Below is a breakdown of the top albums in the week ending November 18, 2021. Albums achieve their positions on the weekly Billboard charts 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 Billboard (and usually a small select number albums below the top 10). The 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.
The week ending Nov. 18th turned out to be a very busy week for album releases as 4 different albums debuted in the top 10 on the album sales chart. Taylor Swift's 'Red (Taylor's Version)' absolutely dominated the chart; collecting 605,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, and scoring Swift her 10th #1 album. This was the second-best debut frame of the year, behind Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy' (613,000), and it was Swift's best opening numbers since 'Folklore' in Aug. 2020 (846,000). Of the 605K total, streaming accounted for 221,000, and album sales totaled 369,000 - the best week of the year in that metric. In the second spot this week was the debut of 'An Evening With Silk Sonic,' a new set by Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak. 'Evening' began with 104,000 units last week: 42,000 in sales & 60,000 in streaming. The week's third-biggest debut was TWICE's 'Formula of Love' which launched at #3 with 66,000 units, and the final debut was Jason Aldean's 'Macon' which began at #8 with 37,000. With that, Summer Walker's 'Still Over It' fell to #4 after hitting the summit last week, Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy' went 3-5, Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' dipped 5-6, and Ed Sheeran's '= (Equals)' went down 4-7. Closing out the chart this week: Kanye West's 'Donda' returned to the top 10 at #9, and Doja Cat's 'Planet Her' tumbled 6-10, pushing Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' down to #11 this week (32,500).
| ALBUM SALES CHART (11/12 - 11/18/2021) | |||
| ALBUM | ARTIST | UNITS | TOTAL UNITS |
| BILLBOARD | |||
| RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) | TAYLOR SWIFT | 605,000 | 605,000 |
| AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC | SILK SONIC | 104,000 | 104,000 |
| FORMULA OF LOVE: O+T=<3 | TWICE | 66,000 | 66,000 |
| STILL OVER IT | SUMMER WALKER | 64,000 | 230,000 |
| CERTIFIED LOVER BOY | DRAKE | 57,000 | 1,702,000 |
| DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM | MORGAN WALLEN | 45,000 | 2,930,000 |
| = (EQUALS) | ED SHEERAN | 38,000 | 207,000 |
| MACON | JASON ALDEAN | 37,000 | 37,000 |
| DONDA | KANYE WEST | 37,000 | 843,000 |
| PLANET HER | DOJA CAT | 35,000 | 1,103,000 |
| Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked) | |||
| SOUR | OLIVIA RODRIGO | 32,500 | |
| SINCERELY, KENTRELL | YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE | 28,000 | |
| HAPPIER THAN EVER | BILLIE EILISH | 24,700 | |
| MONTERO | LIL NAS X | 24,600 | |
| FOLKLORE | TAYLOR SWIFT | 21,000 | |
| EVERMORE | TAYLOR SWIFT | 18,600 | |
| FINE LINE | HARRY STYLES | 18,400 | |
| BACK ON MY BABY JESUS SH!T AGAIN | DABABY | 15,900 | |
| BETWEEN US | LITTLE MIX | 7,600 | |
| PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (11/12 - 11/18/2021) | ||
| ALBUM | ARTIST | Pure Albums |
| RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) | TAYLOR SWIFT | 369,000 |
| FORMULA OF LOVE: O+T=<3 | TWICE | 58,000 |
| AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC | SILK SONIC | 42,000 |
| NEVERMIND | NIRVANA | 22,000 |
| VOYAGE | ABBA | 19,000 |
| MACON | JASON ALDEAN | 19,000 |
| PURPLE RAIN | PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION | 17,000 |
| FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) | TAYLOR SWIFT | 13,000 |
| BLOCKCHAIN | MONEY MAN | 13,000 |
| = (EQUALS) | ED SHEERAN | 12,000 |
| ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (11/12- 11/18/2021) | |||||
| ALBUM | ARTIST | UNITS | PURE ALBUMS | SEA | TEA |
| RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) | TAYLOR SWIFT | 596,096 | 360,132 | 227,266 | 8,698 |
| AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC | BRUNO MARS/.PAAK | 104,093 | 40,756 | 61,364 | 1,972 |
| FORMULA OF LOVE: 3 | TWICE | 64,586 | 55,973 | 8,259 | 354 |
| STILL OVER IT | SUMMER WALKER | 61,785 | 2,799 | 58,589 | 398 |
| CERTIFIED LOVER BOY | DRAKE | 57,351 | 440 | 56,322 | 589 |
| DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM | MORGAN WALLEN | 43,547 | 2,465 | 40,139 | 943 |
| MACON | JASON ALDEAN | 37,886 | 20,252 | 15,580 | 2,054 |
| = | ED SHEERAN | 37,791 | 11,845 | 24,097 | 1,848 |
| PLANET HER | DOJA CAT | 36,004 | 275 | 34,961 | 767 |
| DONDA | KANYE WEST | 35,695 | 847 | 34,230 | 618 |
| SOUR | OLIVIA RODRIGO | 31,954 | 6,508 | 24,977 | 470 |
| BLOCKCHAIN | MONEY MAN | 29,763 | 14,050 | 15,233 | 480 |
| NEVERMIND | NIRVANA | 29,706 | 22,178 | 7,159 | 369 |
| SINCERELY, KENTRELL | YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE | 27,790 | 438 | 27,100 | 252 |
| F*CK LOVE | THE KID LAROI | 25,588 | 75 | 24,861 | 652 |
| MONTERO | LIL NAS X | 25,346 | 217 | 24,447 | 683 |
| FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) | TAYLOR SWIFT | 25,193 | 14,809 | 10,195 | 188 |
| HAPPIER THAN EVER | BILLIE EILISH | 23,969 | 7,204 | 16,523 | 243 |
| WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET | LUKE COMBS | 23,143 | 1,870 | 20,578 | 695 |
| TRAVELLER | CHRIS STAPLETON | 23,087 | 12,766 | 9,755 | 566 |
| CHRISTMAS | MICHAEL BUBLE | 21,704 | 6,958 | 14,440 | 306 |
| SOULFLY | ROD WAVE | 21,357 | 162 | 21,076 | 119 |
| 25 | ADELE | 20,957 | 3,658 | 16,171 | 1,129 |
| A GANGSTA'S PAIN | MONEYBAGG YO | 20,566 | 278 | 19,647 | 642 |
| FOLKLORE | TAYLOR SWIFT | 20,259 | 5,794 | 14,236 | 229 |
Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research
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