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) | |||
ALBUM | ARTIST | UNITS | TOTAL UNITS |
BILLBOARD | |||
HAPPIER THAN EVER | BILLIE EILISH | 60,000 | 383,000 |
PLANET HER | DOJA CAT | 59,000 | 523,000 |
SOUR | OLIVIA RODRIGO | 57,000 | 1,443,000 |
F*CK LOVE | THE KID LAROI | 52,000 | 1,396,000 |
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM | MORGAN WALLEN | 43,000 | 2,394,000 |
GOOD THINGS | DAN+SHAY | 33,000 | 33,000 |
LONG TERM EFFECTS OF SUFFERING | $UICIDEBOY$ | 32,000 | 32,000 |
THE VOICE OF HEROES | LIL BABY & LIL DURK | 28,000 | 575,000 |
PRESSUE MACHINE | THE KILLERS | 26,000 | 26,000 |
FUTURE NOSTALGIA | DUA LIPA | 26,000 | 1,754,000 |
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked) | |||
FOLKLORE | TAYLOR SWIFT | 16,200 | |
POSITIONS | ARIANA GRANDE | 14,900 | |
FINE LINE | HARRY STYLES | 14,600 | |
ROLLING STONE | |||
SOUR | OLIVIA RODRIGO | 99,200 | |
PLANET HER | DOJA CAT | 58,300 | |
HAPPIER THAN EVER | BILLIE EILISH | 55,500 | |
F*CK LOVE | THE KID LAROI | 51,000 | |
GOOD THINGS | DAN+SHAY | 48,500 | |
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM | MORGAN WALLEN | 39,600 | |
LONG TERM EFFECTS OF SUFFERING | $UICIDEBOY$ | 33,100 | |
PRESSUE MACHINE | THE KILLERS | 27,800 | |
JUST A MATTER OF SLIME | YNW MELLY | 27,700 | |
THE VOICE OF HEROES | LIL BABY & LIL DURK | 27,100 |
PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (8/13 - 8/19/2021) | ||
ALBUM | ARTIST | Pure Albums |
HAPPIER THAN EVER | BILLIE EILISH | 23,000 |
PRESSUE MACHINE | THE KILLERS | 22,000 |
GOOD THINGS | DAN+SHAY | 12,000 |
ALL THINGS MUST PASS | GEORGE HARRISON | 8,000 |
BTS, THE BEST | BTS | 7,000 |
RESPECT SOUNDTRACK | JENNIFER HUDSON | 7,000 |
SOUR | OLIVIA RODRIGO | 6,000 |
REVERIE | BEN PLATT | 6,000 |
WHEN FACING THINGS … | LUKE COMBS | 6,000 |
LONG TERM EFFECTS/SUFFERING | $SUICIDEBOY | 6,000 |
ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (8/13- 8/19/2021) | |||||
ALBUM | ARTIST | UNITS | PURE ALBUMS | SEA | TEA |
PLANET HER | DOJA CAT | 59,011 | 2,784 | 55,174 | 1,053 |
SOUR | OLIVIA RODRIGO | 57,746 | 6,738 | 49,707 | 1,301 |
HAPPIER THAN EVER | BILLIE EILISH | 56,360 | 19,071 | 36,802 | 488 |
F-CK LOVE | THE KID LAROI | 52,719 | 173 | 50,772 | 1,774 |
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM | MORGAN WALLEN | 42,090 | 1,542 | 39,802 | 746 |
GOOD THINGS | DAN + SHAY | 35,430 | 14,651 | 19,499 | 1,279 |
LONG TERM EFFECTS OF SUFFERING | $UICIDEBOY$ | 31,260 | 3,464 | 27,703 | 93 |
THE VOICE OF THE HEROES | LIL BABY & LIL DURK | 27,888 | 143 | 27,575 | 169 |
PRESSURE MACHINE | KILLERS | 27,174 | 22,719 | 4,163 | 292 |
JUST A MATTER OF SLIME | YNW MELLY | 26,361 | 6,377 | 19,232 | 752 |
FUTURE NOSTALGIA | DUA LIPA | 25,095 | 1,952 | 21,379 | 1,764 |
HALL OF FAME | POLO G | 23,671 | 47 | 23,427 | 198 |
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR … | POP SMOKE | 23,089 | 323 | 22,534 | 232 |
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET | LUKE COMBS | 22,706 | 1,088 | 20,899 | 719 |
AFTER HOURS | THE WEEKND | 21,474 | 1,215 | 19,596 | 664 |
MY TURN | LIL BABY | 21,008 | 430 | 20,336 | 242 |
A GANGSTA'S PAIN | MONEYBAGG YO | 20,554 | 413 | 19,809 | 332 |
LEGENDS NEVER DIE | JUICE WRLD | 19,489 | 997 | 18,337 | 155 |
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING | POST MALONE | 19,327 | 288 | 18,743 | 296 |
JUSTICE | JUSTIN BIEBER | 18,675 | 1,627 | 16,587 | 460 |
GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCE | JUICE WRLD | 17,650 | 792 | 16,764 | 94 |
KING'S DISEASE II | NAS | 17,078 | 2,934 | 13,808 | 336 |
FAITH | POP SMOKE | 16,903 | 946 | 15,718 | 239 |
GREATEST HITS 1 | QUEEN | 16,233 | 2,449 | 13,208 | 576 |
THE OFF-SEASON | J. COLE | 15,832 | 1,230 | 14,509 | 94 |
Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research
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