Thursday, August 26, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending August 19, 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.

There was a really odd disparity between the Billboard and Rolling Stone album charts this week as the former placed Billie Eilish's 'Happier Than Ever' album atop their chart with 60,000 units and Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' in third with 57,000 units while the latter had them reversed with 'Sour' atop (99,200) and 'Happier Than Ever' in third (55,500). I tend to lean towards Billboard as the more accurate, so we will go with that for ease. Either way, Doja Cat's 'Planet Her' was decidedly in the second position (59,000), rising from 5th last week, and The Kid Laroi's 'F*CK LOVE' held the fourth spot (52,000). Elsewhere, Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' continued its remarkably stable run with another 43,000 units this week as did Dua Lipa's 'Future Nostalgia' which dipped 9-10 in the rankings with 26,000. Dan+Shay had the week's strongest debut with 'Good Things' which launched in the 6th spot with 33,000 units, barely edging out $uicideboy$'s 'Long Term Effects of Suffering' which began with 32,000. 

ALBUM SALES CHART (8/13 - 8/19/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH60,000383,000
PLANET HERDOJA CAT59,000523,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO57,0001,443,000
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI52,0001,396,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN43,0002,394,000
GOOD THINGSDAN+SHAY33,00033,000
LONG TERM EFFECTS OF SUFFERING$UICIDEBOY$32,00032,000
THE VOICE OF HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK28,000575,000
PRESSUE MACHINETHE KILLERS26,00026,000
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA26,0001,754,000
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked)
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT16,200 
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE14,900 
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES14,600 
ROLLING STONE 
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO99,200 
PLANET HERDOJA CAT58,300 
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH55,500 
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI51,000 
GOOD THINGSDAN+SHAY48,500 
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN39,600 
LONG TERM EFFECTS OF SUFFERING$UICIDEBOY$33,100 
PRESSUE MACHINETHE KILLERS27,800 
JUST A MATTER OF SLIMEYNW MELLY27,700 
THE VOICE OF HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK27,100 

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (8/13 - 8/19/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH23,000
PRESSUE MACHINETHE KILLERS22,000
GOOD THINGSDAN+SHAY12,000
ALL THINGS MUST PASSGEORGE HARRISON8,000
BTS, THE BESTBTS7,000
RESPECT SOUNDTRACKJENNIFER HUDSON7,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO6,000
REVERIEBEN PLATT6,000
WHEN FACING THINGS …LUKE COMBS6,000
LONG TERM EFFECTS/SUFFERING$SUICIDEBOY6,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (8/13- 8/19/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
PLANET HERDOJA CAT 59,0112,78455,1741,053
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO 57,7466,73849,7071,301
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH 56,36019,07136,802488
F-CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 52,71917350,7721,774
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 42,0901,54239,802746
GOOD THINGSDAN + SHAY 35,43014,65119,4991,279
LONG TERM EFFECTS OF SUFFERING$UICIDEBOY$ 31,2603,46427,70393
THE VOICE OF THE HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK 27,88814327,575169
PRESSURE MACHINEKILLERS 27,17422,7194,163292
JUST A MATTER OF SLIMEYNW MELLY 26,3616,37719,232752
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA 25,0951,95221,3791,764
HALL OF FAMEPOLO G 23,6714723,427198
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …POP SMOKE 23,08932322,534232
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 22,7061,08820,899719
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND 21,4741,21519,596664
MY TURNLIL BABY 21,00843020,336242
A GANGSTA'S PAINMONEYBAGG YO 20,55441319,809332
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD 19,48999718,337155
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDINGPOST MALONE 19,32728818,743296
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER 18,6751,62716,587460
GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCEJUICE WRLD 17,65079216,76494
KING'S DISEASE IINAS 17,0782,93413,808336
FAITHPOP SMOKE 16,90394615,718239
GREATEST HITS 1QUEEN 16,2332,44913,208576
THE OFF-SEASONJ. COLE 15,8321,23014,50994

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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