Monday, March 1, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending February 25, 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's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' spends a seventh week atop the album sales chart selling around 89,000 album-equivalent units, according to Billboard, in the tracking week ending February 25, 2021. That total includes 7,000 pure albums which ranked third on the week in that metric. Ariana Grande's 'Positions' jumped to second-place this week with 49,000 units due the release of the Deluxe version of the album on Feb. 19 which featured five additional songs. Pop Smoke's 'Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon' and Lil Durk's 'The Voice' switched spots with the former rising to 3rd this week (43,000) and the latter in fourth (38,000). Also of note, BTS's 'BE' re-entered the top 10 this week (36,000 units) due to its re-issue on Feb. 19; of that sum, 28,000 were pure albums which ranked atop that metric. Outside of the Billboard top 10 was Taylor Swift's 'Evermore' (24,000) & 'Folklore' (20,000), Megan Thee Stallion's 'Good News' (23,600), Doja Cat's 'Hot Pink' (20,100), and Harry Styles's 'Fine Line' (18,800). 

ALBUM SALES CHART (2/19 - 2/25/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITS
BILLBOARD
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN89,000
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE49,000
SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOONPOP SMOKE43,000
THE VOICELIL DURK38,000
SHIESTY SEASONPOOH SHIESTY37,000
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND37,000
BEBTS36,000
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA30,000
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS28,000
MY TURNLIL BABY28,000
ROLLING STONE
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN84,400
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE47,500
SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOONPOP SMOKE41,700
THE VOICELIL DURK39,700
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND36,900
SHIESTY SEASONPOOH SHIESTY34,800
BEBTS31,800
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS28,800
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD27,100
MY TURNLIL BABY26,400

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (2/19 - 2/25/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
BEBTS28,000
MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHTFOO FIGHTERS7,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN7,000
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT5,000
EVERMORETAYLOR SWIFT4,500
OPEN DOOR POLICYTHE HOLD STEADY4,500
DEATH BY ROCK AND ROLLTHE PRETTY RECKLESS4,500
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES4,000
AS THE LOVE CONTINUESMOGWAI4,000
METALLICAMETALLICA4,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (2/19 - 2/25/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 87,4267,13178,7251,570
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE 44,2973,13840,261897
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR … POP SMOKE 41,03145540,060516
THE VOICELIL DURK 36,0837535,452556
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND 35,9482,95031,3501,648
SHIESTY SEASONPOOH SHIESTY 33,98018833,546246
BEBTS 32,65324,9406,1531,560
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA 28,2851,08225,8191,384
MY TURNLIL BABY 27,52024627,090184
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 27,0882,01324,183892
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD 26,4101,25324,998159
THE HIGHLIGHTSTHE WEEKND 24,7861,91622,218652
EL ULTIMO TOUR DEL MUNDOBAD BUNNY 23,61039322,763454
EVERMORETAYLOR SWIFT 23,4964,54718,508441
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 23,42313922,930354
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDINGPOST MALONE 22,5411,20120,941399
ONLY THE GENERALS, PT. IIKEVIN GATES 22,3652,34619,716303
GOOD NEWSMEGAN THEE STALLION 21,97425721,103615
PEGASUSTRIPPIE REDD 20,53137519,785372
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT 19,1075,09113,829187

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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