With six weeks at #1, Adele now has the longest-running #1 since the Frozen soundtrack had an eight-week run at the top. 25 ends the year with 7.44 million albums sold. Justin holds at #2 and barely decreases at all (229K last week), could Purpose eventually overtake 25 or is this just a fluke due to gift card week? Only three new entries this week, one of which is the very first Twenty One Pilots album from 2009, benefiting from the band getting its breakthrough hit six years later. Their current album benefits as well by climbing to #3.

 

01 01 06 Adele, 25 (363,000 (307,000 | 56,000 SEA/TEA))

02 02 07 Justin Bieber, Purpose (217,000)

03 11 33 twenty one pilots, Blurryface (79,000 (46,000 | 33,000 SEA/TEA))

04 06 07 One Direction, Made In The A.M. (75,000)

05 21 14 Fetty Wap, Fetty Wap (70,000)

06 09 18 The Weeknd, Beauty Behind The Madness (69,000)

07 15 12 Selena Gomez, Revival (57,000 (21,000 | 28,000 TEA | 8,000 SEA))

08 03 02 Chris Brown, Royalty (55,000)

09 08 62 Taylor Swift, 1989 (54,000)

10 33 14 Bryson Tiller, T R A P S O U L (53,000)

11 29 38 Shawn Mendes, Handwritten

12 07 16 Chris Stapleton, Traveller

13 28 04 G-Eazy, When It's Dark Out

14 42 15 Drake & Future, What A Time To Be Alive

15 19 62 Sam Hunt, Montevallo

16 41 205 The Beatles, 1

17 05 02 Soundtrack, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

18 46 24 Future, DS2

19 22 51 Meghan Trainor, Title

20 12 04 Coldplay, A Head Full Of Dreams

21 53 72 twenty one pilots, Vessel

22 10 254 Adele, 21

23 04 22 Pentatonix, That's Christmas To Me

24 51 18 Halsey, Badlands

25 17 21 Luke Bryan, Kill The Lights

26 68 50 Fall Out Boy, American Beauty / American Psycho

27 25 80 Ed Sheeran, x

28 23 14 Thomas Rhett, Tangled Up

29 62 47 Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late

30 56 56 J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive

31 13 11 Pentatonix, Pentatonix

32 55 11 Demi Lovato, Confident

33 58 08 Ellie Goulding, Delirium

34 43 56 Carrie Underwood, Greatest Hits: Decade #1

35 86 20 Melanie Martinez, Cry Baby

36 69 07 Alessia Cara, Know-It-All

37 67 04 Troye Sivan, Blue Neighbourhood

38 66 36 Elle King, Love Stuff

39 16 09 Various Artists, NOW 56

40 18 10 Carrie Underwood, Storyteller

41 50 10 5 Seconds Of Summer, Sounds Good Feels Good

42 37 14 Original Broadway Cast Recording, Hamilton: An American Musical

43 92 17 Travi$ Scott, Rodeo

44 RE 137 Frank Sinatra, Nothing But The Best

45 130 39 Flo Rida, My House (EP)

46 77 42 Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly

47 148 52 Rae Sremmurd, SremmLife

48 30 10 Blake Shelton, Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits

49 116 77 G-Eazy, These Things Happen

50 NE 01 Kid Ink, Summer In The Winter

51 44 81 Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour

52 14 47 Michael Bublé, Christmas

53 117 09 The Chainsmokers, Bouquet (EP)

54 36 03 Cam, Untamed

55 119 389 Journey, Journey's Greatest Hits

56 73 07 Chris Young, I'm Comin' Over

57 35 09 Eric Church, Mr. Misunderstood

58 182 55 Panic! At The Disco, Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!

59 102 07 Logic, The Incredible True Story

60 32 198 Adele, 19

61 39 11 Kidz Bop Kids, Kidz Bop 30

62 65 03 Jordan Smith, The Voice: The Complete Season 9 Collection

63 154 25 Meek Mill, Dreams Worth More Than Money

64 75 65 Hozier, Hozier

65 174 259 Queen, Greatest Hits

66 RE 270 Eminem, Curtain Call: The Hits

67 168 44 Andy Grammer, Magazines Or Novels

68 RE 153 Michael Jackson, The Essential Michael Jackson

69 155 45 Big Sean, Dark Sky Paradise

70 RE 102 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Ultimate Hits

71 RE 08 Daya, Daya (EP)

72 20 02 Pusha T, King Push

73 171 55 Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint

74 74 31 Alabama Shakes, Sound & Color

75 103 397 Bob Marley And The Wailers, Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers

76 64 04 Rick Ross, Black Market

77 135 182 The Beatles, Abbey Road

78 26 02 Cage The Elephant, Tell Me I'm Pretty

79 RE 182 The Beatles, The Beatles [White Album]

80 157 148 Drake, Take Care

81 76 19 Disturbed, Immortalized

82 NE 01 FUTURISTIC & Devvon Terrell, Coast 2 Coast

83 RE 36 Nirvana, Nirvana

84 RE 37 Soundtrack, Furious 7

85 115 70 Maroon 5, V

86 87 118 Fleetwood Mac, Greatest Hits

87 83 19 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

88 38 03 R. Kelly, The Buffet

89 RE 13 Bring Me The Horizon, That's The Spirit

90 121 64 Florida Georgia Line, Anything Goes

91 81 17 Five Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six

92 RE 03 DNCE, Swaay (EP)

93 173 41 James Bay, Chaos And The Calm

94 143 04 Jeremih, Late Nights: The Album

95 24 36 Josh Groban, Stages

96 195 136 Fall Out Boy, Save Rock And Roll

97 88 73 Soundtrack, Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1

98 181 166 Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city

99 188 116 Drake, Nothing Was The Same

100 RE 24 Jason Derulo, Everything Is 4

101 100 36 Zac Brown Band, Jekyll + Hyde

102 137 46 Imagine Dragons, Smoke + Mirrors

103 161 174 Imagine Dragons, Night Visions

104 165 27 X Ambassadors, VHS

105 RE 31 A$AP Rocky, AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP

106 40 51 Vince Guaraldi Trio, A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack)

107 71 03 August Alsina, This Thing Called Life

108 127 06 Chris Janson, Buy Me A Boat

109 59 07 Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Letters From The Labyrinth

110 180 40 Skrillex & Diplo, Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack U

111 109 35 Mumford & Sons, Wilder Mind

112 93 359 Metallica, Metallica

113 145 45 Soundtrack, Fifty Shades Of Grey

114 105 15 Lana Del Rey, Honeymoon

115 RE 338 Guns N' Roses, Greatest Hits

116 146 205 Lana Del Rey, Born To Die

117 34 02 Ariana Grande, Christmas & Chill (EP)

118 123 65 Jason Aldean, Old Boots, New Dirt

119 RE 63 Wiz Khalifa, Blacc Hollywood

120 167 58 One Direction, Four

121 RE 193 The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

122 177 175 Ed Sheeran, +

123 118 22 Soundtrack, Descendants

124 RE 20 Logic, Under Pressure

125 RE 68 Ariana Grande, My Everything

126 149 08 Old Dominion, Meat And Candy

127 142 125 Luke Bryan, Crash My Party

128 RE 30 Major Lazer, Peace Is The Mission

129 RE 73 My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade

130 RE 14 Mac Miller, GO:OD AM

131 RE 72 Panic! At The Disco, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

132 52 06 Soundtrack, Empire: Original Soundtrack, Season 2, Volume 1

133 176 96 The Weeknd, Trilogy

134 RE 06 Ty Dolla $ign, Free TC

135 129 34 Lauren Daigle, How Can It Be

136 193 115 Arctic Monkeys, AM

137 159 118 Foo Fighters, Greatest Hits

138 RE 65 5 Seconds Of Summer, 5 Seconds Of Summer

139 RE 08 R. City, What Dreams Are Made Of

140 RE 109 Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP 2

141 NE 01 twenty one pilots, twenty one pilots

142 RE 85 One Direction, Midnight Memories

143 RE 54 WALK THE MOON, TALKING IS HARD

144 175 57 Zac Brown Band, Greatest Hits So Far...

145 RE 58 Chris Brown, X

146 27 02 Monica, Code Red

147 RE 40 Fifth Harmony, Reflection

148 RE 256 Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans

149 RE 16 Lil Dicky, Professional Rapper

150 45 59 Mariah Carey, Merry Christmas

151 160 107 Soundtrack, Frozen

152 RE 22 Slipknot, .5: The Gray Chapter

153 RE 157 Florida Georgia Line, Here's To The Good Times

154 179 83 Brantley Gilbert, Just As I Am

155 RE 44 Nick Jonas, Nick Jonas

156 84 63 Little Big Town, Pain Killer

157 197 245 AC/DC, Back In Black

158 RE 70 The Beatles, Rubber Soul

159 131 15 Shinedown, Threat To Survival

160 RE 20 Tori Kelly, Unbreakable Smile

161 RE 73 Sia, 1000 Forms Of Fear

162 RE 28 Kelsea Ballerini, The First Time

163 57 06 Enya, Dark Sky Island

164 48 30 Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, Cheek To Cheek

165 RE 123 2Pac, Greatest Hits

166 RE 122 Green Day, American Idiot

167 RE 250 Taylor Swift, Fearless

168 RE 27 Rachel Platten, Fight Song (EP)

169 194 26 Breaking Benjamin, Dark Before Dawn

170 RE 213 Eminem, Recovery

171 RE 04 The Neighbourhood, Wiped Out!

172 140 142 Amy Winehouse, Back To Black

173 RE 62 Tove Lo, Queen Of The Clouds

174 96 25 Leon Bridges, Coming Home

175 189 05 Grimes, Art Angels

176 RE 314 Carole King, Tapestry

177 RE 107 Elvis Presley, Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits

178 RE 103 Beyoncé, Beyoncé

179 RE 134 Taylor Swift, Speak Now

180 156 248 Eminem, The Eminem Show

181 RE 04 Lynyrd Skynyrd, All Time Greatest Hits

182 RE 69 The 1975, The 1975

183 RE 22 Blink-182, Greatest Hits

184 RE 52 Billy Joel, The Essential Billy Joel

185 111 99 Eric Church, The Outsiders

186 RE 11 Brett Eldredge, Illinois

187 RE 42 Mark Ronson, Uptown Special.

188 RE 102 Katy Perry, Prism

189 RE 45 J. Cole, Born Sinner

190 97 21 Various Artists, NOW 55

191 RE 07 DeJ Loaf, #AndSeeThatsTheThing (EP)

192 183 31 Soundtrack, Pitch Perfect 2

193 RE 49 Vance Joy, Dream Your Life Away

194 RE 63 Jason Derulo, Talk Dirty

195 RE 69 Trey Songz, Trigga

196 RE 06 OMI, Me 4 U

197 RE 98 Childish Gambino, Because The Internet

198 RE 30 Neil Diamond, All-Time Greatest Hits

199 166 922 Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

200 101 09 Various Artists, We Love Disney

Adele's '25' Scores Sixth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

1/4/2016 by Keith Caulfield

 

Adele’s 25 scores a sixth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set earned another 363,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 31, 2015 (down 70 percent), according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 307,000 were in pure album sales (down 73 percent).

 

25 sold 7.44 million copies in the U.S. through the week ending Dec. 31. It finishes 2015 as the top selling album of the year, and is the biggest seller of any calendar year since 2004 (when Usher’s Confessions sold 7.98 million).

 

25 was released through XL Recordings/Columbia Records on Nov. 20.

 

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 Jan. 16, 2016-dated chart (where 25 is No. 1 for a sixth frame) will be posted in full to Billboard’s Websites on Tuesday, Jan. 5.

 

25 is the first album to tally its first six weeks at No. 1 since Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream also claimed its first six weeks at No. 1 (Dec. 12, 2009 through Jan. 16, 2010).

 

In addition, 25 is the first set to spend at least five weeks in a row at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since the Frozen soundtrack notched eight straight frames at No. 1 in early 2014 (on the charts dated March 29 through May 17, 2014). The Frozen album spent a total of 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1.

 

But wait, there’s more! 25 is the first album released since 2001 to sell more than 300,000 copies in each of its first six weeks on sale. The last to do so was Creed’s Weathered, which blew through 300,000-plus in each of its first six weeks, following its release on Nov. 20, 2001.

 

As the latest tracking week reflects the frame ending Dec. 31, there are few debuts on the Billboard 200 because most artists and record labels tend not to release new albums so close to the Christmas holiday (Dec. 25). That said, there are still a few new entries, the highest of which is Kid Ink’s Summer in the Winter at No. 50 (16,000 units; 11,000 copies sold). The set was released on Dec. 25, and marks the rapper’s fifth charting album.

 

Back in the top 10, Justin Bieber’s Purpose is a non-mover at No. 2 (217,000 units; down 5 percent) while Twenty One Pilots’ former No. 1 Blurryface vaults 11-3 (79,000 units; up 33 percent). The latter (46,000 sold in pure album sales; up 16 percent) benefits from sale pricing in the iTunes Store, where it was discounted to $7.99 during the tracking week. It also gains thanks to the continued growth of its single “Stressed Out.” On the all-genre Radio Songs airplay chart, the song bounded into the top 15 of the tally dated Jan. 9 (in only its fourth chart week). It’s also No. 4 on the latest Digital Songs chart, with 159,000 downloads sold in the week ending Dec. 31 (up 95 percent).

 

On the new Billboard 200, One Direction’s Made in the A.M. climbs 6-4 (75,000 units; down 19 percent) while Fetty Wap’s self-titled set jumps back into the top 10, rising 21-5 with 70,000 units (up 69 percent). The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness ascends 9-6 with 69,000 units (down 4 percent) and Selena Gomez’s Revival zooms 15-7 with 57,000 units (up 9 percent). The latter title is down 26 percent in pure album sales (to 21,000 sold) but rallies thanks to TEA units (28,000; up 73 percent).

 

Chris Brown’s Royalty dips 3-8 in its second week (55,000 units; down 70 percent) and Taylor Swift’s 1989 is down 8-9 (54,000 units; down 26 percent).

 

Bryson Tiller’s Trapsoul rounds out the top 10, as the album hits a new peak, flying 33-10 (53,000 units; up 59 percent). It surpasses its previous high-water mark of No. 11, notched in its debut frame (Oct. 17-dated chart). The album has ranked in the weekly top 40 since its release.

 

TOP SALES WEEKS 2015 (from UKMix):

Rank - Chart Date - Sales - Title - Artist - (Rank Opening Weeks Only)

 

01 - 12-12-15 - 3,377,885 - 25 - Adele (01)

02 - 01-09-16 - 1,157,296 - 25 - Adele

03 - 12-19-15 - 1,112,162 - 25 - Adele

04 - 01-02-16 - 789,821 - 25 - Adele

05 - 12-26-15 - 695,043 - 25 - Adele

06 - 12-05-15 - 521,521 - PURPOSE - Justin Bieber (02)

07 - 02-28-15 - 494,746 - IF YOU'RE READING THIS IT'S TOO LATE - Drake (03)

08 - 12-05-15 - 401,837 - MADE IN THE A.M. - One Direction (04)

09 - 10-10-15 - 334,423 - WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE - Drake & Future (05)

10 - 09-19-15 - 325,518 - BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS - The Weeknd (06)

11 - 04-04-15 - 324,403 - TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY - Kendrick Lamar (07)

12 - 08-29-15 - 320,063 - KILL THE LIGHTS - Luke Bryan (08)

13 - 01-16-16 - 307,171 - 25 - Adele

14 - 08-29-15 - 276,122 - COMPTON - Dr Dre (09)

15 - 05-23-15 - 231,438 - WILDER MIND - Mumford & Sons (10)

16 - 07-18-15 - 214,752 - DREAMS WORTH MORE THAN MONEY - Meek Mill (11)

17 - 05-16-15 - 214,224 - JEKYLL + HYDE - Zac Brown Band (12)

18 - 02-28-15 - 210,431 - 50 SHADES OF GREY - Soundtrack (13)

=19 - 01-31-15 - 194,522 - TITLE - Meghan Trainor (14)

=19 - 12-26-15 - 194,522 - A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS - Coldplay (15)

21 - 02-07-15 - 191,698 - AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO - Fall Out Boy (16)

22 - 12-12-15 - 183,562 - PURPOSE - Justin Bieber

23 - 11-14-15 - 179,157 - SOUNDS GOOD FEELS GOOD - 5 Seconds Of Summer (17)

24 - 05-16-15 - 176,153 - STAGES - Josh Groban (18)

25 - 03-07-15 - 172,378 - SMOKE + MIRRORS - Imagine Dragons (19)

26 - 01-17-15 - 171,925 - 1989 - Taylor Swift

27 - 11-14-15 - 164,212 - STORYTELLER - Carrie Underwood (20)

28 - 01-09-16 - 161,582 - ROYALTY - Chris Brown (21)

29 - 11-21-15 - 153,428 - TRAVELLER - Chris Stapleton

30 - 01-09-16 - 152,574 - PURPOSE - Justin Bieber

31 - 03-14-15 - 139,247 - DARK SKY PARADISE - Big Sean (22)

32 - 03-14-15 - 136,785 - FIRST KISS - Kid Rock (23)

33 - 07-11-15 - 135,437 - DARK BEFORE DAWN - Breaking Benjamin (24)

34 - 06-06-15 - 133,558 - BLURRYFACE - Twenty One Pilots (25)

35 - 12-19-15 - 130,179 - PURPOSE - Justin Bieber

36 - 03-07-15 - 129,118 - IF YOU'RE READING THIS IT'S TOO LATE - Drake

37 - 06-20-15 - 127,933 - HOW BIG HOW BLUE HOW BEAUTIFUL - Florence + The Machine (26)

38 - 01-02-16 - 127,490 - THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME - Pentatonix

39 - 08-08-15 - 126,000 - DS2 - Future (27)

40 - 12-26-15 - 125,778 - THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME - Pentatonix

41 - 02-28-15 - 124,224 - IN THE LONELY HOUR - Sam Smith

42 - 01-09-16 - 124,051 - THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME - Pentatonix

43 - 12-05-15 - 118,062 - THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY - Logic (28)

44 - 06-13-15 - 116,731 - AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP - A$AP Rocky (29)

45 - 03-28-15 - 116,115 - REBEL HEART - Madonna (30)

46 - 03-07-15 - 114,937 - 50 SHADES OF GREY - Soundtrack

47 - 09-26-15 - 114,260 - GOT YOUR SIX - Five Finger Death Punch (31)

48 - 01-24-15 - 110,977 - 1989 - Taylor Swift

49 - 03-28-15 - 109,585 - EMPIRE: ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK FROM SEASON 1 - Soundtrack (32)

50 - 10-24-15 - 108,689 - UNBREAKABLE - Janet (33)

51 - 04-11-15 - 106,551 - TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY - Kendrick Lamar

52 - 05-02-15 - 105,878 - HANDWRITTEN - Shawn Mendes (34)

53 - 10-10-15 - 105,056 - HONEYMOON - Lana Del Rey (35)

54 - 12-26-15 - 103,386 - WHEN IT'S DARK OUT - G-Eazy (36)

55 - 01-16-16 - 102,503 - PURPOSE - Justin Bieber

From Billboard.

Beatles Surge on Charts After Streaming Debut

"Come Together" ranks as the Fab Four's most-streamed song, while their albums make big gains too.

 

Please welcome newcomers John, Paul, George and Ringo to Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart. Following the band's trumpeted arrival on music streaming services Dec. 24, The Beatles bound onto the Hot Rock Songs and Rock Streaming Songs charts (dated Jan. 16).

 

"Come Together" leads with debuts at Nos. 14 and 18, respectively, on Hot Rock Songs (where older songs are eligible to chart if they rank in the top half and show notable gains; the list launched in 2009) and Rock Streaming Songs, fueled by its 2.1 million domestic clicks in the week ending Dec. 31, according to Nielsen Music. The track, a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit in 1969 from the Abbey Road album, also leaps by 177 percent to 4,000 sold. Its rank as the most-streamed Beatles song for the week is logical: In addition to its standing as one of the Fab Four's inarguable classics, it's also the first song on Spotify's Beatles best-of playlist named Come Together.

 

Although "Come Together" is the only Beatles song new to Rock Streaming Songs (which runs 25 positions-deep), the band sends three other titles onto Hot Rock Songs: "Hey Jude" (No. 19), "Here Comes the Sun" (No. 20) and "Yesterday" (No. 25). (Hot Rock Songs encompasses sales, streaming and radio airplay activity.)

 

Over on the Billboard 200 albums chart, five of the group's sets dot the list, including greatest-hits collection 1, which ascends 41-16. It earned 36,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 31. Forty percent of the album's total units for the week are owed to streams of its songs, thanks to the popularity of 1's tracks. (All 27 were No. 1 singles on either the Billboard Hot 100 or Official U.K. Singles Chart.)

 

1's track equivalent album units (for which every 10 tracks sold from an album equates to one equivalent album unit) also vault 155 percent, to 4,000 units (or, 11 percent of its total units for the week). Notably, 1's pure album sales were down for the week by 19 percent, to 18,000.

 

Four more Beatles albums show on the latest Billboard 200, including three that return to the chart for the first time since 2014: Abbey Road climbs 135-77 (11,000 units, up 13 percent); the group's self-titled set (also known as the White Album) re-enters at No. 79 (11,000 units, up 45 percent); Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band returns at No. 121 (8,000 units, up 17 percent); and Rubber Soul bounces back onto the list at No. 158 (7,000 units, up 51 percent). Like 1, those four albums all saw a decline in pure album sales, falling a collective 25 percent.