Billboard 200 - 4/28/18 - Jason Aldean

[Gary]

Jason Aldean's 'Rearview Town' Aiming for No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart
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By Keith Caulfield | April 17, 2018 7:34 PM EDT

Country star Jason Aldean is set to bow atop next week’s Billboard 200 chart with his latest album, Rearview Town, according to industry forecasters. Prognosticators suggest the set, which was released on April 13 via Macon/Broken Bow Records, could launch with around 180,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 19. If the set starts at No. 1, it will mark his fourth straight leader.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The top 10 of the April 28-dated Billboard 200 chart (where Aldean will likely debut at No. 1) is scheduled to be revealed on Billboard’s websites on Sunday, April 22.

Aldean saw his last album, 2016’s They Don’t Know, bow at No. 1 with 138,000 units earned in its first week, according to Nielsen Music. His previous two sets, 2014’s Old Boots, New Dirt and 2012’s Night Train, both started at No. 1 with 278,000 and 409,000 in traditional album sales (before the Billboard 200 transitioned to a consumption units-based ranking at the end of 2014).

Aldean’s new album is getting a boost in from sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with his upcoming tour, which starts on May 10.
Other albums aiming for high entries on next week’s chart include Breaking Benjamin’s Ember (with around 80,000 units), John Prine’s The Tree of Forgiveness (over 40,000) and Pentatonix’s PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. 1 (over 30,000). All three albums are, like Rearview Town, benefiting from ticket/album sale redemption offers.

[Naos]

Breaking Benjamin and Pentatonix took quite a drop from their last albums... AND they have bundles.

[Gary]

Jason Aldean Scores Fourth No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart With 'Rearview Town'

The set is the first country album to reach No. 1 in 2018.

Jason Aldean’s Rearview Town debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, securing the country star his fourth consecutive, chart-topping set and the first country No. 1 in 2018.

Rearview Town, released on April 13 via Macon/Broken Bow Records, launches with 183,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music, of which 162,000 were in traditional album sales. The set starts with the biggest week in terms of overall units and album sales for any country title this year.

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 April 28-dated chart (where Aldean bows at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard's websites on Tuesday, April 24.

Rearview Town marks Aldean’s fourth consecutive chart entry to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It follows his three previous studio albums: They Don’t Know (2016), Old Boots, New Dirt (2014) and Night Train (2012). Rearview is his seventh top 10 set overall, as he also collected top 10 efforts with My Kinda Party (No. 2 in 2010), Wide Open (No. 4, 2009) and Relentless (No. 4, 2007). Only his self-titled debut album missed the top 10, peaking at No. 27 in 2005. (Aldean has only charted with studio albums; he has yet to visit the list with any compilations, greatest hits, live packages, etc.)

Aldean is just the second country act to send four consecutive studio releases to the top. Rascal Flatt​s also claimed four No. 1 studio sets in a row between 2004 and 2009: Feels Like Today, Me and My Gang, Still Feels Good and Unstoppable. (Between Still and Unstoppable, the trio clocked a No. 6-peaking set with the best-of package Greatest Hits Volume 1.)

Rearview Town is the first country album to lead the Billboard 200 in 2018, and the first since Luke Bryan’s What Makes You Country topped the Dec. 30, 2017-dated tally.

Aldean’s new set also logs the largest week, both in terms of total units and traditional album sales, for a country title since Kenny Chesney’s live effort Live in No Shoes Nation launched at No. 1 with 219,000 units (of which 217,000 were in album sales) on the Nov. 18, 2017 chart. Like Chesney’s album, Aldean’s release was boosted by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with his upcoming tour, which starts on May 10.

Aldean also nets the largest week for a country studio album — in units and in sales — since Chris Stapleton’s From A Room: Volume 1, nearly a year ago, when it bowed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 219,000 units (of which 202,000 were in album sales).

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy moves down to the runner-up slot after bowing at No. 1 a week earlier. The set earned 129,000 units in its second week, down 49 percent.

Rock band Breaking Benjamin earn its fourth top 10 effort with Ember, as it debuts at No. 3 with 88,000 units (of which 80,000 were in traditional album sales). The band’s last release, 2015’s Dark Before Dawn, opened at No. 1 with 141,000 units (135,000 in album sales), securing the group its first leader on the list. (Like Rearview Town, Ember benefits from a ticket/album sale redemption offer.)

The soundtrack to The Greatest Showman holds at No. 4 with 77,000 – but with a big 53 percent gain, as the album continues to benefit from the hit movie’s DVD and Blu-ray release on April 10. The former No. 1 album sold 54,000 copies in the latest tracking week – up 63 percent.

Singer-songwriter John Prine logs his highest-charting album ever, and first top 10, as The Tree of Forgiveness bows at No. 5 with 54,000 units (53,000 in traditional album sales). The album is his first release album of his own new songs since 2005’s Fair and Square. The new set got a big boost from sales driven by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer, which helps yield the two-time Grammy Award winner his best sales week since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. (Prine has been charting on the Billboard 200 since 1972.)

Prine earned his previous best on the Billboard 200 with his last album, 2016’s For Better, Or Worse, which debuted and peaked at No. 30.

The Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy dips 3-6 with 44,000 units (down 14 percent), XXXTENTACION’s ? slips 5-7 with 40,000 units (down 13 percent), Migos’ Culture II falls 6-8 with 36,000 units (down 3 percent) and Black Panther: The Album descends 7-9 with 34,000 units (down 7 percent).

Pentatonix rounds out the new top 10 with the arrival of its latest release, PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. 1. The covers set launches at No. 10 with 34,000 units (29,000 in traditional album sales), which garners the vocal group its eighth top 10 effort. Like Aldean, Breaking Benjamin and Prine, PTX’s sales were also goosed by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer.

[Gary]

1. Jason Aldean 183,000/162,000
2. Cardi B 129,000/25,000
3. Breaking Benjamin 88,000/80,000
4. Greatest Showman 77,000/54000
5. John Prine 54,000/53,000
6. The Weeknd 44,000/8,000
7. XXXTentacion 44,000/1,500
8. Migos 36,000/2,000
9. Black Panther 34,000/4,000
10. Pentatonix 34,000/29,000

[Gary]

The 4 debuts this week were all concert bundles

[renfield75]

Good for John Prine. I'm not necessarily a fan, but it's cool to see an act charting since 1972 get their first top ten set. Especially while they're still alive to see it happen.

[Naos]

Good for John Prine. Pentatonix's eighth in a row. Though I feel Vol. 2 if that does come out, might have a rough time reaching the Top 10.

[Gary]

Billboard 200

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wks Rearview Town , Jason Aldean 1
2 1 – 2 Invasion Of Privacy , Cardi B 1
3 0 New 1 Ember , Breaking Benjamin 3
4 4 5 19 GG The Greatest Showman , Soundtrack 1
5 0 New 1 The Tree Of Forgiveness , John Prine 5
6 3 1 3 My Dear Melancholy, (EP) , The Weeknd 1
7 5 3 5 ? , XXXTENTACION 1
8 6 7 12 Culture II , Migos 1
9 7 6 10 Black Panther: The Album, Music From And Inspired By , Soundtrack 1
10 0 New 1 PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. I , Pentatonix 10
11 8 2 3 The World Is Yours , Rich The Kid 2
12 9 8 71 Stoney , Post Malone 4
13 20 15 53 DAMN. , Kendrick Lamar 1
14 35 – 2 PS Cosmic , Bazzi 14
15 14 9 59 ÷ (Divide) , Ed Sheeran 1
16 15 11 43 Evolve , Imagine Dragons 2
17 0 Re-Entry 47 Hardwired...To Self-Destruct , Metallica 1
18 0 Re-Entry 31 The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited , Metallica 18
19 27 19 72 Kane Brown , Kane Brown 5
20 17 10 6 Bobby Tarantino II , Logic 1
21 12 – 2 Dex Meets Dexter , Famous Dex 12
22 21 17 59 American Teen , Khalid 4
23 22 14 134 Hamilton: An American Musical , Original Broadway Cast Recording 3
24 24 16 23 reputation , Taylor Swift 1
25 19 13 14 Camila , Camila Cabello 1
26 23 20 34 Luv Is Rage 2 , Lil Uzi Vert 1
27 28 21 15 Life Of A Dark Rose , Lil Skies 10
28 34 29 57 More Life , Drake 1
29 30 18 74 24K Magic , Bruno Mars 2
30 52 37 32 Life Changes , Thomas Rhett 1
31 39 25 45 Ctrl , SZA 3
32 47 32 136 Traveller , Chris Stapleton 1
33 54 39 31 All Your Fault, Pt. 2 (EP) , Bebe Rexha 33
34 41 26 34 17, XXXTENTACION 2
35 43 42 103 Views , Drake 1
36 38 22 6 Lil Boat 2 , Lil Yachty 2
37 37 72 23 Diamonds , Elton John 23
38 42 24 8 DAY69 , 6ix9ine 4
39 45 31 25 Heartbreak On A Full Moon , Chris Brown 3
40 0 New 1 Bless Yo Trap , Smokepurpp & Murda Beatz 40
41 48 33 42 Dua Lipa , Dua Lipa 27
42 53 28 73 Starboy , The Weeknd 1
43 49 35 25 Without Warning , 21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin 4
44 25 23 7 I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best Of MercyMe , MercyMe 23
45 44 30 29 Tell Me You Love Me , Demi Lovato 3
46 71 55 50 From A Room: Volume 1 , Chris Stapleton 2
47 65 47 19 What Makes You Country , Luke Bryan 1
48 51 34 18 The Beautiful & Damned , G-Eazy 3
49 50 27 11 Man Of The Woods , Justin Timberlake 1
50 56 45 46 This One's For You , Luke Combs 5
51 57 46 35 Project Baby Two , Kodak Black 2
52 58 44 28 Perception , NF 1
53 55 41 24 Red Pill Blues , Maroon 5 2
54 29 4 3 Golden Hour , Kacey Musgraves 4
55 60 53 268 Take Care , Drake 1
56 63 51 34 Odisea , Ozuna 22
57 67 60 62 Brett Young , Brett Young 18
58 0 New 1 Joyride , Tinashe 58
59 62 48 74 Moana , Soundtrack 2
60 61 52 46 hopeless fountain kingdom , Halsey 1
61 10 – 2 Total Xanarchy , Lil Xan 10
62 117 57 3 Just Cause Y'all Waited , Lil Durk 57
63 0 New 1 Ledger (EP) , Ledger 63
64 77 64 290 Night Visions , Imagine Dragons 2
65 40 40 24 The Thrill Of It All , Sam Smith 1
66 74 61 26 H.E.R. , H.E.R. 56
67 100 96 176 2014 Forest Hills Drive , J. Cole 1
68 72 54 5 Love, Simon , Soundtrack 37
69 73 66 64 Culture , Migos 1
70 78 56 138 Beauty Behind The Madness , The Weeknd 1
71 11 – 2 Vacation In Hell , Flatbush Zombies 11
72 2 – 2 America , Thirty Seconds To Mars 2
73 76 63 200 x , Ed Sheeran 1
74 81 67 18 Revival , Eminem 1
75 70 50 7 Memories Don't Die , Tory Lanez 3
76 69 58 20 A Decade Of Destruction , Five Finger Death Punch 29
77 89 79 94 California Sunrise , Jon Pardi 11
78 97 80 153 Blurryface , twenty one pilots 1
79 83 77 50 There's Really A Wolf , Russ 7
80 79 70 29 The Bigger Artist , A Boogie Wit da Hoodie 4
81 82 73 85 Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight , Travis Scott 1
82 96 102 32 Freudian , Daniel Caesar 25
83 80 71 27 Beautiful Trauma , P!nk 1
84 90 84 286 good kid, m.A.A.d city , Kendrick Lamar 2
85 85 88 11 Drip Season 3 , Gunna 55
86 108 109 263 Greatest Hits , Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 2
87 32 – 2 Isolation , Kali Uchis 32
88 13 – 2 Revamp: Reimagining The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin , Various Artists 13
89 75 68 50 Everybody , Logic 1
90 130 106 20 From A Room: Volume 2 , Chris Stapleton 2
91 0 Re-Entry 73 Lemonade , Beyonce 1
92 86 78 518 Legend: The Best Of... , Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
93 84 82 284 Greatest Hits , Queen 11
94 0 Re-Entry 20 Texoma Shore , Blake Shelton 4
95 36 – 2 Restoration: Reimagining The Songs Of Elton John And Bernie Taupin , Various Artists 36
96 95 94 479 Metallica , Metallica 1
97 94 110 233 Nothing Was The Same , Drake 1
98 92 76 82 Trolls , Soundtrack 3
99 113 89 182 Montevallo , Sam Hunt 3
100 137 131 44 Woodstock , Portugal. The Man 32
101 93 75 30 Trip , Jhene Aiko 5
102 99 92 353 The Eminem Show , Eminem 1
103 98 91 117 ANTI , Rihanna 1
104 110 105 389 Curtain Call: The Hits , Eminem 1
105 125 103 85 Dig Your Roots , Florida Georgia Line 2
106 118 99 313 1, The Beatles 1
107 106 98 35 A Love Letter To You , Trippie Redd 64
108 112 97 19 Quality Control: Control The Streets, Vol. 1 , Various Artists 5
109 114 95 20 War & Leisure , Miguel 9
110 121 125 101 Coloring Book , Chance The Rapper 8
111 122 93 175 1989, Taylor Swift 1
112 131 119 104 The Life Of deleted , Kanye West 1
113 109 81 81 Illuminate , Shawn Mendes 1
114 107 101 17 Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho , Huncho Jack 3
115 101 69 118 Death Of A Bachelor , Panic! At The Disco 1
116 91 65 21 From The Fires , Greta Van Fleet 36
117 87 85 266 Rumours , Fleetwood Mac 1
118 120 143 221 Icon: Greatest Hits , Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 8
119 124 104 508 Journey's Greatest Hits , Journey 10
120 167 155 395 Nevermind , Nirvana 1
121 105 87 201 In The Lonely Hour , Sam Smith 2
122 126 111 53 The Fate Of The Furious: The Album , Soundtrack 10
123 116 123 165 If You're Reading This It's Too Late , Drake 1
124 115 107 37 AI YoungBoy , YoungBoy Never Broke Again 24
125 0 Re-Entry 114 All Eyez On Me , 2Pac 1
126 26 – 2 There Is More , Hillsong Worship 26
127 168 157 205 [Hybrid Theory] , Linkin Park 2
128 129 118 110 The Essential Billy Joel , Billy Joel 15
129 133 114 223 The Essential Michael Jackson , Michael Jackson 46
130 111 86 17 No_One Ever Really Dies , N*E*R*D 31
131 0 New 1 Wasted Talent , Jim Jones 131
132 127 121 134 T R A P S O U L , Bryson Tiller 8
133 173 180 30 Happy Endings , Old Dominion 7
134 132 116 41 Issa Album , 21 Savage 2
135 0 Re-Entry 79 Hero , Maren Morris 5
136 136 115 363 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits , Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty 22
137 180 170 102 Ripcord , Keith Urban 4
138 0 Re-Entry 183 Beyonce , Beyonce 1
139 140 130 54 Memories...Do Not Open , The Chainsmokers 1
140 0 Re-Entry 43 The Weight Of These Wings , Miranda Lambert 3
141 59 – 2 The Color Of You , Alina Baraz 59
142 143 120 39 Flower Boy , Tyler, The Creator 2
143 128 138 185 Appetite For Destruction , Guns N' Roses 1
144 134 124 35 Still Striving , A$AP Ferg 12
145 119 83 10 Fifty Shades Freed , Soundtrack 5
146 139 128 27 Mr. Davis , Gucci Mane 2
147 102 59 5 Seasons Change , Scotty McCreery 7
148 151 164 128 Tangled Up , Thomas Rhett 6
149 147 129 371 Doo-Wops & Hooligans , Bruno Mars 3
150 142 136 124 Greatest Hits , The Notorious B.I.G. 1
151 156 137 160 Greatest Hits So Far... , Zac Brown Band 20
152 178 108 27 Precious Memories Collection , Alan Jackson 33
153 0 Re-Entry 64 4 Your Eyez Only , J. Cole 1
154 148 144 126 25, Adele 1
155 152 135 28 Lil Pump , Lil Pump 3
156 144 140 44 Pretty Girls Like Trap Music , 2 Chainz 2
157 68 159 42 Melodrama , Lorde 1
158 0 Re-Entry 5 Decades , Nightwish 119
159 138 112 10 2 Heartless , Moneybagg Yo 16
160 0 Re-Entry 171 I Am...Sasha Fierce , Beyonce 1
161 150 145 61 FUTURE , Future 1
162 161 141 330 Thriller , Michael Jackson 1
163 154 158 126 Purpose , Justin Bieber 1
164 135 62 4 Boarding House Reach , Jack White 1
165 146 – 27 Love Yourself: Her , BTS 7
166 170 174 107 Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits , Blake Shelton 5
167 153 149 43 Grateful , DJ Khaled 1
168 199 – 127 Greatest Hits: Decade #1 , Carrie Underwood 4
169 179 173 89 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection , Bon Jovi 5
170 160 150 18 Too Hard , Lil Baby 80
171 159 163 19 The Click , AJR 61
172 163 153 68 FREE 6LACK , 6LACK 34
173 157 152 17 Dont Smile At Me , Billie Eilish 126
174 0 Re-Entry 11 Unapologetically , Kelsea Ballerini 7
175 123 – 12 Lifer , MercyMe 10
176 169 166 81 Blonde , Frank Ocean 1
177 0 Re-Entry 218 Crash My Party , Luke Bryan 1
178 155 122 4 Home State , Jordan Davis 47
179 162 139 26 Flicker , Niall Horan 1
180 177 172 53 Playboi Carti , Playboi Carti 12
181 183 – 35 Wins And Losses , Meek Mill 3
182 166 146 30 GEMINI , Macklemore 2
183 145 – 2 Elvis Presley: The Searcher (Soundtrack) , Elvis Presley 145
184 176 161 248 Mothership , Led Zeppelin 7
185 181 178 21 Current Mood , Dustin Lynch 7
186 0 Re-Entry 123 The Pinkprint , Nicki Minaj 2
187 175 177 373 21, Adele 1
188 195 192 312 Recovery , Eminem 1
189 0 Re-Entry 5 On The Rocks , Midland 20
190 186 183 166 Greatest Hits , Red Hot Chili Peppers 18
191 149 117 9 Victory Lap , Nipsey Hussle 4
192 184 – 129 Greatest Hits... So Far!!! , P!nk 5
193 200 – 6 Chain Breaker , Zach Williams 184
194 104 38 3 Kolorblind , DJ ESCO 38
195 0 Re-Entry 118 Meteora , Linkin Park 1
196 185 162 6 Only Human , Calum Scott 66
197 174 167 138 Badlands , Halsey 2
198 193 200 102 Smoke + Mirrors , Imagine Dragons 1
199 196 195 143 Graduation , Kanye West 1
200 182 185 19 All Time Greatest Hits , Lynyrd Skynyrd 56

[Gary]

Album Sales

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wks Rearview Town , Jason Aldean 1
2 0 New 1 Ember , Breaking Benjamin 2
3 3 3 19 The Greatest Showman , Soundtrack 1
4 0 New 1 The Tree Of Forgiveness , John Prine 4
5 0 New 1 PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. I , Pentatonix 5
6 1 – 2 Invasion Of Privacy , Cardi B 1
7 0 New 1 The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited , Metallica 7
8 0 Re-Entry 48 Hardwired...To Self-Destruct , Metallica 1
9 56 52 53 DAMN. , Kendrick Lamar 1
10 16 1 3 My Dear Melancholy, (EP) , The Weeknd 1
11 12 6 7 I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best Of MercyMe , MercyMe 6
12 0 New 1 Ledger (EP) , Ledger 12
13 24 16 50 From A Room: Volume 1 , Chris Stapleton 1
14 19 9 43 Evolve , Imagine Dragons 1
15 20 8 59 ÷ (Divide) , Ed Sheeran 1
16 15 2 3 Golden Hour , Kacey Musgraves 2
17 23 11 133 Hamilton: An American Musical , Original Broadway Cast Recording 2
18 30 28 64 Kane Brown , Kane Brown 4
19 21 74 23 Diamonds , Elton John 12
20 10 – 2 Restoration: Reimagining The Songs Of Elton John And Bernie Taupin , Various Artists 10
21 26 24 136 Traveller , Chris Stapleton 1
22 31 29 20 From A Room: Volume 2 , Chris Stapleton 2
23 6 – 2 Revamp: Reimagining The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin , Various Artists 6
24 92 98 98 Lemonade , Beyonce 1
25 2 – 2 America , Thirty Seconds To Mars 2
26 40 27 6 Decades , Nightwish 24
27 36 19 19 What Makes You Country , Luke Bryan 1
28 39 18 32 Precious Memories Collection , Alan Jackson 9
29 0 New 1 Joyride , Tinashe 29
30 27 13 23 From The Fires , Greta Van Fleet 13
31 35 48 228 Icon: Greatest Hits , Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 8
32 28 10 4 Boarding House Reach , Jack White 1
33 38 38 448 Metallica , Metallica 1
34 33 12 11 NOW 65 , Various Artists 3
35 41 22 10 Black Panther: The Album, Music From And Inspired By , Soundtrack 2
36 43 26 23 reputation , Taylor Swift 1
37 0 New 1 Just Cause Y'all Waited , Lil Durk 37
38 44 30 73 24K Magic , Bruno Mars 2
39 49 43 27 Beautiful Trauma , P!nk 1
40 37 17 11 Man Of The Woods , Justin Timberlake 1
41 47 36 180 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 , Soundtrack 1
42 32 – 21 Lifer , MercyMe 4
43 68 69 235 Greatest Hits , Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 2
44 0 New 1 Pookie Baby , Prof 44
45 45 15 5 Seasons Change , Scotty McCreery 2
46 97 87 184 [Hybrid Theory] , Linkin Park 2
47 61 70 45 Icon: Lynyrd Skynyrd , Lynyrd Skynyrd 47
48 54 20 9 ZOMBIES , Soundtrack 11
49 57 45 52 Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 , Soundtrack 2
50 70 57 6 Tearing At The Seams , Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 6
51 67 46 6 Firepower , Judas Priest 2
52 13 – 2 There Is More , Hillsong Worship 13
53 77 59 165 Night Visions , Imagine Dragons 2
54 17 – 2 Johnny Cash: Forever Words , Various Artists 17
55 51 31 6 Both Sides Of The Sky , Jimi Hendrix 3
56 7 – 2 Find A Light , Blackberry Smoke 7
57 53 40 20 A Decade Of Destruction , Five Finger Death Punch 20
58 62 49 73 Moana , Soundtrack 1
59 0 Re-Entry 298 Nevermind , Nirvana 1
60 59 66 31 Appetite For Destruction , Guns N' Roses 58
61 90 68 18 Revival , Eminem 1
62 73 – 11 Chain Breaker , Zach Williams 62
63 0 Re-Entry 3 20 #1's: Alternative Rock , Various Artists 62
64 98 72 32 Life Changes , Thomas Rhett 1
65 0 Re-Entry 21 Texoma Shore , Blake Shelton 3
66 96 94 21 Icon: Eric Clapton , Eric Clapton 66
67 74 61 117 Master Of Puppets , Metallica 13
68 58 50 5 I'll Be Your Girl , The Decemberists 3
69 0 New 1 Welcome To Bonkers , Nekrogoblikon 69
70 72 62 361 Legend: The Best Of... , Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
71 0 New 1 Backwoods Badass , Outlaw 71
72 46 – 2 Elvis Presley: The Searcher (Soundtrack) , Elvis Presley 46
73 82 86 34 Stoney , Post Malone 19
74 71 75 20 Crystal Visions... The Very Best Of Stevie Nicks , Stevie Nicks 21
75 0 Re-Entry 129 Blurryface , twenty one pilots 1
76 0 Re-Entry 6 On The Rocks , Midland 6
77 78 65 24 NOW 64 , Various Artists 7
78 0 Re-Entry 113 Meteora , Linkin Park 1
79 80 34 13 Kidz Bop 37 , Kidz Bop Kids 3
80 0 Re-Entry 13 Thank You , Stone Temple Pilots 26
81 0 Re-Entry 44 Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits , Simon & Garfunkel 36
82 0 New 1 Wasted Talent , Jim Jones 82
83 22 85 24 The Thrill Of It All , Sam Smith 1
84 83 63 12 Culture II , Migos 3
85 79 82 8 By The Way, I Forgive You , Brandi Carlile 1
86 85 58 14 Camila , Camila Cabello 2
87 0 Re-Entry 194 The Dark Side Of The Moon , Pink Floyd 10
88 99 – 39 This One's For You , Luke Combs 3
89 0 Re-Entry 90 The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill , Lauryn Hill 1
90 0 Re-Entry 4 Playlist: The Very Best Of Creedence Clearwater Revisited , Creedence Clearwater Revisited 87
91 84 90 36 Ctrl , SZA 5
92 0 New 1 Cosmic , Bazzi 92
93 95 89 15 Love Yourself: Her , BTS 6
94 93 55 19 Coco , Soundtrack 9
95 0 New 1 Evil Spirits , The Damned 95
96 75 77 88 Rumours , Fleetwood Mac 11
97 0 New 1 Playlist: Journey Greatest Hits Live , Journey 97
98 88 – 114 O Brother, Where Art Thou? , Soundtrack 1
99 94 83 7 The Best Of ABBA: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection , ABBA 83
100 86 53 4 Sex & Cigarettes , Toni Braxton 4

[Gary]

Vinyl

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 New 1 #1 1 wks The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited , Metallica 1
2 6 3 6 Decades , Nightwish 2
3 0 New 1 Ember , Breaking Benjamin 3
4 0 New 1 Pop , U2 4
5 17 6 7 The Greatest Showman , Soundtrack 1
6 0 Re-Entry 11 Greatest Hits , Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 2
7 3 – 2 Melodrama , Lorde 3
8 0 New 1 All That You Can't Leave Behind , U2 8
9 15 16 75 Purple Rain (Soundtrack) , Prince And The Revolution 1
10 0 Re-Entry 36 DAMN. , Kendrick Lamar 1
11 5 – 2 Demon Days , Gorillaz 5
12 0 New 1 The Other , King Tuff 12
13 25 1 3 Golden Hour , Kacey Musgraves 1
14 19 7 76 Thriller , Michael Jackson 3
15 23 – 3 Closing Time , Tom Waits 6
16 13 8 90 Rumours , Fleetwood Mac 3
17 12 5 4 Boarding House Reach , Jack White 1
18 20 11 125 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 , Soundtrack 1
19 22 15 160 Back To Black , Amy Winehouse 1
20 0 Re-Entry 154 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers , Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
21 21 – 5 Black Smoke Rising (EP) , Greta Van Fleet 2
22 0 Re-Entry 57 The Dark Side Of The Moon , Pink Floyd 2
23 0 Re-Entry 94 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , The Beatles 1
24 0 Re-Entry 14 Ctrl , SZA 5
25 0 New 1 Planet Of Ice , Minus The Bear 25

[Gary]

Catalog


This Week Last Week Two Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wks The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited , Metallica 1
2 1 1 110 Take Care , Drake 1
3 3 4 121 Night Visions , Imagine Dragons 1
4 13 16 49 GG 2014 Forest Hills Drive , J. Cole 2
5 2 3 90 x , Ed Sheeran 1
6 4 2 25 Beauty Behind The Madness , The Weeknd 2
7 8 8 140 good kid, m.A.A.d city , Kendrick Lamar 1
8 16 22 595 Greatest Hits , Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 1
9 0 New 1 Lemonade , Beyonce 9
10 6 6 1305 Legend: The Best Of... , Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
11 5 7 615 Greatest Hits , Queen 2
12 10 15 849 Metallica , Metallica 1
13 9 23 62 Nothing Was The Same , Drake 9
14 19 11 72 Montevallo , Sam Hunt 1
15 12 13 263 The Eminem Show , Eminem 2
16 11 12 20 ANTI , Rihanna 6
17 18 21 278 Curtain Call: The Hits , Eminem 1
18 26 19 8 Dig Your Roots , Florida Georgia Line 18
19 21 17 544 1, The Beatles 1
20 23 30 20 Coloring Book , Chance The Rapper 13
21 24 14 63 1989, Taylor Swift 1
22 30 27 26 The Life Of deleted , Kanye West 15
23 17 – 2 Illuminate , Shawn Mendes 17
24 14 5 39 Death Of A Bachelor , Panic! At The Disco 5
25 7 9 205 Rumours , Fleetwood Mac 1
26 22 37 801 Icon: Greatest Hits , Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 1
27 25 20 1148 Journey's Greatest Hits , Journey 1
28 40 40 157 Nevermind , Nirvana 2
29 15 10 72 In The Lonely Hour , Sam Smith 1
30 20 29 63 If You're Reading This It's Too Late , Drake 4
31 0 Re-Entry 72 All Eyez On Me , 2Pac 9
32 41 41 375 [Hybrid Theory] , Linkin Park 1
33 29 26 49 The Essential Billy Joel , Billy Joel 1
34 31 24 276 The Essential Michael Jackson , Michael Jackson 1
35 27 28 59 T R A P S O U L , Bryson Tiller 2
36 0 Re-Entry 19 Beyonce , Beyonce 17
37 32 25 944 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits , Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty 1
38 28 34 469 Appetite For Destruction , Guns N' Roses 1
39 36 43 18 Tangled Up , Thomas Rhett 22
40 34 31 221 Doo-Wops & Hooligans , Bruno Mars 1
41 33 32 80 Greatest Hits , The Notorious B.I.G. 1
42 37 33 57 Greatest Hits So Far... , Zac Brown Band 10
43 35 38 31 25, Adele 13
44 0 Re-Entry 24 I Am...Sasha Fierce , Beyonce 5
45 38 35 408 Thriller , Michael Jackson 1
46 43 47 26 Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits , Blake Shelton 29
47 0 Re-Entry 3 Greatest Hits: Decade #1 , Carrie Underwood 44
48 47 46 34 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection , Bon Jovi 1
49 42 44 9 Blonde , Frank Ocean 26
50 0 Re-Entry 43 Crash My Party , Luke Bryan 17

[Gary]

Digital

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wks Ember , Breaking Benjamin 1
2 0 New 1 Rearview Town , Jason Aldean 2
3 3 3 19 GG The Greatest Showman , Soundtrack 1
4 1 – 2 Invasion Of Privacy , Cardi B 1
5 0 New 1 PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. I , Pentatonix 5
6 0 New 1 The Tree Of Forgiveness , John Prine 6
7 0 New 1 Ledger (EP) , Ledger 7
8 0 Re-Entry 29 DAMN. , Kendrick Lamar 1
9 9 1 3 My Dear Melancholy, (EP) , The Weeknd 1
10 0 Re-Entry 50 Lemonade , Beyonce 1
11 0 New 1 Just Cause Y'all Waited , Lil Durk 11
12 0 New 1 Joyride , Tinashe 12
13 18 11 117 Hamilton: An American Musical , Original Broadway Cast Recording 1
14 14 13 43 Evolve , Imagine Dragons 1
15 2 – 2 America , Thirty Seconds To Mars 2
16 0 Re-Entry 20 From A Room: Volume 1 , Chris Stapleton 2
17 0 Re-Entry 2 20 #1's: Alternative Rock , Various Artists 17
18 23 9 14 From The Fires , Greta Van Fleet 4
19 0 New 1 The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited , Metallica 19
20 15 – 6 Diamonds , Elton John 13
21 0 New 1 Backwoods Badass , Outlaw 21
22 0 Re-Entry 89 Traveller , Chris Stapleton 1
23 0 New 1 Wasted Talent , Jim Jones 23
24 16 2 3 Golden Hour , Kacey Musgraves 2
25 8 – 2 There Is More , Hillsong Worship 8

[Gary]

Current

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 1 wks Rearview Town , Jason Aldean 1
2 0 New 1 Ember , Breaking Benjamin 2
3 3 3 19 GG The Greatest Showman , Soundtrack 1
4 0 New 1 The Tree Of Forgiveness , John Prine 4
5 0 New 1 PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. I , Pentatonix 5
6 1 – 2 Invasion Of Privacy , Cardi B 1
7 0 Re-Entry 51 Hardwired...To Self-Destruct , Metallica 1
8 53 48 53 PS DAMN. , Kendrick Lamar 1
9 16 1 3 My Dear Melancholy, (EP) , The Weeknd 1
10 12 6 7 I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best Of MercyMe , MercyMe 6
11 0 New 1 Ledger (EP) , Ledger 11
12 24 16 50 From A Room: Volume 1 , Chris Stapleton 1
13 19 9 43 Evolve , Imagine Dragons 1
14 20 8 59 ÷ (Divide) , Ed Sheeran 1
15 15 2 3 Golden Hour , Kacey Musgraves 2
16 23 11 134 Hamilton: An American Musical , Original Broadway Cast Recording 2
17 30 27 70 Kane Brown , Kane Brown 3
18 21 61 23 Diamonds , Elton John 11
19 10 – 2 Restoration: Reimagining The Songs Of Elton John And Bernie Taupin , Various Artists 10
20 26 24 139 Traveller , Chris Stapleton 1
21 31 28 20 From A Room: Volume 2 , Chris Stapleton 2
22 6 – 2 Revamp: Reimagining The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin , Various Artists 6
23 2 – 2 America , Thirty Seconds To Mars 2
24 38 26 6 Decades , Nightwish 24
25 35 19 19 What Makes You Country , Luke Bryan 1
26 37 18 34 Precious Memories Collection , Alan Jackson 9
27 0 New 1 Joyride , Tinashe 27
28 27 13 23 From The Fires , Greta Van Fleet 13
29 28 10 4 Boarding House Reach , Jack White 1
30 33 12 11 NOW 65 , Various Artists 3
31 39 22 10 Black Panther: The Album, Music From And Inspired By , Soundtrack 2
32 41 25 23 reputation , Taylor Swift 1
33 0 New 1 Just Cause Y'all Waited , Lil Durk 33
34 42 29 74 24K Magic , Bruno Mars 2
35 46 40 27 Beautiful Trauma , P!nk 1
36 36 17 11 Man Of The Woods , Justin Timberlake 1
37 32 83 30 Lifer , MercyMe 4
38 0 New 1 Pookie Baby , Prof 38
39 43 15 5 Seasons Change , Scotty McCreery 2
40 51 20 9 ZOMBIES , Soundtrack 11
41 54 42 52 Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 , Soundtrack 2
42 62 52 6 Tearing At The Seams , Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 6
43 60 43 6 Firepower , Judas Priest 2
44 13 – 2 There Is More , Hillsong Worship 13
45 17 – 2 Johnny Cash: Forever Words , Various Artists 17
46 48 30 6 Both Sides Of The Sky , Jimi Hendrix 3
47 7 – 2 Find A Light , Blackberry Smoke 7
48 50 37 20 A Decade Of Destruction , Five Finger Death Punch 16
49 56 45 74 Moana , Soundtrack 1
50 75 58 18 Revival , Eminem 1
51 63 92 15 Chain Breaker , Zach Williams 51
52 79 59 32 Life Changes , Thomas Rhett 1
53 100 85 24 Texoma Shore , Blake Shelton 3
54 55 46 5 I'll Be Your Girl , The Decemberists 3
55 0 New 1 Welcome To Bonkers , Nekrogoblikon 55
56 0 New 1 Backwoods Badass , Outlaw 56
57 44 – 2 Elvis Presley: The Searcher (Soundtrack) , Elvis Presley 44
58 69 70 53 Stoney , Post Malone 17
59 0 Re-Entry 148 Blurryface , twenty one pilots 1
60 0 Re-Entry 14 On The Rocks , Midland 6
61 65 56 24 NOW 64 , Various Artists 7
62 67 33 13 Kidz Bop 37 , Kidz Bop Kids 3
63 0 New 1 Wasted Talent , Jim Jones 63
64 22 69 24 The Thrill Of It All , Sam Smith 1
65 70 55 12 Culture II , Migos 3
66 66 67 9 By The Way, I Forgive You , Brandi Carlile 1
67 72 53 14 Camila , Camila Cabello 2
68 80 84 46 This One's For You , Luke Combs 2
69 71 72 44 Ctrl , SZA 4
70 0 New 1 Cosmic , Bazzi 70
71 78 71 19 Love Yourself: Her , BTS 5
72 77 51 22 Coco , Soundtrack 9
73 0 New 1 Evil Spirits , The Damned 73
74 73 49 4 Sex & Cigarettes , Toni Braxton 4
75 0 Re-Entry 50 California Sunrise , Jon Pardi 8
76 4 – 2 Erase Me , Underoath 4
77 0 Re-Entry 8 Carry Fire , Robert Plant 4
78 85 65 5 NOW That's What I Call Country Songs Of Inspiration , Various Artists 51
79 0 New 1 Ruiner , nothing,nowhere. 79
80 0 New 1 Treehouse , Sofi Tukker 80
81 99 – 2 I Am Reminded: Live! , The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir 81
82 29 – 20 Melodrama , Lorde 1
83 0 New 1 The Other , King Tuff 83
84 0 Re-Entry 57 Brett Young , Brett Young 12
85 97 66 14 2018 Grammy Nominees , Various Artists 4
86 0 Re-Entry 17 When Was The Last Time , Darius Rucker 4
87 84 79 28 WOW Hits 2018 , Various Artists 20
88 0 Re-Entry 41 Hero , Maren Morris 4
89 0 New 1 Front And Center: Live From New York , Beth Hart 89
90 0 New 1 The Edge , Mackenzie Nicole 90
91 0 Re-Entry 12 Unapologetically , Kelsea Ballerini 6
92 98 77 82 Trolls , Soundtrack 3
93 90 76 20 American Prodigal , Crowder 5
94 0 Re-Entry 3 Snoop Dogg Presents: Bible Of Love , Snoop Dogg & Various Artists 49
95 18 – 2 Golden , Kylie Minogue 18
96 0 Re-Entry 11 Woodstock , Portugal. The Man 18
97 0 Re-Entry 43 The Weight Of These Wings , Miranda Lambert 3
98 0 Re-Entry 23 Live In No Shoes Nation , Kenny Chesney 1
99 86 54 17 Pitch Perfect 3 , Soundtrack 6
100 0 Re-Entry 58 American Teen , Khalid 11

[Gary]

Artist 100


This Week Last Week Two Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 28 27 177 #1 1 wks Jason Aldean , Macon/Broken Bow | BBMG 1
2 1 6 40 Cardi B , The KSR Group/Atlantic | AG 1
3 2 4 199 Drake , Young Money/Cash Money | Republic 1
4 0 Re-Entry 5 Breaking Benjamin , Hollywood 2
5 3 3 167 Imagine Dragons , KIDinaKORNER/Interscope | IGA 1
6 4 5 193 Ed Sheeran , Atlantic | AG 1
7 6 1 184 The Weeknd , XO | Republic 1
8 7 7 95 Post Malone , Republic 3
9 10 8 170 Kendrick Lamar , Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA 1
10 0 Re-Entry 2 John Prine , Oh Boy 10
11 20 94 188 Nicki Minaj , Young Money/Cash Money | Republic 2
12 64 44 149 Metallica , Blackened 2
13 8 2 80 BTS , BigHit Entertainment 2
14 9 10 80 Migos , Quality Control/300 | AG 1
15 11 13 71 Camila Cabello , SYCO | Epic 1
16 12 11 187 Bruno Mars , Atlantic | AG 1
17 16 15 130 Chris Stapleton , Mercury Nashville | UMGN 1
18 14 14 167 Shawn Mendes , Island 1
19 13 12 36 XXXTENTACION , Bad Vibes Forever | EMPIRE Recordings 1
20 24 23 44 Kane Brown , Zone 4/RCA Nashville | SMN 5
21 15 18 34 Dua Lipa , Warner Bros. 14
22 44 – 143 Carrie Underwood , Capitol Nashville | UMGN 3
23 17 17 199 Maroon 5 , 222/Interscope | IGA 1
24 22 22 199 Florida Georgia Line , BMLG 1
25 0 Re-Entry 50 Pentatonix , RCA 1
26 23 19 195 Taylor Swift , Big Machine | BMLG 1
27 18 21 123 Halsey , Astralwerks 1
28 35 26 198 Luke Bryan , Capitol Nashville | UMGN 1
29 31 29 168 Thomas Rhett , Valory | BMLG 1
30 25 16 10 Rich The Kid , Rich Forever/300/Interscope | IGA 16
31 27 28 45 SZA , Top Dawg | RCA 16
32 36 36 61 Bebe Rexha , Warner Bros. 32
33 26 20 148 Justin Timberlake , RCA 1
34 29 25 124 Demi Lovato , Safehouse/Island | Hollywood 3
35 40 38 12 Bazzi , ZZZ/iamcosmic | AG 35
36 19 24 12 MercyMe , Fair Trade | PLG 15
37 39 34 27 Marshmello , Joytime Collective 25
38 38 37 59 Luke Combs , River House/Columbia Nashville | SMN 10
39 30 33 102 P!nk , RCA 1
40 54 52 195 Blake Shelton , Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN 1
41 34 30 59 Khalid , Right Hand | RCA 11
42 37 31 151 Charlie Puth , OTTO/Atlantic | AG 8
43 46 45 42 Portugal. The Man , Atlantic | AG 16
44 58 58 69 Maren Morris , Columbia Nashville | SMN 15
45 42 40 10 BlocBoy JB , OVO Sound | Warner Bros. 40
46 48 70 135 Kenny Chesney , Blue Chair/Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN 1
47 47 42 199 Eminem , Web/Shady/Aftermath/Interscope | IGA 1
48 51 47 72 Brett Young , BMLG 28
49 41 50 16 YoungBoy Never Broke Again , Never Broke Again | AG 41
50 0 Re-Entry 24 Lil Pump , Lyfetime/Tha Lights Global | Warner Bros. 12
51 60 48 83 G-Eazy , G-Eazy/RVG/BPG | RCA 6
52 49 39 28 NF , NF Real Music/Capitol | Caroline 8
53 56 49 195 Rihanna , Westbury Road | Roc Nation 2
54 55 59 150 Meghan Trainor , Epic 1
55 52 95 32 J Balvin , Capitol Latin | UMLE 46
56 71 62 6 Lil Dicky , Dirty Burd/Commission | BMG 47
57 57 51 193 Chris Brown , RCA 1
58 45 32 47 Logic , Visionary | Def Jam 1
59 67 55 68 Zedd , Interscope | IGA 17
60 0 Re-Entry 176 Beyonce , Parkwood | Columbia 2
61 99 98 158 Keith Urban , Hit Red/Capitol Nashville | UMGN 8
62 80 61 19 6ix9ine , ScumGang 13
63 66 60 168 Adele , XL | Columbia 1
64 75 65 94 Lil Uzi Vert , Generation Now/Atlantic | AG 2
65 76 64 157 twenty one pilots , Fueled By Ramen | AG 1
66 59 – 5 Bad Bunny , Rimas | Hear This Music 59
67 70 53 125 The Chainsmokers , Disruptor | Columbia 1
68 68 99 3 Famous Dex , Rich Forever/300 | AG 68
69 0 Re-Entry 80 Young Thug , 300/Atlantic | AG 11
70 77 54 164 Michael Jackson , MJJ | Epic 20
71 62 57 8 Jordan Davis , MCA Nashville | UMGN 41
72 0 Re-Entry 88 Dierks Bentley , Capitol Nashville | UMGN 3
73 79 71 23 Ozuna , VP Entertainment | Sony Music Latin 44
74 0 Re-Entry 21 Dan + Shay , Warner Bros. Nashville | WMN 17
75 0 Re-Entry 50 Linkin Park , Machine Shop | Warner Bros. 1
76 81 77 39 Ty Dolla $ign , Atlantic | AG 36
77 84 81 198 Justin Bieber , SchoolBoy/Raymond Braun | Def Jam 1
78 0 Re-Entry 52 Lady Antebellum , Capitol Nashville | UMGN 6
79 21 46 13 EXO , S.M. 21
80 83 69 8 Grey , #808080 69
81 0 Re-Entry 2 NCT , S.M. 76
82 74 63 55 21 Savage , Slaughter Gang | Epic 8
83 0 Re-Entry 37 Darius Rucker , Capitol Nashville | UMGN 17
84 73 66 6 Bad Wolves , Eleven Seven | E7LG 48
85 89 79 79 Niall Horan , Neon Haze | Capitol 1
86 91 80 191 Sam Hunt , MCA Nashville | UMGN 5
87 50 43 124 Sam Smith , Capitol 1
88 0 Re-Entry 64 5 Seconds Of Summer , One Mode | Capitol 1
89 0 Re-Entry 59 Zayn , RCA 1
90 85 72 40 Daddy Yankee , El Cartel | UMLE 19
91 90 82 5 Foster The People , Columbia 82
92 88 78 91 DJ Khaled , We The Best | Epic 2
93 92 92 65 Brett Eldredge , Atlantic | WMN 6
94 87 75 16 MAX , DCD2/Crush Music | RED Associated Labels 51
95 82 56 14 Scotty McCreery , Triple Tigers | RED 8
96 0 Re-Entry 120 J. Cole , Dreamville | Roc Nation 1
97 0 Re-Entry 141 Future , A-1/Freebandz | Epic 1
98 95 67 26 Alan Jackson , ACR/EMI Nashville | UMGN 20
99 0 Re-Entry 90 Old Dominion , RCA Nashville | SMN 10
100 100 – 12 Lynyrd Skynyrd , Blackbird Production Partners | Loud & Proud 72

[Gary]

Jason Aldean Returns to No. 1 On Billboard Artist 100 Chart
News
By Xander Zellner | April 25, 2018 10:19 AM EDT

Aldean passes Florida Georgia Line for the most weeks on top among country acts.

Jason Aldean zooms from No. 28 to No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart (dated April 28) to become the top musical act in the U.S., as his new album, Rearview Town, launches atop the Billboard 200 chart.
Aldean earns his third total week at No. 1 on the Artist 100, passing Florida Georgia Line (two weeks) for the most time at No. 1 among country acts. Among all artists, Taylor Swift holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1, with 36, since the list began in July 2014.

The Artist 100 measures artist activity across key metrics of music consumption, blending album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.

Rearview Town debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 183,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music. The set is Aldean's fourth No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as well as his sixth No. 1 on Top Country Albums.

The album's lead single, "You Make It Easy," vaults 41-29 on the Billboard Hot 100, nearly matching its No. 28 peak in February. Aldean sang the song at the 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards, broadcast live on CBS April 15, and took home the night's most coveted trophy, for entertainer of the year, for the third straight year.

Aldean is the first country act to top the Artist 100 since Kenny Chesney on the Nov. 18-dated ranking. Chesney, Thomas Rhett and Chris Stapleton were the only country acts to lead the list in 2017.
Aldean first hit No. 1 on the chart in October 2014, and then returned in October 2016, each time, like this week, driven by a No. 1 entrance on the Billboard 200.

Rounding out the latest Artist 100's top five, Cardi B dips to No. 2 after her first week at the apex; Drake drops 2-3; Breaking Benjamin re-enters at No. 4, as the band's Ember enters at No. 1 on Top Rock Albums (88,000 units); and Imagine Dragons falls 3-5.

Also in the Artist 100's top 10, veteran singer-songwriter John Prine re-enters at No. 10, a new high, as his The Tree of Forgiveness debuts as his first top 10 (No. 10; 54,000 units) on the Billboard 200. The set starts at No. 1 on Americana/Folk Albums and No. 2 on both Top Rock Albums and Top Country Albums.
Check out this week's full Artist 100 here.

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hiphopdx.com/news/id.46589/title.hip-hop-album-sales-cardi-bs-invasion-of-privacy-drops-to-2-on-billboard-200

Top 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 04/19/2018

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. Cardi B — Invasion Of Privacy — #2 — 128,996 (25,621) [142,279,162]
2. The Weeknd — My Dear Melancholy — #6 — 44,281 (9,721) [49,603,802]
3. XXXTENTACION — ? — #7 — 39,834 (1,220) [55,173,974]
4. Migos — Culture II — #8 —36,278 (2,045) [47,478,073]
5. Various Artists — Black Panther: The Album — #9 — 34,299 (3,869) [40,680,152]
6. Rich The Kid — The World Is Yours — #11 — 29,863 (778) [41,738,681]
7. Post Malone — Stoney — #12 — 28,642 (2,314) [36,561,875]
8. Kendrick Lamar — DAMN. — #13 — 28,534 (2,314) [25,080,412]
9. Logic — Bobby Tarantino — #20 — 19,503 (1,120) [26,423,856]
10. Famous Dex — Dex Meets Dexter — #21 — 17,618 (142) [25,400,547]

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^I feel that Metallica's new EP being #1 in Catalog Albums is wrong and doesn't make sense.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^I feel that Metallica's new EP being #1 in Catalog Albums is wrong and doesn't make sense.

[Naos]

Apr 25, 2018 16:54:48 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

^I feel that Metallica's new EP being #1 in Catalog Albums is wrong and doesn't make sense.

It's not anywhere near new.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Yeah, you're right. I guess it did chart in the BB 200 in 1987. Now it makes sense.

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www.metalinsider.net/columns/metal-by-numbers/metal-by-numbers-4-25-breaking-benjamins-sales-are-hot

Metal By Numbers 4/25: Breaking Benjamin’s sales are hot
Posted by Matt Brown on April 25, 2018

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

With each passing year, I feel like I write the phrase “sold less than the previous album/predecessor” more and more. I know that sometimes that’s just the way of the music business: certain albums debut well for certain reasons and others don’t. Maybe it was a surprise release and didn’t sell as much because of lack of promotion, maybe the trend is down, on and on it goes. Of course, most people will say the real culprit is just that people aren’t buying music anymore, and that is certainly an issue. All that said, I want to be clear that I’m not trying to diminish an artist’s success when I say “sold less”; it’s just a state of fact. The fact that Breaking Benjamin’s new album sold some 50-60k shouldn’t take away from the fact they made the Billboard top 5 or that many bands would kill to sell 80k their first week. It’s all about perspective.

Notable Debuts:

Breaking Benjamin, Ember (Hollywood)
80,000 sold

Though it didn’t sell as much as its predecessor, Breaking Benjamin’s sixth album had a big first week and made the top 5.





Ledger, Ledger EP (Atlantic)
8,300 sold

This is the debut solo release from Jen Ledger of Skillet.











Nekrogoblikon, Welcome To Bonkers (Self-Released)
2,400 sold

The band’s fourth studio album sold nearly four times its predecessor in its debut.









Dead Crown, Come Hell (Self-Released)
1,400 sold

This EP is the band’s debut release. Also, there’s another band called Dead Crown, so it took me a while to distinguish the two.









Behemoth, Messe Noire (Metal Blade)
800 sold

I want a new Behemoth record as much as anyone, but I’ll take a new live album in the meantime.











Wrong, Feel Great (Relapse)
400 sold

This is the band’s second album.









Gozu, Equilibrium (Metal Blade)
300 sold

This is the latest release from the stoner rock band, and their first for Metal Blade.









Graveshadow, Ambition’s Price (M-Theory Audio)
300 sold

This is the second album from this symphonic metal band.









The Dali Thundering Concept, Savages (Self-Released)
200 sold

This is the second album from this French prog metal band.









Unreqvited, Stars Wept to the Sea (Self-Released)
150 sold

This is the band’s second album.

Notable Sales:

Metallica, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (Blackened)
19,000 sold

This got an enormous boost from last week.







Nightwish, Decades (Nuclear Blast)
5,200 sold

A 24% boost.









Greta Van Fleet, From the Fires EP (Lava)
4,700 sold

A 13% drop.











Judas Priest, Firepower (Columbia)
2,900 sold

A 5% boost.









Five Finger Death Punch, A Decade Of Destruction (Prospect Park)
2,800 sold

A 18% drop. Only a matter of time before a new FFDP album tops the charts.









Underoath, Erase Me (Fearless)
1,800 sold

A 92% drop in week two.









Three Days Grace, Outsider (RCA)
1,400 sold

A 3% drop.









Stone Temple Pilots, Stone Temple Pilots (Rhino)
1,200 sold

A 29% drop.











Linkin Park, One More Light (Warner Bros.)
1,200 sold

This is back on the charts again.











Kamelot, The Shadow Theory (Napalm)
900 sold

An 83% drop in week two.









Greta Van Fleet, Black Smoke Rising EP (Republic)
700 sold

Over 50k sold.











Light The Torch, Revival (Nuclear Blast)
700 sold

A 24% drop.









Turnstile, Time & Space (Roadrunner)
500 sold

A 15% drop.











The Dead Daisies, Burn It Down (Spitfire)
500 sold

A 76% drop in week two.









Red Sun Rising, Thread (Razor & Tie)
350 sold

A 48% drop.









Rivers Of Nihil, Where Owls Know My Name (Metal Blade)
300 sold

A 6% drop.









Righteous Vendetta, Cursed (Century Media)
300 sold

10,000 sold.









Earthless, Black Heaven (Nuclear Blast)
200 sold

About the same sold as last week.









Kalmah, Palo (Spinefarm)
150 sold

A 74% drop in week two.

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www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8400736/billboard-200-chart-moves-pentatonix-beyonce-metallica

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Pentatonix Earns Eighth Top 10 Album With 'PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. 1'
4/28/2018 by Keith Caulfield

On the latest Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 28), Jason Aldean nabbed his fourth consecutive No. 1 with Rearview Town. The set earned 183,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 162,000 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 rest of the Billboard 200:

-- Pentatonix, PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. 1 – No. 10 -- The vocal group collects its eighth top 10 album, as PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. 1 enters at No. 10 with 34,000 units, of which 30,000 were in traditional album sales. The act previously visited the top 10 with PTX Vol. IV: Classics (No. 4 in 2017), A Pentatonix Christmas (No. 1, 2017), a self-titled album (No. 1, 2015), That’s Christmas to Me (No. 2, 2014), PTX: Vol. III (No. 5, 2014), PTX: Vol. II (No. 10, 2013) and PTXmas (No. 7, 2013).

-- Metallica, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct & The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited -- Nos. 17 & 18 -- The former re-enters the chart thanks to a jolt of sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer with the band’s ongoing tour (21,000 units; up 921 percent — of which 19,000 were in traditional album sales; up 1,597 percent).

Meanwhile, the group’s 1987 set The 5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited hits a new high, as a new remastered edition of the effort (released on April 13), pushes the title back onto the list at No. 18 (20,000 units, up from a negligible figure the week previous). Nearly all of its units were in traditional album sales. The album -- out of print for essentially the last 30 years -- originally peaked at No. 28 in 1987. The new revamped version of the five-song covers set was available in a variety of formats and special editions, including 180 gram black vinyl, a limited edition cassette, a picture disc, and a red-orange 180 gram vinyl LP (among a number of other formats). In the week ending April 19, the Garage EP sold 8,000 copies on vinyl, 8,000 on CD, 2,000 digital albums, and 1,000 on cassette.

-- Tinashe, Joyride -- No. 58 -- The singer’s second studio album bows at No. 58, earning 10,000 units, of which 5,000 were in traditional album sales. Her first studio set, Aquarius, debuted and peaked at No. 3 in 2014. In between those sets, she charted with the mixtape Nightride, which topped out at No. 8 in 2016.

-- Beyoncé, Lemonade -- No. 91 -- Following Beyoncé’s performance at Coachella on April 14, the diva’s last album, Lemonade, jumps back onto the list with 7,000 units (up 131 percent). She also returns with her self-titled album at No. 138 (6,000 units; up 61 percent) and I Am… Sasha Fierce at No. 160 (5,000 units; up 19 percent).

-- J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive -- No. 67 -- Concurrent with the publicity surrounding the release of J. Cole’s new album, KOD, on April 20, his 2014 Forest Hills Drive set -- released in 2014 -- vaults 100-67 with 9,000 units (up 27 percent). His last studio effort, 2016’s 4 Your Eyez Only, re-enters the chart at No. 153 with 5,000 units (up 31 percent).