Jill Scott earns her second #1 album on Billboard with her fifth album Woman. This one, however, is significantly less impressive than her previous release and first #1, The Light Of The Sun, which sold 135K in its first week in 2011. Woman only manages 58K sales and 62K total units. Also worth noting is that Apple Music is now contributing streaming data to the Billboard 200 and Hot 100.

 

01 NE 01 Jill Scott, Woman (62,000 (58,000 | 4,000 SEA/TEA))

02 01 02 Future, DS2 (52,000)

03 NE 01 Lamb Of God, VII: Sturm Und Drang (50,000 (47,000 | 3,000 SEA/TEA))

04 02 40 Taylor Swift, 1989 (47,000)

05 NE 01 Soundtrack, Southpaw: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture (45,000 (32,000 | 13,000 SEA/TEA))

06 08 58 Ed Sheeran, x (34,000)

07 NE 01 Bea Miller, Not An Apology (33,000 (24,000 | 9,000 SEA/TEA))

08 07 05 Meek Mill, Dreams Worth More Than Money (31,000)

09 09 40 Sam Hunt, Montevallo (27,000)

10 03 03 Tyrese, Black Rose (26,000)

11 NE 01 We Came As Romans, We Came As Romans

12 NE 01 Jack & Jack, Calibraska (EP)

13 13 25 Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late

14 12 29 Meghan Trainor, Title

15 14 59 Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour

16 05 02 Alan Jackson, Angels And Alcohol

17 NE 01 Hopsin, Pound Syndrome

18 16 48 Maroon 5, V

19 15 28 Fall Out Boy, American Beauty / American Psycho

20 17 11 twenty one pilots, Blurryface

21 NE 01 Prince Royce, Double Vision

22 10 03 Kidz Bop Kids, Kidz Bop 29

23 21 16 Shawn Mendes, Handwritten

24 31 26 Andy Grammer, Magazines Or Novels

25 18 33 Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint

26 19 14 Zac Brown Band, Jekyll + Hyde

27 26 09 Major Lazer, Peace Is The Mission

28 29 34 J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive

29 25 77 Eric Church, The Outsiders

30 NE 01 Ashley Monroe, The Blade

31 22 12 Rachel Platten, Fight Song (EP)

32 35 35 WALK THE MOON, TALKING IS HARD

33 27 23 Big Sean, Dark Sky Paradise

34 23 41 Little Big Town, Pain Killer

35 33 43 Hozier, Hozier

36 28 26 Fifth Harmony, Reflection

37 30 25 Soundtrack, Fifty Shades Of Grey

38 39 23 Skrillex & Diplo, Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack U

39 38 42 Florida Georgia Line, Anything Goes

40 04 02 Tame Impala, Currents

41 06 02 Jason Isbell, Something More Than Free

42 42 05 X Ambassadors, VHS

43 24 30 Rae Sremmurd, SremmLife

44 44 53 Sia, 1000 Forms Of Fear

45 32 06 Breaking Benjamin, Dark Before Dawn

46 NE 01 Joe Satriani, Shockwave Supenova

47 NE 01 Israel & New Breed, Covered: Alive In Asia

48 47 63 Brantley Gilbert, Just As I Am

49 37 10 A$AP Rocky, At.Long.Last.A$AP

50 NE 01 Warren Haynes Featuring Railroad Earth, Ashes & Dust

51 41 20 Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly

52 46 20 Soundtrack, Furious 7

53 82 183 Lana Del Rey, Born To Die

54 51 09 Jason Derulo, Everything Is 4

55 NE 01 Ninja Sex Party, Attitude City / Strawberries And Cream / NSFW

56 49 13 Mumford & Sons, Wilder Mind

57 55 17 Flo Rida, My House (EP)

58 53 24 Imagine Dragons, Smoke + Mirrors

59 54 43 Jason Aldean, Old Boots, New Dirt

60 NE 01 Gaelic Storm, Matching Sweaters

61 50 36 Pitbull, Globalization

62 61 103 Luke Bryan, Crash My Party

63 71 49 Ariana Grande, My Everything

64 90 27 George Ezra, Wanted On Voyage

65 94 07 Charlie Puth, Some Type Of Love EP

66 60 367 Journey, Journey's Greatest Hits

67 40 07 James Taylor, Before This World

68 69 152 Imagine Dragons, Night Visions

69 70 44 Tove Lo, Queen Of The Clouds

70 66 51 Trey Songz, Trigga

71 68 35 David Guetta, Listen

72 63 06 Tori Kelly, Unbreakable Smile

73 58 375 Bob Marley And The Wailers, Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers

74 89 14 Elle King, Love Stuff

75 78 139 Florida Georgia Line, Here's To The Good Times

76 48 05 Miguel, Wildheart

77 87 37 One Direction, Four

78 45 53 Soundtrack, Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1

79 59 129 Amy Winehouse, Back To Black

80 NE 01 Lynyrd Skynyrd, One More For The Fans

81 75 09 Florence + The Machine, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

82 79 29 Mark Ronson, Uptown Special

83 103 237 Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans

84 96 94 Drake, Nothing Was The Same

85 RE 06 Various Artists, 2015 Warped Tour Compilation

86 91 38 Zac Brown Band, Greatest Hits So Far...

87 74 96 Fleetwood Mac, Greatest Hits

88 RE 171 Eagles, Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

89 NE 01 Symphony X, Underworld

90 81 34 Carrie Underwood, Greatest Hits: Decade #1

91 62 06 Soundtrack, Teen Beach 2

92 85 50 twenty one pilots, Vessel

93 76 13 Various Artists, NOW 54

94 110 126 Drake, Take Care

95 77 140 Michael Jackson, The Essential Michael Jackson

96 93 48 Chase Rice, Ignite The Night

97 100 07 Adam Lambert, The Original High

98 92 74 The Weeknd, Trilogy

99 43 144 Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city

100 64 06 Kacey Musgraves, Pageant Material

101 102 120 Taylor Swift, Red

102 86 44 Blake Shelton, Bringing Back The Sunshine

103 101 226 Eminem, The Eminem Show

104 121 119 Fall Out Boy, Save Rock And Roll

105 105 40 Billy Joel, The Essential Billy Joel

106 RE 11 Roger Waters, Amused To Death

107 95 12 Soundtrack, Pitch Perfect 2

108 99 45 Kenny Chesney, The Big Revival

109 130 123 OneRepublic, Native

110 72 03 R5, Sometime Last Night

111 83 06 Leon Bridges, Coming Home

112 141 12 Lauren Daigle, How Can It Be

113 106 155 Ed Sheeran, +

114 80 53 5 Seconds Of Summer, 5 Seconds Of Summer

115 RE 02 Queen, Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection

116 NE 01 Counterparts, Tragedy Will Find Us

117 67 103 Foo Fighters, Greatest Hits

118 109 74 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell

119 111 14 Josh Groban, Stages

120 119 08 Of Monsters And Men, Beneath The Skin

121 118 232 Adele, 21

122 126 252 Eminem, Curtain Call: The Hits

123 RE 02 Soundtrack, Paper Towns

124 131 238 Taylor Swift, Fearless

125 114 07 Tim McGraw, 35 Biggest Hits

126 RE 08 ODESZA, In Return

127 129 10 Hillsong UNITED, Empires

128 148 208 Led Zeppelin, Mothership

129 117 43 Echosmith, Talking Dreams

130 113 47 Vance Joy, Dream Your Life Away

131 124 12 Kari Jobe, Majestic

132 174 131 Bruno Mars, Unorthodox Jukebox

133 134 91 Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP 2

134 57 05 Soundtrack, Magic Mike XXL

135 142 123 Blake Shelton, Based On A True Story ...

136 115 19 James Bay, Chaos And The Calm

137 135 86 Beyoncé, Beyoncé

138 65 55 G-Eazy, These Things Happen

139 155 239 Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits

140 125 94 Metallica, Master Of Puppets

141 108 08 Various Artists, NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 8

142 162 73 One Direction, Midnight Memories

143 140 105 2Pac, Greatest Hits

144 133 11 Kelsea Ballerini, The First Time

145 120 15 Alabama Shakes, Sound & Color

146 157 200 Luke Bryan, Tailgates & Tanlines

147 143 88 Soundtrack, Frozen

148 145 11 Zedd, True Colors

149 138 39 Calvin Harris, Motion

150 104 324 Guns N' Roses, Greatest Hits

151 11 02 Anthony Brown & group therAPy, Everyday Jesus

152 139 124 Michael Jackson, Bad

153 153 189 AC/DC, Back In Black

154 151 50 Wiz Khalifa, Blacc Hollywood

155 197 30 NEEDTOBREATHE, Rivers In The Wasteland

156 156 92 Katy Perry, Prism

157 122 06 Canaan Smith, Bronco

158 159 61 Miranda Lambert, Platinum

159 176 94 Lorde, Pure Heroine

160 185 03 Cam, Welcome To Cam Country (EP)

161 164 13 Tech N9ne, Special Effects

162 196 04 Old Dominion, Old Dominion (EP)

163 112 150 Eagles, The Very Best Of The Eagles

164 163 99 Arctic Monkeys, AM

165 NE 01 Trae Tha Truth, Tha Truth

166 179 111 Green Day, American Idiot

167 RE 198 Eminem, Recovery

168 173 23 Travis Tritt, The Very Best Of Travis Tritt

169 RE 71 Red Hot Chili Peppers, Greatest Hits

170 172 78 Five Finger Death Punch, The Wrong Side Of Heaven...Volume 1

171 195 131 Taylor Swift, Speak Now

172 RE 82 N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton

173 180 205 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Greatest Hits

174 200 28 J. Cole, Born Sinner

175 177 38 Nick Jonas, Nick Jonas

176 189 24 Omarion, Sex Playlist

177 136 05 Easton Corbin, About To Get Real

178 154 21 Luke Bryan, Spring Break... Checkin' Out

179 RE 71 Panic! At The Disco, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

180 171 222 Katy Perry, Teenage Dream

181 181 45 Chris Brown, X

182 RE 79 Fall Out Boy, From Under The Cork Tree

183 192 92 Metallica, ...And Justice For All

184 RE 60 Kanye West, Graduation

185 RE 126 Soundtrack, Pitch Perfect

186 183 22 Kelly Clarkson, Piece By Piece

187 88 83 Childish Gambino, Because The Internet

188 182 163 Blake Shelton, Red River Blue

189 RE 87 Elton John, Greatest Hits 1970-2002

190 198 910 Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

191 146 26 Kid Ink, Full Speed

192 RE 38 J. Cole, Cole World: The Sideline Story

193 137 09 Willie Nelson / Merle Haggard, Django And Jimmie

194 NE 01 Northlane, Node

195 RE 86 Kid Cudi, Man On The Moon: The End Of Day

196 RE 54 Aerosmith, Aerosmith's Greatest Hits

197 RE 154 Eric Church, Chief

198 184 15 Frank Sinatra, Ultimate Sinatra

199 132 101 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Ultimate Hits

200 RE 10 Def Leppard, Mirrorball: Live & More

Jill Scott Scores Her Second No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart

By Keith Caulfield | August 03, 2015

 

Jill Scott celebrates her second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as her latest effort, Woman, debuts atop the list. The set starts at No. 1 on the chart dated Aug. 15 with 62,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 30, 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). The Aug. 15-dated chart will be posted in full to Billboard’s Web sites on Tuesday, Aug. 4.

 

Apple Music has been added as a streaming provider to the Billboard 200, as well as the Billboard Hot 100, other hybrid songs charts and streaming-only charts. The panel of streaming providers that contribute to the Billboard 200 now includes Amazon Prime, Apple Music, Beats Music, Google Play, Medianet, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Tidal, Spotify and Groove Music Pass (formerly Xbox Music).

 

Woman is Scott’s fifth studio album, and it sold 58,000 in pure album sales. It follows her chart-topping The Light of the Sun, released in 2011 (133,000 copies sold in its first week). Woman was released on Scott’s Blues Babe imprint, through Atlantic Records.

 

Scott is the first solo woman to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 in nearly five months. The last to do so was Kelly Clarkson, on the chart dated March 21, when her Piece By Piece album debuted at No. 1. Since then, the top of the chart has also seen female-led No. 1s from the groups Alabama Shakes (Sound & Color) and Florence + The Machine (How Big How Blue How Beautiful).

 

Further, Woman ends a dry spell for female R&B singers at the top of the chart. Scott is the first R&B songstress to lead the list in a year and seven months, since Beyonce’s self-titled album spent its third and final week at No. 1 (on the chart dated Jan. 11, 2014).

 

Scott’s second No. 1 comes almost exactly 15 years after she debuted on the Billboard 200 with her first album, Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1. It debuted on the Aug. 5, 2000-dated chart at No. 168, on its way to a No. 17 peak the following year (March 24, 2001).

 

Last week’s No. 1, Future’s DS2, slips to No. 2 in its second week with 52,000 units (down 65 percent).

 

Rock band Lamb of God tallies its fourth top 10 album, as VII: Sturm Und Drang debuts at No. 3 with 50,000 units (pure album sales equal 47,000). The group previously earned top 10s with 2012’s Resolution (No. 3 debut and peak), 2009’s Wrath and 2006’s Sacrament (No. 8).

 

Taylor Swift’s 1989 hangs out in the top 10 for a 40th straight week (its entire chart run), as the set descends 2-4 with 47,000 units (down 8 percent).

 

The soundtrack to the boxing drama Southpaw punches in at No. 5 on the new Billboard 200 chart with 45,000 equivalent units (of that, 32,000 were pure album sales). The rap-fueled collection features the likes of Eminem, The Weeknd, The Notorious B.I.G. and the film’s co-star 50 Cent. Southpaw is the seventh soundtrack to reach the top 10 in 2015, following Into the Woods, Fifty Shades of Grey, Empire, Furious 7, Pitch Perfect 2, Teen Beach 2 and Magic Mike XXL. (Comparably, only five soundtracks visited the top 10 in 2014. Among those five is the Frozen soundtrack, which actually spent its first week within the region in 2013.)

 

Ed Sheeran’s x rises 8-6 with 34,000 units (up 5 percent) in its 58th week on the tally.

 

Sixteen-year-old singer Bea Miller arrives at No. 7 with her full-length debut album, Not An Apology (33,000 units, of which 24,000 are pure album sales). Not An Apology is Miller’s second trip to the Billboard 200, following her Young Blood EP that peaked at No. 64 a little over a year ago (May 10, 2014-dated chart).

 

The new album’s single “Fire N Gold” is bubbling under the threshold of the Pop Songs airplay chart, and could debut on the tally in the coming weeks.

 

Miller was previously a contestant on The X Factor in 2012. The following year, she became the first signing in a collaborative deal between SYCO and Hollywood Records.

 

Rounding out the top 10 is Meek Mill’s former No. 1, Dreams Worth More Than Money (7-8 with 31,000 units; down 21 percent), Sam Hunt’s Montevallo (holding at No. 9 with 27,000 units; down 7 percent) and Tyrese’s Black Rose (3-10 with 26,000 units; down 49 percent).

Not a very interesting week but something I noticed on the chart this week is the sheer number of (recent) very long runners:

 

53 82 183 Lana Del Rey, Born To Die

83 103 237 Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans

113 106 155 Ed Sheeran, +

121 118 232 Adele, 21

124 131 238 Taylor Swift, Fearless

167 RE 198 Eminem, Recovery

180 171 222 Katy Perry, Teenage Dream

 

There are other long running albums on the chart like Bob Marley's greatest hits but these are the most 'contemporary' ones. It's quite impressive to have four albums released since 2008 who've spent over four years on the chart, to me at least? Eminem's Recovery should hit 200 weeks in the near-ish future and Born To Die should do the same, especially as Lana's next campaign will keep it afloat.

 

I wouldn't call any of the above album 'classics' with the possible exception of 21 but it's impressive to see albums with such longevity - I'm especially surprised by the Bruno and Lana albums having such staying power.