ScHoolboy Q falls short of a second #1 album, a pretty strong first-week stream total but inevitably he can't match up to Drake. He also falls short of his last release Oxymoron, which sold 139K first week (pure sales) when it debuted in 2014. Chevelle and Switchfoot both earn their fourth top 10 album and their 7th consecutive top 20 album. Blink-182 have a decent second week, dropping only 2 spots to #3. Drake earns his 10th week at #1; Views is only the 10th album to do so in the last 20 years. It's sold 1.34 million copies so far, close to overtaking Adele on the EOY; 25 is 100K ahead with 1.44 million sold this year.

 

01 02 11 Drake - Views (92,000 (58,000 SEA))

02 NE 01 ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP (74,000 (52,000 | 22,000 SEA/TEA))

03 01 02 Blink-182 - California (37,000)

04 05 61 twenty one pilots - Blurryface (36,000)

05 08 42 Original Broadway Cast Recording - Hamilton: An American Musical (35,000)

06 06 25 Rihanna - ANTI (34,000)

07 04 12 Beyoncé - Lemonade (33,000)

08 NE 01 Chevelle - The North Corridor (33,000 (31,000 | 2,000 SEA/TEA))

09 07 34 Adele - 25 (32,000)

10 NE 01 Switchfoot - Where The Light Shines Through (29,000 (27,000 | 2,000 SEA/TEA))

11 09 04 Various Artists - Epic AF

12 14 24 Sia - This Is Acting

13 11 09 Meghan Trainor - Thank You

14 12 44 Chris Stapleton - Traveller

15 15 42 Bryson Tiller - T R A P S O U L

16 13 08 Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman

17 19 24 Kevin Gates - Islah

18 18 35 Justin Bieber - Purpose

19 03 02 Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night

20 10 08 Blake Shelton - If I'm Honest

21 21 07 Fifth Harmony - 7/27

22 29 32 G-Eazy - When It's Dark Out

23 20 15 Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo

24 30 100 twenty one pilots - Vessel

25 17 04 Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway

26 24 09 Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book

27 NE 01 The Avalanches - Wildflower

28 31 40 Selena Gomez - Revival

29 25 46 The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness

30 23 42 Thomas Rhett - Tangled Up

31 26 90 Sam Hunt - Montevallo

32 28 48 Melanie Martinez - Cry Baby

33 33 07 Dierks Bentley - Black

34 37 07 Flume - Skin

35 45 24 Charlie Puth - Nine Track Mind

36 22 02 Desiigner - New English

37 27 23 Future - EVOL

38 16 02 Logic - Bobby Tarantino

39 49 31 DNCE - Swaay (EP)

40 35 26 Panic! At The Disco - Death Of A Bachelor

41 50 69 James Bay - Chaos And The Calm

42 52 43 Drake & Future - What A Time To Be Alive

43 39 05 Nick Jonas - Last Year Was Complicated

44 43 42 Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap

45 63 32 Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams

46 47 52 Future - DS2

47 54 84 J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive

48 56 55 X Ambassadors - VHS

49 46 49 Luke Bryan - Kill The Lights

50 51 10 Keith Urban - Ripcord

51 42 14 The Lumineers - Cleopatra

52 55 47 Disturbed - Immortalized

53 53 75 Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late

54 65 176 Drake - Take Care

55 64 46 Halsey - Badlands

56 62 90 Taylor Swift - 1989

57 32 10 Cole Swindell - You Should Be Here

58 61 15 Lukas Graham - Lukas Graham

59 36 52 Prince - The Very Best Of Prince

60 78 14 Kiiara - Low Kii Savage (EP)

61 41 09 Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

62 67 282 Adele - 21

63 68 108 Ed Sheeran - x

64 66 19 Ruth B - The Intro (EP)

65 59 04 Jon Pardi - California Sunrise

66 94 387 Metallica - Metallica

67 57 04 YG - Still Brazy

68 48 38 Carrie Underwood - Storyteller

69 73 52 Kelsea Ballerini - The First Time

70 RE 187 The Beatles - Abbey Road

71 81 62 Lauren Daigle - How Can It Be

72 69 10 Mike Posner - At Night, Alone.

73 NE 01 Nonpoint - Poison Red

74 74 35 Alessia Cara - Know-It-All

75 38 06 Maren Morris - Hero

76 95 66 Shawn Mendes - Handwritten

77 76 32 Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album

78 80 144 Drake - Nothing Was The Same

79 72 16 Zayn - Mind Of Mine

80 77 37 Eric Church - Mr. Misunderstood

81 79 79 Meghan Trainor - Title

82 71 38 Blake Shelton - Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits

83 75 425 Bob Marley And The Wailers - Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers

84 107 70 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

85 90 131 Beyoncé - Beyoncé

86 96 194 Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

87 82 11 Various Artists - NOW 58

88 92 185 Florida Georgia Line - Here's To The Good Times

89 97 64 Zac Brown Band - Jekyll + Hyde

90 104 07 Lil Uzi Vert - Lil Uzi Vert Vs. The World

91 RE 17 Otis Redding - The Very Best Of Otis Redding

92 101 105 G-Eazy - These Things Happen

93 83 417 Journey - Journey's Greatest Hits

94 70 05 Various Artists - NOW That's What I Call Country, Volume 9

95 RE 169 Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

96 115 112 Prince And The Revolution - Purple Rain (Soundtrack)

97 91 32 Troye Sivan - Blue Neighbourhood

98 89 67 Flo Rida - My House (EP)

99 113 13 gnash - us

100 108 109 Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour

101 84 06 Dan + Shay - Obsessed

102 86 36 Old Dominion - Meat And Candy

103 44 03 The Avett Brothers - True Sadness

104 102 58 Major Lazer - Peace Is The Mission

105 NE 01 Heart - Beautiful Broken

106 98 46 Queen - Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection

107 58 28 Rachel Platten - Wildfire

108 112 36 Daya - Daya (EP)

109 99 92 Florida Georgia Line - Anything Goes

110 106 22 Various Artists - NOW 57

111 118 153 Luke Bryan - Crash My Party

112 93 81 Zac Brown Band - Greatest Hits So Far...

113 100 32 Tim McGraw - Damn Country Music

114 110 276 Eminem - The Eminem Show

115 114 83 Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint

116 123 35 One Direction - Made In The A.M.

117 RE 02 Aretha Franklin - 30 Greatest Hits

118 148 20 The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It

119 168 271 AC/DC - Back In Black

120 103 32 Blink-182 - Greatest Hits

121 136 114 Tim McGraw - Number One Hits

122 109 92 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits

123 125 151 2Pac - Greatest Hits

124 120 233 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

125 121 30 Chris Brown - Royalty

126 126 84 Carrie Underwood - Greatest Hits: Decade #1

127 160 80 Panic! At The Disco - Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!

128 139 93 Hozier - Hozier

129 111 09 Kygo - Cloud Nine

130 130 35 Logic - The Incredible True Story

131 142 117 Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet

132 NE 01 Emarosa - 131

133 NE 01 Invent - Animate, Stillworld

134 117 78 Fall Out Boy - American Beauty / American Psycho

135 141 05 Kaleo - A/B

136 116 269 Michael Jackson - Thriller

137 178 34 Ty Dolla $ign - Free TC

138 134 202 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions

139 150 101 Sia - 1000 Forms Of Fear

140 NE 01 Aphex Twin - Cheetah (EP)

141 129 137 Simon & Garfunkel - Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits

142 147 73 Big Sean - Dark Sky Paradise

143 87 361 Guns N' Roses - Greatest Hits

144 143 37 Lil Dicky - Professional Rapper

145 34 02 Grace - FMA

146 128 233 The Beatles - 1

147 88 06 Paul Simon - Stranger To Stranger

148 133 35 Chris Young - I'm Comin' Over

149 144 50 David Bowie - Best Of Bowie

150 152 98 Maroon 5 - V

151 RE 32 for KING & COUNTRY - RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG.

152 135 06 Volbeat - Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie

153 140 34 Logic - Under Pressure

154 145 80 Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife

155 161 124 The Weeknd - Trilogy

156 149 72 Billy Joel - The Essential Billy Joel

157 RE 03 Original Broadway Cast Recording - Waitress

158 146 05 Jon Bellion - The Human Condition

159 176 118 Beyoncé - I Am...Sasha Fierce

160 156 140 Sublime - Sublime

161 172 06 twenty one pilots - twenty one pilots

162 177 116 Elton John - Greatest Hits 1970-2002

163 138 277 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits

164 187 72 J. Cole - Born Sinner

165 166 39 Demi Lovato - Confident

166 153 21 Yo Gotti - The Art Of Hustle

167 137 22 Joey + Rory - Hymns

168 154 231 Johnny Cash - The Legend Of Johnny Cash

169 181 58 A$AP Rocky - AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP

170 179 284 Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans

171 182 137 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2

172 180 37 The Chainsmokers - Bouquet (EP)

173 151 298 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits

174 171 174 Eagles - The Very Best Of The Eagles

175 132 191 Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

176 192 241 Eminem - Recovery

177 157 199 Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

178 NE 01 BADBADNOTGOOD - IV

179 173 163 Michael Jackson - Bad

180 188 47 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

181 RE 118 The Lumineers - The Lumineers

182 194 89 Kanye West - Graduation

183 RE 62 Elle King - Love Stuff

184 162 116 Kenny Chesney - Greatest Hits II

185 RE 51 ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron

186 169 03 Various Artists - 2016 Warped Tour Compilation

187 189 20 Various Artists - OWSLA World Wide Broadcast

188 195 328 Nirvana - Nevermind

189 RE 77 A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP

190 163 19 Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.

191 190 113 P!nk - Greatest Hits... So Far!!!

192 164 137 Green Day - American Idiot

193 RE 66 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

194 186 05 Fitz And The Tantrums - Fitz And The Tantrums

195 RE 126 Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits

196 RE 150 Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre -- 2001

197 RE 142 OneRepublic - Native

198 40 02 Snoop Dogg - Coolaid

199 RE 41 Travi$ Scott - Rodeo

200 RE 216 Adele - 19

Drake's 'Views' Back at No. 1 on Billboard 200 for 10th Week

7/17/2016 by Keith Caulfield

 

Drake’s Views enters double-digit territory at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, as the album jumps 2-1 to collect a 10th nonconsecutive week atop the list. The set earned another 92,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 14 (down 22 percent), according to Nielsen Music.

 

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 July 30-dated chart (where Views is No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, July 19.

 

Views spent its first nine weeks on the chart at No. 1, then stepped aside a week ago for Blink-182, which opened at No. 1 with California. The latter album slips to No. 3 in its second week with 37,000 units (down 80 percent).

 

Views is only the 10th album in the last 20 years to spend 10 weeks at No. 1. (See list, below.)

 

Albums With 10 Weeks (Or More) at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in the Last 20 Years:

 

Artist, Title — Weeks at No. 1 — First Week at No. 1

 

Adele, 21 – 24 – March 12, 2011

Soundtrack, Titanic – 16 – Jan. 24, 1998

Soundtrack, Frozen – 13 – Jan. 18, 2014

Santana, Supernatural – 12 – Oct. 30, 1999

​Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill – 11 – Oct. 7, 1995 (its last week at No. 1 was on Sept. 7, 1996)

Taylor Swift, 1989 – 11 – Nov. 15, 2014

​Taylor Swift, Fearless – 11 – Nov. 29, 2008

Adele, 25 – 10 – Dec. 12, 2015

Backstreet Boys, Millennium – 10 – June 5, 1999

Drake, Views – 10 – May 21, 2016

 

In addition, Views now has the most weeks at No. 1 for an album by a solo male artist since Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some Gave All wrapped a 17-week run at No. 1 on Oct. 30, 1992. (Views surpasses Usher’s nine-week run at No. 1 with Confessions in 2004.)

 

Views’ reign at No. 1 is driven mainly by its strong popularity on streaming services. In the latest tracking frame, 58,000 of its units were powered by SEA (63 percent of the album’s total units for the week).

 

That said, it’s not as if the album hasn’t sold well. Views is the highest-selling album released in 2016, with 1.34 million copies sold. It’s the second-biggest selling album overall in 2016, behind Adele’s 25 (which was released in 2015) with 1.44 million. (25 has sold 8.88 million overall.)

 

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 is ScHoolboy Q’s debuting Blank Face LP, with 74,000 units (of which 52,000 are in traditional album sales). The set also launches at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart, which ranks the top selling albums of the week.

 

Blank Face LP is ScHoolboy Q’s second top 10 album on the Billboard 200, and follows his No. 1-debuting Oxymoron effort in 2014. The latter started with 139,000 copies sold.

 

Blank Face LP is the fifth album to debut at No. 2 behind the sturdy Views. It follows Red Hot Chili Peppers’ The Getaway, Nick Jonas’ Last Year Was Complicated, Dierks Bentley’s Black and Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman. (The latter four titles all peaked in their debut week, blocked from the top slot by Views.)

 

Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface rises 5-4 on the new chart with 36,000 units (down 5 percent), while the original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton jumps 8-5 with 35,000 units (up 10 percent). The latter likely gains courtesy of news coverage generated by the departure of some of the show's cast members during the tracking week. On July 9, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr. and Phillipa Soo took their final bows. The Hamilton album was up in traditional album sales (both physical and digital -- 31 percent and 3 percent, respectively), streaming equivalent albums (3 percent), and track equivalent albums (9 percent). In addition, Miranda performed on NBC's Today on July 11 with Jennifer Lopez, singing their charity single "Love Make the World Go Round" (which is not part of the Hamilton album).

 

Rihanna’s Anti is steady at No. 6 with 34,000 units (down 5 percent) and Beyonce’s Lemonade descends 4-7 with 33,000 units (down 15 percent).

 

Rock band Chevelle collects its fourth top 10 album as The North Corridor debuts at No. 8 with nearly 33,000 units (of which 31,000 were in pure album sales). It follows the group’s 2014 effort La Gargola, which debuted and peaked at No. 3 (the act’s highest charting album ever) with 45,000 copies sold in its opening frame.

 

The new album is supported by the single “Joyride (Omen),” which peaked at No. 4 on the Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart — the band’s 14th top 10 single on the tally.

 

Adele’s 25 moves 7-9 with 32,000 units (down 1 percent), racking up a 29th nonconsecutive week in the top 10.

 

Rounding out the top 10 is rock act Switchfoot with its debuting Where the Light Shines Through at No. 10 (29,000 units; 27,000 in traditional album sales). It’s the fourth top 10 album for the group, following the Fading West soundtrack (No. 6 in 2014), Vice Verses (No. 8 in 2011) and Nothing Is Sound (No. 3 in 2005).