Billboard 200 - Adele

[Gary]

Adele’s ‘30’ Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
Plus: Michael Bublé's former No. 1 "Christmas" surges 9-3 and Vince Guaraldi Trio's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" returns to top 10.


By Keith Caulfield

12/5/2021

Adele’s 30 spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set earned 288,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 2, according to MRC Data. That’s down 66% compared to its chart-topping debut sum of 839,000 units a week earlier.



However, 30 logs the largest second week for an album in over three years, since Drake’s Scorpion earned 335,000 units its sophomore frame (chart dated July 21, 2018), following its No. 1 debut with 732,000 units a week prior.



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 Dec. 11, 2021-dated chart (where 30 spends a second week at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Dec. 7. For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Of 30’s 288,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 2, album sales comprise 225,000 (down 68%), SEA units comprise 61,000 (down 57%, equaling 81.33 million on-demand streams of the set’s track) and TEA units comprise 2,000 units (down 64%).

Taylor Swift’s former leader Red (Taylor’s Version) holds at No. 2 with 102,000 equivalent album units earned (down 36%).

Bublé’s Christmas jumps 9-3 with 59,000 equivalent album units earned (up 51%). Of that sum, SEA units comprise 44,000 units (up 60%, equaling 57.45 million streams of the set’s tracks). The album benefits from its tracks being featured on holiday playlists in leading streaming services, as well as a recently released 10th anniversary edition of the album that includes bonus songs. Christmas spent five weeks at No. 1 in late 2011 and early 2012 and has returned to the top 10 in every Christmas season since.

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Christmas could continue to see gains next week, following the Dec. 6 premiere of Bublé’s latest NBC TV special, Michael Bublé’s Christmas in the City.

Olivia Rodrigo’s former No. 1 Sour rises 8-4 with 48,000 equivalent album units earned (up 21%) following promotion of the album’s vinyl LP at Target stores. Of the album’s total units for the week, album sales comprise 21,000 (up 53%), of which 14,000 are in vinyl LP sales (up 63%).

Drake’s chart-topping Certified Lover Boy falls 3-5 with 48,000 equivalent album units (down 9%), Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album dips 5-6 with 45,000 units (down 7%), Summer Walker’s former leader Still Over It descends 6-7 with 40,000 units (down 17%), Silk Sonic’s An Evening With Silk Sonic falls 4-8 with 37,000 units (down 26%) and The Weeknd’s The Highlights rises 10-9 with nearly 37,000 units (down 2%).

Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack returns to the top 10, climbing 21-10 (matching its peak) with 36,000 equivalent album units earned (up 57%). Of that sum, SEA units comprise 19,000 (up 72%, equaling 25.28 million streams of the set’s tracks), album sales comprise 16,000 (up 44%) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.

Like Bublé’s Christmas album, A Charlie Brown Christmas also profits from its promotion on holiday playlists in leading streaming services. Further, A Charlie Brown Christmas continues to sell well on vinyl LP, with vinyl sales totaling 13,000 (up 39%) of its overall album sales for the week.

A Charlie Brown Christmas was released in 1965 and did not reach any Billboard ranking until 1987. That year, it debuted on the Top Holiday Albums chart, where it later peaked at No. 2 (Jan. 27, 2007). The album first reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200 dated Jan. 2, 2021.

[Gary]

1. Adele - 288,000 (225K sales)
2. Taylor Swift 102,000
3. Michael Buble 59,000
4 Olivia Rodrigo 48,000 (sales 21K)
5 Drake 48,000
6 Morgan Wallen 45,000
7 Summer Walker 40,000
8 Silk Sonic 37,000
9 The Weeknd(Highlights) 37,000
10. Vince Guaraldi Trio 36,000 (15K sales)

[fridayteenage]

25 week 2 sold 32.9% of week 1.
30 week 2 sold 32.5% of week 1.
So close to the same drop.

It's hard to compare the other point numbers because 25 took 7 months to be added to streaming.

[Gary]

weeks in top 10

top 10 ARTIST
47 MORGAN WALLEN
39 MICHAEL BUBLE
27 OLIVIA RODRIGO
13 DRAKE
9 THE WEEKND
4 SUMMER WALKER
3 TAYLOR SWIFT
3 SILK SONIC(BRUNO MARS & ANDERSO .PAAK)
2 ADELE
2 VINCE GUARALDI TRIO

[Caviar]

True Queen of Sales!

[HolidayGuy]

Nice showing for 30.

I don't recall Keith C. previously mentioning holiday albums benefiting from holiday playlists. That's been a big boost for many of them.

[magik]

Good job, Adele! This might not be a Diamond album, but it will surely be a hit album regardless. Sorta like her Dangerous or Butterfly in terms of commercial success.

[thegreatdivine]

Morgan Wallen (Dangerous) ties Pop Smoke (Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon) as the album(s) with the most weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for the 2020s decade (so far).

[shayonce]

it's shame that we didn't get vinyl number for Adele

[magik]

Dec 5, 2021 22:41:19 GMT -5 shayonce said:

it's shame that we didn't get vinyl number for Adele

Chartnews is saying 50k, which is the biggest second week sales for vinyl in Nielson Soundscan history.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

[divasummer]

Dec 5, 2021 21:01:12 GMT -5 magik said:

Good job, Adele! This might not be a Diamond album, but it will surely be a hit album regardless. Sorta like her Dangerous or Butterfly in terms of commercial success.

“Butterfly” by Mimi??
I think 30 will end up being bigger then that..

[divasummer]

Dec 5, 2021 21:01:12 GMT -5 magik said:

Good job, Adele! This might not be a Diamond album, but it will surely be a hit album regardless. Sorta like her Dangerous or Butterfly in terms of commercial success.

“Butterfly” by Mimi??
I think 30 will end up being bigger then that..

[Gary]

Biggest second week numbers in three years since Drake's Scorpion

Looks like this album will do fine and will likely have legs, certainly through December and perhaps beyond

and who knows it could be diamond as well, it just won't happen in one or two weeks

[thegreatdivine]

Dec 6, 2021 13:45:15 GMT -5 Gary said:

Biggest second week numbers in three years since Drake's Scorpion

Looks like this album will do fine and will likely have legs, certainly through December and perhaps beyond

and who knows it could be diamond as well, it just won't happen in one or two weeks

[magik]

Dec 6, 2021 13:41:13 GMT -5 divasummer said:

Dec 5, 2021 21:01:12 GMT -5 magik said:

Good job, Adele! This might not be a Diamond album, but it will surely be a hit album regardless. Sorta like her Dangerous or Butterfly in terms of commercial success.

“Butterfly” by Mimi??
I think 30 will end up being bigger then that..

Perhaps. But I drew the comparison because it was the album after her two diamond releases. 

[Enigma.]

Does anyone know the position?

[jamatthews83]

^
#65 for Tony/Gaga

[Enigma.]

Wow that's amazing, thank you!!!!

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Black Friday & Holiday Shopping Send Vinyl Album Sales Soaring, Led by Adele’s ’30’

12/8/2021

By Keith Caulfield

Weekly U.S. vinyl album sales jump to their second-largest week since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991.

2021 Black Friday sales and general holiday shopping promotions helped yield an eye-popping week for vinyl album sales in the U.S.

In the week ending Dec. 2, vinyl album sales totaled 1.46 million (up 39%) – marking the second-biggest week for the format since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991. The only larger week in the MRC Data era for vinyl album sales was registered in the week ending Dec. 24, 2020, when 1.84 million albums were sold.

Overall, in the week ending Dec. 2, vinyl LP sales accounted for 46% of all albums sold in the U.S. (1.46 million of 3.17 million). Further, of just physical album sales (vinyl LP, CDs, cassettes, etc.), vinyl LP sales represented 54% of all albums sold for the week (1.46 million of 2.7 million).

Vinyl’s influence can be seen in the latest top 10 of Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Dec. 11), where most of the titles in the region benefit greatly from vinyl sales.

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 sole measurement 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.

Adele’s 30 leads Top Album Sales for a second straight week, selling 225,000 copies across all formats (down 68%). Of that sum, vinyl sales represented 50,000 – the seventh-largest sales week for an album on vinyl in the MRC Data era, and the biggest second week for an album on vinyl. After only two weeks, 30 is the ninth-largest-selling album on vinyl in 2021, with 158,000 copies sold. (The year’s top-seller on vinyl is Taylor Swift’s Evermore, with 215,000 vinyl copies sold through Dec. 2.)

Swift’s chart-topping Red (Taylor’s Version) holds at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 46,000 copies sold (down 31%). Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour climbs 8-3 (21,000; up 53%) and Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever moves 9-4 (20,000; up 52%) – both are former No. 1s.

TWICE’s previous leader Formula of Love: O+T=<3 is a non-mover at No. 5 with 19,000 sold (down 9%). It’s the only album in the top 10 that is not also available on vinyl. It was only released commercially on CD and as a digital album.

The Beatles’ chart-topping Let It Be vaults 21-6 on Top Album Sales (18,000; up 115%), following the Nov. 25 premiere of the Disney+ documentary series Get Back, which chronicles the making of the Let It Be album.

Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to the animated TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas jingles 13-7 with 16,000 sold (up 44%), Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) bumps 11-8 with just over 15,000 (up 30%), Swift’s Evermore zooms 18-9 with just over 14,000 (up 46%) and Michael Bublé’s Christmas closes out the top 10, ascending 14-10 with 14,000 (up 28%).