Update: Taylor Swift’s “1989” returns to the top of the Billboard 200 album sales chart on the strength of its 71,000 weekly sales.
With track equivalent album (ten single sales = 1 album sale) and streaming equivalent album (1500 track streams = 1 album sale) data included, the album claims a weekly consumption unit total of 101,000. That gives it the lead on the Billboard 200.
This is its tenth non-consecutive week atop the chart. Swift, whose “Fearless” spent 11 weeks at number one, becomes only the second female artist to top the Billboard 200 for ten or more weeks with two different albums. Whitney Houston was the first; she did so with her self-titled debut, “Whitney” and “The Bodyguard” soundtrack.
This week’s Billboard 200 top ten is as follows:
1) Taylor Swift – 1989 – 101K units (71K from pure sales)
2) Ed Sheeran – x – total not yet disclosed
3) Meghan Trainor – Title – 68K units
4) Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour – 60K units
5) Ne-Yo – Non-Fiction – 59K units
6) Fall Out Boy – American Beauty/American Psycho – 55K units
7) Mark Ronson – Uptown Special – 49K units
8) Nicki Minaj – The Pinkprint – 48K units
9) Maroon 5 – V – 43K units
10) Grammy Nominations album – 34K units
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After allowing Meghan Trainor’s “Title” and Fall Out Boy’s “American Beauty/American Psycho” to each spend a week on top, Taylor Swift’s “1989” has returned to the summit of the album sales mountain.
Thanks to what Hits Daily Double reports as ~70,674 sales, the album comfortably won the weekly album sales race.
That number, which should differ only slightly from the more authoritative sales count Billboard will release Wednesday morning, brings the album’s US cumulative mark to roughly 4.19 million.
With track equivalent album (ten single sales = 1 album sale) and streaming equivalent album (1500 track streams = 1 album sale) data included, Hits lists the album’s weekly consumption unit total at 97,390. That will secure “1989” a spot atop the revamped Billboard 200.
Other top performers from a pure album sales standpoint include Meghan Trainor’s “Title” (~43,306), Ne-Yo’s “Non-Fiction” (~43,213), Sam Smith’s “In the Lonely Hour” (~40,360), Fall Out Boy’s “American Beauty/American Psycho” (~36,401), Ed Sheeran’s “x” (~36,369) and the 2015 Grammy nominations album (~34,174).
Other top albums from a total consumption standpoint include Ed Sheeran’s “x” (~76,024 total units), Meghan Trainor’s “Title” (~68,276 total units), Sam Smith’s “In the Lonely Hour” (~61,098 total units), Fall Out Boy’s “American Beauty/American Psycho” (~54,621 total units) and Ne-Yo’s “Non-Fiction” (~50,081 total units).