Billboard 200 6/3 - Harry Styles #1

[Gary]

Harry Styles Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

5/21/2017 by Keith Caulfield


Harry Styles bows at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with his self-titled debut effort, launching with 230,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 18, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 193,000 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 June 3, 2017-dated chart (where Styles enters at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, May 23.

With Styles’ start of 193,000 he earns the biggest debut sales week for a U.K. male artist’s first full-length album since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. He surpasses the previous record holder, Sam Smith, who saw his In the Lonely Hour album launch with 166,000 copies sold at No. 2 back in 2014.

In addition, Styles is just the second U.K. male artist to bow at No. 1 with a debut album in the 61-year history of the Billboard 200. He follows his former One Direction bandmate, Zayn, who entered at No. 1 with Mind of Mine on the chart dated April 16, 2016 (with 157,000 units and 112,000 in traditional album sales).

With One Direction having spawned No. 1 solo albums for both Styles and Zayn, the group earns the rare distinction of having more than one member achieve a solo No. 1. The group joins a club that includes Destiny’s Child, which saw both Beyoncé and LeToya Luckett claim No. 1s, while The Beatles launched chart-toppers from George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. (The super group Blind Faith also saw its members Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood earn solo No. 1s, years after the release of the group’s only album, in 1969. Clapton first led the list in 1974, and Winwood in 1988.)

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Zac Brown Band debuts with its latest effort, Welcome Home. It enters with 146,000 units, of which 139,000 were in traditional album sales. The group’s last studio effort, 2015’s Jekyll + Hyde, bowed at No. 1 with 228,000 units and 214,000 copies sold. In total, Zac Brown Band has achieved five top 10 albums: Welcome Home, Jekyll + Hyde, Uncaged (No. 1 in 2012), You Get What You Give (No. 1 in 2010) and The Foundation (No. 9, 2010).

Kendrick Lamar’s former No. 1 DAMN. stays steady at No. 3 with 117,000 units (down 13 percent), while Chris Stapleton’s From A Room: Volume 1 dips from No. 2 to No. 4 in its second week with 75,000 units (down 66 percent). The Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 soundtrack falls one slot to No. 5 with 69,000 units (down 21 percent).

Paramore scores its third top 10 album, as its new studio effort After Laughter starts at No. 6 with 67,000 units (53,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the act’s first studio release since its 2013 self-titled set, which bowed at No. 1 with 106,000 copies sold in its first week. The band previously logged a top 10 with its 2009 album Brand New Eyes (debuting and peaking at No. 2).


Drake’s More Life descends 5-7 with 58,000 units (down 7 percent) in its ninth week on the chart. The former chart-topper spent three weeks leading the list.

Machine Gun Kelly nets his third top 10 effort, as Bloom bows at No. 8 with 57,000 units (and 38,000 in traditional album sales). The rapper previously visited the top 10 with General Admission (No. 4 in 2015) and Lace Up (No. 4, 2012).

Rounding out the new top 10 are Ed Sheeran’s former two-week No. 1 ÷ (Divide), which slips 6-9 with 47,000 units (down 5 percent) and Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic, as it moves 8-10 with 41,000 units (down 2 percent).

[Gary]

1. Harry Styles 230,000
2. Zac brown Band 146,000
3. Kendrick Lamar 117,000
4. Chris Stapleton 75,000
5. Gusrdians of The Galaxy 2 69,000
6. Paramore 67,000
7. Drake 58,000
8. Machine Gun Kelly 57,000
9. Ed Sheeran 47,000
10. Bruno 41,000

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^^Article link:

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[forg]

Bruno Mars' 24k Magic has not left the top 10 since debut right now?

[areyoureadytojump]

Retailer Report: Top 200 Albums
Region: Total U.S. Week Ending: 05/18/17

STYLES*HARRY|HARRY STYLES ( 1) 193.3k
BROWN*ZAC|WELCOME HOME ( 2) 138.7k
STAPLETON*CHRIS|FROM A ROOM: V( 3) 65.8k
VARIOUS ARTISTS|VOL. 2 GUARDIA( 4) 55.8k
PARAMORE|AFTER LAUGHTER ( 5) 52.7k
MACHINE GUN KEL|BLOOM ( 6) 38.3k
LAMAR*KENDRICK|DAMN. ( 7) 31.4k
SEETHER|POISON THE PARISH ( 8) 29.7k
NEW KIDS ON THE|THANKFUL ( 9) 26.8k
THE BOB'S BURGE|THE BOBS BURGE( 10) 24.7k

[HolidayGuy]

A pretty healthy showing there for the top 10-selling albums.

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www.yahoo.com/music/chart-watch-harry-styles-makes-impressive-no-1-debut-beats-sam-smiths-record-211615619.html

Chart Watch: Harry Styles Makes Impressive No. 1 Debut, Beats Sam Smith’s Record
by Paul Grein
Yahoo Music
May 21, 2017

Harry Styles‘s eponymous debut album enters the Billboard 200 at No. 1 this week, moving 230K “equivalent units,” including 193K in traditional album sales. (The balance reflects streaming and digital track sales.) This is the second-best sales week for a pop or rock album so far this year. Ed Sheeran’s ÷ debuted at No. 1 in March with equivalent sales of 451K (including traditional album sales of 322K)

That 193K sales total is the largest debut sales tally for the first full-length album a U.K. male artist since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. The old record was held by Sam Smith’s In the Lonely Hour, which sold 166K (in traditional album sales) in its first week in July 2014. “Stay With Me,” the biggest hit from Smith’s album, went on to win Grammys for both Record and Song of the Year. I expect “Sign of the Times,” the excellent lead single from Harry Styles, to be nominated in both categories later this year.


Styles tops the chart 14 months after Zayn’s debut album, Mind of Mine, opened in the No. 1 spot. Both artists, of course, were founding members of One Direction, who now join a short list of groups that have had more than one member achieve a No. 1 album as a solo artist. Three members of the Beatles — Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and John Lennon — achieved that feat. Two members of Destiny’s Child — Beyoncé and LeToya (Luckett) — have had solo No. 1s, as have two members of Blind Faith — Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood.

Styles is also just the second male solo artist from the U.K. to enter the Billboard 200 at No. 1 with his debut album. Zayn was the first.

With this debut, Styles regains his chart-topping mojo. One Direction’s first four studio albums debuted at No. 1. The group’s fifth studio album, Made in the A.M., debuted and peaked at No. 2 in December 2015. It lost a fierce first-week sales battle with Justin Bieber’s Purpose.

Styles’s album also enters the Official U.K. Albums Chart at No. 1. 1D’s last four studio albums also topped that chart. Harry Styles is the fifth solo debut album (meaning, the first solo album by someone who achieved fame in a group or duo) to reach No. 1 in both the U.S. and the U.K. It follows George Michael’s Faith, Beyoncé’s Dangerously in Love, Jack White’s Blunderbuss, and Zayn’s Mind of Mine.


Top Albums

Logic’s Everybody, which debuted at No. 1 last week, tumbles to No. 11 its second week. It’s the first album to drop out of the top 10 in Week 2 since The Hamilton Mixtape, which dove from No. 1 to No. 14 in its second week in December.

Three other albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Russ’s There’s Really a Wolf drops from No. 7 to No. 25. Gorillaz’s Humanz dives from No. 9 to No. 35. The compilation EPIC AF (Yellow/Pink) drops from No. 10 to No. 12.

Seether’s Poison the Parish debuts at No. 14. The group’s last four studio albums made the top 10.


New Kids on the Block’s Thankful EP debuts at No. 17. The veteran boy band first cracked the top 20 (with Hangin’ Tough) way back in March 1989.

Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 drops from No. 20 to No. 23 in its 95th week. The album holds at No. 1 for the second week on Top Catalog Albums. That’s the longest run at No. 1 for a soundtrack since Pitch Perfect had four straight weeks on top in the spring of 2015.

Soundgarden’s Superunknown re-enters the chart at No. 32 in the wake of Chris Cornell’s shocking death last week. The album debuted at No. 1 in March 1994, making Soundgarden the fourth act associated with the Seattle grunge scene to land a No. 1 album. Nirvana was the first, followed by Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains. Superunknown has sold 3,869,000 copies (in traditional album sales).

Coming Attractions: Look for Linkin Park’s One More Light and Rascal Flatts’s Back to Us to be next week’s top new entries.

[divasummer]

Go NKOTB!!!
Top 10 in pure sales and Top 20 overall. Not bad!

[HolidayGuy]

^It's NKOTB's seventh top 10-selling title, as noted in the No. 1/Top 10 Feats thread. ;)

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

May 21, 2017 20:45:48 GMT -5 forg said:

Bruno Mars' 24k Magic has not left the top 10 since debut right now?

No. It hasn't. This week's position is its lowest so far.

[HolidayGuy]

On Album Sales, Mars' album rebounds 17-14 this week.

Speaking of Album Sales, Logic's title dropped 95% in its second week- a record for an album that entered at No. 1?

Hello, Dolly! ranks No. 21 on Album Sales.

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7809437/billboard-200-chart-moves-bobs-burgers-hello-dolly

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: 'Bob's Burgers' Soundtrack & New 'Hello, Dolly!' Cast Recording Debut
5/25/2017 by Keith Caulfield

On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 3), Harry Styles debuted at No. 1 with his self-titled album, earning 230,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 18, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 193,000 were in traditional album sales -- the biggest debut sales week for a U.K. male artist’s first full-length album.

Elsewhere in the top 10, Zac Brown Band’s Welcome Home bowed at No. 2, while Paramore’s After Laughter and Machine Gun Kelly’s Bloom launched at Nos. 6 and 8, respectively.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the week’s most popular albums based on their overall consumption. That overall unit figure combines pure album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

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

— Logic, Everybody – No. 11 — A week after Logic notched his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with the chart-topping arrival of Everybody, the set falls to No. 11 in its second week with 36,000 units (down 85 percent from its opening of 247,000 units) and 10,000 in traditional album sales (down 95 percent from its start of 196,000 sold). The album also falls from No. 2 to No. 18 on the Top Album Sales chart.

The huge sales erosion for the set (released through Visionary/Def Jam Recordings) isn’t surprising, for two reasons.

First, Everybody’s first week was boosted by strong sales of an array of direct-to-consumer album/merch bundles. His label says that merch bundles generated 115,000 of the set’s first-week sales. Those sales generally don’t continue past an album’s debut week, as they are often pre-orders that are fulfilled during street week. Thus, a big second-week decline was inevitable.

Secondly, Logic has a core fanbase that can enable a big debut, but cannot usually sustain sizable sales past a set’s first week. His last studio set, 2015’s The Incredible True Story, bowed with 118,000 and then dropped to 18,000 in week two. In total, 44 percent of Incredible cumulative sales (266,000) were sold in its first week.

Comparatively, Chris Stapleton’s From a Room: Volume 1 -- which started at No. 1 on Top Album Sales (ahead of Logic) -- falls to No. 3 with a moderate 67 percent sales decline. It bowed with 202,000 sold and dips to 66,000 in its second week. On the Billboard 200, it slips from No. 2 to No. 4 with 75,000 units (down 66 percent from its bow of 219,000 units).

— Soundtrack, The Bob’s Burgers Music Album - No. 21 — The soundtrack to the hit Fox TV series Bob’s Burgers starts at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 with 26,000 equivalent album units. 25,000 of that sum is comprised of traditional album sales. It’s the highest-charting animated TV series soundtrack since 2012, when Metalocalypse: Dethalbum III debuted and peaked at No. 10. Metalocalypse aired on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim from 2006 through 2013.

— Soundtrack, Fifty Shades Darker - No. 43 — The film’s home video release on May 9 prompts a 22 percent gain in units earned for the week, as the set climbs 56-43 with 13,000 units. Of that sum, 6,000 were in traditional album sales (a rise of 49 percent).

— New Broadway Cast Recording, Hello, Dolly! - No. 60 — With the Tony Awards around the corner (June 11), the charts see their yearly influx of cast recordings in the lead-up to the kudocast.

The New Broadway Cast Recording of Hello, Dolly! dances in at No. 60 on the Billboard 200 with 10,000 equivalent album units (nearly all from traditional album sales). The Bette Midler-led album also launches at No. 9 on Internet Albums and No. 1 on Cast Albums. Hello, Dolly!’s nearly 10,000 sold is the second-biggest sales debut for a cast recording in 2017, trailing only the arrival of Dear Evan Hanson, which bowed with 25,000 sold.

Hello, Dolly! is nominated for 10 Tony Awards, including best revival of a musical. It also scored a nomination in each of the four musical acting categories (lead actress, lead actor, actress in a featured role and actor in a featured role). Midler is a contender for lead actress. It is her first Tony Award nomination (though, she received a non-competitive special Tony Award in 1974).

— Dreamcar, Dreamcar – No. 115 — The supergroup’s debut album drives in at No. 115 (and at No. 12 on Alternative Albums) with 7,000 units (6,000 in album sales). The quartet comprises three-quarters of No Doubt, as well as the lead singer of AFI.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

May 26, 2017 10:14:27 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Speaking of Album Sales, Logic's title dropped 95% in its second week- a record for an album that entered at No. 1?

I think so. Wasn't the previous record holder This House Is Not For Sale with around 91%?