

Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album debuted atop the weekly Billboard 200 albums chart dated Jan. MRC Data’s sales, streaming and airplay data is used to compile Billboard ’s weekly charts. MRC Data (formerly Nielsen Music and SoundScan) began tracking music sales in 1991. Programmed streams are not included in any of the data in this story. All numbers cited in this story are rounded, and for the U.S. (UGC streams are not factored into any of Billboard ’s weekly charts.)įor the sake of clarity, equivalent album units do not include listening to music on broadcast radio or digital radio broadcasts. Album titles and album chart rankings by equivalent album units do not include UGC (user-generated content) streams, but UGC streams are included in MRC Data’s industry volume numbers. Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album, or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

30, 2021.Įquivalent album units – for album titles and chart rankings cited below (but not industry volume numbers) – comprise traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). MRC Data’s 2021 tracking year ran from Jan. The last time an album not by a solo male was tops for the year was in 2015, when Adele’s 25 ruled. Adele, Justin Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo, Drake and The Weeknd Top MRC Data's 2021 Canadian Year-End…Ģ021 also marks the sixth straight year a solo male has MRC Data’s top album, following Lil Baby’s My Turn ( 2020), Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding ( 2019), Drake’s Scorpion ( 2018), Ed Sheeran’s ÷ ( Divide) ( 2017) and Drake’s Views ( 2016).
