Saturday, August 21, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending August 12, 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.

Billie Eilish's 'Happier Than Ever' remained atop the album sales chart for a second consecutive week with 85,000 album-equivalent units in the tracking week ending August 12th. The set was also the week's number one album based on total pure album sales (36K) while Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' led in streaming units (~53K). Additionally, 'Sour' rose 3-2 on the chart this week with 61,000 units while The Kid Laroi's 'F*CK LOVE' descended 2-4 with 56,000 units putting it in a near tie with the launch of Nas's new album 'King's Disease II' (56,000). Elsewhere on the chart, both Doja Cat's 'Planet Her' (55,000) and Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' (44,000) held their numbers from last week, while 'The Voice of Heroes,' 'Future Nostalgia,' and 'Hall of Fame' held their respective positions (8-10). Finally, the 50th anniversary reissue of George Harrison's 'All Things Must Pass' debuted at #8 with 32,000. 

ALBUM SALES CHART (8/6 - 8/12/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH85,000323,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO61,0001,386,000
KING'S DISEASE IINAS56,00056,000
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI56,0001,344,000
PLANET HERDOJA CAT55,000464,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN44,0002,351,000
ALL THINGS MUST PASSGEORGE HARRISON32,00032,000
THE VOICE OF HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK28,000547,000
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA27,0001,728,000
HALL OF FAMEPOLO G24,000447,000
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked)
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND22,600 
RELEASE ME 2BARBRA STREISAND22,000 
BTS, THE BESTBTS20,200 
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER19,300 
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT18,300 
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOSTTYLER THE CREATOR16,100 
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE15,600 
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES15,000 
EVERMORETAYLOR SWIFT13,200 
333TINASHE7,000 
  
ROLLING STONE 
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH77,600 
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO57,400 
KING'S DISEASE IINAS52,500 
PLANET HERDOJA CAT51,800 
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI51,800 
ALL THINGS MUST PASSGEORGE HARRISON38,400 
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN38,300 
THE VOICE OF HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK24,900 
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA24,500 
RELEASE ME 2BARBRA STREISAND23,700 

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (8/6 - 8/12/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH36,000
ALL THINGS MUST PASSGEORGE HARRISON28,000
RELEASE ME 2BARBRA STREISAND21,000
KINGS'S DISEASE IINAS19,000
BTS, THE BESTBTS17,000
FAMOUS FRIENDSCHRIS YOUNG14,000
WELCOME 2 AMERICAPRINCE9,000
RUMOURSFLEETWOOD MAC7,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO7,000
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT7,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (8/6- 8/12/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH 82,29332,06649,548679
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO 60,7386,81252,5991,327
KING'S DISEASE IINAS 56,94120,38534,9621,594
F-CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 55,82617554,0931,558
PLANET HERDOJA CAT 54,94744653,570931
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 45,1591,70042,691769
THE VOICE OF THE HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK 28,77245028,159162
ALL THINGS MUST PASSGEORGE HARRISON 27,72324,1433,098482
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA 27,0661,99623,1971,872
HALL OF FAMEPOLO G 24,26418623,882197
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …POP SMOKE 24,07118323,624264
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 23,79799422,052750
FAMOUS FRIENDSCHRIS YOUNG 23,71614,5378,303876
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND 22,4401,01220,748681
A GANGSTA'S PAINMONEYBAGG YO 21,33840420,658276
THE HOUSE IS BURNINGISAIAH RASHAD 21,3104,97616,26866
RELEASE ME 2BARBRA STREISAND 20,75019,971545234
FAITHPOP SMOKE 20,62347519,904245
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDINGPOST MALONE 19,83939019,167283
MY TURNLIL BABY 19,32820218,930196
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD 19,29647118,651174
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER 18,8221,57616,774471
BTS, THE BESTBTS 18,81917,872785163
GREATEST HITS 1QUEEN 17,7542,88214,273599
INSIDE (THE SONGS)BO BURNHAM 17,62872116,692214

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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