Posted August 31, 20168 yr Congrats to Frank Ocean for having a better debut week with Blonde than with Channel Orange. Blonde is #1 with 276K units and 232K proper sales; Channel Orange debuted at #2 with 131K first-week sales. It's the third-largest debut of 2016, behind Lemonade and Views (all one-word album titles). Also entering the top 10 are Tory Lanez's debut album and Lindsey Stirling's third release. Brave Enough does not match her previous album's #2 peak, nor its first-week sales of 56,000. Dolly Parton falls short of the top 10 but matches the #11 peak of one of her best-known albums, 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs, to be her joint-2nd-highest-charting album ever, behind her last release Blue Smoke which reached #6. 01 NE 01 Frank Ocean, Blonde (276,000 (232,000 | 44,000 SEA)) 02 02 17 Drake, Views (77,000) 03 01 03 Soundtrack, Suicide Squad: The Album (76,000) 04 NE 01 Tory Lanez, I Told You (52,000 (32,000 | 20,000 SEA/TEA)) 05 NE 01 Lindsey Stirling, Brave Enough (49,000 (45,000 | 4,000 SEA/TEA)) 06 05 67 twenty one pilots, Blurryface (33,000) 07 08 40 Adele, 25 (28,000) 08 09 31 Rihanna, ANTI (27,000) 09 06 04 DJ Khaled, Major Key (27,000) 10 11 48 Original Broadway Cast Recording, Hamilton: An American Musical (23,000) 11 NE 01 Dolly Parton, Pure & Simple 12 10 03 Various Artists, NOW 59 13 15 18 Beyoncé, Lemonade 14 17 50 Chris Stapleton, Traveller 15 14 14 Ariana Grande, Dangerous Woman 16 20 30 Sia, This Is Acting 17 18 03 DJ Snake, Encore 18 16 15 Meghan Trainor, Thank You 19 19 48 Bryson Tiller, T R A P S O U L 20 40 38 Coldplay, A Head Full Of Dreams 21 34 30 Charlie Puth, Nine Track Mind 22 13 14 Blake Shelton, If I'm Honest 23 21 30 Kevin Gates, Islah 24 28 21 Kanye West, The Life Of Pablo 25 03 02 PARTYNEXTDOOR, PARTYNEXTDOOR 3 (P3) 26 27 41 Justin Bieber, Purpose 27 142 46 Frank Ocean, Channel Orange 28 07 02 Rae Sremmurd, Sremmlife 2 29 04 02 Justin Moore, Kinda Don't Care 30 NE 01 Amos Lee, Spirit 31 33 106 twenty one pilots, Vessel 32 32 13 Fifth Harmony, 7/27 33 35 15 Chance The Rapper, Coloring Book 34 NE 01 Drake White, Spark 35 82 205 Eagles, Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 36 44 02 Various Artists, The RCA-List 37 29 38 G-Eazy, When It's Dark Out 38 38 96 Sam Hunt, Montevallo 39 36 13 Flume, Skin 40 NE 01 Casey Donahew, All Night Party 41 43 52 The Weeknd, Beauty Behind The Madness 42 30 52 Halsey, Badlands 43 50 07 ScHoolboy Q, Blank Face LP 44 31 05 Gucci Mane, Everybody Looking 45 51 08 Blink-182, California 46 25 03 Skillet, Unleashed 47 49 20 Kiiara, Low Kii Savage (EP) 48 47 21 Lukas Graham, Lukas Graham 49 45 48 Thomas Rhett, Tangled Up 50 53 04 D.R.A.M., Google Play: Live At The Milk Jamroom (EP) 51 41 32 Panic! 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The World 110 111 12 Dan + Shay, Obsessed 111 95 08 Desiigner, New English 112 114 87 Zac Brown Band, Greatest Hits So Far... 113 108 10 YG, Still Brazy 114 103 68 Lauren Daigle, How Can It Be 115 NE 01 Gemini Syndrome, Memento Mori 116 102 38 Jeremih, Late Nights: The Album 117 RE 06 Weezer, Weezer (White Album) 118 105 111 G-Eazy, These Things Happen 119 107 115 Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour 120 119 16 Mike Posner, At Night, Alone. 121 99 85 Meghan Trainor, Title 122 NE 01 MadeinTYO, You Are Forgiven (EP) 123 RE 03 Twiztid, The Green Book 124 91 37 DNCE, Swaay (EP) 125 NE 01 Jake Miller, Overnight (EP) 126 138 06 NEEDTOBREATHE, HARD LOVE 127 122 191 Florida Georgia Line, Here's To The Good Times 128 132 26 The 1975, I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It 129 113 239 The Beatles, 1 130 121 38 Troye Sivan, Blue Neighbourhood 131 123 75 James Bay, Chaos And The Calm 132 104 11 Nick Jonas, Last Year Was Complicated 133 83 10 Jon Pardi, California Sunrise 134 118 156 2Pac, Greatest Hits 135 124 89 Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint 136 NE 01 John Paul White, Beulah 137 117 143 Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 138 120 58 Prince, The Very Best Of Prince 139 139 76 Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly 140 145 42 The Chainsmokers, Bouquet (EP) 141 127 239 Lana Del Rey, Born To Die 142 137 11 Kaleo, A/B 143 133 99 Hozier, Hozier 144 129 159 Luke Bryan, Crash My Party 145 136 247 Eminem, Recovery 146 131 22 Zayn, Mind Of Mine 147 110 04 Fantasia, The Definition Of... 148 NE 01 Trapt, DNA 149 146 90 Carrie Underwood, Greatest Hits: Decade #1 150 126 86 Rae Sremmurd, SremmLife 151 130 41 One Direction, Made In The A.M. 152 RE 06 Pantera, The Best Of Pantera: Far Beyond The Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits! 153 135 64 Major Lazer, Peace Is The Mission 154 173 41 Chris Young, I'm Comin' Over 155 NE 01 The Color Morale, Desolate Divine 156 149 98 Red Hot Chili Peppers, Greatest Hits 157 12 02 Young The Giant, Home Of The Strange 158 112 04 Jake Owen, American Love 159 140 38 Blink-182, Greatest Hits 160 167 08 Maxwell, blackSUMMERS'night 161 151 38 Tim McGraw, Damn Country Music 162 144 283 Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits 163 134 05 Grace, FMA 164 143 34 Rachel Platten, Wildfire 165 198 36 Brett Eldredge, Illinois 166 150 79 Big Sean, Dark Sky Paradise 167 147 73 Flo Rida, My House (EP) 168 157 84 Fall Out Boy, American Beauty / American Psycho 169 161 130 The Weeknd, Trilogy 170 162 98 Florida Georgia Line, Anything Goes 171 154 36 Chris Brown, Royalty 172 152 143 Simon & Garfunkel, Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits 173 158 43 Lil Dicky, Professional Rapper 174 RE 148 Madonna, The Immaculate Collection 175 163 107 Sia, 1000 Forms Of Fear 176 165 78 J. 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August 31, 20168 yr Author Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' Bows at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With Third-Largest Debut of 2016 By Keith Caulfield | August 28, 2016 3:00 PM EDT Frank Ocean earns his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the arrival of Blonde. The set, which was released on Aug. 20, bows atop the list with 276,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 25, according to Nielsen Music. Blonde logs the third-largest debut of 2016, behind only the arrivals of Drake’s Views and Beyonce’s Lemonade. 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 Sept. 10-dated chart (where Blonde bows at No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Aug. 30. Of Blonde’s start of 276,000 units, 232,000 were in traditional album sales, while the rest were SEA (44,000 units). Only two albums started bigger than Blonde in 2016: Drake’s Views (1.04 million units earned in its debut frame) and Beyonce’s Lemonade (653,000). Blonde also logs the third-biggest sales start -- behind, again, just Views (852,000 copies sold in its first week) and Lemonade (485,000). Blonde was available exclusively to stream via the Apple Music service and for sale through the iTunes Store (but only as a full album -- none of its tracks were sold a la carte). The songs on the Blonde album generated 65.4 million streams during the week. It was the second-most streamed album on the chart, behind only Drake’s Views, with 67.5 million streams. Blonde arrived two days after Ocean released the long-form video Endless (which many have referred to as a visual album). It is available exclusive to stream via Apple Music. Both releases are Ocean’s first full-length offerings since his debut album, Channel Orange, which came out in 2012. The set debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, and sold 131,000 copies in its first week. It was released on July 10, 2012, initially exclusively through iTunes, and a week before its advertised street date of July 17. The bulk of Channel Orange’s first-week sales were digital, though there were some on physical CD, as brick-and-mortar retailers began selling the title mid-week following iTunes’ exclusive launch. Blonde is the third independently distributed No. 1 album in 2016. It follows Blink-182’s California and The Lumineers’ Cleopatra. California was released on Blink-182’s own Viking Wizard Eyes LLC, licensed to BMG and distributed by Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA). Cleopatra was released on Dualtone Records, which is also distributed by ADA. Blonde is different from both albums in that it was released by Ocean himself directly to Apple and iTunes -- bypassing a traditional distribution company. The last set to reach No. 1 in the same manner was Garth Brooks’ 2013 box set, Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences. The hefty box (six CDs and two DVDs) was issued through Brooks’ Pearl Records and sold exclusively through Walmart stores. It debuted at No. 2 with 164,000 sold, and rose to No. 1 the following week -- for one frame -- selling 146,000. Before Brooks, Pearl Jam’s Backspacer also hit No. 1 (in 2009) without a traditional distributor. The set, which bowed with 189,000 sold, was released on the band’s Monkeywrench label, and initially sold exclusively through Target, iTunes, Pearl Jam’s website and independent retailers. Slightly less than two years earlier, Eagles flew in at No. 1 with its self-released Long Road Out of Eden, exclusively sold through Walmart. It debuted with 711,000 copies sold on the Nov. 17, 2007-dated chart. Back on the new Billboard 200 chart, Drake’s Views holds at No. 2 with 77,000 units (up 9 percent) and the Suicide Squad soundtrack falls from No. 1 to No. 3 with 76,000 units (down 18 percent). Tory Lanez arrives at No. 4 with his debut studio album, I Told You, earning 52,000 units (32,000 in pure album sales). The album follows a pair of top 10-charting singles for Lanez on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where he has reached No. 10 with “Say It” and No. 9 (so far) with the still-building “Luv.” Both cuts are available on the new album, which also starts at No. 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Lindsey Stirling claims her second top 10 album, as her new Brave Enough launches at No. 5 with 49,000 units (45,000 in traditional album sales). It follows the violinist’s 2014 effort, Shatter Me, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 56,000 copies sold in its first week. The new effort also leads the Classical Albums, Classical Crossover Albums and Top Dance/Electronic Albums charts -- her third No. 1 on all three lists. The classical-meets-EDM artist previously led all three charts with Shatter Me and her self-titled debut. Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface dips 5-6 on the Billboard 200 (33,000 units; down 19 percent), Adele’s 25 rises one rung to No. 7 (28,000 units; down 1 percent), Rihanna’s Anti climbs 9-8 (just over 27,000 units; down 2 percent) and DJ Khaled’s Major Key slips 6-9 (27,000 units; down 19 percent). The original Broadway cast recording of Hamilton closes out the top 10, as it ascends 11-10 with 23,000 units (down 3 percent).
September 3, 20168 yr I liked what Alan Jones said in the UK Sales article about the debut of 'Blonde' denying one of music's most iconic blondes a #1 album, and it's a similar case here with Dolly pushed just outside the top 10! Still highly impressive for someone in their sixth decade in the industry of course. Really have to listen to new Frank one of these days :arrr:. Great to see how big his chart impact's been after so long away. Edited September 3, 20168 yr by Noahspike
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