Charts
John Mellencamp’s ‘Strictly a One-Eyed Jack’ Debuts in Top 10 on Top Album Sales & Americana/Folk Albums Charts
John Mellencamp’s latest album, Strictly a One-Eyed Jack, makes a top 10 debut on a trio of Billboard charts, as the set jumps in at No. 5 on Americana/Folk Albums, No. 6 on Top Current Album Sales and No. 8 on Top Album Sales (charts dated Feb. 5). Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Jack was released on Jan. 20 and marks Mellencamp’s fifth consecutive top five-charting effort on Americana/Folk Albums. Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now MRC Data. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by t...
Adele’s ‘30’ Spends Sixth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200, ‘Encanto’ Hits Top 10
Adele’s 30 holds court atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for a sixth consecutive, and total, week at No. 1 (chart dated Jan. 8, 2022). The effort earned 99,000 equivalent album units (down 53%) in the U.S. in the week of Dec. 24-30, according to MRC Data. Explore See latest videos, charts and news 30 is the second album released in 2021 to spend at least six weeks at No. 1 in total on the Billboard 200, following Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (with 10 weeks atop the tally). Also in the new top 10, a pair of albums hit the region for the first time: the new Encanto film soundtrack bounds 110-7, while the classic holiday compilation A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector jumps 11-10. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on&nb...
Roddy Ricch’s ‘Live Life Fast’ Debuts at No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart
Roddy Ricch bags his second No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as Live Life Fast debuts at No. 1 on the list dated Jan. 1. The set starts with 62,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 23, according to MRC Data. As with most hip-hop releases, streaming powers the majority of Live Life Fast‘s first-week activity. Just under 57,500 of the 62,000 units derive from streaming-album equivalents — representing 76.5 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks. Traditional album sales comprise 3,500 units and the remaining 1,000 units come through track-equivalent units. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and vi...
The Mavericks Debut at No. 1 on Latin Pop Albums Chart with ‘En Español’: ‘This is Beyond Us’
The set marks the country music band’s first full-length foray into its Hispanic roots. The Mavericks debut at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Latin Pop Albums chart (dated Sept. 5) with En Español. The band concurrently earns its first top 10 on the all-genre Top Latin Albums chart, where the set bows at No. 8. The new album marks the first visit to the Latin album charts by the group, which has notched five top 10 efforts on the Top Country Albums chart dating back to 1994. “This is an amazing feeling,” Raul Malo, The Mavericks’ lead singer, tells Billboard. “To wake up and receive a text from our manager that we have a No. 1 record. That’s not in the cards, this is beyond us. But you feel good about the work because you’ve put a lot of effort, a lot of love and time...
