Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending March 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.

Justin Bieber's new album 'Justice' debuted atop the album sales chart and finally de-throned Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' which had spent 10 consecutive weeks at number one. 'Justice' began with 154,000 units in the tracking week, the second-most for any album in 2021 after the 267,000 'Dangerous' logged in the week ending January 14. Lana Del Rey took the second spot on the week with her new set 'Chemtrails Over the Country Club' which scored around 75,000 units; the album did lead the week in pure album sales though, managing 58,000. The next three spots are in the same order as last week with each falling two spots: 'Dangerous' fell to 1-3 with 66,000 units, Pop Smoke's 'Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon' went 2-4 with 40,000, and Dua Lipa's 'Future Nostalgia' was 3-5 with 36,000. After last week's Grammys bump, Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' fell 10-14 with 24,700 units, and 'Evermore' wasn't too far behind at 22,000. Other albums of note outside of the top 10 include The Weeknd's 'The Highlights' (23,700), Ariana Grande's 'Positions' (23,400), Megan Thee Stallion's 'Good News' (23,100), Harry Styles's 'Fine Line' (23,100), Doja Cat's 'Hot Pink' (21,900), Benny the Butcher's 'The Plugs I Met 2' (16,800), and BTS's 'BE' (15,800). 

ALBUM SALES CHART (3/19 - 3/25/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER154,000154,000
CHEMTRAILS OVER THE COUNTRY CLUBLANA DEL REY75,00075,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN66,0001,330,000
SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOONPOP SMOKE40,0002,566,000
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA36,0001,070,000
SHIESTY SEASONPOOH SHIESTY36,000266,000
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND31,0002,149,000
MY TURNLIL BABY30,0002,693,000
THE VOICELIL DURK28,000585,000
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS27,0002,255,000
ROLLING STONE 
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER146,000 
CHEMTRAILS OVER THE COUNTRY CLUBLANA DEL REY98,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN62,600
SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOONPOP SMOKE38,600
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND36,800
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA36,100
THE VOICELIL DURK30,500
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT28,500
SHIESTY SEASONPOOH SHIESTY27,900
MY TURNLIL BABY27,500

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (3/19 - 3/25/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
CHEMTRAILS OVER THE COUNTRY CLUBLANA DEL REY58,000
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER30,000
SHOREFLEET FOXES18,000
NO ONE SINGS LIKE YOU ANYMORECHRIS CORNELL11,000
STILL WOMAN ENOUGHLORETTA LYNN10,000
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT9,800
WE AREJON BATISTE9,500
SOUL STATIONPAUL STANLEY8,000
WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP … BILLIE EILISH7,600
THE PLUGS I MET 2BENNY THE BUTCHER7,300

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (3/19 - 3/25/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
JUSTIN BIEBER JUSTICE158,52234,181 119,941 4,401 
LANA DEL REY CHEMTRAILS OVER THE COUNTRY …78,99861,498 17,054 446 
MORGAN WALLEN DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM65,9683,988 60,962 1,018 
POP SMOKE SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR … 38,4191,209 36,612 598 
DUA LIPA FUTURE NOSTALGIA36,1462,387 31,500 2,259 
THE WEEKND AFTER HOURS30,5982,702 26,709 1,187 
POOH SHIESTY SHIESTY SEASON29,287149 28,898 239 
LIL BABY MY TURN28,397461 27,716 220 
LIL DURK THE VOICE27,29767 26,952 279 
LUKE COMBS WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET27,2872,494 23,997 796 
TAYLOR SWIFT FOLKLORE25,19610,039 14,900 257 
POST MALONE HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING25,1791,185 23,484 509 
JUICE WRLD LEGENDS NEVER DIE25,1351,013 23,940 181 
GIVEON WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE…24,565322 23,993 250 
ARIANA GRANDE POSITIONS23,2751,250 21,702 324 
MEGAN THEE STALLION GOOD NEWS23,229815 21,698 716 
THE WEEKND THE HIGHLIGHTS23,0482,185 20,435 428 
HARRY STYLES FINE LINE22,4905,249 16,439 801 
TAYLOR SWIFT EVERMORE22,0455,452 16,238 355 
BILLIE EILISH WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP … 21,8266,346 15,051 430 

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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