Thursday, April 29, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending April 22, 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 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)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
SLIME LANGUAGE 2YOUNG STONER LIFE113,000113,000
FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION)TAYLOR SWIFT57,000348,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN56,0001,570,000
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER54,000442,000
HEARTERIC CHURCH49,00049,000
SOULFLYROD WAVE46,000298,000
THE BATTLE AT GARDEN'S GATEGRETA VAN FLEET44,00044,000
THE HIGHLIGHTSTHE WEEKND40,000-
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA35,0001,208,000
SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOONPOP SMOKE34,0002,711,000
ROLLING STONE 
SLIME LANGUAGE 2YOUNG STONER LIFE108,200 
HEARTERIC CHURCH83,600
FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION)TAYLOR SWIFT54,700
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN52,400
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER47,700
THE BATTLE AT GARDEN'S GATEGRETA VAN FLEET47,600
SOULFLYROD WAVE43,900
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA35,300
SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOONPOP SMOKE29,600
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS27,100

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (4/16 - 4/22/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
HEARTERIC CHURCH40,000
THE BATTLE AT GARDEN'S GATEGRETA VAN FLEET39,000
FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION)TAYLOR SWIFT19,000
MY SAVIORCARRIE UNDERWOOD18,000
LED THE BAD TIMES ROLLTHE OFFSPRING17,000
VIOLENCE UNIMAGINEDCANNIBAL CORPSE14,000
LTE3LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT9,000
FINDING WILDFLOWERS (ALTERNATE)TOM PETTY9,000
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE8,000
SLIME LANGUAGE 2YOUNG STONER LIFE6,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (4/16 - 4/22/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
SLIME LANGUAGE 2YOUNG STONER LIFE120,1792,315116,942922
FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION)TAYLOR SWIFT 60,01218,75640,704552
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 57,6992,38854,486825
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER 56,4882,78851,8391,860
HEARTERIC CHURCH 49,73441,2417,702791
SOULFLYROD WAVE 45,15021244,660278
THE HIGHLIGHTSTHE WEEKND 41,3501,09438,9711,285
THE BATTLE AT GARDEN'S GATEGRETA VAN FLEET 39,38934,3694,749271
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA 37,6601,30434,7041,651
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …POP SMOKE 33,75534132,997417
DESTINED 2 WINLIL TJAY 31,0274730,647333
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 28,9712,05125,6851,236
EL ULTIMO TOUR DEL MUNDOBAD BUNNY 28,19534127,578277
MY TURNLIL BABY 25,45328925,004159
SHIESTY SEASONPOOH SHIESTY 25,3016925,057175
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE 24,6835,86118,544278
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD 23,90792522,827155
WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE…GIVEON 23,72418223,261281
YHLQMDLGBAD BUNNY 23,51119523,198118
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDINGPOST MALONE 23,21149022,357364
THE GOATPOLO G 22,37318322,060130
GOOD NEWSMEGAN THEE STALLION 21,99119121,359441
BIG GRIM REAPERBIG SCARR 21,8581,64920,12584
THE VOICELIL DURK 20,9132920,716168
MY SAVIORCARRIE UNDERWOOD 20,83718,1282,131579
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES 19,4304,91414,091425
GREATEST HITS 1QUEEN 19,1592,45916,091609
DANCING WITH THE DEVIL…DEMI LOVATO 18,9242,50615,849569
THIS ONE'S FOR YOULUKE COMBS 18,8861,43917,066381
THE BEST OF DMXDMX 18,8681,19716,2741,397
GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCEJUICE WRLD 18,76718418,482101
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 18,72213418,260328
STARTING OVERCHRIS STAPLETON 18,1344,81711,9851,332
ORIGINAL BROADWAY CASTHAMILTON 17,88698916,769128
LET THE BAD TIMES ROLLOFFSPRING 17,81915,5631,996260
HOT PINKDOJA CAT 17,44944816,672329
TICKETS TO MY DOWNFALLMACHINE GUN KELLY 17,12196715,763390
WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP …BILLIE EILISH 16,6892,91913,519251
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT 16,2313,76112,327143
EVERMORETAYLOR SWIFT 15,7893,30612,264219

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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