Billboard 200 - 9/14/24 - Sabrina Carpenter week 2

[Gary]

09/8/2024Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ Scores Second Week Atop Billboard 200
Plus: LE SSERAFIM and Destroy Lonely debut in the top 10.


By Keith Caulfield

09/8/2024

Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet stays steady atop the Billboard 200 (dated Sept. 14) for a second week, after opening at No. 1 a week ago. In its second frame, the album earned 159,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 5 (down 56%), according to Luminate.


That 159,000-unit sum is substantial for an album’s second week in recent times. In the last 12 months, only three other albums have logged a second week as big as Short n’ Sweet’s. Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department tallied 439,000 units in its second week (chart dated May 11; down from its 2.61 million-unit debut), Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) earned 245,000 in its second week (Nov. 18, 2023; down from 1.653 million), and Drake’s For All the Dogs earned 164,000 in its second week (Oct. 28, 2023; down from 402,000).

Also in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200, LE SSERAFIM captures it third top 10-charting effort with the No. 7 arrival of CRAZY, while Destroy Lonely achieves his first top 10 as Love Lasts Forever enters at No. 10.

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 Sept. 14, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Tuesday (Sept. 10). For all chart news, follow billboard and billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of Short n’ Sweet’s 159,000 equivalent album units earned in its second week, SEA units comprise 126,000 (down 28%, equaling 168.45 million on-demand official streams of the album’s 12 songs; it holds at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart, as well), album sales comprise 32,000 (down 83%) and TEA units comprise 1,000 (down 38%).

Post Malone’s former leader F-1 Trillion (released via Mercury/Republic) rises one rung to No. 2 with 86,000 equivalent album units earned (down 23%), Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (KRA/Amusement/Island/Republic) is up a spot to No. 3 with 64,000 (down 10%), Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time (Big Loud/Mercury/Republic) steps 5-4 with 55,000 (down 5%) and Swift’s former No. 1 The Tortured Poets Department climbs 6-5 with 54,000 (down 6%).

Republic Records holds the entire top five titles — a feat that it’s achieved four times. Republic remains the only label to claim the entire top five since the Billboard 200 combined its previously separate mono and stereo album charts into one all-encompassing chart in August 1963. Republic previously controlled the top five on the Jan. 13 and 20, 2024, charts, and on the Dec. 9, 2023-dated list.

Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft rises one rung to No. 6 on the latest Billboard 200, earning 49,000 equivalent album units (down 7%).

LE SSERAFIM’s CRAZY debuts at No. 7 with 47,000 equivalent album units earned, landing the Korean pop ensemble its third top 10-charting effort — and largest week by units earned. Of its starting sum, album sales comprise 38,000 (it’s No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 9,000 (equaling 12.08 million on-demand official streams of the set’s five songs; with over half of that sum driven by the title track) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. CRAZY’s first-week was bolstered by its availability across more than 20 CD variants, all containing collectible branded paper ephemera such as photocards, postcards, stickers, and posters.

Noah Kahan’s Stick Season rises 10-8 on the latest Billboard 200, with 40,000 equivalent album units earned (up 7%) in the week ending Sept. 5. The set’s gain is concurrent with the Aug. 30 arrival of Kahan’s new album, Live From Fenway Park.

Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene is a non-mover at No. 9 on the new Billboard 200 with 39,000 equivalent album units earned (down 6%).

Rapper Destroy Lonely lands his first top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 as his second studio album, Love Lasts Forever, bows at No. 10 with 37,500 equivalent album units earned — his best week by units. Of its starting sum, album sales comprise 19,000, SEA units comprise 18,500 (equaling 25.19 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum. The album’s first week was bolstered by its availability in a signed CD edition and two digital download album variants — all exclusive to the artist’s webstore. The latter two were each sold for $5 and each included five additional bonus songs (five different songs per variant).

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.

[Gary]

1. Sabrina Carpenter 159,000 (sales 32,000)
2. Post Malone 86,000
3. Chapell Roan 64,000
4. Morgan Wallen 55,000
5. Taylor Swift 54,000
6. Billie Eiliah 49,000
7. La Sserafim 47,000 (sales 38,000)
8. Noah Kahan 40,000
9. Zach Bryan 39,000
10. Destroy Lonely 37,5000 (sales 19,000)

[fridayteenage]

are travis's shipments the week that just started, or next week?

[jdanton2]

fourth biggest second week of the past 12 months and second this year so far.

That 159,000-unit sum is substantial for an album’s second week in recent times. In the last 12 months, only three other albums have logged a second week as big as Short n’ Sweet’s. Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department tallied 439,000 units in its second week (chart dated May 11; down from its 2.61 million-unit debut), Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) earned 245,000 in its second week (Nov. 18, 2023; down from 1.653 million), and Drake’s For All the Dogs earned 164,000 in its second week (Oct. 28, 2023; down from 402,000).

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

[ObhiDonna]

Lol Travis Scott dropped to #30 in second week, worse than what HDD predicted

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

This Hip-Hop Album Just Became the First to Spend 700 Weeks on the Billboard 200

9/10/2024

By Xander Zellner

Hint: It's a release by Eminem.

Up until this week, only five albums in the 68-year history of the Billboard 200 had spent 700 weeks or more on the chart. This week (on the chart dated Sept. 14), Eminem’s 2005 best-of compilation, Curtain Call: The Hits, joins the ranks as the sixth album to reach the milestone – and the first hip-hop set. 

Curtain Call: The Hits ranks at No. 198 with 8,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States Aug. 30-Sept. 5, according to Luminate.

Dating to when the chart became a regularly published weekly list in 1956, only five other albums have reached the 700-week milestone. Here’s a look at those five, along with the albums next in line: 

990 weeks, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
851, Bob Marley, Legend: The Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers
821, Journey, Journey’s Greatest Hits
758, Metallica, Metallica
710, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits
700, Eminem, Curtain Call: The Hits
692, Guns N’ Roses, Greatest Hits
692, Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans
686, Nirvana, Nevermind
642, Michael Jackson, Thriller
622, AC/DC, Back In Black
619, Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city
611, Queen, Greatest Hits
610, Adele, 21
601, Drake, Take Care

(All except for Dark Side of the Moon are still charting this week)

Curtain Call: The Hits is Eminem’s first greatest hits album and includes songs from four of his first five studio albums: The Slim Shady LP (1999), The Marshall Mathers LP (2000), The Eminem Show (2002), the 8 Mile soundtrack (2002) and Encore (2004). (The set doesn’t include any songs from his 1996 debut album Infinite, which he released before he signed to Interscope Records.)

After The Slim Shady LP peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in 1999, The Marshall Mathers LP debuted at No. 1 and became his first of 11 leaders, including his most recent project, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), in July. That run includes Curtain Call, which spent two weeks on top.

How come Curtain Call spent more weeks on the chart than any of Eminem’s classic studio projects? That’s due to a Billboard 200 chart rule that came into effect in 2009. In December of that year, Billboard allowed catalog albums back on the chart (after barring them since 1991).

When streaming began to impact the chart in 2014, Billboard instituted rules about where songs that appear on multiple albums should be assigned (say, a song that appears on both a studio album and a greatest hits album). Since then, songs are assigned to whichever album by that artist sells the most (by traditional album sales) in a given week. So, Curtain Call has been able to spend an historic amount of weeks on the chart because, A) catalog albums are now allowed to chart each week, and B) the album includes many of Eminem’s big early hits (“Lose Yourself,” “My Name Is,” “Without Me,” “Stan,” etc.) which, as a collection, are counting more towards this album week-to-week than to the original studio albums on which they appear.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

LOL. My guess is that Travis Scott probably has the record drop in pure sales for a second week an album is out:

LE SSERAFIM Achieves First No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart With ‘CRAZY’

9/11/2024

By Keith Caulfield

Plus: Destroy Lonely and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds debut in the top 10.

LE SSERAFIM celebrates its first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, as CRAZY crowns the Sept. 14-dated chart. The set debuts atop the list with 37,500 copies sold in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 5, according to Luminate. It’s the fourth top three-charting effort the Korean pop group, the entirety of their charting efforts. 

Also in the top 10 of the new Top Album Sales chart, Destroy Lonely scores his first top 10 with the No. 3 bow of Love Lasts Forever, while Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds notch their highest charting set yet as Wild God starts at No. 4.

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 X and Instagram.

Of CRAZY’s first-week sales of 37,500 copies, CD sales comprise 36,500 and digital download album sales comprise 1,000. CRAZY’s first-week was bolstered by its availability across more than 20 CD variants, all containing collectible branded paper ephemera such as photocards, postcards, stickers, and posters.

Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet is a non-mover at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 28,000 sold in its second week (down 85%).

Destroy Lonely logs his first top 10, and best sales week, as Love Lasts Forever arrives at No. 3 with 19,000 sold. The hip-hop album’s first week was bolstered by its availability in a signed CD edition and two digital download album variants – all exclusive to the artist’s webstore. The latter two were each sold for $5 and each included five additional bonus songs (five different songs per variant).

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ new studio album, Wild God, debuts at No. 4, marking the highest charting effort for the group on Top Album Sales. It launches with 13,000 sold – the act’s best sales week since Skeleton Key sold 15,000 copies in its first week (a debut at No. 13 on the chart dated Oct. 1, 2016). The new album was available across five vinyl variants, which combined to sell 8,000 copies (it bows at No. 2 on the Vinyl Albums chart).

Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess dips 4-5 on Top Album Sales (13,000; down 29%), Stray Kids’ former No. 1 ATE rises 7-6 (11,000; down 7%), Post Malone’s chart-topping F-1 Trillion falls 6-7 (9,000; down 34%), ENHYPEN’s former leader Romance: Untold ascends 9-8 (8,000; down 3%), Lainey Wilson’s Whirlwind falls 3-9 in its second week (nearly 8,000; down 77%) and Travis Scott’s Days Before Rodeo falls 1-10 in its second week (nearly 8,000; down 98%).