Five Finger Death Punch’s “Got Your Six” Wins Sales Race; Weeknd Tops BB200 (Updated)

Update: A sales total of 114,000 earns Five Finger Death Punch’s “Got Your Six” the #1 spot on this week’s Billboard Top Album Sales chart.

Not simply the week’s greatest total, it is also the greatest weekly sales figure ever posted by a FFDP album.

“Got Your Six” is the first Five Finger Death Punch album to win a weekly sales race. It does not, however, land atop the consumption-oriented Billboard 200. That honor instead belongs to The Weeknd’s “Beauty Behind The Madness,” which rules for a second straight week.

While it only sold 77,000 copies this week, it enjoyed a considerably greater boost from Track Equivalent Albums (10 single sales = 1 album equivalent unit) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (1500 single streams = 1 album equivalent unit). With TEA and SEA included, “Beauty” posted a first-week consumption total of 145,000. “Got Your Six” follows with 119,000.

The Top 10 of this week’s Billboard 200 follows:

1) The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 145K units (77K from pure sales)
2) Five Finger Death Punch – Got Your Six – 119K units (114K from pure sales)
3) Travi$ Scott – Rodeo – 85K units (70K from pure sales)
4) Iron Maiden – Book of Souls – 75K units (74K from pure sales)
5) Troye Sivan – Wild – 50K units (45K from pure sales)
6) Luke Bryan – Kill The Lights – 45K total units
7) Taylor Swift – 1989 – 43K total units
8) Halsey – Badlands – 35K total units
9) Ed Sheeran – x – 27K total units
10) Future – DS2 – 25K total units
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Powered by a first week total in excess of 100,000, Five Finger Death Punch’s “Got Your Six” won the latest album sales race.

It will not, however, land atop the consumption-oriented Billboard 200.

According to Hits Daily Double, “Got Your Six” moved approximately 108,706 pure copies during the September 4-10 tracking week.

Billboard’s more authoritative data will differ slightly, but the disparity will not change the overall conclusion: “Got Your Six” was the week’s best-selling album and will debut at #1 on Top Album Sales.

It is the first FFDP album to win a weekly sales race.

The Weeknd’s “Beauty Behind the Madness,” which won last week’s race, will slip to #2 on Top Album Sales. Per Hits, it shifted approximately 80,227 pure copies.

Thanks to significant boosts from Track Equivalent Albums (10 single sales = 1 album equivalent unit) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (1500 single streams = 1 album equivalent unit), “Beauty” nonetheless ended up with a greater weekly consumption total than “Got Your Six.” Hits pegs The Weeknd’s unit count at 142,392. “Got Your Six” shifted approximately 114,111 album equivalent units.

As a result, “Beauty Behind the Madness” will score a second week atop the Billboard 200.

Other top pure sales performers: Travi$ Scott’s “Rodeo” (~74,941 sales), Iron Maiden’s “Book Of Souls” (~68,412), Troye Sivan’s “WILD” EP (~45,963).

Other top consumption performers: “Rodeo” (~90,940 total units), “Book Of Souls” (~69,144 total units), “WILD” EP (~51,659 total units).

Dolph Malone

Dolph Malone is a senior editor for Headline Planet and a key contributor to the music and television sectors of the publication. An avid pop culture spectator, Dolph also helms Headline Planet's social media reporting. He, specifically, covers entertainment stories that are breaking in the key social networks. Contact Dolph at dolph.malone[at]headlineplanet.com.

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