Album Ratings: Week Ending May 20, 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.

J. Cole's new album 'The Off-Season' easily debuted atop the weekly Album Sales chart, scoring the second-best sales week of the year with 282,000 album-equivalent units in the tracking week ending May 20. This was the best number since Taylor Swift's 'Fearless (Taylor's Version)' pulled 291,000 units in the week ending April 15. Nicki Minaj's beefed-up 'Beam Me Up Scotty' mixtape entered in the second spot with 80,000 units after its re-release with new tracks. Elsewhere in debuts, The Black Keys dropped their new album 'Delta Kream' with 35,000 units to rank sixth, and Alan Jackson debuted 'Where Have You Gone' in ninth with 32,000. With this, both Moneybagg Yo's 'A Gangsta's Pain' (55,000) and Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' (53,000) each dipped two spots from 1&2 to 3&4, Dua Lipa's 'Future Nostalgia' held in fifth (41,000), Justin Bieber's 'Justice' dipped to seventh (34,000), and DJ Khaled's 'Khaled Khaled' tumbled to eighth (32,000). Of note below the Billboard Top 10 is: The Weeknd's 'After Hours' (28,000), Ariana Grande's 'Positions' (19,800), Harry Styles's 'Fine Line' (19,200), and both Taylor Swift's 'Fearless (Taylor's Verion)' (17,300) & 'Folklore' (14,900).

ALBUM SALES CHART (5/14 - 5/20/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	UNITS	TOTAL UNITS
BILLBOARD
THE OFF-SEASON	J. COLE	282,000	282,000
BEAM ME UP SCOTTY	NICKI MINAJ	80,000	80,000
A GANGSTA'S PAIN	MONEYBAGG YO	55,000	296,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	53,000	1,782,000
FUTURE NOSTALGIA	DUA LIPA	41,000	1,355,000
DELTA KREAM	THE BLACK KEYS	35,000	35,000
JUSTICE	JUSTIN BIEBER	34,000	603,000
KHALED KHALED	DJ KHALED	32,000	171,000
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE	ALAN JACKSON	32,000	32,000
SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON	POP SMOKE	30,000	2,837,000
ROLLING STONE
THE OFF-SEASON	J. COLE	274,200
BEAM ME UP SCOTTY	NICKI MINAJ	70,600
A GANGSTA'S PAIN	MONEYBAGG YO	53,400
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	49,500
FUTURE NOSTALGIA	DUA LIPA	37,400
JUSTICE	JUSTIN BIEBER	31,900
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE	ALAN JACKSON	30,100
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET	LUKE COMBS	29,800
KHALED KHALED	DJ KHALED	29,500
SOULFLY	ROD WAVE	26,900

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (5/14 - 5/20/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	Pure Albums
THE OFF-SEASON	J. COLE	37,000
DELTA KREAM	THE BLACK KEYS	30,000
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE	ALAN JACKSON	27,000
BORDER: CARNIVAL	ENHYPHEN	20,000
DADDY'S HOME	ST. VINCENT	20,000
COPYCAT KILLER	PHOEBE BRIDGERS	11,000
BEAM ME UP SCOTTY	NICKI MINAJ	11,000
EVANGELION: FINALLY	NEON GENESIS EVANGELION	9,000
THE IDES OF MARCH	MYLES KENNEDY	7,000
FUTURE NOSTALGIA	DUA LIPA	7,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (5/14- 5/20/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	UNITS	PURE ALBUMS	SEA	TEA
THE OFF-SEASON	J. COLE	288,476	39,305	1,703	247,468
BEAM ME UP SCOTTY	NICKI MINAJ	79,471	10,452	6,170	62,849
A GANGSTA'S PAIN	MONEYBAGG YO	57,233	350	356	56,528
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	51,895	2,004	682	49,209
FUTURE NOSTALGIA	DUA LIPA	38,282	4,598	2,712	30,972
JUSTICE	JUSTIN BIEBER	34,196	1,237	1,186	31,773
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE	ALAN JACKSON	33,057	28,140	835	4,082
KHALED KHALED	DJ KHALED	30,820	1,132	662	29,026
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …	POP SMOKE	29,489	224	312	28,953
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET	LUKE COMBS	28,274	1,731	940	25,603
SOULFLY	ROD WAVE	27,889	90	174	27,625
DELTA KREAM	BLACK KEYS	27,705	22,309	357	5,039
AFTER HOURS	THE WEEKND	27,359	1,667	1,086	24,606
SLIME LANGUAGE 2	YOUNG STONER LIFE	25,710	78	156	25,476
MY TURN	LIL BABY	23,804	348	165	23,292
BORDER : CARNIVAL	ENHYPEN	22,620	21,090	45	1,486
LEGENDS NEVER DIE	JUICE WRLD	21,571	1,089	113	20,370
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING	POST MALONE	21,167	295	318	20,554
HAITIAN BOY KODAK	KODAK BLACK	20,659	691	123	19,845
F*CK LOVE	THE KID LAROI	20,503	139	710	19,654
DESTINED 2 WIN	LIL TJAY	20,104	19	208	19,878
THE GOAT	POLO G	19,306	102	125	19,080
POSITIONS	ARIANA GRANDE	18,960	2,862	243	15,855
GREATEST HITS 1	QUEEN	18,559	3,228	810	14,522
DADDY'S HOME	ST. VINCENT	18,110	14,639	123	3,349

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research