Marina and The Diamonds’ third studio album is her first to claim a top ten position on the Billboard 200.
“FROOT,” that album, debuts at #8 on Billboard’s consumption-driven album chart. The release earns its position on the strength of approximately 46,000 total consumption units.
A unit is equivalent to one traditional album sale, 10 single sales or 1500 single track streams.
Billboard notes that 43,000 of the album’s first week units were pure sales. The publication has yet to release its official Top Album Sales chart, but the 43,000 total should be enough to position “FROOT” at #4 on the listing.
Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” (324,000 pure first week sales), the “Empire” soundtrack (89,000 pure weekly sales) and Modest Mouse’s “Strangers to Ourselves” (73,000 pure first week sales) appear to be the only albums credited with stronger weekly sales totals.
As far as the Billboard 200 goes, Marina’s previous releases “Electra Heart” and “The Family Jewels” peaked at #31 and #138, respectively. Their peaks came when the BB200 exclusively measured sales.