Update:<\/b> It’s official: Blink-182’s “California” is #1 on the Top Album Sales and Billboard 200 charts.<\/p>\n
It tops the former with what Billboard reports as 172,000 in pure opening week US sales. It tops the latter with 186,000 in total consumption units — the sum of the 172,000 pure sales, plus TEA (track sales\/10) and SEA (track streams\/1500) units.<\/p>\n
Both figures obliterate early forecasts, which called for 120-125,000 in pure sales and 125-130,000 in total units.<\/p>\n
In claiming #1 on the Billboard 200, “California” — at least temporarily — brings an end to the reign of Drake’s “Views.” The album, which slips to #2 on the strength of 117,000 weekly units, had spent the past nine weeks at #1.<\/p>\n
Maxwell’s new “BlackSUMMERS’night” debuts at #2 on Top Album Sales (57,000) and #3 on the Billboard 200 (59,000 units). Beyonce’s “Lemonade” slips to #4 on the Billboard 200 with 39,000 units, while twenty one pilots’ “Blurryface” falls to #5 with 38,000.
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While even the earliest weekly projections gave Blink-182’s “California” the edge in this week’s US album sales and consumption races, not even the last projections sufficiently captured how well it would do.<\/p>\n
Blink’s new studio album — and first with Matt Skiba — sold what Hits Daily Double reports as approximately 170,835 pure US copies during its first week of release. The inclusion of TEA (track sales\/10) and SEA (track streams\/1500) results in a weekly consumption total of about 184,943.<\/p>\n
Projections delivered last Saturday said “California” was on track for 120-125,000 in weekly sales and 125-130,000 in total consumption. By Thursday, the last day of the tracking week, the projected tallies were 160,000 and 175,000, respectively.<\/p>\n
Due Sunday, Billboard’s more authoritative data will differ slightly from that reported by Hits. The discrepancy will not, however, affect the overall conclusion. “California” will be #1 on the Top Album Sales and Billboard 200 charts.<\/p>\n
The closest competition from a pure sales standpoint will be Maxwell’s new “BlackSUMMERS’night.” Hits says the album sold about 58,442 copies this week. Other notable pure sales performers include Drake’s “Views” (~39,950 sales), Beyonce’s “Lemonade” (~26,330) and Blake Shelton’s “If I’m Honest” (~20,780).<\/p>\n
On the consumption front, other notable performers include “Views” (~117,009 units), “BlackSUMMERS’night” (~61,129), “Lemonade” (~39,456) and Twenty One Pilots’ “Blurryface” (~36,428).<\/p>\n
Aided by solid album and track sales and enormous streaming numbers, “Views” spent the past nine weeks as the leader in overall album consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61163,"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],"tags":[1397,390,6359,5386,54,176,6522,2167,6365],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n