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

[venusian 4,686]

Woah, Drake was REALLY front-loaded. 

​drakes new mixtape is the best I've heard in a long time

[MANiCURE1295 8,673]

Woah, Drake was REALLY front-loaded. 

​REALLY front-loaded hahaahahha

[Bad Bromance 5,809]

Taylor Swift, ha power.  

[Mills 446]

Week 17: Best-selling albums in 2015 so far, as of the week ending April 26, 2015:

Albums selling 1,000,000 units or more this year so far = 1
Albums selling 500,000 units or more this year so far = 7
Albums selling 400,000 units or more this year so far = 8
Albums selling 300,000 units or more this year so far = 13
Albums selling 200,000 units or more this year so far = 21

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, or vice versa. For newbies, both HDD and NM are releasing actual US album sales in a weekly basis, and not estimated sales.

Rank / Title (Year of Release) / Artist / TW sales / LW sales / YTD sales

1. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 23,534 / 23,898 / 1,062,432 [HDD+NM]
2. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (2015) - Drake - 27,806 / 12,496 / 862,961
3. In The Lonely Hour (2014) - Sam Smith - 18,193 / 18,825 / 651,908 [HDD+NM]
4. Fifty Shades of Grey OST (2015) - Various Artists - 14,952 / 16,945 / 613,085 [HDD+NM]
5. x (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 15,969 / 17,689 / 604,040 [HDD+NM]
6. Title (2015) - Meghan Trainor - 15,693 / 15,804 / 585,580 [HDD+NM]
7. To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) - Kendrick Lamar - 14,374 / 19,063 / 546,653
8. American Beauty / American Psycho (2015) - Fall Out Boy - 7,745 / 8,153 / 405,324 [HDD+NM]
9. NOW 53 (2015) - Various Artists - 9,692 / 10,105 / 391,068 [HDD+NM]
10. Smoke + Mirrors (2015) - Imagine Dragons - 8,026 / 9,213 / 345,400 [HDD+NM]

11. Empire Soundtrack Season 1 (2015) - Empire Cast - 13,872 / 17,794 / 333,155
12. Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (2014) - Various Artists - 8,102 / 8,078 / 331,940 [HDD+NM]
13. 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014) - J. Cole - 7,672 / 8,637 / 309,422 [HDD+NM]
14. The Pinkprint (2014) - Nicki Minaj - 4,901 / 5,659 / 298,278
15. Hozier (2014) - Hozier - 8,402 / 9,092 / 287,585 [HDD+NM]
16. V (2014) - Maroon 5 - 10,446 / 11,638 / 286,593 [HDD+NM]
17. Montevallo (2014) - Sam Hunt - 18,200 / 18,300 / 266,000
18. Kidz Bop 27 (2015) - Kidz Bop Kids - OUT / OUT / 265,029 [NM+HDD]
19. 2015 GRAMMY Nominees (2015) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 261,941 [NM+HDD]
20. Dark Sky Paradise (2015) - Big Sean - 6,971 / 7,424 / 259,253

Bubbling Under:

 

First Kiss (2015) - Kid Rock - 5,171 / 6,280 / 238,644 [HDD+NM]
Spring Break… Checkin Out (2015) - Luke Bryan - 7,600 / 9,200 / 181,100
Rebel Heart (2015) - Madonna - OUT / OUT / 174,620 [HDD+NM]
Old Boots, New Dirt (2014) - Jason Aldean - 8,100 / 7,400 / 168,000
Piece By Piece (2015) - Kelly Clarkson - OUT / OUT / 152,042 [HDD+NM]
Frozen Soundtrack (2013) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 147,912 [NM+HDD]
Uptown Special (2015) - Mark Ronson - 18,935 / 2,975 / 145,892
Furious 7 OST (2015) - Various Artists - 18,225 / 26,506 / 144,867
Anything Goes (2014) - Florida Georgia Line - 11,000 / 12,900 / 143,700
Four (2014) - One Direction - OUT / OUT / 140,570 [NM+HDD]
The Album About Nothing (2015) - Wale - 9,855 / 14,718 / 138,253
Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (2014) - Carrie Underwood - 4,100 / 4,000 / 131,200
Into The Woods OST (2014) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 126,563 [NM+HDD]
Non-Fiction (2015) - Ne-Yo - OUT / OUT / 124,269
Shadows in the Night (2015) - Bob Dylan - OUT / OUT / 119,378 [HDD+NM]
Morning Phase (2014) - Beck - OUT / OUT / 119,220 [HDD+NM]
Handwritten (2015) - Shawn Mendes - 12,000 / 105,878 / 117,878
Crash My Party (2013) - Luke Bryan - 7,100 / 7,800 / 111,300
1000 Forms of Fear (2014) - Sia - OUT / OUT / 109,562 [HDD+NM]
Man Against The Machine (2014) - Garth Brooks - 4,800 / 4,250 / 108,100
The Outsiders (2014) - Eric Church - 10,100 / 10,900 / 107,700
StremmLife (2015) - Rae Sremmurd - OUT / OUT / 106,919
Strangers To Ourselves (2015) - Modest Mouse - OUT / OUT / 103,641 [HDD+NM]
My Everything (2014) - Ariana Grande - OUT / OUT / 103,602
NOW 52 (2014) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 101,455 [NM+HDD]
Future Hearts (2015) - All Time Low - 6,062 / 18,743 / 100,180 [HDD+NM]
Ludaversal (2015) - Ludacris - 6,688 / 10,538 / 97,805 [HDD+NM]
Kidz Bop 28 (2015) - Kidz Bop Kids - 9,345 / 10,794 / 96,757 [HDD+NM]
Platinum (2014) - Miranda Lambert - 11,200 / 8,400 / 92,300
Sound & Color (2015) - Alabama Shakes - 90,888 [DEBUT]
Southern Style (2015) - Darius Rucker - 8,300 / 12,100  / 89,400
Reflection (2015) - Fifth Harmony - OUT / OUT / 84,339 (NM+HDD]
Love Somebody (2015) - Reba McEntire - 22,800 / 58,351 / 81,200
Cherry Bomb (2015) - Tyler The Creator - 18,342 / 50,671 / 69,013 [HDD+NM]
Beyonce (2013) - Beyonce - OUT / OUT / 53,025
Froot (2015) - Marina and the Diamonds - OUT / OUT / 51,106
Love Story (2015) - Yelawolf - 51,472 [DEBUT]
Second Hand Heart (2015) - Dwight Yoakam - 9,000 / 21,296 / 30,700

 

Quick Guide:
TW = This week
LW = Last week
YTD = Year-to-date
OUT = no album sales provided after it dropped out of the charts
[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.

[Rock Jock 993]

Taylor,,, again? 
​

[ARTPOPisaChoice 946]

Meghan's coming for 600k 

 

i wonder if Title and If You're Reading This It's Too Late will go platinum

[venusian 4,686]

get that 1mil drake and kendrick 

[Mills 446]

The latest #1 album on the Billboard 200 from Alabama Shakes scores the 13th biggest debut of the year in pure album sales.

Here are the largest Nielsen Music-reported sales weeks in 2015 so far:

Rank / Title (Year of Release) / Artist / Sales / Week Ending
1. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (2015) - Drake - 494,746 - 2/15/15 [DEBUT]
2. To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) - Kendrick Lamar - 324,403 - 3/22/15 [DEBUT]
3. Fifty Shades of Grey OST (2015) - Various Artists - 210,431 - 2/15/15 [DEBUT]
4. Title (2015) - Meghan Trainor - 194,522 - 1/18/15 [DEBUT]
5. American Beauty / American Psycho (2015) - Fall Out Boy - 191,698 - 1/25/15 [DEBUT]
6. Smoke + Mirrors (2015) - Imagine Dragons - 172,378 - 2/22/15 [DEBUT]
7. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 171,925 - 1/4/15
8. Dark Sky Paradise (2015) - Big Sean - 139,427 - 3/1/15 [DEBUT]
9. First Kiss (2015) - Kid Rock - 136,785 - 3/1/15 [DEBUT]
10. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (2015) - Drake -129,118 - 2/22/15

11. In The Lonely Hour (2014) - Sam Smith - 124,224 - 2/15/15
12. Rebel Heart (2015) - Madonna - 116,115 - 3/15/15 [DEBUT]
13. Fifty Shades of Grey OST (2015) - Various Artists - 114,937 - 2/22/15
14. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 110,977 - 1/11/15
15. Empire Soundtrack Season 1 (2015) - Empire Cast - 109,584 - 3/15/15 [DEBUT]
16. To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) - Kendrick Lamar - 106,551 - 3/29/15
17. Handwritten (2015) - Shawn Mendes - 105,878 - 4/19/15 [DEBUT]
18. NOW 53 (2015) - Various Artists - 99,324 - 2/8/15 [DEBUT]
19. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 92,196 - 1/18/15
20. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 92,000 - 2/15/15

21. Sound & Color (2015) - Alabama Shakes - 90,888 - 4/26/15 [DEBUT]
22. x (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 89,000 - 2/15/15
23. Empire Soundtrack Season 1 (2015) - Empire Cast - 88,971 - 3/22/15
24. Spring Break… Checkin Out (2015) - Luke Bryan - 88,782 - 3/15/15 [DEBUT]
25. The Album About Nothing (2015) - Wale - 88,210 - 4/5/15 [DEBUT]
26. Piece By Piece (2015) - Kelly Clarkson - 82,856 - 3/8/15 [DEBUT]
27. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 81,662 - 1/25/15 
28. Kidz Bop 27 (2015) - Kidz Bop Kids - 77,380 - 1/18/15 [DEBUT]
29. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 76,769 - 2/8/15
30. Future Hearts (2015) - All Time Low - 75,375 - 4/12/15

31. Strangers To Ourselves (2015) - Modest Mouse - 73,099 - 3/22/15 [DEBUT]
32. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 70,704 - 2/1/15
33. Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (2014) - Various Artists - 70,014 - 1/4/15
34. Fifty Shades of Grey OST (2015) - Various Artists - 67,245 - 3/1/15
35. Ludaversal (2015) - Ludacris - 62,289 - 4/5/15 [DEBUT]

[venusian 4,686]

Meghan's coming for 600k 

 

i wonder if Title and If You're Reading This It's Too Late will go platinum

​iyrttl will go platinum easily title idk

[Supersonic 49,376]

The fact that 600k is a benchmark nowadays

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

Poor album sales. Only Taylor and Adele are selling album like hot cakes rn.

Also, the hip hop community is really supportive.

 

[Mills 446]

Zac Brown Band notches its third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as its latest effort, Jekyll + Hyde, arrives atop the tally. The new set moved 214,000 in traditional album sales, marking the group’s second-largest sales frame (following the 234,000 sales launch of Uncaged).

 

Coming in at No. 2 behind Zac Brown Band on the new Billboard 200 is singer Josh Groban, who lands his eighth top 10 album with Stages. The set opens with 180,000 units, of which 176,000 were pure album sales.

For the first time since Drake's "If You're Reading This It's Too Late" opened with the year's biggest sales week so far in Nielsen Music reported sales last February along with the official soundtrack of Fifty Shades of Grey also debuting big, two albums once again have sold more than 150,000 units within the same week - both therefore easily entering the year's top 10 biggest sales weeks in pure album sales.

Here are the biggest Nielsen Music-reported sales weeks in 2015 so far:

Rank / Title (Year of Release) / Artist / Sales / Week Ending
1. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (2015) - Drake - 494,746 - 2/15/15 [DEBUT]
2. To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) - Kendrick Lamar - 324,403 - 3/22/15 [DEBUT]
3. Jekyll + Hyde (2015) - Zac Brown Band - 214,000 - 5/3/15 [DEBUT]
4. Fifty Shades of Grey OST (2015) - Various Artists - 210,431 - 2/15/15 [DEBUT]
5. Title (2015) - Meghan Trainor - 194,522 - 1/18/15 [DEBUT]
6. American Beauty / American Psycho (2015) - Fall Out Boy - 191,698 - 1/25/15 [DEBUT]
7. Stages (2015) - Josh Groban - 176,000 - 5/3/15 [DEBUT]
8. Smoke + Mirrors (2015) - Imagine Dragons - 172,378 - 2/22/15 [DEBUT]
9. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 171,925 - 1/4/15
10. Dark Sky Paradise (2015) - Big Sean - 139,427 - 3/1/15 [DEBUT]

11. First Kiss (2015) - Kid Rock - 136,785 - 3/1/15 [DEBUT]
12. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (2015) - Drake -129,118 - 2/22/15
13. In The Lonely Hour (2014) - Sam Smith - 124,224 - 2/15/15
14. Rebel Heart (2015) - Madonna - 116,115 - 3/15/15 [DEBUT]
15. Fifty Shades of Grey OST (2015) - Various Artists - 114,937 - 2/22/15
16. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 110,977 - 1/11/15
17. Empire Soundtrack Season 1 (2015) - Empire Cast - 109,584 - 3/15/15 [DEBUT]
18. To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) - Kendrick Lamar - 106,551 - 3/29/15
19. Handwritten (2015) - Shawn Mendes - 105,878 - 4/19/15 [DEBUT]
20. NOW 53 (2015) - Various Artists - 99,324 - 2/8/15 [DEBUT]

21. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 92,196 - 1/18/15
22. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 92,000 - 2/15/15
23. Sound & Color (2015) - Alabama Shakes - 90,888 - 4/26/15 [DEBUT]
24. x (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 89,000 - 2/15/15
25. Empire Soundtrack Season 1 (2015) - Empire Cast - 88,971 - 3/22/15
26. Spring Break… Checkin Out (2015) - Luke Bryan - 88,782 - 3/15/15 [DEBUT]
27. The Album About Nothing (2015) - Wale - 88,210 - 4/5/15 [DEBUT]
28. Piece By Piece (2015) - Kelly Clarkson - 82,856 - 3/8/15 [DEBUT]
29. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 81,662 - 1/25/15 
30. Kidz Bop 27 (2015) - Kidz Bop Kids - 77,380 - 1/18/15 [DEBUT]
 

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6554039/zac-brown-band-third-no-1-album-billboard-200-chart

 

[MANiCURE1295 8,673]

Holy crap that's awesome. Josh Groban still killing it. Remember "You raise me up"? Awesome song. Congrats guys!

[Mills 446]

Week 18: Best-selling albums in 2015 so far, as of the week ending May 3, 2015:

Albums selling 1,000,000 units or more this year so far = 1
Albums selling 500,000 units or more this year so far = 7
Albums selling 400,000 units or more this year so far = 9
Albums selling 300,000 units or more this year so far = 14
Albums selling 200,000 units or more this year so far = 22

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, or vice versa. For newbies, both HDD and NM are releasing actual US album sales in a weekly basis, and not estimated sales.

Rank / Title (Year of Release) / Artist / TW sales / LW sales / YTD sales

1. 1989 (2014) - Taylor Swift - 20,533 / 23,534 / 1,082,965 [HDD+NM]
2. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (2015) - Drake - 18,441 / 27,806 / 881,402
3. In The Lonely Hour (2014) - Sam Smith - 16,890 / 18,193 / 668,798 [HDD+NM]
4. Fifty Shades of Grey OST (2015) - Various Artists - 15,551 / 14,952 / 628,636 [HDD+NM]
5. x (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 15,841 / 15,969 / 619,521 [HDD+NM]
6. Title (2015) - Meghan Trainor - 15,020 / 15,693 / 600,600 [HDD+NM]
7. To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) - Kendrick Lamar - 10,676 / 14,374 / 557,329
8. American Beauty / American Psycho (2015) - Fall Out Boy - 7,292 / 7,745 / 412,616 [HDD+NM]
9. NOW 53 (2015) - Various Artists - 10,141 / 9,692 / 401,209 [HDD+NM]
10. Smoke + Mirrors (2015) - Imagine Dragons - 7,359 / 8,026 / 352,759 [HDD+NM]

11. Empire Soundtrack Season 1 (2015) - Empire Cast - 12,646 / 13,872 / 345,801
12. Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (2014) - Various Artists - 10,140 / 8,102 / 342,080 [HDD+NM]
13. 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014) - J. Cole - 6,763 / 7,672 / 316,185 [HDD+NM]
14. The Pinkprint (2014) - Nicki Minaj - 4,237 / 4,901 / 302,605
15. V (2014) - Maroon 5 - 10,053 / 10,446 / 296,646 [HDD+NM]
16. Hozier (2014) - Hozier - 7,742 / 8,402 / 295,327 [HDD+NM]
17. Montevallo (2014) - Sam Hunt - 14,600 / 18,200 / 280,600
18. Kidz Bop 27 (2015) - Kidz Bop Kids - OUT / OUT / 265,029 [NM+HDD]
19. Dark Sky Paradise (2015) - Big Sean - 5,076 / 6,971 / 264,329
20. 2015 GRAMMY Nominees (2015) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 261,941 [NM+HDD]

Bubbling Under:

First Kiss (2015) - Kid Rock - OUT / 5,171 / 238,644 [HDD+NM]
Jekyll + Hyde (2015) - Zac Brown Band - 214,400 [DEBUT]
Spring Break… Checkin Out (2015) - Luke Bryan - 7,300 / 7,600 / 189,000
Stages (2015) - Josh Groban - 176,000 [DEBUT]
Old Boots, New Dirt (2014) - Jason Aldean - 7,800 / 8,100 / 175,800
Rebel Heart (2015) - Madonna - OUT / OUT / 174,620 [HDD+NM]
Furious 7 OST (2015) - Various Artists - 14,337 / 18,225 / 159,204
Piece By Piece (2015) - Kelly Clarkson - OUT / OUT / 152,042 [HDD+NM]
Anything Goes (2014) - Florida Georgia Line - 7,600 / 11,000 / 151,300
Uptown Special (2015) - Mark Ronson - 2,271 / 18,935 / 148,163
Frozen Soundtrack (2013) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 147,912 [NM+HDD]
The Album About Nothing (2015) - Wale - 6,961 / 9,855 / 145,214 [HDD+NM]
Four (2014) - One Direction - OUT / OUT / 140,570 [NM+HDD]
Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (2014) - Carrie Underwood - 3,900 / 4,100 / 135,100
Into The Woods OST (2014) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 126,563 [NM+HDD]
Handwritten (2015) - Shawn Mendes - 7,841 / 12,000 / 125,719
Non-Fiction (2015) - Ne-Yo - OUT / OUT / 124,269
Sound & Color (2015) - Alabama Shakes - 31,373 / 90,888 / 122,261 [HDD+NM]
Shadows in the Night (2015) - Bob Dylan - OUT / OUT / 119,378 [HDD+NM]
Morning Phase (2014) - Beck - OUT / OUT / 119,220 [HDD+NM]
Crash My Party (2013) - Luke Bryan - 5,200 / 7,100 / 116,500
The Outsiders (2014) - Eric Church - 8,000 / 10,100 / 115,700
Man Against The Machine (2014) - Garth Brooks - 3,800 / 4,800 / 111,900
1000 Forms of Fear (2014) - Sia - OUT / OUT / 109,562 [HDD+NM]
My Everything (2014) - Ariana Grande - OUT / OUT / 108,000
StremmLife (2015) - Rae Sremmurd - OUT / OUT / 106,919
Future Hearts (2015) - All Time Low - 4,373 / 6,062 / 104,553 [HDD+NM]
Kidz Bop 28 (2015) - Kidz Bop Kids - 7,327 / 9,345 / 104,084 [HDD+NM]
Strangers To Ourselves (2015) - Modest Mouse - OUT / OUT / 103,641 [HDD+NM]
NOW 52 (2014) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 101,455 [NM+HDD]
Ludaversal (2015) - Ludacris - OUT / 6,688 / 97,805 [HDD+NM]
Southern Style (2015) - Darius Rucker - 7,800 / 8,300 / 97,700
Platinum (2014) - Miranda Lambert - 5,300 / 11,200 / 97,600
Love Somebody (2015) - Reba McEntire - 14,600 / 22,800 / 96,700
Reflection (2015) - Fifth Harmony - OUT / OUT / 84,339 [NM+HDD]
Cherry Bomb (2015) - Tyler The Creator - 6,116 / 18,342 / 75,129 [HDD+NM]
Love Story (2015) - Yelawolf - 14,772 / 51,472 / 66,244
Beyonce (2013) - Beyonce - OUT / OUT / 53,025
Froot (2015) - Marina and the Diamonds - OUT / OUT / 51,106
Second Hand Heart (2015) - Dwight Yoakam - 6,500 / 9,000 / 37,400

Quick Guide:
TW = This week
LW = Last week
YTD = Year-to-date
OUT = no album sales provided after it dropped out of the charts
[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.

[JustPokeHerFace 2,564]

How many copies has it sold total?