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

[Fiona Apple 13,006]

​1000 Forms of Fear debuted at #1 with 52k or something like that. 

​Well in 2011 some albums debuted at #1 with 40k.

[Bad Bromance 5,809]

Congratulations to Mumford & Sons!!!  I like a lot of their songs!      

[MonsterMum 2,532]

Still don't like their new Kings of Leon / Coldplay sound but congrats.

[Mills 446]

Week 19: Best-selling albums in 2015 so far, as of the week ending May 10, 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 = 16
Albums selling 200,000 units or more this year so far = 24

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 - 25,094 / 20,533 / 1,108,059 [HDD+NM]
2. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (2015) - Drake - 15,109 / 18,441 / 896,511
3. In The Lonely Hour (2014) - Sam Smith - 22,746 / 16,890 / 691,544 [HDD+NM]
4. Fifty Shades of Grey OST (2015) - Various Artists - 30,863 / 15,551 / 659,499 [HDD+NM]
5. x (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 21,063 / 15,841 / 640,584 [HDD+NM]
6. Title (2015) - Meghan Trainor - 18,750 / 15,020 / 619,350 [HDD+NM]
7. To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) - Kendrick Lamar - 8,851 / 10,676 / 566,180
8. American Beauty / American Psycho (2015) - Fall Out Boy - 7,918 / 7,292 / 420,534 [HDD+NM]
9. NOW 53 (2015) - Various Artists - 9,063 / 10,141 / 410,272 [HDD+NM]
10. Smoke + Mirrors (2015) - Imagine Dragons - 8,264 / 7,359 / 361,023 [HDD+NM]

11. Empire Soundtrack Season 1 (2015) - Empire Cast - 12,135 / 12,646 / 357,936
12. Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (2014) - Various Artists - 12,757 / 10,140 / 354,837 [HDD+NM]
13. 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014) - J. Cole - 6,144 / 6,763 / 322,329 [HDD+NM]
14. V (2014) - Maroon 5 - 12,318 / 10,053 / 308,964 [HDD+NM]
15. The Pinkprint (2014) - Nicki Minaj - 3,936 / 4,237 / 306,541
16. Hozier (2014) - Hozier - 7,732 / 7,742 / 303,059 [HDD+NM]
17. Montevallo (2014) - Sam Hunt - 15,200 / 14,600 / 295,800
18. Stages (2015) - Josh Groban - 98,625 / 176,153 / 274,877
19. Jekyll + Hyde (2015) - Zac Brown Band - 55,900 / 214,224 / 270,300
20. Dark Sky Paradise (2015) - Big Sean - 4,192 / 5,076 / 268,521

Bubbling Under:

Kidz Bop 27 (2015) - Kidz Bop Kids - OUT / OUT / 265,029 [NM+HDD]
2015 GRAMMY Nominees (2015) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 261,941 [NM+HDD]
First Kiss (2015) - Kid Rock - OUT / OUT / 238,644 [HDD+NM]
Wilder Mind (2015) - Mumford & Sons - 231,438 [DEBUT]
Spring Break… Checkin Out (2015) - Luke Bryan - 8,500 / 7,300 / 197,500
Old Boots, New Dirt (2014) - Jason Aldean - 8,500 / 7,800 / 184,300
Rebel Heart (2015) - Madonna - OUT / OUT / 174,620 [HDD+NM]
Furious 7 OST (2015) - Various Artists - 11,508 / 14,337 / 170,712
Anything Goes (2014) - Florida Georgia Line - 7,900 / 7,600 / 159,200
Piece By Piece (2015) - Kelly Clarkson - OUT / OUT / 152,042 [HDD+NM]
The Album About Nothing (2015) - Wale - 4,998 / 6,961 / 150,212 [HDD+NM]
Uptown Special (2015) - Mark Ronson - OUT / 2,271 / 148,163
Frozen Soundtrack (2013) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 147,912 [NM+HDD]
Sound & Color (2015) - Alabama Shakes - 21,204 / 31,373 / 143,465 [HDD+NM]
Four (2014) - One Direction - OUT / OUT / 140,570 [NM+HDD]
Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (2014) - Carrie Underwood - 4,600 / 3,900 / 139,700
Handwritten (2015) - Shawn Mendes - 6,161 / 7,841 / 131,880 [HDD+NM]
Into The Woods OST (2014) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 126,563 [NM+HDD]
Non-Fiction (2015) - Ne-Yo - OUT / OUT / 124,269
The Outsiders (2014) - Eric Church - 8,300 / 8,000 / 124,000
Crash My Party (2013) - Luke Bryan - 5,300 / 5,200 / 121,800
Shadows in the Night (2015) - Bob Dylan - OUT / OUT / 119,378 [HDD+NM]
Morning Phase (2014) - Beck - OUT / OUT / 119,220 [HDD+NM]
Love Somebody (2015) - Reba McEntire - 16,600 / 14,600 / 113,200
StremmLife (2015) - Rae Sremmurd - 5,360 / OUT / 112,279
Man Against The Machine (2014) - Garth Brooks - OUT / 3,800 / 111,900
Kidz Bop 28 (2015) - Kidz Bop Kids - 6,524 / 7,327 / 110,608 [HDD+NM]
1000 Forms of Fear (2014) - Sia - OUT / OUT / 109,562 [HDD+NM]
My Everything (2014) - Ariana Grande - OUT / OUT / 108,000
Future Hearts (2015) - All Time Low - OUT / 4,373 / 104,553 [HDD+NM]
Southern Style (2015) - Darius Rucker - 7,900 / 7,800 / 105,600
Strangers To Ourselves (2015) - Modest Mouse - OUT / OUT / 103,641 [HDD+NM]
Platinum (2014) - Miranda Lambert - 6,000 / 5,300 / 103,600
NOW 52 (2014) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 101,455 [NM+HDD]
Ludaversal (2015) - Ludacris - OUT / OUT / 97,805 [HDD+NM]
Reflection (2015) - Fifth Harmony - OUT / OUT / 84,339 [NM+HDD]
Love Story (2015) - Yelawolf - 9,356 / 14,772 / 75,600
Cherry Bomb (2015) - Tyler The Creator - OUT / 6,116 / 75,129 [HDD+NM]
Now 54 (2015) - Various Artists - 70,613 [DEBUT]
Special Effects (2015) - Tech N9ne - 58,388 [DEBUT]
Beyonce (2013) - Beyonce - OUT / OUT / 53,025
Froot (2015) - Marina and the Diamonds - OUT / OUT / 51,106
Second Hand Heart (2015) - Dwight Yoakam - 5,500 / 6,500 / 42,900
The Waterfall (2015) - My Morning Jacket - 33,054 [DEBUT]
Traveller (2015) - Chris Stapleton - 27,032 [DEBUT]
Jackie (2015) - Ciara - 19,866 [DEBUT]

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.

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

 

[Nein 508]

Happy for 1989 and Title!  

[Fame Romance 10,517]

Rebel Heart (2015) - Madonna - OUT / OUT / 174,620 [HDD+NM]

Poor Rebel Heart, her best album in 10 years. 

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

Taylor having also the best selling album of 2015 after owning 2014.

 

[Mills 446]

Week 20: Best-selling albums in 2015 so far, as of the week ending May 17, 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 = 19
Albums selling 200,000 units or more this year so far = 25

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 - 21,265 / 25,094 / 1,129,324 [HDD+NM]
2. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (2015) - Drake - 11,921 / 15,109 / 908,432
3. In The Lonely Hour (2014) - Sam Smith - 21,152 / 22,746 / 712,696 [HDD+NM]
4. Fifty Shades of Grey OST (2015) - Various Artists - 26,210 / 30,863 / 685,709 [HDD+NM]
5. x (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 15,343 / 21,063 / 655,927 [HDD+NM]
6. Title (2015) - Meghan Trainor - 15,107 / 18,750 / 634,457 [HDD+NM]
7. To Pimp A Butterfly (2015) - Kendrick Lamar - 22,049 / 8,851 / 588,229
8. American Beauty / American Psycho (2015) - Fall Out Boy - 8,513 / 7,918 / 429,047 [HDD+NM]
9. NOW 53 (2015) - Various Artists - 7,077 / 9,063 / 417,349 [HDD+NM]
10. Smoke + Mirrors (2015) - Imagine Dragons - 6,318 / 8,264 / 367,341 [HDD+NM]

11. Empire Soundtrack Season 1 (2015) - Empire Cast - 9,263 / 12,135 / 367,199
12. Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (2014) - Various Artists - 9,970 / 12,757 / 364,807 [HDD+NM]
13. 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014) - J. Cole - 5,683 / 6,144 / 328,012 [NM+HDD]
14. V (2014) - Maroon 5 - 8,517 / 12,318 / 317,481 [HDD+NM]
15. Stages (2015) - Josh Groban - 36,926 / 98,625 / 311,803 [HDD+NM]
16. Hozier (2014) - Hozier - 7,392 / 7,732 / 310,451 [HDD+NM]
17. The Pinkprint (2014) - Nicki Minaj - 3,697 / 3,936 / 310,238
18. Montevallo (2014) - Sam Hunt - 13,900 / 15,200 / 309,700
19. Jekyll + Hyde (2015) - Zac Brown Band - 30,900 / 55,900 / 301,200
20. Wilder Mind (2015) - Mumford & Sons - 47,390 / 231,438 / 279,353

Bubbling Under:

Dark Sky Paradise (2015) - Big Sean - 3,876 / 4,192 / 272,396
Kidz Bop 27 (2015) - Kidz Bop Kids - OUT / OUT / 265,029 [NM+HDD]
2015 GRAMMY Nominees (2015) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 261,941 [NM+HDD]
First Kiss (2015) - Kid Rock - OUT / OUT / 238,644 [HDD+NM]
Spring Break… Checkin Out (2015) - Luke Bryan - 6,400 / 8,500 / 204,000
Old Boots, New Dirt (2014) - Jason Aldean - 7,000 / 8,500 / 191,300
Furious 7 OST (2015) - Various Artists - 9,262 / 11,508 / 179,974
Rebel Heart (2015) - Madonna - OUT / OUT / 174,620 [HDD+NM]
Anything Goes (2014) - Florida Georgia Line - 6,100 / 7,900 / 165,300
Sound & Color (2015) - Alabama Shakes - 15,061 / 21,204 / 158,526 [HDD+NM]
Piece By Piece (2015) - Kelly Clarkson - OUT / OUT / 152,042 [HDD+NM]
The Album About Nothing (2015) - Wale - OUT / 4,998 / 150,212 [HDD+NM]
Uptown Special (2015) - Mark Ronson - OUT / OUT / 148,163
Frozen Soundtrack (2013) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 147,912 [NM+HDD]
Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (2014) - Carrie Underwood - 3,700 / 4,600 / 143,400
Four (2014) - One Direction - OUT / OUT / 140,570 [NM+HDD]
Handwritten (2015) - Shawn Mendes - OUT / 6,161 / 131,880 [HDD+NM]
The Outsiders (2014) - Eric Church - 7,200 / 8,300 / 131,200
Into The Woods OST (2014) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 126,563 [NM+HDD]
Crash My Party (2013) - Luke Bryan - 4,000 / 5,300 / 125,800
Non-Fiction (2015) - Ne-Yo - OUT / OUT / 124,269
Love Somebody (2015) - Reba McEntire - 9,200 / 16,600 / 122,400
StremmLife (2015) - Rae Sremmurd - 5,787 / 5,360 / 122,000
Shadows in the Night (2015) - Bob Dylan - OUT / OUT / 119,378 [HDD+NM]
Morning Phase (2014) - Beck - OUT / OUT / 119,220 [HDD+NM]
Man Against The Machine (2014) - Garth Brooks - OUT / OUT / 111,900
Southern Style (2015) - Darius Rucker - 5,300 / 7,900 / 110,900
Kidz Bop 28 (2015) - Kidz Bop Kids - OUT / 6,524 / 110,608 [HDD+NM]
1000 Forms of Fear (2014) - Sia - OUT / OUT / 109,562 [HDD+NM]
My Everything (2014) - Ariana Grande - OUT / OUT / 108,000
Now 54 (2015) - Various Artists - 34,417 / 70,613 / 105,030 [HDD+NM]
Future Hearts (2015) - All Time Low - OUT / OUT / 104,553 [HDD+NM]
Strangers To Ourselves (2015) - Modest Mouse - OUT / OUT / 103,641 [HDD+NM]
Platinum (2014) - Miranda Lambert - OUT / 6,000 / 103,600
NOW 52 (2014) - Various Artists - OUT / OUT / 101,455 [NM+HDD]
Ludaversal (2015) - Ludacris - OUT / OUT / 97,805 [HDD+NM]
Pitch Perfect 2 OST (2015) - Various Artists - 92,077 [DEBUT]
Reflection (2015) - Fifth Harmony - OUT / OUT / 84,339 [NM+HDD]
Love Story (2015) - Yelawolf - 6,734 / 9,356 / 82,334 [HDD+NM]
Cherry Bomb (2015) - Tyler The Creator - OUT / OUT / 75,129 [HDD+NM]
Special Effects (2015) - Tech N9ne - 14,179 / 58,388 / 72,567
The Waterfall (2015) - My Morning Jacket - 11,009 / 33,054 / 44,063 [HDD+NM]
Second Hand Heart (2015) - Dwight Yoakam - OUT / 5,500 / 42,900
Trust Fall (2015) - Incubus - 39,322 [DEBUT]
Traveller (2015) - Chris Stapleton - 10,600 / 27,032 / 37,700
Listen (2015) - David Guetta - 29,375 [DEBUT]
Bush (2015) - Snoop Dogg - 27,231 [DEBUT]
Jackie (2015) - Ciara - 6,472 / 19,866 / 26,338

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.

[Weasel 12,525]

Tragic but it's been such a boring bad year so far though.

[Mills 446]

Week 20: Best-selling digital songs in 2015 so far, as of the week ending May 17, 2015

Songs selling 4,000,000 units or more this year so far = 1
Songs selling 2,000,000 units or more this year so far = 5
Songs selling 1,000,000 units or more this year so far = 14
Songs selling 500,000 units or more this year so far = 53

Note: Those digital songs which Nielsen Music-reported sales have not been released yet for the most recent weeks are accompanied with the week ending for their last reported year-to-date (YTD) sales.

Rank / Title (Year of Release) / Artist / YTD sales (as of week ending)
1. Uptown Funk! (2014) - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - 4,410,000 (5/10/15)
2. Thinking Out Loud (2014) - Ed Sheeran - 3,120,000 (5/10/15)
3. Sugar (2014) - Maroon 5 - 2,480,000 (5/10/15)
4. See You Again (2015) - Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth - 2,179,000
5. Love Me Like You Do (2015) - Ellie Goulding - 2,030,000 (5/10/15)
6. Take Me To Church (2013) - Hozier - 1,800,000 (5/10/15)
7. FourFiveSeconds (2015) - Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney - 1,770,000 (5/10/15)
8. Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey) (2014) - The Weeknd - 1,678,000
9. Shut Up + Dance (2014) - Walk the Moon - 1,480,000
10. G.D.F.R. (2014) - Flo Rida ft. Sage the Gemini - 1,460,000 (5/10/15)

11. Blank Space (2014) - Taylor Swift - 1,450,000 (5/10/15)
12. Style (2014) - Taylor Swift - 1,290,000 (5/10/15)
13. Trap Queen (2014) - Fetty Wap - 1,256,000
14. Lips Are Movin (2014) - Meghan Trainor - 1,106,000 (4/5/15)
15. Take Your Time (2014) - Sam Hunt - 980,000
16. Time Of Our Lives (2014) - Pitbull & Ne-Yo - 975,000 (4/5/15)
17. Chains (2014) - Nick Jonas - 951,000 (5/10/15)
18. Centuries (2014) - Fall Out Boy - 945,000 (4/5/15)
19. Shake It Off (2014) - Taylor Swift - 876,000 (4/5/15)
20. Somebody (2014) - Natalie La Rose ft. Jeremih - 846,000 (5/10/15)

21. Truffle Butter (2015) - Nicki Minaj ft. Drake, Lil Wayne - 814,000 (5/3/15)
22. I’m Not The Only One (2014) - Sam Smith - 809,000 (4/5/15)
23. Talking Body (2015) - Tove Lo - 798,000
24. I Don’t Mind (2014) - Usher ft. Juicy J - 718,000 (4/5/15)
25. The Hanging Tree (2014) - James Howard ft. Jennifer Lawrence - 717,000 (4/5/15)


Bubbling Under:
Only (2014) - Nicki Minaj ft. Drake, Lil Wayne - 578,000 (4/5/15)
Hey Mama (2015) - David Guetta ft. Nicki Minaj, Afrojack - 571,000 (5/10/15)
Bitch Better Have My Money (2015) - Rihanna - 515,000
I Want You to Know (2015) - Zedd ft. Selena Gomez - 400,000 (4/26/15)
All Day (2015) - Kanye West feat. Paul McCartney - 346,000
I Really Like You (2015) - Carly Rae Jepsen - 226,000 (5/10/15)

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. 

[darkchylde 14,857]

Carly Rae Slaypsen deserved a #1 for All That.

[PartySick 141,606]

Am I the only one that doesn't like that song "See You Again"?  

[Fame Romance 10,517]

Carly Rae Slaypsen deserved a #1 for All That.

​Amen, the best thing she has done with her career so far.

 

 

 

 

[darkchylde 14,857]

​Amen, the best thing she has done with her career so far.

​I'm expecting more from this second album and I'm sure she'll deliver.