12-dated chart (where Del Rey debuts at No. 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. Of that sum, 80,000 were in traditional album sales. The set, which was released on July 21 through Polydor/Interscope Records, earned 107,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 27, according to Nielsen Music. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as Lust for Life bows atop the Aug.
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Plus, Linkin Park's 'One More Light' leaps 17-4 and 'Hybrid Theory' bounds 27-8, and top 10 debuts for the 'Descendants 2' soundtrack and Romeo Santos. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart, Tyler, The Creator and Meek Mill Bow at Nos. Linkin Park, One More Light (Warner Bros.) 19-21k, 12-14k Tyler, The Creator (Odd Future/Columbia) 24-27k, 4-6kġ3. Imagine Dragons (Kidinakorner/Interscope) 26-29k, 9-11kġ1. *Arcade Fire (Columbia) 90-95k SPS, 85-90k SalesĢ. Arcade Fire will be #1 on both our SPS and Sales charts, and the only debut to make the top 20 this week.ġ. While Billboard still hasn't posted this week's charts (while ours was finalized on Friday), we've got a preview of the next Top 20. Balvin's "Mi Gente."Ĭould that all add up to a four-way battle for #1? Stay tuned. Santos, whose 2014 set bowed with 65k and has earned 430k TEA (with 1.1m tracks sold), has earned 750m Spotify streams and could benefit from the increased visibility of Latin hits in the wake of "Despacito" and J. While forecasts vary, an additional wild card is Sony Latin’s Romeo Santos, whose “Imitadora” just knocked “Despacito” off its #1 perch at Latin radio.
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Meanwhile, another possible competitor could conceivably make this a four-way race. Hip-hop veteran Meek Mill remains a vital presence, with substantial streaming stats (including 7.5m monthly listeners on Spotify), though rumors continue to swirl about his inner circle of career advisers. With his substantial streaming presence, network of affiliated artists, knack for cultivating controversy and formidable online following (4.1m on Twitter, 3.5m Instagram), he continues to be dangerous.
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Tyler, a co-founder of the Odd Future crew, emerged with a raw, confrontational hip-hop style around 2011 and scored Top 3 bows with 2013's Wolf and 2015's Cherry Bomb.
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She continues to enjoy a huge, active social following (10m Instagram followers, 6.6m Twitter) and big streams. Lana quickly became one of the coolest acts in the pop world upon her arrival, earning major mystique and blockbuster sales in 2012 for major-label bow Born to Die she earned a Grammy nod for a remix of "Summertime Sadness." Her 2014 set, Ultraviolence, hit #1, and 2015's Honeymoon was on track for a similar bow but was kept from a #1 debut by the Drake-Future mixtape. THREE-WAY BATTLE ON NEXT WEEK'S CHART? OR A FOUR-WAY?Ĭould we see a three-way battle for #1 on next week’s chart? It’s hella early, and the landscape could shift decisively in one of several directions, but right now Interscope’s Lana Del Rey, Columbia’s Tyler, the Creator and Atlantic’s Meek Mill all look to be competitive.