Billboard 200 6/1/2024: #1 Taylor 378k, #2 Billie 339k

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Billie Eilish vs. Taylor Swift: Who Will Score Next Week’s No. 1 Album?

5/22/2024

By Andrew Unterberger

In this week's The Contenders, Billie Eilish's 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' presents the greatest threat yet to Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets Department' rule.

The Contenders is a midweek column that looks at artists aiming for the top of the Billboard charts, and the strategies behind their efforts. Next week (for the upcoming Billboard 200 dated June 1), it’s a superstar showdown between Billie Eilish’s new album and Taylor Swift’s reigning blockbuster. 

Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft (Darkroom/Interscope): 

Perhaps the most anticipated release of this month, Billie Eilish’s third LP Hit Me Hard and Soft debuted on Friday (May 17). The follow-up to her acclaimed 2021 sophomore set Happier Than Ever marked a first for Eilish, as it featured no advance singles, as the artist encouraged her fans to experience the album – largely focused on her self-discovery in terms of her identity and sexuality as she enters her 20s – all at once. 

And it seems many have done just that. Hit Me – which has racked up perhaps the strongest reviews yet of her already highly celebrated young career – has performed very well on streaming through its first five days of release, with every one of its 10 tracks still ranking in the top 25 of Spotify’s Daily Top Songs USA chart, with each garnering over a million spins each. Of course, there being only 10 tracks on the album may mean the album still ends up with a relatively modest overall stream total compared to some recent blockbusters with more gargantuan tracklists, but its impressive endurance across the board throughout the week should still lead to fairly resounding first-week numbers. 

The set should also sell quite well, with Eilish a reliably strong performer there – Happier sold 154,000 copies in its first week, making for well over half of the set’s overall first-week performance (238,000 equivalent album units). To help with those numbers, Eilish has released nine vinyl editions of Hit Me (one of which, a webstore exclusive, was signed), all in different-colored variants. There are also four separate CD options (standard CD; a signed CD exclusive to her webstore; a “splatter” CD where Eilish splattered paint across the CD booklets en masse, and then those were collated into their packaging; and a Target-exclusive CD containing a poster), as well as a cassette version, and a digital deluxe album that also includes isolated vocal tracks for the 10 songs on the album. 

Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department (Republic): 

But of course, to get her third straight No. 1 album, Eilish will have to unseat the album that’s topped the chart for the last month: Taylor Swift’s historic-selling The Tortured Poets Department. This week, in its fourth week on top, Poets posted 260,000 units – mostly in streams, with the set remaining a consistently dominant performer on DSPs with the 31 tracks of its Anthology edition. (It was also assisted in the most recent frame from added interest following the resumption of her Eras Tour in Europe on May 9, with six Poets tracks now newly added to the setlist.)

Revived live attention won’t be the only thing likely to help Poets’ performance on next week’s chart, though. On May 16 – at the end of the last tracking week – Swift posted pre-orders on her site for a May 17 delivery of new digital editions of her latest album, with three different variants that all also offered one “First Draft Phone Memo” version each of one of the album’s tracks (“Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?,” “Cassandra” and ”The Black Dog”). In addition to that, her sales week could also still be impacted by a variety of CD edition releases – featuring bonus tracks and/or other collectibles — posted to her website for pre-order in May prior to this tracking week, whose exact shipping dates are currently unknown.

The race could be a close one, as the excitement over Eilish’s brand-new release competes with the sheer overwhelming volume of Swift’s reigning behemoth. It’s one that’s sure to get a lot of attention in the pop community – particularly after Eilish’s comments in a Billboard March interview decrying artist wastefulness in releasing excessive vinyl variants were interpreted by many Swifties as a shot at Taylor. (Eilish later clarified that she was not singling out any artist with her comments, and acknowledged that she was guilty of the practice herself.)

IN THE MIX

Zayn, Room Under the Stairs (Mercury/Republic): 

Elsewhere in the pop world: Zayn goes country! The One Direction alum’s latest set is influenced by his love of Willie Nelson and Chris Stapleton, and is even co-helmed by the latter artist’s go-to producer Dave Cobb. The album is not expected to stream in particularly robust numbers – Zayn has not had a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 since 2020 – but it should sell respectably, thanks in part to the availability of six vinyl and four CD variants, as well as a deluxe digital album with five bonus “Z sides” tracks.

New Kids on the Block, Still Kids (BMG): 

Speaking of boy band vets: Nearly four decades into their career, NKOTB remain hangin’ tough, and just released their eighth album Still Kids, still with the classic Donnie, Joey, Jordan, Jonathan and Danny lineup. The new set – their first since 2013’s 10, which reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 — features collabs with fellow late-’80s survivors Taylor Dayne and DJ Jazzy Jeff, and is available in four vinyl and two CD variants.

Cage the Elephant, Neon Pill (RCA): 

Kentucky hitmakers Cage the Elephant have been getting it done on rock radio and on tour for over 15 years now, and though their days of competing for the top of the Billboard 200 – their 2011 set Thank You Happy Birthday peaked at a career-best No. 2 – are likely over, they’re still going to make an impact each time out. Sixth album Neon Pill, featuring the Alternative Airplay-topping title track, is the band’s first album in five years, and is for sale in five vinyl variants and a standard CD edition.

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Taylor Swift Scores Fifth Week Atop Billboard 200 With ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
By Keith Caulfield
05/26/2024

Plus: Billie Eilish's 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' bows at No. 2 with her largest week ever.

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department snags a fifth straight and total week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 1), as the title earned 378,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 23 (up 45%), according to Luminate. The set posted its first weekly gain in units following the release of six new digital album download variants and a new CD variant, along with a stock replenishment of the previously available four deluxe CD editions and the signed CD edition of the album — all of which were sold exclusively in Swift’s webstore.

Poets is the first album to spend its first five weeks at No. 1 since Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time led for its first 12 weeks a year ago (March 18-June 3, 2023-dated charts).

With 378,000 units earned in Poets’ fifth week, the set scores the largest fifth-week for any album since Adele’s 25 tallied 1.193 million units in its fifth frame (chart dated Jan. 9, 2016).

Swift adds her 74th career week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her record among soloists. (Elvis Presley has the second-most among soloists, with 67.) The total encompasses her 14 leaders. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists.)

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Billie Eilish’s new studio album Hit Me Hard and Soft debuts at No. 2 with 339,000 equivalent album units — her largest week ever by units earned. Of that sum, 191,000 are traditional album sales — her best sales week yet.

Notably, with the Nos. 1 and 2 albums both exceeding 300,000 units, it’s the first time that two albums have cleared 300,000 in the same week in eight years. (More on that later in the story.)

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, compiled by Luminate. 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 June 1, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 29 — one day later than usual, owed to the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. on May 27.

Of The Tortured Poets Department’s fifth-week unit sum of 378,000, album sales comprise 210,000 (up 413%, making it the top-selling album of the week at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 166,500 (down 23%, equaling 216.9 million on-demand official streams of the deluxe album’s 31 songs; it’s also No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart) and TEA units comprise 1,500 (down 17%).

The Tortured Poets Department’s weekly increase was supported by the continued sturdy sales of the 20-plus existing different iterations of the album and an added boost during the tracking week by a stock replenishment in Swift’s webstore of certain editions, along with the release of a handful of new variants (all of which were only available to U.S. customers).

During the tracking week, Swift issued six new digital album download variants of the album via her webstore, and all were available for a limited time for $5.99 apiece. Each contained the original standard 16-song album tracklist, along with one unique bonus track. There were three editions with a “first draft phone memo” recording (“Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?,” “Cassandra” or “The Black Dog”). There were also three editions with one live recording each from her recent Paris shows during The Eras Tour (“loml,” “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” and “The Alchemy x Treacherous Mashup”).

In the week ending May 23, The Tortured Poets Department sold 77,000 digital albums (across all of the set’s available iterations, both new and old) — a gain of 1,184% compared to the previous week (6,000).

Also new in the tracking week were sales generated from a new CD variant of the album, exclusively sold in Swift’s webstore, which contained the standard 16-song album plus a new bonus track, an acoustic version of the album’s “But Daddy I Love Him.” The CD was sold for 24 hours on May 9 for $7.99. When customers ordered the album, a shipment date was not stated on Swift’s store. (Sales of physical albums from internet mail order companies, such as Swift’s store, or Amazon and other similar web-based retailers, count on the chart in the week they ship to customers.)

The album also got help from a stock replenishment in Swift’s webstore of five previously available editions of the CD: a signed edition and the four deluxe CDs. The signed album was on sale in Swift’s webstore May 14-16 for $25, and a shipment date was not stated at the time of purchase. The four deluxe CDs (in expanded packaging, containing branded merchandise) were available to purchase May 7-8 for $17.99 each, and a shipment date of “on or before May 31, 2024” was noted at the time of sale.

In the week ending May 23, The Tortured Poets Department sold 121,000 copies on CD (across all of its CD iterations) — a gain of 564% compared to the previous week (18,000). (Sales of the album on vinyl decreased by 29% in the tracking week to 12,000, from 17,000 in the previous week.)

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Billie Eilish’s new studio album Hit Me Hard and Soft debuts with 339,000 equivalent album units earned — Eilish’s biggest week ever. Of that sum, album sales comprise 191,000 (her best sales week), SEA units comprise 166,500 (equaling 193.93 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 10 songs) and TEA units comprise 1,500. Notably, of the 191,000 in sales, vinyl sales accounted for 90,000 — Eilish’s best sales week on vinyl ever.

Eilish’s previous high-water mark in terms of equivalent album units was the debut of When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? in 2019, when it registered 313,000 units. Her previous biggest sales week was also the opening frame of When We All Fall Asleep, with 170,000.

The new set is Eilish’s third to reach the top two on the chart (and top 10), as she previously led the tally with Happier Than Ever (in 2021) and When We All Fall Asleep.

The new album’s sales were supported by its availability across nine vinyl editions of the album (in assorted colors — some exclusive to specific retailers; one of the editions was signed and sold only in Eilish’s webstore — all with the same tracklist), four CD editions (a standard CD, a signed CD sold in her webstore, a “splatter” CD sold in her webstore where Eilish splattered paint across the CD booklets en masse and then those were collated into their packaging, and a Target-exclusive CD containing a poster), one cassette tape, a standard digital album, and three deluxe digital sets (a standard digital album with 10 bonus isolated vocal tracks of the album’s 10 songs, a version with 10 bonus sped-up versions and a version with 10 bonus “slowed and reverb” versions). The deluxe digital edition with isolated vocals sold for $9.99 while the other two iterations sold for $6.99 (and were only available for a limited time).

Eilish announced Hit Me Hard and Soft on April 8. The set was not preceded by any pre-release singles or music — though she did tease a few snippets in some interviews and appearances. On May 15 and 16, she staged two listening events at Barclays Center in New York and the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif. Additionally, AMC Theatres screened a listening event on May 16-17 across more than 100 theaters in the U.S. On May 17, the day of the album’s release, Eilish dropped an official music video for the set’s “Lunch.” A world tour supporting the new album was announced on April 29 and will kick off on Sept. 29, with dates scheduled through July 2025.

With both The Tortured Poets Department and Hit Me Hard and Soft exceeding 300,000 equivalent album units each, it marks the first time two albums have each cleared 300,000 in a single week in eight years. It last happened on the chart dated May 21, 2016, when Drake’s Views debuted at No. 1 with 1.039 million units, while Beyoncé’s Lemonade fell 1-2 in its second week with 321,000 units.

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time is a non-mover on the new Billboard 200 at No. 3 with 75,000 equivalent album units earned (down less than 1%).

Gunna’s One of Wun falls 2-4 in its second week (56,000; down 38%), and

Future and Metro Boomin’s former leader We Don’t Trust You dips 4-5 (48,000; down 10%).

Morgan Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is pushed down 5-6 despite a 2% gain (to 45,000 equivalent album units),

Noah Kahan’s Stick Season slides 6-7 (38,000; down 4%),

Zach Bryan’s chart-topping self-titled album is stationary at No. 8 (38,000; up 1%),

SZA’s former leader SOS slips 7-9 (37,000; down 3%) and

Benson Boone’s Fireworks & Rollerblades descends 9-10 (33,000; down 6%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

[👑 Eloquent ™]

Great numbers for Billie and Taylor! Congrats!!

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

It looks like the SEAs units in the article are overstated by 20k in the article for Billie. It says that her album had the same SEAs units as TTPD even though it had around 23 million less on-demand weekly streams. That rounds off to the 20k equivalent album difference between Billie's cited total and the sum of the components mentioned in the article.

[avamaxstan]

Cowboy Carter out of the top 10 already

[andrebra]

That’s probably not the fairest way of measuring it’s success since I’m sure they counted the interludes as songs which would make every songs average amount of streams less. But it is a bit concerning how quickly it faded and kind of disappointing that she doesn’t seem to care.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Probably not surprising. It was #23 in the Spotify US album chart last week and Texas Hold 'Em was its only song in the weekly US Spotify with just under 3.4 million streams. It doesn't have any songs in Apple's US top 200 and currently #14 in US albums there. Also, according to HITS it sold under 3k last week. Had it been Texas Hold 'Em been released at the same time as the album, the latter might have gotten more longevity in the top 10.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

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May 27, 2024 9:39:00 GMT -5 avamaxstan said:

Cowboy Carter out of the top 10 already

*goes back to streaming Cowboy Carter* I know I had to give it a break because it was all I was listening to until Billie came out.

[balletgirlmom]

Great numbers for Billie!

[musiclife]

May 27, 2024 9:39:00 GMT -5 avamaxstan said:

Cowboy Carter out of the top 10 already

I can't say I'm surprised. In my honest opinion, I just don't think it's a good album at all.

[avamaxstan]

Chappell Roan top 20 and the album doesn’t even include her hit single. Now is the time to strike and drop the new album… or re-release with Good Luck Babe and a few new tracks.

[85la]

As for Cowboy Carter, not saying I wouldn't have liked it to last longer, but it is only Renaissance ACT 2, and a country album at that, so tbh they probably weren't expecting it to last long and didn't plan for a year-long traditional release with multiple singles (I'm surprised they even released a second one). It initially probably only did better because of the unique interest and shock factor of Beyonce "going country." And the fact that there are still no videos and not much traditional promo also explains it. It's too bad though, because although Texas Hold Em did well (pretty much on par with Break My Soul), I think it was even better and it would've been cool to see it become an Irreplaceable-sized hit, and I also liked the album even better than Part I.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

New Kids On the Block’s ‘Still Kids’ Debuts in Top 5 on Album Sales Chart

5/29/2024

By Keith Caulfield

Also debuting in the top 10: the latest releases from Billie Eilish, Zayn, Slash, Cage the Elephant, The Avett Brothers, Kerry King and Kate Hudson.

New Kids On the Block’s first full-length studio album in over a decade, Still Kids, debuts at No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated June 1). The set also arrives at No. 9 on the Independent Albums chart, and No. 12 on the Vinyl Albums tally. 

The set sold 14,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending May 23, according to Luminate. The effort is the vocal group’s first full-length studio project since 2013’s 10. 

New Kids On the Block’s overall Billboard chart history runs almost exactly 38 years, to when the single “Be My Girl” debuted on the now-named Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart dated June 7, 1986. The group would later rack up 13 hits on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, including a trio of No. 1s. Over on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart, the act has logged a dozen entries (among them two No. 1s), including the new set, which bows at No. 56. 

Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department holds atop the list for a fourth nonconsecutive week, while albums debut from Billie Eilish, Zayn, Slash, Cage the Elephant, The Avett Brothers, Kerry King and Kate Hudson.

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 Luminate. 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.
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The Tortured Poets Department holds at No. 1 with 201,000 copies sold (up 413%) after an array of drivers helped the set post its first weekly sales gain. Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft launches at No. 2 with 191,000 – marking Eilish’s best sales week ever.

Zayn returns to the chart with his first new album since 2021, and his best sales week since 2016, as Room Under the Stairs starts at No. 3 with 24,000 sold. Slash’s new blues covers project Orgy of the Damned, boasting an array of guest artists such as Gary Clark Jr and Chris Stapleton, bows at No. 5 with a little over 10,000 sold. 

Cage the Elephant’s Neon Pill enters at No. 6 (9,000), The Avett Brothers’ self-titled album debuts at No. 7 (8,000), SEVENTEEN’s SEVENTEEN Best Album ‘17 Is Right Here’ falls 4-8 (7,000), guitarist Kerry King’s solo debut From Hell I Rise arrives at No. 9 (7,000) and Kate Hudson’s debut studio album Glorious bows at No. 10 (nearly 7,000).

[spiritboy]

Great numbers for Billie.

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hitsdailydouble.com/sales_plus_streaming

LW	TW	Artist	Title	Label	Total	Change	Albums	TEA	SEA
1	1	TAYLOR SWIFT	THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT	REPUBLIC (UMG)	177,008	-53%	42,444	1,015	133,549
2	2	BILLIE EILISH	HIT ME HARD AND SOFT	DARKROOM/INTERSCOPE (UMG)	149,258	-55%	43,345	686	105,227
--	3	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	CLANCY	FUELED BY RAMEN (WMG)	139,072	--	110,068	295	28,709
3	4	MORGAN WALLEN	ONE THING AT A TIME	BIG LOUD/MERCURY/REPUBLIC (UMG)	74,696	1%	1,260	729	72,707
--	5	RM	RIGHT PLACE, WRONG PERSON	BIGHIT/GEFFEN (UMG)	54,522	--	44,066	3,250	7,206
6	6	MORGAN WALLEN	DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	BIG LOUD/MERCURY/REPUBLIC (UMG)	45,578	3%	354	258	44,966
5	7	FUTURE & METRO BOOMIN	WE DON'T TRUST YOU	BOOMINATI/FREEBANDZ/REPUBLIC/EPIC (UMG/SME)	42,862	-10%	63	198	42,601
4	8	GUNNA	ONE OF WUN	YOUNG STONER LIFE (WMG)	42,819	-25%	103	68	42,648
7	9	NOAH KAHAN	STICK SEASON	MERCURY/REPUBLIC (UMG)	40,318	5%	2,980	344	36,994
8	10	ZACH BRYAN	ZACH BRYAN	WARNER (WMG)	37,990	1%	2,256	267	35,467
9	11	SZA	SOS	TDE/RCA (SME)	35,730	-4%	1,699	106	33,926
11	12	ZACH BRYAN	AMERICAN HEARTBREAK	WARNER (WMG)	32,317	3%	992	270	31,056
10	13	BENSON BOONE	FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES	NIGHT STREET/WARNER (WMG)	31,313	-7%	614	859	29,840
12	14	POST MALONE	THE DIAMOND COLLECTION	MERCURY/REPUBLIC (UMG)	30,250	-1%	231	279	29,741
14	15	TAYLOR SWIFT	LOVER	REPUBLIC (UMG)	28,682	-2%	6,214	355	22,113
--	16	SEXYY RED	IN SEXYY WE TRUST	OPEN SHIFT/GAMMA (GAMMA)	28,167	--	2,050	1,701	24,416
28	17	CHAPPELL ROAN	THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS	ISLAND (UMG)	27,107	24%	6,046	132	20,929
13	18	BEYONCE	COWBOY CARTER	PARKWOOD/COLUMBIA (SME)	26,739	-10%	1,889	397	24,453
16	19	ARIANA GRANDE	ETERNAL SUNSHINE	REPUBLIC (UMG)	24,805	-8%	2,717	187	21,901
24	20	LUKE COMBS	THIS ONE'S FOR YOU	RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE (SME)	24,159	5%	377	144	23,638
18	21	OLIVIA RODRIGO	GUTS	GEFFEN (UMG)	23,930	-8%	2,770	132	21,029
19	22	TAYLOR SWIFT	1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	REPUBLIC (UMG)	23,856	-2%	5,816	242	17,799
21	23	TEDDY SWIMS	I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THERAPY (PART 1)	WARNER (WMG)	23,195	-4%	1,738	943	20,514
27	24	BAD BUNNY	UN VERANO SIN TI	RIMAS (THE ORCHARD)	22,683	2%	156	50	22,476
23	25	TAYLOR SWIFT	MIDNIGHTS	REPUBLIC (UMG)	21,964	-6%	4,365	230	17,369
25	26	LUKE COMBS	GETTIN' OLD	RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE (SME)	21,482	-6%	485	323	20,674
26	27	DRAKE	FOR ALL THE DOGS	OVO/REPUBLIC (UMG)	20,582	-8%	18	48	20,516
--	28	WALLOWS	MODEL	ATLANTIC (WMG)	20,567	--	14,741	65	5,762
20	29	KENDRICK LAMAR	DAMN.	TDE/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE (UMG)	20,534	-16%	1,644	53	18,837
22	30	TRAVIS SCOTT	UTOPIA	CACTUS JACK/EPIC (SME)	20,520	-14%	534	57	19,929
39	31	FLEETWOOD MAC	RUMOURS	WARNER (WMG)	20,389	13%	4,078	277	16,035
29	32	KENDRICK LAMAR	GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY	TDE/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE (UMG)	20,188	-7%	2,199	53	17,936
40	33	CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL	CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS	FANTASY (UMG)	19,404	8%	1,615	210	17,579
47	34	BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS	LEGEND	TUFF GONG/ISLAND (UMG)	19,206	14%	2,827	202	16,177
31	35	PESO PLUMA	GENESIS	DOUBLE P/PRAJIN PARLAY (THE ORCHARD)	18,930	-6%	16	37	18,876
41	36	OLIVIA RODRIGO	SOUR	GEFFEN (UMG)	18,843	6%	3,057	70	15,716
--	37	BRING ME THE HORIZON	POST HUMAN: NEX GEN	RCA (SME)	18,709	--	3,081	370	15,259
35	38	FRANK OCEAN	BLONDE	BOYS DON'T CRY (BLONDED)	18,635	2%	139	25	18,471
37	39	ELTON JOHN	DIAMONDS	ISLAND (UMG)	18,625	3%	498	363	17,765
30	40	FUTURE & METRO BOOMIN	WE STILL DON'T TRUST YOU	BOOMINATI/FREEBANDZ/REPUBLIC/EPIC (UMG/SME)	18,429	-11%	396	25	18,008
33	41	LINKIN PARK	PAPERCUTS	WARNER (WMG)	18,336	-4%	2,258	183	15,895
43	42	MORGAN WALLEN	IF I KNOW ME	BIG LOUD (STEM)	18,286	5%	337	144	17,805
50	43	EAGLES	TO THE LIMIT: THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION	ELEKTRA/RHINO (WMG)	18,136	9%	1,225	280	16,631
32	44	FUERZA REGIDA	PA LAS BABY'S Y BELIKEADA	RANCHO HUMILDE/STREET MOB (SME)	18,035	-6%	16	26	17,993
34	45	TAYLOR SWIFT	FOLKLORE	REPUBLIC (UMG)	17,828	-5%	3,974	116	13,738
38	46	BAILEY ZIMMERMAN	RELIGIOUSLY. THE ALBUM.	WARNER NASHVILLE (WMG)	17,582	-3%	169	184	17,228
--	47	GLORILLA	EHHTHANG EHHTHANG	CMG/INTERSCOPE (UMG)	17,063	--	14	81	16,968
45	48	HOZIER	UNHEARD	COLUMBIA (SME)	16,813	-3%	274	621	15,919
48	49	EMINEM	CURTAIN CALL	SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE (UMG)	16,777	1%	529	213	16,035
--	50	QUEEN	GREATEST HITS 1	HOLLYWOOD (UMG)	16,718	--	1,940	289	14,489

[85la]

May 31, 2024 13:29:17 GMT -5 spiritboy said:

Great numbers for Billie.

Right, and at first glance her and Taylor's similar percentage drops might seem like they're doing comparably, but we have to remember this is only Billie's second week, while it's Taylor's sixth. A 55% drop in week 2 is about standard or even slightly good, but a 53% drop in week 6 is almost unheard of in most circumstances.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Well, regarding that last comment, it should be noted that TTPD's projected weekly drop is mostly due to drop in pure sales of around 80% from its previous week, while SEAs is projected to drop by around 20%. The previous week of pure sales were highly distorted due to new versions that were released. HMH&S is projected to have weekly drops of 25% of pure sales and about 28% of SEAs

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May 31, 2024 17:25:38 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

^Well, regarding that last comment, it should be noted that TTPD's projected weekly drop is mostly due to drop in pure sales of around 80% from its previous week, while SEAs is projected to drop by around 20%. The previous week of pure sales were highly distorted due to new versions that were released. HMH&S is projected to have weekly drops of 25% of pure sales and about 28% of SEAs

Yes, that's why it's so unusual, that explains my point.