Thursday, September 16, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending September 9, 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 easily scored the biggest first-week album debut of the year with new album 'Certified Lover Boy' totaling 613,000 album-equivalent units in the tracking week ending September 9th. Of this total, streaming accounted for 562,000 units and album sales accounted for 46,000. This was nearly than double the year's previous leader - Kanye West's 'Donda' (309,000) and the highest weekly total for an album since Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' logged 846,000 units in the tracking week ending July 30, 2020. The aforementioned 'Donda' delivered 141,000 units in its second week while Iron Maiden's new album 'Senjutsu' debuted in the third spot with 64,000 (and led the week in album sales with 61,000). Elsewhere on the chart, both Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' (61,000) and Doja Cat's 'Planet Her' (49,000) each dipped one spot in the rankings, to fourth and fifth respectively, while both Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' (40,000) and Billie Eilish's 'Happier Than Ever' (39,000) held the sixth and seventh positions. 'F*CK LOVE' from The Kid Laroi dropped 5-8 with 39,000, Rod Wave's 'Soulfly' went 8-10 with 30,000, and Imagine Dragons launched 'Mercury - Act 1' with an OK 31,000 units. Below the top 10, Halsey's 'If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power' fell 2-11 in its second week with 29,000 units, and Lady Gaga's Dawn of Chromatica' debuted in 66th with 11,000 units.

ALBUM SALES CHART (9/3 - 9/9/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE613,000613,000
DONDAKANYE WEST141,000450,000
SENJUTSUIRON MAIDEN64,00064,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO61,0001,711,000
PLANET HERDOJA CAT49,000682,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN40,0002,516,000
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH39,000511,000
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI39,0001,527,000
MERCURY - ACT 1IMAGINE DRAGONS31,00031,000
SOULFLYROD WAVE30,000805,000
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked)
IF I CAN'T HAVE LOVE, I WANT POWERHALSEY29,000 
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA22,400 
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES15,800 
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT15,700 
MADE IN LAGOSWIZKID12,200 
DAWN OF CHROMATICALADY GAGA11,000 
THE CHAOS CHAPTER: FREEZETOMORROW X TOGETHER10,500 
CINDERELLA MOVIE SOUNDTRACKVARIOUS ARTISTS8,500 
SHANGCHI: THE ALBUMVARIOUS ARTISTS7,400 
ROLLING STONE 
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE595,300 
DONDAKANYE WEST141,600 
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO63,300 
SENJUTSUIRON MAIDEN53,600 
PLANET HERDOJA CAT48,800 
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI38,100 
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN37,300 
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH36,700 
MERCURY - ACT 1IMAGINE DRAGONS31,900 
SOULFLYROD WAVE29,300 

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (9/3 - 9/9/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
SENJUTSUIRON MAIDEN61,000
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE46,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO20,000
MERCURY - ACT 1IMAGINE DRAGONS17,000
IF I CAN'T HAVE LOVE, I WANT POWERHALSEY17,000
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH12,000
THE CHAOS CHAPTER: FREEZETOMORROW X TOGETHER8,000
DONDAKANYE WEST7,500
THE OFF-SEASONJ. COLE5,000
BORN THIS WAYLADY GAGA5,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (9/3- 9/9/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE 604,19448,177542,3294,817
DONDAKANYE WEST 146,5058,008136,603155
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO 58,04714,94940,7921,184
SENJUTSUIRON MAIDEN 56,82253,8392,658194
PLANET HERDOJA CAT 50,43951946,6431,132
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 40,3261,30037,212678
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 40,18629837,0081,539
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH 37,6779,68326,870479
MERCURY - ACT 1IMAGINE DRAGONS 31,26818,24312,489401
SOULFLYROD WAVE 30,94710228,819116
IF I CAN'T HAVE LOVE, I WANT POWERHALSEY 26,27713,35512,332375
KING OF KILLBRANCHBIG30 24,0671,52620,578464
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 23,8031,19721,105951
TRIP AT KNIGHTTRIPPIE REDD 22,96433721,63296
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA 22,4101,87719,0101,024
THE VOICE OF THE HEROESLIL BABY & LIL DURK 22,2088421,061254
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …POP SMOKE 21,39085519,615264
MY TURNLIL BABY 19,12827017,329284
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND 18,54079016,557579
DAWN OF CHROMATICALADY GAGA 18,0993,84213,789343
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDINGPOST MALONE 18,04624716,971294
GREATEST HITS 1QUEEN 17,3492,86013,408688
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD 17,07468615,647123
HALL OF FAMEPOLO G 17,07022915,928225
THE OFF-SEASONJ. COLE 16,9264,17812,46595

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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