Update:<\/b> An opening week sales total of 75,000 powered All Time Low’s “Future Hearts” to #1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart.<\/p>\n
The consumption-driven Billboard 200, however, crowns a different winner. While it only sold 45,000 traditional copies during the most recent tracking week, the “Furious 7” soundtrack enjoyed a sizable lift from Track Equivalent Albums (10 single sales = 1 album sale) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (1500 single streams = 1 album sale). The result was a consumption total of 111,000 units and a #1 ranking on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n
Not significantly aided by TEA and SEA, the aforementioned “Future Hearts” posted a weekly consumption total of 80,000 units. It grabs #2 on the BB200.<\/p>\n
The top ten on this week’s Billboard 200 follows:<\/p>\n
1) Furious 7 – 111K total units (45K from pure album sales)
\n2) All Time Low – Future Hearts – 80K total units (75K from pure album sales)
\n3) 50 Shades of Grey – 47K total units
\n4) Maroon 5 – V – 44K total units
\n5) Taylor Swift – 1989 – 44K total units
\n6) Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour – 43K
\n7) Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly – 42K
\n8) Drake – If You’re Reading This it’s Too Late – 40K
\n9) Ed Sheeran – x – 39K
\n10) Meghan Trainor – Title – 34K<\/p>\n
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While All Time Low’s “Future Hearts” easily won the weekly album sales race, “Furious 7” generated the greatest number of weekly consumption units.<\/p>\n
It, therefore, will top the revamped Billboard 200 chart.<\/p>\n
Per Hits Daily Double’s data, the All Time Low album moved ~70,054 traditional copies during the most recent tracking week. Billboard’s more authoritative data will differ slightly, but it will not dispute the conclusion: “Future Hearts” was the week’s best-seller. It will debut at #1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart.<\/p>\n
The aforementioned “Furious 7” soundtrack posted a weekly pure sales figure of only ~44,943. The addition of Track Equivalent Albums (10 single sales = 1 album sale) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (1500 single streams = 1 album sale), however, brings the album’s weekly consumption total (sales + TEA + SEA) to ~107,531 units.<\/p>\n
Soundtrack song “See You Again,” which was expected to move more than 400,000 copies during the tracking week, surely played a huge role in driving that consumption boost.<\/p>\n
Boosted only modestly by TEA and SEA, the “Future Hearts” consumption total registers at ~73,488.<\/p>\n
“Furious 7” will thus top the consumption-oriented Billboard 200.<\/p>\n
— From a pure sales standpoint, the week’s other top performers include Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” (~27,290), Taylor Swift’s “1989” (~26,845), the “Empire” soundtrack (~24,163) and Wale’s “The Album About Nothing” (~23,730).<\/p>\n
— From a consumption unit standpoint, the week’s other top performers include Taylor Swift’s “1989” (~44,553), Maroon 5’s “V” (~42,782), Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” (~37,290), Ed Sheeran’s “x” (~36,982) and Drake’s “If You’re Reading This it’s Too Late” (~36,755).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[183,1047,206],"tags":[947,54,314,3406,3959,3946,700,2429,3912,145,438],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n