Album Ratings: Week Ending December 2, 2021

Below is a breakdown of the top albums in the week ending December 2, 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.

Adele's '30' remained atop the album sales & streaming chart for a second-straight week, logging an additional 288,000 units in the tracking week ending December 2nd. Of this total, pure albums accounted for an astounding 225,000 while streaming was responsible for 61,000. In second, Taylor Swift's 'Red (Taylor's Version)' delivered a very solid third week with another 102,000 units, and Michael Buble's 'Christmas' soared 9-3 with 59,000 units. Also seeing a nice rise this week was Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' which went 8-4 with 48,000 - helped immensely by a solid 21,000 in pure album sales. Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy' was down 3-5 in the rankings, Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' dipped 5-6, and Summer Walker's 'Still Over It' went 6-7. Closing out the top 10 was Silk Sonic's 'An Evening with Silk Sonic' at #8, The Weeknd's 'The Highlights' at #9, and Vince Guaraldi's 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' at #10. Of note outside the top 10, Billie Eilish's 'Happier Than Ever' rose to 35,500 units, from 28,800 last week.

ALBUM SALES CHART (11/26 - 12/02/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	UNITS	TOTAL UNITS
BILLBOARD
30	ADELE	288,000	1,127,000
RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	TAYLOR SWIFT	102,000	866,000
CHRISTMAS	MICHAEL BUBLE	59,000	-
SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	48,000	2,217,000
CERTIFIED LOVER BOY	DRAKE	48,000	1,803,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	45,000	3,023,000
STILL OVER IT	SUMMER WALKER	40,000	316,000
AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC	SILK SONIC	37,000	191,000
THE HIGHLIGHTS	THE WEEKND	37,000	-
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS	VINCE GUARALDI	36,000	-
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked)
HAPPIER THAN EVER	BILLIE EILISH	35,500
PLANET HER	DOJA CAT	34,400
EVERMORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	24,300
FINE LINE	HARRY STYLES	24,200
DONDA	KANYE WEST	23,000
FORMULA OF LOVE: O+T=<3	TWICE	22,900

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (11/26 - 12/02/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	Pure Albums
30	ADELE	225,000
RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	TAYLOR SWIFT	46,000
SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	21,000
HAPPIER THAN EVER	BILLIE EILISH	20,000
FORMULA OF LOVE: O+T=<3	TWICE	19,000
LET IT BE	THE BEATLES	18,000
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS	VINCE GUARALDI	16,000
FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	TAYLOR SWIFT	15,000
EVERMORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	14,000
CHRISTMAS	MICHAEL BUBLE	14,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (11/26- 12/02/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	UNITS	PURE ALBUMS	SEA	TEA
30	ADELE	284,189	221,883	60,386	1,920
RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	TAYLOR SWIFT	102,625	45,526	56,450	649
CHRISTMAS	MICHAEL BUBLE	59,268	14,617	43,628	1,023
CERTIFIED LOVER BOY	DRAKE	44,972	288	44,288	396
SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	43,526	18,715	24,397	415
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	41,367	2,875	37,757	735
AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC	SILK SONIC	36,355	11,934	23,639	783
STILL OVER IT	SUMMER WALKER	36,338	1,056	34,945	337
THE HIGHLIGHTS	THE WEEKND	34,322	5,153	28,602	567
CHRISTMAS SONG	NAT KING COLE	34,183	4,978	28,859	346
HAPPIER THAN EVER	BILLIE EILISH	33,524	18,659	14,684	181
PLANET HER	DOJA CAT	32,687	300	31,714	673
=	ED SHEERAN	32,137	11,972	19,023	1,142
MERRY CHRISTMAS	MARIAH CAREY	32,085	4,193	26,807	1,085
CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS	VINCE GUARALDI TRIO	31,467	12,111	19,084	272
CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU	PHIL SPECTOR	30,014	294	29,578	142
PENTATONIX CHRISTMAS	PENTATONIX	27,970	6,679	20,645	645
CHRISTMAS CLASSICS	BING CROSBY	26,977	5,238	21,333	406
CHRISTMAS ALBUM	ANDY WILLIAMS	26,502	673	25,578	251
LET IT BE	BEATLES	24,004	15,528	7,512	964
EVERMORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	23,718	14,009	9,626	82
FINE LINE	HARRY STYLES	23,712	12,261	11,290	161
GREATEST HITS 1	QUEEN	22,534	11,215	10,933	386
F*CK LOVE	THE KID LAROI	22,236	77	21,699	460
FORMULA OF LOVE: 3	TWICE	22,110	18,319	3,734	57

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research