2015 YTD Album Sales - Week 22 - 1989 hits 1.2M+

[Spyro 8,429]

Kidz Bop tho  

[AM98GJ 3,086]

Sam my bby xo

 

 

[Snow 1,582]

No offense but Cheek to Cheek (A JAZZ ALBUM) sold 131,000 copies, I'm not bashing Madonna, I'm just glad that Gaga is powerful.

​Hmm I seem to remember seeing a certain jazz legend's name on the cover of that album, hmm. can't remember HIS name right now...But it's quite certain this hard to remember irrelevant legend on the jazz circles would have helped quite a huge bit on the sales front. And I'm not bashing, I'm just clad to state some facts

Congraz to M!
 

[Psychedelic 1,098]

No offense but Cheek to Cheek (A JAZZ ALBUM) sold 131,000 copies, I'm not bashing Madonna, I'm just glad that Gaga is powerful.

​and Tony Bennett, when you combine 2 different demographies, the result is obviously better!

Hopefully Gaga can pull numbers this good or better with her next solo effort and all her solo efforts when she has as many years into her career as Madonna.

[Bradley 55,066]

Did Cheek to Cheek leak three months before the official release?

NO!

​I want you to remember that Gaga and Tony didn't perform any Cheek to Cheek material at the Grammy awards or Brit awards or Ellen show before the album release, which was what Rebel Heart got. 

​Hmm I seem to remember seeing a certain jazz legend's name on the cover of that album, hmm. can't remember HIS name right now...But it's quite certain this hard to remember irrelevant legend on the jazz circles would have helped quite a huge bit on the sales front. And I'm not bashing, I'm just clad to state some facts

Congraz to M!
 

​Tony certainly has the capability of selling huge amount of albums alone, but I don't think it's wise to say that Gaga's contribution to the sales is not bigger than him, isn't it? Yes congratz to Madonna, don't see me as a hater.

​and Tony Bennett, when you combine 2 different demographies, the result is obviously better!

Hopefully Gaga can pull numbers this good or better with her next solo effort and all her solo efforts when she has as many years into her career as Madonna.

​That's what I'm hoping for as well. She got RedOne in hands so I think things will be interesting.

[Mills 446]

Week 11: Top 5 Best-selling Nielsen Music-reported digital songs in 2015, as of the week ending March 15, 2015:

Songs selling 2,000,000 units or more this year so far = 2
Songs selling 1,000,000 units or more this year so far = 6

Rank / Title (Year released) / Artist / TW sales / LW sales / total sales in 2015
1. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - 189,000 / 210,000 / 3,345,000
2. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 137,000 / 158,000 / 2,404,000
3. Sugar (2015) - Maroon 5 - 178,000 / 171,000 / 1,505,000
4. Take Me To Church (2013) - Hozier - TBA / TBA / 1,353,000 
5. Love Me Like You Do (2015) - Ellie Goulding - 152,000 / 155,000 / 1,294,000

Rising Under the Top 5:
FourFiveSeconds (2015) - Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney - 124,000 / 140,335 / 1,226,020
Style (2014) - Taylor Swift - 82,000 / 86,341 / 831,978
Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey) (2014) - The Weeknd - 99,000 / 99,079 / 756,000
G.D.F.R. (2014) - Flo Rida feat. Sage the Gemini, Lookas - 93,000 / 86,194 / 666,777
 

Largest Nielsen Music-reported digital song sales weeks in 2015, as of the week ending March 15, 2015:

Songs with at least 1 week selling over 300,000 this year = 2
Songs with at least 1 week selling over 200,000 this year = 6
Songs with at least 1 week selling over 100,000 this year = 21

Rank / Title (Year released) / Artist / Sales / Week Ending

1. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 400,000 - 1/18/15
2. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 382,000 - 1/4/15
3. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 365,000 - 2/1/15
4. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 341,000 - 1/11/15
5. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 341,000 - 1/25/15
6. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 319,000 - 2/8/15
7. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 314,000 - 2/15/15
8. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 301,000 - 2/15/15
9. Blank Space (2014) - Taylor Swift - 284,000 - 1/4/15
10. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 269,000 - 2/8/15

11. Take Me To Church (2013) - Hozier - 265,000 - 1/4/15
12. FourFiveSeconds (2015) - Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney - 261,306 - 2/15/15
13. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 257,000 - 2/22/15
14. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 241,000 - 1/18/15
15. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 240,000 - 3/1/15
16. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 230,000 - 1/25/15
17. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 224,000 - 1/11/15
18. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 221,000 - 2/1/15
19. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 219,000 - 1/4/15
20. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 210,000 - 3/8/15

21. Love Me Like You Do (2015) - Ellie Goulding - 205,000 - 2/22/15
22. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 202,000 - 2/22/15
23. Take Me To Church (2013) - Hozier - 199,000 - 1/11/15
24. Lips Are Movin (2014) - Meghan Trainor - 194,000 - 1/4/15
25. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 189,000 - 3/15/15

26. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 189,000 - 3/1/15
27. FourFiveSeconds (2015) - Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney - 180,862 - 2/8/15
28. Sugar (2015) - Maroon 5 - 178,000 - 2/15/15
29. Sugar (2015) - Maroon 5 - 178,000 - 3/1/15
30. Sugar (2015) - Maroon 5 - 178,000 - 3/15/15
31. Blank Space (2014) - Taylor Swift - 176,000 - 1/11/15
32. FourFiveSeconds (2015) - Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney - 172,608 - 2/22/15
33. Love Me Like You Do (2015) - Ellie Goulding - 172,000 - 2/15/15
34. Sugar (2015) - Maroon 5 - 171,000 - 3/8/15
35. Take Me To Church (2013) - Hozier - 169,000 - 2/15/15
36. Love Me Like You Do (2015) - Ellie Goulding - 169,000 - 3/1/15
37. Sugar (2015) - Maroon 5 - 167,000 - 1/25/15
38. Sugar (2015) - Maroon 5 - 167,000 - 2/8/15
39. Sugar (2015) - Maroon 5 - 166,000 - 2/22/15
40. Take Me To Church (2013) - Hozier - 159,000 - 1/18/15
41. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 158,000 - 3/8/15
42. Lay Me Down (2015) - Sam Smith ft. John Legend - 157,000 - 3/15/15
43. FourFiveSeconds (2015) - Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney - 156,098 - 3/1/15
44. Love Me Like You Do (2015) - Ellie Goulding - 155,000 - 3/8/15
45. Shake It Off (2014) - Taylor Swift - 154,000 - 1/4/15
46. Love Me Like You Do (2015) - Ellie Goulding - 153,000 - 3/15/15
47. All About That Bass (2014) - Meghan Trainor - 152,000 - 1/4/15
48. Sugar (2015) - Maroon 5 - 150,000 - 1/18/15 [DEBUT]
49. Centuries (2014) - Fall Out Boy - 141,000 - 1/4/15
50. FourFiveSeconds (2015) - Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney - 140,335 - 3/8/15
51. All Day (2015) - Kanye West ft. Paul McCartney - 140,049 - 3/8/15 [DEBUT]
52. FourFiveSeconds (2015) - Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney - 137,798 - 2/1/15
53. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 137,000 - 3/15/15
54. Take Me To Church (2013) - Hozier - 136,000 - 2/8/15
55. Lips Are Movin (2014) - Meghan Trainor - 129,000 - 1/11/15
56. I’m Not The Only One (2014) - Sam Smith - 125,000 - 1/4/15
57. Only One (2015) - Kanye West ft. Paul McCartney - 124,737 - 1/4/15 [DEBUT]
58. FourFiveSeconds (2015) - Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney - 124,000 - 3/15/15
59. Jealous (2014) - Nick Jonas - 120,282 - 1/4/15
60. Earned It (2015) - The Weeknd - 119,503 - 2/22/15
61. Stay With Me (2014) - Sam Smith - 118,000 - 2/15/15
62. The Hanging Tree (2014) - James Newton Howard ft. Jennifer Lawrence - 116,641 - 1/4/15
63. Take Me To Church (2013) - Hozier - 116,000 - 2/1/15
64. Style (2014) - Taylor Swift - 115,000 - 2/15/15
65. Love Me Like You Do (2015) - Ellie Goulding - 115,000 - 2/8/15
66. Centuries (2014) - Fall Out Boy - 111,000 - 1/18/15
67. Centuries (2014) - Fall Out Boy - 108,000 - 1/11/15
68. Take Me To Church (2013) - Hozier - 108,000 - 2/22/15
69. Earned It (2015) - The Weeknd - 103,004 - 3/1/15
70. Love Me Like You Do (2015) - Ellie Goulding - 102,000 - 2/1/15
71. Earned It (2015) - The Weeknd - 101,333 - 2/15/15
72. I Want You To Know (2015) - Zedd ft. Selena Gomez - 100,000 - 3/1/15 [DEBUT]

Quick Guide:

TW = This week
LW = Last week
TBA = digital song sales for the week still to be announced
[DEBUT] = first week sales of a song

 

About Nielsen Music:
Popularly known as SoundScan, it’s the leading music sales measurement company which collects and tracks over-the-counter record sales at music retail stores, both in-store and digitally, and is the official source of Billboard for their record popularity charts. 

[Paper Gangsta 6,692]

I still didn't listen uptown funk

[Red 87,780]

FROOT deserved to be on this list tbh #pressed

[Red 87,780]

I still didn't listen uptown funk

​I listened these days on youtube cause I felt like an alien  It is a nice song.

[Arturo 40,746]

1.2M for 45S after 2 months on sale? hmmm

[Mills 446]

1.2M for 45S after 2 months on sale? hmmm

I think it's still good, given its sales are not that far to Sugar's, which is currently the likeliest to hit #1 after UF. But once that happens, then the sales gap between the two would further widen and it'd show more how much 45S under-performed as a lead single. Makes me wonder too if Rih could somehow pull a Sugar-like single come R8, I mean a post-album hit that could actually reach #1 and not peak outside the top 2.

[Mills 446]

PREVIEW - Week 12: Best-selling albums in 2015 so far, as of the week ending March 22, 2015:

Albums selling 500,000 units or more this year so far = 4
Albums selling 400,000 units or more this year so far = 6
Albums selling 200,000 units or more this year so far = 18

Note: HDD+NM = Sales from HDD for the past week/s are added with the last reported NM 2015 sales for those albums which NM sales for the past week/s were not released yet. For newbies, both HDD and NM are releasing actual US album sales in a weekly basis, and not estimated sales. I’ll update this list once NM sales have been released.

Rank / Title (Year of Release) / Artist / TW sales / LW sales / total sales in 2015

1. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 34,341 / 39,145 / 916,838 [HDD+NM]
2. If You’re Reading It’s Too Late (2015) - Drake - 24,698 / 28,509 / 774,661 [HDD+NM]
3. In The Lonely Hour (2014) - Sam Smith - 24,173 / 29,234 / 526,291 [HDD+NM]
4. Fifty Shades of Grey OST (2015) - Various Artists - 28,527 / 36,606 / 516,133 [HDD+NM]
5. x (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 25,960 / 28,088 / 497,626 [HDD+NM]
6. Title (2015) - Meghan Trainor - 23,926 / 21,489 / 492,253 [HDD+NM]
7. American Beauty / American Psycho (2015) - Fall Out Boy - 11,250 / 13,091 / 341,157 [HDD+NM]
8. To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) - Kendrick Lamar - 318,988 [DEBUT] [HDD]
9. NOW 53 (2015) - Various Artists - 18,836 / 24,281 / 313,378 [HDD+NM]
10. Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (2014) - Various Artists - 11,140 / 12,571 / 284,153 [HDD+NM]

11. Smoke + Mirrors (2015) - Imagine Dragons - 13,394 / 19,786 / 272,345 [HDD+NM]
12. The Pinkprint (2014) - Nicki Minaj - 8,850 / 9,799 / 267,537 [HDD+NM]
13. 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014) - J. Cole - 11,925 / 10,787 / 261,014 [HDD+NM]
14. 2015 GRAMMY Nominees (2015) - Various Artists - 7,032 / 8,648 / 249,346 [HDD+NM]
15. Kidz Bop 27 (2015) - Kidz Bop Kids - 9,182 / 9,576 / 245,318 [HDD+NM]
16. Hozier (2014) - Hozier - 12,898 / 14,918 / 236,630 [HDD+NM]
17. Dark Sky Paradise (2015) - Big Sean - 17,928 / 20,389 / 213,103 [HDD+NM]
18. First Kiss (2015) - Kid Rock - 15,539 / 21,226 / 204,639 [HDD+NM]
19. V (2014) - Maroon 5 - 16,788 / 18,080 / 199,457 [HDD+NM]
20. Empire Soundtrack Season 1 (2015) - Empire Cast - 86,513 / 109,585 / 196,098 [HDD+NM]

Bubbling Under:
Montevallo (2014) - Sam Hunt - 15,283 / 15,200 / 183,483 [HDD+NM]
Rebel Heart (2015) - Madonna - 22,800 / 116,115 / 138,915 [HDD+NM]
Frozen Soundtrack (2013) - Various Artists - 7,327 / 8,681 / 134,603 [HDD]
Old Boots, New Dirt (2014) - Jason Aldean - 7,004 / 7,300 / 130,004 [HDD+NM]
Four (2014) - One Direction - 4,240 / 4,619 / 127,095 [HDD]
Piece By Piece (2015) - Kelly Clarkson - 15,510 / 25,911 / 124,277 [HDD+NM]
Spring Break… Checkin Out (2015) - Luke Bryan - 31,153 / 88,800 / 119,953 [HDD+NM]
 

Quick Guide:
TW = This week
LW = Last week
[HDD] = album sales from HDD only
[DEBUT] = first week sales of an album

About Nielsen Music / NM:
Popularly known as SoundScan, it’s the leading music sales measurement company which collects and tracks over-the-counter record sales at music retail stores, both in-store and digitally, and is the official source of Billboard for their record popularity charts. 

About HITS Daily Double / HDD:
It’s a Los Angeles-based website which publishes their own weekly US album sales, the latest music industry news and innuendo, and record popularity updates based on digital sales, radio presence, and streams.

[Yves 1,891]

My faves Sam & Taylor dominating  

When will the other two faves?  When will Adele?  When will Gaga?  

[Didymus 32,785]

Fifty Shades of Grey, seriously?

[HoneyBaby 17]

Fifty Shades of Grey, seriously?

​i find soundtrack to 50SOG quite impressive... Ellie, Beyonce, Sia, The Weeknd etc. songs are really good.

The movie though