Album Ratings: Week Ending February 11, 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 three 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). A second chart includes the top 10 albums of the week according to Billboard based on pure album sales, and the third chart includes the top 25 albums of the week, according to Alpha Data, with breakdowns of pure albums, SEA units, and TEA units.

Morgan Wallen again took the top spot in the weekly album sales chart selling 150,000 units in the tracking week ending February 11; that sum includes 37,000 pure album sales. The Weeknd's 'The Highlights' album dropped this week and landed in the second spot with 89,000 units and 6,000 of them in pure sales. 'Highlights' edged out 'After Hours' in pure sales, and due to some interesting Billboard rules, songs that appear on both albums only count towards the album with higher pure sales, hence 'After Hours' tumbled out of the top 10 this week. The Foo Fighters debuted 'Medicine at Midnight' in the third position with 70,000 units, but easily topped the pure sales chart with 64,000. Ariana Grande's 'Positions' ticked up to 7th this week with 32,000 units (vs. 28K) while Taylor Swift's 'Evermore' dipped out of the top 10, ranking 11th with 28,800. Of note outside the Billboard top 10 was SZA's 'Good News' (26,900), Doja Cat's 'Hot Pink' (20,800), Harry Styles's 'Fine Line' (20,700), and Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' (19,900). 

ALBUM SALES CHART (2/5 - 2/11/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	UNITS
BILLBOARD
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	150,000
THE HIGHLIGHTS	THE WEEKND	89,000
MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT	FOO FIGHTERS	70,000
SHIESTY SEASON	POOH SHIESTY	62,000
THE VOICE	LIL DURK	49,000
SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON	POP SMOKE	41,000
POSITIONS	ARIANA GRANDE	32,000
LEGENDS NEVER DIE	JUICE WRLD	30,000
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET	LUKE COMBS	30,000
IF I KNOW ME	MORGAN WALLEN	29,000
ROLLING STONE
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	137,000
MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT	FOO FIGHTERS	64,400
SHIESTY SEASON	POOH SHIESTY	57,800
AFTER HOURS	THE WEEKND	57,800
THE VOICE	LIL DURK	50,800
SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON	POP SMOKE	39,500
POSITIONS	ARIANA GRANDE	31,300
LEGENDS NEVER DIE	JUICE WRLD	30,100
EVERMORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	30,100
IF I KNOW ME	MORGAN WALLEN	26,500
MY TURN	LIL BABY	26,100
FOLKLORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	25,700

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (2/5 - 2/11/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	Pure Albums
MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT	FOO FIGHTERS	64,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	37,000
IF I KNOW ME	MORGAN WALLEN	10,000
THE HIGHLIGHTS	THE WEEKND	10,000
UP ALL NIGHT	ONE DIRECTION	7,000
EVERMORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	7,000
POSITIONS	ARIANA GRANDE	6,000
AFTER HOURS	THE WEEKND	6,000
FINE LINE	HARRY STYLES	6,000
BARRY GIBB & FRIENDS: GREENFIELD	BARRY GIBB	6,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (2/5 - 2/11/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	UNITS	PURE ALBUMS	SEA	TEA
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	156,539	41,798	108,932	5,809
THE HIGHLIGHTS	THE WEEKND	88,840	9,995	69,827	9,018
MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT	FOO FIGHTERS	68,115	61,389	6,205	521
SHIESTY SEASON	POOH SHIESTY	65,405	1,324	63,618	463
THE VOICE	LIL DURK	49,391	151	48,940	301
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …	POP SMOKE	39,322	1,396	37,435	491
POSITIONS	ARIANA GRANDE	31,710	7,321	23,992	398
IF I KNOW ME	MORGAN WALLEN	29,839	11,474	16,670	1,694
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET	LUKE COMBS	29,005	2,702	25,388	916
LEGENDS NEVER DIE	JUICE WRLD	28,829	2,036	26,617	176
MY TURN	LIL BABY	27,961	279	27,476	206
EVERMORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	27,662	6,272	20,945	445
GOOD NEWS	MEGAN THEE STALLION	26,570	337	25,337	895
F*CK LOVE	THE KID LAROI	24,384	123	23,950	312
EL ULTIMO TOUR DEL MUNDO	BAD BUNNY	24,101	193	23,676	233
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING	POST MALONE	23,994	1,798	21,754	442
TICKETS TO MY DOWNFALL	MACHINE GUN KELLY	22,737	2,329	19,730	679
HOT PINK	DOJA CAT	20,708	119	20,193	396
GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCE	JUICE WRLD	20,082	592	19,369	122
FUTURE NOSTALGIA	DUA LIPA	20,046	988	18,040	1,018
FINE LINE	HARRY STYLES	19,671	5,077	14,162	431
FOLKLORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	19,603	5,359	14,081	164
THE GOAT	POLO G	18,738	55	18,598	86
ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST	HAMILTON	18,651	1,423	17,047	181
GREATEST HITS 1	QUEEN	18,147	4,324	12,686	1,138

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research