Billboard 200 5/27/17 - Logic #1

[Gary]

Logic Scores His First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Everybody'

By Keith Caulfield | May 15, 2017 10:35 AM EDT
Logic photographed on April 21, 2017 in Los Angeles.


Rapper Logic notches his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as Everybody bows atop the list. The set, which was released on May 5 through Visionary/Def Jam Recordings, earned 247,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 11, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 196,000 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 May 27-dated chart (where Everybody launches at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, May 16.

Everybody is Logic’s third top 10 album, and fourth entry overall on the list. It follows Bobby Tarantino (No. 12 in 2016), The Incredible True Story (No. 3, 2015) and Under Pressure (No. 4, 2014). Everybody also grants Logic his best sales week ever, surpassing his previous high of 118,000 sold by The Incredible True Story in its first week. Through the week ending May 4, his combined pre-Everybody albums had sold 614,000 copies and generated 1.2 billion on-demand audio streams for their songs.


Everybody launches with a robust 196,000 in album sales, but also 4,000 in TEA and 47,000 in SEA. The latter figure translates to 70.2 million on-demand audio streams for the songs on the album (1,500 streams equals one SEA unit).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Chris Stapleton scores his best sales week yet, as his second solo studio effort, From A Room: Volume 1, debuts with 219,000 units (and 202,000 in traditional album sales). His previous biggest sales frame was logged when his first album, Traveller, re-entered the chart at No. 1 with 153,000 sold following his big night at the 2015 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards.

From A Room: Volume 1, released through Mercury Nashville Records, also starts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart, which ranks the best-selling albums of the week. (Everybody is No. 2 on that list.) Stapleton’s sales start is the largest sales week for a country album in more than a year-and-a-half. The last country set to sell more in a week was Luke Bryan’s Kill the Lights, which sold 320,000 copies in its first week (chart dated Aug. 29, 2015, reflecting the sales week ending Aug 13, 2015).


Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. (on Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope Records) falls from No. 1 to No. 3 (134,000 units; down 22 percent) on the new Billboard 200, after three weeks atop the list. The Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 soundtrack (Marvel/Hollywood Records) hits a new high, rising 8-4 (87,000 units – nearly all from album sales; up 120 percent). The surge comes following the movie’s bow in U.S. theaters on May 5.

Drake’s More Life (Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records) rounds out the top five, slipping one rung to No. 5 with 62,000 units (down 10 percent).

Universal Music Group has a clean sweep of the top five albums on the Billboard 200, the first time any music company as monopolized the top five since Universal did it on the Nov. 28, 2015-dated list. That week, Stapleton was No. 1 with Traveller (on Mercury Nashville Records), while Nos. 2-5 were Eric Church’s Mr. Misunderstood (EMI Nashville), Ellie Goulding’s Delirium (Cherrytree/Interscope Records), The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness (Republic Records) and Tim McGraw’s Damn Country Music (McGraw/Big Machine Records).


Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) descends one position to No. 6 with 50,000 units (up less than 1 percent).

Rapper Russ sees his debut album There’s Really a Wolf open at No. 7 with 49,000 units (24,000 in traditional album sales). Streams played a significant role in the set’s opening frame, as SEA units account for nearly 23,000 units of its total debut sum. (TEA units are a little more than 2,000.)

Closing out the top 10 are Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic (7-8 with 42,000 units; up 1 percent), Gorillaz’s Humanz (2-9 in its second week with 40,000 units; down 71 percent) and the Epic AF compilation (6-10 with 37,000 units; down 23 percent).

[Gary]

1. Logic 247,000
2. Chris Stapleton 219,000
3. Kendrick Lamar 134,000
4. Guardians of the Galaxy 87,000
5. Drake 62,000
6. Ed Sheeram 50,000
7. Russ 49,000
8. Bruno 42,000
9. Gorillaz 40,000
10. Epic AF 37,000

[Enigma.]

Fantastic second week for Gorillaz, never thought they'd stay in top ten

[Ivy Leegue™]

So proud of Logic. Love him and his album.

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Link to the article:

www.billboard.com/biz/articles/7793131/logic-scores-his-first-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-everybody

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Kendrick Lamar's DAMN passes the 500k sold mark.

and...

Retailer Report: Top 200 Albums Page 1 of 4
Region: Total U.S. Week Ending: 05/11/17

STAPLETON*CHRIS|FROM A ROOM: V( 1) 202.1k
LOGIC|EVERYBODY ( 2) 195.9k
VARIOUS ARTISTS|VOL. 2 GUARDIANS( 3) 86.6k
LAMAR*KENDRICK|DAMN. ( 4) 38.0k
VARIOUS ARTISTS|NOW 62 ( 5) 34.7k
GORILLAZ|HUMANZ ( 6) 30.7k
KRALL*DIANA|TURN UP THE QUIET ( 7) 27.7k
SOUNDTRACK|GUARDIANS OF THE GA( 8) 26.1k
RUSS|THERE'S REALLY A WOLF ( 9) 23.7k
GRATEFUL DEAD|CORNELL 5/8/77 ( 10) 19.4k

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Hip Hop Album Sales: Logic's "Everybody" Debuts At #1 On Billboard 200
by Kyle Eustice, May 15, 2017 | 12:30 PM

Logic is presumably on cloud nine after learning his third official studio album, Everybody, has just hit the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the week ending May 11. His rabid fanbase has clearly come out in droves to support their favorite rapper’s latest endeavor and now the Maryland native has the sales to back it up. Kendrick Lamar’s critically acclaimed fourth studio album, DAMN., has stayed consistent and is holding steady in the third spot while Brother Ali’s All The Beauty In This Whole Life and Russ’ debut There’s Really A Wolf make their entrances.

Logic Earns First #1 Of His Career

Logic’s Everybody marks the biracial rapper’s first #1 album of his career. The album sold 247,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 11 and 196,000 of those were traditional album sales, according to Nielsen Music. All three of Logic’s studio albums have cracked the Top 10 — The Incredible True Story hit #3 in 2015 and Under Pressure hit #4 in 2014. Logic’s Bobby Tarantino mixtape peaked at #12 in 2016. Everybody also marks his best sales week ever, surpassing his previous first-week high of 135,000 album-equivalent units sold by The Incredible True Story.

Kendrick Lamar Still Holds The Bronze

After blowing the chart out of the water last month and debuting at #1, Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. takes a 22 percent dive and lands in the third spot. Coupled with his fans’ steady support, powerful singles such as “HUMBLE.” and “DNA.” have kept the album afloat. Song from the project were streamed 128,571,339 times in the past week and the album has already been certified platinum.

Russ Debuts In The Top 10

Russ’s inaugural solo studio album, There’s Really A Wolf, debuts at #7 after selling 23,745 copies and collecting 34 million streams in its first week. The 24-year-old rapper’s “Losin Control” single is currently at #68 and rising after 10 weeks on the Hot 100 chart.

Brother Ali Celebrates The Beauty Of Making The List

Brother Ali’s new album, All The Beauty in This Whole Life, his first since 2012’s Mourning In America and Dreaming In Color, debuts at #125. The Rhymesayers Entertainment staple has been relatively quiet over the past five years and his entrance onto the chart seems to allude that he was missed. The album sold 5,673 units and was streamed 865,519 times in its first week.

Wale Loses His Luster

Wale’s Shine album saw a 55 percent decline since its debut and is now sitting at #45 in its second week. The D.C. native’s fifth studio album, however, still managed to collect 13,195,954 streams.

Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 5/11/2017

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.

Logic — Everybody — #1 — 247,240 (195,993) [70,212,752]
Kendrick Lamar — DAMN. — #3 — 134,236 (38,065) [128,571,339]
Drake — More Life — #5 — 61,643 (3,862) [79,495,651]
Russ — There Really Is A Wolf — #7 — 48,944 (23,745) [34,147,823]
Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — #8 — 41,566 (16,278) [24,136,700]
Gorillaz — Humanz — #9 — 40,470 (30,788) [13,236,524]
Migos — Culture — #13 — 32,257 (2,419) [40,076,590]
Post Malone — Stoney — #15 — 30,456 (2,280) [35,424,398]
Future — Future — #17 — 29,112 (1,606) [35,800,299]
The Weeknd — Starboy — #19 — 26,714 (6,676) [25,830,085]

[mkarns]

Fun fact about this week's #1 album artist I just learned: Logic grew up in a neighbourhood just a short distance (about a mile or so) from where I live now. And further down the chart, Wale partially grew up (went to high school) in a different part of the same town.

[Enigma.]

Brad Paisley's Love and War: 13-42-136 :o

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Top 10 Country Albums Chart: May 15, 2017
Posted By Matt Bjorke

Chris Stapleton opens with the best week in country music in 2017 with highly-anticipated new record. See where four other new artists debut this week, Including Colt Ford!

Place Artist Album Week Total Scans

1 Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 1 202,200 202,200
2 Chris Stapleton Traveller 15,100 1,930,500
3 Willie Nelson God's Problem Child 9,800 44,300
4 Colt Ford Love Hope Faith 9,600 9,600
5 Keith Urban Ripcord 7,400 570,000
6 Brad Paisley Love and War 4,600 40,200
7 Brett Young Brett Young 4,400 68,400
8 Upchurch Son Of The South 4,100 4,100
9 Miranda Lambert The Weight Of These Wings 4,000 347,000
10 Ryan Upchurch Summer Love - EP 3,700 3,700
11 Reba McEntire Sing It Now: Songs of Faith... 3,600 180,400
12 Joey Martin Feek If Not For You 3,200 28,600
13 Maren Morris Hero 3,200 221,600
14 Little Big Town The Breaker 3,100 108,000
15 Brantley Gilbert The Devil Don't Sleep 2,800 165,800

-- Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots 2,500 386,900
-- Jason Aldean They Don't Know 2,500 376,000
-- Old Crow Medicine Show 50 Years of Blonde On Blonde 2,400 9,000
-- Kane Brown Kane Brown 2,000 146,200
-- Jon Pardi California Sunrise 2,000 146,200
-- Kelsea Ballerini The First Time 2,000 280,100
-- Blake Shelton If I'm Honest 1,900 596,700
-- Eric Church Mr. Misunderstood 1,900 527,300
-- Luke Bryan Kill The Lights 1,900 1,143,400
-- Brothers Osborne Pawn Shop 1,800 119,800
-- Garth Brooks Gunslinger 1,700 100,400
-- Josh Turner Deep South 1,600 42,300
-- Joey+Rory Hymns 1,600 557,700
-- Tony Jackson Tony Jackson 1,400 1,400
-- Trace Adkins Something's Going On 1,400 25,400
-- Dierks Bentley Black 1,200 214,100
-- RaeLynn WildHorse 1,100 28,100
-- Cole Swindell You Should Be Here 1,100 273,700
-- Drake White Spark 900 47,500
-- Cody Jinks I'm Not The Devil 700 51,500
-- Lillie Mae Forever And Then Some 600 2,100
-- Midland Midland EP 600 8,300
-- The Mavericks Brand New Day 600 9,700
-- Old Crow Medicine Show Best of 600 6,500
-- Chris Young I'm Comin' Over 500 271,000
-- Dylan Scott Dylan Scott 500 29,400
-- Lauren Alaina Road Less Travelled 500 24,100
-- William Michael Morgan Vinyl 300 27,400
-- Dolly Parton Pure & Simple 300 117,300
-- Angaleena Presley Wrangled 300 2,000
-- Jericho Woods Jericho Woods EP 300 300
-- Cody Johnson Gotta Be Me 300 43,900

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Billboard 200 Chart Moves: 'Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1' Becomes Only Second Soundtrack to Sell a Million Digital Albums
By Keith Caulfield | May 19, 2017

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

— Diana Krall, Turn Up the Quiet - No. 18 — Krall’s latest album starts at No. 18 on the Billboard 200 and also debuts at No. 1 on the Traditional Jazz Albums chart (with 28,000 copies sold). On the latter list it is her 12th leader, which extends her record as the woman with the most No. 1s in the history of the chart.

— Soundtrack, Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 - No. 20 — As Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 jumps 8-4 on the Billboard 200 — in the wake of the film’s opening in U.S. theaters on May 5 — its predecessor soundtrack, Awesome Mix Vol. 1, becomes just the second soundtrack to sell 1 million digital albums in the U.S.

Awesome Mix Vol. 1 topped the Billboard 200 in 2014, and has sold 1.8 million copies. Further, with an additional 15,000 digital albums sold in the latest tracking week, its total download sales rise to 1.001 million. It’s just the second soundtrack to sell 1 million digital albums and the 24th million-selling digital set overall. The only other soundtrack to sell a million downloads is Frozen, with 1.6 million digital copies sold, out of a total 4.2 million. (Both soundtracks come from the Disney Music Group: Frozen was released through the company's Walt Disney Records, while Awesome Mix Vol. 1 was issued via Marvel/Hollywood Records.)

On the latest Billboard 200, Awesome Mix Vol. 1 vaults 61-20 with 26,000 units (all from traditional album sales).

— Mac DeMarco, This Old Dog – No. 29 — Mac DeMarco nets his third top 40-charting effort with the No. 29 bow of This Old Dog. It earned 20,000 equivalent album units, of which 15,000 were in traditional album sales — his best sales week yet. Further, Dog’s vinyl LP sold 7,000 copies (48 percent of its total first week sales). The LP was available in four colors, including “ombre” (customers got a randomly assigned color on the yellow/blue/green spectrum). This Old Dog also bows at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart.

— Various Artists, Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of The Story – No. 30 — The all-star charity album Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of The Story bows at No. 30 with 19,000 equivalent album units. The set covers Brandi Carlile’s 2007 album The Story in full, and was shepherded by Carlile herself. The collection includes Adele, Pearl Jam, Dolly Parton and the Indigo Girls, among others. All proceeds from the album benefit War Child U.K.

The first The Story album peaked at No. 41 on the April 28, 2007-dated chart and is Carlile’s best-selling album. It has sold 453,000 copies in the U.S.

— Blondie, Pollinator - No. 63 — Blondie bounces back to the Billboard 200 with its highest charting album and best sales week in 18 years, as Pollinator buzzes in at No. 63. The set launches with 10,000 equivalent album units, and nearly that entire sum comprises traditional album sales.

The band last appeared in a higher position on the chart in 1999, when No Exit debuted and peaked at No. 18. The album also racked up its first 11 weeks with sales north of 10,000 (debuting with 61,000). No Exit was Blondie’s first new studio album in nearly 17 years, and was ushered in with plenty of fanfare and a radio hit in the single “Maria” (No. 14 on Adult Top 40). Pollinator, on the other hand, is the band’s first album in just three years. The new title does have an airplay chart hit, however, though on a smaller scale: “Long Time” has peaked at No. 22 on the Triple A chart.

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May 16, 2017 7:52:32 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Brad Paisley's Love and War: 13-42-136 :o

He should have released the album when Today was charting. Did you notice his duet with Demi Lovato, Without A Fight is absent from the CD?