Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending May 27, 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.

Olivia Rodrigo's logged the best sales week of the year as her debut breakout album 'Sour' scored 295,000 album-equivalent units in the tracking week ending May 27. The vast majority came from 218,000 SEA units, but her 72,000 album sales were also the week's best numbers in that metric. This was the best sales week since Taylor Swift's 'Evermore' logged 329,000 in the week ending December 17, 2020 and it overtakes the previous-best 2021 sales week when Swift totaled 291,000 units for 'Fearless (Taylor's Version)' in the week ending April 15th. With that, J. Cole's 'The Off-Season' dipped to second with 92,00 units in its second week and brought its U.S. total to 374,000 units. Also debuting this week was Twenty-One Pilots with their new album 'Scaled and Icy' which ranked third with 75,000 units (51,000 albums & 24,000 SEA), and 42 Dugg's 'Free Demo Boyz' which took the eight spot with 32,000 units (1,000 albums & 31,000 SEA). Elsewhere, Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' held the fourth spot with 55,000 units (actually up from last week's 53K), Moneybagg Yo's 'A Gangsta's Pain' dropped 3-5 with 49,000, Dua Lipa's 'Future Nostalgia' was down 5-7 with 34,000, and Justin Bieber's 'Justice' dipped 7-9 with 31,000. 

Albums of note outside the top 10 include: The Weeknd's 'After Hours' (28,200), PINK's 'All I Know So Far: Setlist' (28,000), Nicki Minaj's 'Beam Me Up Scotty' (25,400), Blake Shelton's 'Body Language' (24,000), Harry Styles's 'Fine Line' (19,600), Ariana Grande's 'Positions' (19,000), Eminem's 'Music to be Murdered By' (15,300), Waterparks's 'Greatest Hits' (15,000), and 'Fearless (Taylor's Version)' (14,500). 

ALBUM SALES CHART (5/21 - 5/27/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO295,000295,000
THE OFF-SEASONJ. COLE92,000374,000
SCALED AND ICYTWENTY-ONE PILOTS75,00075,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN55,0001,837,000
A GANGSTA'S PAINMONEYBAGG YO49,000345,000
SHIESTY SEASONPOOH SHIESTY35,000485,000
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA34,0001,389,000
FREE DEM BOYZ42 DUGG32,00032,000
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER31,000634,000
SHOOT FOR THE MOON, AIM FOR THE STARSPOP SMOKE30,0002,867,000
ROLLING STONE 
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO302,100 
THE OFF-SEASONJ. COLE90,900
SCALED AND ICYTWENTY-ONE PILOTS70,700
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN51,600
A GANGSTA'S PAINMONEYBAGG YO47,100
EVERMORETAYLOR SWIFT34,900
SHIESTY SEASONPOOH SHIESTY33,200
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA32,400
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS29,800
FREE DEM BOYZ42 DUGG28,900

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (5/21 - 5/27/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO72,000
SCALED AND ICYTWENTY-ONE PILOTS51,000
ALL I KNOW SO FAR: SETLISTPINK19,000
LONG LOSTLORD HURON16,000
BODY LANGUAGEBLAKE SHELTON15,000
GREATEST HITSWATERPARKS13,000
WHERE HAVE YOU GONEALAN JACKSON11,000
VICTORYNIPSY HUSSLE9,000
ZIITHE DEVIL WEARS PRADA8,500
DELTA KREAMTHE BLACK KEYS8,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (5/21- 5/27/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO 286,55068,333214,4463,771
THE OFF-SEASONJ. COLE 92,7212,93389,313476
SCALED AND ICYTWENTY ONE PILOTS 73,93247,79025,506636
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 52,4302,25149,339840
A GANGSTA'S PAINMONEYBAGG YO 51,35120150,885265
SHIESTY SEASONPOOH SHIESTY 36,91420936,461244
FREE DEM BOYZ42 DUGG 31,92481930,899206
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA 31,7131,25528,9461,511
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER 29,8231,22027,617985
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …POP SMOKE 29,12429428,564266
AFTER HOURSTHE WEEKND 27,3141,85024,3421,122
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 26,9881,62124,3001,068
BEAM ME UP SCOTTYNICKI MINAJ 26,20945425,210545
ALL I KNOW SO FAR: SETLISTP!NK 26,12218,0325,9222,168
SOULFLYROD WAVE 25,6516125,437153
KHALED KHALEDDJ KHALED 25,09245724,056579
SLIME LANGUAGE 2YOUNG STONER LIFE24,0074923,770188
BODY LANGUAGEBLAKE SHELTON 23,05414,2157,6941,146
MY TURNLIL BABY 21,81621921,471125
LEGENDS NEVER DIEJUICE WRLD 20,7471,05719,59793
HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDINGPOST MALONE 20,17624919,660268
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES 18,9416,64511,916379
THE GOATPOLO G 18,7179918,52692
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 18,6628618,138437
GREATEST HITS 1QUEEN 18,5613,93314,009619

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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