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).