In a rare positional deviation from the preliminary Hits Daily Double data, Billboard reports that Adele’s “25” — not Future’s “EVOL” — takes #1 on this week’s Billboard Top Album Sales chart.
The Future album, however, led the consumption-oriented Billboard 200.
According to Nielsen Music, “25” sold 102,000 US copies during the February 5-11 tracking week. The new Future album sold 99,957 within that same window.
Track Equivalent Albums (track sales/10) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (track streams/1500), however, thrust “EVOL” to #1 on the Billboard 200. With TEA and SEA added to its pure sales total, “EVOL” generated 134,000 units of first week consumption. “25” drove 121,000 weekly units.
“EVOL” is Future’s third Billboard 200 #1 in seven months. In that span, he also topped the chart with his own “DS2” and with his Drake collaboration “What A Time To Be Alive.”
The Top 10 of this week’s Billboard 200 follows. Sales data, via Nielsen, to be posted upon availability.
1) Future – EVOL – 134K units (99,957 from sales)
2) Adele – 25 – 121K units (102K from sales | US total now 8.13M)
3) Rihanna – ANTI – 96K units (51,526 from sales | US total now 176K)
4) Coldplay – A Head Full Of Dreams – 90K units (71K from sales | US total now 175.8K)
5) Justin Bieber – Purpose – 73K units
6) Wiz Khalifa – Khalifa 64K units (45,090 from sales)
7) NOW 57 – 63K units (63K from sales)
8) Elton John – Wonderful Crazy Night – 58K units (57K from sales)
9) twenty one pilots – Blurryface – 42K units
10) Kevin Gates – Islah – 40K units (24,364 from sales | US total now 117.2K)
