Album Ratings: Week Ending November 25, 2021

Below is a breakdown of the top albums in the week ending November 25, 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 new album '30' scored a monstrous debut on the album sales & streaming chart with about 839,000 album-equivalent units sold in the tracking week ending November 25th. This was easily the biggest single-week sales total of the year and the biggest of any album since Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' back in 2020 (846,000). Of its total, pure albums accounted for 692,000 and streaming was about 141,000. With that, Taylor Swift's 'Red (Taylor's Version)' went down to #2 with an additional 159,000 units, and Silk Sonic's 'An Evening with Silk Sonic' dipped 2-4 with 53,000. Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy' was up 3-5 this week and Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' rose 6-5 with a slight increase in units week-to-week. The only other debut in the top 10 this week was Plant & Krauss's 'Raise the Roof' at #7 with 40,000, which launched just behind Summer Walker's 'Still Over It' at #6. Rounding out the top 10 was Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' (up 11-8), Michael Buble's 'Christmas', and The Weeknd's 'The Highlights.' 

ALBUM SALES CHART (11/19 - 11/25/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	UNITS	TOTAL UNITS
BILLBOARD
30	ADELE	839,000	839,000
RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	TAYLOR SWIFT	159,000	764,000
CERTIFIED LOVER BOY	DRAKE	53,000	1,755,000
AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC	SILK SONIC	50,000	154,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	48,000	2,978,000
STILL OVER IT	SUMMER WALKER	48,000	276,000
RAISE THE ROOF	R. PLANT/A. KRAUSS	40,000	40,000
SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	40,000	2,169,000
CHRISTMAS	MICHAEL BUBLE	39,000	-
THE HIGHLIGHTS	THE WEEKND	37,000	-
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked)
= (EQUALS)	ED SHEERAN	36,400
PLANET HER	DOJA CAT	36,400
HAPPIER THAN EVER	BILLIE EILISH	28,800
DONDA	KANYE WEST	27,800
SCALED AND ICY	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	27,000
FORMULA OF LOVE: O+T=<3	TWICE	25,800
MONTERO	LIL NAS X	24,900
FINE LINE	HARRY STYLES	21,600
EVERMORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	20,000
THEY GOT AMNESIA	FRENCH MONTANA	14,900
POSITIONS	ARIANA GRANDE	14,800
STICKER - THE 3RD ALBUM	NCT 127	11,800

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (11/19 - 11/25/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	Pure Albums
30	ADELE	692,000
RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	TAYLOR SWIFT	67,000
RAISE THE ROOF	R. PLANT/A.KRAUSS	38,000
SCALED AND ICY	TWENTY-ONE PILOTS	23,000
FORMULA OF LOVE: O+T=<3	TWICE	21,000
THE LEGENDARY 1979 NO NUKES	BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN	19,000
AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC	SILK SONIC	17,000
SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	14,000
HAPPIER THAN EVER	BILLIE EILISH	13,000
VOYAGE	ABBA	13,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (11/19- 11/25/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	UNITS	PURE ALBUMS	SEA	TEA
30	ADELE	837,943	678,872	152,690	6,380
RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	TAYLOR SWIFT	168,819	68,062	99,241	1,516
CERTIFIED LOVER BOY	DRAKE	53,028	347	52,227	454
AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC	BRUNO MARS/A .PAAK	50,301	15,266	34,128	907
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	47,977	2,422	44,652	904
STILL OVER IT	SUMMER WALKER	45,806	1,377	44,138	291
SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	38,237	11,915	25,708	614
CHRISTMAS	MICHAEL BUBLE	37,807	11,528	25,663	616
=	ED SHEERAN	36,344	11,889	22,980	1,476
RAISE THE ROOF	R. PLANT/A. KRAUSS	36,029	33,599	1,719	712
THE HIGHLIGHTS	THE WEEKND	35,489	5,320	29,532	637
PLANET HER	DOJA CAT	34,949	325	33,870	755
DONDA	KANYE WEST	27,464	239	26,876	349
HAPPIER THAN EVER	BILLIE EILISH	27,168	11,793	15,156	220
SCALED AND ICY	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	26,229	22,385	3,735	109
MONTERO	LIL NAS X	24,437	204	23,597	636
F*CK LOVE	THE KID LAROI	24,392	93	23,702	597
SINCERELY, KENTRELL	YOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE	23,568	395	22,938	236
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET	LUKE COMBS	22,744	2,136	20,049	560
FORMULA OF LOVE: 3	TWICE	21,919	17,169	4,656	93
FINE LINE	HARRY STYLES	21,006	8,137	12,641	228
SOULFLY	ROD WAVE	20,751	137	20,493	120
25	ADELE	20,273	4,014	15,539	720
MERRY CHRISTMAS	MARIAH CAREY	20,118	3,895	15,688	535
MY TURN	LIL BABY	19,995	213	19,587	196

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research