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 40 albums of the week, according to Alpha Data, with breakdowns of pure albums, SEA units, and TEA units.
'Slime Language 2,' featuring Young Thug and various other artists from Young Stoner Life Records, debuted atop the weekly album sales chart with approximately 113,000 album-equivalent units in the tracking week ending April 22. Of that total, the vast majority (106,000) are SEA units while pure albums account for only 6,000. 'Fearless (Taylor's Version)' from Taylor Swift was pushed 1-2 in the rankings with 57,000 units to bring its U.S. total to just under 350,000 in two weeks. Elsewhere, Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' (56,000) and Justin Bieber's 'Justice' (54,000) held the same two spots as last week, but switched positions. Finally, Eric Church's 'Heart' debuted with 49,000 units and Greta Van Fleet's 'The Battle at Garden's Gate' began with 44,000. Of note outside the Billboard top 10 was Ariana Grande's 'Positions' (25,800), Big Scarr's 'Big Grim Reaper' (20,000), Harry Styles' 'Fine Line' (19,800), Demi Lovato's 'Dancing with the Devil ... The Art of Moving On' (18,000), and both Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' (16,000) & 'Evermore' (15,300).
ALBUM SALES CHART (4/16 - 4/22/2021) | |||
ALBUM | ARTIST | UNITS | TOTAL UNITS |
BILLBOARD | |||
SLIME LANGUAGE 2 | YOUNG STONER LIFE | 113,000 | 113,000 |
FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) | TAYLOR SWIFT | 57,000 | 348,000 |
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM | MORGAN WALLEN | 56,000 | 1,570,000 |
JUSTICE | JUSTIN BIEBER | 54,000 | 442,000 |
HEART | ERIC CHURCH | 49,000 | 49,000 |
SOULFLY | ROD WAVE | 46,000 | 298,000 |
THE BATTLE AT GARDEN'S GATE | GRETA VAN FLEET | 44,000 | 44,000 |
THE HIGHLIGHTS | THE WEEKND | 40,000 | - |
FUTURE NOSTALGIA | DUA LIPA | 35,000 | 1,208,000 |
SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON | POP SMOKE | 34,000 | 2,711,000 |
ROLLING STONE | |||
SLIME LANGUAGE 2 | YOUNG STONER LIFE | 108,200 | |
HEART | ERIC CHURCH | 83,600 | |
FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) | TAYLOR SWIFT | 54,700 | |
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM | MORGAN WALLEN | 52,400 | |
JUSTICE | JUSTIN BIEBER | 47,700 | |
THE BATTLE AT GARDEN'S GATE | GRETA VAN FLEET | 47,600 | |
SOULFLY | ROD WAVE | 43,900 | |
FUTURE NOSTALGIA | DUA LIPA | 35,300 | |
SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON | POP SMOKE | 29,600 | |
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET | LUKE COMBS | 27,100 |
PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (4/16 - 4/22/2021) | ||
ALBUM | ARTIST | Pure Albums |
HEART | ERIC CHURCH | 40,000 |
THE BATTLE AT GARDEN'S GATE | GRETA VAN FLEET | 39,000 |
FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) | TAYLOR SWIFT | 19,000 |
MY SAVIOR | CARRIE UNDERWOOD | 18,000 |
LED THE BAD TIMES ROLL | THE OFFSPRING | 17,000 |
VIOLENCE UNIMAGINED | CANNIBAL CORPSE | 14,000 |
LTE3 | LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT | 9,000 |
FINDING WILDFLOWERS (ALTERNATE) | TOM PETTY | 9,000 |
POSITIONS | ARIANA GRANDE | 8,000 |
SLIME LANGUAGE 2 | YOUNG STONER LIFE | 6,000 |
ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (4/16 - 4/22/2021) | |||||
ALBUM | ARTIST | UNITS | PURE ALBUMS | SEA | TEA |
SLIME LANGUAGE 2 | YOUNG STONER LIFE | 120,179 | 2,315 | 116,942 | 922 |
FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) | TAYLOR SWIFT | 60,012 | 18,756 | 40,704 | 552 |
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM | MORGAN WALLEN | 57,699 | 2,388 | 54,486 | 825 |
JUSTICE | JUSTIN BIEBER | 56,488 | 2,788 | 51,839 | 1,860 |
HEART | ERIC CHURCH | 49,734 | 41,241 | 7,702 | 791 |
SOULFLY | ROD WAVE | 45,150 | 212 | 44,660 | 278 |
THE HIGHLIGHTS | THE WEEKND | 41,350 | 1,094 | 38,971 | 1,285 |
THE BATTLE AT GARDEN'S GATE | GRETA VAN FLEET | 39,389 | 34,369 | 4,749 | 271 |
FUTURE NOSTALGIA | DUA LIPA | 37,660 | 1,304 | 34,704 | 1,651 |
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR … | POP SMOKE | 33,755 | 341 | 32,997 | 417 |
DESTINED 2 WIN | LIL TJAY | 31,027 | 47 | 30,647 | 333 |
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET | LUKE COMBS | 28,971 | 2,051 | 25,685 | 1,236 |
EL ULTIMO TOUR DEL MUNDO | BAD BUNNY | 28,195 | 341 | 27,578 | 277 |
MY TURN | LIL BABY | 25,453 | 289 | 25,004 | 159 |
SHIESTY SEASON | POOH SHIESTY | 25,301 | 69 | 25,057 | 175 |
POSITIONS | ARIANA GRANDE | 24,683 | 5,861 | 18,544 | 278 |
LEGENDS NEVER DIE | JUICE WRLD | 23,907 | 925 | 22,827 | 155 |
WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE… | GIVEON | 23,724 | 182 | 23,261 | 281 |
YHLQMDLG | BAD BUNNY | 23,511 | 195 | 23,198 | 118 |
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING | POST MALONE | 23,211 | 490 | 22,357 | 364 |
THE GOAT | POLO G | 22,373 | 183 | 22,060 | 130 |
GOOD NEWS | MEGAN THEE STALLION | 21,991 | 191 | 21,359 | 441 |
BIG GRIM REAPER | BIG SCARR | 21,858 | 1,649 | 20,125 | 84 |
THE VOICE | LIL DURK | 20,913 | 29 | 20,716 | 168 |
MY SAVIOR | CARRIE UNDERWOOD | 20,837 | 18,128 | 2,131 | 579 |
FINE LINE | HARRY STYLES | 19,430 | 4,914 | 14,091 | 425 |
GREATEST HITS 1 | QUEEN | 19,159 | 2,459 | 16,091 | 609 |
DANCING WITH THE DEVIL… | DEMI LOVATO | 18,924 | 2,506 | 15,849 | 569 |
THIS ONE'S FOR YOU | LUKE COMBS | 18,886 | 1,439 | 17,066 | 381 |
THE BEST OF DMX | DMX | 18,868 | 1,197 | 16,274 | 1,397 |
GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCE | JUICE WRLD | 18,767 | 184 | 18,482 | 101 |
F*CK LOVE | THE KID LAROI | 18,722 | 134 | 18,260 | 328 |
STARTING OVER | CHRIS STAPLETON | 18,134 | 4,817 | 11,985 | 1,332 |
ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST | HAMILTON | 17,886 | 989 | 16,769 | 128 |
LET THE BAD TIMES ROLL | OFFSPRING | 17,819 | 15,563 | 1,996 | 260 |
HOT PINK | DOJA CAT | 17,449 | 448 | 16,672 | 329 |
TICKETS TO MY DOWNFALL | MACHINE GUN KELLY | 17,121 | 967 | 15,763 | 390 |
WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP … | BILLIE EILISH | 16,689 | 2,919 | 13,519 | 251 |
FOLKLORE | TAYLOR SWIFT | 16,231 | 3,761 | 12,327 | 143 |
EVERMORE | TAYLOR SWIFT | 15,789 | 3,306 | 12,264 | 219 |
Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research
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