GIST: Solange Earns Her First No. 1 Album on the Billboard 200 Chart with 'A Seat at the Table'
Congrats to Solange!
The singer has earned her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with ‘A Seat at the Table.’
The album moved 72,000 album units in its first week. 46,000 of those
units were pure album sales.
Bon Iver’s ‘22, A Million,’ came in at No. 2 with 71,000 units (58,000 in album sales).
via Billboard:
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption,
which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA)
and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Oct. 22-dated chart
(where A Seat at the Table bows at No. 1) will be posted in full
toBillboard’s websites on Tuesday, Oct. 11.
On Oct. 4, industry prognosticators suggested
that A Seat at the Table would earn around 60,000 units in its first
week — perhaps 5,000 behind 22, A Million. Solange’s set continued to
build steam as the tracking week came to a close, surpassing its
first-week forecast.
As previously noted, traditional
album sales comprised 46,000 of A Seat at the Table’s total equivalent
album units earned in its first week. In addition, it brought in another
3,000 in track equivalent album units, and 24,000 in streaming
equivalent album units. That latter sum translates to 35.7 million
on-demand streams for the album’s songs on streaming services. (It was
the second-most streamed album of the week on the chart, beaten only by Drake’s streaming powerhouse Views, with 51.9 million streams for its songs.)
As for Bon Iver’s 22, A Million, it
debuts with 71,000 units (comprised of 58,000 in pure album sales, 1,000
in track equivalent album units and 12,000 in streaming equivalent
album units). Its 12,000 streaming equivalent units figure represents
17.5 million streams of the album’s songs for the week.
22, A Million is the top selling
album of the week, and starts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. The
list ranks the week’s best-selling albums by pure album sales.
The set was released on Sept. 30
through Jagjaguwar Records on CD, vinyl LP, digital download, cassette;
and through streaming services. It follows Bon Iver’s self-titled
release in 2011, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 off a start of
104,000 copies sold. The set won the 2011 Grammy Award for best
alternative album, the same year the band took home the best new artist
trophy.
As for A Seat at the Table, its
release was only announced on Sept. 27, and it reached digital retailers
and streaming services three days later on Sept. 30. It was released by
Saint Records (Solange’s own label) through Columbia Records. A
physical CD release of the album is scheduled for Nov. 18.
Solange made her Billboard 200 chart
debut on the Feb. 8, 2003-dated list, withSolo Star, which debuted and
peaked at No. 49 that same week. Five years later, she notched her first
top 10 album, with Sol-Angel & The Hadley St. Dreams, which bowed
and peaked at No. 9 on the Sept. 13, 2008 list. A little more than four
years after that, her True album debuted and peaked at No. 157 on the
Dec. 15, 2012.
As Solange and her sister Beyonce
have now both earned No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, they are among
the few pairs of solo siblings to have scored No. 1s. Previously,
Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson managed the feat, as did Master P and
his brother Silkk the Shocker.
She deserves it!
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