BILLBOARD 200

 

(billboard chart date 17th January 2015)

 

LW TW ARTIST - TITLE - TW UNITS - [SALES + TEA + SEA] * - (TOTAL SALES)

 

01 01 Taylor Swift - 1989 - 244,000 - [171,925 + 72,000] - (3,832,627)

02 02 Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint - 82,599 - [50,949 + 22,756 + 8,894] (354,823)

07 03 ED Sheeran - X - 83,000 - [39,000 + 37,000 + 7,000] - (849,000)

05 04 Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour - 82,000 - [48,000 + 34,000] - (1,256,000)

09 05 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 - 70,014 - [70,000] - (967,718)

08 06 Hozier - Hozier - 60,000 - [25,000 + 30,000 + 5,000] - (327,000)

06 07 J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive - 59,484 - [47,625 + 5,882 + 5977] - (624,348)

19 08 Into The Woods Soundtrack - 57,000 - [51,361 + 6,000] - (139,321)

04 09 One Direction - Four - 55,000 - [33,000 + 22,000] - (847,000)

10 10 Grande*Ariana - My Everything - 43,000 - [11,000 + 32,000] - (517,000)

 

11 11 Frozen Soundtrack

29 12 Annie Soundtrack

27 13 Luke Bryan - Crash My Party

15 14 Maroon 5 - V

16 15 Carrie Underwood - Greatest Hits: Decade #1

67 16 Iggy Azalea - Reclassified - 29,461 - [5,242 + 20,700 + 3,519]

14 17 Jason Aldean - Old Boots, New Dirt

23 18 Now 52

32 19 Sam Hunt - Montevallo

12 20 Fabolous - The Young OG Project - 25,044

 

24 21 Meghan Trainor - Title (EP)

18 22 5 Seconds Of Summer - LiveSOS

20 23 Florida Georgia Line - Anything Goes

28 24 Nick Jonas - Nick Jonas

47 25 OneRepublic - Native

42 26 Pitbull - Globalization - 20,941 - [5,970 + 13,140 + 1,831] - (90,725)

34 27 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part I Soundtrack

41 28 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions

44 29 Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away

35 30 Beyonce - Beyonce - 18,680 - [7,754 + 8,159 + 2,767] - (2,187,200)

 

39 31 Selena Gomez - For You - 18,000 - [7,200 + 10,800]

25 32 D’Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah - 17,763 - [16,179 + 551 + 1,033] - (165,233)

17 33 AC/DC - Rock Or Bust

45 34 Jason Derulo - Talk Dirty

77 35 Harris*Calvin - Motion

63 36 Eric Church - The Outsiders

59 37 Lorde - Pure Heroine

36 38 5 Seconds Of Summer - 5 Seconds Of Summer

51 39 SHADYXV - 14,133 - [10,922 + 2,376 + 835] - (235,665)

26 40 Arctic Monkeys - AM

 

65 42 Katy Perry - PRISM

81 43 Bastille - Bad Blood

54 46 Chris Brown - X - 13,524 - [5,492 + 5,248 + 2,784]

149 47 David Guetta - Listen - 14,000

03 49 Pentatonix - That's Christmas To Me

60 51 Eminem - Curtain Call - 12,766 - [5,208 + 5,698 + 1,860]

68 56 Charli XCX - Sucker

80 61 Tove Lo - Queen Of The Clouds

70 62 Ed Sheeran - +

89 63 Coldplay - Ghost Stories

96 64 Robin Schulz - Prayer

82 70 One Direction - Midnight Memories

 

71 71 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

64 75 Jessie J - Sweet Talker

38 80 Pink Floyd - Endless River

87 83 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence

110 84 Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

86 85 The 1975 - The 1975

31 92 Bennett*Tony & Lady GaGa - Cheek To Cheek

143 94 Sia - 1000 Forms Of Fear

128 99 Queen - Greatest Hits

115 100 alt-J - This Is All Yours

 

97 108 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

140 116 Adele - 21

RE 117 Billy Joel - The Essential Billy Joel - 7,000

153 122 alt-J - An Awesome Wave

154 137 The Beatles - 1

179 139 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

RE 149 Miley Cyrus - Bangerz

180 150 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

RE 152 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

37 153 Iggy Azalea - The New Classic

RE 154 Sting & The Police - The Very Best Of... Sting & The Police - 6,000 - [3,000 + 3,000]

195 158 One Direction - Up All Night

190 162 One Direction - Take Me Home

RE 166 The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 1964-1971

RE 168 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon

RE 178 Disclosure - Settle

RE 179 Elton John - Rocket Man: Number Ones

191 181 The Vamps - Meet The Vamps

RE 189 Banks - Goddess

RE 191 Demi Lovato - Demi

RE 200 Foreigner - Juke Box Heroes

 

* (combined TEA & SEA if no SEA figure is given)

 

• TEA - Track Equivalent Albums - "10 digital track sales = 1 album sale"
• SEA - Stream Equivalent Albums - "1,500 song streams = 1 album sale"

 

 

Chart Highlights

• Taylor Swift spends her 8th non-consecutive week at #1 on the Billboard 200 with "1989".

• It is her second longest running #1 album behind "Fearless", which spent 11 weeks on top in 2008/2009 ("Red" spent 7 weeks at #1 in 2012/2013, while "Speak Now" spent 6 weeks at the summit in 2010/2011).

• Four movie soundtracks appear in the Top 12 of the Billboard 200 this week - "Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1" at #5, "Into The Woods" at #8, "Frozen" at #11, and "Annie" at #12. All 4 albums would have been Top 10 in the old Billboard 200 which was based solely on sales.

• This week's total album sales were down -2% compared with the same week last year. Physical CD sales were also down -3% and digital album sales didn't fare much better - down -5%.

 

Top Album Sales (old Billboard 200)

 

(billboard chart date 17th January 2015)

 

LW TW ARTIST ALBUM - TW SALES (TOTAL SALES)

 

01 01 Taylor Swift - 1989 - 171,925 (3,832,627)

06 02 Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 - 70,014 (967,718)

14 03 Into The Woods Soundtrack - 51,361 (139,321)

03 04 Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint - 50,949 (354,823)

07 05 Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour - 48,000 (1,256,000)

04 06 J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive - 47,625 (624,348)

11 07 Sheeran*Ed - X - 39,000 (849,000)

05 08 One Direction - Four - 33,000 (847,000)

28 09 Annie Soundtrack - 36,000

09 10 Frozen Soundtrack

 

16 11 NOW 52

19 12 Hozier - Hozier - 25,000 (327,000)

08 13 Fabolous - The Young OG Project

13 14 Jason Aldean - Old Boots, New Dirt - 20,000 (772,000)

36 15 Luke Bryan - Crash My Party - 19,000 (2,340,000)

17 16 Carrie Underwood - Greatest Hits: Decade #1 - 19,000 (220,000)

12 17 AC/DC - Rock Or Bust - 17,300

20 18 D’Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah

39 19 Sam Hunt - Montevallo - 16,000 (228,000)

18 20 5 Seconds Of Summer - LiveSOS

 

10 21 Garth Brooks - Man Against Machine - 14,000 (532,000)

22 22 Florida Georgia Line - Anything Goes - 13,000 (516,000)

26 26 Grande*Ariana - My Everything - 11,000 (517,000)

27 27 Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways - 11,075

02 28 Pentatonix - That's Christmas To Me

73 34 Eric Church - The Outsiders - 10,000 (821,000)

44 43 Blake Shelton - Bringing Back The Sunshine - 7,000 (290,000)

37 45 George Strait - The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T Stadium - 7,000 (285,000)

96 47 Taylor Swift - Red - 7,000 (4,133,000)

62 62 Brantley Gilbert - Just As I Am - 6,000 (713,000)

61 66 Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter - 6,000

50 79 Miranda Lambert - Platinum - 5,000 (606,000)

47 93 Kenny Chesney - The Big Revival - 5,000 (321,000)

70 99 Florida Georgia Line - Here's To The Good Times - 5,000 (2,142,000)

 

 

So happy to see the Pink Print holding up well!

Good to see The Pinkprint at #2 for a third week!

I'm really impressed with Minaj's performance here actually, I thought at this stage it'd be way clear of the top 20.

I'm guessing the success of Only and the positive press she's been getting lately is helping it! Would like to see this outsell Roman Reloaded.

I'm guessing the success of Only and the positive press she's been getting lately is helping it! Would like to see this outsell Roman Reloaded.

Is this album more or less pop than her previous offerings?

 

 

Is this album more or less pop than her previous offerings?

 

It's not got the hip-hop/pop divide that Roman Reloaded had, a lot of crossover songs but I'd say less poppy than its predecessor on the whole.

It's not got the hip-hop/pop divide that Roman Reloaded had, a lot of crossover songs but I'd say less poppy than its predecessor on the whole.

I guess her album buying fans prefer hip-hop Nicki.

 

 

Chart Highlights

• Taylor Swift spends her 8th non-consecutive week at #1 on the Billboard 200 with "1989".

• It is her second longest running #1 album behind "Fearless", which spent 11 weeks on top in 2008/2009 ("Red" spent 7 weeks at #1 in 2012/2013, while "Speak Now" spent 6 weeks at the summit in 2010/2011).

• Four movie soundtracks appear in the Top 12 of the Billboard 200 this week - "Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1" at #5, "Into The Woods" at #8, "Frozen" at #11, and "Annie" at #12. All 4 albums would have been Top 10 in the old Billboard 200 which was based solely on sales.

• This week's total album sales were down -2% compared with the same week last year. Physical CD sales were also down -3% and digital album sales didn't fare much better - down -5%.

Looks like its going to be 10 weeks until Fall Out Boy, then she might return to #1 after that.