Imagine Dragons manages to hold on for the number one album of the week for both the sales and combined chart. It helped greatly that their sales totals were in the SPS expected range. They far out-sold Drake on the albums front, but he had monster TEAs/SEAs. This is Imagine Dragons first number one album.
As for Drake…dude! Front load those sales. His drop in sales to the second week was 74% which is normal enough, but he only had three sales days the previous week. If he had had the usual six days, his drop would presumably much higher. And there are no pre-sales front-loading it either. Drake has his fans and they buy his album immediately when it comes out, but maybe he only has his fans? He did well on the singles front, so time will tell. Let’s give radio play some time to start supporting sales.
Fifty Shades of Grey slid to third on the chart, but look at the hold-over numbers. They only dropped 45% between first and second week. Impressive. The drop was even smaller on the combined chart because Ellie Goulding’s track from the album is kicking (spanking?) all kinds of butt. It does seem that the producers made up for a thin plot with a deep bench of good songs. I think we might see this album around for a while.
Taylor is fourth again this week while Ed and Sam huddle around her. This week Sam and Ed trade spots between the sales and the combined spots. Maroon 5, Fifth Harmony and One Direction all see big gains from TEAs/SEAs. Carrie? Not so much.
Sales Only Chart
LW TW Artist / Album Label Sales Index % Change
— 1 IMAGINE DRAGONS SMOKE + MIRRORS KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE 169,688 —
1 2 DRAKE IF YOU’RE READING THIS, IT’S TOO LATE YMCMB/REPUBLIC 128,707 -74%
2 3 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY SOUNDTRACK REPUBLIC 113,424 -45%
4 4 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 BIG MACHINE 55,618 -43%
3 5 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR CAPITOL 46,781 -66%
5 6 ED SHEERAN X ATLANTIC 44,195 -51%
6 7 NOW 53 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW/LEGACY 38,928 -47%
— 8 AARON WATSON UNDERDOG BIG LABEL 26,072 —
9 9 MEGHAN TRAINOR TITLE EPIC 23,947 -56%
7 10 2015 GRAMMY NOMINEES VARIOUS ARTISTS RCA 23,392 -67%
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13 15 MAROON 5 V 222/INTERSCOPE 15,627 -54%
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33 37 CARRIE UNDERWOOD GREATEST HITS: DECADE #1 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 6,826 -39%
45 38 ONE DIRECTION FOUR SYCO/COLUMBIA 6,483 -32%
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50 42 NOW 52 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 5,760 -31%
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37 44 FIFTH HARMONY REFLECTION EPIC 5,320 -50%
Combined/SPS Chart
LW TW Artist / Album Label SPS Index % Change [TEAs/SEAS, Position Change)
— 1 IMAGINE DRAGONS SMOKE + MIRRORS KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE 194,130 — [24.5K, 0]
1 2 DRAKE IF YOU’RE READING THIS, IT’S TOO LATE YMCMB/REPUBLIC 186,277 -65.61% [57.5K, 0]
2 3 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY SOUNDTRACK REPUBLIC 162,908 -34.29% [49.5K, 0]
5 4 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 BIG MACHINE 82,888 -36.52% [27K, 0]
4 5 ED SHEERAN X ATLANTIC 75,707 -44.32% [31.5K, +1]
3 6 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR CAPITOL 70,314 -61.55% [23.5K, -1]
10 7 MAROON 5 V 222/INTERSCOPE 44,412 -33.24% [28.5, +8]
6 8 MEGHAN TRAINOR TITLE EPIC 40,612 -46.66% [17K, +1]
12 9 NICKI MINAJ PINKPRINT YMCMB/REPUBLIC 40,366 -15.19% [24.4K +5]
7 10 NOW 53 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW/LEGACY 38,928 -46.66% [0K, =3]
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27 27 FIFTH HARMONY REFLECTION EPIC 14,346 -30.74% [9K, +17]]
32 28 ONE DIRECTION FOUR SYCO/COLUMBIA 13,929 -23.32% [7.5K, +10]
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42 38 CARRIE UNDERWOOD GREATEST HITS: DECADE #1 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 10,420 -32.04% [3.5K, -1]
