It didn't take long for Drake's streaming units to overtake his album sales. He holds for a third week at #1 but is actually #3 on sales, behind Beyonce and Meghan Trainor. Meghan debuts with 107K units and 84K sales, well behind Title which had 238K units and 195K sales just 16 months ago. Pierce The Veil earn their first top 10 album, their previous best being #12. Chance The Rapper's album is actually streaming-exclusive, available only on Apple Music and with no known plans to put it for sale.

 

01 01 03 Drake, Views (239,000 (83,000 | 156,000 SEA/TEA))

02 02 04 Beyoncé, Lemonade (128,000 (92,000 | 36,000 SEA/TEA))

03 NE 01 Meghan Trainor, Thank You (107,000 (84,000 | 23,000 SEA/TEA))

04 NE 01 Pierce The Veil, Misadventures (54,000 (50,000 | 4,000 SEA/TEA))

05 07 17 Rihanna, ANTI (44,000)

06 04 02 Keith Urban, Ripcord (44,000)

07 05 44 Prince, The Very Best Of Prince (42,000)

08 NE 01 Chance The Rapper, Coloring Book (38,000)

09 03 02 Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool (34,000)

10 NE 01 Jennifer Nettles, Playing With Fire (33,000 (31,000 | 2,000 SEA/TEA))

11 NE 01 Kygo, Cloud Nine

12 06 02 Cole Swindell, You Should Be Here

13 10 36 Chris Stapleton, Traveller

14 14 53 twenty one pilots, Blurryface

15 09 26 Adele, 25

16 13 27 Justin Bieber, Purpose

17 11 34 Original Broadway Cast Recording, Hamilton: An American Musical

18 16 16 Kevin Gates, Islah

19 08 104 Prince And The Revolution, Purple Rain (Soundtrack)

20 15 07 Kanye West, The Life Of Pablo

21 21 34 Bryson Tiller, T R A P S O U L

22 23 24 G-Eazy, When It's Dark Out

23 17 03 Various Artists, NOW 58

24 20 07 Lukas Graham, Lukas Graham

25 NE 01 Hatebreed, The Concrete Confessional

26 52 82 Taylor Swift, 1989

27 25 38 The Weeknd, Beauty Behind The Madness

28 47 16 Sia, This Is Acting

29 12 02 Mike Posner, At Night, Alone.

30 30 08 Zayn, Mind Of Mine

31 NE 01 Corinne Bailey Rae, The Heart Speaks In Whispers

32 32 15 Future, EVOL

33 28 34 Thomas Rhett, Tangled Up

34 24 06 The Lumineers, Cleopatra

35 33 35 Drake & Future, What A Time To Be Alive

36 57 71 Meghan Trainor, Title

37 31 40 Melanie Martinez, Cry Baby

38 35 82 Sam Hunt, Montevallo

39 38 39 Disturbed, Immortalized

40 42 34 Fetty Wap, Fetty Wap

41 18 158 Prince, 1999

42 43 67 Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late

43 NE 01 DevilDriver, Trust No One

44 45 44 Future, DS2

45 26 18 Panic! At The Disco, Death Of A Bachelor

46 39 61 James Bay, Chaos And The Calm

47 48 76 J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive

48 NE 01 Sawyer Fredericks, A Good Storm

49 55 24 Jeremih, Late Nights: The Album

50 49 12 Various Artists, OWSLA World Wide Broadcast

51 46 41 Luke Bryan, Kill The Lights

52 51 38 Halsey, Badlands

53 NE 01 Modern Baseball, Holy Ghost

54 65 92 twenty one pilots, Vessel

55 56 32 Selena Gomez, Revival

56 53 59 Flo Rida, My House (EP)

57 58 168 Drake, Take Care

58 54 30 Carrie Underwood, Storyteller

59 80 24 Troye Sivan, Blue Neighbourhood

60 64 11 Ruth B, The Intro (EP)

61 40 54 Lauren Daigle, How Can It Be

62 NE 01 Grateful Dead, July 1978: The Complete Recordings

63 90 15 Various Artists, NOW 57

64 66 27 Alessia Cara, Know-It-All

65 69 136 Drake, Nothing Was The Same

66 63 100 Ed Sheeran, x

67 44 274 Adele, 21

68 68 30 Blake Shelton, Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits

69 37 03 Soundtrack, Empire: Original Soundtrack Season 2, Volume 2

70 72 16 Charlie Puth, Nine Track Mind

71 60 24 Tim McGraw, Damn Country Music

72 78 417 Bob Marley And The Wailers, Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers

73 34 11 Prince, Ultimate

74 RE 105 Third Eye Blind, Third Eye Blind

75 74 23 DNCE, Swaay (EP)

76 41 14 Joey + Rory, Hymns

77 67 123 Beyoncé, Beyoncé

78 75 29 Eric Church, Mr. Misunderstood

79 100 24 Coldplay, A Head Full Of Dreams

80 76 13 Yo Gotti, The Art Of Hustle

81 85 101 Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour

82 89 50 Major Lazer, Peace Is The Mission

83 97 186 Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city

84 86 97 G-Eazy, These Things Happen

85 59 09 Gwen Stefani, This Is What The Truth Feels Like

86 113 47 X Ambassadors, VHS

87 83 28 Old Dominion, Meat And Candy

88 NE 01 Avatar, Feathers & Flesh

89 88 38 Queen, Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection

90 50 17 Prince, The Hits/The B-Sides

91 95 58 Shawn Mendes, Handwritten

92 84 22 Chris Brown, Royalty

93 70 05 Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor's Guide To Earth

94 92 27 One Direction, Made In The A.M.

95 RE 105 The Goo Goo Dolls, Dizzy Up The Girl

96 101 409 Journey, Journey's Greatest Hits

97 93 84 Florida Georgia Line, Anything Goes

98 125 70 Fall Out Boy, American Beauty / American Psycho

99 96 353 Guns N' Roses, Greatest Hits

100 81 27 Chris Young, I'm Comin' Over

101 115 75 Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint

102 103 29 The Chainsmokers, Bouquet (EP)

103 123 12 The 1975, I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It

104 79 44 Kelsea Ballerini, The First Time

105 77 04 A$AP Ferg, Always Strive And Prosper

106 105 177 Florida Georgia Line, Here's To The Good Times

107 124 28 Ellie Goulding, Delirium

108 122 28 Daya, Daya (EP)

109 114 76 Carrie Underwood, Greatest Hits: Decade #1

110 116 62 Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly

111 194 75 Beyoncé, 4

112 108 379 Metallica, Metallica

113 118 85 Hozier, Hozier

114 106 08 Young Thug, Slime Season 3

115 120 268 Eminem, The Eminem Show

116 107 225 The Beatles, 1

117 94 11 Kendrick Lamar, untitled unmastered.

118 112 20 Rachel Platten, Wildfire

119 128 90 Maroon 5, V

120 110 56 Elle King, Love Stuff

121 62 03 Rob Zombie, Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser

122 144 05 gnash, us

123 119 194 Imagine Dragons, Night Visions

124 98 05 Merle Haggard, 20 Greatest Hits

125 117 143 2Pac, Greatest Hits

126 149 113 Beyoncé, I Am...Sasha Fierce

127 136 264 Michael Jackson, Thriller

128 NE 01 Nothing, Tired Of Tomorrow

129 129 26 Ty Dolla $ign, Free TC

130 175 31 Demi Lovato, Confident

131 19 02 Rittz, Top Of The Line

132 134 65 Big Sean, Dark Sky Paradise

133 133 11 2 Chainz, ColleGrove

134 172 276 Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans

135 139 75 Zac Brown Band, Greatest Hits So Far...

136 147 290 Eminem, Curtain Call: The Hits

137 NE 01 Dance Gavin Dance, Tree City Sessions

138 29 02 Cyndi Lauper, Detour

139 132 145 Luke Bryan, Crash My Party

140 130 42 David Bowie, Best Of Bowie

141 157 27 Logic, The Incredible True Story

142 141 72 Rae Sremmurd, SremmLife

143 111 05 Santana, Santana IV

144 155 84 Red Hot Chili Peppers, Greatest Hits

145 RE 139 Taylor Swift, Red

146 153 225 Lana Del Rey, Born To Die

147 154 93 Sia, 1000 Forms Of Fear

148 104 04 NF, Therapy Session

149 156 56 Zac Brown Band, Jekyll + Hyde

150 145 116 The Weeknd, Trilogy

151 180 321 Nirvana, Nevermind

152 RE 66 Billy Joel, The Essential Billy Joel

153 165 06 Kiiara, Low Kii Savage (EP)

154 99 168 Eagles, The Very Best Of The Eagles

155 159 208 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Greatest Hits

156 RE 80 Pantera, Vulgar Display Of Power

157 142 26 Blink-182, Greatest Hits

158 RE 192 Eagles, Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

159 161 37 Five Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six

160 135 64 Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience (2 Of 2)

161 RE 145 Bruno Mars, Unorthodox Jukebox

162 169 38 Kelly Clarkson, Piece By Piece

163 196 02 Grace, Memo (EP)

164 189 83 Ariana Grande, My Everything

165 NE 01 Soundtrack, Nashville: The Music Of Nashville, Season 4 : Volume 2

166 143 184 Michael Jackson, Off The Wall

167 166 37 Travi$ Scott, Rodeo

168 164 51 A$AP Rocky, AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP

169 RE 38 Tori Kelly, Unbreakable Smile

170 NE 01 3OH!3, Night Sports

171 171 264 AC/DC, Back In Black

172 RE 09 The Who, The Who Hits 50!

173 NE 01 Hard Working Americans, Rest In Chaos

174 177 269 Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits

175 182 08 Simon & Garfunkel, Playlist: The Very Best Of Simon & Garfunkel

176 173 129 Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP 2

177 NE 01 Grateful Dead, Red Rocks 7/8/78

178 22 02 Andy Black, The Shadow Side

179 179 72 Panic! At The Disco, Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!

180 RE 06 DMX, The Best Of DMX

181 91 44 Prince And The Revolution, Around The World In A Day

182 176 65 J. Cole, Born Sinner

183 148 39 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

184 167 55 Metallica, Ride The Lightning

185 137 07 TWENTY88, TWENTY88

186 RE 114 Usher, Confessions

187 188 100 Five Finger Death Punch, The Wrong Side Of Heaven...Volume 1

188 170 158 Michael Jackson, Bad

189 36 02 James Blake, The Colour In Anything

190 RE 137 OneRepublic, Native

191 191 73 A$AP Rocky, Long.Live.A$AP

192 190 233 Eminem, Recovery

193 RE 32 Kevin Gates, Luca Brasi 2: A Gangsta Grillz Special Edition

194 RE 55 The Notorious B.I.G., Greatest Hits

195 RE 12 Dustin Lynch, Where It's At

196 197 82 Kanye West, Graduation

197 178 16 Maren Morris, Maren Morris (EP)

198 199 63 Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

199 127 215 Adele, 19

200 187 64 Imagine Dragons, Smoke + Mirrors

Drake's 'Views' No. 1 for Third Week on Billboard 200, Meghan Trainor Debuts at No. 3

5/22/2016 by Keith Caulfield

 

Drake’s Views stays steady atop the Billboard 200 chart, as the album racks up a third straight week at No. 1. Views earned another 239,000 equivalent album units (down 24 percent) in the week ending May 19 in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 83,000 were in traditional album sales (down 53 percent).

 

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new June 4-dated chart (where Views is No. 1 for a third week) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, May 24.

 

Views is the first album to spend three consecutive weeks at No. 1 since January, when Adele’s 25 wrapped a seven-week run atop the list (of its 10 total nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1).

 

Views scored another stellar week with streaming services, as the album’s tracks earned 186.1 million streams. That’s up a big 32 percent compared to the previous week (140.8 million). The jump is owed to how the album became widely available to all streaming services on May 13, following two weeks of exclusivity with Apple Music.

 

Views now owns the top three largest streaming weeks for an album: its debut frame (245.1 million streams for its tracks), its third week (186.1 million) and its second week (140.8 million). In fourth and fifth place on that list are the debut weeks of of Beyonce’s Lemonade (115.2 million streams) and Justin Bieber’s Purpose (100.4 million).

 

After only three weeks, Views has accumulated 572 million streams for its tracks.

 

Speaking of Lemonade, the album stays put at No. 2 for another week, tallying 128,000 units for the week (down 37 percent), with another 92,000 copies sold (down 40 percent). Lemonade was the week’s best selling album, and ranks at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.

 

Coming in at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 is Meghan Trainor’s second full-length album, Thank You, launching with 107,000 units (84,000 in pure album sales). The set follows her Title debut, which bowed at No. 1 in January of 2015 with 238,000 units and 195,000 copies sold.

 

The new album was led by the single “No,” which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and marked the singer/songwriter’s fourth top 10-charting hit. The album’s second single, “Me Too,” is gaining steam on top 40 radio, and may debut on the new Pop Songs airplay chart dated June 4.

 

Thank You is Trainor’s third top 15-charting effort, following her Title EP (which peaked at No. 15 in September of 2014) and the full-length Title.

 

Rock band Pierce the Veil claims its highest charting album ever, and best sales week yet, as Misadventures bows at No. 4 with 54,000 units (50,000 in traditional album sales). The group’s previous largest week came when its last album, 2012’s Collide With the Sky, launched at No. 12 with 27,000 sold.

 

Rihanna’s Anti climbs 7-5 with just over 44,000 units (down 8 percent), Keith Urban’s Ripcord slips 4-6 with 44,000 units (down 59 percent) and Prince’s The Very Best of Prince falls 5-7 with 42,000 units (down 46 percent).

 

Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book makes a sizzling streaming-only debut, as the album bows at No. 8 with 38,000 units. The independently released set’s tracks generated 57.3 million streams. Coloring Book was released on May 13, exclusively via the Apple Music streaming service, and marks the first album to chart on the Billboard 200 solely from streams.

 

The set will remain exclusive to Apple Music until May 27, with it becomes available to other streaming services. There are no announced plans to release the album for sale.

 

It’s worth noting that while Coloring Book is the first album to chart on the list entirely from streams, Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo’s units are almost entirely driven by streams. The album is currently in its seventh week on the list, and in the latest tracking week, 99.93 percent of its units (21,000) were generated by streams. The other .07 percent were album sales. The set sold a handful of copies in the latest tracking frame, and hasn’t sold more than 1,000 copies in a week since its second chart week.

 

Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool descends 3-9 in its second week, earning 34,000 units (down 81 percent).

 

Jennifer Nettles’ second album, Playing With Fire, lights up at No. 10, debuting with 33,000 units (31,000 in pure album sales). The singer’s first solo effort, That Girl, debuted and peaked at No. 5 in 2014 with 54,000 sold in its first week.

 

Of course, Nettles is also part of the country act Sugarland, which has tallied six charting albums -- four of which reached the top 10. And, of those top 10 sets, three hit No. 1: Love on the Inside, Live on the Inside, and The Incredible Machine.