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Chart Listings: Billboard Charts (May 1-8, 2016)
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When Beyonce Is Given Lemons, She Makes LEMONADE
Beyonce's LEMONADE is the singer's sixth #1 album. The project sold 652,665 album equivalent units, the most sales in a week of any album this year so far, according to Billboard. It was purchased nearly half a million times and was streamed 115,232,820 times through TIDAL.
Prince's Legacy Lives On
A week after his death, five Prince albums land in the Top 10 of the chart. Very Best of Prince sits at #2, followed directly by Purple Rain and The Hits/The B-Sides. After Rihanna's ANTI, Ultimate and 1999 land at #6 and #7 respectively. The five projects brought in 723,000 units of sales.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 04/28/2016
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard's new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album's streaming count is available in brackets.
#1 Beyonce - LEMONADE - 652,665 (485,094) [115,232,820]
#2 Prince - Very Best of Prince - 391,354 (216,472) [3,585,283]
#3 Prince - Purple Rain - 150,246 (133,171) [499,713]
#4 Prince - The Hits/The B-Sides - 105,612 (56,399) [1,694,047]
#5 Rihanna - ANTI - 50,369 (14,941) [35,825,167]
#6 Prince - Ultimate - 39,577 (37,400) [65,509]
#7 Prince - 1999 - 36,428 (32,732) [127,023]
#8 A$AP Ferg - Always Strive and Prosper - 35,483 (22,297) [14,438,977]
#11 Kanye West - The Life of Pablo - 30,010 (57) [44,930,890]
#12 NF - Therapy Session - 29,184 (24,664) [3,718,870]
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http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.38615/ti...rince-aap-ferg
And since her streaming equivalent units amount to 76,822 units, that means "LEMONADE" sold 907,490 digital tracks (or 90,749 track equivalent albums).
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Originally posted by alexanderao
The Periscope is usually around 2:30pm EDT.
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Is there a link for that?
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Originally posted by DG1
Is there a link for that?
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You can follow Billboard on the Periscope app, or you can follow Billboard/Gary Trust on Twitter (where they'll normally post the link when it's live).
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Today comes the top 10 chart for Hot 100 right?
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Originally posted by MrPiggyMoka
Today comes the top 10 chart for Hot 100 right?
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Yep! Sometime between 1-3pm ET. The full chart will be posted on billboard.com tomorrow morning.
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Originally posted by umich
Yep! Sometime between 1-3pm ET. The full chart will be posted on billboard.com tomorrow morning.
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rooting for Formation and Hold Up
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Let me make some predictions too:
1. This thread will reach 100 pages today
2. People will be warned
3. People will be banned
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Streaming force
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Where is the info for the 115 streaming record? What exactly is it? Is it TIDAL streams?
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Hope Beyoncé gets top 10. Either way, what a legend
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Originally posted by swissman
Where is the info for the 115 streaming record? What exactly is it? Is it TIDAL streams?
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Yes, that link above shows data from Nielsen Music.
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Lord, this thread is going to be such a mess later today. I can't wait.
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If Formation doesn't debut at #3 on the Hot 100, I'll give everyone $5 via PayPal.
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115M streams makes NO sense, I'm still trying to wrap my head around it
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Here for "Formation" magically debuting at #1.
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Originally posted by OnikaChrist
If Formation doesn't debut at #3 on the Hot 100, I'll give everyone $5 via PayPal.
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I just inboxed you my account number.
I hope Beyoncé gets a top 10 here.
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Wasn't "Formation" one of Lemonade's least streamed songs though?
Anyhow Tidal can still work their magic.
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I think Hold Up might beat Formation...maybe #10 and #11.
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Does anyone know which Lemonade track got streamed the most? Someone posted it but I think it's too many pages backS
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Originally posted by swissman
Where is the info for the 115 streaming record? What exactly is it? Is it TIDAL streams?
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Yup, that's TIDAL's claim and what it sent to Nielsen. It doesn't make much sense, though.
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