Billboard 200 2/18/17 Migos #1

[Gary]

Migos Earns First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Culture'
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By Keith Caulfield | February 05, 2017 4:20 PM EST


Hip-hop trio Migos scores its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the arrival of Culture. The set — which was led by the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 single “Bad and Boujee,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert — launches atop the list with 131,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 2, according to Nielsen Music. Culture, Migos’ second album, was released on Jan. 27 through Quality Control/300 Entertainment.

The act had previously peaked as high as No. 17 on the Billboard 200 with its debut set, Yung Rich Nation, in August 2015.

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. 18-dated chart (where Migos debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Feb. 7.


Culture’s debut was driven by streams of its songs, as streaming equivalent album units accounted for 59 percent of the set’s first-week total (77,000 of 131,000). The album sold 44,000 in traditional album sales and earned 10,000 in track equivalent album units. It also arrives as Migos' first No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums charts.

Migos leads a busy top 10, as five albums debut in the region. That’s the most new arrivals in the top 10 since the Dec. 24, 2016-dated list, when five titles also bowed in the top 10.

Brantley Gilbert’s The Devil Don’t Sleep debuts at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, with 77,000 units earned in its first week (66,000 from traditional album sales — it’s also the top selling album of the week). It’s the third top five-charting effort for the country singer, following Just as I Am (No. 2 in 2014) and Halfway to Heaven (No. 4 in 2011).


The Devil Don’t Sleep is the highest-charting country title on the Billboard 200 since the Nov. 19, 2016-dated tally, when Kenny Chesney’s Cosmic Hallelujah debuted and peaked at No. 2. Gilbert’s new album also starts at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart, securing the artist his second leader on that list, after Just as I Am.

Back on the Billboard 200 chart, singer/songwriter Kehlani bows at No. 3 with her debut studio effort ,SweetSexySavage, earning 58,000 units (32,000 in traditional album sales). It follows her No. 36-peaking mixtape You Should Be Here, which was released in 2015 and earned a Grammy Award nomination for best urban contemporary album.

SweetSexySavage scored a top 40-charting single on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart last November, with “CRZY,” which peaked at No. 34.

The Weeknd’s Starboy slips from No. 1 to No. 4 on the new Billboard 200 with 51,000 units (down 10 percent).



The Now 61 compilation album starts at No. 5 with 37,000 units (all from traditional album sales). The long-running series has seen all 61 of its main (numbered) albums reach the top 10.
The soundtrack to La La Land is pushed down three slots to No. 6, though it boasts a 15 percent gain, rising to 36,000 units earned in the week. The album scored a 27 percent increase in sales (climbing to 25,000 copies sold), thanks in part to a surge in vinyl LP sales for the set (5,000; up 453 percent). The title became widely available on black vinyl on Jan. 27 after a limited release on blue vinyl.
Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic falls 4-7 with 31,000 units earned (though it’s up two percent).

Train rolls in at No. 8 with its sixth top 10-charting album, A Girl a Bottle a Boat, starting with 30,000 units earned (23,000 in traditional album sales). The band recently notched its 14th top 10 hit on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart with the album’s “Play That Song.”

Train previously hit the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with Bulletproof Picasso (No. 5 in 2014), California 37 (No. 4, 2012), For Me, It’s You (No. 10, 2006), My Private Nation (No. 6, 2003) and Drops of Jupiter (No. 6, 2001).

Rounding out the new top 10 are Post Malone’s Stoney (7-9 with a little more than 27,000 units; up five percent) and the soundtrack to Moana (6-10 with 27,000 units; down less than one percent).

[Gary]

1. Migos 131,000
2. Brantley Gilbert 77,000
3. Kehlani 58,000
4. The Weeknd 51,000
5. Now 61 37,000
6. La La Land 36,000
7. Bruno 31,000
8. Train 30,000
9. Post Malone 27,000
10. Moana 27,000

[atg]

Seeing the weeknd fall was kind of sad but migos at #1 is kinda good too

[areyoureadytojump]

www.hiphopdx.com/news/id.42263/title.migos-scores-first-1-album-with-culture

Migos Scores First #1 Album With "Culture"
by Victoria Hernandez

Atlanta’s period of grief after the Falcons lost the Super Bowl to the New England Patriots should be short-lived as hometown heroes Migos take the top spot on Billboard’s 200 albums chart with Culture. Kehlani also lands high on the charts with her debut album. With these projects nabbing the top spots, The Weeknd gets his lowest position yet with Starboy.

Rain Drop. Drop Top. Migos’ Album Took The Top Spot.

Migos did it. They have the number one album in the country. Culture lands at the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart with 131,193 equivalent album units. The project was streamed 115.6 million times, which made up 77,000 of the total units, a whopping 59 percent. Of course, the album was bolstered by the #1 song in the country, “Bad and Boujee,” as well as the singles “T-shirt” and “Call Casting.” The Atlanta group’s last album, 2015’s Yung Rich Nation, peaked at #17 on the chart

Kehlani Makes Waves With Debut Album

Kehlani’s SweetSexySavage makes its debut at #3 on the chart with 58,010 equivalent album units and 35 million streams. The album rides the success of her singles “CRZY” and the Suicide Squad cut “Gangsta.” Kehlani’s mixtape, 2015’s You Should be Here, reached the #36 spot on the chart and nabbed the Bay Area singer a Grammy nomination.

The Weeknd Slides Down To #4

The Weeknd’s Starboy has its lowest position yet, and even then it remains in the Top 5 at #4. This sales cycle, it saw a 10 percent drop as it pushed 50,572 equivalent album units and was streamed 48.7 million times.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 02/02/2017

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 Migos — Culture — 131,193 (44,452) [115,589,572]

#3 Kehlani — SweetSexySavage — 58,010 (31,845) [35,382,213]

#4 The Weeknd — Starboy — 50,572 (10,008) [48,678,175]

#7 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 30,918 (15,220) [14,668,985]

#9 Post Malone — Stoney — 27,311 (2,992) [31,996,756]

#13 Drake – VIEWS — 24,635 (3,426) [29,064,254]

#15 J. Cole — 4 Your Eyez Only — 21,188 (5,727) [21,761,434]

#17 Rihanna — Anti — 20,111 (3,110) [18,383,494]

#20 Travis Scott — Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight —17,051 (1,494) [20,728,685]

#22 Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife 2 —15,449 (960) [16,584,884]

#24 Various Artists — Suicide Squad: The Album —15,093 (5,507) [9,858,490]

#28 Twiztid — The Continuous Evil — 14,324 (14,076) [195,754]

[areyoureadytojump]

Top Album Sales

1. GILBERT*BRANTLE|THE DEVIL DON'........................ 66.2k
2. MIGOS|CULTURE ........................................................44.4k
3. VARIOUS ARTISTS|NOW 61 .......................................... 36.8k
4. KEHLANI|SWEETSEXYSAVAGE .................................... 31.8k
5. SOUNDTRACK|LA LA LAND ......................................... 24.6k
6. TRAIN|GIRL A BOTTLE A BOAT ................................... 22.5k
7. BELL BIV DEVOE|THREE STRIPES .............................. 18.5k
8. JOHNSON*BRIAN &|AFTER ALL THES....................... 15.2k
9. MARS*BRUNO|24K MAGIC .......................................... 15.2k
10. GRATEFUL DEAD|DAVE'S PICKS VOL....................... 14.8k

[divasummer]

^^^ The Shade of the Hip Hop and RnB article not mentioning Bell Biv Devoe...^^^

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www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7686018/billboard-200-chart-moves-new-edition-top-40

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: New Edition's Back in the Top 40 After More Than a Decade
2/10/2017 by Keith Caulfield

— New Edition, All the Number Ones - No. 37 — Following New Edition’s well-received BET biographical mini-series (Jan. 24-26) The New Edition Story, the group returns to the top 40 of the Billboard 200 for the first time in more than 10 years.

The vocal group’s hits compilation All the Number Ones, released in 2000, debuts at No. 37 on the tally, earning 12,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Feb. 2, according to Nielsen Music. The set boasts not just New Edition hits, but also solo smashes from the group’s individual members and spin-off trio Bell Biv DeVoe.

New Edition was last in the top 40 back in 2004 with One Love (debuting and peaking at No. 12). The act also rises 195-85 with its 1988 album Heartbreak (7,000 units; up 79 percent).

According to BET, the three-part movie collected 29 million total viewers through Jan. 30, counting premiere telecasts and encores, across BET and Centric.

Those viewers translated into big music gains, as New Edition sold 20,000 albums in the two weeks ending Feb. 2 — up 1,345 percent compared to the two weeks ending Jan. 19 (a little more than 1,000). Further, the act sold 87,000 song downloads in the Jan. 20-Feb. 2 span (up 1,460 percent) and generated 34.95 million on-demand streams (up 652 percent).

In related New Edition news, Bell Biv DeVoe also capitalizes on the mini-series: the trio’s first album in 15 years, Three Stripes, bows at No. 18 on the Billboard 200 after its release on Jan. 27. They last debuted on the tally with 1993’s Hootie Mack (No. 19).

— Various Artists, Now 61 & Now That’s What I Call 90’s Pop - Nos. 5 & 154 — The Now That’s What I Call Music brand continues to find success on the Billboard 200, as the series notches its 125th and 126th charting titles with the arrivals of Now 61 (No. 5) and Now That’s What I Call 90’s Pop (No. 154).

The former title starts with 37,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Feb. 2 (all from traditional album sales), according to Nielsen Music. The 90’s Pop title launches with 5,000 units (again, all from sales).

All 61 of the main, numbered Now albums have reached the top 10, and volumes 2-61 have all debuted in the region.

Remarkably, since the first Now album debuted on the list dated Nov. 14, 1998, Now-branded albums account for 11.2 percent of all various artists titles that have reached the list (1,127 in all). Also something for Now to crow about: since the first Now compilation hit the top 10 (on Jan. 23, 1999), the franchise totals 54 percent of the various artist titles that have visited the top 10.

Back in the golden days of the Now series, in the 2000s, the line was regularly topping the chart with titles selling in excess of 200,000 copies in a single week. While Now albums don’t sell anything near that amount in 2017, they are one of the few bright spots on the compilation landscape. In the past year, the only titles to move more than 20,000 in a week have been Now titles (Now 57-61), The Hamilton Mixtape, and the 2016 Grammy Nominees effort.

— Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Getaway - No. 33 — The band’s latest album release re-enters the chart at No. 33 with a 251 percent gain in units (and a 427 percent jump in sales) thanks to a concert ticket/album sale promotion.

— Beyoncé, Beyoncé - No. 100 — News of Beyoncé’s pregnancy (on Feb. 1 she announced, via Instagram, that she’s expecting twins with husband Jay Z) perhaps urges gains for some of her albums on the chart: Beyoncé was up 20 percent in units (climbing 122-100) and I Am…Sasha Fierce gains 6 percent (moving 171-166).

[areyoureadytojump]

www.yahoo.com/music/chart-watch-bffs-ed-sheeran-taylor-swift-face-off-in-chart-battle-215532928.html

Chart Watch: BFFs Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift Face Off in Chart Battle
by Paul Grein
Yahoo MusicFebruary 6, 2017

Top Albums

Migos’s second full-length album, Culture, enters the Billboard 200 at No. 1, displacing the Weeknd’s Starboy. Migos’s first album, Yung Rich Nation, peaked at No. 17 in 2015.

Brantley Gilbert lands his third top five album as The Devil Don’t Sleep debuts at No. 2. It is the week’s No. 1 album in traditional album sales, but Culture came out on top when streaming and digital track sales were factored in. This is the seventh time that a country album has been the week’s top-seller but has been edged out on the Billboard 200 by an album that had more overall “consumption,” to use the industry term. Previous country albums that have experienced this fate are Don Henley’s Cass County, Joey & Rory’s Hymns, Chris Stapleton’s Traveller (which topped the Billboard 200 for two weeks, but would have had more weeks on top if the chart were based strictly on sales), Blake Shelton’s If I’m Honest, Aaron Lewis’s Sinner, and Kenny Chesney’s Cosmic Hallelujah.

The Devil Don’t Sleep enters Top Country Albums at No. 1, displacing Chris Stapleton’s Traveller (which has spent 28 nonconsecutive weeks on top). It’s Gilbert’s second studio album to top the country chart. Just As I Am topped that chart for five weeks in 2014-2015.

Kehlani’s first full-length album, SweetSexySavage, debuts at No. 3. The title echoes TLC’s CrazySexyCool, which peaked at No. 3 in July 1995. (Kehlani was three months old at the time.) A Kehlani mixtape, You Should Be Here, reached No. 36 in 2015. That mixtape received a Grammy nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album (it lost to the Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness). This bodes well for this album’s Grammy chances next year. Stay tuned.

The Weeknd’s Starboy drops from No. 1 to No. 4 in its 10th week. The album spent five nonconsecutive weeks on top.

Now 61 debuts at No. 5. It’s the 60th consecutive regular, numbered volume in this series to debut in the top 10.

The La La Land soundtrack drops from No. 3 to No. 6 in its eighth week. The album has climbed as high as No. 2. The album features the Oscar-nominated “City of Stars,” sung by stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. La La Land rises to No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart. It’s the first soundtrack to top the U.K. chart since Les Miserables four years ago. (Les Mis also reached No. 1 in the U.S. Will La La Land follow suit if the film wins big at the Oscars — as expected?) Stay tuned.

Bruno Mars’s 24K Magic drops from No. 4 to No. 7 in its 11th week. The album peaked at No. 2.

Train lands its sixth top 10 album as A Girl A Bottle A Boat debuts at No. 8. For all its success, Train has yet to land a No. 1 album or single. Its highest-charting album, California 37, peaked at No. 4. Its highest-charting single, “Hey, Soul Sister,” reached No. 3 on the Hot 100.

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

The Moana soundtrack drops from No. 6 to No. 10 in its 11th 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.

AFI’s AFI (The Blood Album) plunges from No. 5 completely off the Billboard 200. Now that’s a bloody drop. Four other albums drop out of the top 10 this week. John Mayer’s EP The Search for Everything: Wave One dives from No. 2 to No. 63. Hamilton: An American Musical drops from No. 8 to No. 12. Drake’s Views drops from No. 9 to No. 13. J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only drops from No. 10 to No. 15.

Bell Biv DeVoe lands its fourth top 20 album (out of five releases) as Three Stripes debuts at No. 18. The trio’s 1990 debut album, Poison, reached No. 5.

New Edition’s 2000 compilation All the Number Ones enters the chart at No. 37 in the wake of BET’s airing of The New Edition Story over three nights, Jan. 24-26. This compilation didn’t crack the Billboard 200 when it was first released.

Coming Attractions: Look for Big Sean to land his second consecutive No. 1 album next week with I Decided. Reba McEntire’s Sing it Now: Songs of Faith and Hope will also open in the top 10.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

I noted that AFI's album had dropped out of the BB 200 when I checked the chart. It did better in Top Album Sales, falling 2-65. BTW, John Mayer's album also fell in that chart 1-38. Starset's album also dropped out of the BB 200 from #11 and 3-83 in Top Album Sales. So the Top 3 in Top Album Sales from last week had big drops.

[onebuffalo]

AFI’s AFI (The Blood Album) plunges from No. 5 completely off the Billboard 200.

OUCH! Two questions:

1. Has that ever happened before? An album being in the top ten one week and off the chart the next?

2. How much did it sell during the week it was off the chart? Thanks.

[rimetm]

Feb 10, 2017 11:13:00 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

AFI’s AFI (The Blood Album) plunges from No. 5 completely off the Billboard 200.

OUCH! Two questions:

1. Has that ever happened before? An album being in the top ten one week and off the chart the next?

2. How much did it sell during the week it was off the chart? Thanks?

It sold ~3.2k units in raw album sales. Either it's getting jack squat in equivalent units or the boundary of #200 has risen since the 4.5k it looked like about a year ago...probably the former to be honest.

[chartfreak]

Wasn't sure where to ask this...so I have been out the loop with this SPS vs. actual sales...so my question is, if I stream an entire album today on Spotify that counts as a sale for the entire album?

[HolidayGuy]

^I believe it's 1,500 streams of a track is equal to one album sale, in regard to the multi-metric chart.

John Mayer's EP dropped 1-38 on Album Sales in its second week- is that the largest positional drop for an album that debuted at No. 1 sales?

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Feb 11, 2017 12:30:21 GMT -5 chartfreak said:

Wasn't sure where to ask this...so I have been out the loop with this SPS vs. actual sales...so my question is, if I stream an entire album today on Spotify that counts as a sale for the entire album?

No. What HolidayGuy said above. With regard to your particular question it depends on how many tracks the albums actually has. Let's take two examples. Views has 20 tracks in it. So, you'd need to stream it 75 times completely (meaning at least 30 seconds of each track) to get an Equivalent Album. Let's take John Mayer's EP. That one had only 4 tracks. For that one, you'd need to stream it 375 times completely to get an Equivalent Album.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Feb 11, 2017 15:53:51 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

^I believe it's 1,500 streams of a track is equal to one album sale, in regard to the multi-metric chart.

John Mayer's EP dropped 1-38 on Album Sales in its second week- is that the largest positional drop for an album that debuted at No. 1 sales?

This House Is Not For Sale dropped 1-43 in Top Album Sales. That's an obvious option to me but I'll check later to see if that's the biggest one.