Thursday, September 2, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending August 26, 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 (8/20 - 8/26/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO133,0001,576,000
TRIIP AT KNIGHTTRIPPIE REDD81,00081,000
SOULFLYROD WAVE62,000580,000
PLANET HERDOJA CAT57,000580,000
SOLAR POWERLORDE56,00056,000
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH49,000432,000
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI48,0001,444,000
THE CHAOS CHAPTER: FREEZETOMORROW X TOGETHER47,000-
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN42,0002,436,000
ONE IN A MILLIONAALIYAH26,000-
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked)
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA25,200 
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND20,900 
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER18,300 
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT16,300 
POSITIONSARIANA GRANDE14,500 
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES14,300 
ROLLING STONE 
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO155,500 
TRIP AT KNIGHTTRIPPIE REDD80,700 
SOLAR POWERLORDE75,900 
PLANET HERDOJA CAT56,500 
SOULFLYROD WAVE53,400 
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH48,000 
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN39,000 
THE CHAOS CHAPTER: FREEZETOMORROW X TOGETHER31,500 
THE VOICE OF HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK25,200 
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA24,000 

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (8/20 - 8/26/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO84,000
THE CHAOS CHAPTER: FREEZETOMORROW X TOGETHER43,000
SOLAR POWERLORDE34,000
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH17,000
ONE IN A MILLIONAALIYAH13,000
THE BALLAD OF DOOD & JUANITASTURGILL SIMPSON12,000
JESUS PEOPLEDANNY GOKEY9,000
INFINTE GRANITEDEAFHAVEN7,000
PRESSURE MACHINETHE KILLERS7,000
THE HORSES AND THE HOUNDSJAMES MCMURTY6,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (8/20- 8/26/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO 140,02290,55548,2001,267
TRIP AT KNIGHTTRIPPIE REDD 75,7406,14369,171426
SOLAR POWERLORDE 64,62741,24622,969411
SOULFLYROD WAVE 56,62780355,432393
PLANET HERDOJA CAT 54,37776952,4431,165
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH 49,30319,66829,215420
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 48,93322946,9661,738
THE CHAOS CHAPTER: FIGHT OR  …TOMORROW X TOGETHER 44,57340,8033,605165
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 40,2361,69537,840700
ONE IN A MILLIONAALIYAH 26,16312,39011,1262,646
THE VOICE OF THE HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK 24,5748324,243249
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA 23,7581,19220,7871,779
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …POP SMOKE 23,13189521,970266
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 22,3621,00820,577778
HALL OF FAMEPOLO G 21,6634621,399218
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND 20,7921,12219,078591
MY TURNLIL BABY 19,61134319,023245
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD 18,64578317,731130
THE BALLAD OF DOOD & JUANITASTURGILL SIMPSON 18,48011,8296,383268
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDINGPOST MALONE 18,29723517,780282
A GANGSTA'S PAINMONEYBAGG YO 17,76547016,906389
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER 17,2141,20315,595416
GOOD THINGSDAN + SHAY 16,8462,84613,430571
GREATEST HITS 1QUEEN 16,4072,41713,424565
LONG TERM EFFECTS OF SUFFERING$UICIDEBOY$ 16,0691,51914,48960

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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