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Chart Listings: Billboard 200 Albums (February 15-22, 2012)
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Originally posted by Ulrihs
CHART DATE: 02/20/2012
LAST UPDATE: 02/21/2012 11:33:45
NOW IN: FINAL
LW TW artist / album label power index % change
1 1 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 716,091 +196%
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6 2 WHITNEY HOUSTON RCA 170,294 +183%
WHITNEY - THE GREATEST HITS
9 4 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 86,357 +135%
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5 6 PAUL MCCARTNEY HEAR MUSIC 58,082 -22%
KISSES ON THE BOTTOM
28 8 BRUNO MARS NEW ELEKTRA 37,142 +114%
DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS
35 11 THE CIVIL WARS SENSIBILITY MUSIC 34,164 +145%
BARTON HOLLOW
49 28 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 19,880 +78%
SPEAK NOW
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Looks like every good performance was rewarded with a big increase or small drop. Bravo to all.
Adele and Whitney.
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Originally posted by Benzene
Looks like every good performance was rewarded with a big increase or small drop. Bravo to all.
Adele and Whitney.
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Massive numbers from Adele.
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Originally posted by IVY
28 8 BRUNO MARS NEW ELEKTRA 37,142 +114%
DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS
I love that bruno's live performances always boost his sales +114%
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Nice boost!
What's his total?
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21 AT 21
Whitney Houston, Now 41, Grammy Nominees All in Top 5, as Post-Award Sales Spikes Cominate
February 21, 2012
Between Grammy spikes and the untimely passing of Whitney Houston, this week’s HITS Album Sales chart is filled with triple-digit gains, but XL/Columbia Records super diva Adele tops them all with her 21 album’s 21st week at #1, the most in the Soundscan era, tying M.C. Hammer’s reign in 1990 with Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em. Next up: the Saturday Night Fever and Purple Rain soundtracks at 24 weeks apiece.
The album sells another 716k this week, a nearly 200% gain, and is now up to 7.3 million, already a front-runner to be 2012’s best-selling release in only the third week of February.
Adele’s 2008 debut, 19, is also in the Top 5 at #4, with 86k, bringing its total up toward 2 million.
The late Whitney Houston’s Greatest Hits on RCA is #2 with 170k, +183% over the prior week, with Capitol/EMI’s Now 41 (#3) and Universal Republic’s 2012 Grammy Nominees (#5) rounding out the leader board.
Hear Music/Concord’s Paul McCartney (#6), Interscope’s Van Halen (#7), New Elektra’s Bruno Mars (#28-8, +114%), Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Lady Antebellum (#17-9, +43%) and Capitol/EMI’s Coldplay (#10) complete the Top 10.
Other Grammy sales boosts are registered by sensibility’s The Civil Wars (#35-11, +145%), Big Machine’s Taylor Swift (#49-28, +78%), Glassnote’s Mumford & Sons (#34-20, +63%) and Columbia’s Tony Bennett (#36-27, +46%).
Thanks to the awards show, Roswell/RCA’s Foo Fighters (#23), Jagjaguwar’s Bon Iver (#32), Warner Bros. Nashville’s Blake Shelton (#41), Startime/Columbia’s Foster the People (#42), Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Eric Church (#43), Big Beat’s Skrillex (#49) and Capitol/EMI’s Katy Perry (#50) all re-enter the Top 50.
In the wake of Whitney’s death, RCA’s Whitney Houston album (36) and The Bodyguard soundtrack (#45) also return to the chart.
Next week’s releases include Fueled by Ramen/Atlantic’s fun., riding a huge hit with “We Are Young,” YM/CM/Universal Republic’s Tyga and Mom + Pop/RED’s Sleigh Bells, the musical guests on last week’s Saturday Night Live.
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10 13 DRAKE YM/CM/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 31,381 -2%
TAKE CARE
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Massive numbers from Adele.
Nice boost!
What's his total?
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I think he crossed 1,500,000 sales if I am not wrong
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Nice hold Drake.
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-- 34 LANA DEL REY INTERSCOPE 18,054 --
LANA DEL REY EP
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Originally posted by Sammi
-- 34 LANA DEL REY INTERSCOPE 18,054 --
LANA DEL REY EP
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This can't be true. The EP ins't even on iTunes anymore
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Capitol/EMI’s Coldplay (#10)
how much is the total US album sales of MYLO XYLOTO so far????????
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Wait, hold up!
Born to Die didn't even show up in the Top 50 on HDD. Was that an error or did it really just free-fall like that?
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Wait, hold up!
Born to Die didn't even show up in the Top 50 on HDD. Was that an error or did it really just free-fall like that?
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I think there is a mistake. HDD has:
-- 34 LANA DEL REY INTERSCOPE 18,054 --
LANA DEL REY EP
This EP has been withdrawn from sales some time ago, so there is no way that it could sell now 18K
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Billboard 200: @BrunoMars' Doo-Wops & Hooligans rebounds from #30 to #8 in its 72nd week, with 38,000 copies sold (1,533,000 total).
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Adele gonna be the #1 album of 2012
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#8 Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans 38,000 (1,533,000)
#12 Drake, Take Care 31,000 (1,469,000)
#26 Jay-Z & KanyeWest, Watch The Throne 20,000 (1,336,000)
#35 LilTunechi, Tha Carter IV 16,000 (2,016,000)
#56 Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday 10,000 (1,774,000)
#77 WizKhalifa, Rolling Papers 7,400 (780,000)
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Originally posted by I'mRihannaFan
#8 Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans 38,000 (1,533,000)
#12 Drake, Take Care 31,000 (1,469,000)
#26 Jay-Z & KanyeWest, Watch The Throne 20,000 (1,336,000)
#35 LilTunechi, Tha Carter IV 16,000 (2,016,000)
#56 Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday 10,000 (1,774,000)
#77 WizKhalifa, Rolling Papers 7,400 (780,000)
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All really great album sales for urban releases
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Some more nice reading for those interested in history-making :
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-w...140342510.html
Adele's 21 logs its 21st week at #1 on The Billboard 200, which is the longest that any album has remained on top since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard in 1991. The album sold 730,000 copies in its 52nd week, which is more than any album has sold this deep into its chart run. It blows past a record set nine years ago by Norah Jones' Come Away With Me, which sold 621K in its 53rd week in March 2003. Both albums owed their late surges to a Grammy sweep. Jones won five awards; Adele won six.
Other factors fueling Adele's surge: a 60 Minutes profile that preceded the Grammys, Valentine's Day gift-giving and a string of three straight #1 singles.
The last album to log 21 weeks at #1 was M.C. Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em in 1990.
This is the longest that an album by a female solo artist has held the top spot since the album chart became a weekly feature in 1956. 21 surpasses Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard, which logged 20 weeks on top in 1992-1993.
Adele has a second album in this week's top five. Her 2008 debut album 19 jumps from #9 to #4, its highest ranking to date. Adele's two albums sold a combined 817K copies this week, which is more than all the other albums in the top 18 combined (809K).
21 is only the fourth album in the history of The Billboard 200 to spend its first 52 weeks inside the top 10. Fleetwood Mac's Rumours spent its first 52 weeks in the top 10 in 1977-1978. Bruce Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. spent its first 84 weeks in the top 10 from 1984 into 1986. Celine Dion's Falling Into You spent its first 59 weeks in the top 10 in 1996-1997.
21 tops the 7 million mark in U.S. sales in its 52nd week. It's the first album to reach 7 million that quickly since Usher's Confessions hit that plateau in its 36th week in November 2004. Two other albums that have been released since Confessions have sold 7 million or more copies, but they both took much longer to hit the 7 million mark. Nickelback's All The Right Reasons took three years and two months. Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts took four years and eight months.
21 has sold 7,353,000 copies, which is more than any album since All The Right Reasons, which was released in October 2005. It has sold more copies than any album by a female artist since Norah Jones' Come Away With Me, which came out in February 2002. (The current sales tallies on those albums: 7,575,000 and 10,802,000, respectively.)
Pop Quiz: This is the eighth consecutive week at #1 for 21. What was the last album to top the chart eight weeks in a row? (This is a tough question that I bet practically no one will get right. Let that be a challenge to you.) Answer below.
Shameless Plug I: 21 and Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em have something in common. Both are those artists' sophomore albums. They are the most successful sophomore albums in chart history. Over the weekend, I posted a Chart Watch Extra in which I looked at the top 16 sophomore albums, in terms of total weeks they held the top spot. The list includes such classic works as Carole King's Tapestry and Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP. I also explore why sophomore albums are so often stellar. (Hint: The artists are warmed up, revved up and eager to make their mark.) If you missed it, here's a link.
Shameless Plug II: As noted, Adele's 21 this week surpasses Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard soundtrack for the longest run at #1 by a female artist on The Billboard 200 since 1956. This probably isn't the last time this year that Adele will surpass a record set by Houston. Adele's Live At The Royal Albert Hall logs its 12th week at #1 on Top Music Videos. Houston has held the record for female artists on that chart since 1986, when her pThe #1 Video Hits logged 22 weeks on top. I looked at similarities between the two women in a Chart Watch Extra that went up yesterday. If you missed it, here's a link.
Quiz Answer: The last album before 21 to spend eight consecutive weeks at #1 was Creed's Weathered, which was #1 for its first eight weeks in 2001-2002.
1. Adele, 21, 730,000. The album logs its 21st week at #1. This is its 52nd week in the top 10. The album is #1 on Top Digital Albums for the 14th week. It sold 176K digital copies this week. Six songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Rolling In The Deep," which rebounds from #10 to #3.
4. Adele, 19, 87,000. The album jumps from #9 to #4 in its 122nd week on the chart. This is its highest ranking to date. This is its third week in the top 10. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Chasing Pavements" vaults from #180 to #96. "Make You Feel My Love" jumps from #145 to #108.
Adele's Live At The Royal Albert Hall is #1 on Top Music Videos for the 12th straight week. That's the longest run at #1 for a video by a female artist since Barbra Streisand's Barbra—The Concert held the top spot for 16 weeks from 1994 to 1996. The all-time record for a video by a female artist is Whitney Houston's The #1 Video Hits, which held the top spot for 22 weeks in 1986. Will Adele top that mark? Place your bets. (Adele's DVD sold 74K copies this week, bringing its total to 649K.)
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