Friday, December 31, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending December 23, 2021

Below is a breakdown of the top albums in the week ending December 23, 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' continued its domination of the album sales chart, scoring 212,000 album-equivalent units in the tracking week ending Dec. 23rd, to rank #1 for the fifth straight week. The album also led in pure album sales which, per usual, accounted for the majority of its units (180,500). Michael Buble's 'Christmas' leapt 4-2 in the rankings (77,000), but Juice WRLD's 'Fighting Demons' tumbled 2-9, so Taylor Swift's 'Red (Taylor's Version)' remained untouched in the 3rd spot. At #4 was Roddy Ricch's new album 'Live Life Fast' which launched with 62,000 units, of which more than 57,000 came from streaming. With that, Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' remained at #5, Mariah Carey's 'Merry Christmas' held at #7, and 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' rose 8-6 to a new peak. Rounding out the top 10 was Nat King Cole's 'The Christmas Song' up 11-8 (55,000) and Bo Burnham's 'Inside (The Songs)' which returned to the top 10 due to its vinyl release.

ALBUM SALES CHART (12/17 - 12/23/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
30ADELE212,0001,715,000
CHRISTMASMICHAEL BUBLE77,000-
RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)TAYLOR SWIFT76,0001,090,000
LIVE LIFE FASTRODDY RICCH62,00062,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO61,0002,389,000
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMASVINCE GUARALDI TRIO61,000-
MERRY CHRISTMASMARIAH CAREY56,000-
THE CHRISTMAS SONGNAT KING COLE55,000-
FIGHTING DEMONSJUICE WRLD52,000171,000
INSIDE (THE SONGS)BO BURNHAM50,000-
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked)
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH41,800 
UNIVERSE - THE 3RD ALBUMNCT39,200
PLANET HERDOJA CAT36,400
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES27,700
FORMULA OF LOVE: O+T=<3TWICE27,000
STICKER - THE 3RD ALBUMNCT 12714,500

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (12/17 - 12/23/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
30ADELE180,500
RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)TAYLOR SWIFT47,000
INSIDE (THE SONGS)BO BURNHAM44,500
MAN ON THE MOON II: THE CHOSENKID CUDI42,000
UNIVERSE - THE 3RD ALBUMNCT37,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO33,000
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH26,000
FORMULA OF LOVE: O+T=<3TWICE24,000
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMASVINCE GUARALDI TRIO24,000
LET IT BETHE BEATLES23,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (12/17- 12/23/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
30ADELE 204,846175,27728,1631,406
RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)TAYLOR SWIFT 65,58037,27427,949358
CHRISTMASMICHAEL BUBLE 65,45010,51354,198739
LIVE LIFE FASTRODDY RICCH 63,5043,23359,406865
FIGHTING DEMONSJUICE WRLD 52,8211,07251,049700
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO 50,63923,66126,547431
CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMASVINCE GUARALDI TRIO 48,53117,42730,514590
CHRISTMAS SONGNAT KING COLE 47,0335,25041,206577
MERRY CHRISTMASMARIAH CAREY 46,6556,37839,0971,180
INSIDE (THE SONGS)BO BURNHAM 45,78040,6265,11836
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 42,3462,73838,5711,037
MAN ON THE MOON III: THE CHOSENKID CUDI 42,08538,2223,85211
BEST OF PENTATONIX CHRISTMASPENTATONIX 38,8338,49529,404934
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE 37,57126536,954352
CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOUPHIL SPECTOR 37,55164036,618294
=ED SHEERAN 36,93114,22320,9611,747
CHRISTMAS ALBUMANDY WILLIAMS 35,03065934,043327
UNIVERSE - THE 3RD ALBUMNCT 34,68832,3662,25468
CHRISTMAS CLASSICSBING CROSBY 34,4523,77230,210470
PLANET HERDOJA CAT 34,1981,88431,601712
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH 33,59018,52814,746316
THE HIGHLIGHTSTHE WEEKND 33,5055,67427,301529
HALL OF FAMEPOLO G 32,54413932,058347
ULTIMATE CHRISTMASFRANK SINATRA 30,7323,08427,298350
RUDOLPH/RED-NOSED REINDEERBURL IVES 29,7631,42428,011328

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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