Billboard 200 - 7/14/18 - The Week Of Drake

[Gary]

Drake's 'Scorpion' Set for Biggest Debut of 2018 & No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart
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Drake’s Scorpion is set to sizzle at No. 1 on next week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, according to industry forecasters.

Those in the know suggest his latest effort could debut atop the list with over 700,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 5. That would mark the biggest week for an album in 2018 and the largest for any set since Taylor Swift’s reputation. debuted at No. 1 on the Dec. 2, 2017-dated list with 1.238 million units, according to Nielsen Music. Currently, the biggest week of 2018 belongs to Post Malone's beerbongs & bentleys, which debuted at No. 1 with 461,000 units on the chart dated May 12.

Scorpion was released on June 29 via Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records. If the set opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, it will grant Drake his eighth total and consecutive leader on the tally. All seven of his previous full-length albums debuted at No. 1.


The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multimetric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The top 10 of the July 14-dated Billboard 200 chart (where Drake will likely debut at No. 1) is scheduled to be revealed on Billboard’s websites on Sunday, July 8.

Much of Scorpion’s big opening week will be powered by streams, as the set could launch with over 700 million on-demand streams for its songs in the U.S., according to forecasters. Scorpion has already -- according to sources -- broken the one-week U.S. streaming record, having garnered over 435 million streams for its tracks in its first three days. That surpasses the previous record for a week, set by beerbongs & bentleys, which earned 431.3 million streams in the week ending May 3, according to Nielsen Music. Notably, Post Malone’s album earned its total over a full seven days of tracking.

Drake attends the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Scorpion's official first-week streaming sum -- along with its overall consumption figure and album sales start -- as collected and verified by Nielsen Music, is slated to be announced on Billboard's websites on July 8.

Scorpion, which is currently available to purchase only as a digital album, might sell 200,000 in traditional album sales. A CD edition of the album is due on July 13.

Drake’s last release, 2017’s More Life, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 505,000 units earned in its first week. Of that sum, 225,000 were in traditional album sales (all from digital sales). More Life launched with 384.8 million on-demand audio streams -- now the third-largest streaming week for an album, behind Post Malone’s beerbongs and Drake’s new Scorpion.

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[Gary]

Drake's 'Scorpion' Is the First Album to Hit 1 Billion Global Streams in a Single Week

7/6/2018 by Kevin Rutherford


The superstar's new album rewrites the mark for the most streams globally in a seven-day period.

Drake's new set Scorpion has become the first album to hit 1 billion streams globally across all streaming platforms in a single week, industry sources have confirmed to Billboard.

In all, Scorpion's tracks accumulated more than 1 billion streams globally in the most recent tracking week (June 29-July 5), the set's first week available, making it the first album to reach the milestone. Previously, Post Malone's beerbongs & bentleys held the global record with just under 700 million streams (April 27-May 3), according to industry insiders.

Additionally, Scorpion scored over 750 million streams U.S.-only in its first seven days, according to sources, likewise smashing the domestic record set by Post Malone's beerbongs (431.3 million, according to Nielsen Music). As previously reported, Scorpion broke beerbongs' record in just its first three days by tallying 435 million U.S. streams from June 29 through July 1. Beerbongs achieved that total over its first seven days, April 27-May 3.

Scorpion's streaming numbers alone should easily send it to a No. 1 launch on the Billboard 200 albums chart dated July 14 with over 700,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its first week, according to industry forecasters, marking the biggest week for an album in 2018 so far.

Final U.S. sales and streaming tabulations according to Nielsen Music will be announced once all data is fully processed, with the top 10 and highlights of the Billboard 200 scheduled to be revealed on Billboard's websites Sunday, July 8. The top 10 and highlights of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart will post the following day, Monday, July 9.

Scorpion's debut coincides with the Billboard 200's first week of employing an updated weighting formula for on-demand audio streams, giving greater emphasis to paid subscription streams. The Hot 100 will also employ this formula beginning with the July 14-dated ranking.

[Gary]

Drake Is Responsible for 5% of Toronto's Tourism Economy, Expert Finds
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By Colin Stutz | July 06, 2018 5:44 PM EDT




Drake's influence on music is huge, having set new streaming records with his latest album, Scorpion, and getting so much support on Spotify it had some customers demanding refunds. But it doesn't stop there.

According to marketing and branding consultant Gordon Hendren in a recent Vice News report, the hip-hop icon's influence is responsible for about 5 percent of the city's $8.8 billion total annual tourism income. That amounts to about $440 million coming in, thanks to his repping his hometown, the Toronto Raptors and various restaurants and clubs around the city.

"He's helped to rebrand the city," Hendren said in the piece. "He's kind of made himself the same as Toronto."

As proof, Vice points to Drake's influence in coining the nickname "The Six" or "The 6ix," his OVO brand, featuring various landmarks and local establishments in music videos and on album art and more. Speaking with Ward 37 Councillor Michael Thompson, he described using Drake as a selling-point to bring a $147 million tech conference to Toronto for the next three years.

"When I mentioned this was home of Drake, the people just kind of went crazy -- just the mere mention of his name," he said. "The native son is here, he's got a great brand, we're gonna kind of hitch ourselves on it a little bit and get pulled up along the way."

[iHype.]

I hope RIAA is implementing these new rules soon too?

What's the point of a Billboard 200 formula that creates different numbers than RIAA will use.

[85la]

RIAA and Billboard are not affiliated with each other. They have always followed slightly different rules.

[iHype.]

Jul 8, 2018 12:50:34 GMT -5 85la said:

RIAA and Billboard are not affiliated with each other. They have always followed slightly different rules.

Yeah, but as far as units go they’ve been aligned.

1500 streams equaled 1 album unit with both.
10 song sales equaled 1 album unit with both.
150 streams equaled 1 song unit with both.
Etc, etc.

Now they have completely different formulas for what equates to an album unit.

RIAA has an agenda against video streams from YouTube/VEVO way more than anybody else in the music industry so I would be surprised if they didn’t follow Billboard’s downweighing of free streams.

[Gary]

Guns N' Roses' 'Appetite for Destruction' Returns to Top 10 on Billboard 200 Chart After Deluxe Reissue
7/8/2018 by Keith Caulfield


The former No. 1 album is back in the top 10 after more than 29 years.
Guns N’ Roses’ classic 1987 debut album, Appetite for Destruction, returns to the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart after more than 29 years. The former No. 1 re-enters the tally (dated July 14) at No. 10, following its deluxe remastered reissue on June 29.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). As of this week, each unit equals one traditional album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from one album (a TEA unit), or 1,250 paid subscription on-demand audio song streams from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported on-demand audio song streams from an album (an SEA unit). (The weighting of an SEA unit was updated with the July 14-dated charts.)

The new July 14-dated chart -- where Appetite jumps back on at No. 10 -- will be posted in full on Billboard's websites on Tuesday, July 10.


For tracking and charting purposes, all versions of Appetite for Destruction are combined, and in the week ending July 5, the album earned 33,000 units (up 1,541 percent).
The album was reissued in a variety of formats: the standard 12-track remastered album, a new deluxe edition with 18 bonus tracks, a double vinyl LP set, a 73-track super deluxe set and a lavish limited edition Locked N’ Loaded box set with four CDs, a blu-ray disc, seven vinyl LPs and seven 7” vinyl singles (among other goodies).

One of the set’s new bonus tunes, a previously unreleased version of the archival track “Shadow of Your Love,” was promoted to radio stations and has peaked at No. 5 on the Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart.
Appetite for Destruction debuted on the Billboard 200 dated Aug. 29, 1987 at No. 182 and eventually reached No. 1 nearly a year later, on the Aug. 6, 1988-dated list. The set spent five nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 and finished 1988 as the No. 6 biggest album on the Billboard 200.

Appetite for Destruction was last in the top 10 a little more than 29 years ago, when it placed at No. 8 on the April 15, 1989-dated tally.

[Gary]

Florence + The Machine, Gorillaz Debut in Top 10 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
7/8/2018 by Keith Caulfield

As Drake’s Scorpion album swoops in to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, Florence + The Machine and Gorillaz log their latest top 10s on the tally with High as Hope and The Now Now, respectively.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). As of this week, each unit equals one traditional album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from one album (a TEA unit), or 1,250 paid subscription on-demand audio song streams from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported on-demand audio song streams from an album (an SEA unit). (The weighting of an SEA unit was updated with the July 14-dated charts.)

The new July 14-dated chart (where Drake, Florence + The Machine and Gorillaz arrive in the top 10) will be posted in full on Billboard's websites on Tuesday, July 10.
As previously reported, Drake’s Scorpion starts at No. 1 with 732,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 5, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 160,000 were in traditional album sales. The album launches with a new one-week U.S. record for on-demand audio streams generated by an album’s songs: 745.9 million.

Florence + The Machine’s High as Hope bows at No. 2 with 84,000 units (74,000 in traditional album sales). High as Hope is the third top 10 effort for the act, following their last album, How Big How Blue How Beautiful in 2015 (No. 1) and Ceremonials (No. 6 in 2011). How Big bowed with 137,000 units, of which 128,000 were in traditional album sales.

High as Hope was ushered in by the single “Hunger,” which has spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart through the most-recently-published list dated July 7.
Post Malone’s former No. 1, beerbongs & bentleys, holds steady at No. 3 with 72,000 units (down 3 percent).

Animated band Gorillaz log its fifth top 10 effort, as The Now Now starts at No. 4 with 63,000 units (52,000 in traditional album sales). The act’s last album, 2017’s Humanz, launched at No. 2 with 140,000 units (115,000 in album sales).


The Now Now was led by the single “Humility,” featuring George Benson, which has so far peaked at No. 26 on the Adult Alternative Songs chart and at No. 30 on the Alternative Songs airplay chart (both dated July 7).
XXXTentacion’s ? moves down one rung on the new Billboard 200 to No. 5 with 62,000 units (down 28 percent), Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy is up two places to No. 6 with 47,000 units (up 10 percent), Juice WRLD’s Goodbye & Good Riddance is stationary at No. 7 with 39,000 units (down 11 percent) and The Carters’ Everything Is Love falls 4-8 with 37,000 units (down 38 percent).

Panic! at the Disco’s Pray for the Wicked drops from No. 1 to No. 9 in its second chart week, with 35,000 units (down 81 percent).

Rounding out the new top 10 is Guns N’ Roses’ former No. 1, Appetite for Destruction. The band’s classic debut album, released in 1987, re-enters the chart at No. 10 following the release of its deluxe remastered reissue on June 29. For tracking and charting purposes, all versions of the album are combined. In the week ending July 5, the album earned 33,000 units (up 1,541 percent).

The album was reissued in a variety of formats: the standard 12-track remastered album, a new deluxe edition with 18 bonus tracks, a double vinyl LP set, a 73-track super deluxe set and a lavish limited edition Locked N’ Loaded box set with four CDs, a blu-ray disc, seven vinyl LPs and seven 7” vinyl singles (among other goodies).

Appetite for Destruction debuted on the Billboard 200 dated Aug. 29, 1987 at No. 182 and eventually reached No. 1 nearly a year later, on the Aug. 6, 1988-dated list. The set spent five nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, and finished 1988 as the No. 6 biggest album on the Billboard 200.

Appetite for Destruction was last in the top 10 a little more than 29 years ago, when it placed at No. 8 on the April 15, 1989-dated tally.

[Gary]

Drake Earns Eighth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Scorpion,' Sets New Streaming Record
7/8/2018 by Keith Caulfield


The album generated 745.9 million on-demand audio streams in the U.S. for its songs in its release week — a new record.

Drake’s Scorpion album makes a smashing, streaming-powered debut atop the Billboard 200 chart, as the set opens with the largest overall week of 2018 for any album.

Scorpion, which was released on June 29 via Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records, bows with 732,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 5 according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 160,000 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 as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). As of this week, each unit equals one traditional album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from one album (a TEA unit), or 1,250 paid subscription on-demand audio song streams from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported on-demand audio song streams from an album (an SEA unit). (The weighting of an SEA unit was updated with the July 14-dated charts.)

The new July 14-dated chart -- where Scorpion debuts at No. 1 -- will be posted in full on Billboard's websites on Tuesday, July 10.
Here’s a look at some of the feats and figures associated with Scorpion’s arrival at No. 1:

Drake’s Eighth No. 1 Album: Scorpion is Drake’s eighth consecutive No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 -- the entirety of his full-length releases. His only charting album to miss the top slot was his debut EP, So Far Gone, which bowed and peaked at No. 6 in 2009.

Drake ties Kanye West and Eminem for the second-most credited No. 1 albums among hip-hop acts in the history of the chart. Only JAY-Z is ahead of them, as he owns 14 chart-toppers. (Among all acts, The Beatles have the most No. 1s with 19.)
Record-Tying Eight Straight No. 1s: Drake has earned all eight of his Billboard 200 No. 1s consecutively, tying West, Eminem and The Beatles for the longest streak of No. 1s. West had most recently joined the exclusive club when Ye bowed atop the June 16-dated chart.

Biggest Streaming Week Ever for an Album: The 25-track Scorpion charges in with a new one-week record for on-demand audio streams generated by an album’s songs: 745.92 million. It beats the previous record-holder, Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys, when it arrived with 431.3 million on the May 12-dated chart. Post Malone now has the second-biggest streaming week.

Drake now has four out of the 10 biggest streaming weeks for an album: Scorpion is No. 1, followed by 2017’s More Life’s debut frame (the No. 3 largest, with 384.84 million), More Life’s second week (No. 6 with 253.49 million) and the opening week of 2016’s Views (No. 7 with 245.09 million).

First Album to Hit 1 Billion Streams for Its Songs Globally in a Single Week: Industry sources previously confirmed to Billboard that Scorpion is the first album to spur 1 billion on-demand audio streams, globally, for its songs in a single week.


Largest Overall Week of 2018 for an Album: Scorpion’s big bow of 732,000 equivalent album units is the biggest week for any album in 2018. It's also the largest since Taylor Swift’s reputation, which started with 1.24 million units at No. 1 (Dec. 2, 2017-dated chart).

The bulk of Scorpion’s starting sum was driven by streams, as it garnered 551,000 SEA units. The remainder of its total unit sum was comprised of 21,000 TEA units and 160,000 in traditional album sales. Drake’s last album, More Life, bowed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 505,000 equivalent album units total, of which 257,000 were SEA units, 23,000 were TEA units and 226,000 were traditional album sales.


Biggest Week for an R&B/Hip-Hop Album in Over Two Years: Scorpion’s start of 732,000 units is the largest week for an R&B/hip-hop album since Drake’s own Views launched with 1.04 million units at No. 1 (on the May 21, 2016-dated chart).
While Scorpion launches with over three times as many streams as Views tallied in its first week (745.9 million vs. 245.9 million), Views was able to earn a bigger overall unit number (1.04 million) because it had a much more robust bow in terms of traditional album sales. Views sold 851,000 albums in its first week, all from digital downloads. (The CD didn’t go on sale until its second week of availability). Comparatively, Scorpion sold 160,000 copies, all via digital download. Scorpion will be issued on CD on July 13.

[fhas]

As expected, Billboard's streaming numbers are lower than HDD's (3%).

[Gary]

BB200

1. Drake 732,000
2. Florence + The Machine 84,000
3. Post Malone 72,000
4. Gorillaz 63,000
5. XXXTentacion 62,000
6. Cardi B 47,000
7. Juice WRLD 37,000
8. Carters 37,000
9. Panic! At The Disco 35,000
10. Guns N Roses 33,000

[Gary]

BB200-sales

1. Drake 160,000
2. Florence + The Machine 74,000
3. Post Malone 7,000
4. Gorillaz 52,000
5. XXXTentacion 3,000
6. Cardi B 3,000
7. Juice WRLD 2,000
8. Carters 7,000
9. Panic! At The Disco 19,000
10. Guns N Roses 29,000

[Mayman]

Congrats to Drake.

[85la]

Jul 8, 2018 13:13:38 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Jul 8, 2018 12:50:34 GMT -5 85la said:

RIAA and Billboard are not affiliated with each other. They have always followed slightly different rules.

Yeah, but as far as units go they’ve been aligned.

1500 streams equaled 1 album unit with both.
10 song sales equaled 1 album unit with both.
150 streams equaled 1 song unit with both.
Etc, etc.

Now they have completely different formulas for what equates to an album unit.

RIAA has an agenda against video streams from YouTube/VEVO way more than anybody else in the music industry so I would be surprised if they didn’t follow Billboard’s downweighing of free streams.

Really? It's my understanding that the RIAA actually counts video streams for album units while Billboard doesn't. That was the only way Reputation was able to go triple platinum.

But historically, the main premise of the RIAA and Billboard/Scoundscan has always differed for physical units: the former counts shipments to retailers, while the latter only counts direct sales to consumers.

[iHype.]

Jul 8, 2018 20:57:54 GMT -5 85la said:

Jul 8, 2018 13:13:38 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Yeah, but as far as units go they’ve been aligned.

1500 streams equaled 1 album unit with both.
10 song sales equaled 1 album unit with both.
150 streams equaled 1 song unit with both.
Etc, etc.

Now they have completely different formulas for what equates to an album unit.

RIAA has an agenda against video streams from YouTube/VEVO way more than anybody else in the music industry so I would be surprised if they didn’t follow Billboard’s downweighing of free streams.

Really? It's my understanding that the RIAA actually counts video streams for album units while Billboard doesn't. That was the only way Reputation was able to go triple platinum.

But historically, the main premise of the RIAA and Billboard/Scoundscan has always differed for physical units: the former counts shipments to retailers, while the latter only counts direct sales to consumers.

Yeah they do count video streams and shipments while Billboard doesn't. However during the sales-only era if an album did 500k first week on Billboard 200, you knew it was eligible for Gold, since it atleast did 500k units in shipments thus far (or else it wouldn't have sold 500k). If an album did 500K SPS first week on Billboard 200, you also knew it was eligible for Gold, since it atleast did 500k units in shipments + streams/1500. 

Now they count streams completely different, so the numbers don't guarantee anything. 500K under Billboard, could be 450K with RIAA. You no longer can say something is Gold eligible because it did 500K under Billboard thus far, or Platinum eligible because it did 1 million under Billboard so far. That will be confusing. 

[badrobot]

This is possibly an unpopular opinion, but does anyone else think their calculation for streaming equivalents is too low?

It seems kind of nuts to me that Drake could have such a record-breaking week for streaming but then "only" have 732k in equivalent sales. The hype and success feels comparable to albums that opened well over 1m in years past.

It seems like streaming has not enough weight on the BB200 and too much weight on the H100...

[Enigma.]

Jul 9, 2018 11:37:45 GMT -5 badrobot said:

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It seems like streaming has not enough weight on the BB200 and too much weight on the H100...

Agree with you totally!

[Choco]

Jul 9, 2018 11:37:45 GMT -5 badrobot said:

This is possibly an unpopular opinion, but does anyone else think their calculation for streaming equivalents is too low?

It seems kind of nuts to me that Drake could have such a record-breaking week for streaming but then "only" have 732k in equivalent sales. The hype and success feels comparable to albums that opened well over 1m in years past.

It seems like streaming has not enough weight on the BB200 and too much weight on the H100...

Yeah, record-breaking streams don't even put this album at reputation levels.

Meanwhile the Hot 100 will be a mess Drake-fest.

[Gary]

BB200


This Week Last Week Two Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 Scorpion , Drake 1
2 0 New 1 High As Hope , Florence + The Machine 2
3 3 4 10 beerbongs & bentleys , Post Malone 1
4 0 New 1 The Now Now , Gorillaz 4
5 2 3 16 ? , XXXTENTACION 1
6 8 9 13 Invasion Of Privacy , Cardi B 1
7 7 8 7 Goodbye & Good Riddance , Juice WRLD 6
8 4 2 3 EVERYTHING IS LOVE , The Carters 2
9 1 – 2 Pray For The Wicked , Panic! At The Disco 1
10 0 Re-Entry 188 Appetite For Destruction , Guns N' Roses 1
11 9 12 30 The Greatest Showman , Soundtrack 1
12 11 15 7 Harder Than Ever , Lil Baby 3
13 5 7 45 17, XXXTENTACION 2
14 15 17 57 This One's For You , Luke Combs 4
15 18 18 35 Red Pill Blues , Maroon 5 2
16 19 21 54 Evolve , Imagine Dragons 2
17 0 New 1 Gravity , Bullet For My Valentine 17
18 16 20 82 Stoney , Post Malone 4
19 21 23 70 ÷ (Divide) , Ed Sheeran 1
20 6 – 2 Dan + Shay , Dan + Shay 6
21 0 New 1 Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album , John Coltrane 21
22 14 11 5 ye , Kanye West 1
23 27 10 12 Rearview Town , Jason Aldean 1
24 23 24 23 Culture II , Migos 1
25 10 1 3 Youngblood , 5 Seconds Of Summer 1
26 22 22 11 KOD , J. Cole 1
27 59 54 10 GG Until Death Call My Name , YoungBoy Never Broke Again 7
28 20 19 6 Shawn Mendes , Shawn Mendes 1
29 29 31 145 Hamilton: An American Musical , Original Broadway Cast Recording 3
30 33 36 34 reputation , Taylor Swift 1
31 13 – 2 Expectations , Bebe Rexha 13
32 31 29 83 Kane Brown , Kane Brown 5
33 32 33 70 American Teen , Khalid 4
34 35 38 64 DAMN. , Kendrick Lamar 1
35 24 25 4 Come Tomorrow , Dave Matthews Band 1
36 25 13 3 Redemption , Jay Rock 13
37 51 49 147 Traveller , Chris Stapleton 1
38 54 61 232 The Essential Michael Jackson , Michael Jackson 38
39 50 73 10 Ready (EP) , Ella Mai 39
40 34 32 7 13 Reasons Why, Season 2 , Soundtrack 26
41 39 39 21 Black Panther: The Album, Music From And Inspired By , Soundtrack 1
42 48 51 43 Life Changes , Thomas Rhett 1
43 43 43 13 Cosmic , Bazzi 14
44 26 14 4 KIDS SEE GHOSTS , KIDS SEE GHOSTS 2
45 53 56 114 Views , Drake 1
46 45 46 25 Camila , Camila Cabello 1
47 30 27 7 Love Yourself: Tear , BTS 1
48 86 86 529 Legend: The Best Of... , Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
49 60 57 85 24K Magic , Bruno Mars 2
50 37 44 14 The World Is Yours , Rich The Kid 2
51 62 64 73 Brett Young , Brett Young 18
52 47 50 68 More Life , Drake 1
53 40 42 45 Luv Is Rage 2 , Lil Uzi Vert 1
54 73 66 295 Greatest Hits , Queen 11
55 65 67 45 Odisea , Ozuna 22
56 41 37 6 Testing , A$AP Rocky 4
57 17 – 2 K.T.S.E. , Teyana Taylor 17
58 46 47 9 SR3MM , Rae Sremmurd, Swae Lee & Slim Jxmmi 6
59 112 102 374 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits , Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty 22
60 64 68 36 Heartbreak On A Full Moon , Chris Brown 3
61 58 58 56 Ctrl , SZA 3
62 71 71 39 Perception , NF 1
63 69 65 53 Dua Lipa , Dua Lipa 27
64 42 45 26 Life Of A Dark Rose , Lil Skies 10
65 67 76 28 Dont Smile At Me , Billie Eilish 65
66 107 93 35 The Thrill Of It All , Sam Smith 1
67 56 112 37 H.E.R. , H.E.R. 56
68 78 77 85 Moana , Soundtrack 2
69 102 100 519 Journey's Greatest Hits , Journey 10
70 84 79 274 Greatest Hits , Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 2
71 55 48 8 Die Lit , Playboi Carti 3
72 82 82 301 Night Visions , Imagine Dragons 2
73 79 81 400 Curtain Call: The Hits , Eminem 1
74 0 Re-Entry 24 Live In No Shoes Nation , Kenny Chesney 1
75 38 157 324 1, The Beatles 1
76 111 96 171 Greatest Hits So Far... , Zac Brown Band 20
77 81 83 279 Take Care , Drake 1
78 70 60 8 Voicenotes , Charlie Puth 4
79 63 62 9 Simi , BlocBoy JB 28
80 101 105 34 Diamonds , Elton John 23
81 76 74 57 hopeless fountain kingdom , Halsey 1
82 77 80 84 Starboy , The Weeknd 1
83 28 30 32 Revenge , XXXTENTACION 28
84 93 90 30 What Makes You Country , Luke Bryan 1
85 66 70 19 DAY69 , 6ix9ine 4
86 74 59 14 My Dear Melancholy, (EP) , The Weeknd 1
87 83 92 40 Tell Me You Love Me , Demi Lovato 3
88 125 125 193 Montevallo , Sam Hunt 3
89 106 107 211 x , Ed Sheeran 1
90 87 72 7 And Justice For None , Five Finger Death Punch 4
91 72 63 46 Project Baby Two , Kodak Black 2
92 116 111 277 Rumours , Fleetwood Mac 1
93 80 75 17 Bobby Tarantino II , Logic 1
94 36 5 3 Nasir , Nas 5
95 121 120 96 Dig Your Roots , Florida Georgia Line 2
96 123 123 186 1989, Taylor Swift 1
97 61 34 4 Superfly (Soundtrack) , Future 25
98 109 109 232 Greatest Hits , Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 8
99 85 52 18 I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best Of MercyMe , MercyMe 23
100 105 95 10 Speak Your Mind , Anne-Marie 31
101 91 98 5 I met you when I was 18. (the playlist) , Lauv 50
102 120 119 164 Blurryface , twenty one pilots 1
103 68 55 7 Reckless , NAV 8
104 90 85 232 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 , Eagles 1
105 108 113 6 Vibras , J Balvin 15
106 103 101 29 The Beautiful & Damned , G-Eazy 3
107 100 99 22 Drip Season 3 , Gunna 55
108 145 148 27 All Time Greatest Hits , Lynyrd Skynyrd 56
109 89 84 10 Graffiti U , Keith Urban 2
110 118 122 149 Beauty Behind The Madness , The Weeknd 1
111 128 133 93 Trolls , Soundtrack 3
112 132 127 105 California Sunrise , Jon Pardi 11
113 150 142 140 Sounds Of Summer:The Very Best Of The Beach Boys , The Beach Boys 16
114 75 26 4 The Mountain , Dierks Bentley 3
115 148 154 139 Tangled Up , Thomas Rhett 6
116 95 94 36 Without Warning , 21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin 4
117 113 118 75 Culture , Migos 1
118 138 131 128 ANTI , Rihanna 1
119 129 155 212 In The Lonely Hour , Sam Smith 2
120 144 152 41 Happy Endings , Old Dominion 7
121 164 165 118 Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits , Blake Shelton 5
122 147 144 315 Back In Black , AC/DC 4
123 88 124 129 Death Of A Bachelor , Panic! At The Disco 1
124 169 163 252 Here's To The Good Times , Florida Georgia Line 4
125 119 121 297 good kid, m.A.A.d city , Kendrick Lamar 2
126 122 117 92 Illuminate , Shawn Mendes 1
127 110 116 96 Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight , Travis Scott 1
128 117 106 16 Love, Simon , Soundtrack 37
129 131 143 244 Nothing Was The Same , Drake 1
130 139 141 31 A Decade Of Destruction , Five Finger Death Punch 29
131 0 New 1 III , Hillsong Young & Free 131
132 130 149 100 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection , Bon Jovi 5
133 124 128 187 2014 Forest Hills Drive , J. Cole 1
134 155 160 135 Greatest Hits , The Notorious B.I.G. 1
135 162 162 10 If I Know Me , Morgan Wallen 72
136 99 53 6 DAYTONA , Pusha T 3
137 96 88 8 Activated , Tee Grizzley 10
138 92 89 13 Dex Meets Dexter , Famous Dex 12
139 196 – 271 Hot Rocks 1964-1971 , The Rolling Stones 4
140 114 138 43 Freudian , Daniel Caesar 25
141 0 New 1 Fight The Good Fight , The Interrupters 141
142 185 181 176 Greatest Hits , Red Hot Chili Peppers 18
143 161 150 490 Metallica , Metallica 1
144 0 Re-Entry 9 Their Greatest Hits: Volumes 1 & 2 , Eagles 86
145 153 136 61 From A Room: Volume 1 , Chris Stapleton 2
146 171 167 259 Mothership , Led Zeppelin 7
147 0 New 1 Gold , Marvin Gaye 147
148 0 Re-Entry 75 The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac , Fleetwood Mac 12
149 160 161 382 Doo-Wops & Hooligans , Bruno Mars 3
150 133 134 61 There's Really A Wolf , Russ 7
151 140 146 33 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates , Daryl Hall John Oates 34
152 57 137 3 International Artist , A Boogie Wit da Hoodie 57
153 126 110 7 Light Of Mine , KYLE 29
154 172 170 65 Memories...Do Not Open , The Chainsmokers 1
155 135 135 19 Beach House 3 , Ty Dolla $ign 11
156 168 169 215 [Hybrid Theory] , Linkin Park 2
157 0 Re-Entry 225 Crash My Party , Luke Bryan 1
158 127 130 37 Love Yourself: Her , BTS 7
159 0 Re-Entry 117 Number One Hits , Tim McGraw 27
160 198 196 55 Woodstock , Portugal. The Man 32
161 0 Re-Entry 166 Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits , Simon & Garfunkel 5
162 190 – 27 The Best Of 2Pac - Part 1: Thug , 2Pac 65
163 137 87 4 NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 11 , Various Artists 44
164 0 Re-Entry 64 The Best That I Could Do 1978 - 1988 , John Mellencamp 33
165 0 Re-Entry 17 The Hits , Billy Joel 34
166 157 171 176 If You're Reading This It's Too Late , Drake 1
167 189 187 137 25, Adele 1
168 179 147 32 From The Fires , Greta Van Fleet 36
169 104 35 3 4275, Jacquees 35
170 0 Re-Entry 137 Gold -- Greatest Hits , ABBA 36
171 149 115 38 Beautiful Trauma , P!nk 1
172 12 – 2 Bad Witch (EP) , Nine Inch Nails 12
173 134 97 4 Bigger , Sugarland 11
174 0 Re-Entry 119 Greatest Hits II , Kenny Chesney 3
175 180 145 31 From A Room: Volume 2 , Chris Stapleton 2
176 183 199 137 Purpose , Justin Bieber 1
177 182 185 54 Grateful , DJ Khaled 1
178 166 172 104 Dangerous Woman , Ariana Grande 2
179 0 Re-Entry 61 Collage (EP) , The Chainsmokers 6
180 173 177 29 Too Hard , Lil Baby 80
181 0 Re-Entry 132 Greatest Hits: Decade #1 , Carrie Underwood 4
182 167 173 145 T R A P S O U L , Bryson Tiller 8
183 181 179 109 Smoke + Mirrors , Imagine Dragons 1
184 154 159 41 Trip , Jhene Aiko 5
185 0 Re-Entry 49 All-Time Greatest Hits , Neil Diamond 15
186 0 Re-Entry 150 Sublime , Sublime 13
187 0 Re-Entry 38 GEMINI , Macklemore 2
188 174 200 31 War & Leisure , Miguel 9
189 0 Re-Entry 45 Greatest Hits , Bruce Springsteen 1
190 0 Re-Entry 138 Greatest Hits , Foo Fighters 11
191 159 158 115 The Life Of deleted , Kanye West 1
192 151 139 3 Master The Day Of Judgement , YoungBoy Never Broke Again 139
193 0 Re-Entry 108 Ripcord , Keith Urban 4
194 175 178 112 Coloring Book , Chance The Rapper 8
195 191 – 4 Sacred Hearts Club , Foster The People 47
196 176 180 8 Disobey , Bad Wolves 23
197 186 192 14 Golden Hour , Kacey Musgraves 4
198 152 126 70 Vault: Greatest Hits 1980-1995 , Def Leppard 15
199 141 140 40 The Bigger Artist , A Boogie Wit da Hoodie 4
200 0 New 1 Uniform Distortion , Jim James 200

[areyoureadytojump]

Debut week for sales are doing well this year (and due to a strong release schedule):

TOP SALES WEEKS 2018

Number of 100,000+ sales weeks: this year - 15 / last year - 12
Number of 100,000+ debut sales weeks: this year - 13 / last year - 12

Rank - Chart Date - Sales - Title - Artist

01 - 06-23-18 - 285,000* - COME TOMORROW - Dave Matthews Band
02 - 02-17-18 - 242,218 - MAN OF THE WOODS - Justin Timberlake
03 - 05-05-18 - 174,207 - KOD - J Cole
04 - 04-28-18 - 162,498 - REARVIEW TOWN - Jason Aldean
05 - 07-14-18 - 159,771 - SCORPION - Drake
06 - 05-12-18 - 152,858 - BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS - Post Malone
07 - 07-07-18 - 151,000* - PRAY FOR THE WICKED - Panic At The Disco
08 - 06-09-18 - 142,000* - SHAWN MENDES - Shawn Mendes
09 - 05-12-18 - 136,836 - GRAFFITI U - Keith Urban
10 - 05-28-18 - 135,222 - BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA - P!nk
11 - 04-07-18 - 120,612 - BOARDING HOUSE REACH - Jack White
12 - 03-10-18 - 119,965 - THIS HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE - Bon Jovi
13 - 02-03-18 - 117,000* - YOUNGBLOODS - 5 Seconds Of Summer
14 - 02-03-18 - 116,528 - M A N I A - Fall Out Boy
15 - 04-21-18 - 102,810 - INVASION OF PRIVACY - Cardi B

* Exact number not known

[areyoureadytojump]

SPS down a bit

TOP SPS WEEKS 2018

Number of 200,000+ equivalent sales weeks: this year - 7 / last year - 9

Rank - Chart Date - ESU - Title - Artist

01 - 07-14-18 - 732,000 - SCORPION - Drake
02 - 05-12-18 - 461,000 - BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS - Post Malone
03 - 05-05-18 - 397,000 - KOD - J Cole
04 - 02-17-18 - 293,000 - MAN OF THE WOODS - Justin Timberlake
05 - 06-23-18 - 292,000 - COME TOMORROW - Dave Matthews Band
06 - 04-21-18 - 255,000 - INVASION OF PRIVACY - Cardi B
07 - 06-16-18 - 208,000 - YE - Kanye West

Thanks to oldbloke for these two charts!

[Gary]

Top Album Sales

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 Scorpion , Drake 1
2 0 New 1 High As Hope , Florence + The Machine 2
3 0 New 1 The Now Now , Gorillaz 3
4 0 Re-Entry 33 Appetite For Destruction , Guns N' Roses 4
5 0 New 1 Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album , John Coltrane 5
6 0 New 1 Gravity , Bullet For My Valentine 6
7 5 7 30 The Greatest Showman , Soundtrack 1
8 1 – 2 Pray For The Wicked , Panic! At The Disco 1
9 6 8 4 Come Tomorrow , Dave Matthews Band 1
10 16 5 12 Rearview Town , Jason Aldean 1
11 0 Re-Entry 30 Live In No Shoes Nation , Kenny Chesney 1
12 7 1 3 Youngblood , 5 Seconds Of Summer 1
13 4 2 3 EVERYTHING IS LOVE , The Carters 2
14 11 24 54 Evolve , Imagine Dragons 1
15 13 15 10 beerbongs & bentleys , Post Malone 1
16 19 22 48 This One's For You , Luke Combs 3
17 0 New 1 Fight The Good Fight , The Interrupters 17
18 17 19 7 Love Yourself: Tear , BTS 1
19 18 17 4 NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 11 , Various Artists 8
20 23 30 144 Hamilton: An American Musical , Original Broadway Cast Recording 2
21 3 – 2 Dan + Shay , Dan + Shay 3
22 2 – 2 Bad Witch (EP) , Nine Inch Nails 2
23 29 25 7 And Justice For None , Five Finger Death Punch 2
24 25 20 18 I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best Of MercyMe , MercyMe 6
25 20 21 6 Shawn Mendes , Shawn Mendes 1
26 0 New 1 Uniform Distortion , Jim James 26
27 32 35 70 ÷ (Divide) , Ed Sheeran 1
28 38 48 34 reputation , Taylor Swift 1
29 35 36 9 NOW 66 , Various Artists 6
30 31 37 239 Greatest Hits , Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 8
31 30 32 10 Graffiti U , Keith Urban 2
32 36 38 75 Kane Brown , Kane Brown 4
33 0 Re-Entry 31 The Thrill Of It All , Sam Smith 1
34 40 39 191 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 , Soundtrack 1
35 37 43 147 Traveller , Chris Stapleton 1
36 50 45 34 From The Fires , Greta Van Fleet 13
37 61 68 372 Legend: The Best Of... , Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
38 0 New 1 III , Hillsong Young & Free 38
39 24 10 4 The Mountain , Dierks Bentley 2
40 41 29 5 Prequelle , Ghost 2
41 45 53 23 Love Yourself: Her , BTS 6
42 27 16 6 ? , XXXTENTACION 5
43 67 59 459 Metallica , Metallica 1
44 46 51 63 Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 , Soundtrack 2
45 63 65 13 Invasion Of Privacy , Cardi B 1
46 8 – 2 Expectations , Bebe Rexha 8
47 28 3 3 Liberation , Christina Aguilera 3
48 56 47 31 From A Room: Volume 2 , Chris Stapleton 2
49 59 50 61 From A Room: Volume 1 , Chris Stapleton 1
50 44 34 4 Bigger , Sugarland 4
51 0 New 1 What's That Sound?: Complete Albums Collection , The Buffalo Springfield 51
52 88 84 54 Icon: Lynyrd Skynyrd , Lynyrd Skynyrd 47
53 71 69 10 When Legends Rise , Godsmack 5
54 92 – 141 Gold -- Greatest Hits , ABBA 36
55 82 72 263 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits , Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty 22
56 0 Re-Entry 23 Lifer , MercyMe 4
57 26 4 3 Nasir , Nas 4
58 64 40 38 Beautiful Trauma , P!nk 1
59 80 74 30 What Makes You Country , Luke Bryan 1
60 39 41 246 Greatest Hits , Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 2
61 0 New 1 Our Country: Americana Act 2 , Ray Davies 61
62 22 – 2 Heaven And Earth , Kamasi Washington 22
63 76 80 169 Night Visions , Imagine Dragons 2
64 0 New 1 The Oven , Upchurch And Demun Jones 64
65 49 – 39 Precious Memories Collection , Alan Jackson 9
66 0 New 1 Indigo Girls Live With The University Of Colorado Symphony , Indigo Girls With The University Of Colorado Symphony 66
67 58 – 2 Vans Warped Tour '18 Presented By Journeys , Various Artists 58
68 83 77 26 Crystal Visions... The Very Best Of Stevie Nicks , Stevie Nicks 21
69 0 Re-Entry 29 Icon: Eric Clapton , Eric Clapton 66
70 51 26 4 Superfly (Soundtrack) , Future 24
71 84 89 84 24K Magic , Bruno Mars 2
72 75 95 64 DAMN. , Kendrick Lamar 1
73 69 73 11 KOD , J. Cole 1
74 94 – 54 All-Time Greatest Hits , Neil Diamond 15
75 96 97 340 Journey's Greatest Hits , Journey 18
76 89 91 22 Red Pill Blues , Maroon 5 2
77 91 94 14 Songs You Know By Heart: Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hit(s) , Jimmy Buffett 77
78 87 96 190 [Hybrid Theory] , Linkin Park 2
79 90 78 201 The Dark Side Of The Moon , Pink Floyd 10
80 81 85 84 Moana , Soundtrack 1
81 98 – 52 Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits , Simon & Garfunkel 36
82 74 57 9 ATTENTION ATTENTION , Shinedown 2
83 0 New 1 In A Truck Right Now (EP) , Riley Green 83
84 93 81 98 Rumours , Fleetwood Mac 11
85 0 New 1 All The Things That I Did And All The Things That I Didn't Do , The Milk Carton Kids 85
86 0 Re-Entry 20 The Rest Of Our Life , Tim McGraw & Faith Hill 2
87 0 New 1 Vanished Gardens , Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams 87
88 0 New 1 Beautiful Ruin (EP) , Converge 88
89 60 13 3 Redemption , Jay Rock 13
90 0 New 1 Live On Red Barn Radio I & II , Tyler Childers 90
91 0 New 1 Greetings From The Neon Frontier , The Wild Feathers 91
92 0 Re-Entry 127 Sounds Of Summer:The Very Best Of The Beach Boys , The Beach Boys 16
93 70 – 80 Death Of A Bachelor , Panic! At The Disco 1
94 86 – 29 A Decade Of Destruction , Five Finger Death Punch 20
95 47 12 3 The Blues Is Alive And Well , Buddy Guy 12
96 0 Re-Entry 126 Master Of Puppets , Metallica 13
97 0 Re-Entry 338 Greatest Hits , Guns N' Roses 3
98 0 Re-Entry 11 The Best Of ABBA: 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection , ABBA 83
99 0 Re-Entry 2 Foreigner With The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus , Foreigner With The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 53
100 9 – 2 Passwords , Dawes 9

[Gary]

Vinyl

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 New 1 #1 The Now Now , Gorillaz 1
2 0 New 1 Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album , John Coltrane 2
3 0 New 1 High As Hope , Florence + The Machine 3
4 0 New 1 Appetite For Destruction , Guns N' Roses 4
5 0 New 1 Come Tomorrow , Dave Matthews Band 5
6 0 New 1 Uniform Distortion , Jim James 6
7 0 New 1 Fight The Good Fight , The Interrupters 7
8 0 New 1 Beautiful Ruin (EP) , Converge 8
9 1 – 2 Pray For The Wicked , Panic! At The Disco 1
10 0 New 1 Live On Red Barn Radio I & II , Tyler Childers 10
11 2 – 2 Bad Witch (EP) , Nine Inch Nails 2
12 0 New 1 What's That Sound?: Complete Albums Collection , The Buffalo Springfield 12
13 10 4 67 The Dark Side Of The Moon , Pink Floyd 2
14 7 6 284 Abbey Road , The Beatles 1
15 8 10 85 Purple Rain (Soundtrack) , Prince And The Revolution 1
16 0 New 1 Live At The Roxy , Social Distortion 16
17 16 12 86 Thriller , Michael Jackson 3
18 9 5 135 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 , Soundtrack 1
19 4 – 2 Heaven And Earth , Kamasi Washington 4
20 13 15 162 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers , Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
21 12 9 11 Greatest Hits , Queen 9
22 11 14 100 Rumours , Fleetwood Mac 3
23 23 16 5 Prequelle , Ghost 2
24 18 – 167 Back To Black , Amy Winehouse 1
25 0 New 1 The Steven Wilson Remixes , Yes 25

[Gary]

Catalog

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Re-Entry 472 #1 Appetite For Destruction , Guns N' Roses 1
2 2 1 285 The Essential Michael Jackson , Michael Jackson 1
3 8 8 1316 Legend: The Best Of... , Bob Marley And The Wailers 1
4 3 2 626 Greatest Hits , Queen 1
5 15 11 955 GG Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits , Creedence Clearwater Revival Featuring John Fogerty 1
6 11 10 1159 Journey's Greatest Hits , Journey 1
7 7 3 606 Greatest Hits , Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers 1
8 6 5 132 Night Visions , Imagine Dragons 1
9 4 4 289 Curtain Call: The Hits , Eminem 1
10 1 38 555 1, The Beatles 1
11 14 9 68 Greatest Hits So Far... , Zac Brown Band 5
12 5 6 121 Take Care , Drake 1
13 23 21 83 Montevallo , Sam Hunt 1
14 12 12 101 x , Ed Sheeran 1
15 16 14 216 Rumours , Fleetwood Mac 1
16 19 16 19 Dig Your Roots , Florida Georgia Line 13
17 21 19 74 1989, Taylor Swift 1
18 13 13 812 Greatest Hits , Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 1
19 10 7 458 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 , Eagles 1
20 31 32 189 All Time Greatest Hits , Lynyrd Skynyrd 2
21 17 18 36 Beauty Behind The Madness , The Weeknd 2
22 24 27 11 Trolls , Soundtrack 15
23 34 28 177 Sounds Of Summer:The Very Best Of The Beach Boys , The Beach Boys 1
24 33 36 29 Tangled Up , Thomas Rhett 22
25 29 25 31 ANTI , Rihanna 6
26 25 37 83 In The Lonely Hour , Sam Smith 1
27 42 43 36 Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits , Blake Shelton 27
28 32 30 932 Back In Black , AC/DC 1
29 9 20 50 Death Of A Bachelor , Panic! At The Disco 5
30 46 42 83 Here's To The Good Times , Florida Georgia Line 5
31 18 17 151 good kid, m.A.A.d city , Kendrick Lamar 1
32 20 15 13 Illuminate , Shawn Mendes 5
33 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight , Travis Scott 33
34 27 29 73 Nothing Was The Same , Drake 9
35 26 33 44 Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection , Bon Jovi 1
36 22 23 60 2014 Forest Hills Drive , J. Cole 2
37 36 40 91 Greatest Hits , The Notorious B.I.G. 1
38 0 Re-Entry 37 Hot Rocks 1964-1971 , The Rolling Stones 2
39 0 Re-Entry 102 Greatest Hits , Red Hot Chili Peppers 2
40 41 34 860 Metallica , Metallica 1
41 47 44 219 Mothership , Led Zeppelin 1
42 0 New 1 Gold , Marvin Gaye 42
43 0 Re-Entry 35 The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac , Fleetwood Mac 3
44 40 41 232 Doo-Wops & Hooligans , Bruno Mars 1
45 30 31 39 The Very Best Of Daryl Hall John Oates , Daryl Hall John Oates 1
46 45 46 381 [Hybrid Theory] , Linkin Park 1
47 0 Re-Entry 47 Crash My Party , Luke Bryan 17
48 0 Re-Entry 36 Number One Hits , Tim McGraw 2
49 0 Re-Entry 211 Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits , Simon & Garfunkel 4
50 0 Re-Entry 11 The Best Of 2Pac - Part 1: Thug , 2Pac 18

[Gary]

Current

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 #1 Scorpion , Drake 1
2 0 New 1 High As Hope , Florence + The Machine 2
3 0 New 1 The Now Now , Gorillaz 3
4 0 New 1 Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album , John Coltrane 4
5 0 New 1 Gravity , Bullet For My Valentine 5
6 5 7 30 The Greatest Showman , Soundtrack 1
7 1 – 2 Pray For The Wicked , Panic! At The Disco 1
8 6 8 4 Come Tomorrow , Dave Matthews Band 1
9 16 5 12 GG Rearview Town , Jason Aldean 1
10 0 Re-Entry 33 Live In No Shoes Nation , Kenny Chesney 1
11 7 1 3 Youngblood , 5 Seconds Of Summer 1
12 4 2 3 EVERYTHING IS LOVE , The Carters 2
13 11 24 54 Evolve , Imagine Dragons 1
14 13 15 10 beerbongs & bentleys , Post Malone 1
15 19 22 57 This One's For You , Luke Combs 2
16 0 New 1 Fight The Good Fight , The Interrupters 16
17 17 19 7 Love Yourself: Tear , BTS 1
18 18 17 4 NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 11 , Various Artists 8
19 23 30 145 Hamilton: An American Musical , Original Broadway Cast Recording 2
20 3 – 2 Dan + Shay , Dan + Shay 3
21 2 – 2 Bad Witch (EP) , Nine Inch Nails 2
22 29 25 7 And Justice For None , Five Finger Death Punch 2
23 25 20 18 I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best Of MercyMe , MercyMe 6
24 20 21 6 Shawn Mendes , Shawn Mendes 1
25 0 New 1 Uniform Distortion , Jim James 25
26 31 34 70 ÷ (Divide) , Ed Sheeran 1
27 36 43 34 reputation , Taylor Swift 1
28 33 35 9 NOW 66 , Various Artists 6
29 30 32 10 Graffiti U , Keith Urban 2
30 34 36 81 Kane Brown , Kane Brown 3
31 0 Re-Entry 32 The Thrill Of It All , Sam Smith 1
32 35 39 150 Traveller , Chris Stapleton 1
33 44 41 34 From The Fires , Greta Van Fleet 13
34 0 New 1 III , Hillsong Young & Free 34
35 24 10 4 The Mountain , Dierks Bentley 2
36 37 29 5 Prequelle , Ghost 2
37 40 48 28 Love Yourself: Her , BTS 5
38 27 16 6 ? , XXXTENTACION 5
39 41 46 63 Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 , Soundtrack 2
40 55 58 13 Invasion Of Privacy , Cardi B 1
41 8 – 2 Expectations , Bebe Rexha 8
42 28 3 3 Liberation , Christina Aguilera 3
43 49 42 31 From A Room: Volume 2 , Chris Stapleton 2
44 52 45 61 From A Room: Volume 1 , Chris Stapleton 1
45 39 33 4 Bigger , Sugarland 4
46 0 New 1 What's That Sound?: Complete Albums Collection , The Buffalo Springfield 46
47 61 61 10 When Legends Rise , Godsmack 5
48 0 Re-Entry 33 Lifer , MercyMe 4
49 26 4 3 Nasir , Nas 4
50 56 37 38 Beautiful Trauma , P!nk 1
51 67 65 30 What Makes You Country , Luke Bryan 1
52 0 New 1 Our Country: Americana Act 2 , Ray Davies 52
53 22 – 2 Heaven And Earth , Kamasi Washington 22
54 0 New 1 The Oven , Upchurch And Demun Jones 54
55 43 95 45 Precious Memories Collection , Alan Jackson 9
56 0 New 1 Indigo Girls Live With The University Of Colorado Symphony , Indigo Girls With The University Of Colorado Symphony 56
57 51 – 2 Vans Warped Tour '18 Presented By Journeys , Various Artists 51
58 45 26 4 Superfly (Soundtrack) , Future 24
59 69 74 85 24K Magic , Bruno Mars 2
60 65 77 64 DAMN. , Kendrick Lamar 1
61 60 64 11 KOD , J. Cole 1
62 72 75 30 Red Pill Blues , Maroon 5 2
63 68 71 85 Moana , Soundtrack 1
64 64 52 9 ATTENTION ATTENTION , Shinedown 2
65 0 New 1 In A Truck Right Now (EP) , Riley Green 65
66 0 New 1 All The Things That I Did And All The Things That I Didn't Do , The Milk Carton Kids 66
67 0 Re-Entry 23 The Rest Of Our Life , Tim McGraw & Faith Hill 2
68 0 New 1 Vanished Gardens , Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams 68
69 0 New 1 Beautiful Ruin (EP) , Converge 69
70 53 13 3 Redemption , Jay Rock 13
71 0 New 1 Live On Red Barn Radio I & II , Tyler Childers 71
72 0 New 1 Greetings From The Neon Frontier , The Wild Feathers 72
73 71 79 31 A Decade Of Destruction , Five Finger Death Punch 16
74 42 12 3 The Blues Is Alive And Well , Buddy Guy 12
75 92 98 5 Foreigner With The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus , Foreigner With The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 49
76 9 – 2 Passwords , Dawes 9
77 81 94 34 Diamonds , Elton John 11
78 59 56 12 The Tree Of Forgiveness , John Prine 4
79 84 62 9 Good Thing , Leon Bridges 1
80 0 New 1 A Matter Of Time , Protoje 80
81 77 93 14 Golden Hour , Kacey Musgraves 2
82 12 – 2 K.T.S.E. , Teyana Taylor 12
83 0 Re-Entry 2 Bare Feet , Caroline Jones 77
84 63 27 5 ye , Kanye West 1
85 79 87 24 Kidz Bop 37 , Kidz Bop Kids 3
86 80 85 12 Ember , Breaking Benjamin 2
87 78 73 8 Voicenotes , Charlie Puth 2
88 14 – 2 All Of This Life , The Record Company 14
89 62 44 4 Good Man , Ne-Yo 15
90 99 – 9 Dirty Computer , Janelle Monae 3
91 83 81 21 Black Panther: The Album, Music From And Inspired By , Soundtrack 2
92 58 18 4 KIDS SEE GHOSTS , KIDS SEE GHOSTS 3
93 90 – 42 Life Changes , Thomas Rhett 1
94 98 92 22 NOW 65 , Various Artists 3
95 88 66 10 Last Man Standing , Willie Nelson 6
96 0 Re-Entry 2 Goodbye & Good Riddance , Juice WRLD 95
97 46 6 3 Post Traumatic , Mike Shinoda 6
98 0 Re-Entry 2 Welcome To The Blackout (Live London '78) , David Bowie 39
99 87 84 64 Stoney , Post Malone 17
100 89 83 11 Port Saint Joe , Brothers Osborne 6

[Gary]

Digital Albums

This Week Last Week Two Weeks Ago Weeks Title, Artist Peak
1 0 Hot Shot Debut 1 Scorpion , Drake 1
2 0 New 1 High As Hope , Florence + The Machine 2
3 0 New 1 The Now Now , Gorillaz 3
4 4 6 30 The Greatest Showman , Soundtrack 1
5 0 New 1 Gravity , Bullet For My Valentine 5
6 2 1 3 EVERYTHING IS LOVE , The Carters 1
7 1 – 2 Pray For The Wicked , Panic! At The Disco 1
8 0 New 1 Appetite For Destruction , Guns N' Roses 8
9 0 New 1 Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album , John Coltrane 9
10 14 15 10 beerbongs & bentleys , Post Malone 1
11 8 11 4 Come Tomorrow , Dave Matthews Band 2
12 15 19 54 Evolve , Imagine Dragons 1
13 0 New 1 III , Hillsong Young & Free 13
14 21 23 13 GG Invasion Of Privacy , Cardi B 1
15 20 – 127 Hamilton: An American Musical , Original Broadway Cast Recording 1
16 12 2 3 Nasir , Nas 2
17 13 9 6 ? , XXXTENTACION 1
18 0 New 1 The Oven , Upchurch And Demun Jones 18
19 0 New 1 Fight The Good Fight , The Interrupters 19
20 0 New 1 In A Truck Right Now (EP) , Riley Green 20
21 3 – 2 Dan + Shay , Dan + Shay 3
22 0 Re-Entry 18 reputation , Taylor Swift 1
23 0 Re-Entry 7 This One's For You , Luke Combs 2
24 7 – 2 K.T.S.E. , Teyana Taylor 7
25 24 13 5 ye , Kanye West 1

[Gary]

John Coltrane Earns Highest-Charting Album Ever on Billboard 200 With 'The Lost Album'

News

By Xander Zellner | July 10, 2018 12:31 PM EDT
John Coltrane


The set, recorded in 1963, also notches Coltrane his fourth No. 1 on Jazz Albums.

51 years after his death in 1967, jazz icon John Coltrane earns his first top 40-charting album on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and his fourth No. 1 on the Jazz Albums tally both dated July 14) with his newly discovered set Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album.

The album, which Coltrane originally recorded in 1963 with his Classic Quartet, debuts with 22,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending July 5, according to Nielsen Music. 21,000 of that sum were in traditional album units, helping the set also arrive at No. 5 on Top Album Sales and No. 1 on the Traditional Jazz Albums charts.

The sales sum gives Coltrane his biggest sales week as a soloist since Nielsen Music began tracking sales in 1991. Furthermore, it's his biggest sales week overall since Christmas week of 2005, when his collaboration with the Thelonious Monk Quartet, At Carnegie Hall, sold 28,000 copies (in the week ending Dec. 25).

Coltrane has earned five additional entries on the Billboard 200. Expression peaked at No. 194 in November 1967; Sun Ship reached No. 186 in November 1971; At Carnegie Hall with the Monk Quartet hit No. 107 in October 2005; Opus Collection: A Man Called Train hit No. 107 in June 2008; and Miles Davis and Coltrane’s The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 peaked at No. 187 three months ago in April.

It’s worth noting that some of Coltrane’s most famous albums never charted on the Billboard 200, including 1960's Giant Steps, 1961's Lush Life and 1964’s A Love Supreme (all of which have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame).

The new album also earns Coltrane his fourth No. 1 on both the Traditional Jazz Albums chart and the overall Jazz Albums chart. He previously hit No. 1 with The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 and The Final Tour: Copenhagen, March 24, 1960 (both in 2018) and also The Roulette Sides EP in 2016.

The Jazz Albums chart ranks the top selling contemporary and traditional jazz albums of the week in the U.S. Those two sub-categories of jazz are also represented, respectively, on Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Albums and Traditional Jazz Albums charts. The former launched in 1987, while the latter list started in 1967.

Coltrane died of liver cancer at the age of 40 in Huntington, New York, on July 17, 1967.

[Enigma.]

Many rap albums took a significant tumble when Drake released lol, for example

83 28 30 32 Revenge , XXXTENTACION 28
85 66 70 19 DAY69 , 6ix9ine 4
91 72 63 46 Project Baby Two , Kodak Black 2
93 80 75 17 Bobby Tarantino II , Logic 1
94 36 5 3 Nasir , Nas 5
97 61 34 4 Superfly (Soundtrack) , Future 25

Even his own More Life dropped in positions

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Given that Billboard uses Nielsen's numbers and Scorpion was affected:

NIELSEN IS VERY WITHHOLDING

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Some biz folks are going crazy over the inconsistency of Nielsen’s metrics when it comes to measuring streams.

During the first few hours after a record drops—after midnight ET but still Thursday in other time zones—why does Nielsen count sales but not streams? It’s long been their policy to add downloads that happen during this three-hour window to a release’s first-week total, but streams aren't counted in that same tally.

This came to a head with Drake’s Scorpion, which came in with 746m streams on the Top 200, well shy of the 770m tabulated by HITS; the discrepancy can almost completely be attributed to Thursday-night streams. Don’t Nielsen and the Bible understand that bigger numbers are better for everyone? What possible rationale could they have for this inconsistent, silly policy?