Chart Listings: BB200: Beyonce makes history; Lemonade 653K.
Beyonces Lemonade album charges in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving the superstar her sixth chart-topper. The set earned 653,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 28, according to Nielsen Music. Pure album sales comprised 485,000 of that sum. All six of Beyonces studio albums have debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Lemonade follows her self-titled album in 2013, 4 (2011), I Am Sasha Fierce (2008), BDay (2006) and Dangerously In Love (2003). Beyonce is the only act to reach No. 1 with their first six studio efforts (and the only act to debut atop the list with their first six). |
Elsewhere in the top 10 of the new Billboard 200 chart, Prince rules with five titles — all in the top seven of the list — following the first full week of chart activity following his death on April 21. His The Very Best of Prince greatest hits collection is pushed down one spot to No. 2 with 391,000 units (though it gains by 118 percent) and 216,000 copies sold (up 116 percent). The Purple Rain soundtrack is also forced backwards, despite a gain, as it moves 2-3 with 150,000 units (up 117 percent) and 133,000 copies sold (up 113 percent). Two more of Princes greatest hits albums rank in the top 10: The Hits/The B-Sides, hits a new peak, as it climbs 6-4 with 106,000 units (up 159 percent) and 56,000 in sales (up 134 percent), while Ultimate also zooms to a new peak, 61-6, with 40,000 units (up 319 percent) and 37,000 in sales (up 317 percent). One more Prince album features in the latest top 10: his fifth studio effort, 1999. It climbs 31-7 — a new chart high — with 36,000 units (up 154 percent) and 33,000 in sales (up 149 percent). 1999 previously peaked at No. 9 in 1983. |
POSITION | ARTIST | ALBUM | UNITS (Pure) | CHANGE |
#1 | Beyonce | LEMONADE | 653,000 (485,000) | DEBUT |
#2 | Prince | The Very Best of Prince | 391,000 (216,000) | +118% |
#3 | Prince | Purple Rain | 150,000 (133,000) | +117% |
#4 | Prince | The Hits/B-Sides | 106,000 (56,000) | +159% |
#5 | Rihanna | Anti | 50,000 | +4% |
#6 | Prince | Ultimate | 40,000 (37,000) | +319% |
#7 | Prince | 1999 | 36,000 (33,000) | +154% |
#8 | A$ AP Ferg | Always Strive and Prosper | 35,000 (22,000) | DEBUT |
#9 | Chris Stapleton | Traveller | 33,000 | -13% |
#10 | Justin Bieber | Purpose | 31,000 | -14% |
Top Female Album Openings
POSITION | ARTIST | ALBUM | SALES | YEAR |
#1 | Adele | 25 | 3,377,885 | 2015 |
#2 | Britney Spears | Oops!…I Did It Again | 1,319,193 | 2000 |
#3 | Taylor Swift | 1989 | 1,286,761 | 2014 |
#4 | Taylor Swift | Red | 1,208,291 | 2012 |
#5 | Lady Gaga | Born This Way | 1,108,000 | 2011 |
#6 | Taylor Swift | Speak Now | 1,047,000 | 2010 |
#7 | Norah Jones | Feels Like Home | 1,022,149 | 2004 |
#8 | Shania Twain | Up! | 874,000 | 2002 |
#9 | Dixie Chicks | Home | 779,828 | 2002 |
#10 | Britney Spears | Britney | 745,744 | 2001 |
#11 | Alicia Keys | As I Am | 742,426 | 2007 |
#12 | Mary J. Blige | The Breakthrough | 727,000 | 2005 |
#13 | Susan Boyle | I Dreamed a Dream | 700,779 | 2009 |
#14 | Destiny’s Child | Survivor | 663,280 | 2001 |
#15 | Celine Dion | All the Way – A Decade of Song | 640,000 | 2000 |
#16 | Mary J. Blige | Growing Pain | 629,000 | 2007 |
#17 | Alicia Keys | The Diary of Alicia Keys | 618,325 | 2003 |
#18 | Beyonce | BEYONCE | 617,319 | 2013 |
#19 | Britney Spears | In the Zone | 609,364 | 2003 |
#20 | Janet Jackson | All for You | 605,128 | 2001 |
#21 | Taylor Swift | Fearless | 592,304 | 2008 |
#22 | Beyoncé | B’Day | 541,196 | 2006 |
#23 | Shania Twain | Greatest Hits | 529,567 | 2004 |
#24 | Carrie Underwood | Carnival Ride | 527,101 | 2007 |
#25 | Celine Dion | A New Day Has Come | 527,018 | 2002 |
#26 | Dixie Chicks | Taking the Long Way | 525,829 | 2006 |
#27 | Britney Spears | Circus | 505,073 | 2008 |
#28 | Ashanti | Ashanti | 502,524 | 2002 |
#29 | Sade | Solider of Love | 501,665 | 2010 |
#30 | Beyoncé | Lemonade | 485,000 | 2016 |
#31 | Beyoncé | I Am…Sasha Fierce | 482,428 | 2008 |