Kenrick Lamar holds the top of the chart for a second week. Other than Taylor, that hasn’t happened a lot this year. Empire Cast is parked firmly in second (though their second week drop is at the high end of the range, so reality is setting in for them). Taylor moves up to 3rd on the combined chart followed by the “Fifty Shades of Grey” soundtrack (that has spun some very successful singles) and the Brit twins (Ed and Sam). Action Branson (rapper-chef, now more rapper than chef after breaking his leg in the kitchen) cooks up the top debut of the week with 3rd on the sales falling to 7th on the combined. Drake moves up for the final chart, but was out of the top 10 in sales. Same for Maroon 5. The top 10 is rounded out by another debut from Kidz Bop with a relatively disappointing outing (they almost broke their top 10 streak and sales are half what they were in January – maybe they will do better this week in the Easter Baskets?).
One Direction’s album name turned out to be predictive this last week. “FOUR” was 36th on sales and 31st on the combined for this popular foursome. They are also on Now 53 at 16th and 25th. Kelly Clarkson is the top solo act from reality competition shows at 29th and 32nd. Fifth Harmony makes the combined chart at 37th. Chase Rice was 43rd on the Sales chart. The Nashville cast released another album and they are at 24th on sales and 26th on combined.
Sales Chart
LW TW Artist / Album Label Sales
1 1 KENDRICK LAMAR TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY TDE/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE 102,113
2 2 EMPIRE CAST SOUNDTRACK, SEASON 1 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX/COLUMBIA 49,702
— 3 ACTION BRONSON MR. WONDERFUL ATLANTIC 39,961
— 4 KIDZ BOP KIDS KIDZ BOP 28 RAZOR & TIE 37,660
5 5 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 BIG MACHINE 33,292
12 6 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR CAPITOL 31,922
— 7 EARL SWEATSHIRT I DON’T LIKE SHIT, I DON’T GO OUTSIDE COLUMBIA 29,573
11 8 ED SHEERAN X ATLANTIC 24,784
7 9 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY SOUNDTRACK REPUBLIC 24,639
— 10 VAN MORRISON DUETS: RE-WORKING THE CATALOGU RCA 21,187
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18 15 MAROON 5 V 222/INTERSCOPE 17,215
14 16 NOW 53 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW/LEGACY 17,117
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— 24 NASHVILLE CAST NASHVILLE: ON THE RECORD VOLUME 2 BIG MACHINE 11,837
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22 29 KELLY CLARKSON PIECE BY PIECE RCA 8,366
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50 36 ONE DIRECTION FOUR SYCO/COLUMBIA 6,833
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— 43 CHASE RICE IGNITE THE NIGHT DACK JANIELS 6,210
Sales Plus Streaming Chart (sales+track equivalent albums+stream equivalent albums)
LW TW Artist / Album Label SPS Index % Change [TEAs/SEAS, Position Change]
1 1 KENDRICK LAMAR TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY TDE/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE 118,199 -67% [18K, 0]
2 2 EMPIRE CAST SOUNDTRACK, SEASON 1 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX/COLUMBIA 60,764 -43% [11K, 0]
5 3 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 BIG MACHINE 52,356 -5% [19K, +2]
3 4 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY SOUNDTRACK REPUBLIC 49,140 -33% [24.5K, +5]
7 5 ED SHEERAN X ATLANTIC 47,078 1% [22.3K, +3]
9 6 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR CAPITOL 45,920 17% [14K, 0]
— 7 ACTION BRONSON MR. WONDERFUL ATLANTIC 43,303 — [3.4K, -4]
6 8 DRAKE IF YOU’RE READING THIS, IT’S TOO LATE YMCMB/REPUBLIC 42,428 -18% [23.5K, +5]
8 9 MAROON 5 V 222/INTERSCOPE 40,545 -4% [22.5K, +6]
— 10 KIDZ BOP KIDS KIDZ BOP 28 RAZOR & TIE 39,488 — [2K, -6]
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26 25 NOW 53 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW/LEGACY 17,117 -9% [0, -9]
— 26 NASHVILLE CAST NASHVILLE: ON THE RECORD VOLUME 2 BIG MACHINE 16,996 — [5K, -2]
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42 31 ONE DIRECTION FOUR SYCO/COLUMBIA 15,090 47% [8K, +5]
24 32 KELLY CLARKSON PIECE BY PIECE RCA 14,009 -33% [5.4K, -3]
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49 37 FIFTH HARMONY REFLECTION EPIC 11,418 18% [Off Sales Chart]
