The Weeknd holds at #1 this week, surprisingly his stream sales were nearly equal to his actual sales! Unlucky for Five Finger Death Punch who settle for their third #2 album in a row, still without a #1 to their name. Iron Maiden gets their second #4 (studio) album in a row, matching their highest peak to date on the Billboard 200. And, funny enough, Troye Sivan matches the #5 debut of his previous EP 'TRXYE' from last year! Troye and Iron Maiden both manage a sales increase from their previous releases; Iron Maiden's first-week sales have been increasing consistently for their last six albums, as you'll see in the article below.

 

01 01 02 The Weeknd, Beauty Behind The Madness (145,000 (77,000 | 68,000 SEA/TEA))

02 NE 01 Five Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six (119,000 (114,000 | 5,000 SEA/TEA))

03 NE 01 Travi$ Scott, Rodeo (85,000 (70,000 | 15,000 SEA/TEA))

04 NE 01 Iron Maiden, The Book Of Souls (75,000 (74,000 | 1,000 SEA/TEA))

05 NE 01 Troye Sivan, Wild (EP) (50,000 (45,000 | 5,000 SEA/TEA))

06 03 05 Luke Bryan, Kill The Lights (45,000)

07 04 46 Taylor Swift, 1989 (43,000)

08 02 02 Halsey, Badlands (35,000)

09 06 64 Ed Sheeran, x (27,000)

10 11 08 Future, DS2 (25,000)

11 NE 01 Scarface, Deeply Rooted

12 NE 01 The Wonder Years, No Closer To Heaven

13 12 46 Sam Hunt, Montevallo

14 13 17 twenty one pilots, Blurryface

15 05 05 Dr. Dre, Compton

16 19 35 Meghan Trainor, Title

17 18 22 Shawn Mendes, Handwritten

18 14 31 Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late

19 15 05 Various Artists, NOW 55

20 NE 01 K Camp, Only Way Is Up

21 16 88 N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton

22 10 03 Disturbed, Immortalized

23 20 34 Fall Out Boy, American Beauty / American Psycho

24 23 40 J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive

25 22 65 Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour

26 21 06 Soundtrack, Descendants

27 NE 01 The ARCS, Yours, Dreamily,

28 26 11 Meek Mill, Dreams Worth More Than Money

29 24 39 Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint

30 17 12 Tori Kelly, Unbreakable Smile

31 32 15 Major Lazer, Peace Is The Mission

32 25 83 Eric Church, The Outsiders

33 38 49 Hozier, Hozier

34 29 29 Big Sean, Dark Sky Paradise

35 30 29 Skrillex & Diplo, Skrillex & Diplo Present Jack U

36 27 20 Zac Brown Band, Jekyll + Hyde

37 42 20 Elle King, Love Stuff

38 47 19 Mumford & Sons, Wilder Mind

39 NE 01 The Dear Hunter, Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise

40 40 36 Rae Sremmurd, SremmLife

41 33 54 Maroon 5, V

42 28 04 Melanie Martinez, Cry Baby

43 07 02 Maddie & Tae, Start Here

44 36 48 Florida Georgia Line, Anything Goes

45 41 03 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

46 34 26 Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly

47 43 18 Rachel Platten, Fight Song (EP)

48 53 13 Charlie Puth, Some Type Of Love EP

49 48 56 twenty one pilots, Vessel

50 08 02 Beach House, Depression Cherry

51 60 11 X Ambassadors, VHS

52 49 12 Breaking Benjamin, Dark Before Dawn

53 45 15 Jason Derulo, Everything Is 4

54 31 03 Alessia Cara, Four Pink Walls (EP)

55 50 41 WALK THE MOON, TALKING IS HARD

56 59 16 A$AP Rocky, At.Long.Last.A$AP

57 37 80 The Weeknd, Trilogy

58 57 05 tobyMac, This Is Not A Test

59 52 32 Fifth Harmony, Reflection

60 70 44 Zac Brown Band, Greatest Hits So Far...

61 69 100 Drake, Nothing Was The Same

62 51 47 Little Big Town, Pain Killer

63 91 23 Flo Rida, My House (EP)

64 65 18 Soundtrack, Pitch Perfect 2

65 78 102 Fleetwood Mac, Greatest Hits

66 66 109 Luke Bryan, Crash My Party

67 73 26 Soundtrack, Furious 7

68 68 49 Jason Aldean, Old Boots, New Dirt

69 80 232 Eminem, The Eminem Show

70 83 132 Drake, Take Care

71 92 161 Ed Sheeran, +

72 67 69 Brantley Gilbert, Just As I Am

73 82 150 Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city

74 100 145 Florida Georgia Line, Here's To The Good Times

75 39 03 Kip Moore, Wild Ones

76 77 146 Michael Jackson, The Essential Michael Jackson

77 85 57 Trey Songz, Trigga

78 76 189 Lana Del Rey, Born To Die

79 88 55 Ariana Grande, My Everything

80 NE 01 Oh Wonder, Oh Wonder

81 46 09 Tyrese, Black Rose

82 89 40 Carrie Underwood, Greatest Hits: Decade #1

83 71 158 Imagine Dragons, Night Visions

84 87 04 Various Artists, Wondaland Presents: The Eephus (EP)

85 149 21 Alabama Shakes, Sound & Color

86 44 31 Soundtrack, Fifty Shades Of Grey

87 128 08 Queen, Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection

88 72 94 Dr. Dre, The Chronic

89 110 373 Journey, Journey's Greatest Hits

90 75 30 Imagine Dragons, Smoke + Mirrors

91 112 381 Bob Marley And The Wailers, Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers

92 97 43 One Direction, Four

93 98 32 Andy Grammer, Magazines Or Novels

94 94 59 Sia, 1000 Forms Of Fear

95 74 18 Lauren Daigle, How Can It Be

96 81 128 Dr. Dre, Dr. Dre -- 2001

97 99 09 Kidz Bop Kids, Kidz Bop 29

98 108 111 2Pac, Greatest Hits

99 123 243 Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans

100 106 258 Eminem, Curtain Call: The Hits

101 102 09 Cam, Welcome To Cam Country (EP)

102 RE 112 Evanescence, Fallen

103 105 08 Tame Impala, Currents

104 64 03 Carly Rae Jepsen, E*MO*TION

105 114 50 Blake Shelton, Bringing Back The Sunshine

106 RE 09 All Time Low, Future Hearts

107 RE 43 MercyMe, Welcome To The New

108 111 59 5 Seconds Of Summer, 5 Seconds Of Summer

109 175 117 Green Day, American Idiot

110 95 59 Soundtrack, Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1

111 126 238 Adele, 21

112 132 02 Various Artists, Top 25 Praise Songs: 2016 Edition

113 129 13 Tim McGraw, 35 Biggest Hits

114 127 46 Billy Joel, The Essential Billy Joel

115 113 80 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell

116 116 54 Chase Rice, Ignite The Night

117 84 07 Jill Scott, Woman

118 146 92 Beyoncé, Beyoncé

119 121 50 Tove Lo, Queen Of The Clouds

120 93 51 Kenny Chesney, The Big Revival

121 131 97 Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP 2

122 119 61 G-Eazy, These Things Happen

123 RE 71 My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade

124 NE 01 FIDLAR, Too

125 RE 158 Linkin Park, [Hybrid Theory]

126 135 126 Taylor Swift, Red

127 184 24 Soundtrack, Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1

128 145 84 Five Finger Death Punch, The Wrong Side Of Heaven...Volume 1

129 56 04 Elvis Presley, Elvis Forever

130 125 35 Mark Ronson, Uptown Special

131 54 20 Josh Groban, Stages

132 107 109 Foo Fighters, Greatest Hits

133 62 03 Bon Jovi, Burning Bridges

134 63 02 Jimi Hendrix Experience, Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival

135 124 08 Alan Jackson, Angels And Alcohol

136 165 129 OneRepublic, Native

137 138 100 Metallica, Master Of Puppets

138 142 17 Zedd, True Colors

139 RE 07 Chris Stapleton, Traveller

140 86 15 Florence + The Machine, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

141 139 130 Michael Jackson, Bad

142 133 125 Fall Out Boy, Save Rock And Roll

143 120 25 James Bay, Chaos And The Calm

144 RE 110 Kid Rock, Devil Without A Cause

145 RE 915 Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

146 122 03 Ghost, Meliora

147 RE 41 Pitbull, Globalization

148 115 06 N.W.A., The Best Of N.W.A.: The Strength Of Street Knowledge

149 137 17 Kelsea Ballerini, The First Time

150 RE 212 Led Zeppelin, Mothership

151 55 03 Rob Thomas, The Great Unknown

152 160 195 AC/DC, Back In Black

153 153 29 Travis Tritt, The Very Best Of Travis Tritt

154 163 129 Blake Shelton, Based On A True Story ...

155 90 03 Tasha Cobbs, One Place Live

156 164 98 Metallica, ...And Justice For All

157 35 02 Motörhead, Bad Magic

158 152 11 Soundtrack, Home

159 151 94 Soundtrack, Frozen

160 RE 11 Third Day, Lead Us Back: Songs Of Worship

161 NE 01 Daya, Daya (EP)

162 169 12 Leon Bridges, Coming Home

163 172 56 Wiz Khalifa, Blacc Hollywood

164 155 10 Old Dominion, Old Dominion (EP)

165 RE 160 Guns N' Roses, Appetite For Destruction

166 141 11 Miguel, Wildheart

167 134 07 Soundtrack, Southpaw: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture

168 157 13 Adam Lambert, The Original High

169 147 41 David Guetta, Listen

170 183 244 Taylor Swift, Fearless

171 170 07 Bea Miller, Not An Apology

172 159 93 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Heist

173 166 34 J. Cole, Born Sinner

174 158 33 George Ezra, Wanted On Voyage

175 176 204 Eminem, Recovery

176 161 79 One Direction, Midnight Memories

177 179 51 Chris Brown, X

178 RE 95 The Killers, Hot Fuss

179 174 105 Arctic Monkeys, AM

180 186 136 Bruno Mars, Unorthodox Jukebox

181 140 04 Bullet For My Valentine, Venom

182 143 12 Kacey Musgraves, Pageant Material

183 198 245 Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits

184 188 89 Childish Gambino, Because The Internet

185 195 46 A$AP Rocky, Long.Live.A$AP

186 181 44 J. Cole, Cole World: The Sideline Story

187 171 206 Luke Bryan, Tailgates & Tanlines

188 177 62 Kanye West, Graduation

189 NE 01 Uncle Acid, The Night Creeper

190 RE 166 Blake Shelton, Red River Blue

191 192 98 Katy Perry, Prism

192 RE 55 Aerosmith, Aerosmith's Greatest Hits

193 RE 166 Nickelback, Dark Horse

194 RE 109 Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet

195 190 67 Miranda Lambert, Platinum

196 148 20 Frank Sinatra, Ultimate Sinatra

197 178 42 Nick Jonas, Nick Jonas

198 RE 354 Metallica, Metallica

199 RE 89 Elton John, Greatest Hits 1970-2002

200 RE 133 Taylor Swift, Speak Now

The Weeknd Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

By Keith Caulfield | September 13, 2015 4:10 PM EDT

 

The Weeknd earns a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart as Beauty Behind the Madness continues to reign as the most popular album in the U.S. The set shifted another 145,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 10, according to Nielsen Music (down 65 percent). A week ago, the album bounded into the top slot with 411,000 units.

 

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 new Sept. 26-dated chart (where The Weeknd is No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Sept. 15.

 

Rock band Five Finger Death Punch charts its third consecutive No. 2 album with the debut of Got Your Six, which enters with 119,000 units. That sum is powered by 114,000 in pure album sales, which makes it the top selling album of the week, and it reigns at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. That 114,000 figure is also the group’s best sales week ever, surpassing the 112,000 launch of 2013’s No. 2-peaking The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell: Volume 1.

 

Got Your Six also enters at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums and Hard Rock Albums charts — their third straight leader on both lists.

 

The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness is No. 2 on the Top Album Sales chart with 77,000 copies sold.

 

Back on the Billboard 200, rapper Travi$ Scott starts at No. 3 with his debut studio album Rodeo (85,000 units, of which 70,000 are pure album sales). It also starts at No. 1 on the Rap Albums chart, and No. 2 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (behind The Weeknd).

 

Veteran rock band Iron Maiden debuts at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with their new studio effort The Book of Souls (75,000 units). That equals their highest rank ever, first achieved in 2010 with The Final Frontier’s debut and peak at No. 4.

 

The new album also debuts with 74,000 albums sold, which is the group’s best sales week since Nielsen Music started tracking sales in 1991.

 

Also notable: The Book of Souls is the sixth straight Iron Maiden studio album to show debut week sales growth. Their steady climb started with 1998’s Virtual XI (10,000 sales debut, up from the 6,000 of 1995’s X Factor) and then continued on with 2000’s Brave New World (38,000), 2003’s Dance of Death (40,000), 2006’s A Matter of Life and Death (56,000), 2010’s The Final Frontier (63,000) and now its new album.

 

Troye Sivan claims his second straight Top 5 album, as his second EP, Wild, bows at No. 5 (50,000 units; 45,000 from album sales). It follows his debut EP, TRXYE, which debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the Aug. 30, 2014-dated chart (30,000).

 

Wild’s debut was powered largely by digital sales, with 43,000 of its sales sum coming from downloads. The EP also starts at No. 4 on the Digital Albums chart.

 

Luke Bryan’s former No. 1 album Kill the Lights slips 3-6 with 45,000 units (down 11 percent) and Taylor Swift’s 1989 dips 4-7 with 43,000 units (down 2 percent). Halsey’s Badlands falls 2-8 with 35,000 (down 69 percent) and Ed Sheeran’s X descends 6-9 with 27,000 (down 6 percent). Future’s DS2 closes out the Top 10, up one rung to No. 10, with 25,000 units (down 4 percent).

 

Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Elle King Hits the Top 40, Luke Bryan's Latest Half-Million Seller

By Keith Caulfield | September 18, 2015 3:13 PM EDT

 

On the most recent Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Sept. 26), The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness held for a second week atop the list. It earned 144,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 10, according to Nielsen Music -- down 65 percent compared to its start of 411,000 units a week earlier.

 

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the week’s most popular albums based on their overall consumption. That overall unit figure combines pure album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).

 

Now, let’s take a closer look at some of the action on the Sept. 26 chart:

 

— Luke Bryan, Kill the Lights - No. 6 — Luke Bryan’s former No. 1 album Kill the Lights has now surpassed 500,000 in total sales, as the set sold another 34,000 copies in the week ending Sept. 10. The album’s cumulative sales now stand at 530,000. Kill the Lights is Bryan’s sixth set to sell more than 500,000 copies. His biggest seller is Crash My Party, with 2.5 million sold.

 

— Elle King, Love Stuff - No. 37 — Elle King’s Love Stuff hits a new chart high -- and visits the top 40 for the first time -- as the album climbs 42-37 (10,000 units; up 5 percent). The album debuted on the chart dated March 7 at No. 45, and then slipped off the chart after the April 25-dated list. It then returned on the June 20 tally and has (mostly) been on the rise ever since, thanks to the success of its single “Ex’s & Oh’s,” which spends a second week at No. 1 on the Alternative Songs chart. It’s also a top 20 hit on Adult Pop Songs, a top 30 charter on Pop Songs, and a former No. 2 smash on the Adult Alternative Songs chart.

 

— Alabama Shakes, Sound & Color - No. 85 — A number of rock albums on the chart profit from sale pricing and promotion at digital retailers, including Sound & Color (6,000 units; up 31 percent, rising 149-85) and Evanescence’s Fallen (a reentry at No. 102 with 5,000; up 128 percent). Other notable rock gainers include All Time Low’s Future Hearts (reentering at No. 106 with 5,000; up 137 percent), My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade (a reentry at No. 123 with 5,000; up 31 percent) and Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory (a reentry at No. 125 with, again, 5,000 units; up 70 percent). Also helping Alabama Shakes: the band’s frontwoman, Brittany Howard, was a surprise musical guest on the first episode of CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (Sept. 8).

 

— Fidlar, Too - No. 124 — Fidlar's second album, Too, arrives at No. 124 (5,000 units) and also straight in to No. 1 on the Heatseekers Albums chart (4,000 pure albums sold). The rock band’s new 12-song album follows their 2013 self-titled effort, which debuted and peaked at No. 5, and went on to sell 24,000. The new album, which the band will support on tour through late November, performed strongly on vinyl as well, with 35 percent of its debut sales coming from the LP configuration. It debuts at No. 6 on the Vinyl Albums chart.

 

— Chris Stapleton, Traveller - No. 139 — Stapleton earned three Country Music Association Award (CMA Awards) nominations on Sept. 9, including album of the year (for Traveller), which likely push the set’s 47 percent unit gain and reentry at No. 139 (rising to 4,000 for the week).

 

— Daya, Daya (EP) – No. 161 — Sixteen-year-old pop singer Daya bows at No. 161 with her self-titled debut EP, shifting 4,000 units. The indie-released set, issued through the Artbeatz label, is led by the single “Hide Away.” The cut rises 40-38 on the Pop Songs airplay chart, with a 19 percent rise in spins at the format. On the Heatseekers Albums chart, the Daya EP starts at No. 20.

Unlucky for Five Finger Death Punch who settle for their third #2 album in a row, still without a #1 to their name.

Especially unfortunate given they actually (comfortably) sold the most albums this week! Just can't compete with The Weeknd's TEA in particular though, what with him currently occupying the top two positions on the Hot 100. Nice to see him do the double this week anyway.

 

Halsey's holding up much better than I expected based on other territories. :o