Billboard 200 - 7/31/21 - Pop Smoke

[Gary]

Pop Smoke’s ‘Faith’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
By Keith Caulfield
7/25/2021
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Plus: John Mayer bows at No. 2 with “Sob Rock.”
Pop Smoke’s second posthumous album, Faith, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, garnering the rapper his second leader. The guest-laden collection was released on July 16 and starts with 88,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 22, according to MRC Data.

The standard 20-track Faith features more than 20 guest stars, including Chris Brown, Future, Dua Lipa and Kanye West. A deluxe version of Faith, with four bonus tracks, was released on July 21.

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 comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new July 31, 2021-dated chart (where Faith debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard's website on July 27. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.



Of Faith’s 88,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending July 22, SEA units comprise 83,000 (equaling 113.34 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks), album sales comprise 4,000 and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Pop Smoke previously topped the Billboard 200 with Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, which opened at No. 1 on the list dated July 18, 2020, and spent two nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart. The set, which was billed as the rapper’s first studio album, went on to be the No. 3 most popular album of 2020, according to MRC Data. It also won the 2021 Billboard Music Award for Top Billboard 200 Album. On the latest Billboard 200, Shoot jumps 11-9 with 28,000 units (up 5%).

All told, Faith is Pop Smoke’s fourth charting album, and third top 10. He also landed in the region with the mixtape Meet the Woo, V.2 (debuting and peaking at No. 7 on the Feb. 22, 2020, chart) and Meet the Woo, V.1 Mixtape (No. 105 peak on March 7, 2020).

Pop Smoke was killed on Feb. 19, 2020, at age 20, after being shot during a home-invasion robbery in Los Angeles.


John Mayer notches his 10th top 10 album on the Billboard 200, as the singer-songwriter’s latest studio release, Sob Rock, debuts at No. 2 with 84,000 equivalent album units earned.

Of Sob Rock’s starting sum of 84,000 units, album sales comprise 61,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week), SEA units comprise 22,000 (equaling 28.59 million on-demand streams of the album’s tracks) and TEA units comprise 1,000.

Mayer previously visited the top 10 with: The Search for Everything (No. 2 in 2017); The Search for Everything: Wave One (No. 2, 2017); Paradise Valley (No. 2, 2013); Born and Raised (No. 1, 2012); Battle Studies (No. 1, 2009); Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles (No. 5, 2008); Continuum (No. 2, 2006); Heavier Things (No. 1, 2003); and Room for Squares (No. 8, 2003).

Olivia Rodrigo’s former leader Sour slips 1-3 on the Billboard 200 with 77,000 equivalent album units (down 7%), while Doja Cat’s Planet Her dips 2-4 with 59,000 units (down 2%). Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album falls 3-5 with 44,000 units (down 1%), Lil Baby and Lil Durk’s former No. 1 The Voice of the Heroes descends 4-6 with 36,000 units (down 13%), and Polo G’s chart-topper Hall of Fame dips 5-7 with 33,000 units (down 10%).

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia falls 6-8 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned (down 1%), Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, as noted above, rises 11-9 with 28,000 (up 5%) and Bo Burnham’s Inside (The Songs) falls 9-10 with 25,000 (down 8%).

[iHype.]

Olivia and her team should've attempted to go #1 this week. Hopefully they do so next week.

Blockbuster albums having runs at #1 > albums that will probably be forgotten within 2 months having a debut atop.

[Gary]

1. Pop Smoke 88,000 (4K sales)
2. John Mayer 84,000 (61K sales)
3. Olivia Rodrigo 77,000
4. Doja Cat 59,000
5. Morgan Wallen 44,000
6. Lil Baby/Lil Durk 36,000
7. Polo G 33,000
8. Dua Lipa 29,000
9. Pop Smoke (Shoot For The Stars) 28,000
10. Bo Burnham 25,000

[iHype.]

Estimation of the top albums on Billboard 200 for the 2020s decade thus far:

RANK	ARTIST	ALBUM
1	Post Malone	Hollywood's Bleeding
2	Lil Baby	My Turn
3	Pop Smoke	Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon
4	The Weeknd	After Hours
5	Luke Combs	What You See Is What You Get
6	Juice WRLD	Legends Never Die
7	Morgan Wallen	Dangerous: The Double Album
8	Billie Eilish	When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
9	Harry Styles	Fine Line
10	Roddy Ricch	Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial
11	Taylor Swift	Folklore
12	Dua Lipa	Future Nostalgia
13	DaBaby	BLAME IT ON BABY
14	Original Broadway Cast	Hamilton: An American Musical
15	Lil Uzi Vert	Eternal Atake
16	Ariana Grande	Positions
17	Taylor Swift	Lover
18	Bad Bunny	YHLQMDLG
19	Summer Walker	Over It
20	DaBaby	KIRK
21	Juice WRLD	Goodbye & Good Riddance
22	Polo G	The GOAT
23	Taylor Swift	Evermore
24	Soundtrack	Frozen II
25	Rod Wave	Pray 4 Love
26	Queen	Greatest Hits
27	Luke Combs	This One's For You
28	Lil Durk	The Voice
29	Young Thug	So Much Fun
30	Eminem	Music To Be Murdered By
31	Morgan Wallen	If I Know Me
32	Post Malone	beerbongs & bentleys
33	Justin Bieber	Justice
34	Travis Scott	ASTROWORLD
35	YoungBoy Never Broke Again	AI YoungBoy 2
36	Machine Gun Kelly	Tickets To My Downfall
37	Drake	Dark Lane Demo Tapes
38	Lewis Capaldi	Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent
39	Doja Cat	Hot Pink
40	Gunna	Wunna
41	Juice WRLD	Death Race For Love
42	Megan Thee Stallion	Good News
43	Olivia Rodrigo	Sour
44	The Kid LAROI	F*ck Love
45	Jhene Aiko	Chilombo
46	Bad Bunny	El Ultimo Tour del Mundo
47	Pooh Shiesty	Shiesty Season
48	Future	High Off Life
49	Moneybagg Yo	A Gangsta's Pain
50	Drake	Scorpion

Tracking period: October 5, 2019 - July 24, 2021

[Naos]

I'm glad to see Burnham still in the Top 10. One of the biggest surprises of the year so far.

[Push The Button]

Five #2 albums for John Mayer. I wonder what the record is for most albums in the runner-up position?

The Beatles, Elvis, The Rolling Stones, and Madonna all have 6.

[phi]

Jul 25, 2021 14:42:59 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Estimation of the top albums on Billboard 200 for the 2020s decade thus far:

RANK	ARTIST	ALBUM
1	Post Malone	Hollywood's Bleeding
2	Lil Baby	My Turn
3	Pop Smoke	Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon
4	The Weeknd	After Hours
5	Luke Combs	What You See Is What You Get
6	Juice WRLD	Legends Never Die
7	Morgan Wallen	Dangerous: The Double Album
8	Billie Eilish	When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
9	Harry Styles	Fine Line
10	Roddy Ricch	Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial
11	Taylor Swift	Folklore
12	Dua Lipa	Future Nostalgia
13	DaBaby	BLAME IT ON BABY
14	Original Broadway Cast	Hamilton: An American Musical
15	Lil Uzi Vert	Eternal Atake
16	Ariana Grande	Positions
17	Taylor Swift	Lover
18	Bad Bunny	YHLQMDLG
19	Summer Walker	Over It
20	DaBaby	KIRK
21	Juice WRLD	Goodbye & Good Riddance
22	Polo G	The GOAT
23	Taylor Swift	Evermore
24	Soundtrack	Frozen II
25	Rod Wave	Pray 4 Love
26	Queen	Greatest Hits
27	Luke Combs	This One's For You
28	Lil Durk	The Voice
29	Young Thug	So Much Fun
30	Eminem	Music To Be Murdered By
31	Morgan Wallen	If I Know Me
32	Post Malone	beerbongs & bentleys
33	Justin Bieber	Justice
34	Travis Scott	ASTROWORLD
35	YoungBoy Never Broke Again	AI YoungBoy 2
36	Machine Gun Kelly	Tickets To My Downfall
37	Drake	Dark Lane Demo Tapes
38	Lewis Capaldi	Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent
39	Doja Cat	Hot Pink
40	Gunna	Wunna
41	Juice WRLD	Death Race For Love
42	Megan Thee Stallion	Good News
43	Olivia Rodrigo	Sour
44	The Kid LAROI	F*ck Love
45	Jhene Aiko	Chilombo
46	Bad Bunny	El Ultimo Tour del Mundo
47	Pooh Shiesty	Shiesty Season
48	Future	High Off Life
49	Moneybagg Yo	A Gangsta's Pain
50	Drake	Scorpion

Tracking period: October 5, 2019 - July 24, 2021

With its 2019 weeks how does lover compare to folklore?

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

From '21' to 'Faith,' Here Are Different Albums With the Same Title to Top Billboard 200

By Paul Grein
7/27/2021

As previously reported, Pop Smoke’s Faith enters the Billboard 200 at No. 1 this week. In 1988, George Michael’s album of the same name topped the chart for 12 weeks, on its way to winning a Grammy for album of the year.

Faith is the 15th title to repeat at No. 1, with the exact same formatting and spelling, since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular weekly basis in March 1956. The repeaters include generic titles that you might expect to see repeat at No. 1 (Greatest Hits, Unplugged) and others that are such distinctive words that you might not (Kamikaze, Epiphany).

This phenomenon isn't unique to albums. As Gary Trust reported in June 2020, 16 pairs of different songs with the exact same title that have reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 since its inception in August 1958. Actually, in one of those cases, it’s not a pair. Three different songs titled “My Love” have reached the top spot on the Hot 100 -- by Petula Clark (1966), Paul McCartney & Wings (1973) and Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. (2006).

There is also one exact-match album title that has reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 three times: Greatest Hits. Elton John (1974), Bruce Springsteen (1995) and The Notorious B.I.G. (2007) have all topped the chart with collections that carried that simple and unadorned title.

Here is the full list of album titles that have repeated at No. 1, in alphabetical order, followed by some near-misses:

Believe

Disturbed, reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Oct. 5, 2002, one week at No. 1
Justin Bieber, July 7, 2012, one week

Chapter V

Staind, Aug. 27, 2005, one week
Trey Songz, Sept. 8, 2012, one week

Epiphany

T-Pain, June 23, 2007, one week
Chrisette Michele, May 23, 2009, one week

Faith

George Michael, Jan. 16, 1988, 12 weeks
Pop Smoke, July 21, 2021, one week (so far)

4

Foreigner, Aug, 22, 1981, 10 weeks
Beyoncé, July 16, 2011, two weeks

Greatest Hits

Elton John, Nov. 30, 1974, 10 weeks
Bruce Springsteen, March 18, 1995, two weeks
The Notorious B.I.G., March 24, 2007, one week

Hello, Dolly!

Original cast (starring Carol Channing), June 6, 1964, one week
Louis Armstrong, June 13, 1964, six weeks

Kamikaze

Twista, Feb. 14, 2004, one week
Eminem, Sept. 15, 2018, one week

Music

Carole King, Jan. 1, 1972, three weeks
Madonna, Oct. 7, 2000, one week

Now

Maxwell, Sept. 8, 2001, one week
Shania Twain, Oct. 21, 2017, one week

Revival

Selena Gomez, Oct. 31, 2015, one week
Eminem, Jan. 3, 2018, one week

The Sound of Music

Original cast (starring Mary Martin), Jan. 25 1960, 16 weeks
Movie soundtrack (starring Julie Andrews), Nov. 13, 1965, two weeks

A Star Is Born

Movie soundtrack (Barbra Streisand/Kris Kristofferson), Feb. 12, 1977, six weeks
Movie soundtrack (Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper), Oct. 20, 2018, four weeks

21

Omarion, Jan. 13, 2007, one week
Adele, March 12, 2011, 24 weeks

Unplugged

Eric Clapton, March 13, 1993, three weeks
Alicia Keys, Oct. 29, 2005, one week

Close Calls

Just for fun, here are some close calls, where the titles don’t quite match. The differences range from a punctuation mark or formatting choice (“and” or “&”) to the addition of a word or two. We’re only looking at pairs of albums by different artists, which omits many similar-titled albums by Chicago, The Beatles, Lil Wayne, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Migos, Led Zeppelin and Metallica. We made an exception to that rule so we could include a Madonna coupling that was too good to leave out (see last entry).

Here We Go Again!, The Kingston Trio, 1959; Here We Go Again, Demi Lovato, 2009

Black and Blue, The Rolling Stones, 1976; Black & Blue, Backstreet Boys, 2000
Frozen, movie soundtrack, 2014; Frozen II, movie soundtrack, 2019
High School Musical, TV soundtrack, 2006; High School Musical 2, TV soundtrack, 2007
Fore!, Huey Lewis & the News, 1986; IV, Godsmack, 2006; Four, One Direction, 2014; and the above-listed 4’s
Around the World in 80 Days, movie soundtrack, 1957; Around the World in a Day, Prince & the Revolution, 1985
The Breakthrough, Mary J. Blige, 2006; Breakthrough, Colbie Caillat, 2009
The Gift, Susan Boyle, 2010; The Gifted, Wale, 2013
Back Home Again, John Denver, 1974; Home Again, New Edition, 1996; Home, Dixie Chicks, 2002
Dangerous, Michael Jackson, 1991; Dangerous Minds movie soundtrack, 1995; Dangerous: The Double Album, Morgan Wallen, 2021
Double Fantasy, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, 1980; Double Live, Garth Brooks, 1998; Double Up, R. Kelly, 2007
American Pie, Don McLean, 1972; American Fool, John Cougar, 1982; American Life, Madonna, 2003; American Idiot, Green Day, 2004; American Gangster, Jay-Z, 2007; American Dream, LCD Soundsystem, 2017; American V: A Hundred Highways, Johnny Cash, 2006; American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy, 2015

Untitled, Nas, 2008; untitled unremastered, Kendrick Lamar, 2016
Merry Christmas, Bing Crosby, 1957; Christmas, Michael Buble, 2011
Carnival, original cast, 1961; Carnival Ride, Carrie Underwood, 2007
Purple Rain, Prince & the Revolution movie soundtrack, 1984; Purple, Stone Temple Pilots, 1994
Spirit, Leona Lewis, 2008; Free Spirit, Khalid, 2019
Ricky, Ricky Nelson, 1958; Ricky Martin, Ricky Martin, 1999

Hotel California, Eagles, 1977; California, Blink-182, 2016
1 - The Beatles, 2000; #1s, Destiny's Child, 2005
Bad Girls, Donna Summer, 1979; Bad Boys II, movie soundtrack, 2003
Electric Ladyland, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1968; Electric Youth, Debbie Gibson, 1989
Out of Time, R.E.M., 1991; Out of Exile, Audioslave, 2005
I Am…, Nas, 1999; I Am…Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé, 2008
Not Fragile, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, 1974; The Fragile, Nine Inch Nails, 1999
True Blue, Madonna, 1986; Turn Blue, The Black Keys, 2014
The Wall, Pink Floyd, 1980; Walls, Kings of Leon, 2016

Like a Virgin, Madonna, 1985; Like a Prayer, Madonna, 1989

[HolidayGuy]

Push- are you counting Elvis's three No. 2 albums on the EP chart among his total? On the carious main albums charts, Elvis is Back! and the King Creole soundtrack hit No. 2. That still would leave one to total six (I haven't checked the Billboard archive).

Rod Stewart also has six No. 2 albums. Tim McGraw has eight- that may be the most?

[WolfSpear]

I think Tim McGraw holds this record…

Wonder who has the most without a #1.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

John Mayer's 'Sob Rock' Rules at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Album Sales Chart

By Keith Caulfield
7/28/2021

Mayer leads a busy top 10, which is infused with titles released for Record Store Day 2021's second drop (on July 17).

John Mayer’s Sob Rock rules Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, as the singer-songwriter’s latest studio set debuts atop the list (dated July 31). The set sold 61,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending July 22, according to MRC Data -- the biggest debut sales week for an album in nearly two months, since Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour started with 72,000 copies at No. 1 (June 5-dated chart).

Mayer leads a busy top 10 on Top Album Sales, which is infused with titles released for Record Store Day 2021’s second drop (on July 17).

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now MRC Data. Pure album sales were the measurement solely utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Sob Rock is Mayer’s fifth No. 1 on Top Album Sales and 11th top 10 overall. He’s also led the tally with The Search for Everything: Wave One (2017), Born and Raised (2012), Battle Studies (2009) and Heavier Things (2003).

Of Sob Rock’s debut sales of 61,000, physical album sales comprise 39,000 of that figure (23,000 vinyl LPs, 15,000 CDs and a little over 1,000 cassettes), while digital album sales comprise 22,000. (The album’s cassette was exclusively sold via Mayer’s official webstore.)

Dee Gees, aka Foo Fighters, debut at No. 2 with Hail Satin, selling 15,000 copies. Of that sum, 12,000 came from its vinyl LP release for Record Store Day’s second drop (July 17), while another 3,000 were sold via digital download (released on July 19). The first five tracks on the 10-song album are covers of Bee Gees-penned songs, including four Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits: Bee Gees’ “You Should Be Dancing,” “Night Fever” and “Tragedy,” and Andy Gibb’s “Shadow Dancing.” The second five songs on the Hail Satin project are live versions of tracks from Foo Fighters’ most recent studio album, Medicine at Midnight.

Sob Rock and Hail Satin also debut at Nos. 1 and 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart, which ranks the top-selling vinyl LPs of the week.

Clairo’s latest album Sling starts at No. 3 on Top Album Sales with nearly 15,000 copies sold, the act’s highest-charting effort and first top 10. Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Layla Revisited (Live at Lockn’), featuring Trey Anastasio, bows at No. 4 with 13,000 sold.

A pair of Record Store Day-exclusive releases are up next on Top Album Sales, as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Deja Vu: Alternates and Beastie Boys’ Aglio e Olio debut at Nos. 5 and 6, respectively, with 9,500 and 9,000 sold. Both were issued on vinyl LP, exclusively, for Record Store Day 2021’s second drop.

Deja Vu: Alternates features nine alternative versions of songs from the group’s first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, 1970’s Deja Vu. The tracks on the Alternates album were originally released in May on CD and digital download as part of the 50th-anniversary deluxe reissue of the album, but were not previously available to purchase as a stand-alone album. Deja Vu: Alternates is the highest-charting effort for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (or Crosby, Stills & Nash) on the 30-year-old Top Album Sales tally.

Beastie Boys’ Aglio e Olio was first released in 1995 as a brief eight-song, 12-minute-long album, but never charted on any Billboard chart. For Record Store Day 2021’s second drop, it was reissued on clear vinyl with two previously released bonus tracks, bringing its runtime to 15 minutes. With its No. 6 debut, Aglio e Olio marks Beastie Boys’ sixth top 10 and 15th total chart entry on Top Album Sales.

Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour falls 1-7 in its ninth week on the list, with a little over 8,500 sold (down 16%).

A trio of Record Store Day releases round out the new top 10 on Top Album Sales. Amy Winehouse’s Remixes debuts at No. 8 with 8,000; The Rolling Stones’ Hot Rocks 1964-1971 re-enters at No. 9 with nearly 8,000 (up 1,482%) and Miles Davis’ Champions: Rare Miles From the Complete Jack Johnson Sessions debuts at No. 10 (7,500).

Winehouse’s Remixes is a two-LP (one blue, one yellow) pressing of 15 remixes of tracks from Winehouse’s Frank and Back to Black albums. The remixes were first released in 2020 as a unit as part of the five-CD boxed set The Collection. Remixes also launches at No. 2 on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart, her first entry there.

For Record Store Day 2021’s second drop, the Stones’ Hot Rocks 1964-1971 was issued as a double-LP on yellow vinyl with expanded original artwork.

Davis’ Champions is a six-track sampling of tunes originally released in 2003 on the box set The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions. Champions was pressed on yellow vinyl for Record Store Day 2021.

Champions also garners Davis his latest No. 1 on Billboard’s overall Jazz Albums and Traditional Jazz Albums charts.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Foo Fighters' 'Hail Satin' Leads Record Store Day 2021 Second Drop as Vinyl Sales Jump 75%

By Keith Caulfield
7/29/2021

Record Store Day 2021’s second drop (on July 17) fueled 1.140 million in vinyl album sales in the U.S. in the week ending July 22, according to MRC Data (up 74.5% compared to the previous week: 653,000). It’s the eighth time vinyl album sales have exceeded 1 million copies in a single week since MRC Data began electronically tracking sales in 1991, and all of the million-selling weeks have happened since 2019.

The disco-tastic Hail Satin by Dee Gees, aka Foo Fighters, was the top-selling Record Store Day album release of the week, with 12,000 vinyl LPs sold (plus another 3,000 in downloads following its wide digital release on July 19). The first five tracks on the 10-song album are covers of Bee Gees-penned songs, including four Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits: Bee Gees’ “You Should Be Dancing,” “Night Fever” and “Tragedy,” and Andy Gibb’s “Shadow Dancing.” The second five songs on the Hail Satin project are live versions of tracks from Foo Fighters’ most recent studio album, Medicine at Midnight.

Record Store Day, the annual indie music retailer celebration, was staged over two days in 2021 -- June 12 and July 17 -- owing to complications caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Traditionally, Record Store Day is held on one Saturday in the springtime. In 2019, it was held on April 13. In 2020, Record Store Day was meant to be held on April 18 but was split into three separate drops: Aug. 26, Sept. 26 and Oct. 24.

Among the albums initially released for Record Store Day 2021’s second drop, aside from Hail Satin, were the vinyl release of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Deja Vu: Alternates (alternative versions of songs from the group’s 1970 Billboard 200 No. 1 album Deja Vu), a clear vinyl pressing of Beastie Boys’ 1995 rock album Aglio e Olio, and the vinyl debut of Amy Winehouse’s Remixes (on double LP – one blue, one yellow).

Meanwhile, Pearl Jam issued its classic single “Alive” on both 12-inch vinyl and cassette, along with rare B-sides, and was the top-selling RSD single release of the week. “Alive” was the band’s first single to chart on a Billboard tally, debuting on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart dated Jan. 4, 1992. It would peak at No. 16 on that chart, and also at No. 18 on Alternative Airplay.

Here are some facts on Record Store Day 2021’s second drop and its impact, plus a look at the top-selling Record Store Day-exclusive albums and singles (all data is for the week ending July 22, 2021, in the U.S.):

Total album sales across all formats (physical [including CD, vinyl, cassettes, etc.] and digital downloads): 2.316 million – up 32.1% compared to previous week (1.753 million)

Physical album sales (CD, vinyl, cassette, etc.): 1.842 million – up 40.3% compared to previous week (1.313 million)

CD album sales: 692,000 – up 6.2% compared to previous week (652,000)

Vinyl album sales: 1.140 million – up 74.5% compared to previous week (653,000). It’s only the eighth week that vinyl album sales have exceeded 1 million since MRC Data began electronically tracking sales in 1991. It’s also the second-largest vinyl sales week of 2021, trailing only the week ending June 17, which included Record Store Day 2021’s first drop (1.279 million).

49% of all albums sold in the U.S. in the week ending July 22 were vinyl albums: 1.140 million of 2.315 million

62% of all physical albums sold in the U.S. in the week ending July 22 were vinyl: 1.140 million of 1.842 million

Independent store album sales: 1.014 million – up 100.4% compared to previous week (506,000)

Independent store CD album sales: 202,000 – up 20.3% compared to previous week (168,000)

Independent store vinyl album sales: 811,000 – up 140.5% compared to previous week (337,000)

71% of all vinyl albums sold in the U.S. in the week ending July 22 were sold via independent record stores: 811,000 of 1.140 million

Top Record Store Day exclusive albums at independent record stores:

Rank, Artist, Title

1. Dee Gees / Foo Fighters, Hail Satin
2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Deja Vu: Alternates
3. Beastie Boys, Aglio e Olio
4. Amy Winehouse, Remixes
5. Miles Davis, Champions: Rare Miles From the Complete Jack Johnson Sessions
6. Cat Stevens, Harold & Maude: The Songs From the Original Movie (Soundtrack)
7. The Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks 1964-1971
8. Allman Brothers Band, The Final Note: Painters Mill Music Fair, Owings Mills, MD 10-17-71
9. John Prine, Live: At the Other End, Dec. 1975
10. The Ramones, Triple J Live at the Wireless: Capital Theatre, Sydney, Australia, July 8, 1980
11. The Cure, Wild Mood Swings
12. Aretha Franklin, Oh Me Oh My: Aretha Live in Philly, 1972
13. Czarface, Czar Noir
14. Sisters of Mercy, BBC Sessions 1982-1984
15. Cro-Mags, The Age of Quarrel
16. The Clash, If Music Could Talk
17. Bill Evans, Behind the Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings
18. Lamb of God, As the Palaces Burn
19. Queen + Adam Lambert, Live Around the World EP
20. Fear, The Record
21. Donna Summer, Bad Girls
22. Daryl Hall John Oates, Voices
23. John Prine, Stay Independent: The Oh Boy Years
24. Dr. John, The Sun, Moon and Herbs
25. Ultravox, Vienna

Top Record Store Day Exclusive Singles at Independent Record Stores

Rank, Artist, Title

1. Pearl Jam, Alive
2. Fleet Foxes featuring Resistance Revival Chorus, Can I Believe You / Wading in Waist-High Water
3. St. Vincent, Piggy / Sad But True
4. Bob Dylan, Jokerman / I and I (Remixes)
5. Karen O & Willie Nelson, Under Pressure
6. Dio, God Hates Heavy Metal
7. Denzel Curry & Robert Glasper, So Incredible / This Changes Everything (Live from Leimert Park)
8. ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Beat on the Brat
9. Jxdn, Angels & Demons / Drivers License
10. The Dirty Knobs, Humdinger / Feelin’ High

Source: MRC Data, for the week ending July 22, 2021