Thursday, September 23, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending September 16, 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.

Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy' spends a second week atop the weekly album chart, logging 236,000 album-equivalent units in the tracking week ended September 16th. This was down from the prior week's huge 613,000 debut, but still the biggest second week for an album in 2021 and bigger than all but six other first-week album debuts this year. Of that total nearly all came from streaming (227,000 units) with only 6,500 coming from pure album sales. Kanye West's 'Donda' retained the second position with 79,000 units and Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' held the fourth spot with 54,000. Kacey Musgraves scored the biggest debut this week as 'Star-Crossed' launched at #3 with 77,000 total units, made up of 47,000 pure albums (where it led the week) and a modest 30,000 in streaming. The only other debut in the top 10 was Baby Keem's 'The Melodic Blue' which began at fifth with 53,000. The rest of the top 10 went like this: Doja Cat's 'Planet Her' dipped 5-6 (50,000), The Kid Laroi's 'F*CK LOVE' rose 8-7 (39,000), Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' sunk 6-8 (39,000), and Billie Eilish's 'Happier Than Ever' dropped 7-10 (34,000). Finally, Metallica's re-issue of their Black album landed at #9. 

ALBUM SALES CHART (9/10 - 9/16/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE236,000849,000
DONDAKANYE WEST79,000529,000
STAR-CROSSEDKACEY MUSGRAVES77,00077,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO54,0001,765,000
THE MELODIC BLUEBABY KEEM53,00053,000
PLANET HERDOJA CAT50,000732,000
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI39,0001,566,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN39,0002,555,000
METALLICAMETALLICA37,000-
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH34,000545,000
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked)
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA22,400 
IF I CAN'T HAVE LOVE, I WANT POWERHALSEY17,300 
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES16,200 
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT14,500 
MADE IN LAGOSWIZKID11,500 
    
ROLLING STONE 
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE232,400 
STAR-CROSSEDKACEY MUSGRAVES94,900 
DONDAKANYE WEST79,200 
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO58,300 
THE MELODIC BLUEBABY KEEM52,500 
PLANET HERDOJA CAT49,500 
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI38,000 
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN36,100 
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH32,100 
METALLICAMETALLICA31,800 

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (9/10 - 9/16/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
STAR-CROSSEDKACEY MUSGRAVES47,000
METALLICAMETALLICA29,000
SENJUTSUIRON MAIDEN16,000
AALIYAHAALIYAH15,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO14,000
ZERO: FEVER PT. 3ATEEZ12,000
IF I CAN'T HAVE LOVE, I WANT POWERHALSEY9,000
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH8,000
FLOWERS FOR VASES / DESCANSOSHAYLEY WILLIAMS7,000
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE6,500

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (9/10- 9/16/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE 232,9506,379224,1562,415
DONDAKANYE WEST 80,5282,24478,093192
STAR-CROSSEDKACEY MUSGRAVES 72,77841,90230,242634
THE MELODIC BLUEBABY KEEM 54,0681,18752,517365
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO 53,82014,54038,0651,214
PLANET HERDOJA CAT 49,41158247,4671,362
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 38,58818736,8371,565
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 38,0181,14736,245626
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH 33,7668,76724,602397
METALLICAMETALLICA 32,09525,0296,0361,030
SOULFLYROD WAVE 29,9807929,781120
AALIYAHAALIYAH 27,49216,3179,3041,871
JOSEJ BALVIN 26,9351,40224,832700
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …POP SMOKE 22,13060121,263266
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 22,0271,07520,194759
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA 21,1261,73718,421969
THE VOICE OF THE HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK 20,4136320,111238
TRIP AT KNIGHTTRIPPIE REDD 19,60536919,15878
DREAMLANDGLASS ANIMALS 19,18028818,359533
MY TURNLIL BABY 18,73126118,237232
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND 18,38870817,078602
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDINGPOST MALONE 17,77028717,199284
HALL OF FAMEPOLO G 17,40624716,933226
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD 17,26655416,599113
THE OFF-SEASONJ. COLE 17,1414,24012,80794

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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