Billboard 200 2/11/17 The Weeknd #1

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John Mayer Debuts at No. 2 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart, The Weeknd Reigns at No. 1

John Mayer of Dead and Company performs during the 2016 summer tour closing show at Shoreline Amphitheatre on July 30, 2016 in Mountain View, Calif. 

John Mayer notches his eighth top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as his new EP, The Search for Everything: Wave One, debuts at No. 2. The set, which was released on Jan. 20 through Columbia Records, earned 49,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Jan. 26 (according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 38,000 were in traditional album sales (all downloads, as the EP was sold exclusively through digital retailers).

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 Feb. 11-dated chart (where Mayer starts at No. 2) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Jan. 31.

The four songs on the new EP will be featured on Mayer’s upcoming full-length album, The Search for Everything, which is due out later this year. He will release four songs from the album each month, via EPs.


Mayer previously visited the top 10 with his last full-length studio album, Paradise Valley (No. 2 in 2013); along with Born and Raised (No. 1, 2012); Battle Studies (No. 1, 2009); Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles (No. 5, 2008); Continuum (No. 2, 2006); Heavier Things (No. 1, 2003); and his debut full-length effort, Room for Squares (No. 8, 2003).

Wave One’s single “Love on the Weekend” recently granted Mayer his 16th top 10 hit on the Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart, and his 16th top 20-charting hit on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart.

Meanwhile, at the top of the new Billboard 200, The Weeknd’s Starboy collects a fifth nonconsecutive week at No. 1, earning 56,000 units (down 8 percent). As noted previously, the set’s popularity on streaming services continues to power its reign: 36,000 of its units were generated by streams.

The soundtrack to La La Land holds at No. 3 with 31,000 units (down 26 percent), while Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic rises one slot to No. 4 with 30,000 units (down 7 percent).


The second and final debut in the top 10 arrives at No. 5, as AFI’s new release, AFI (The Blood Album), starts with 29,000 units (28,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the alternative rock band’s fourth top 10-charting album, and first for Concord Records. They previously hit the region with Burials (No. 9 in 2013), Decemberunderground (No. 1, 2006) and Sing the Sorrow (No. 5, 2003).

The Moana soundtrack dips two positions to No. 6 with 27,000 units (down 20 percent), while Post Malone’s Stoney nabs the only unit gain in the top 10, as it rises 9-7 with 26,000 units (up 5 percent). Most of those units come from streaming equivalent album units (19,000) and track equivalent album units (4,000).

The original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton: An American Musical, slips two spots to No. 8 with just under 26,000 units (down 7 percent); Drake’s Views is down one to No. 9 with 25,000 units (down 6 percent) and J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only descends 7-10 with 23,000 units (down 14 percent).

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1. The Weeknd 56,000
2. John Mayer 49,000 (38,000 sales)
3. La La Land 31,000
4. Bruno 30,000
5. AFI 29,000
6. Moana 27,000
7. Post Malone 26,000
8. Hamilton 26,000
9. Drake 25,000
10. J Cole 23,000

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Jan 29, 2017 15:49:56 GMT -5 Gary said:

1. The Weeknd 56,000 (20,000 sales/TEA, 36,000 SEA)
2. John Mayer 49,000 (38,000 sales, 11,000 TEA/SEA)
3. La La Land 31,000
4. Bruno 30,000
5. AFI 29,000 (28,000 sales, 1,000 TEA/SEA)
6. Moana 27,000
7. Post Malone 26,000 (3,000 sales, 19,000 SEA, 4,000 TEA)
8. Hamilton <26,000
9. Drake 25,000
10. J Cole 23,000

Fixed/elaborated some stuff

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Bruno Mars even without at #1 single continues to be a good album seller

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Jan 29, 2017 20:27:06 GMT -5 forg said:

Bruno Mars even without at #1 single continues to be a good album seller

Yes. It should have already crossed the 500k mark in sales.

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Its SPS and sales totals are as follows:

12/10 - 231 SPS (194 TAS)
12/17 - 073 SPS (052 TAS) - 304 SPS (246 TAS)
12/24 - 058 SPS (038 TAS) - 362 SPS (284 TAS)
12/31 - 074 SPS (050 TAS) - 436 SPS (334 TAS)
01/07 - 114 SPS (090 TAS) - 550 SPS (424 TAS)
01/14 - 081 SPS (055 TAS) - 631 SPS (479 TAS)
01/21 - 045 SPS (024 TAS) - 676 SPS (503 TAS)
01/28 - 036 SPS (018 TAS) - 712 SPS (521 TAS)
02/04 - 033 SPS (016 TAS) - 745 SPS (537 TAS)
02/11 - 030 SPS (??? TAS) - 775 SPS (??? TAS)

So yes, it has passed the gold sales mark and is on track to go RIAA platinum in 2 months or so.

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Top 10 Album Sales

MAYER*JOHN|THE SEARCH FOR EVER( 1).......... 38,100
AFI|AFI(BLOOD ALBUM) ( 2) ...................28,100
STARSET|VESSELS ( 3) ........................20,800
SOUNDTRACK|LA LA LAND ( 4) ..................19,400
VARIOUS ARTIST|2017 GRAMMY NOM( 5)...........18,300
KIDZ BOP KIDS|KIDZ BOP 34 ( 6)...............16,000
MARS*BRUNO|24K MAGIC ( 7)....................14,800
MOANA / O.S.T.|MOANA / O.S.T. ( 8)...........13,000
TROLLS|ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE( 9)...........12,700
THE WEEKND|STARBOY ( 10).....................12,000

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Chart Watch: Collabo Fever Grips the Hot 100
[Yahoo Music]
Paul Grein
Writer
Yahoo MusicJanuary 30, 2017
Migos and Lil Uzi Vert perform onstage at Puma & Hot 107.9 presents Migos ‘Culture’ Album Release Show at Center Stage on January 28, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

If you’re an artist and you want a hit these days, I have one word of advice for you: collaborate. This is the 25th consecutive week that more than half of the singles in the top 10 on the Hot 100 have been collaborations.

The reason for this trend is simple: When you combine two artists’ fanbases, you expand the potential audience for a new single. This is especially true if the artists come from different genres. Many collaborations include a hip-hop element — what the Grammys call “Rap/Sung Performances.” This allows even mainstream pop performers such as Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, and Justin Bieber to have a hip-hop edge on their records.

Seven of this week’s top 10 hits are collaborations. Here they are.

Migos’s “Bad and Boujee” (featuring Lil Uzi Vert) logs its third week at No. 1.

The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” (featuring Halsey) moves up from No. 4 to No. 3 in its 26th week. It’s the first song in Hot 100 history to spend its first 26 weeks in the top 10.

“Bad Things” by Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello jumps from No. 6 to No. 4 in its 13th week. It’s Cabello’s second top five hit. She first reached this hallowed ground as a member of Fifth Harmony, whose “Work from Home” (featuring Ty Dolla $ign) reached No. 4 last year.

“I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)” by Zayn and Taylor Swift jumps from No. 8 to No. 5 in its seventh week. This is its highest ranking to date. It’s Swift’s 11th top five hit; Zayn’s fifth (counting three hits which he recorded as a member of One Direction).

Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles” (featuring Gucci Mane) drops from No. 3 to No. 6 in its 20th week. The song logged seven weeks at No. 1.

Maroon 5’s “Don’t Wanna Know” (featuring Kendrick Lamar) rebounds from No. 9 to No. 7 in its 16th week. This equals its highest ranking to date. The song is the most-played song at radio for the seventh week.

The Weeknd’s “Starboy” (featuring Daft Punk) drops from No. 5 to No. 8 in its 19th week. The song reached No. 1.

There are just three non-collaborations in this week’s top 10.

Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” holds at No. 2 for the second week, after debuting at No. 1. The song sold 104K copies in the U.S., which allows it to rank No. 1 on Top Digital Songs for the third week. It’s the first song to spend its first three weeks atop that chart since Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” last spring (which spent its first 10 weeks at No. 1). “Shape of You” tops the Official U.K. Singles Chart for the third straight week.

Drake’s “Fake Love” rebounds from No. 11 to No. 9 in its 14th week. This equals its highest ranking to date. This song borrows from the O’Jays’ 1972 hit “Back Stabbers.” Drake’s 2015 smash “Hotline Bling” borrowed from Timmy Thomas’s 1973 hit “Why Can’t We Live Together.” I remember both of those hits fondly, but how is Drake so familiar with them? He wasn’t even born until 1986.

Alessia Cara’s “Scars to Your Beautiful” jumps from No. 12 to No. 10 in its 22nd week. This is the slowest climb to the top 10 since gnash’ “I Hate U I Love U” (featuring Olivia O’Brien) cracked the top 10 in its 25th week last October. This is Cara’s second top 10 hit, following “Here.” Both songs are featured on her first full-length album, Know-It-All. Cara is the first artist to land two or more top 10 hits from a debut album since Fetty Wap scored with three songs from his eponymous debut album.

The Chainsmokers’ “Paris” drops from No. 7 to No. 13 in its second week. Bruno Mars’s “24K Magic” also drops out of the top 10 this week.

Migos’s “T-Shirt” jumps from No. 43 to No. 37 in its second week. This is just a beat behind the No. 36 peak of Shontelle’s song “T-Shirt,” from 2008.

Top Albums

The Weeknd’s Starboy holds at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for the fifth nonconsecutive week. That’s the longest run at No. 1 for an R&B album (excluding rap or hip-hop) since Usher’s Confessions logged nine weeks at No. 1 in 2004. Note: Michael Jackson’s Number Ones was the best-selling album in the U.S. for six weeks following his death in 2009, but it wasn’t listed on the Billboard 200 because of a rule at the time barring older “catalog” albums.

This surpasses the Weeknd’s previous album, Beauty Behind the Madness, which logged three weeks at No. 1 in September 2015. Both albums were No. 1 in traditional album sales for just the first of those weeks. All subsequent weeks at No. 1, in both cases, were due to the Billboard 200 formula since late 2014 which blends traditional album sales, digital track sales, and streaming data.

Starboy sold just 12K copies in traditional album sales this week. Only one other album has ever ranked No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with such a paltry traditional album sales total. Drake’s Views posted traditional album sales of just 8K in the week it logged its 13th and final week at No. 1.

John Mayer lands his eighth top 10 album or EP as his four-song EP The Search for Everything – Wave One debuts at No. 2. This was the week’s best-seller in traditional album sales. The four songs are expected to appear on Mayer’s upcoming seventh studio album. In a Facebook post, he wrote, “The album will be released four songs at a time. Every month. There were too many songs to ever get out the door at once…” If Mayer releases, say, three EPs and they all crack the top 10, and then the album cracks the top 10, this would artificially inflate his top 10 tally. Mayer and his record company, Columbia, probably wouldn’t mind, but avid chart followers are likely to think it distorts reality. To nip this in the bud, Billboard may need to revisit the idea of allowing EPs with just four or five songs on the Billboard 200.

The La La Land soundtrack holds at No. 3 in its seventh week. The album features the Oscar-nominated “City of Stars,” sung by stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. This is the 25th consecutive week in which at least one soundtrack has appeared in the top 10. La La Land is No. 1 on Top Soundtracks for the third week.

Bruno Mars’s 24K Magic inches up from No. 5 to No. 4 in its 10th week. The album has climbed as high as No. 2.

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More from the article:

AFI land their fourth top 10 album as AFI (The Blood Album) debuts at No. 5.

The Moana soundtrack drops from No. 4 to No. 6 in its 10th week. The album peaked at No. 2. Moana includes Auli’i Cravalho’s rendition of the Oscar-nominated “How Far I’ll Go,” which was co-written by Hamilton mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Post Malone’s Stoney jumps from No. 9 to No. 7 in its seventh week. The album peaked at No. 6.

Hamilton: An American Musical drops from No. 6 to No. 8 in its 70th week. The Broadway cast album peaked at No. 3 in the wake of the Tony Awards in June. This is its 23rd week in the top 10.

Drake’s Views dips from No. 8 to No. 9 in its 39th week. It logged 13 weeks at No. 1.

J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only drops from No. 7 to No. 10 in its seventh week. The album debuted at No. 1.

Two albums drop out of the top 10 this week. The xx’s I See You dives from No. 2 to No. 30. The Trolls soundtrack drops from No. 10 to No. 12.

Starset’s sophomore album, Vessels, debuts at No. 11. The band’s debut album, Transmissions, reached No. 49 in 2014. The title of the new album is very close to the title of twenty one pilots’ major-label debut album, Vessel, which drops from No. 47 to No. 51 in its 128th week on the chart. It climbed as high as No. 21.

The latest installments in two long-running series debut in the top 20 this week. Grammy Nominees 2017 opens at No. 16. Kidz Bop Kids’s Kidz Bop 34 debuts at No. 18. Oddly, neither series has (yet) produced a No. 1 album. Two Grammy Nominees titles have climbed as high as No. 2. Five Kidz Bop titles have climbed as high as No. 2.

Chris Stapleton’s Traveller drops from No. 16 to No. 21 in its 72nd week. The album logs its 28th week at No. 1 on Top Country Albums. This ties LeAnn Rimes’ Blue, which spent 28 weeks at No. 1 in 1996-97. Just two debut albums have logged more than 28 weeks at No. 1 since the chart originated 53 years ago. They are Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All (34 weeks at No. 1 in 1992-93) and Clint Black’s Killin’ Time (31 weeks at No. 1 in 1989-90).

Coming attractions: Migos’s Culture and Brantley Gilbert’s The Devil Don’t Sleep will vie for the No.1 album spot anext week.

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Chris Stapleton’s Traveller drops from No. 16 to No. 21 in its 72nd week. The album logs its 28th week at No. 1 on Top Country Albums. This ties LeAnn Rimes’ Blue, which spent 28 weeks at No. 1 in 1996-97. Just two debut albums have logged more than 28 weeks at No. 1 since the chart originated 53 years ago. They are Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All (34 weeks at No. 1 in 1992-93) and Clint Black’s Killin’ Time (31 weeks at No. 1 in 1989-90).

Last week, Traveller sold 9800 copies. Probably the first time since the Soundscan Era (started in 1991) that the #1 country album sold less than 10,000 copies. However, due to rounding off to the nearest thousand, Traveller sold 10,000 copies last week. This week, it sold 9000 copies. I can not round that off to 10,000.

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^Traveller sold 8,730 copies this week.

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Soundscan Surprises, Week of 1/26
by Silvia Killingsworth

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.”

When was the last time you thought about Sheryl Crow? Me neither. The Grateful Dead’s eponymous debut record was released FIFTY YEARS AGO so there’s a 50th Anniversary reissue. Just another reminder that your hippie dad or dad-friend is officially OLD.

A three-part miniseries has been running on BET about New Edition, “The New Edition Story,” and the group may or may not be reuniting to record an album and go on tour. This is a good excuse to remind yourself of the style of music known as “new jack swing.” Thank you Teddy Riley; I’m off to make a Spotify playlist.

I guess one of 311’s records is turning 20 years old, so we who remember it are also officially very middle aged. John Mayer has a new whatever and he’s planning a world tour and I just don’t want to talk about how “into” his “music” I “was” as a “teen” and then try to defend my opinions by invoking his superior shredding skills because it’s all just very embarrassing for me so let’s just focus on how he’s definitely probably a slouchy creep. And whiny—don’t you imagine he’s moody and whiny? God. I’m sorry. I know.

I’m not sure what’s going on with Simon & Garfunkel except there’s that musical in England. Oh and Disturbed (yes, of Down With the Sickness) covered “The Sound of Silence.” Enjoy:

9. GRATEFUL DEAD GRATEFUL DEAD (50TH ANNIVERSAR 2,540 copies
10. SIMON & GARFUNKEL BEST OF SIMON & GARFUNKEL 2,431 copies
26. MAYER*JOHN CONTINUUM 1,890 copies
38. NEW EDITION HEART BREAK 1,624 copies
62. NEW EDITION ALL THE NUMBER ONES 1,366 copies
75. CROW*SHERYL VERY BEST OF SHERYL CROW 1,202 copies
142. NEW EDITION VOL. 1­GREATEST HITS 909 copies
172. 311 TRANSISTOR 840 copies

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Billboard 200 Chart Moves: 'Grammy Nominees' Series Scores 23rd Top 40-Charting Album
By Keith Caulfield | February 02, 2017 10:02 PM EST

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

— Various Artists, 2017 Grammy Nominees - No. 16 — The 2017 Grammy Nominees compilation debuts at No. 16 with 18,000 equivalent album units (all from album sales) earned in the week ending Jan. 26, according to Nielsen Music. The album boasts selections by artists nominated for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be presented on Feb. 12.

2017 Grammy Nominees is the 23rd top 40-charting Grammy Nominees album in the series, stretching back to the 1995 Grammy Nominees effort, which peaked at No. 26. Every one of the series’ main titles have reached the top 40. (From 1999 through 2001, there were spin-off sets that focused on rap and/or R&B nominations. They did not reach the top 40.)

15 Grammy Nominees albums have hit the top 10, and the highest charting sets are the 2013 and 2014 editions, which both peaked at No. 2.

— Kidz Bop Kids, Kidz Bop 34 - No. 14 — Kidz Bop Kids’ new Kidz Bop 34 arrives at No. 14 on the Billboard 200, starting with 17,000 equivalent album units earned and 16,000 in traditional album sales. It is the 33rd top 40-charting effort from the long-running brand, and the 49th title to chart on the tally. The very first Kidz Bop album debuted and peaked at No. 76 on the Oct. 27, 2001-dated list. In total, the series has sold 17.1 million albums in the U.S. Over on the Kid Albums chart, the set starts at No. 1 -- the 36th leader for the line on the chart.

— Panic! at the Disco, Death of a Bachelor - No. 24 — The album rises 31-24 with a 21 percent increase in equivalent album units (rising to 15,000) following the act’s buzzy performance of the set’s title track on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Jan. 19.

— Jacob Sartorius, The Last Text EP - No. 32 — Former Billboard cover star Jacob Sartorius takes a bow at No. 32 on the Billboard 200 with his debut set, The Last Text EP (12,000 units; 9,000 sold). The set also enters at No. 1 on the Independent Albums chart and No. 5 on the Digital Albums chart. The 14-year-old rose to fame thanks to his popularity on the Musical.ly app, which led to him sharing cover space on the Oct. 29, 2016, edition of the magazine. Sartorius is currently on tour, with dates lined up in Europe and the U.S. through May 7 in New York.

— Young Thug, Jeffery - No. 152 — The album climbs with a 14 percent unit gain (to 5,000 units), owed in part to the popularity of its single “Wyclef Jean,” which collected 2.7 million on-demand audio streams for the week (up 25 percent).