BILLBOARD 200

 

(billboard chart date 2nd August 2014)

 

LW TW ARTIST - TITLE - TW SALES

 

** 01 Weird Al Yankovic - Mandatory Fun - 103,880 (104,038) (NEW)

** 02 Jason Mraz - Yes - 81,005 (NEW)

** 03 Rise Against - The Black Market - 52,509 (NEW)

** 04 Kidz Bop Kidz - Kidz Bop 26 - 45,981 (NEW)

02 05 Frozen Soundtrack - 43,000 (3,160,000)

03 06 Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour - 35,000 (355,000)

05 07 Ed Sheeran - x - 24,000 (322,000)

07 08 Now 50 - 23,000 (520,000)

04 09 Trey Songz - Trigga - 22,840 (161,733)

63 10 Blake Shelton - Based On A True Story - 22,000 (1,318,000)

 

** 11 Bleachers - Strange Desire - 21,179 (NEW)

** 12 Marsha Ambrosius - Friends & Lovers - 17,122 (17,200) (NEW)

09 13 Miranda Lambert - Platinum - 17,000 (367,000)

** 14 Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business - 16,358 (NEW)

11 15 Brantley Gilbert - Just As I Am - 15,000 (466,000)

** 16 Suicide Silence - You Can’t Stop Me - 14,972 (NEW)

54 17 Jason Derulo - Talk Dirty - 14,272 (154,423)

10 18 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence - 14,000 (284,000)

01 19 Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear - 14,000 (66,000)

29 20 Lorde - Pure Heroine - 14,000 (1,361,000)

 

06 21 Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls

16 22 Iggy Azalea - The New Classic - 13,326 (246,429)

30 23 Begin Again: Music From And Inspired By The Original Motion Picture

14 24 Coldplay - Ghost Stories - 12,000 (633,000)

20 25 Luke Bryan - Crash My Party - 12,000 (2,013,000)

22 26 OneRepublic - Native - 12,000 (716,000)

15 27 Neil Diamond - All Time Greatest Hits

21 28 Jersey Boys soundtrack

** 29 Trampled By Turtles - Wild Animals - 10,501 (NEW)

12 30 MAGIC! - Don't Kill The Magic

 

23 31 Linkin Park - The Hunting Party - 10,177 (176,555)

25 32 Florida Georgia Line - Here's To The Good Times - 10,000 (1,955,000)

18 33 Michael Jackson - Xscape - 9,590 (374,246)

24 34 Jack White - Lazaretto

130 35 Sara Bareilles - The Blessed Unrest

33 36 Imagine Dragons - Night Vision - 8,000 (2,266,000)

31 37 John Legend - Love In The Future - 8,192 (576,622)

32 38 Now Country 7 - 8,000 (101,000)

88 39 KONGOS - Lunatic

** 40 Volumes - No Sleep - 7,872 (NEW)

 

** 43 Wish I Was Here Movie Soundtrack - 7,658 (NEW)

28 45 Colt Ford - Thanks For Listening - 7,000 (41,000)

37 46 Arctic Monkeys - AM

35 48 Pharrell Williams - G I R L - 6,576 (475,929)

42 49 Eric Church - The Outsiders - 6,000 (661,000)

45 50 Katy Perry - PRISM - 6,000 (1,442,000)

51 51 Dierks Bentley - Riser - 5,000 (193,000)

141 53 Disclosure - Settle

46 56 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

44 57 August Alsina - Testimony - 5,420 (161,951)

47 59 Big Smo - Kuntry Livin' - 5,000 (49,000)

57 60 Bastille - Bad Blood

 

08 63 Dirty Heads - Sound of Change

71 65 Beyonce - Beyonce - 4,866 (2,016,846)

106 68 Days Of Gold - Jake Owen - 4,700 (176,000)

68 75 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

60 78 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

59 79 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

116 82 Paramore - Paramore

** 84 Jungle - Jungle (NEW)

77 91 One Direction - Midnight Memories

87 100 Ariana Grande - Yours Truly

 

103 105 Adele - 21 - 3,000 (10,968,000)

132 116 The 1975 - The 1975

99 119 Ed Sheeran - +

105 122 Miley Cyrus - Bangerz

** 129 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music - 2,800 (21,000) (NEW)

79 130 Jennifer Lopez - A.K.A

100 138 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

147 140 Demi Lovato - Demi

135 143 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

RE 160 Rend Collective - The Art Of Celebration

 

** 164 Betraying The Martyrs - Phantom - 2,250 (NEW)

124 174 Mariah Carey - Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse

159 181 Foreigner - Juke Box Heroes

192 182 Lana Del Rey - Paradise (EP)

131 185 deadmau5 - while(1<2)

179 186 The Beatles - 1

RE 191 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

RE 193 Aloe Blacc - Lift Your Spirit

RE 196 Passenger - All The Little Lights

 

 

Chart Highlights:

• "Mandatory Fun" is Weird Al's first ever #1 album, despite a chart career lasting over 30 years. It is only his third top 10 album, following "Straight Outta Lynwood" (#10 in 2006) and "Alpocalypse" (#9 in 2011).
• "Mandatory Fun" is also comfortably Al's highest ever first week sale since the Soundscan era started in selling 104,000. His previous best had been 73,000 with "Straight Outta Lynwood". It is also the highest selling comedy album since 1994, when "The Beavis & Butt-Head Experience" sold 118,000 copies in a week.
• Weird Al is the #1 of a top 4 comprised entirely of débuts, with Jason Mraz, Rise Against and Kidz Bop Kids respectively taking the other slots. It's the first week with an all new top 4 since October 12th 2013 when Drake took #1 with "Nothing Was The Same".
• Both Jason Mraz and Rise Against notch up their 4th top 10 albums this week, with Mraz getting his second consecutive #2 (still waiting on a #1). "Yes!" fails to match the sales of 2012's "Love is a Four Letter Word" however, selling 81,000 compared to 102,000.
• Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending July 20) totaled 4.4 million units, up 7 percent compared with the sum lastweek (4.1 million) and down 8 percent compared with the comparable sales week of 2013 (4.7 million).
• Year-to-date album sales stand at 133.5 million, down 15 percent compared with the same total at this point last year (156.5 million).

I must admit Ed Sheeran is not hugely impressing me so far compared to Sam. I am sure his album will end up selling a great amount in the end as I can't see future singles not taking off but a 21 this is not.

And Sing did nothing after a great start in top 20

I wouldn't go so far as to say it did nothing :o It definitely didn't do as well as I anticipated but twelve weeks top 20 is quite good for a single of his. 16-23-41-56 on the other hand, isn't.

Jason back up to #17 seems so odd?!

What caused that sudden increase?

"Weird Al" Yankovic at #1 :cheer: And with his last album too, good to see (thankfully I don't think he's quitting music) Why is Kidz Bop still a thing though? :drama: That's like a compilation of "fake" songs going to #1 in the UK except they're sang by children.

"Weird Al" Yankovic at #1 :cheer: And with his last album too, good to see (thankfully I don't think he's quitting music) Why is Kidz Bop still a thing though? :drama: That's like a compilation of "fake" songs going to #1 in the UK except they're sang by children.

I was just thinking that when I was looking at the billboard article for the chart. They've relased an insane amount of compilations at this stage, and they're actually touring later this year. Just thank God they're not popular outside the US I suppose :lol:

I do feel sorry for kids in the USA who have to listen to these Kidz Bop things. I've listened to a couple of Kidz Bop versions of songs for the lolz and they are all just so pointless and awful (the comparison to fake versions is very apt).

 

Still, at least they've never quite hit #1 on the Billboard 200 :P 5 #2s and 4 #3s though. Still a threat.

I think we can all agree that the group are evidence that America has terrible parents.