Muse celebrate their first #1 album with Drones. They've improved their peak with each album, with a run of 161-107-9-3-2-1 (starting with Origin of Symmetry). This is not Muse's best sales week, though- The Resistance debuted with 128K in 2009, and The 2nd Law opened with 101K in 2012, whereas Drones only manages 84K in units and 79K in sales. See the article in the next post for interesting trivia about back-to-back British artists atop the Billboard 200!
TW LW 2W Wks Title, Artist Peak (Units)
1 0 New 1 Drones, Muse 1 (84,000 (79,000 | 5,000 SEA/TEA))
2 2 2 33 1989, Taylor Swift 1 (64,000)
3 0 New 1 Beneath The Skin, Of Monsters And Men 3 (61,000 (57,000 | 4,000 SEA/TEA))
4 1 – 2 How Big How Blue How Beautiful, Florence + The Machine 1 (37,000)
5 0 RE 63 Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones 1 (36,000 (34,000 | 2,000 SEA/TEA))
6 5 7 51 x, Ed Sheeran 1 (34,000)
7 13 12 33 Montevallo, Sam Hunt 3 (31,000)
8 3 1 3 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1 (29,000)
9 10 11 41 V, Maroon 5 1 (29,000)
10 8 8 22 Title, Meghan Trainor 1 (27,000)
11 6 4 5 Pitch Perfect 2, Soundtrack 1
12 9 17 7 JEKYLL + HYDE, Zac Brown Band 1
13 11 6 4 Blurryface, twenty one pilots 1
14 16 9 18 Fifty Shades Of Grey, Soundtrack 2
15 17 10 13 Furious 7, Soundtrack 1
16 19 16 18 If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake 1
17 0 RE 6 Royal Blood, Royal Blood 17
18 20 15 52 In The Lonely Hour, Sam Smith 2
19 18 14 6 Wilder Mind, Mumford & Sons 1
20 0 New 1 Southernality, A Thousand Horses 20
21 26 20 21 American Beauty / American Psycho, Fall Out Boy 1
22 0 New 1 NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 8, Various Artists 22
23 4 – 2 Everything Is 4, Jason Derulo 4
24 25 19 26 The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj 2
25 24 21 28 TALKING IS HARD, WALK THE MOON 14
26 28 25 19 Magazines Or Novels, Andy Grammer 19
27 0 New 1 Love Life, Tamia 27
28 27 22 34 Pain Killer, Little Big Town 7
29 12 – 2 Peace Is The Mission, Major Lazer 12
30 45 62 5 Fight Song (EP), Rachel Platten 30
31 41 41 70 The Outsiders, Eric Church 1
32 7 – 2 Django And Jimmie, Willie Nelson / Merle Haggard 7
33 34 29 19 Reflection, Fifth Harmony 5
34 32 24 28 Listen, David Guetta 4
35 29 13 7 Stages, Josh Groban 2
36 33 28 37 Queen Of The Clouds, Tove Lo 14
37 31 18 56 Just As I Am, Brantley Gilbert 2
38 47 42 35 Anything Goes, Florida Georgia Line 1
39 36 31 36 Hozier, Hozier 2
40 0 New 1 Cauterize, Tremonti 40
41 39 39 16 Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack U, Skrillex & Diplo 26
42 30 23 6 NOW 54, Various Artists 3
43 48 36 13 To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar 1
44 35 34 9 Handwritten, Shawn Mendes 1
45 0 New 1 Pharmacy, Galantis 45
46 38 38 46 1000 Forms Of Fear, Sia 1
47 42 35 27 2014 Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole 1
48 22 3 3 Touch Down 2 Cause Hell, Boosie BadAzz 3
49 52 44 8 Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes 1
50 50 45 22 Uptown Special., Mark Ronson 5
51 44 37 16 Dark Sky Paradise, Big Sean 1
52 54 63 36 Old Boots, New Dirt, Jason Aldean 1
53 59 54 27 Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood 4
54 49 43 42 My Everything, Ariana Grande 1
55 15 – 2 Summer Forever, Billy Currington 15
56 51 40 29 Globalization, Pitbull 18
57 53 53 23 SremmLife, Rae Sremmurd 5
58 56 56 17 Smoke + Mirrors, Imagine Dragons 1
59 58 51 121 Pitch Perfect, Soundtrack 3
60 55 48 37 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE, Blake Shelton 1
61 57 50 20 Wanted On Voyage, George Ezra 19
62 62 59 96 Crash My Party, Luke Bryan 1
63 67 67 145 Night Visions, Imagine Dragons 2
64 60 57 36 Talking Dreams, Echosmith 38
65 0 New 1 Sticky Fingers (Super Deluxe), The Rolling Stones 65
66 70 55 46 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, Soundtrack 1
67 74 64 132 Here's To The Good Times, Florida Georgia Line 4
68 43 5 3 Empires, Hillsong UNITED 5
69 46 – 2 Silverball, Barenaked Ladies 46
70 69 81 8 Love Story, YelaWolf 3
71 73 65 4 The First Time, Kelsea Ballerini 31
72 21 – 2 In Colour, Jamie xx 21
73 75 68 176 Born To Die, Lana Del Rey 2
74 72 61 10 My House (EP), Flo Rida 14
75 76 33 4 True Colors, Zedd 4
76 68 60 14 Spring Break... Checkin' Out, Luke Bryan 3
77 84 75 368 Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers, Bob Marley And The Wailers 5
78 88 89 67 Trilogy, The Weeknd 4
79 64 49 6 Special Effects, Tech N9ne 4
80 14 – 2 Remember My Name, Lil Durk 14
81 66 46 31 Nick Jonas, Nick Jonas 6
82 86 74 31 Greatest Hits So Far..., Zac Brown Band 20
83 80 70 43 Vessel, twenty one pilots 58
84 71 52 14 Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1, Soundtrack 1
85 83 76 40 Dream Your Life Away, Vance Joy 17
86 87 86 230 Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Bruno Mars 3
87 85 90 137 good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar 2
88 78 91 219 The Eminem Show, Eminem 1
89 106 100 38 The Big Revival, Kenny Chesney 2
90 79 71 148 +, Ed Sheeran 5
91 81 124 119 Take Care, Drake 1
92 89 78 32 Motion, Calvin Harris 5
93 139 138 8 Ultimate Sinatra, Frank Sinatra 32
94 97 87 67 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell 3
95 90 84 41 Ignite The Night, Chase Rice 3
96 163 66 133 The Essential Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson 53
97 96 97 46 Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You, Queen 42
98 107 83 11 The Album About Nothing, Wale 1
99 101 134 89 Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac 14
100 93 105 116 Native, OneRepublic 4
101 61 32 4 Hollywood: A Story Of A Dozen Roses, Jamie Foxx 10
102 99 109 48 These Things Happen, G-Eazy 3
103 102 93 30 FOUR, One Direction 1
104 100 115 169 Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, Eagles 1
105 110 101 112 Save Rock And Roll, Fall Out Boy 1
106 95 85 360 Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey 10
107 0 New 1 Fun Home: A New Broadway Music, The Broadway Cast Recording 107
108 160 152 98 Greatest Hits, 2Pac 3
109 111 112 38 Sundown Heaven Town, Tim McGraw 3
110 103 102 87 Nothing Was The Same, Drake 1
111 135 107 245 Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem 1
112 108 96 79 Beyonce, Beyonce 1
113 0 New 1 Ten Songs From Live At Carnegie Hall, Ryan Adams 113
114 0 New 1 Finding Neverland: The Album, Various Artists 114
115 113 95 113 Red, Taylor Swift 1
116 118 123 17 Sex Playlist, Omarion 49
117 158 103 96 Greatest Hits, Foo Fighters 11
118 104 94 19 NOW 53, Various Artists 2
119 114 114 81 Frozen, Soundtrack 1
120 122 153 19 Full Speed, Kid Ink 14
121 0 New 1 Folks Like Us, Montgomery Gentry 121
122 115 111 225 21, Adele 1
123 130 161 87 Master Of Puppets, Metallica 29
124 40 – 2 You Shall Live, Marvin Sapp 40
125 112 73 9 Love Somebody, Reba 3
126 0 New 1 Jurassic World, Soundtrack 126
127 123 116 85 PRISM, Katy Perry 1
128 131 121 43 Blacc Hollywood, Wiz Khalifa 1
129 119 127 84 The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem 1
130 0 New 1 The King & I, The 2015 Broadway Cast Recording 130
131 129 129 92 AM, Arctic Monkeys 6
132 137 125 11 Southern Style, Darius Rucker 7
133 159 155 193 Tailgates & Tanlines, Luke Bryan 2
134 134 170 76 Because The Internet, Childish Gambino 7
135 117 99 12 Kidz Bop 28, Kidz Bop Kids 10
136 147 136 124 Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars 1
137 109 – 2 Major Without A Deal, Troy Ave 109
138 133 118 16 Fan Of A Fan: The Album, Chris Brown & Tyga 7
139 132 119 54 Platinum, Miranda Lambert 1
140 138 135 201 Mothership, Led Zeppelin 7
141 136 181 127 The Very Best Of The Beach Boys: Sounds Of Summer, The Beach Boys 16
142 154 143 317 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses 3
143 92 58 4 #1 To Infinity, Mariah Carey 29
144 0 RE 148 Chief, Eric Church 1
145 140 126 232 Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits, Creedence Clearwater Revival 22
146 0 RE 85 Bad Blood, Bastille 11
147 121 72 7 Suffer In Peace, Tyler Farr 4
148 143 145 26 Luca Brasi 2: A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition, Kevin Gates 38
149 91 27 3 Outlaw In Me, The Lacs 27
150 150 – 122 Dr. Dre -- 2001, Dr. Dre 2
151 120 108 15 Piece By Piece, Kelly Clarkson 1
152 142 165 116 Based On A True Story ..., Blake Shelton 3
153 176 – 85 ...And Justice For All, Metallica 6
154 0 New 1 DC To Light, Morgan Page 154
155 0 RE 96 Ultimate Hits, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 19
156 0 RE 30 Restart, newsboys 38
157 151 – 117 Bad, Michael Jackson 1
158 169 157 39 X, Chris Brown 2
159 149 141 215 Teenage Dream, Katy Perry 1
160 164 – 59 Graduation, Kanye West 1
161 195 180 69 Greatest Hits, Red Hot Chili Peppers 18
162 162 160 182 Back In Black, AC/DC 4
163 145 139 25 Reclassified, Iggy Azalea 16
164 141 113 88 MTV Unplugged In New York, Nirvana 1
165 173 – 31 Almost Famous, Soundtrack 43
166 127 140 59 Talk Dirty, Jason Derulo 4
167 144 – 63 4, Beyonce 1
168 170 148 110 Number One Hits, Tim McGraw 27
169 37 – 2 All Your Favorite Bands, Dawes 37
170 186 158 50 Ultraviolence, Lana Del Rey 1
171 0 RE 6 In Return, ODESZA 42
172 177 144 12 Chaos And The Calm, James Bay 15
173 98 – 2 Under One Sky, The Tenors 98
174 156 110 299 Nevermind, Nirvana 1
175 189 163 89 Pure Heroine, Lorde 3
176 0 New 1 Welcome To Cam Country (EP), Cam 176
177 180 – 7 Love Stuff, Elle King 45
178 161 171 35 Family, Lynyrd Skynyrd 154
179 0 RE 10 Run, AWOLNATION 17
180 174 168 71 The Wrong Side Of Heaven...Volume 1, Five Finger Death Punch 2
181 188 167 46 5 Seconds Of Summer, 5 Seconds Of Summer 1
182 157 142 6 NOW That's What I Call #1's, Various Artists 34
183 0 RE 29 747, Lady Antebellum 2
184 168 177 194 Recovery, Eminem 1
185 0 RE 106 Babel, Mumford & Sons 1
186 128 130 255 Hot Rocks 1964-1971, The Rolling Stones 4
187 0 RE 71 Dazed And Confused, Soundtrack 70
188 198 188 65 Riser, Dierks Bentley 6
189 165 149 9 Into The Wild Life, Halestorm 5
190 182 – 46 Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys 10
191 179 172 158 Red River Blue, Blake Shelton 1
192 184 – 7 How Can It Be, Lauren Daigle 30
193 0 New 1 Hear, North Point InsideOut 193
194 185 187 351 Metallica, Metallica 1
195 190 132 234 Fearless, Taylor Swift 1
196 193 156 103 Greatest Hits II, Kenny Chesney 3
197 0 RE 128 Sublime, Sublime 13
198 0 RE 30 Sweet Talker, Jessie J 10
199 155 106 44 Long.Live.A$AP, A$AP Rocky 1
200 178 151 91 Love In The Future, John Legend 4
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6598303/muse-first-no-1-album-billboard-200-chart
By Keith Caulfield | June 17, 2015
British rock band Muse achieves its first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as its seventh studio effort, Drones, bows atop the list. The set -- which was released on June 8 through Helium-3/Warner Bros. Records -- moved 84,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 14, according to Nielsen Music.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).
Drones’ first week was driven largely by traditional album sales, as the set also starts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart with 79,000 copies sold.
The group had previously topped out at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, with its 2012 album The 2nd Law. It debuted and peaked in the runner-up slot. Muse formed in 1994 and charted its first Billboard hits 10 years later with the album Absolution and the single “Time Is Running Out.” In total, the band has collected eight charting albums on the Billboard 200 (six studio efforts, plus two live concert sets).
Last week’s No. 1 album, Florence + The Machine’s chart-topping debut How Big How Blue How Beautiful, slips to No. 4 in its second week, with 37,000 units (down 73 percent).
With Muse replacing fellow British rock band Florence + The Machine at No. 1, it’s the chart’s first instance of back-to-back No. 1 debuts from British acts. (The Billboard 200’s regularly published weekly chart history dates back to 1956.)
Further, the last time there were back-to-back British bands at No. 1 was nearly 30 years ago, when Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms rose 5-1 in its 13th chart week, bumping Tears For Fears’ Songs From the Big Chair 1-2 in its 22nd week.
More Brits-atop-the-chart factoids: the last time a British act replaced another British act at No. 1 (solo, group, band or otherwise) was on Nov. 12, 2011, when rock group Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto debuted atop the list, temporarily displacing diva Adele’s 21 from the top slot (moving 1-4). Finally, the last time two British groups went back to back was on July 19, 1997, when the electronic dance group The Prodigy bowed at No. 1 with The Fat of the Land, pushing pop vocal group Spice Girls down 1-3 with Spice.
Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, Taylor Swift’s 1989 stays put at No. 2 with 64,000 units (down 2 percent).
In the No. 3 slot is Icelandic rock band Of Monsters and Men, which debuts with its new album Beneath the Skin (61,000 units; 57,000 in pure album sales). It’s the highest charting album yet for the group, and their best sales week ever -- surpassing the debut and peak of their last album, 2012’s My Head Is An Animal (which bowed at No. 6 with their previous best sales frame: 55,000).
Another British rock band, The Rolling Stones, re-enters at No. 5 with their classic former No. 1 Sticky Fingers (36,000 units; 34,000 in pure album sales). The album, which spent four weeks atop the list shortly after its release in 1971, has been absent from the tally since 1981. This is its highest rank since Aug. 14, 1971, when it was No. 5. The album was reissued on June 9 in a variety of deluxe, remastered and expanded editions, thus sparking its return to the chart. For charting and sales tracking purposes, nearly all versions of the album are merged together on Billboard’s charts and in Nielsen Music’s database. (However, one of Sticky Fingers’ new editions -- dubbed the super deluxe version -- tracks separately due to its additional extra content. It debuts at No. 65 with 9,000 units, nearly all from album sales.)
The Sticky Fingers redux is the third expansive reissue the Stones have released in recent years, following 2010’s reboot of its 1972 No. 1 Exile On Main St. and the 2011 reissue of the 1978 No. 1 Some Girls. The former returned to the chart at No. 2, while the latter came back in at No. 46.
Ed Sheeran’s x descends 5-6 with 34,000 units (down 7 percent) in its 51st chart week. The British singer/songwriter is one of five European acts in the top six on the chart — only American-born Swift (at No. 2) is the lone non-European act in the region.
As for the rest of the top 10: Sam Hunt’s Montevallo moves 31,000 units (up 11 percent) to grow 13-7 — its highest chart rank since its debut week (Nov. 15, 2014 at No. 3). Hunt’s rise is owed to buzz generated by the CMT Awards (June 10) where he won breakthrough video of the year (for “Leave the Night On”) and performed his single “House Party.”
A$AP Rocky dips 3-8 with At.Long.Last.A$AP (just over 29,000 units; down 42 percent), Maroon 5’s V rises 10-9 (29,000 units; down 3 percent) and Meghan Trainor’s Title drops 8-10 (27,000 units; down 10 percent).
Good for Muse and it seems like a quite a drop for Florence sales wise, despite only going down a few places. Impressive for Taylor still being in Top 2 after 33 weeks in the albums chart!!!!
That top 4 *.*
MUSEE!!!
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