BILLBOARD 200

 

(billboard chart date 31st May 2014)

 

LW TW ARTIST - TITLE - TW SALES

 

** 01 The Black Keys - Turn Blue - 163,660 (NEW)

** 02 Michael Jackson - Xscape - 156,962 (NEW)

01 03 Now 50 - 81,840 (235,000)

02 04 Frozen Soundtrack - 73,000 (2,728,000)

** 05 Rascal Flatts - Rewind - 61,207 (NEW)

** 06 Dolly Parton - Blue Smoke - 36,762 (NEW)

** 07 Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines - 20,461 (NEW)

04 08 Sarah McLachlan - Shine On - 18,000 (60,000)

03 09 Hunter Hayes - Storyline - 16,000 (85,000)

** 10 Michael W. Smith - Sovereign - 15,929 (NEW)

 

** 11 Chromeo - White Women - 15,843 (NEW)

07 12 Luke Bryan - Crash My Party - 18,000 (1,882,000)

06 13 Pharrell Williams - G I R L - 15,573 (387,195)

15 14 Iggy Azalea - The New Classic - 15,234 (105,658)

11 15 Florida Georgia Line - Here's To The Good Times - 13,000 (1,838,000)

51 16 Keith Urban - Fuse - 13,000 (354,000)

09 17 Santana - Corazon

RE 18 Demi Lovato - Demi - 12,000 (389,000)

10 19 Lorde - Pure Heroine - 12,000 (1,260,000)

** 20 Mushroomhead - Righteous & The Butterfly - 10,714 (NEW)

 

21 21 John Legend - Love In The Future - 10,557 (499,662)

14 22 Imagine Dragons - Night Vision (2,185,000)

** 23 Down - Down IV Part II - 9,995 (NEW)

** 24 Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband - 9,876 (NEW)

17 25 Lindsey Stirling - Shatter Me

19 26 Katy Perry - PRISM - 10,000 (1,370,000)

16 27 Ray Lamontagne - Supernova

106 28 Michael Jackson - Number Ones - 9,441 (5,041,033)

18 29 Now 49

25 30 Eric Church - The Outsiders - 9,000 (582,000)

 

30 31 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2 - 8,640 (2,107,750)

23 32 Future - Honest - 8,447 (92,951)

05 33 Tech Nine - Collabos - Strangeulation - 8,312 (44,084)

41 34 OneRepublic - Native

37 35 Jason Derulo - Talk Dirty - 8,249 (81,090)

24 36 Bastille - Bad Blood

** 37 Swans - To Be Kind - 8,000 (NEW)

34 38 Arctic Monkeys - AM

** 39 Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso - 7,000 (NEW)

13 40 The Music of Nashville, Season 2 - 7,000 (25,000)

 

32 41 5 Seconds of Summer - She Looks So Perfect (EP)

28 42 Shakira - Shakira - 7,000 (196,000)

38 43 Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience, (2 Of 2) - 6,978 (975,844)

33 44 Beyonce - Beyonce - 7,000 (1,975,000)

** 45 One Love, One Rhythm: The 2014 FIFA World Cup Official Album - 7,000 (NEW)

26 47 Blake Shelton - Based On A True Story - 6,000 (1,239,000)

** 50 Iamsu! - Sincerely Yours - 5,832 (NEW)

 

08 51 Atmosphere - Southsiders

** 53 Kishi Bashi - Lighght (NEW)

31 54 Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox (2,239,000)

49 56 Dierks Bentley - Riser - 6,000 (141,000)

20 57 Natalie Merchant - Natalie Merchant

** 58 Killer Be Killed - Killer Be Killed (NEW)

** 59 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In C.M. - 5,500 (NEW)

** 60 Beautiful, The Carole King Musical (NEW)

 

55 62 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die - 5,000 (1,045,000)

53 63 Ingrid Michaelson - Lights Out

12 65 Lily Allen - Sheezus

75 67 Michael Jackson - The Essential

68 68 Brantley Gilbert - Halfway To Heaven - 4,500 (1,021,000)

127 70 Michael Jackson - Thriller

47 72 Drake - Nothing Was The Same - Drake (1,562,000)

71 73 One Direction - Midnight Memories (1,336,000)

171 78 The Black Keys - El Camino

66 79 Cole Swindell - Cole Swindell - 4,100 (164,000)

 

62 83 Paramore - Paramore

** 86 Bane - Don't Wake Up (NEW)

88 87 Miley Cyrus - Bangerz - 4,000 (1,016,000)

83 89 Ariana Grande - Yours Truly

69 91 Adele - 21 - 4,000 (10,938,000)

29 93 Lykke Li - I Never Learn

RE 94 Dr. Dre - 2001

76 96 Christina Perri - Head or Heart

** 97 Avatar - Hail The Apocalyse (NEW)

77 99 The 1975 - The 1975

 

RE 101 Queen - Greatest Hits

** 102 Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Are We Not Men? We Are Diva! (NEW)

** 107 Hozier - Take Me To Church (EP) (NEW)

176 104 - The Black Keys - Brothers

** 109 Blondie 4(0)-Ever: Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux / Ghosts Of Download - 3,000 (NEW)

61 112 Passenger - All The Little Lights

67 120 Enrique Iglesias - Sex And Love

103 130 Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans

148 137 Jake Owen - Days Of Gold - 2,900 (142,000)

84 139 Avicii - True

151 140 HAIM - Days Are Gone

 

119 142 P!nk - The Truth About Love (1,985,000)

149 145 Thomas Rhett - It Goes Like This - 3,600 (415,000)

164 148 Ed Sheeran - +

120 153 CHVRCHES - Bones Of What You Believe

74 154 Aloe Blacc - Lift Your Spirit

** 169 Alexandre Desplat - Godzilla Soundtrack - 2,000 (NEW)

RE 170 Phil Collins - ...Hits

199 172 Led Zeppelin - Mothership

95 180 Lady GaGa - ARTPOP - 2,000 (706,000)

72 189 Mumford & Sons - Babel

RE 190 Foreigner - Juke Box Heroes

RE 191 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

184 192 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (991,000)

 

 

 

Chart Highlights

• This week's album sales were 4.54 million - down -5% on last week and down -11% compared with same week last year. YTD stands at 93.98 million - down -16% on same point last year.

 

Yay! So happy for Black Keys, sales are quite a bit higher than some other similar releases over the last year or so off the top of my head.

wow @ Black Keys :o good on them

 

Good for Black Keys, was never a big fan of another posthumous Michael album so good for them.

it's not fair, MJ should've been number 1 over this lame Black Keys album...

Michael Jackson is pretty much worshipped all over the globe yet he gets ignored in his home country....

Edited May 21, 201411 yr by Dark Horse

it's not fair, MJ should've been number 1 over this lame Black Keys album...

Michael Jackson is petty much worshipped all over the globe yet he gets ignored in his home country....

 

It's totally fair. The Black Keys' album got bought more, regardless of MJ's status.

Michael Jackson is petty much worshipped all over the globe yet he gets ignored in his home country....

 

:huh: So if The Black Keys happened to release next week instead, or sold 7k less this week, would MJ have been embraced by the American people in your view?

Iggy getting that stability!

:huh: So if The Black Keys happened to release next week instead, or sold 7k less this week, would MJ have been embraced by the American people in your view?

 

Don't strain your brain trying to figure out his logic, that guy has a screw loose. He's been spouting bullshit all around this forum since the dawn of time.

it's not fair, MJ should've been number 1 over this lame Black Keys album...

Michael Jackson is petty much worshipped all over the globe yet he gets ignored in his home country....

 

Even though the Billboard Music Awards just spent a shit ton to have a hologram of him, perform at their award show last week.

 

edit: Just saw Aly's post. Note taken.

Edited May 21, 201411 yr by ▲Tyler▲

You could at least just say you were unhappy with the result rather than going "IT'S NOT FAIR" and making up bullshit. The Black Keys are a) actually alive and b) releasing music they actually intended to release. Pretty sure that deserves to beat "Don't you wish Michael was still alive? Well now you can pretend!!!! [Version 2.0]".

Thought this paragraph from Paul Grein's Chart Watch blog today was of interest:

Norah Jones's 2002 album Come Away With Me this week becomes the 11th album to sell 11 million copies since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991. It's the fourth album by a female solo artist to hit this threshold, following Shania Twain's Come On Over (15,566,000), Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill (14,927,000) and the Whitney Houston-dominated The Bodyguard soundtrack (12,116,000).

 

Cool to get updated sales on these. '21' is on about 10,938,000 and still somehow selling 3-5k a week so it shouldn't be long, particularly with an imminent Adele follow-up, that 'Come Away With Me' will be overtaken.

 

Also, unrelated but I just saw that Billboard have given Coldplay a prediction of 325k. 'Mylo Xyloto' debuted with 447k in October 2011 so that's pretty good going :D.

Edited May 21, 201411 yr by Noahspike

Don't strain your brain trying to figure out his logic, that guy has a screw loose. He's been spouting bullshit all around this forum since the dawn of time.

 

are you off your meds??? poor thing....

are you off your meds??? poor thing....

 

Well you clearly were when you made that first post in this thread. :lol: Poor thing indeed...

Making fun of people on medication for their mental health isn't really on, guys :drama:

 

This is interesting from Paul Grein:

 

"Jackson has sold 34,723,000 albums in the U.S. since January 1991. That puts him in 14th place on Nielsen SoundScan's running list of the best-selling artists in its history. In the week before he died in June 2009, Jackson ranked #47 on this running list. He had sales, to that point, of 21,737,000 albums."

 

So he's sold (just under) 13 million albums in the last 5 years.