BB 200 5/13: DAMN. #1 (238/87k), Incubus #4, Guardians #8

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Kendrick Lamar's 'DAMN.' Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200, Incubus & 'Guardians 2' Debut in Top 10

4/30/2017 by Keith Caulfield

Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. rules the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week, as the set earned 238,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 27, according to Nielsen Music. That’s a decline of 61 percent as compared to its debut frame a week earlier of 603,000 units.

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 May 13-dated chart (where DAMN. is No. 1 for a second frame) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, May 2.

DAMN.’s second week is driven by streams, as its SEA total is 136,000 units (down 40 percent). The set sold 87,000 in traditional album sales (down 75 percent) and earned 14,000 in TEA units (down 39 percent).

DAMN.’s second-week haul of 238,000 units is the fourth-largest week of 2017 for an album, following DAMN.’s debut frame (603,000 units) and the arrivals of Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) with 451,000 and Drake’s More Life with 505,000.

Speaking of those albums: More Life and ÷ both rise one rung to Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, on the new Billboard 200. More Life is down just 12 percent (to 77,000 units) while ÷ dips only 16 percent (to 55,000 units). The sets previously topped the Billboard 200 for three and two weeks, respectively.

Incubus collects its seventh top 10 album as its new release, 8, debuts at No. 4 with 52,000 units (49,000 in traditional album sales). The rock band last visited the top 10 with the EP Trust Fall (Side A) in 2015, which debuted and peaked at No 6. The group’s last full-length studio album was in 2011, when If Not Now, When? launched at No. 2 with 80,000 copies sold.

Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic rises 7-5 with 42,000 units (down 5 percent), The Chainsmokers’ Memories… Do Not Open slips 5-6 with 41,000 units (down 32 percent) and the Moana soundtrack descends 6-7 with 40,000 units (down 19 percent).

The Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 soundtrack beams in at No. 8 with 34,000 units (nearly all from traditional album sales). The various artists effort -- comprised almost entirely of tunes from the 1970s -- was released as a commercially available digital album on April 21. A physical CD release followed on April 28, and its sales will impact next week’s chart (dated May 20). The Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 film opens in the U.S. on May 5.

The first Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 soundtrack reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 2014, and became the first No. 1 soundtrack where the whole album was composed of previously-released songs. All of its tunes were released between the late 1960s and late '70s, and most were chart hits on the Billboard Hot 100.

The album finished 2014 as the year’s No. 5 biggest-selling album in the U.S., and the top-selling soundtrack, with 898,000 copies sold according to Nielsen Music that year. In total, the set has shifted 1.75 million copies through April 27.

Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, Future’s self-titled album moves 8-9 with 34,000 units (down 10 percent) and The Weeknd’s Starboy closes out the top 10, as it rises 14-10 with 33,000 units (up 10 percent).

[areyoureadytojump]

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Top 10 Country Album Sales: May 1, 2017
Posted By Matt Bjorke on Monday May 01, 2017

Place Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Brad Paisley Love and War 25,600 25,600
2 Keith Urban Ripcord 8,100 553,300
3 Chris Stapleton Traveller 7,200 1,907,600
4 Taylor Ray Holbrook Backroads - EP 5,500 5,500
5 Miranda Lambert The Weight Of These Wings 4,900 338,500
6 Joey Martin Feek If Not For You 4,300 21,500
7 Brett Young Brett Young 4,200 59,900
8 Reba McEntire Sing It Now: Songs of Faith... 4,100 163,200
9 Brantley Gilbert The Devil Don't Sleep 3,500 159,800
10 Kane Brown Kane Brown 3,100 141,300
11 Jason Aldean They Don't Know 2,900 371,000
12 Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots 2,900 381,800
13 Little Big Town The Breaker 2,800 99,500
14 Josh Turner Deep South 2,300 38,800
15 Jon Pardi California Sunrise 2,200 142,100

-- Jason Isbell Live From Welcome To 1979 (RSD 2017) 2,100 2,100
-- Trace Adkins Something's Going On 2,100 22,300
-- Maren Morris Hero 2,000 216,500
-- Alison Krauss Windy City 2,000 97,800
-- Luke Bryan Kill The Lights 2,000 1,139,600
-- Thomas Rhett Tangled Up 1,900 568,200
-- Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 1,600 275,900
-- Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood 1,600 523,700
-- Jimmy Fortune Sings The Classics 1,600 2,100
-- Brothers Osborne Pawn Shop 1,500 116,500
-- Joey+Rory Hymns 1,500 554,800
-- Charlie Worsham The Beginning Of Things 1,500 1,500
-- RaeLynn WildHorse 1,400 25,700
-- Garth Brooks Gunslinger 1,400 97,100
-- Dierks Bentley Black 1,400 256,300
-- Cole Swindell You Should Be Here 1,300 271,400
-- Angaleena Presley Wrangled 1,300 1,300
-- Justin Moore Kinda Don't Care 1,299 115,700
-- Jason Eady Jason Eady 1,100 1,100
-- Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth 1,000 202,100
-- Aaron Lewis Sinner 900 117,100
-- The Mavericks Brand New Day 900 8,100
-- Drake White Spark 800 45,700
-- Old Dominion Meat And Candy 700 192,200
-- Marty Stuart Way Out West 700 6,900
-- Chris Young I'm Comin' Over 600 269,900
-- Midland Midland EP 500 7,200
-- Rodney Crowell Close Ties 500 7,800
-- Dylan Scott Dylan Scott 500 28,400
-- Aaron Watson Vaquero 500 56,800
-- Lauren Alaina Road Less Travelled 500 23,300
-- Deryl Dodd Long Hard Road 400 400
-- Josh Thompson Change The Lost Record 400 400
-- Brandy Clark Live From Los Angeles (RSD) 400 400
-- The Cadillac Three Live At Abbey Road (RSD) 400 400
-- Margo Price Midwest Farmer's Daughter 400 50,800
-- William Michael Morgan Vinyl 300 26,700
-- Cody Johnson Gotta Be Me 300 43,300

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www.metalinsider.net/columns/metal-by-numbers/metal-by-numbers-53-whatever-tomorrow-brings-the-charts-will-be-there

Metal By Numbers 5/3: Whatever tomorrow brings, the charts will be there
Posted by Matt Brown on May 3, 2017

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

The last time the name Incubus popped up on the charts I neglected to include them because though they once played some semblance of alternative/funk metal, they’re a long ways away from that sound nowadays. But as they’ve been included in our New & Noteworthy column and even had a post about a new song, I felt obliged to tack them on. So they’re the top debut, naturally. There’s also a number of sales from Record Store Day with exclusive vinyls and such. Also, we finally got the proper chart numbers this week! Huzzah!

[imbondz]

The 2nd biggest country album sold 8,100 units. Ouch.

[ctquartzsongbird]

well Keith Urban's album is a year old so obviously his sales weekly are going to be low and it's had 5 top 10 hit singles on the country charts since prior to its release music doesn't sell like it used to

[rimetm]

Also worth noting that there weren't any high-profile releases this week for country aside from Paisley. Barring the live and EP stuff, the new LPs are from acts that don't have a major presence yet. That means that the legacy albums dominate the ranks with consistent if lower numbers.

[jenglisbe]

May 4, 2017 20:10:03 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

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Top 10 Country Album Sales: May 1, 2017
Posted By Matt Bjorke on Monday May 01, 2017

Place Artist Album Week Total Scans

3 Chris Stapleton Traveller 7,200 1,907,600

Hopefully the boost he should get around this new release will help get this one past 2 million total.

13 Little Big Town The Breaker 2,800 99,500

Yikes.

-- Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 1,600 275,900

For as much work as her label has done to get her hits, this total is pretty weak.

-- Garth Brooks Gunslinger 1,400 97,100

Haha!

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7784821/billboard-200-chart-moves-barry-manilow

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Barry Manilow Scores 26th Top 40 Album With 'This Is My Town'
5/4/2017 by Keith Caulfield

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

— Barry Manilow, This Is My Town: Songs of New York – No. 12 — Barry Manilow (above) achieves his 26th top 40-charting album on the Billboard 200, as This Is My Town: Songs of New York arrives at No. 12 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 27. Nearly all of that sum was driven by traditional album sales.

A significant number of the album’s sales were via QVC, which hosted the singer in a special on April 12. The QVC edition of the album came with four live bonus tracks.

Manilow has been on a Billboard 200 hot streak since 2002, when his greatest-hits collection Ultimate Manilow debuted and peaked at No. 3 (Feb. 23, 2002), becoming his highest-charting set (and first top 10) since 1979’s One Voice (No. 9).

Since 2002, Manilow has logged a dozen top 40 efforts (including Ultimate). Further, he has notched at least one top 40 album in each decade from the 1970s through the 2010s.

— Brad Paisley, Love and War - No. 13 — The country star claims his 13th charting effort, as his new studio LP bows at No. 13 with 29,000 units (26,000 in traditional album sales). It’s Paisley’s first non-holiday studio set to miss the top 10 since his second album, Part II, debuted and peaked at No. 31 in 2001. In total, he’s claimed nine top 10 sets (eight studio albums and one live recording).

— Sheryl Crow, Be Myself - No. 22 — Crow’s ninth studio album bows with 20,000 units (nearly all from traditional album sales). Crow’s last release, 2013’s Feels Like Home, launched at No. 7 with 36,000 in sales. All of Crow’s previous studio albums reached the top 10 – from Tuesday Night Music Club (peaking at No. 3 in 1995) to Feels Like Home. (She also clocked a top 10 effort with the greatest hits package The Very Best of Sheryl Crow in 2004.)

— Drake, Views – No. 27 — Drake’s Views spends a full year on the chart as it moves 20-27 in its 52nd week on the tally. The album (4.77 million units earned; 1.68 million albums sold) has yet to leave the top 30.

— Ray Davies, Americana - No. 79 — Ray Davies scores his highest-charting solo album with Americana’s bow at No. 79. The effort is his first solo set since 2008. He previously reached the list with Working Man’s Café (No. 140, 2008) and Other People’s Lives (No. 122, 2006). Fittingly, Americana also debuts at No. 3 on the Americana/Folk Albums chart.

Davies’ former band The Kinks of course clocked a bevy of albums on the Billboard 200. The act earned 33 charting sets between 1964 and 1993, including one top 10: 1966’s The Kinks Greatest Hits (No. 9).

[onebuffalo]

May 5, 2017 11:12:37 GMT -5 ctquartzsongbird said:

well Keith Urban's album is a year old so obviously his sales weekly are going to be low and it's had 5 top 10 hit singles on the country charts since prior to its release music doesn't sell like it used to

It's just been certified platinum when actual sales were around 500,000.

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May 6, 2017 13:23:05 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

May 5, 2017 11:12:37 GMT -5 ctquartzsongbird said:

well Keith Urban's album is a year old so obviously his sales weekly are going to be low and it's had 5 top 10 hit singles on the country charts since prior to its release music doesn't sell like it used to

It's just been certified platinum when actual sales were around 500,000.

You mean a country album actually managed to get 500k sps in streams? :O

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

May 6, 2017 17:47:58 GMT -5 @zach808 said:

May 6, 2017 13:23:05 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

It's just been certified platinum when actual sales were around 500,000.

You mean a country album actually managed to get 500k sps in streams? :O

Not really. most of it was probably songs sales. I mean SPS does mean sales plus streaming and sales is album sales plus track equivalent album sales. Ripcord did manage to have one and two songs in the 2015 and 2016 Country Digital Songs Year-Ends while it had no songs make it in the corresponding Country Streaming Songs Year-Ends.

[onebuffalo]

May 6, 2017 17:47:58 GMT -5 @zach808 said:

May 6, 2017 13:23:05 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

It's just been certified platinum when actual sales were around 500,000.

You mean a country album actually managed to get 500k sps in streams? :O

I was just thinking (oh, no). I don't think Ripcord got a gold certification. Do albums have to be certified gold before they become platinum?

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^In the case of Ripcord, it actually got both gold and platinum certifications on the same date. Usually, it's the artist's label which requests the certification. It probably didn't bother when it would have been eligible to become gold and held off until a platinum was within reach.

[areyoureadytojump]

The updated RIAA requirements really benefit rap albums:

I DECIDED - Big Sean ( 130,000 ) - certified Gold

FUTURE - Future ( 109,000 ) - certified Gold

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Not to mention that More Life could be certified Platinum any day now with just over 315k to date in pure sales. Although, it is more ridiculous in the singles certifications, where songs that didn't really chart that well in the Hot 100 are getting gold and platinum certification with easy, mostly due to streaming.