Chart Listings: BB200: Drake #1 (with incorrect #’s)

May 16, 2016 4:59 am 8 comments Views:
Drake’s ‘Views’ Spends Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200, Radiohead Debuts at No. 3

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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%

ATRL – Charts

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