Thursday, October 28, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending October 21, 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.

In a week with a number of top 10 debuts, Young Thug's new album 'Punk' emerged victorious - topping the album sales chart in the tracking week ending October 21st. 'Punk' began with 90,000 album-equivalent units, of which 77,000 came from streaming and 12,000 from pure album sales. Also launching this week was the commercial debut of Mac Miller's mixtape 'Faces' which began in 3rd (67,000), and Coldplay's new album 'Music of the Spheres' which took 4th (57,000). Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy' dipped from 1-2 this week - outperforming both of those debuts with 83,000. The 1970 album 'Let it Be' from The Beatles soared to 5th this week after a re-release, 'Sincerely, Kentrell' from Youngboy Never Broke Again fell 3-6, and 'Planet Her' from Doja Cat again held the 7th spot. Rounding out the top 10 was Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' in 8th for a second-straight week, Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' which tumbled 5-9, and Lil Nas X's 'Montero' which went 6-10.

ALBUM SALES CHART (10/15 - 10/21/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
PUNKYOUNG THUNG90,00090,000
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE83,0001,442,000
FACESMAC MILLER67,00067,000
MUSIC OF THE SPHERESCOLDPLAY57,00057,000
LET IT BETHE BEATLES55,000-
SINCERELY, KENTRELLYOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE44,000303,000
PLANET HERDOJA CAT42,000950,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN42,0002,757,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO40,0001,988,000
MONTEROLIL NAS X36,000308,000
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked)
DONDAKANYE WEST29,800 
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH26,600 
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER22,500 
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA20,800 
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES16,300 
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT15,400 
ROLLING STONE 
PUNKYOUNG THUG88,900 
FACESMAC MILLER85,900 
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE82,600 
MUSIC OF THE SPHERESCOLDPLAY57,900 
LET IT BETHE BEATLES43,000 
PLANET HERDOJA CAT41,600 
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO41,200 
SINCERELY, KENTRELLYOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE40,700 
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN39,600 
MONTEROLIL NAS X35,800 

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (10/15 - 10/21/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
LET IT BETHE BEATLES48,000
MUSIC OF THE SPHERESCOLDPLAY37,000
FACESMAC MILLER34,000
DIMENSON: DILEMMAENHYPHEN31,000
WELCOME TO HORRORWOODICE NINE KILLS18,000
THE COMEBACKZAC BROWN BAND12,000
PUNKYOUNG THUG12,000
WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES AROUNDKELLY CLARKSON11,000
HALLOWEEN KILLS SOUNDTRACKVARIOUS ARTISTS8,000
LOVE FOR SALETONY BENNETT & LADY GAGA8,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (10/15- 10/21/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
PUNKYOUNG THUG 90,3469,00780,718621
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE 83,19488681,416893
FACESMAC MILLER 67,21330,98935,983240
LET IT BETHE BEATLES 59,28050,2328,429619
MUSIC OF THE SPHERESCOLDPLAY 56,77338,56015,0343,180
SINCERELY, KENTRELLYOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE 42,8041,34840,993464
PLANET HERDOJA CAT 41,69533840,484872
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 41,2941,21939,169905
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO 40,0956,86732,451777
MONTEROLIL NAS X 36,43039934,9971,034
DIMENSION : DILEMMAENHYPEN 33,09429,7743,25565
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 31,37310529,9391,330
EXPENSIVE PAINMEEK MILL 30,6582,43727,1151,106
DONDAKANYE WEST 30,18128229,576323
25ADELE 27,5351,93325,043559
WELCOME TO HORRORWOOD ….ICE NINE KILLS 27,18519,0467,909229
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH 25,8445,16320,319362
LIFE OF A DONDON TOLIVER 24,43227824,036119
SOULFLYROD WAVE 22,80037522,204222
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER 22,4861,24020,430815
21ADELE 21,5631,63019,308625
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 21,4751,02119,825629
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …POP SMOKE 21,11850120,424194
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA 19,30883516,7371,736
THE COMEBACKZAC BROWN BAND 18,87212,1246,004744

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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