Album Ratings: Week Ending June 3, 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.

Taylor Swift's ninth studio album 'Evermore' soared to the top of the album sales chart in the tracking week ending June 3, rising 74-1 in the rankings with 202,000 album-equivalent units. The vast majority of these units come from 102,000 vinyls (first available this week) as well as from 69,000 CD sales due to autographed albums shipping out this week. Among all formats, 'Evermore' sold 192,000 pure albums - the largest week of the year - and also logged 9,000 SEA units. With this, Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' was pushed to second this week with a still-impressive 186,000 units, and J. Cole's 'The Off-Season' dipped to third with 58,000. Last week's third-ranked album, 'Scaled and Icy' from Twenty-One Pilots, tumbled to 22nd this week with 19,300 units as Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' (52,000) and Moneybagg Yo's 'A Gangsta's Pain' (43,000) again occupied the fourth and fifth spots. Finally, Juice Wrld's 'Goodbye and Good Riddance' rose 30-7 this week with 32,000 units, ranking just behind Dua Lipa's 'Future Nostalgia' (34,000), but slightly ahead of DMX's posthumous release 'Exodus' (rounded 32,000). 

Albums of note below the Billboard top 10 include: Justin Bieber's 'Justice' (28,900), Pop Smoke's 'Shoot for the Moon, Aim for the Stars' (28,300), Machine Gun Kelly's 'Tickets to My Downfall' (19,300), Harry Styles's 'Fine Line' (18,900), Ariana Grande's 'Positions' (17,900), and Nicki Minaj's 'Beam Me Up Scotty' (17,400). 

ALBUM SALES CHART (5/28 - 6/3/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	UNITS	TOTAL UNITS
BILLBOARD
EVERMORE	TAYOR SWIFT	202,000	1,294,000
SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	186,000	481,000
THE OFF-SEASON	J. COLE	58,000	432,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	52,000	1,889,000
A GANGSTA'S PAIN	MONEYBAGG YO	43,000	388,000
FUTURE NOSTALGIA	DUA LIPA	34,000	1,423,000
GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCE	JUICE WRLD	32,000	-
EXODUS	DMX	32,000	32,000
AFTER HOURS	THE WEEKND	30,000	2,448,000
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET	LUKE COMBS	29,000	2,503,000
ROLLING STONE
EVERMORE	TAYOR SWIFT	239,200
SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	185,500
THE OFF-SEASON	J. COLE	57,400
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	48,900
A GANGSTA'S PAIN	MONEYBAGG YO	41,400
FUTURE NOSTALGIA	DUA LIPA	31,700
GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCE	JUICE WRLD	30,100
EXODUS	DMX	29,800
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET	LUKE COMBS	29,400
JUSTICE	JUSTIN BIEBER	26,500

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (5/28 - 6/3/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	Pure Albums
EVERMORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	192,000
SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	24,000
EXODUS	DMX	14,000
YOU HEAR GEORGIA	BLACKBERRY SMOKE	12,000
WHOLE LOTTA RED	PLAYBOI CARTI	8,500
SCALED AND ICY	TWENTY-ONE PILOTS	8,000
FOLKLORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	7,000
RIOT!	PARAMORE	7,000
FINE LINE	HARRY STYLES	6,000
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?	ALAN JACKSON	6,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (5/28- 6/3/2021)
ALBUM	ARTIST	UNITS	PURE ALBUMS	SEA	TEA
EVERMORE	TAYLOR SWIFT	187,824	178,711	8,931	182
SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO	183,539	23,409	157,212	2,917
THE OFF-SEASON	J. COLE	60,456	1,611	58,315	530
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM	MORGAN WALLEN	52,392	2,283	49,216	892
A GANGSTA'S PAIN	MONEYBAGG YO	42,284	166	41,824	294
FUTURE NOSTALGIA	DUA LIPA	32,749	1,297	29,752	1,700
GOODBYE & GOOD RIDDANCE	JUICE WRLD	32,210	867	30,978	365
EXODUS	DMX	32,168	14,332	16,872	965
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET	LUKE COMBS	29,640	1,775	26,768	1,098
JUSTICE	JUSTIN BIEBER	29,487	1,077	27,334	1,077
AFTER HOURS	THE WEEKND	29,264	1,328	26,352	1,584
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …	POP SMOKE	27,756	205	27,260	290
SHIESTY SEASON	POOH SHIESTY	25,598	58	25,396	144
KHALED KHALED	DJ KHALED	23,768	387	22,758	622
MY TURN	LIL BABY	22,959	176	22,646	137
FREE DEM BOYZ	42 DUGG	22,902	154	22,487	261
SOULFLY	ROD WAVE	22,771	83	22,578	111
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING	POST MALONE	21,406	295	20,786	325
LEGENDS NEVER DIE	JUICE WRLD	21,234	823	20,283	128
SLIME LANGUAGE 2	YOUNG STONER LIFE	20,631	34	20,421	176
GREATEST HITS 1	QUEEN	20,413	4,351	15,324	739
SCALED AND ICY	TWENTY ONE PILOTS	19,617	7,330	12,077	210
TICKETS TO MY DOWNFALL	MACHINE GUN KELLY	18,532	1,356	16,727	450
F*CK LOVE	THE KID LAROI	18,497	85	17,871	541
THE HIGHLIGHTS	THE WEEKND	18,346	1,310	16,729	306

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research