BB200 --- 4/29/17 - Chainsmokers #1

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The Chainsmokers' 'Memories' Album Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart



The Chainsmokers bow at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with their debut full-length album, Memories… Do Not Open. The EDM duo's set earned 221,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 13, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 166,000 were in traditional album sales.


The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new April 29, 2017-dated chart (where Memories starts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, April 18.


Memories’ sales launch was powered by a concert ticket/album bundle sale redemption promotion with the duo’s tour, which kicked off on April 13 in Miami. The ticket/album offer was also included with select dates of the act’s residency at the XS Nightclub and Encore Beach Club in Las Vegas.


Memories is the first album to simultaneously lead both the Billboard 200 and the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart in nearly three-and-a-half years. The last to do so was Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP, when it debuted at No. 1 on both tallies dated Nov. 30, 2013 (with 258,000 copies sold in its first week). 


Memories contains the Billboard Hot 100-charting hits “Paris,” “Something Just Like This” (with Coldplay) and “The One.”


The Chainsmokers previously charted two EPs on the Billboard 200: 2016’s Collage, which peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200; and Bouquet, which hit No. 31 in January of 2016, following its release the previous year.

Memories bumps Drake’s More Life from the top slot on the Billboard 200, as it slips to No. 2 with 108,000 units (down 21 percent) in its fourth chart week. The set spent its first three weeks atop the tally. Ed Sheeran’s fellow former No. 1 ÷ (Divide) dips from No. 2 to No. 3 in its sixth chart week, earning 70,000 units (down 13 percent).

Vocal group Pentatonix claims its seventh top 10 album as PTX Vol. IV: Classics starts at No. 4 with 54,000 units (50,000 in traditional album sales). The a cappella quintet previously hit the top 10 with A Pentatonix Christmas (No. 1 in January), its self-titled album (No. 1; 2015), That’s Christmas to Me (No. 2; 2014), PTX: Vol. III (No. 5; 2014), PTX: Vol. II (No. 10; 2013) and PTXmas (No. 7; 2013).


The new Classics effort includes renditions of familiar favorites like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Over the Rainbow” and the group’s Grammy Award-winning redux of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” (alongside Parton herself).


Joey Bada$$ bows at No. 5 with All-Amerikkkan Bada$$, earning 51,000 units its first week (28,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the second top 10 set for the rapper, who previously hit the top five with B4.DA.$$ in 2015, which debuted and peaked at No. 5 with 58,000 units (54,000 in sales).

Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic falls two slots to No. 6 (45,000 units; down 5 percent), the soundtrack to Moana slips 6-7 with 43,000 units (down 2 percent), Kodak Black’s Painting Pictures descends 3-8 in its second week with 39,000 units (down 46 percent) and Future’s self-titled album moves 8-9 with 38,000 units (up less than 1 percent).


Father John Misty closes out the top 10, as the singer-songwriter earns his highest-charting album yet -- and first top 10 -- with Pure Comedy. It bows at No. 10 with 35,000 units (33,000 in traditional album sales -- his best sales week yet). The artist’s previous high on the chart came in 2015 with I Love You, Honeybear, which debuted and peaked at No. 17 with 30,000 units (28,000 in album sales).

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1. Chainsmokers 221,000
2. Drake 108,000
3. Ed Sheeran 70,000
4.  Pentatonix 54,000
5.  Joey Bada$$ 51,000
6.  Bruno 45,000
7.  Moana 43,000
8.  Kodak Black 39,000
9.  Future 38,000
10.  Father John Misty 35,000

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Top 10 Country Albums Chart: April 17, 2017
Posted By Matt Bjorke on Sunday April 16, 2017

Joey Feek has the #1 new album this week, barely missing out at #1 with "If Not For You." Keith Urban's "Ripcord" returns to #1 after months away from the top spot. See the whole chart here!

Place Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Keith Urban Ripcord 10,800 536,700
2 Joey Martin Feek If Not For You 10,500 10,500
3 Miranda Lambert Weight Of These Wings 9,700 327,900
4 The Lacs American Rebelution 8,400 8,400
5 Reba McEntire Sing It Now: Songs of Faith... 8,200 153,800
6 Chris Stapleton Traveller 6,800 1,893,700
7 Little Big Town Breaker 4,500 93,500
8 Brantley Gilbert The Devil Don't Sleep 4,200 152,500
9 Brett Young Brett Young 4,100 51,600
10 Trace Adkins Something's Going On 4,000 17,500
11 Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots 3,600 375,700
12 Jason Aldean They Don't Know 3,300 365,000
13 Maren Morris Hero 3,000 212,000
14 Alison Krauss Windy City 3,000 93,500
15 Kane Brown Kane Brown 3,000 135,000

-- Josh Turner Deep South 2,900 33,900
-- Thomas Rhett Tangled Up 2,700 564,000
-- Luke Bryan Kill The Lights 2,700 1,135,300
-- Jon Pardi California Sunrise 2,600 137,400
-- Joey+Rory Hymns 2,500 551,800
-- Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 2,300 272,200
-- RaeLynn Wildhorse 2,000 21,700
-- Brothers Osborne Pawn Shop 1,900 113,400
-- Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood 1,800 520,500
-- Dierks Bentley Black 1,700 253,400
-- Carrie Underwood Storyteller 1,600 750,600
-- Hillary Scott/Family Love Remains 1,600 142,500
-- Garth Brooks Gunslinger 1,500 94,300
-- The Mavericks Brand New Day 1,500 6,500
-- Rodney Crowell Close Ties 1,500 6,700
-- Kenny Chesney Cosmic Hallelujah 1,400 208,900
-- Ryan Hurd Ryan Hurd EP 1,300 1,300
-- Sturill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth 1,000 200,200
-- Cody Jinks I'm Not The Devil 1,000 48,300
-- Justin Moore Kinda Don't Care 1,000 113,200
-- Old Dominion Meat And Candy 1,000 190,600
-- Aaron Lewis Sinner 800 115,200
-- Lauren Alaina Road Less Traveled 800 22,200
-- Drake White Spark 700 44,100
-- Chris Young I'm Comin' Over 700 268,700
-- Aaron Watson Vaquero 700 55,700
-- Midland Midland EP 500 6,200
-- Bradley Walker Call Me Old Fashioned 500 33,900
-- Daily & Vincent Patriots & Poets 400 1,300
-- Dolly Parton Pure & Simple 400 115,900
-- Tim O'Brien Where The River MeetsTheRoad 400 700
-- Granger Smith Remington 300 79,600
-- William Michael Morgan Vinyl 300 26,000

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Top Country Catalog Album Sales Chart: April 18, 2017
Posted By Matt Bjorke

We love to share some special chart reports now and then and this week we have the Garth Brooks top-lined Catalog chart. Home Free's "Country Evolution" debuts on this chart.

CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Garth Brooks Ultimate Hits 3,600 3,052,100
2 Johnny Cash Legend of Johnny Cash 2,800 3,623,400
3 Sam Hunt Montevallo 2,700 1,292,400
4 Various Aritsts Roots of Country Music 1,600 261,000
5 Waylon Jennings Ultimate Waylon Jennings 1,500 631,300
6 Willie Nelson Super Hits 1,400 2,919,500
7 Miranda Lambert Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 1,400 1,573,300
8 Luke Bryan Crash My Party 1,300 2,653,000
9 Merle Haggard 20 Greatest Hits 1,300 206,500
10 Johnny Cash Essential Johnny Cash 1,200 1,724,200
11 Florida Georgia Line Here's To The Good Times 1,200 2,369,400
12 Zac Brown Band Greatest Hits So Far 1,100 347,000
13 Elvis Presley Ultimate Gospel 1,100 825,200
14 Elvis Presley Heart & Soul 1,100 1,013,400
15 Josh Turner Icon 1,100 437,600
16 Carrie Underwood Greatest Hits: Decade #1 1,100 564,300
17 John Denver Best of John Denver Live 1,100 934,800
18 George Strait 20th Century Masters 1,100 1,752,100
19 Carrie Underwood Blown Away 1,000 1,794,800
20 Brooks & Dunn Greatest Hits Collection 1,000 4,608,400

-- Hank Williams Jr Vol 1. Greatest Hits 900 3,410,700
-- George Strait Icon (2 Disc Edition) 900 204,500
-- Dwight Yoakam Very Best of Dwight Yoakam 900 1,043,000
-- Eric Church Chief 900 1,957,700
-- Tracy Lawrence Very Best of Tracy Lawrence 900 348,900
-- Reba McEntire Reba #1's 900 1,195,800
-- Alabama American Farewell Tour 900 497,200
-- Willie Nelson Essential Willie Nelson 900 895,800
-- David Allen Coe Greatest Hits 900 1,130,900
-- Eric Church The Outsiders 800 1,240,200
-- Keith Urban Greatest Hits 800 1,208,700
-- Shania Twain Come On Over 800 15,671,500
-- Kenny Chesney Greatest Hits II 800 1,343,500
-- Alabama Ultimate 20 #1 Hits 800 755,100
-- Luke Bryan Tailgates & Tanlines 800 2,570,700
-- Home Free Country Evolution 800 63,200

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Hip Hop Album Sales: Drake Drops To #2 On Top 200 Chart & Joey Badass Debuts At #5
April 17, 2017 | 5:13 PM
by D.L. Chandler

After three weeks at the top spot on the Billboard Top 200 chart, Drake’s More Life playlist drops one slot, yet the project most certainly has more shelf life as the spring months roll on. Chainsmokers’ Memories…Do Not Open debuted at #1 this week, while Joey Bada$$’s second studio album, All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ landed at #5 in its first week. Drizzy’s More Life is still the streaming champion, which will undoubtedly carry over in the weeks to come.

Drake’s More Life No Longer Owns The Top Spot

Drake’s chart-topping ways carried over from VIEWS to More Life, with the former album spending an amazing six months in the Billboard Top 200 chart’s top five rankings at various levels. VIEWS spent 13 weeks at #1, and 26 weeks in the top five, just one of seven other albums to do so. Will that good luck be spread to More Life as it slips to the #2 position? Amazingly, VIEWS is still in the top 25, sitting at #22 for the week.

Joey Bada$$ Makes Splash With #5 Debut

As the face of Pro Era, Joey Bada$$ has carried the New York collective on his back with unflinching authority while still remaining focused on the crew. In his second solo outing, the Brooklyn bomber’s All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ takes a slight departure from the boom-bap found on B4.Da.$$. With features from ScHoolboy Q, J. Cole and Styles P, Joey might be hoisting more plaques in the future if the album continues to pick up steam after debuting at #5.

Other notable moves on the charts include Tech N9ne’s collaborations album Dominion, which debuted at #29 with 15,702 equivalent album units and nearly 2 million streams. Both Mike WiLL Made-It’s Ransom 2 and Trey Songz’s Tremaine The Album have spent three weeks on the charts. The Atlanta producer’s project dropped considerably from its first-week placement at #24 to now sitting at #114. Trigga debuted strongly at #3 and now sits at #31.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 04/13/2017

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 Chainsmokers – Memories…Do Not Open – 221,176 (166,044) [59,930,156]

#2 Drake – More Life – 107,715 (10,382) [135,024,690]

#3 Ed Sheeran – Divide – 69,712 (27,459) [45,049,768]

#4 Pentatonix – PTX Vol IV: Classics – 53,764 (50,337) [2,452,240]

#5 Joey Bada$$ – All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ – 50,798 (28,279) [30,863,599]

#6 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 45,485 (18,205) [25,170,714]

#8 Kodak Black — Painting Pictures — 38,768 (2,305) [51,028,771]

#9 Future — Future — 38,294 (2,455) [47,072,504]

#12 Migos — Culture — 34,178 (3,290) [41,335,353]

#15 Post Malone — Stoney — 25,440 (1,966) [31,441,183]

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No More Soundscan Surprises 4/13
by Silvia Killingsworth

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.”

No one cares about this column except me and even I no longer care about it because I know everything about America’s weird buying habits when it comes to old records and I’ll never be surprised ever again. I’m done letting me Google that for you. Ugh. Here’s your stupid weird record sales from last week. Bye forever. Instead I’ll be running pieces about heavy metal because that seems cooler and like more people will enjoy arguing about it. P.S. Dio!

4. WINEHOUSE*AMY BACK TO BLACK 3,524 copies
32. JOHNSON*JACK IN BETWEEN DREAMS 1,926 copies
64. LIL DURK SIGNED TO THE STREETS 1,440 copies
141. LIL DICKY PROFESSIONAL RAPPER 1,066 copies
193. DIO VERY BEAST OF DIO 903 copies
200. TOOL LATERALUS 887 copies

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Metal By Numbers 4/20: Sales in reverse
Posted by Matt Brown on April 20, 2017

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.

Blah blah happy 4/20 bro blah blah. We don’t have a whole bunch of doom/stoner bands on the debut list this week, though the two that are present are particularly good ones. Also, as you will soon be able to tell, we only have partial sales information for this week and should be back to full functionality next week with charts positions and a whole lot more bands.

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Retailer Report: Top 200 Albums Page 1 of 4
Region: Total U.S. Week Ending: 04/13/17

CHAINSMOKERS|MEMORIES...DO NOT( 1) 166.0k
PENTATONIX|PTX VOL IV: CLASSIC( 2) 50.3k
FATHER JOHN MIS|PURE COMEDY ( 3) 32.9k
JOEY BADA$$|ALL-AMERIKKKAN BAD( 4) 28.2k
SHEERAN*ED|DIVIDE ( 5) 27.4k
BEAUTY AND THE |BEAUTY AND THE( 6) 25.3k
METALLICA|HARDWIRED...TO SELF-( 7) 23.5k
MOANA / O.S.T.|MOANA / O.S.T. ( 8) 24.0k
BETHEL MUSIC|STARLIGHT ( 9) 19.2k
MARS*BRUNO|24K MAGIC ( 10) 18.2k

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Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Twenty One Pilots' 'Blurryface' Hits 100th Consecutive Week on List
4/21/2017 by Keith Caulfield

— Soundtrack, Moana - No. 7 — The soundtrack to the hit film has now sold more than a half-million copies in the U.S., as it shifted another 24,000 copies in the week ending April 13, according to Nielsen Music. That brings its cumulative sales sum to 509,000. The set was released on Nov. 18, 2016 through Walt Disney Records.

Moana is the third soundtrack to surpass a half-million in sales in 2017, following Suicide Squad and Trolls. Suicide Squad passed the 500,000 mark in the week ending Jan. 26 (its sales now stand at 548,000), while Trolls crossed the half-million threshold in the week ending March 16 (its sales are currently at 573,000).

— Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface - No. 27 — Twenty One Pilots’ former No. 1 Blurryface celebrates its 100th consecutive week 
on the tally. The set climbs 29-27 with 16,000 units (up less than 1 percent). In total, Blurryface
 has earned 2.9 million 
units, with 1.5 million in traditional album sales. The set launched four hits on the Alternative Songs chart (all of which reached the 
top two) and scored two
 top 10s on the Billboard
 Hot 100 with “Stressed Out” (No. 2) and “Ride” (No. 5).

Blurryface was the act’s first No. 1 (and first top 10 effort), and launched atop the tally dated June 6, 2015. The album has never fallen out of the top 40 during its entire chart run, and has only gone as low as No. 36 (Dec. 12, 2015).

— Joey Feek, If Not For You - No. 50 — The late Joey Feek — of the husband and wife duo Joey + Rory — makes her solo Billboard chart debut, as her posthumous album If
 Not For You bows at No. 50 on the Billboard 200 and No. 6 on Top Country Albums. The archival set (its songs were recorded in 2005) earned 11,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 13. Of that sum, 10,000 were in traditional album sales, according to Nielsen Music. Feek died March 4, 2016 of cancer.

— Deep Purple, Infinite – No. 105 — The band nets its highest-charting set in 26 years, as Infinite bows at No. 105 (7,000 units, nearly all from album sales). The act last went higher with the No. 87-peaking Slaves and Masters in 1990.

— Yo-Yo Ma / Chris Thile / Edgar Meyer, Bach Trios – No. 141 — As Yo-Yo Ma debuts at No. 141 with his new collaborative effort Bach Trios (with Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer), the set also hits No. 1 on the Traditional Classical Albums chart. In doing so, Ma notches his record-extending 15th No. 1 on the list (with 5,000 copies sold).

— Michelle Branch, Hopeless Romantic - No. 143 — Michelle Branch is back on the Billboard 200 after a long absence as Hopeless Romantic bows at No. 143. The set, her debut for
 Verve and first full-length solo album since 2003’s Hotel Paper, launches with 5,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 13, according to Nielsen Music. Nearly all of that sum was traditional album sales.

Branch last appeared on the tally as a soloist with Hotel Paper, which spent 33 weeks on the list in 2003 and 2004, debuting and peaking at No. 2. As half of country duo The Wreckers (alongside Jessica Harp), the pair hit No. 14 in 2006 with Stand Still, Look Pretty. Four years later, Branch released the country EP Everything Comes and Goes, which missed the Billboard 200 but reached No. 35 on Top Country Albums.

— ABBA, Gold – Greatest Hits – No. 200 — ABBA best-of Gold - Greatest Hits bounces back onto the chart (No. 200) for the first time in nearly three years (May 17, 2014; No. 176). The sturdy-selling collection has sold 
5.7 million copies and is
 the 19th-biggest-selling greatest-hits album in the Nielsen Music era (which began in 1991). The top-selling hits package during that span is The Beatles’ 1, with 12.8 million sold.