Chart Listings: BB200: Drake #1 (with incorrect #’s)
Drake’s Views holds at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week, while Radiohead logs the week’s highest debut, at No. 3, with A Moon Shaped Pool. Views earned another 219,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 12, according to Nielsen Music (with 175,000 of that in pure album sales), as A Moon Shaped Pool launches with 181,000 units (173,000 in sales). Beyonce’s Lemonade holds at No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 with 202,000 units (down 27 percent). The former No. 1 album sold another 153,000 copies in pure album sales (down 22 percent). Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool (No. 3) is the band’s sixth top 10 album, and first studio effort since 2011’s The King of Limbs also debuted at No. 3 (its peak) on the April 23, 2011-dated list. (It bowed with 69,000 copies sold.) A Moon Shaped Pool’s start of 173,000 albums sold is Radiohead’s largest sales week since 2003, when Hail to the Thief debuted (and peaked) at No. 3 with 300,000 sold. Radiohead’s new album was released on Sunday, May 8, so it had two fewer days of sales and streams supporting its debut on the chart. (Nielsen Music’s tracking week for the Billboard 200 runs from Friday through Thursday each week, and most new albums are released on Fridays.) |
HDD had 306K for Views. Billboard clearly left out Streaming #’s. :rip:
POSITION | ARTIST | ALBUM | UNITS (Pure) [Streams] | CHANGE |
#1 | Drake | Views | 219,000 (175,000) | -79% |
#2 | Beyoncé | LEMONADE | 202,000 (153,000) | -27% |
#3 | Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool | 181,000 (173,000) | DEBUT |
#4 | Keith Urban | Ripcord | 106,000 (93,000) | DEBUT |
#5 | Prince | The Very Best of Prince | 77,000 (65,000) | +10% |
#6 | Cole Swindell | You Should Be Here | 76,000 (65,000) | DEBUT |
#7 | Rihanna | Anti | 48,000 | -6% |
#8 | Prince and the Revolution | Purple Rain | 43,000 | -43% |
#9 | Adele | 25 | 41,000 | +47% |
#10 | Chris Stapleton | Traveller | 31,000 | -2% |