Update 2: With a weekly pure sales total of 230,000 and an additional 44,000 credits owed to Track Equivalent Album and Streaming Equivalent Album data, Taylor Swift’s “1989” tops the Billboard 200 for a fifth, non-consecutive week.
Its Billboard 200 unit sum of 274,000 bests the 221,000 garnered by Pentatonix’s #2 “That’s Christmas to Me.” The Pentatonix holiday smash earns its total on the strength of 208,000 sales and 13,000 TEA + SEA credits.
The weekly top ten follows:
1) Taylor Swift – 1989 (230K sales, 274K total BB200 units)
2) Pentatonix – That’s Christmas to Me (208K sales, 221K total units)
3) AC/DC – Rock or Bust (172K sales, 174K total units)
4) Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour (57K sales, 81K total units)
5) One Direction – FOUR (61K sales, 74K total units)
6) Idina Menzel – Holiday Wishes (63K sales, 66K total units)
7) Michael Buble – Christmas (57K sales, 66K total units)
8) Garth Brooks – Man Against Machine (57K sales, 57K total units)
9) Mary J. Blige – The London Sessions (55K sales, 57K total units)
10) Frozen Soundtrack (37K sales, 43K total units)
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Update: With Track Equivalent Albums (10 track purchases = 1 album sale) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (1500 song streams = 1 album sale) added to the calculation, Hits Daily Double forecasts that Taylor Swift’s “1989” will top the Billboard 200 with approximately 273,252 total weekly units.
Roughly 227,933 of those units are traditional album sales.
Pentatonix’s “That’s Christmas to Me,” which earned an estimated pure sales total of 206,476 this past week, is expected to see an elevation to about 213,906 total units on the Billboard 200.
Other key albums: AC/DC’s “Rock or Bust” (~165,163 pure sales, ~169,325 total units, #3), One Direction’s “FOUR” (~56,044 pure sales, ~77,903 total units, #4) and Sam Smith’s “In the Lonely Hour” (~52,921 pure sales, ~74,350 total units, #5).
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For the fifth time in six weeks, Taylor Swift’s “1989” ranks as the US’ best-selling album.
Reporting on pure weekly sales figures, which will not only differ from those reported by Billboard but be supplemented with Track Equivalent Album and Streaming Equivalent Album data in the Billboard 200 chart, Hits Daily Double says that Swift’s “1989” moved approximately 227,933 copies this past week.
Down slightly from the album’s Thanksgiving/Black Friday week total, it is nonetheless an impressive figure that keeps “1989” at the top of the chart.
Pentatonix’s “That’s Christmas to Me” retains the #2 position with sales of approximately 206,476. While not enough to give PTX the edge over Swift, the total bests Hits Daily Double’s 185-195,000 mid-week forecast and Billboard’s 175,000 Friday afternoon forecast.
Other hot albums based on pure sales data include AC/DC’s new “Rock or Bust” (~165,163), Idina Menzel’s “Holiday Wishes” (~62,228), One Direction’s “FOUR” (~56,808), Michael Buble’s “Christmas” (~56,044), Garth Brooks’ “Man Against Machine” (~55,819), Sam Smith’s “In the Lonely Hour” (~52,921) and Mary J. Blige’s “The London Sessions” (~48,813).