official chart HDD: US Top 50 YTD Albums

[Hector]

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Billie Eilish (#2 album with 2.2m; #3 song with “bad guy,” 6m song activity; six Grammy noms including all top categories). Eilish’s arrival occasioned genuine excitement across the board, broadening the sound of modern pop and streaming as much as any trap record. Her story accompanies the latest huge chapter in the staggering saga of Gaga, A Star Is Born (#8 album, 1.1m, #20 song, three Grammy noms); another exceptional year for J. Cole (#10 song “Middle Child,” #23 album with Dreamville comp, five Grammy noms) a breakout for DaBaby (#13 song “Suge,” two Grammy noms); and standout numbers for Summer Walker, Ella Mai, Benny Blanco and roster stalwarts Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons, among others. Interscope scored the #2 overall rank at radio with a 13 share and the #3 spot at Pop and Rhythm radio. This is what a label firing on all cylinders looks like. Expect a fearsome beast in 2020 as well.

 

WHALE WATCH: Republic (8.1) boss Monte Lipman, the only major-label CEO who came up in the radio-promo silo, had another blockbuster year, with three of the Top 4 albums and four of the Top 10 songs of 2019 and #1 at radio overall (with a 19 share) as well as at Pop and Rhythmic. He signed Taylor Swift and accompanied her to the biggest chart bow of the year (an 885k #1, followed by Grammy SOTY love) and #4 album YTD with about 2m; he helped make Ariana Grande a true superstar and streaming giant (in league with her low-profile, publicity-shy manager, Scooter Braun); Ari had the #3 album, also around 2m, and multiple huge singles, led by “7 rings” with nearly 6m in song activity, making it Top 5 for the year. One can only imagine Monte navigating the tightrope between Ari, Scooter, Taylor and Scott Borchetta with his confident, upbeat rap—“Don’t worry, this record is a smash and we’re going to do everything we possibly can to make it your biggest of all time.”

 

Add the triumphant return of the Jonas Brothers (with a Top 15 album and a monster cut in “Sucker” with nearly 3.5m) and the breakout of hip-hop wunderkind Lil Tecca (a Top 10 track with 3.8m+), and it all adds up to a colossal year.

 

Of all the majors, the Tower has been singularly effective in breaking pop and adult records, as the explosive success of Halsey (#7 song YTD “Without Me,” 4.8m in song activity), Marshmello/Bastille’s “Happier” (#11 song, 3.8m), Song of the Year nominee Lewis Capaldi (whose “Someone You Loved” has 450m streams), and prior Grammy champ Sam Smith (nearly 450m streams) amply demonstrate. Shawn Mendes, who reached superstar status this year with another megahit (#16 “Señorita,” 3.4m, one Grammy nom).

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[genio]

They really put the Sweetener cover instead of the TU,N one?

[Feanor]

Lover  

[Ramos]

ASIB

[wxvii]

3 minutes ago, Genio said:

They really put the Sweetener cover instead of the TU,N one?

I’m starting to think they’re doing that on purpose dd

[Temporal]

UMG at 50+% market share

[FAME.]

INDIGO 

Top 20

R&B album of the year 

[JawBreaker]

I thought that Lover was closer to 1M pure guess not 

[Dr.Cake]

HDD had ASIB at #24 last year with 520,000 albums sold and this year at #8 with 470,000 albums sold.

 

That’s a total of 990,000 pure album sales, but the album crossed the 1M mark during spring-summer of this year. What happened!? 

[peterstyles13]

The numbers are off? Lover is at over 2M using HDD's own numbers

 

Edit: Nevermind, this is apparently numbers from the week ending November 21, otherwise Lover would be #3 right now. 

Edited December 10, 2019 by peterstyles13

[Denim]

Gaga !!!
 

Also the sweetener image

 

[Ribs]

The way Lover has passed TU,N

[Illuminati]

Lover and ASIB

[HolyYoursTruly]

4 minutes ago, Ribs said:

The way Lover has passed TU,N

3. thank u, next

4. Lover

Almost made it with those million remixes and billion performances and trillion bundles and editions  

[Ribs]

3 minutes ago, HolyYoursTruly said:

3. thank u, next

4. Lover

Almost made it with those million remixes and billion performances and trillion bundles and editions  

 

21 minutes ago, peterstyles13 said:

Edit: Nevermind, this is apparently numbers from the week ending November 21, otherwise Lover would be #3 right now. 

SUFFER 

[inshadesofcool]

9 minutes ago, HolyYoursTruly said:

3. thank u, next

4. Lover

Almost made it with those million remixes and billion performances and trillion bundles and editions  

 

27 minutes ago, peterstyles13 said:

The numbers are off? Lover is at over 2M using HDD's own numbers

 

Edit: Nevermind, this is apparently numbers from the week ending November 21, otherwise Lover would be #3 right now. 

not to mention that remixes don't count toward album sales unless they get added to the album itself... which they're not but it's ok I would be mad too if my fav's "peak" era was outsold effortlessly in just three months by someone else's supposed "flop" era  

[KillingYourCareer]

Ella Mai the superior version of Summer Walker did THAT

[mcohen]

31 minutes ago, HolyYoursTruly said:

Almost made it with those million remixes and billion performances and trillion bundles and editions  

"Week ending 11/21"

 

Lover already surpassed 

 

ALBUM SPS WEEK 47

 

Rank - Estimated 2019 EAS - TITLE - Artist

 

01 - 2,663,000 - HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING - Post Malone

02 - 2,211,000 - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO - Billie Eilish

03 - 1,964,000 - LOVER - Taylor Swift

04 - 1,958,000 - THANK U NEXT - Ariana Grande

 

Also: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OT - Taylor with only 3 months 

 

Women winning 

Edited December 10, 2019 by mcohen

[KillingYourCareer]

Just noticed Taylor's pure sales total at 947k. It did 31k this week, so in two weeks (or three - before the new year anyway) it'll cross the million mark!

[Oxygen]

Three women in the top 5, love that  

[chaneloberlin]

Billie stomping on Ariana who's neck is on Taylor's throat

 

How cute

[CandleGuy]

the way a post malone 2016 release has higher sps than 99% of our faves 2019 releases 

[Karasu]

3 hours ago, JawBreaker said:

I thought that Lover was closer to 1M pure guess not 

It is, it's like only 53k away from 1M pure nnn It will get there anytime soon

[ChrisTheLoner]

Ari, Billie, and Taylor in the top 5

 

Lover being right on TUN's heels despite being released months after

 

But wow at only 14 albums being above 1M SPS

[JawBreaker]

 

1 hour ago, Theus said:

It is, it's like only 53k away from 1M pure nnn It will get there anytime soon

actually with hdd numbers it surpassed it already. Now we just have to wait for BB confirmation