Friday, August 13, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending August 5, 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.

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ALBUM SALES CHART (7/30 - 8/5/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH238,000238,000
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI65,0001,288,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO64,0001,325,000
WELCOME 2 AMERICAPRINCE55,00055,000
PLANET HERDOJA CAT55,000409,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN44,0002,307,000
THE HOUSE IS BURNINGISAIAH RASHAD41,00041,000
THE VOICE OF HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK30,000519,000
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA29,0001,701,000
HALL OF FAMEPOLO G27,000423,000
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked)
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND22,200 
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT19,700 
BOBBY TARANTINO IIILOGIC18,800 
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE15,400 
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES15,300 
EVERMORETAYLOR SWIFT13,700 
  
ROLLING STONE 
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH271,500 
WELCOME 2 AMERICAPRINCE79,800 
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI64,100 
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO63,400 
PLANET HERDOJA CAT53,700 
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN40,900 
THE HOUSE IS BURNINGISAIAH RASHAD40,600 
THE VOICE OF HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK28,900 
FAITHPOP SMOKE27,400 
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA26,800 

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (7/30 - 8/5/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH153,000
WELCOME 2 AMERICAPRINCE50,000
DAVE'S PICKS: VOLUME 39GRATEFUL DEAD22,000
TAKE THE SADNESS OUT OF …BLEACHERS15,000
INTO THE MYSTERYNEEDTOBREATHE9,000
GOLD-DIGGERSLEON BRIDGES8,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO8,000
PRIVATE SPACEDURAND JONES & INDICATIONS8,000
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT7,500
THE CHAOS CHAPTER: FREEZETOMORROW X TOGETHER7,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (7/30- 8/5/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH 234,049148,52984,0551,464
F-CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 68,69921166,7811,708
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO 65,9407,43457,1381,368
WELCOME 2 AMERICAPRINCE 56,92651,9704,476480
PLANET HERDOJA CAT 56,13044954,819861
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 43,3601,69640,829835
THE HOUSE IS BURNINGISAIAH RASHAD 42,7244,33838,175211
THE VOICE OF THE HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK 29,67760628,879192
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA 28,7261,42624,9582,342
HALL OF FAMEPOLO G 27,91128127,403227
FAITHPOP SMOKE 24,97754824,143286
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 23,7661,08721,953725
A GANGSTA'S PAINMONEYBAGG YO 21,83137021,208253
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …POP SMOKE 21,74620221,323221
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND 21,6081,20519,798605
DAVE'S PICKS VOL. 39GRATEFUL DEAD 21,52221,522--
INSIDE (THE SONGS)BO BURNHAM 21,02382819,955239
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER 20,6221,76518,400457
BOBBY TARANTINO IIILOGIC 20,5592,91017,319330
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDINGPOST MALONE 20,38839819,667323
MY TURNLIL BABY 20,18425219,742190
PAPER ROUTE ILLUMINATIYOUNG DOLPH 19,8762,42817,260189
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD 18,98241118,431140
GREATEST HITS 1QUEEN 18,8543,23115,047576
THE OFF-SEASONJ. COLE 18,8201,62617,066127

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research 

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