Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending January 21, 2021

Albums achieve their positions on the weekly Billboard & Rolling Stone lists based on total units sold; a metric which is the sum of of pure album sales (sales of the entire actual album), streaming-equivalent album units (SEA), and track-equivalent album units (TEA). One SEA unit is equal to 1,250 premium (paid) streams, or 3,750 free streams, and one TEA unit is equal to 10 purchased tracks. There are two charts below: the first one has the top 10 albums based on total weekly units sold according to both Billboard and Rolling Stone. The two sites have different sources of data, hence why their numbers are different (but close). The second chart includes the top 20 albums of the week, according to Alpha Data, with breakdowns of pure albums, SEA units, and TEA units.

Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' again led the week on the album chart with over 159,000 units sold in the week ending January 21. This was down more than 100K from last week's huge 265K, but was still a sizable lead over second-ranked 'Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon' from Pop Smoke which logged 47,000. Why Don't Lie placed their new album 'The Good Times and the Bad Ones' at the third spot on the Billboard chart with 46,000 units, but there was a major discrepancy between the Billboard numbers at the Rolling Stone ones as the latter reported 15,700 units for that album. The other major discrepancy in the numbers was with Eminem's 'Music to be Murdered by' which placed 7th on the Billboard list (33,000), but 15th on the Rolling Stone one (25,500). Taylor Swift's 'Evermore' dipped to the fourth spot on the week with 41,000 units (down from 55K) while Ariana Grande's 'Positions' rose to the fifth spot with 39,000 (up from 34K). 

ALBUM SALES CHART (1/15 - 1/21/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITS
BILLBOARD
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN159,000
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR THE MOONPOP SMOKE47,000
THE GOOD TIMES AND THE BAD ONESWHY DON'T WE46,000
EVERMORETAYLOR SWIFT41,000
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE39,000
THE VOICELIL DURK37,000
MUSIC TO BE MURDERED BYEMINEM33,000
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND33,000
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD32,000
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS32,000
ROLLING STONE
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN154,700
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR THE MOONPOP SMOKE45,000
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE38,100
EVERMORETAYLOR SWIFT37,200
THE VOICELIL DURK34,700
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND32,500
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS31,900
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD30,400
GOOD NEWSMEGAN THEE STALLION28,200
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI28,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (1/15 - 1/21/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 155,76423,4634,515127,786
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …POP SMOKE 45,4601,11368943,658
THE GOOD TIMES AND THE BAD …WHY DON'T WE 45,30437,8963997,009
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE 41,7661,9101,23438,623
EVERMORETAYLOR SWIFT 40,01511,95864127,417
THE VOICELIL DURK 37,52811069136,727
MUSIC TO BE MURDERED BYEMINEM 31,27314,83041516,029
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND 30,9322,4652,00226,465
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 30,7083,2821,16126,265
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD 29,2411,88025227,110
GOOD NEWSMEGAN THEE STALLION 29,02151196527,544
MY TURNLIL BABY 28,96132420828,428
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 28,35156032727,464
EL ULTIMO TOUR DEL MUNDOBAD BUNNY 27,12524324926,633
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES 24,4229,07952314,820
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT 23,1527,43427415,444
HEAUX TALESJAZMINE SULLIVAN 21,9091,36523920,306
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDINGPOST MALONE 21,80395749520,351
TICKETS TO MY DOWNFALLMACHINE GUN KELLY 20,8792,06273618,082
THATS WHAT THEY ALL SAYJACK HARLOW 19,6519124919,310

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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