Billboard 200: 5/20/17: Kendrick #1 (173k/57k). Gorillaz #2

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Billboard 200: #1 @kendricklamar, DAMN. 173,000 (57,000 in sales | 497,000 total sales).

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Billboard 200: #2(new) @gorillaz, Humanz 140,000 (115,000 in pure sales).

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Billboard 200: #3(new) @maryjblige, Strength of a Woman 78,000 (72,000 in pure sales).

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Kendrick Lamar Continues Billboard 200 Domination With "DAMN." Album
May 8, 2017 | 8:31 AM
by Victoria Hernandez

The year is shaping up to be a big one for Hip Hop. After Drake’s More Life made its splash, Kendrick Lamar stormed onto the scene with DAMN. The Compton MC continues his reign at the top of the Billboard 200 for another week, while Gorillaz’ Humanz and Mary J. Blige’s Strength of a Woman make their debuts, giving Drake’s playlist its lowest position yet. Wale’s Shine also has its first week on the chart.

King Kendrick Lamar Sits At #1 For 3rd Straight Week

After performing his DAMN. album for only the second time since its release at Rolling Loud, Kendrick Lamar celebrates his third week at the top of the Billboard 200. The LP pushed 173,137 equivalent album units, a 28 percent drop from last week, but still enough to keep him at #1.

Gorillaz’s “Humanz” Ties Best Billboard 200 Placement

Coming in at #2, Gorillaz makes a statement with its Humanz album. The project earned 139,548 total units in its first week and did 115,063 in pure album sales, a feat for any project these days. This ties the group’s highest Billboard 200 placement, as 2010’s Plastic Beach reached the same position.

Mary J. Blige Stands Tall With “Strength of a Woman”

After a three-year hiatus, Mary J. Blige released her Strength of a Woman album, which debuts at #3. The project sold 77,863 equivalent album units, was purchased by 72,095 fans and was streamed more than 6 million times. The iconic singer’s last project, 2014’s The London Sessions, debuted at #9, but Blige has a resume that boasts four #1 albums and three #2 placements.

Wale’s “Shine” Debuts At #16

Wale’s Shine album sold 28,409 units to put him in the #16 slot in its first sales cycle. It was streamed 21.7 million times and earned 12,156 pure album units. His last project, 2015’s The Album About Nothing, topped the Billboard 200 upon its release.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 05/04/2017

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 Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. – 173,137 (56,557) [156,909,707]

#2 Gorillaz — Humanz — 139,548 (115,063) [31,926,483]

#3 Mary J. Blige — Strength of a Woman — 77,863 (72,095) [6,131,800]

#4 Drake – More Life – 68,308 (4,837) [87,086,351]

#7 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 41,081 (15,698) [24,526,457]

#13 Migos — Culture — 30,333 (2,581) [37,100,576]

#15 Future — FUTURE — 29,401 (1,484) [36,913,300]

#16 Wale — Shine — 28,409 (12,156) [21,761,016]

#17 The Weeknd — Starboy — 28,402 (6,492) [26,914,577]

#18 Post Malone — Stoney — 25,723 (1,722) [30,274,143]

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Retailer Report: Top 200 Albums Page 1 of 4
Region: Total U.S. Week Ending: 05/04/17

GORILLAZ|HUMANZ ( 1) 115.0k
BLIGE*MARY J.|STRENGTH OF A WO( 2) 72.0k
LAMAR*KENDRICK|DAMN. ( 3) 56.5k
VARIOUS ARTISTS|VOL. 2 GUARDIA( 4) 39.4k
MELLENCAMP*JOHN|SAD CLOWNS & H( 5) 35.0k
NELSON*WILLIE|GOD'S PROBLEM CH( 6) 34.3k
MOANA / O.S.T.|MOANA / O.S.T. ( 7) 18.4k
SHEERAN*ED|DIVIDE ( 8) 17.2k
MARS*BRUNO|24K MAGIC ( 9) 15.6k
MICHELE*LEA|PLACES ( 10) 14.8k

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May 8, 2017 12:14:16 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

#4 Drake – More Life – (4,837)

Jesus!

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Kendrick Lamar's 'DAMN.' No. 1 for Third Week on Billboard 200, Gorillaz Bow at No. 2
5/8/2017 by Keith Caulfield

Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. holds steady atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for a third week, as the set earned 173,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 4 (down 28 percent), according to Nielsen Music.

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 20-dated chart (where DAMN. is No. 1 for a third week) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, May 9.

Of DAMN.’s units for the week, 57,000 were in traditional album sales (down 37 percent). The rest were in TEA (12,000; down 16 percent) and SEA (105,000; down 23 percent).

DAMN. has spent more weeks at No. 1 than any of Lamar’s previous leaders. He spent one week at the top with Untitled Unmastered in 2016, and two weeks at No. 1 with To Pimp a Butterfly in 2015.

At a career-best-tying No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Gorillaz debut with Humanz, starting with 140,000 units (115,000 in traditional album sales). That’s the best sales week yet for the animated band, which had previously seen a one-week sales high of 112,000 when Plastic Beach launched at No. 2 in 2010. Humanz is Gorillaz’s third top 10 effort, following Plastic Beach and the No. 6-peaking Demon Days in 2005.

Mary J. Blige returns to the Billboard 200 with Strength of a Woman, which debuts at No. 3 with 78,000 units (72,000 in traditional album sales). The set gives the queen of hip-hop/soul her highest charting album in more than seven years – since Stronger With Each Tear debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Jan. 9, 2010-dated list. The new album also grants Blige her best sales week since 2011, when My Life II… The Journey Continues (Act 1) bowed with 156,000 sold in its first week.

All told, Blige has now accumulated 20 entries on the Billboard 200 chart, stretching back to her debut effort nearly 25 years ago, What’s the 411?, which bowed on the Aug. 15, 1992-dated tally at No. 59. It would later peak at No. 6 – her first of 14 top 10 albums.

Drake’s More Life slips from No. 2 to No. 4 on the new Billboard 200, with 68,000 units (down 11 percent) while Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) dips from No. 3 to No. 5 with 50,000 units (down 10 percent). The sets led the Billboard 200 for three and two weeks, respectively.

The latest edition of the various artists compilation series Epic AF starts at No. 6 with 48,000 units, powered by SEA (29,000 units) and TEA (20,000). The album is available for purchase through digital retailers, but sold a negligible figure during the tracking week. The set’s 11-song tracklist is led by DJ Khaled’s red-hot single “I’m the One,” featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne. As Epic AF is the only album currently available with “I’m the One,” the set earns the song’s TEA and SEA generated during the tracking week. The newest permutation of Epic AF is the second in the series to reach the top 10, following the No. 5 peaking first edition (also named Epic AF) on the Aug. 13, 2016-dated list.

Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic falls 5-7 with 41,000 units (down 2 percent) while the Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 soundtrack is steady at No. 8 with 40,000 units (up 15 percent). The latter album was released on CD on April 28, following its digital-only debut a week earlier. The album could see a significant jump up the tally on next week’s chart (dated May 27, reflecting the tracking week ending May 11), following the film’s North American theatrical premiere on May 5.

The Chainsmokers’ Memories…Do Not Open slips 6-9 with 36,000 units (down 12 percent).

Rounding out the top 10 is Willie Nelson, who bows at No. 10 with God’s Problem Child (36,000 units; 34,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the music legend’s sixth top 10 effort – four of which have occurred since 2013. He has visited the top 10 previously with Django and Jimmie (No. 7 in 2015, with Merle Haggard), Band of Brothers (No. 5; 2014), To All the Girls… (No. 9; 2013), Always On My Mind (No. 2; 1982) and Wanted! The Outlaws (No. 10 in 1976, with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser).

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So, for a summary:

01 - 01 - 173,000 - 57,000 - DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar (3 Week #1)
02 - NE - 140,000 - 115,000 - Humanz - Gorillaz (#2)
03 - NE - 78,000 - 72,000 - Strength of a Woman - Mary J. Blige (#3)
04 - 02 - 68,000 - 5,000 - More Life - Drake (3 Week #1)
05 - 03 - 50,000 - 17,000 - Divide - Ed Sheeran (2 Week #1)
06 - NE - 48,000 - -nil- - Epic AF (April 2017 Edition) - Various Artists (#6)
07 - 05 - 41,000 - 16,000 - 24K Magic - Bruno Mars (#2)
08 - 08 - 40,000 - 39,000 - Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 - Various Artists (#8)
09 - 06 - 36,000 - 9,000 - Memories...Do Not Open - The Chainsmokers (#1)
10 - NE - 36,000 - 34,000 - God's Problem Child - Willie Nelson (#10)

Wow, John Mellencamp *barely* missed the top 10.

[Enigma.]

Interesting that Chainsmokers are selling more albums than Drake

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Yay to Willie making the top 10!

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May 9, 2017 3:27:40 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Interesting that Chainsmokers are selling more albums than Drake

Memories ... Do Not Open is at #21 at Top Album Sales while More Life is at #43.

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Chart Watch: 'I'm the One' Debuts at No. 1
by Paul Grein
Yahoo Music
May 8, 2017

Top Albums

Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. tops The Billboard 200 for the third straight week. It’s the second rap album of 2017 (following Drake’s More Life) to spend its first three weeks at No. 1. DAMN. surpasses Lamar’s previous studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly, which spent its first two weeks on top in March 2015.

Gorillaz lands its third top 10 album as Humanz debuts at No. 2. This is the virtual group’s second album to reach No. 2. 2010’s Plastic Beach also stalled in the runner-up spot. Humanz sold more copies than any other album this week in traditional album sales, but DAMN. came out ahead when digital track sales and streaming were factored in.

Mary J. Blige lands her 14th top 10 album as Strength of a Woman debuts at No. 3. Only one African American woman has amassed more top 10 albums or EPs over the course of her career. That’s Mariah Carey, who leads the pack with 17. Trailing Carey and Blige are Diana Ross, with 12 (counting eight with the Supremes), Beyoncé, with 11 (counting four with Destiny’s Child) and Janet Jackson, with 10.

Blige is marking 25 years as a hit recording artist. She first cracked the top 10 in September 1992 with her debut album, What’s the 411? All 13 of her studio albums have made the top 10.

Drake’s More Life drops from No. 2 to No. 4 in its seventh week. It spent its first three weeks on top.

Ed Sheeran’s ÷ drops from No. 3 to No. 5 in its ninth week. It spent its first two weeks at No. 1. The album logs its ninth week at No. 1 on The Official U.K. Albums Chart. This surpasses Sheeran’s previous album, x, which spent its first eight weeks at No. 1 in the U.K. before being dislodged. (x subsequently returned for five additional weeks at No. 1.)

The compilation Epic AF debuts at No. 6.

Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic drops from No. 5 to No. 7 in its 24th week. The album has never ranked lower than No. 7. It logged four weeks at No. 2.

Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Vol. 2 holds at No. 8 in its second week. The album moves up to No. 1 on the Top Soundtracks chart, displacing Moana. The soundtrack to first movie in this franchise was the top soundtrack to a theatrically released film for 33 weeks from 2014-16. The new movie was No. 1 at the box-office over the weekend, displacing The Fate of the Furious.

The Chainsmokers’ Memories…Do Not Open drops from No. 6 to No. 9 in its fourth week. The album debuted at No. 1.

Willie Nelson lands his sixth top 10 album as God’s Problem Child debuts at No. 10. Nelson first cracked the top 10 in April 1976 with Wanted: The Outlaws, a collabo with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser. God’s Problem Child enters Top Country Albums at No. 1, displacing Brad Paisley’s Love and War. It’s Nelson’s 17th No. 1 country album. He first topped the country chart in October 1975 with Red Headed Stranger.

Note: I’m counting Wanted! The Outlaws in Nelson’s tallies of top 10 albums on The Billboard 200 and No. 1 albums on the country chart. All four artists on the album were identified by name and with their images on the album cover.

Nelson, 84, is not the oldest artist to land a top 10 album on The Billboard 200. That title is held by Tony Bennett, who was 88 in 2014 when he made the top 10 with Cheek to Cheek, a collabo with Lady Gaga. Both artists have received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Recording Academy. Nelson was honored in 2000. Bennett got his award one year later.

Four albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Incubus’s 8 plummets from No. 4 to No. 127. The Moana soundtrack drops from No. 7 to No. 12. Future’s FUTURE drops from No. 9 to No. 15. The Weeknd’s Starboy drops from No. 10 to No. 17.

John Mellencamp featuring Carlene Carter’s Sad Clowns and Hillbillies debuts at No. 11. It’s Mellencamp’s 16th top 20 album; Carter’s first. Mellencamp still went by the name John Cougar in June 1982 when he landed his first top 20 album, American Fool.

Wale lands his fifth top 20 album as Shine debuts at No. 16. That’s a come-down from his last three albums, all of which reached the top two.

Kendrick Lamar’s 2013 breakthrough album good kid, m.A.A.d. city drops from No. 35 to No. 44 in its 236th week. The album is No. 1 on Top Catalog Albums for the fifth non-consecutive week.

Coming Attractions: Look for Logic’s Everybody and Chris Stapleton’s From a Room: Volume 1 to debut in the top two spots next week (in that order).

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Billboard 200 Chart Moves: John Mellencamp Earns 19th Top 40 Album With 'Sad Clowns & Hillbillies'
By Keith Caulfield | May 11, 2017

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

— John Mellencamp featuring Carlene Carter, Sad Clowns & Hillbillies – No. 11 — John Mellencamp notches his 19th top 40-charting album on the Billboard 200 with the arrival of Sad Clowns & Hillbillies. The set, which features Carlene Carter, bows with 35,000 equivalent album units earned (of which nearly all were in traditional album sales). That sum of 35,000 copies sold is Mellencamp’s biggest sales week for any album since 2008, when Life Death Love and Freedom bowed with 56,000 sold.

Mellencamp clocked his first top 40 album almost exactly 36 years ago, when Nothin’ Matters and What If It Did reached the region on the list dated May 16, 1981. (That week, the album rose 41-39. It peaked at No. 37 a week later.)

Mellencamp made his Billboard 200 debut with the John Cougar album on Aug. 18, 1979. The set bowed at No. 185 and eventually peaked at No. 64 on Jan. 5, 1980. In total, Mellencamp has visited the top 10 a total of 10 times, and topped the list with his 1982 effort American Fool.

— Lea Michele, Places - No. 28 — The singer/actress claims her second chart hit, as her sophomore album Places bows at No. 28 with 16,000 units (15,000 in traditional album sales). The former Glee star saw her first effort, Louder, debut and peak at No. 4 back in 2014 (launching with 60,000 sold).

— Grateful Dead, Dave’s Picks Volume 22: Felt Forum – New York, NY, 12/7/71 - No. 34 — The latest archival release from the band is the 80th charting album for the group, stretching back to its 1967 self-titled album. In the past 50 years, Grateful Dead has the second-most chart hits, behind only Elvis Presley (with 103 since May of 1967).

— New Found Glory, Makes Me Sick – No. 40 — The rock band brings its total of chart entries to an even dozen, as Makes Me Sick starts at No. 40 with 14,000 units (13,000 in traditional album sales). The act last charted in 2014 with Resurrection, which debuted and peaked at No. 25 with 14,000 sold.

— Trombone Shorty, Parking Lot Symphony - No. 148 — The musician not only nabs his third entry on the Billboard 200 with Parking Lot Symphony, but also scores his fourth straight No. 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. The set debuts atop the latter list with 5,000 sold. He previously hit No. 1 with Say That To Say This (No. 1 for six weeks, 2013), For True (No. 1 for 12 weeks, 2011 and 2012) and Backatown (No. 1 for 10 weeks, 2010 and 2011).

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Metal By Numbers 5/11: Madness remains on the charts
Posted by Matt Brown on May 11, 2017

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

This week’s list of debuts is even bigger than the last. While last week contained many Records Store Day numbers, this week is everything from returning veterans to live albums (no really, like four live albums). By now, you’ve probably heard that All That Remains’ new album, Madness, marks the band’s lowest debut since 2004’s This Darkened Heart. Despite that fact, they’re still the top metal debut for the week. Also, we’re operating with limited chart information again, but here’s the silver lining: Ghost fans, if you’re still wondering about their sales, their EP from last year, Popestar, has sold over 51,000 copies so far...