Billboard 200 - 12/24/16 -- Hamilton Mixtape

[Gary]

'The Hamilton Mixtape' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
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By Keith Caulfield | December 11, 2016 3:20 PM EST



The all-star compilation album The Hamilton Mixtape debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, earning 187,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 169,000 were in traditional album sales. The album -- inspired by the runaway hit stage show Hamilton: An American Musical -- consists of covers of songs from the show and songs inspired by the production. Among the guests on the album: Sia, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, Andra Day, Wiz Khalifa, and many more.

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


The No. 1-arrival of The Hamilton Mixtape comes following the phenomenal success of the show that inspired the set: Hamilton: An American Musical. The 11-time Tony Award-winning show premiered off-Broadway on Jan. 20, 2015 and moved to Broadway later that year. The show is sold out on Broadway through July of 2017, while its Chicago production (which launched in previews on Sept. 27) is sold out through February of 2017.

The original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton peaked at No. 3 on the July 2-dated chart, and has spent 63 weeks (and counting) on the tally. On the latest chart, it moves 10-11 with 45,000 units (though it is up 33 percent). It was remarkably only the third cast recording to reach the top 10 in the last 50 years, following Hair (No. 1 for 13 weeks in 1969) and The Book of Mormon (No. 3 in 2011). The cast recording of Hamilton has so far sold 876,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music, is the fifth-biggest selling album of 2016, and is the tenth-biggest selling cast recording since Nielsen began tracking sales in 1991.

The Hamilton Mixtape logs the largest sales week for a compilation album since 2012, when the GOOD Music Cruel Summer album debuted with 205,000 copies sold. The Hamilton Mixtape is also the first compilation to be No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in over two years, since Now 50 led for one week on the list dated May 24, 2014. Further, The Hamilton Mixtape is the first No. 1 compilation that isn’t a Now-branded album since the all-star live charity set, Hope for Haiti Now, spend one week at No. 1 on Feb. 6, 2010.

It’s rare for any compilation album that is not a Now-branded set to lead the Billboard 200. In the past 40 years, 24 compilations have reached No. 1, and Now sets comprise 18 of those titles.
At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, The Weeknd’s Starboy slips one rung to No. 2 in its second chart week, with 151,000 units (down 57 percent). Pentatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas is pushed back a slot as well, to No. 3, with 128,000 units (down 2 percent).

The Rolling Stones rock at No. 4 with their new blues covers album, Blue & Lonesome, which debuts with 123,000 units (120,000 in traditional album sales). The set -- which is the band’s first album of all-new recordings since 2005’s A Bigger Bang -- marks the group’s record-extending 37th top 10 effort. (No act has earned more top 10 albums in the history of the chart.) It’s the band’s first new top 10 since A Bigger Bang debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 129,000 copies sold in its first week. (It was also the last album of new tunes written by the group.)

At No. 5 on the new Billboard 200, Childish Gambino earns his highest charting album ever, as Awaken, My Love! debuts with 101,000 units (72,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the second top 10 set for the act (also known as actor Donald Glover), following his last full-length album, 2014’s Because the Internet, which debuted and peaked at No. 7.

Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic falls 4-6 with with 58,000 units (down 20 percent), the soundtrack to Moana descends 5-7 with 53,000 units (down 20 percent) and Pentatonix’s That’s Christmas to Me slips 7-8 with 53,000 units (up 31 percent).

Rounding out the top 10 are two new entries to the chart: Grace VanderWaal’s Perfectly Imperfect EP at No. 9 with 52,000 units (47,000 in album sales) and Kane Brown’s debut full-length self-titled album at No. 10 with 51,000 units (45,000 in album sales).

The 12-year-old VanderWaal won the 11th season of the NBC competition program America’s Got Talent in September after wowing audiences with her self-written material, and was quickly signed by SYCO Music and Columbia Records after winning the show. Her EP features new studio recordings of songs heard on the show, including her breakthrough performance of “I Don’t Know My Name,” which has collected 47 million global views on YouTube through Dec. 11.

As for Brown, the country singer/songwriter’s new set marks his second top 10 effort, following his Closer EP back in April, which debuted and peaked at No. 9.

[Gary]

The Rolling Stones Earn Record-Extending 37th Top 10 Album on Billboard 200 Chart
News
By Keith Caulfield | December 11, 2016 3:50 PM EST


The Rolling Stones notch their record-extending 37th top 10 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as the band’s new set, Blue & Lonesome, debuts at No. 4.
The blues covers effort starts with 123,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 120,000 were 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 Dec. 24-dated chart (where Blue & Lonesome bows at No. 4) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Dec. 13.

Blue & Lonesome -- which is the band’s first album of all-new recordings since 2005’s A Bigger Bang -- marks the group’s 37th top 10 effort. No act has earned more top 10 albums in the history of the chart. In second place on the all-time tally is Barbra Streisand, with 34.

Blue & Lonesome is the band’s first new top 10 since A Bigger Bang debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 129,000 copies sold in its first week. (It was also the last album of new tunes written by the group.)
Blue & Lonesome’s first-week launch of 120,000 is particularly robust for a few reasons. First, it’s a covers set, which sometimes draw less fanfare than albums of wholly new material. Plus, it comes over a decade

after A Bigger Bang, so it proves there is still an audience for new music by the Stones. Further, as album sales in the U.S. fell 61 percent between 2005 and 2015, it makes the Stones’ start even more solid -- Blue & Lonesome’s sales bow is just 9,000 copies fewer than the launch of A Bigger Bang over 10 years ago.

Of course, it’s not as if the Stones have been off the radar for the past decade on vacation. The band has reissued a number of albums in expansive deluxe sets (including Exile on Main St., Some Girls and Sticky Fingers), toured the world a few times, and released live albums and greatest hits compilations.

[Gary]

1. Hamilton Mixtape 187,000
2. The Weeknd 151,000
3. Pentatonix - A Pentatonix Chrismas 128,000
4. Rolling Stones 123,000
5. Childish Gambino 101,000
6. Bruno Mars 58,000
7. Moana 53,000
8. Penatonix - That's Christmas To Me 53,000
9. Grace Vanderwaal - 52,000
10. Kate Brown 51,000

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Don't forget:

11. Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording - 45,000

[WILL]

5 albums with over 100k units... When was the last time that happened? I've been following Billboard on and off from mid-2014-mid-2015 and consistently from mid-2015-now and I don't recall a week where 5 albums bowed with over 100k units.

[Zach]

Dec 11, 2016 20:35:36 GMT -5 WILL said:

5 albums with over 100k units... When was the last time that happened? I've been following Billboard on and off from mid-2014-mid-2015 and consistently from mid-2015-now and I don't recall a week where 5 albums bowed with over 100k units.

I THINK the last time this happened was on the 1/10/2015 chart where the top 7 (Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Pentatonix, One Direction, Sam Smith, J. Cole and Ed Sheeran) all sold over 100,000.

Edit: Oh the 1/16/2016 chart when Adele got 1.16 million followed by Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Pentatonix and Star Wars: The Force Awakens all with over 100,000.

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Good numbers for Kane Brown. Country radio has yet to embrace him.

[WILL]

Dec 11, 2016 21:09:30 GMT -5 Zach said:

Dec 11, 2016 20:35:36 GMT -5 WILL said:

5 albums with over 100k units... When was the last time that happened? I've been following Billboard on and off from mid-2014-mid-2015 and consistently from mid-2015-now and I don't recall a week where 5 albums bowed with over 100k units.

I THINK the last time this happened was on the 1/10/2015 chart where the top 7 (Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Pentatonix, One Direction, Sam Smith, J. Cole and Ed Sheeran) all sold over 100,000.

Edit: Oh the 1/16/2016 chart when Adele got 1.16 million followed by Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Pentatonix and Star Wars: The Force Awakens all with over 100,000.

Yes, I remember that week now. Thanks!

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Hip Hop Album Sales: "The Hamilton Mixtape" Steals The Show On Billboard 200 Chart
December 12, 2016 | 3:04 PM
by Victoria Hernandez

The Hamilton musical continues to make history as The Hamilton Mixtape makes its way to the top of Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart. Childish Gambino’s funk-infused Awaken, My Love! lands in the Top 10 of the list and The Weeknd has a solid second week for Starboy.

“The Hamilton Mixtape” Lands At #1

Lin Manuel-Miranda carries the success of his Broadway musical to the album charts as The Hamilton Mixtape lands at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200. The project sold nearly 187,000 units its first week with more than 168,000 album sales and 21 million streams. The Hamilton Mixtape received a 4.5 rating on HipHopDX with reviewer Aaron McKrell saying “No matter how diverse, the production always fits because it underscores the narrative, whether it’s the wistful piano keys of ‘Dear Theodosia’ or the subdued melancholy of ‘Burn.’ Andra Day’s searing vocals and telling narratives on the latter make the song one of the most outstanding on a project full of gems.”

Childish Gambino’s “Awaken, My Love!” Debuts At #5

Childish Gambino’s much-anticipated Awaken, My Love! charts at #5 in its first week. The project, which broke away from the Atlanta rapper’s typical sound, sold more than 101,000 equivalent album units with 41.5 million streams. This is Gambino’s fourth project and highest chart position on the Billboard 200. He landed at #7 with Because the Internet in 2013.

The Weeknd Stays Strong In Second Week Of “Starboy”

After having one of the biggest debuts of the year, The Weeknd’s Starboy sold six digits yet again with nearly 150,000 equivalent album units in this sales cycle. It was the most-streamed project of the week with 124 million plays. In its first week, all 18 tracks of the album appeared on the Hot 100 chart.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 12/08/2016

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 Various Artists — The Hamilton Mixtape — 186,995 (168,967) [21,079,880]

#2 The Weeknd — Starboy — 150,756 (54,356) [124,148,499]

#5 Childish Gambino — Awaken, My Love! — 101,338 (71,860) [41,539,763]

#6 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 58,144 (37,705) [19,987,899]

#14 John Legend — Darkness & Light — 38,928 (26,309) [12,556,783]

#17 Drake – VIEWS – 29,840 (5,416) [33,034,820]

#22 Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife 2 — 24,929 (2,069) [22,606,582]

#25 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 21,390 (9,578) [11,001,051]

#28 Mariah Carey — Merry Christmas — 19,533 (9,340) [9,861,745]

#29 Rihanna – ANTI – 19,529 (3,585) [17,354,287]

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1 New 1 The Hamilton Mixtape - Various Artists - Hamilton Uptown/Atlantic | AG
2 1 – 2 Starboy - The Weeknd - XO | Republic
3 2 4 7 A Pentatonix Christmas - Pentatonix - RCA
4 New 1 Blue & Lonesome - The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones/Promotone B.V./Polydor/Interscope | IGA
5 New 1 "Awaken, My Love!" - Childish Gambino - Glassnote
6 4 2 3 24K Magic - Bruno Mars - Atlantic | AG
7 5 16 3 Moana - Soundtrack - Walt Disney
8 7 12 30 That's Christmas To Me - Pentatonix - RCA
9 New 1 Perfectly Imperfect (EP) - Grace VanderWaal - SYCO | Columbia
10 New 1 Kane Brown - Kane Brown - Zone 4/RCA Nashville | SMN
11 10 9 63 Hamilton: An American Musical - Original Broadway Cast - Hamilton Uptown/Atlantic | AG
12 3 1 3 Hardwired...To Self-Destruct - Metallica - Blackened
13 8 19 53 Christmas - Michael Buble - 143/Reprise | Warner Bros.
14 New 1 Darkness And Light - John Legend - Columbia
15 6 6 11 Trolls - Soundtrack - Villa 40/DreamWorks | RCA
16 14 7 4 Christmas Together - Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood - Gwendolyn | Pearl
17 12 10 32 Views - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic
18 13 14 7 Joanne - Lady Gaga - Streamline/Interscope | IGA
19 11 21 4 'Tis The Season - Jordan Smith - Lightworks | Republic
20 9 3 3 The Weight Of These Wings - Miranda Lambert - Vanner/RCA Nashville | SMN
21 17 18 82 Blurryface - twenty one pilots - Fueled By Ramen | AG
22 16 8 17 Sremmlife 2 - Rae Sremmurd - Ear Drumner/Interscope | IGA
23 19 11 5 Collage (EP) - The Chainsmokers - Disruptor | Columbia
24 24 23 65 Traveller - Chris Stapleton - Mercury Nashville | UMGN
25 18 15 18 Suicide Squad: The Album - Soundtrack - DC/Atlas/WaterTower/Atlantic | AG

26 22 26 55 25 - Adele - XL | Columbia
27 108 90 25 The Getaway - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Warner Bros.
28 39 83 63 Merry Christmas - Mariah Carey - Columbia | Legacy
29 27 27 46 ANTI - Rihanna - Westbury Road | Roc Nation
30 34 33 31 Ripcord - Keith Urban - Hit Red/Capitol Nashville | UMGN
31 20 13 29 Dangerous Woman - Ariana Grande - Republic
32 37 24 11 Illuminate - Shawn Mendes - Island
33 46 96 55 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack) - Vince Guaraldi Trio - Fantasy | Concord
34 26 63 14 Adore: Christmas Songs Of Worship - Chris Tomlin - sixsteps/Sparrow | Capitol CMG
35 79 84 105 2014 Forest Hills Drive - J. Cole - Dreamville/Roc Nation | Columbia
36 21 134 3 Christmas Together / Gunslinger - Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood - Gwendolyn/Pearl
37 41 66 7 The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve - Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Lava/Atlantic | Rhino
38 38 36 5 The RCA-List, Vol. 2 - Various Artists - RCA
39 31 48 7 Tennessee Christmas - Amy Grant - Amy Grant/Sparrow | Capitol CMG
40 15 5 4 We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service - A Tribe Called Quest - Epic
41 32 29 14 Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight - Travis Scott - Grand Hustle | Epic
42 33 30 45 This Is Acting - Sia - Monkey Puzzle | RCA
43 55 143 71 Noel - Josh Groban - 143/Reprise | Warner Bros.
44 23 22 15 Dig Your Roots - Florida Georgia Line - BMLG
45 29 101 6 Behold: A Christmas Collection - Lauren Daigle - Centricity | Capitol CMG
46 25 – 2 Gunslinger - Garth Brooks - Pearl
47 53 102 6 I'll Have Another...Christmas Album - Straight No Chaser - Atco/Atlantic | AG
48 71 145 6 Acoustic Christmas - Neil Diamond - Capitol
49 54 108 59 These Are Special Times - Celine Dion - 550 Music/Epic | Legacy
50 44 31 5 NOW 60 - Various Artists - Sony Music/Universal | UMe

51 42 35 21 Savage Mode - 21 Savage & Metro Boomin - Slaughter Gang
52 40 79 6 Glow - Brett Eldredge - Atlantic | WMN
53 35 80 3 4Ever - Prince - NPG | Warner Bros.
54 28 43 83 How Can It Be - Lauren Daigle - Centricity | Capitol CMG
55 36 41 67 Beauty Behind The Madness - The Weeknd - XO | Republic
56 50 32 3 Epic Lit (Version 2) - Various Artists - Epic
57 51 38 36 The Life Of deleted - Kanye West - G.O.O.D. | Def Jam
58 62 46 119 The Ultimate Hits - Garth Brooks - Pearl
59 82 170 31 White Christmas - Bing Crosby - MCA Special Products | UMe
60 30 34 8 Kidz Bop 33 - Kidz Bop Kids - Kidz Bop/Razor & Tie | Concord
61 57 95 29 If I'm Honest - Blake Shelton - Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN
62 67 72 121 Vessel - twenty one pilots - Fueled By Ramen | AG
63 77 151 56 It's Christmas Time - Elvis Presley - RCA Special Products/Sony Commercial Music Group | Legacy
64 48 114 7 It Must Be Christmas - Chris Young - RCA Nashville | SMN
65 64 61 33 Lemonade - Beyonce - Parkwood | Columbia
66 83 60 56 Purpose - Justin Bieber - SchoolBoy/Raymond Braun | Def Jam
67 80 69 69 Cry Baby - Melanie Martinez - Atlantic | AG
68 105 165 23 PTXmas (EP) - Pentatonix - RCA
69 60 110 5 The Greatest Gift Of All - Rascal Flatts - Big Machine | BMLG
70 99 118 4 NOW That's What I Call Merry Christmas - Various Artists - Sony Music/Universal | UMe
71 73 141 29 Christmas Songs By Sinatra - Frank Sinatra - Columbia | Sony Commercial Music Group
72 65 49 30 Coloring Book - Chance The Rapper - Chance The Rapper
73 103 – 24 Wrapped In Red - Kelly Clarkson - 19 | RCA
74 New 1 W:/2016ALBUM/ - deadmau5 - mau5trap | Kobalt
75 90 182 26 The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole - Capitol | UMe

76 70 175 11 WOW Hits 2017 - Various Artists - PLG/Word-Curb/Sparrow | Capitol CMG
77 97 109 4 A Very Kacey Christmas - Kacey Musgraves - Mercury Nashville | UMGN
78 68 57 63 T R A P S O U L - Bryson Tiller - TrapSoul | RCA
79 47 39 6 Cosmic Hallelujah - Kenny Chesney - Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville | SMN
80 76 64 56 Know-It-All - Alessia Cara - EP | Def Jam
81 49 20 3 Strait Out Of The Box: Part 2 - George Strait - MCA Nashville | UMGN
82 45 51 7 Nobody But Me - Michael Buble - Reprise | Warner Bros.
83 61 55 63 Tangled Up - Thomas Rhett - Valory | BMLG
84 56 161 4 Wonderland - Sarah McLachlan - Verve | VLG
85 84 99 6 'Tis The Season - Jimmy Buffett - Mailboat
86 58 56 47 Death Of A Bachelor - Panic! At The Disco - DCD2/Fueled By Ramen | AG
87 63 53 35 Cleopatra - The Lumineers - Dualtone
88 66 137 4 To Celebrate Christmas - Jennifer Nettles - Big Machine | BMLG
89 69 47 6 DC4 - Meek Mill - Maybach/Atlantic | AG
90 100 – 25 The Classic Christmas Album - Elvis Presley - RCA | Legacy
91 81 65 20 The Human Condition - Jon Bellion - Visionary | Capitol
92 New 1 ONXRT: 18 - Various Artists - WXRT
93 75 59 7 Big Baby D.R.A.M. - D.R.A.M. - #1EpicCheck | EMPIRE Recordings
94 115 – 33 Once Upon A Christmas - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - RCA Nashville/Sony BMG CMG/Sony Commercial Music Group | Legacy
95 89 50 18 Encore - DJ Snake - DJ Snake/Interscope | IGA
96 98 81 53 When It's Dark Out - G-Eazy - G-Eazy/RVG/BPG | RCA
97 72 75 13 They Don't Know - Jason Aldean - Macon/Broken Bow | BBMG
98 93 74 67 Badlands - Halsey - Astralwerks
99 135 185 245 The Legend Of Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash - Columbia Nashville/Legacy/American/Island | UMe
100 137 – 38 Christmas Portrait - Carpenters - A&M | UMe

101 78 40 10 A Seat At The Table - Solange - Saint | Columbia
102 148 – 22 A Family Christmas - The Piano Guys - Portrait | Sony Masterworks
103 96 73 45 Islah - Kevin Gates - Bread Winners' Association/Atlantic | AG
104 120 – 45 The Essential NOW That's What I Call Christmas - Various Artists - Universal/EMI/Sony Music | UMe
105 104 187 20 Gold: A 50th Anniversary Christmas Celebration - Johnny Mathis - Columbia | Legacy
106 91 62 28 Lil Uzi Vert Vs. The World - Lil Uzi Vert - Generation Now/Atlantic | AG
107 106 89 197 Take Care - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic
108 111 105 303 21 - Adele - XL | Columbia
109 87 42 7 You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen - Columbia
110 121 181 32 Under The Mistletoe - Justin Bieber - SchoolBoy/Raymond Braun | Def Jam
111 114 197 3 Kidz Bop Christmas (2016) - Kidz Bop Kids - Kidz Bop/Razor & Tie | Concord
112 122 – 23 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Burl Ives - MCA Special Products | UMe
113 New 1 The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert! - Bob Dylan - Columbia | Legacy
114 155 86 17 PARTYNEXTDOOR 3 (P3) - PARTYNEXTDOOR - OVO Sound | Warner Bros.
115 134 – 18 Personal Christmas Collection - Andy Williams - Columbia | Legacy
116 95 70 19 Major Key - DJ Khaled - We The Best | Epic
117 112 91 16 Blonde - Frank Ocean - Boys Don't Cry
118 116 93 96 If You're Reading This It's Too Late - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic
119 74 67 59 Storyteller - Carrie Underwood - 19/Arista Nashville | SMN
120 92 78 9 Oh My My - OneRepublic - Mosley/Interscope | IGA
121 New 1 The K Fellowship Presents: Before The Dawn - Kate Bush - Noble & Brite | Concord
122 178 – 49 Christmas Eve And Other Stories - Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Lava | Rhino
123 127 120 215 good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar - Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA
124 128 88 408 Metallica - Metallica - Blackened | Warner Bros.
125 88 52 6 The Stage - Avenged Sevenfold - Capitol

126 Re-Entry 88 Born Sinner - J. Cole - Roc Nation | Columbia
127 110 135 31 You Should Be Here - Cole Swindell - Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN
128 59 44 5 HERE - Alicia Keys - RCA
129 126 94 17 The Perfect LUV Tape - Lil Uzi Vert - Generation Now/Atlantic | AG
130 146 157 111 1989 - Taylor Swift - Big Machine | BMLG
131 107 97 4 Simply Christmas - Leslie Odom, Jr. - S-Curve | BMG
132 151 – 39 White Christmas - Martina McBride - RCA Nashville | SMN
133 158 – 18 Merry Christmas... Love, Elvis - Elvis Presley - RCA | Legacy
134 131 126 70 Kill The Lights - Luke Bryan - Capitol Nashville | UMGN
135 139 130 129 x - Ed Sheeran - Atlantic | AG
136 138 117 297 The Eminem Show - Eminem - Web/Aftermath/Interscope | UMe
137 143 133 9 Artist - A Boogie Wit da Hoodie - Highbridge The Label | AG
138 140 146 34 us (EP) - gnash - :): | AG
139 129 100 111 Montevallo - Sam Hunt - MCA Nashville | UMGN
140 136 112 73 DS2 - Future - A-1/Freebandz | Epic
141 117 106 58 Mr. Misunderstood - Eric Church - EMI Nashville | UMGN
142 144 124 28 7/27 - Fifth Harmony - SYCO | Epic
143 177 – 23 Home For Christmas - 'N Sync - RCA | Sony Commercial Music Group
144 157 189 26 Pentatonix - Pentatonix - RCA
145 133 186 8 Icon Christmas: Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra Enterprises/Capitol | UMe
146 102 54 6 Trap Or Die 3 - Jeezy - YJ | Def Jam
147 Re-Entry 112 Because The Internet - Childish Gambino - Glassnote
148 Re-Entry 10 Christmas Classics - Bing Crosby - Capitol
149 132 144 73 The First Time - Kelsea Ballerini - Black River
150 145 122 165 Nothing Was The Same - Drake - Young Money/Cash Money | Republic

151 163 156 130 In The Lonely Hour - Sam Smith - Capitol
152 156 113 76 VHS - X Ambassadors - KIDinaKORNER/Interscope | IGA
153 176 – 193 Abbey Road - The Beatles - Apple/Capitol | UMe
154 191 – 61 The Lost Christmas Eve - Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Lava | Rhino
155 150 123 53 A Head Full Of Dreams - Coldplay - Parlophone/Atlantic | AG
156 86 45 4 57th & 9th - Sting - Cherrytree/A&M/Interscope | IGA
157 142 162 5 Strait For The Holidays - George Strait - MCA Nashville | UMe
158 153 125 64 What A Time To Be Alive - Drake & Future - A-1/Freebandz/Young Money/Cash Money | Epic/Republic
159 118 – 9 MercyMe, It's Christmas! - MercyMe - Fair Trade | PLG
160 154 – 43 Peace On Earth - Casting Crowns - Beach Street/Reunion | PLG
161 171 132 27 Hero - Maren Morris - Columbia Nashville | SMN
162 109 103 30 Thank You - Meghan Trainor - Epic
163 85 87 9 Day Breaks - Norah Jones - Blue Note
164 130 171 145 Trilogy - The Weeknd - XO | Republic
165 Re-Entry 44 Disney Karaoke Series: Frozen (EP) - Various Artists - Walt Disney
166 174 173 447 Legend: The Best Of... - Bob Marley And The Wailers - Tuff Gong/Island | UMe
167 189 – 22 The Best Of Bing Crosby: 20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection - Bing Crosby - MCA/Chronicles | UMe
168 52 92 12 The Very Next Thing - Casting Crowns - Beach Street/Reunion | PLG
169 161 121 63 Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap - RGF/300 | AG
170 43 58 7 Never Lose Sight - Chris Tomlin - sixsteps/Sparrow | Capitol CMG
171 Re-Entry 99 Greatest Hits So Far... - Zac Brown Band - ROAR/Southern Ground/Atlantic | AG
172 Re-Entry 34 Cheers, It's Christmas - Blake Shelton - Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN
173 Re-Entry 2 Full Of (Even More) Cheer - Home Free - Columbia
174 149 131 68 Immortalized - Disturbed - Reprise | Warner Bros.
175 169 – 66 Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection - Queen - Hollywood

176 197 179 6 Back From The Edge - James Arthur - Columbia
177 New 1 12 Nights Of Christmas - R. Kelly - RCA
178 New 1 Hairspray Live!: Original Soundtrack Of The NBC Television Event - Soundtrack - NBC/Epic/Masterworks Broadway | Sony Masterworks
179 167 – 16 NOW 59 - Various Artists - Universal/Sony Music | Legacy
180 175 155 319 Curtain Call: The Hits - Eminem - Shady/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA
181 198 – 8 Live - Mannheim Steamroller - American Gramaphone
182 Re-Entry 17 The Best Of The Temptations Christmas - The Temptations - Motown | UMe
183 170 140 45 Nine Track Mind - Charlie Puth - Artist Partners Group/Atlantic | AG
184 196 167 23 California Sunrise - Jon Pardi - Capitol Nashville | UMGN
185 New 1 Icon 2: George Strait - George Strait - MCA Nashville | UMe
186 94 76 9 Revolution Radio - Green Day - Reprise | Warner Bros.
187 Re-Entry 33 The Gift - Susan Boyle - SYCO | Columbia
188 192 163 87 Handwritten - Shawn Mendes - Island
189 166 127 5 This House Is Not For Sale - Bon Jovi - Captain Kid | Island
190 New 1 Westworld: Music From The HBO Series - Season 1 - Soundtrack - HBO | WaterTower
191 New 1 My Filthy Spirit Bomb - G-Mo Skee - Majik Ninja
192 185 104 301 Doo-Wops & Hooligans - Bruno Mars - Elektra | AG
193 190 183 59 Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits - Blake Shelton - Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN
194 162 168 41 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It - The 1975 - Dirty Hit/Interscope | IGA
195 Re-Entry 68 Cole World: The Sideline Story - J. Cole - Roc Nation | Columbia
196 141 136 9 Sit Still, Look Pretty - Daya - Artbeatz
197 193 – 253 Born To Die - Lana Del Rey - Polydor/Interscope | IGA
198 195 164 152 Beyonce - Beyonce - Parkwood | Columbia
199 164 150 438 Journey's Greatest Hits - Journey - Columbia | Legacy
200 183 138 101 SremmLife - Rae Sremmurd - Ear Drumner/Interscope | IGA

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Chart Watch: 'The Hamilton Mixtape' Makes History
by Paul Grein
Yahoo Music
December 12, 2016

The Hamilton Mixtape enters the Billboard 200 at No. 1. The album features a wide range of pop, R&B, and rap stars performing songs from the smash Broadway musical Hamilton. Among them: The Roots, Nas, Usher, Sia, Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys, Jill Scott, Wiz Khalifa, and Chance the Rapper.

This is by far the most successful spinoff to a Broadway cast album in chart history. Follies — In Concert, featuring Mandy Patinkin and Carol Burnett, reached No. 181 in 1986. Chess: In Concert, featuring Josh Groban and Idina Menzel, reached No. 100 in 2009. A big difference: Those albums were released many years after the musicals played on Broadway.

The Hamilton cast album dips from No. 10 to No. 11 in its 63rd week. The album peaked at No. 3 in June in the wake of the Tony Awards. The album has sold 876K copies since its release in late 2015 — an extraordinary total for a Broadway album this early in its run.

FYI, Hair is the most recent Broadway cast album to reach No. 1. It logged 13 weeks on top in 1969. Since then, four soundtracks to film versions of Broadway shows (Grease, Dreamgirls, Mamma Mia!, and Les Miserables) have hit No. 1. Also since 1969, Barbra Streisand has topped the chart with three collections of Broadway songs.

Composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, who created the music for Hamilton, has a third album in this week’s top 15. The Moana soundtrack, for which he wrote songs, drops from No. 5 to No. 7 in its third week. The album jumps to No. 1 on Top Soundtracks, displacing Trolls. The movie was No. 1 at the box-office for the third straight weekend.

I told you this last week, but it bears repeating: Disney is pushing two of Miranda’s songs from Moana, “How Far I’ll Go” and “You’re Welcome,” for Oscar noms. If one of them wins Best Song at the Oscars on Feb. 26, Miranda will become the 13th member of the very exclusive EGOT club. Moreover, he would become the youngest person ever to complete the EGOT. Miranda will be 37 at the time by the Oscars — two years younger than the current youngest-ever EGOT winner, Robert Lopez. (Lopez was 39 in 2014 when he won the Oscar for co-writing “Let It Go” from Frozen, which completed his awards sweep). Miranda has won three Tonys, two Grammys, and an Emmy, and he was just nominated today for a Golden Globe for “How Far I’ll Go.” Will he win an Oscar too? Stay tuned.

Top Albums

The Weeknd’s Starboy dips from No. 1 to No. 2 in its second week.

A Pentatonix Christmas dips from No. 2 to No. 3 in its seventh week. The group’s 2014 album That’s Christmas to Me dips from #7 to #8 in its 30th week on the chart. It’s No. 1 on Top Catalog Albums for the 12th (cumulative) week. Pentatonix’s NBC Christmas special airs this week.

The Rolling Stones land their 37th top 10 album as Blue & Lonesome debuts at No. 4. This extends the group’s lead as the act with the most top 10 albums since the album chart became a weekly feature in March 1956. The Stones first cracked the top 10 the week of Dec. 12, 1964 with 12 x 5. Blue & Lonesome is the first Stones album that consists entirely of covers and their first blues project.

Eric Clapton plays slide guitar on one track on the Stones’ album and lead guitar on another. Clapton has cracked the top 10 with three blues albums: From the Cradle (No. 1 in 1994), Riding with the King (a collabo with B.B. King, No. 3 in 2000), and Me and Mr. Johnson (No. 6 in 2004). All three of these albums were nominated for a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album. (The first two won.) The Stones’ album is sure to be nominated in that category next year.

Blue & Lonesome enters the Official U.K. Albums Chart at No. 1. It’s the Stones’ 12th No. 1 album in their home country. They first topped the U.K. chart with The Rolling Stones in May 1964. (It knocked The Beatles’ With the Beatles out of the top spot.)

Childish Gambino lands his second top 10 album as “Awaken, My Love!” debuts at No. 5. The title has the same ultra-romantic vibe as the 1975’s chart-topping I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It.

Bruno Mars’s 24K Magic drops from No. 4 to No. 6 in its third week.

Grace VanderWaal’s Perfectly Imperfect EP debuts at No. 9. VanderWaal, 12, was the Season 11 winner of America’s Got Talent. She is the youngest artist to land a top 10 album since Jackie Evancho, who was just 10 in November 2010 when she debuted at No. 2 with her EP, O Holy Night. Evancho, who also got her big break on America’s Got Talent, later returned to the top 10 with two full-length albums: Dream With Me (No. 2 in 2011) and Songs from the Silver Screen (No. 7 in 2012). VanderWaal’s title, Perfectly Imperfect, echoes a line from John Legend’s No. 1 hit, “All of Me”—”all your perfect imperfections.”

Kane Brown’s first studio album, Kane Brown, debuts at No. 10. It enters Top Country Albums at No. 1, displacing Miranda Lambert’s The Weight of These Wings. Brown’s EP, Chapter 1, hit No. 9 on the Billboard 200 in March.

Five albums drop out of the top 10 this week. As noted above, Hamilton dips from No. 10 to No. 11. Metallica’s Hardwired…to Self-Destruct drops from No. 3 to No. 12. The Trolls soundtrack drops from No. 6 to No. 15. Michael Bublé’s Christmas drops from No. 8 to No. 13. (The album tops the 4 million mark in U.S. sales this week.) Miranda Lambert’s The Weight of These Wings drops from No. 9 to No. 20.

John Legend’s Darkness and Light debuts at No. 14. This is Legend’s first studio album to fall short of the top 10.

The Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas rebounds from No. 46 to No. 33 in its 55th week on the chart. The album was first released in 1965, when the animated TV special first aired on CBS. The album didn’t crack the Billboard 200 (then called Top LP’s) that year. It has since climbed as high as No. 23. It has sold 3,620,000 copies since SoundScan began tracking U.S. music sales in 1991. The album was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007. Guaraldi died in 1976 (of a heart attack at age 43), but his music for this special will live forever.

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*Special Report*: Country Catalog Chart for December 14, 2016
Posted By Matt Bjorke

Check out our Special Report and see how well some iconic holiday and catalog country album collections are selling this year!

CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Garth Brooks Ultimate Hits 11,900 2,584,900
2 Elvis Presley It's Christmas 11,600 1,790,600
3 Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton Once Upon A Christmas 8,600 976,800
4 Johnny Cash Legend of Johnny Cash 8,000 3,553,500
5 Elvis Presley Merry Christmas, Love Elvis 6,900 173,100
6 Martina McBride White Christmas 5,500 1,809,200
7 Elvis Presley Classic Christmas Album 5,400 201,900
8 Burl Ives Rudolph The Red-Nosed Rein... 5,100 1,389,400
9 Joey+Rory A Farmhouse Christmas 5,100 52,500
10 Various Aritsts Now Country Christmas 5,100 77,800
11 Elvis Presley Ultimate Christmas 4,900 61,600
12 Nashville Christmas Nashville Christmas 4,500 69,100
13 Blake Shelton Cheers, It's Christmas 4,100 659,700
14 George Strait Icon (2 Disc Edition) 3,600 187,800
15 Alabama Alabama Christmas 3,300 501,600
17 Lady Antebellum On This Winter's Night 3,300 631,200
18 Zac Brown Band Greatest Hits So Far 3,100 325,200
19 Alan Jackson Honky Tonk Christmas 3,100 1,306,500
20 Darius Rucker Home For The Holidays 2,900 220,800

-- Burl Ives Christmas Collection 2,900 267,600
-- John Denver Rocky Mountain Christmas 2,900 282,100
-- John Denver/The Muppets Christmas Together 2,800 274,300
-- Elvis Presley Ultimate Gospel 2,700 795,700
-- Dwight Yoakam Very Best of Dwight Yoakam 2,700 1,020,900
-- Kenny Chesney All I Want For Christmas/Tan 2,600 922,900
-- Luke Bryan Crash My Party 2,600 2,627,200
-- Sam Hunt Montevallo 2,400 1,241,600
-- Home Free Full of Cheer 2,300 85,500
-- Elvis Presley Blue Christmas 2,300 838,700
-- Eric Church Chief 2,200 1,937,500
-- Merle Haggard 20 Greatest Hits 2,200 180,600
-- Johnny Cash Christmas With Johnny Cash 2,200 240,100
-- Various Aritsts Country Christmas 2,200 110,100
-- Willie Nelson Super Hits 2,200 2,891,700
-- Blake Shelton Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits 2,200 351,200

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Billboard 200 Chart Moves: 'A Pentatonix Christmas' Hits Half-Million in U.S. Sales
12/14/2016 by Keith Caulfield

On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Dec. 24), the-all star compilation set The Hamilton Mixtape debuted at No. 1 with 187,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 169,000 were in traditional album sales -- the biggest sales week for a compilation album since 2012, when the GOOD Music Cruel Summer set bowed with 205,000 sold.

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:

— Pentatonix, A Pentatonix Christmas - No. 3 — Pentatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas surpasses a half-million in U.S. sales, as the set sold another 115,000 copies in the week ending Dec. 8, bringing its cumulative total to 503,000. It’s the 12th album to sell 500,000 in 2016 (compared to 19 at the same point a year ago) and the second half-million seller for Pentatonix. The vocal group’s other half-million effort is another seasonal title, That’s Christmas to Me, which has sold 1.9 million since its release in 2014.

Speaking of That’s Christmas to Me, the set is pushed down 7-8 on the latest chart but is one of 57 holiday albums on the tally. Further, a full 33 out of the top 100 are Christmas sets. (Among them is another Pentatonix Christmas set: the 2012 PTXmas EP at No. 68.)

— The Weeknd, Starboy - No. 2 — The Weeknd’s album earned 151,000 units in the week ending Dec. 8 (down 57 percent) and is one of five albums to earn more than 100,000 units in the latest tracking week. It’s the first time each of the top five titles on the chart have earned 100,000 in a week since the Jan. 9-dated chart (which reflected the tracking week ending Dec. 24, 2015).

— Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Getaway - No. 27 — Following sales generated by a concert ticket/album purchase offer, the set vaults from No. 108 to No. 27 with 20,000 units (up 157 percent) and 19,000 sold (up 187 percent). The album has sold a total of 348,000 copies since its release in June.

— Kate Bush, Before the Dawn - No. 121 — The new live album is culled from Kate Bush’s return to the concert stage in 2014, where she played a sold-out 22-show run at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. They were her first live shows since 1979. The new live set grants Bush her first charting effort since 2011’s 50 Words for Snow reached No. 83 and spent two weeks on the list. In total, Bush has charted nine albums on the list, going as high as No. 28 with 1993’s The Red Shoes.

— Soundtrack, Hairspray Live! Original Soundtrack of the NBC Television Event - No. 178 — The companion album to the live TV staging of the musical enters with 6,000 units earned and 4,000 in traditional album sales. Hairspray was the fourth annual live musical that NBC staged on television, following The Wiz, Peter Pan and The Sound of Music.

But NBC isn’t the only network attempting live musicals. To compare, earlier in 2016, Fox’s Grease Live! bowed with 9,000 sold (and has sold 25,000 total). Before that, NBC’s previous live music production, The Wiz, launched with 6,000 sold back in December 2015 (19,000 sold to date). Peter Pan was a misfire, selling just 4,000 in total, after launching with 1,000 sold in its first week. The Sound of Music (bolstered by Carrie Underwood in its lead role) remains the biggest seller of the bunch, with 122,000 sold (38,000 in its first week!).

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Top 10 Country Albums Sales Chart: December 12, 2016
Posted By Matt Bjorke on Monday December 12, 2016 at 02:13AM PST

CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Kane Brown Kane Brown 45,600 45,600
2 G.Brooks/T.Yearwood Christmas Together 30,700 120,300
3 Miranda Lambert The Weight Of These Wings 23,100 175,700
4 G.Brooks/T.Yearwood Christmas Together/Gunslinger 16,800 45,900
5 Chris Stapleton Traveller 16,500 1,706,900
6 Garth Brooks Gunslinger 14,500 34,400
7 Keith Urban Ripcord 13,100 364,700
8 Brett Eldredge Glow 11,900 61,300
9 Rascal Flatts Greatest Gift Of All 10,700 43,400
10 Chris Young It Must Be Christmas 10,300 53,400
11 George Strait Strait Out of the Box...PT 2 10,200 44,300
12 Jimmy Buffett Tis The Season (XMas) 9,700 45,300
13 Jennifer Nettles To Celebrate Christmas 9,100 35,700
14 Kacey Musgraves A Very Kacey Christmas 8,900 32,800
15 Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots 8,300 294,100

-- Blake Shelton If I'm Honest 8,200 508,500
-- Kenny Chesney Cosmic Halleujah 8,100 145,000
-- Jason Aldean They Don't Know 6,800 271,600
-- George Strait Strait For The Holidays 6,400 30,500
-- Home Free Full of (Even More) Cheer 5,200 26,500
-- Carrie Underwood Storyteller 4,700 701,900
-- Thomas Rhett Tangled Up 4,600 504,500
-- Dolly Parton Pure & Simple 4,400 93,200
-- Cole Swindell You Should Be Here 4,300 229,700
-- Loretta Lynn White Christmas Blue 4,200 18,300
-- Joey+Rory Hymns 4,100 502,400
-- Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 4,100 225,000
-- Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood 3,900 472,600
-- Maren Morris Hero 3,700 139,900
-- Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth 3,400 145,600
-- Alan Jackson Precious Memories Collection 2,800 5,100
-- Jon Pardi California Sunrise 2,500 87,100
-- Tim McGraw Damn County Music 2,300 236,900
-- Dierks Bentley Black 2,100 216,000
-- Ned LeDoux Forever A Cowboy 2,000 2,000
-- Home Free Country Evolution 1,900 50,800
-- Old Dominion Meat And Candy 1,800 168,500
-- John Prine For Better, Or Worse 1,800 33,800
-- Chris Young I'm Comin' Over 1,700 247,700
-- Dan+Shay Obsessed 1,600 69,000
-- Justin Moore Kinda Don't Care 1,600 88,000
-- Phil Vassar American Soul 1,400 1,400
-- Jennifer Nettles Playing With Fire 1,300 93,800
-- Brothers Osborne Pawnshop 1,200 90,300
-- Brett Eldredge Illinois 1,100 162,600
-- The Highwaymen The Very Best Of... 1,000 20,800
-- Bradley Walker Call Me Old-Fashioned 900 19,300