Billboard 200 - 6/17/17

[Gary]

Bryson Tiller Notches His First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'True to Self'



Plus: The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" returns to the top three, and Lil Yachty debuts in the top five.


Bryson Tiller notches his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as his second studio effort, True to Self, debuts atop the tally. The set, which was released through TrapSoul/RCA Records on May 26, earned 107,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 1, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 47,000 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 17, 2017-dated chart (where Tiller debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, June 6.


True to Self was released a month earlier than its expected June 23 street date, and is the follow-up to Tiller’s debut set, Trapsoul. The latter set peaked at No. 8 on the chart in January of 2016, and helped Tiller finish the year as Billboard’s top new artist. Trapsoul has earned 1.6 million equivalent album units, of which 441,000 are in traditional album sales.

True to Self was supported mostly by SEA units (57,000) and traditional album sales. The remainder of its bow came from TEA units (2,000).

Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. holds steady at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, with 84,000 units (down 14 percent).


The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band returns to the chart, re-entering at No. 3 with 75,000 units (up 2,062 percent) with 71,000 in traditional album sales (up 3,889 percent). It is the highest rank for the former No. 1 album since the Dec. 30, 1967-dated chart, when the set also placed at No. 3.


The album bounces back to the tally courtesy of its 50th anniversary reissue on May 26. The album was reissued in a variety of configurations, including some with a bevy of bonus tracks. It spent a total of 15 weeks atop the list back in 1967 -- the most weeks at No. 1 for any of The Beatles’ 19 chart-topping albums.


Sgt. Pepper’s’ re-entry also grants The Beatles its highest rank on the chart in more than 16 years. The band has been absent from the top three since the March 10, 2001-dated list, when the greatest hits album 1 was No. 3. (The album had previously spent eight weeks at No. 1.)

Sgt. Pepper’s was last on the Billboard 200 dated Jan. 23, 2016. It notched its last week in the top 10 on the Feb. 3, 1968-dated tally.

Drake’s More Life is a non-mover at No. 4 on the new Billboard 200, with 50,000 units (down 13 percent).


Lil Yachty’s debut studio album, Teenage Emotions, arrives at No. 5 with 46,000 units (20,000 in traditional album sales; 24,000 in SEA and 2,000 in TEA). Lil Yachty previously charted a pair of mixtapes with Lil’ Boat (No. 106) and Summer Songs 2 (No. 197), both of which peaked in 2016.


Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (Divide) stays steady at No. 6 with 40,000 units (down 8 percent), Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic is stationary at No. 7 with a little more than 38,000 units (down 2 percent), and Chris Stapleton’s From A Room: Volume 1 descends 5-8 with 38,000 units (down 25 percent).

The new Summer Latin Hits 2017 compilation bows at No. 9 with 37,000 units (22,000 in SEA; 15,000 in TEA and a negligible sum of traditional album sales). The set is largely driven by streams and sales of one red-hot song: Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito.” The tune has been No. 1 for three weeks on the Hot 100 chart.


Closing out the new top 10 is Harry Styles’ self-titled effort, which falls from No. 3 to No. 10 with 36,000 units (down 47 percent).

[Gary]

1. Bryson Tiller 107,000
2. Kendrick Lamar 84,000
3. Beatles 75,000
4. Drake 50,000
5. Lil Yachty 46,000
6. Ed Sheeran 40,000
7. Bruno 38,000
8. Chris Stapleton 38,000
9. Summer Latin Hits 2017 37,000
10. Harry Styles 36,000

[Gary]

Sgt Pepper's album spends its 34th week in the top 10 - Week 33 was February 1968

Top Pop Albums - February 3, 1968


1 MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, THE BEATLES
2 THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST, THE ROLLING STONES
3 DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES GREATEST HITS, DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES
4 PISCES, AQUARIUS, CAPRICORN AND JONES, LTD., THE MONKEES
5 NINTH, HERB ALPERT'S AND THE TIJUANA BRASS
6 SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, THE BEATLES
7 GOLDEN HITS, THE TURTLES
8 DISRAELI GEARS, CREAM
9 FAREWELL TO THE FIRST GOLDEN ERA, THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS
10 THE LAST WALTZ, ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK

[Envoirment]

Bruno still doing great in the top 10. Hopefully "Versace On The Floor" will become a massive hit and get the album a week at #1.

[forg]

Summer Latin Hits 2017 boosted by Despacito and as Billboard stated with "negligible sum of traditional album sales", I wonder how low it was

[areyoureadytojump]

Retailer Report: Top 200 Albums Page 1 of 4
Region: Total U.S. Week Ending: 06/01/17

BEATLES|SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY H( 1) 71.0k
TILLER*BRYSON|TRUE TO SELF ( 2) 47.4k
STAPLETON*CHRIS|FROM A ROOM: V( 3) 31.2k
VARIOUS ARTISTS|VOL. 2 GUARDIA( 4) 28.1k
LIL YACHTY|TEENAGE EMOTIONS ( 5) 20.3k
SHAKIRA|EL DORADO ( 6) 19.7k
LAMAR*KENDRICK|DAMN. ( 7) 19.6k
STYLES*HARRY|HARRY STYLES ( 8) 18.8k
MARS*BRUNO|24K MAGIC ( 9) 14.9k
VARIOUS ARTISTS|NOW 62 ( 10) 13.9k

[areyoureadytojump]

www.yahoo.com/music/chart-watch-sgt-pepper-sets-record-213928486.html

Chart Watch: 'Sgt. Pepper' Sitting Pretty at 50
by Paul Grein, Writer
Yahoo Music
June 5, 2017

The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band re-enters the Billboard 200 at No. 3, thanks to the release of a deluxe reissue pegged to the album’s 50th anniversary. This is the first time in chart history that a 50-year-old album has appeared in the top 10.

The old record for the oldest album to appear in the top 10 was set in June 2014, when Led Zeppelin’s eponymous debut album, then 45 years and five months old, charted at No. 7. (The old record for the oldest album to appear in the top five was set in June 2015, when the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers, then 44 years and two months old, charted at No. 5.)

The Fine Print: The Beatles’ Live at the Hollywood Bowl rose to No. 7 last September, more than 50 years after the tracks were recorded. The tracks were more than 50 years old, but the album wasn’t. The tracks were first released as an album, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, in 1977.

Sgt. Pepper’s was the week’s No. 1 album in traditional album sales, but it lost out to R&B star Bryson Tiller when digital track sales and streaming were factored in. (Since late 2014, The Billboard 200 has been based on a “multi-metric” formula.) Every other album in this week’s top five is R&B or hip-hop, which is a sign of the times.

This is the highest that a catalog album has appeared on the Billboard 200 since Prince and the Revolution’s Purple Rain was No. 3 in May 2016, two weeks after Prince’s death.

This is the first time Sgt. Pepper’s has appeared in the top three since the last week of 1967, when the album was No. 3 behind a Monkees album and a greatest hits album by Diana Ross & the Supremes. This is the first time the Beatles have appeared as high as No. 3 since March 2001, when their hits compilation 1 ranked No. 3 following a long run at No. 1.

Sgt. Pepper’s has sold 4,894,000 copies in traditional album sales since 1991, when Nielsen began tracking music sales. It of course sold millions more in its first 24 years of release.

The Beatles first cracked the top five in February 1964 with Meet the Beatles! That gives them a span of top five albums of 53 years and four months. A record? Nope. Frank Sinatra has had top five albums spanning 56 years and four months. He first scored in April 1956 with Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!. His most recent appearance in the top five was in August 2012 with the compilation Nothing but the Best.

Sgt. Pepper’s returns to No. 1 on Top Catalog Albums, displacing Soundgarden’s Superunknown. This is the first time that Sgt. Pepper’s has topped the catalog chart since November 1992, shortly after its 25th anniversary.

Sgt. Pepper’s re-enters the Official U.K. Albums Chart at No. 1. This is the album’s 28th week at No. 1. It’s the best-selling studio album in U.K. history, with sales of more than 5 million. The only albums to sell more copies in the U.K. are Queen’s Greatest Hits and Abba’s Gold—Greatest Hits.

Top Albums

R&B star Bryson Tiller lands his first No. 1 album as his sophomore album True to Self enters The Billboard 200 in the top spot. Tiller’s debut, Trapsoul, reached No. 8 in January 2016.


Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. holds at No. 2 in its seventh week. The album spent its first three weeks at No. 1.

Did you notice the top two albums this week are both by artists whose first names are also the last names of famous R&B stars? Bryson Tiller shares his name with balladeer Peabo Bryson. Kendrick Lamar shares his name with Eddie Kendrick, a former member of the Temptations who went on to solo success (as Eddie Kendricks). In Lamar’s case, at least, it’s not just a coincidence. His mother named him Kendrick in honor of the Motown star.

Drake’s More Life holds at No. 4 in its 11th week. It spent its first three weeks on top.

Lil Yachty’s debut album, Teenage Emotions, opens at No. 5. Lil Yachty, 19, has been featured on two top five hits on the Hot 100 so far this year—D.R.A.M.’s “Broccoli” and Kyle’s “iSpy.”


Bruno Mars’s 24K Magic inches up from No. 7 to No. 6 in its 28th week. The album has yet to fall out of the top 10. It logged four weeks at No. 2.

Chris Stapleton’s From a Room: Volume 1 drops from No. 5 to No. 7 in its fourth week. The album debuted and peaked at No. 2. It’s No. 1 on Top Country Albums for the third week.

Ed Sheeran’s ÷ drops from No. 6 to No. 8 in its 13th week. It spent its first two weeks at No. 1.

Summer Latin Hits 2017 debuts at No. 9. The album contains the No. 1 hit in the country (and around the world), “Despacito.” The album sold fewer than 1,000 copies in traditional album sales, but made it the to the top 10 on the strength of digital track sales and streaming.

Harry Styles’s eponymous debut album drops from No. 3 to No. 10 in its third week. The album debuted at No. 1.

Linkin Park’s One More Light dives from No. 1 to No. 30 in its second week. That’s the steepest fall for an album in its second week since Bon Jovi’s This House Is Not for Sale plummeted from No. 1 to No. 43 in its second week last November. Three other albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 drops from No. 8 to No. 16. EPIC AF (Yellow/Pink) drops from No. 9 to No. 11. Migos’ Culture drops from No. 10 to No. 14. (Guardians 2 is No. 1 on the Top Soundtracks chart for the fifth week.)

Temple of the Dog’s eponymous album tops the 2 million mark in traditional sales this week, a few weeks after the death of band member Chris Cornell. The album reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 in September 1992.

[85la]

:o at Linkin Park's drop. I wonder what it's numbers are, and where it ranks on the all-time list of greatest drops from #1.

[HolidayGuy]

^See below. However, didn't a title in recent weeks have a larger percentage drop than Bon Jovi?

EDIT: Logic's album was No. 2 in sales for the 5/27 chart-I had thought it was No. 1, but Chris Stapleton's album was that week (202,000 to 196,000- those were some nice numbers for the top 2 sellers that week).

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7825576/billboard-200-chart-moves-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-vinyl

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's' Sizzles on Vinyl
6/8/2017 by Keith Caulfield

On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 17), Bryson Tiller’s True to Self debuted at No. 1 with 107,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 1, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 47,000 were in traditional album sales.

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:

— The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – No. 3 — The Beatles’ longest-running No. 1 album (15 weeks atop the list in 1967) returns to the chart at No. 3 after it was reissued on May 26. The set rebounds to the list with 75,000 units earned, of which 71,000 were in traditional album sales.

Further, over on the Vinyl Albums chart, the set re-enters the list at No. 1 with 11,000 sold. That’s the biggest sales frame for a Beatles album on vinyl since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991.

— Shawn Mendes, Illuminate – No. 23 — The former No. 1 album rebounds 41-23 (18,000 units; up 25 percent), thanks to a concert ticket/album bundle sale redemption promotion.

— Linkin Park, One More Light - No. 30 — Linkin Park’s One More Light takes a tumble on the Billboard 200, falling from No. 1 to No. 30 in its second week on the list. It’s the fourth largest positional drop from No. 1, and the third largest second-week drop for a No. 1 debut. The albums with larger falls from No. 1 are: Bon Jovi’s This House Is Not a Home (1-43 on the Dec. 3, 2016-dated chart), Pentatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas (1-41 on Jan. 21, 2017 -- it was not a debut at No. 1; the holiday album collapsed after the Christmas season was over), and Incubus’ Light Grenades (1-37 on Dec. 23, 2006).

Chart watchers note: There is one album that fell even harder from No. 1… but there’s a catch. Elvis Presley’s Elvis’ Christmas Album went from No. 1 to completely off the chart in a single week back in 1958. However, back then, the chart was only 25 positions deep, so it wasn’t surprising to see a Christmas album vaporize off such a shallow chart after the holiday season had concluded. (Much like how Pentatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas fell off a cliff after Christmastime.)

Further, Linkin Park’s One More Light falls from No. 1 to No. 15 on the Top Album Sales chart, with the second largest percentage decline in sales for a No. 1 debut since the chart launched in 1991. It falls 89.64 percent, eroding from a start of 96,000 to 10,000 copies sold. The collapse is owed to how its first week was amplified by a concert/ticket album bundle sale redemption promotion with the act’s tour.

The largest second-week sales drop belongs to Bon Jovi’s This House Is Not For Sale in 2016, which fell 91.71 percent (128,000 to 11,000). Bon Jovi’s first week was also goosed by a ticket/album offer.

— The Allman Brothers Band, A Decade of Hits - No. 39 — Following the death of Gregg Allman on May 27, two Allman-related titles pop onto the Billboard 200. The Allman Brothers Band’s A Decade of Hits bows at No. 39 (13,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 1, according to Nielsen Music; up 601 percent) and The Allman Brothers Band’s At Fillmore East returns at No. 146 (5,000 units; up 1,811 percent).

Allman, who died of complications from liver cancer, saw his collected album sales (solo and with the band) rise 793 percent in the week ending June 1, climbing from 3,000 to 23,000 sold. On Top Album Sales, Decade and Fillmore debut at Nos. 23 and 34, respectively (with 6,000 and 4,000 sold).

Further, Allman’s digital song sales grew from 1,000 to 62,000 (up 5,222 percent) and his on-demand audio and video streams vaulted from 2.26 million to 14.34 million (up 537 percent).

— Brett Young, Brett Young – No. 40 — Brett Young’s self-titled set returns to the top 40 (rising 46-40; 13,000 units – up less than 1 percent) for the first time since its debut (March 4; No. 18), as the album’s “In Case You Didn’t Know” spends a second week at No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart.

— Foreigner, 40: Forty Hits From Forty Years – 1977-2017 - No. 108 — Foreigner’s new greatest hits collection, 40, celebrating the act’s 40th anniversary (it formed in 1976) bows at No. 108. It’s the band’s 11th hits set to chart out of their 20 total entries. The act scored its first top 10 album nearly exactly 40 years ago, when its self-titled debut rose 12-10 on the June 18, 1977-dated chart. The album -- which debuted on the list dated March 26, 1977 -- peaked at No. 4, and launched three top 20-charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100: “Feels Like the First Time” (No. 4), “Cold as Ice” (No. 6) and “Long, Long Way From Home” (No. 20). In total on the Hot 100, the group logged 22 hits, including 16 top 40-charting singles.

[85la]

^ Thanks! These ticket-album bundles shouldn't count. If the customer doesn't pay any extra for the album, it seems pretty simple that it shouldn't count.

[rimetm]

Jun 10, 2017 0:28:31 GMT -5 85la said:

^ Thanks! These ticket-album bundles shouldn't count. If the customer doesn't pay any extra for the album, it seems pretty simple that it shouldn't count.

If I'm not mistaken, the tours themselves cost more for tickets than similarly popular and quality tours (by which I mean venues chosen, effects budget, etc.) because they factor in the price of the album. In addition, buying the ticket alone doesn't count to the chart: only if the customer redeems the album (some are unaware, some bought it already, etc.)

[85la]

^ So the overall cost of the albums is absorbed by raising the price of the tickets for everyone? But then if you choose to redeem the album, that customer specifically is not paying anything in addition to the ticket price. So it is a very indirect way of the end consumer paying for the consumption of the album. It just seems like a very manipulative marketing tactic for labels to automatically score higher positions on the chart, and so many artists are doing it these days.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^As mentioned above, the album is not counted toward the positions if not redeemed. That means the bundle buyers who don't redeem it end up being more profitable for the artist. I think the issue about the bundle is not about having more albums sold and charting higher per se, but about making more money.