![]() ![]() 5 with 49,000 units (45,000 in traditional album sales). ![]() Lindsey Stirling claims her second top 10 album, as her new Brave Enough launches at No. 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.īillboard 200 Chart Moves: ‘Stranger Things’ Soundtrack Makes Strong Debut 9 (so far) with the still-building “Luv.” Both cuts are available on the new album, which also starts at No. The album follows a pair of top 10-charting singles for Lanez on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where he has reached No. 4 with his debut studio album, I Told You, earning 52,000 units (32,000 in pure album sales). 2 with 77,000 units (up 9 percent) and the Suicide Squad soundtrack falls from No. 17, 2007-dated chart.īack on the new Billboard 200 chart, Drake’s Views holds at No. It debuted with 711,000 copies sold on the Nov. 1 with its self-released Long Road Out of Eden, exclusively sold through Walmart. Slightly less than two years earlier, Eagles flew in at No. The set, which bowed with 189,000 sold, was released on the band’s Monkeywrench label, and initially sold exclusively through Target, iTunes, Pearl Jam’s website and independent retailers. 1 (in 2009) without a traditional distributor. 1 the following week - for one frame - selling 146,000.īefore Brooks, Pearl Jam’s Backspacer also hit No. The hefty box (six CDs and two DVDs) was issued through Brooks’ Pearl Records and sold exclusively through Walmart stores. 1 in the same manner was Garth Brooks’ 2013 box set, Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences. Cleopatra was released on Dualtone Records, and the album was also distributed by ADA.įrank Ocean’s Album Is the Straw that Broke Universal Music’s Back (and It May Get Him Sued)īlonde is different from both albums in that it was released by Ocean himself directly to Apple and iTunes - bypassing a traditional distribution company. It follows Blink-182’s California and The Lumineers’ Cleopatra.Ĭalifornia was released on Blink-182’s own Viking Wizard Eyes LLC, licensed to BMG and distributed by Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA). The bulk of Channel Orange’s first-week sales were digital, though there were some on physical CD, as brick-and-mortar retailers began selling the title mid-week following iTunes’ exclusive launch.īlonde is the third independently distributed No. It was released on July 10, 2012, initially exclusively through iTunes, and a week before its advertised street date of July 17. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, and sold 131,000 copies in its first week. ![]() It is available exclusive to stream via Apple Music.īoth releases are Ocean’s first full-length offerings since his debut album, Channel Orange, which came out in 2012. It was the second-most streamed album on the chart, behind only Drake’s Views, with 67.5 million streams.įrom Beyonce to Frank Ocean, Breaking Down the Mechanics, and Politics, Behind Streaming Exclusivesīlonde arrived two days after Ocean released the long-form video Endless (which many have referred to as a visual album). The songs on the Blonde album generated 65.4 million streams during the week. ![]() Blonde also logs the third-biggest sales start - behind, again, just Views (852,000 copies sold in its first week) and Lemonade (485,000).īlonde was available exclusively to stream via the Apple Music service and for sale through the iTunes Store (but only as a full album - none of its tracks were sold a la carte). Only two albums started bigger than Blonde in 2016: Drake’s Views (1.04 million units earned in its debut frame) and Beyonce’s Lemonade (653,000). Of Blonde’s start of 276,000 units, 232,000 were in traditional album sales, while the rest were SEA (44,000 units). 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Aug. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. Dave and Central Cee's 'Sprinter' Races to Another U.K. ![]()
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