Friday, November 5, 2021

Album Ratings: Week Ending October 28, 2021

Below is a breakdown of the top albums in the week ending October 28, 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.

Note: this is the first week without the publication of the Rolling Stone music charts. 

In a week devoid of chart-topping debuts, Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy' returned to the summit of the album sales & streaming chart with 74,000 album-equivalent units in the tracking week ending Oct. 28th. As has been standard, streaming accounted for nearly all (73,000) of its weekly total. As most of last week's debuts fell this week, Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous: The Double Album' climbed back up to the second spot this week with an identical 42,000 units, and Doja Cat's 'Planet Her' jumped 7-3 with 41,000. Of last week's 3 debuts, only Young Thug's 'Punk' was able to remain in the top 10, falling 1-7 while both Coldplay's 'Music of the Spheres' (19,400) and Mac Miller's 'Faces' (18,100) fell off the chart. Back on the chart, Youngboy Never Broke Again saw 'Sincerely, Kentrell' rise 6-4 with 39,000, and Olivia Rodrigo saw 'Sour' up 9-5 with 38,000. Finally, Lana Del Rey launched her new album 'Blue Banisters' in the 8th slot with 33,000 units (19,000 pure) and Elton John's debuted 'The Lockdown Sessions' in 10th with 29,000 (17,000 pure).

ALBUM SALES CHART (10/22 - 10/28/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSTOTAL
UNITS
BILLBOARD 
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE74,0001,516,000
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN42,0002,800,000
PLANET HERDOJA CAT41,000991,000
SINCERELY, KENTRELLYOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE39,000342,000
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO38,0002,026,000
A GANGSTA'S PAINMONEYBAGG YO36,000884,000
PUNKYOUNG THUG34,000124,000
BLUE BANISTERSLANA DEL REY33,00033,000
MONTEROLIL NAS X33,000341,000
THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONSELTON JOHN29,00029,000
Of note below the Billboard Top 10 (not ranked)
DONDAKANYE WEST27,800 
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH25,100
MUSIC OF THE SPHERESCOLDPLAY19,400
FUTURE NOSTALGIADUA LIPA18,400
FACESMAC MILLER18,100
FOLKLORETAYLOR SWIFT16,400
FINE LINEHARRY STYLES16,200

PURE ALBUM SALES CHART (10/22 - 10/28/2021)
ALBUMARTISTPure Albums
SEVENTEEN 9TH MINI ALBUM - ATTACASEVENTEEN25,000
BLUE BANISTERSLANA DEL REY19,000
FUTURE PASTDURAN DURAN17,000
THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONSELTON JOHN17,000
TATTOO YOUTHE ROLLING STONES17,000
A VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLDDREAM THEATER12,000
MY MORNING JACKETMY MORNING JACKET12,000
RADICALEVERY TIME I DIE11,000
LET IT BETHE BEATLES11,000
A LOVE SUPREME: LIVE IN SEATTLEJOHN COLTRANE11,000

ALPHA DATA ALBUM SALES CHART (10/22- 10/28/2021)
ALBUMARTISTUNITSPURE
ALBUMS
SEATEA
CERTIFIED LOVER BOYDRAKE 73,51372271,997794
DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUMMORGAN WALLEN 41,8601,39139,511959
PLANET HERDOJA CAT 41,29735840,093846
SOUROLIVIA RODRIGO 37,8566,39530,751709
SINCERELY, KENTRELLYOUNGBOY NEVER BROKE ... 37,78179736,643341
BLUE BANISTERSLANA DEL REY 34,80019,89514,609296
A GANGSTA'S PAINMONEYBAGG YO 34,06158732,654820
PUNKYOUNG THUG 33,8101,26932,059481
MONTEROLIL NAS X 33,07234531,870856
THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONSELTON JOHN 32,27319,41710,6932,163
F*CK LOVETHE KID LAROI 28,58810527,670813
DONDAKANYE WEST 28,25529827,564393
THE HIGHLIGHTSTHE WEEKND 25,32248824,104729
HAPPIER THAN EVERBILLIE EILISH 25,3216,06518,879377
9TH MINI ALBUM 'ATTACCA'SEVENTEEN 24,95226,4892,219244
EXPENSIVE PAINMEEK MILL 23,7161,33621,714666
SOULFLYROD WAVE 22,41129221,926193
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GETLUKE COMBS 21,56499919,932633
25ADELE 21,1141,20919,525381
JUSTICEJUSTIN BIEBER 20,8261,02819,073725
SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR …POP SMOKE 19,81038619,231193
FOLARIN IIWALE 19,7042,96016,190554
MY TURNLIL BABY 18,74618118,363202
TATTOO YOUROLLING STONES 18,70416,1732,099432
MUSIC OF THE SPHERESCOLDPLAY 18,6226,90810,2691,445

Source: Alpha Data & Nielsen Media Research

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