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Billboard Magazine CHART BEAT Setting The Pace Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” continues to crown Billboard’s airplay charts, becoming her first No. 1 on Adult 29% 16% 28% Top 40 (see page 68). The Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack hit leads THIS WEEK THIS WEEK THIS WEEK the Mainstream Top 40 tally for a third week and Dance/Mix Show Goulding Airplay for a fifth frame. It topped the all-format Radio Songs chart SILENTO’S “WATCH ME” JESS GLYNNE’S “HOLD MY DAVID GUETTA’S “HEY MAMA” dated May 2. The track’s success should provide solid momentum for SALES HAND” STREAMS AUDIENCE Goulding’s upcoming music. According to her parent label Interscope, 26,000 972,000 43.8 MILLION the British pop singer, 28, is in the studio with a new single expected for a fall release. —GARY TRUST MARKET WATCH A WEEKLY NATIONAL MUSIC SALES REPORT Weekly Unit Sales Zac Brown Band Lands ALBUMS DIGITAL DIGITAL ALBUMS* TRACKS This Week 4,224,000 1,827,000 18,626,000 First No. 1 Country Album Last Week 4,232,000 1,913,000 19,435,000 The group’s new set, Jekyll + Hyde, rules the Billboard 200 thanks Change -0.2% -4.5% -4.2% to chart-topping singles on both country and rock airplay charts This Week Last Year 4,379,000 1,914,000 21,920,000 Change -3.5% -4.5% -15.0% BY KEITH CAULFIELD *Digital album sales are also counted within album sales. Weekly Album Sales (Million Units) Rock tally, while “Homegrown” led Country 2015 Airplay for three weeks in April. Zac Brown 2014 15 Band is only the second act to ever reach No. 1 10 on both of those charts (following Bon Jovi). 5 4.2M Jekyll + Hyde is the fi rst country album to hit 0 No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since 2014, when Z J F M A M J J A S O N D J the chart housed a trio of country releases in YEAR-TO-DATE ZAC BROWN BAND COLLECTS ITS THIRD back-to-back-to-back weeks from Oct. 18 to Overall Unit Sales No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as its new album, Nov. 1, with Blake Shelton’s Bringing Back the Jekyll + Hyde, debuts atop the chart. The set, Sunshine, Jason Aldean’s Old Boots, New Dirt 2014 2015 CHANGE Albums 84,829,000 82,632,000 -2.6% ES which arrived April 28, sold 228,000 equivalent and Florida Georgia Line’s Anything Goes. (Of album units in the week ending May 3, accord- course, had Taylor Swift opted to make 1989 a Digital Tracks 423,988,000 378,951,000 -10.6% ing to Nielsen Music. country album, there would already have been Store Singles 840,000 1,350,000 60.7% Jekyll + Hyde marks the octet’s third straight a No. 1 country eff ort this year, as she ruled for Total 509,657,000 462,933,000 -9.2% full-length studio release to reach 11 nonconsecutive frames in 2014 Album w/TEA* 127,227,800 120,527,100 -5.3% *Includes track-equivalent album sales (TEA) with 10 track downloads equivalent to No. 1, following the chart-topping and 2015.) one album sale. debuts of Uncaged (in 2012) and Remarkably, Zac Brown Band You Get What You Give (2010). remains the only country group Album Sales The new set moved 214,000 in with more than three members to 2014 84.8 Million traditional album sales, marking lead the chart. The only other coun- 2015 82.6 Million the group’s second-largest sales try groups to hit No. 1 have all been frame (following the 234,000 sales duos or trios: Florida Georgia launch of Uncaged). Line, Sugarland, Rascal Flatts, Lady Sales by Album Format Also notable: The project is the act’s fi rst Antebellum and Dixie Chicks. On the other 2014 2015 CHANGE album after departing Atlantic Records for hand, it’s fairly common for pop-rock groups CD 43,913,000 39,989,000 -8.9% a new deal with Southern Ground, John to dominate the tally. Since the top of 2014 Digital 37,933,000 38,439,000 1.3% Varvatos Records, Big Machine Label Group there have been leaders from 5 Seconds of Vinyl 2,794,000 4,021,000 43.9% and Republic Records. The set’s singles both Summer, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Other 189,000 184,000 -2.6% reached No. 1 on two diff erent format charts: Maroon 5, Slipknot, One Direction, Fall “Heavy Is the Head,” featuring Chris Cornell, is Out Boy and Imagine Dragons — all groups Sales by Album Category 2014 2015 CHANGE SPEARS: RCA. BROWN: SOUTHERN REEL. GOULDING: M. DAVID BENETT/GETTY IMAGES. SILENTO: MRHQFILMZ. GLYNNE: JASON MERRITT/GETTY IMAG GUETTA: GABRIEL OLSEN/GETTY IMAGES. CRANE: TRAVIS SCHNEIDER. MCKINNEY: DEWAYNE ROGERS. SUSPECT: SHERVIN LAINEZ spending its second week atop the Mainstream with at least four members. 0 Current 41,254,000 39,878,000 -3.3% Catalog 43,575,000 42,754,000 -1.9% Deep Catalog 35,644,000 35,470,000 -0.5% Current AlbumAlbum Sales REACHING HIGHER 2014 41.3 Million Brooklyn trio (by way of Cape Cod, 2015 39.9 Million Mass.) Highly Suspect bullets at No. 24 in its fourth week on Mainstream Rock with “Lydia” (up Catalog Album Sales 23 percent in plays). Johnny Stevens and twin brothers Ryan and Rich 2014 43.6 Million Meyer combine for the act’s anthemic 2015 42.8 Million but grungy mix. The song previews their debut album, Mister Asylum, Nielsen Music counts as current only sales within the first 18 months of an album’s release (12 months for classical and jazz albums). Titles that stay in the top half of the Billboard 200, due July 17 on Lyor Cohen’s 300 however, remain as current. Titles older than 18 months are catalog. Deep catalog is a subset of catalog for titles out more than 36 months. Entertainment label. —GARY TRUST, McKinney Highly Suspect For week ending May 3, 2015. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national KEITH CAULFIELD and EMILY WHITE sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected by Nielsen Music. MAY 16, 2015 | WWW.BILLBOARD.COM 59.
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