hit diamond in November 2012. Adele continues her sold-out North American tour, which runs through a Nov. 21 date in Phoenix, Arizona.

[Gary]

The most popular album in the country sold 8100 copies (rounded) and places at #22 on Top Album Sales

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Hip Hop Album Sales: Drake, Mac Miller & Usher
September 26, 2016
by Victoria Hernandez

Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine offers more success for the Pittsburgh rapper (something the city can rejoice in after the Steelers’ painful loss to the Eagles yesterday) as the project debuts at #2 on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart. Drake also is back in a familiar spot after VIEWS was pushed down the list the past few weeks. Usher’s new project lands in the Top 10 while listeners were less hyped for Chinx’s second posthumous album as Legends Never Die debuts down the charts at #121 with 5,320 album sales.

Drake Regains His Throne

Drake returns to the #1 spot with VIEWS. This is the LP’s 13th week in that position and it saw 53,126 equivalent album units sold. Drizzy spent seven weeks away from the top spot, which according to Billboard is the longest time in between for a project in three years. The album now officially has passed one billion streams on Apple Music.

Mac Miller Impresses With “Divine Feminine” Chart Position

Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine debuts at #2. With 47,723 equivalent album sales, it’s his second-highest chart position of his career. He earned a #1 album in 2011 with Blue Slide Park. 2013’s Watching Movies With the Sound Off, landed in the #3 spot. Miller’s GO:OD AM album peaked at #4 upon its release a year ago.

Usher’s Four-Year Break Reaps Rewards

Usher’s Hard II Love lands at #5 with 38,426 equivalent album units. After going four years in between albums, the sales landscape has changed significantly, but the project had 10.7 million streams as a TIDAL exclusive. Following the success of his “No Limit” single, this is Usher’s eighth Top 10 album on Billboard’s chart, according to the publication.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 09/22/2016

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 Drake – VIEWS – 53,126 (8,098) [57,353,624]

#2 Mac Miller – The Divine Feminine – 47,723 (32,119) [20,345,569]

#3 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 46,103 (15,726) [24,106,999]

#5 Usher – Hard II Love – 38,426 (27,559) [10,730,938]

#7 Travis Scott – Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight – 31,706 (4,691) [37,057,777]

#12 Rihanna – ANTI – 23,775 (4,195) [23,725,088]

#10 Frank Ocean – Blonde – 22,217 (4,528) [26,533,964]

#15 Beyonce — LEMONADE — 21,874 (15,358) [1,561,008]

#18 Kanye West – The Life of deleted – 17,605 (0) [23,410,091]

#20 DJ Khaled – Major Key – 16,817 (3,475) [15,214,782]

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Country Album Sales Chart: September 22, 2016
Posted By Matt Bjorke on Tuesday September 27, 2016

CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Aaron Lewis Sinner 39,200 39,200
2 Jason Aldean They Don't Know 33,500 164,500
3 Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots 15,100 192,300
4 Chris Stapleton Traveller 9,300 1,577,500
5 Willie Nelson For The Good Times 7,000 7,000
6 Keith Urban Ripcord 6,300 268,400
7 Dolly Parton Pure & Simple 5,800 52,500
8 Blake Shelton If I'm Honest 4,500 459,100
9 Joey+Rory Hymns 4,500 464,800
10 Hillary Scott & Family Love Remains 4,300 74,500
11 Justin Moore Kinda Don't Care 3,300 68,400
12 Carrie Underwood Storyteller 3,100 654,600
13 Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 3,000 193,400
14 Luke Bryan Kill The Lights 2,900 1,047,700
15 Cole Swindell You Should Be Here 2,800 196,200

-- Dierks Bentley Black 2,700 192,600
-- Sam Hunt Montevallo 2,600 1,217,400
-- Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood 2,600 438,200
-- Thomas Rhett Tangled Up 2,500 465,500
-- Maren Morris Hero 2,300 102,200
-- Sturgill Simpson Sailor's Guide To Earth 2,000 129,400
-- Drake White Spark 1,600 16,700
-- Jon Pardi California Sunrise 1,500 64,700
-- Old Dominion Meat and Candy 1,400 149,800
-- Trio Complete Trio Collection 1,400 6,600
-- Tim McGraw Damn Country Music 1,400 216,600
-- Cody Jinks I'm Not The Devil 1,300 17,100
-- Whiskey Myers Mud 1,200 8,600
-- Chris Young I'm Comin' Over 1,200 232,400
-- Dan+Shay Obsessed 800 63,700
-- Jennifer Nettles Playing With Fire 800 85,900
-- Brothers Osborne Pawn Shop 700 78,100
-- Brett Eldredge Illinois 700 152,500
-- Cody Johnson Gotta Be Me 600 29,700
-- Granger Smith Remington 600 66,800
-- Mitch Rossell Raised By The Radio 500 1,700
-- The Time Jumpers Kid Sister 500 2,100
-- Jesse Dayton The Revealer 500 500
-- Chris Lane Girl Problems 500 11,100
-- LOCASH The Fighters 400 17,200
-- David Nail Fighter 400 20,100

[Enigma.]

Truly bizarre how badly Usher did. He has a top 40 hit featuring Young Thug!

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Chart Watch: 'Forever Country' Is Off to a Fast Start
by Paul Grein

Top Albums

Drake’s Views jumps from #2 to #1 in its 21st week on the Billboard 200. This is its 13th week on top. Views is the 40th album to log 13 or more weeks at #1 since the album chart became a weekly feature in March 1956. Exactly one-quarter of those albums have had one-word titles. Views follows Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Harry Belafonte’s Calypso, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, the Police’s Synchronicity, Carole King’s Tapestry, the soundtracks to Titanic, Exodus, and Frozen and the Broadway cast album to Hair.

Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine debuts at #2. It’s his highest-charting album since his debut, Blue Slide Park, opened at #1 in November 2011. (That album was bumped out of the #1 spot by Drake’s Take Care, so these two hip-hoppers have some chart history.) All four of Miller’s studio albums to date have made the top 10. Only one artist with that surname has had more top 10 albums. Mitch Miller of “Sing Along With Mitch” fame amassed 14 top 10 albums between 1958 and 1962. The Steve Miller Band also had four. Country star Roger Miller had two.

The Suicide Squad soundtrack holds at #3 in its seventh week. It’s #1 on Top Soundtracks for the seventh week.

Aaron Lewis’s Sinner debuts at #4. That’s his highest solo ranking to date. It’s a little higher than the most recent album by his band Staind, which debuted and peaked at #5 in 2011. Sinner is Lewis’s second solo album. His solo debut, The Road, reached #30 in 2012. He subsequently cracked the top 10 with an EP, Town Line (#7 in 2011) With Staind, Lewis amassed five top 10 albums between 2001-11. (Simple math tells us that this is the seventh top 10 album or EP of his career.) Sinner enters Top Country Albums at #1, displacing Jason Aldean’s They Don’t Know. This is Lewis’s second #1 on the country chart. Town Line also reached #1 country.

Sinner is the week’s top-selling album, with pure sales of 39K copies this week. (The Billboard 200 formula also factors in streaming and digital song sales.) Since 1991, when Nielsen Soundscan began tracking album sales for Billboard, there was only one previous week where not one album sold 40K copies (again, looking just at pure album sales). That was in August 2015 when the Descendants soundtrack was the top seller with sales of just 30K copies.

Usher’s Hard II Love, his first studio album in four years, debuts at #5. It’s his eighth top 10 album or EP. But it’s his lowest debut position in 19 years, since his sophomore album, My Way, opened at #15 in October 1997. (That album, which made him a star, eventually peaked at #4.) Usher’s last four full-length albums all debuted at #1. Unless Usher’s new album moves up in a subsequent week, which rarely happens these days, it will be his lowest-charting studio album since his 1994 debut album, Usher, which peaked at #167.

Jason Aldean’s They Don’t Know drops from #1 to #6 in its second week.

Travis Scott’s Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight dips from #6 to #7 in its third week.

twenty one pilots’ Blurryface rebounds from #12 to #8 in its 71st week. The album debuted at #1 in May 2015.

Casting Crowns’ The Very Next Thing debuts at #9. It’s the sixth consecutive top 10 studio album by the Christian rock band.

Florida Georgia Line’s Dig Your Roots holds at #10 in its fourth week.

Bastille’s sophomore album, Wild World, drops out of the top 10 this week. Bastille’s album is #1 for the second week on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart. Four other albums — The Head and the Heart’s Signs of Light, the Beatles’ Live at the Hollywood Bowl, Jack White’s Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016, and Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman — drop out of the top 10 this week.

Look for Shawn Mendes’s Illuminate to debut at #1 next week. Also look for debuts by Luke Bryan’s Farm Tour: Here’s to the Farmer EP, Bruce Springsteen’s Chapter and Verse compilation, and the Trolls soundtrack.

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Soundscan Surprises, Week Ending 9/22
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.”

Only on the back catalog could Metallica drop four percentage points and still be number one. Metallica held five of the top thirty-two spots last week because they’re on tour in advance of their new double LP Hardwired…to Self-Destruct. Last night they played Webster Hall and just walked onstage and played, no intro, no opener. Very Metallica if you ask me (don’t ask me).

It’s been kind of a slow week otherwise, in the business of old record sales, but there are still some gems. Ed Sheeran is neck and neck with himself; his two records that are the same symbol just rotated forty-five degrees (+, X) each sold thirty-one hundred copies (don’t @ me about the serifs and letters vs. symbols, also did you know the plus sign doesn’t italicize in this font? Now you do).

Sheryl Crow and James Taylor and Korn all have greatest hits records on the chart, which seems very white and very expected. Matchbox Twenty only dropped two spots. But who are The Booth Brothers who have a Best of? A Southern Gospel trio, of course! They are touring the “Mexican Riviera” in November if you’re interested…

1. METALLICA METALLICA 4,501 copies
3. MATCHBOX TWENTY YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU 4,129 copies
7. SHEERAN*ED + 3,143 copies
8. SHEERAN*ED X 3,130 copies
29. CROW*SHERYL VERY BEST OF SHERYL CROW 1,945 copies
50. TAYLOR*JAMES GREATEST HITS 1,611 copies
102. KORN VOL. 1 GREATEST HITS 1,154 copies
170. BOOTH BROTHERS BEST OF THE BOOTH BROTHERS 918 copies

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Billboard 200 Chart Moves: The Weeknd's Back in the Top 40, George Carlin Returns to Chart After Nearly 32 Years
By Keith Caulfield | September 29, 2016 10:04 PM EDT


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

— Adele, 25 - No. 13 — After another steady sales week, Adele’s third studio album, 25, has crossed yet another milestone -- it has now sold 9 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music. In the latest track week (ending Sept. 22), 25 sold another 11,000 copies (up 5 percent), bringing its cumulative total to 9.01 million.

In addition, the set has earned a total of 10.09 million equivalent album units — a sum that blends traditional album sales along with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units (1.07 million).

Further, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently certified the set at 10 million units earned -- the company’s diamond award.

Only 31 albums have sold 9 million copies since Nielsen started electronically tracking music purchases in 1991.

Adele is one of just six acts that have sold at least 9 million copies of two different albums in the Nielsen era. Her previous release, 21, has sold 11.7 million.

She joins Backstreet Boys (Millennium, 12.3 million and their self-titled album, 10.2 million), Garth Brooks (Ropin’ the Wind, 9.6 million and No Fences, 9.01 million), Celine Dion (Falling Into You, 10.8 million and Let’s Talk About Love, 9.6 million), Eminem (The Marshall Mathers LP, 11 million and The Eminem Show, 10.7 million) and Britney Spears (…Baby One More Time, 10.6 million and Oops!… I Did It Again, 9.2 million).

As Adele’s debut set 19 has sold 2.9 million, the singer/songwriter’s three albums have sold a combined 23.7 million.

— Led Zeppelin, The Complete BBC Sessions - No. 21 — Led Zeppelin notches its 21st charting album on the Billboard 200 as The Complete BBC Sessions bows at, coincidentally enough, No. 21. The live compilation set -- which is an updated, expanded and slightly retitled version of its 1997 album BBC Sessions -- earned 16,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 22 (with 14,000 of that in traditional album sales). The earlier release debuted and peaked at No. 21, and spent 20 weeks on the list.

— Meat Loaf, Braver Than We Are - No. 31 — The rocker returns to the top 40 of the chart for the first time since 2010, as his new album Braver Than We Are bows at No. 31. Meat Loaf has previously visited the top 40 with Hang Cool Teddy Bear (No. 27 in 2010), Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (No. 8, 2006), Welcome to the Neighborhood (No. 17, 1995), Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell (No. 1, 1993) and Bat Out of Hell (No. 14, 1978).

— The Weeknd, Beauty Behind the Madness - No. 40 — The Weeknd’s last album, 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness, jumps back into the top 40 (46-40), likely owed to excitement surround the release of his new single “Starboy.” The track is the title cut of his Beauty follow-up, which is slated for release on Nov. 25.

Beauty Behind the Madness earned 11,000 units in the week ending Sept. 22 (up 2 percent) – mostly from streaming equivalent album units (8,000; up 2 percent).

— Ed Sheeran, X - No. 59 — A $5.99 sale tag in the iTunes Store helps lift the set by 26 percent in units earned (to 9,000 for the week) and by 113 percent in sales (to 3,000 copies sold). This is the highest rank for the album since April 16 (No. 55).

— My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade - No. 143 — As the 10th anniversary of the album’s release nears (Oct. 23), it gains by 23 percent in weekly units earned (to 5,000). A new deluxe version of the set, issued on Sept. 23, will boost the album up the chart in the coming weeks.

— George Carlin, I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die - No. 176 — George Carlin is back on the chart for the first time since 1984, as the new album I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die debuts at No. 176. It’s the comedy legend’s first charting set since Carlin on Campus peaked at No. 136 on Oct. 6, 1984, and spent its last week on the list dated Oct. 13 of that year. (Carlin died in 2008.)

The new mostly live album was mostly recorded on Sept. 9 and 10, 2001 during Carlin’s stand-up shows at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. However, after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Carlin shelved the performance -- which was slated to be his next HBO concert special. Two months later, Carlin reworked the show into the Complaints and Grievances TV special (recorded on Nov. 17, 2001 in New York), but altered much of the content -- removing some of the material entirely. The new album contains the previously unreleased material from the Sept. 2001 performances.

On the Comedy Albums chart, I Kinda Like it When a Lotta People Die debuts at No. 1 -- Carlin’s first No. 1 on any Billboard chart. (The Comedy Albums chart launched on Oct. 2, 2004 -- decades after Carlin began charting on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, back in 1972.)

— Willie Nelson, For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price - No. 84 — The legend scores a second debut on the Billboard 200 in 2016 – and both have been tribute albums. The new effort, saluting Ray Price, bows at No. 84 with 7,000 units (nearly all in traditional album sales). It follows Nelson’s Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin, which debuted and peaked at No. 40 on the March 19-dated list.

AMP:

[HolidayGuy]

In terms of historical chart feats,- aside from Aaron Lewis scoring his first No. 1-selling album this week- The Complete BBC Sessions (an expanded version of the band's 1997 BBC Sessions) is Led Zepellin's 14th top 10-selling album.

I have a running list of No. 1/top 10 feats since Top Album Sales debuted. Shall I make that its own thread? (a feat for top 40 would require more research)

[Hot AC Archiver]

Oct 2, 2016 8:36:47 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

In terms of historical chart feats,- aside from Aaron Lewis scoring his first No. 1-selling album this week- The Complete BBC Sessions (an expanded version of the band's 1997 BBC Sessions) is Led Zepellin's 14th top 10-selling album.

I have a running list of No. 1/top 10 feats since Top Album Sales debuted. Shall I make that its own thread? (a feat for top 40 would require more research)

I would certainly read that thread it you create it. The Album Sales chart is still my go-to album chart.