Q&A TOP ALBUM SALES ™ HEATSEEKERS ALBUMS™ LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON Tamia MARK LIDDELL WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHART WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHART HOT #1 #1 SHOT 1 1 WK MUSE Drones 1 NEW 1 1 WK MORGAN PAGE DC To Light 1 Love Life, which debuts DEBUT 1 HELIUM-3/WARNER BROS. NETTWERK at No. 15 on Top Album TROY AVE Major Without A Deal 2 OF MONSTERS AND MEN Beneath The Skin 1 2 Sales and No. 27 on REPUBLIC BSB RECORDS/EMPIRE RECORDINGS the Billboard 200, is YOUNG GUNS Ones And Zeros 1 THE ROLLING STONES 3 Sticky Fingers 1 WIND-UP your sixth album since THE ROLLING STONES/CAPITOL/UME debuting in 1998. How FFS FFS 1 TAYLOR SWIFT 5 1989 33 DOMINO has your approach to BIG MACHINE/BMLG SONNY LANDRETH Bound By The Blues 1 recording changed over FLORENCE + THE MACHINE How Big How Blue How Beautiful 2 MASCOT/PROVOGUE time? REPUBLIC FFS Super THE WILLIS CLAN Heaven 4 I always unplug from ROYAL BLOOD Royal Blood 6 WILLIS CLAN everything for at least IMPERIAL GALACTIC/BLACK MAMMOTH/WARNER BROS. Combo HONEYHONEY 3 1 a month. But this was VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That’s What I Call Country, Volume 8 1 ROUNDER/CONCORD SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME Debuts different. We rented out CHRIS MCCLARNEY Everything And Nothing Less 1 JESUS CULTURE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG the two rooms at the studio, ZAC BROWN BAND JEKYLL + HYDE 7 JOHN VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG/REPUBLIC As dance DJ-producer and I was writing and CAM Welcome To Cam Country (EP) 1 ARISTA NASHVILLE/SMN Morgan Page arrives recording all in the same A THOUSAND HORSES Southernality 1 REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG at No. 1 on Heatseekers shot. I finished this project ALINA BARAZ & GALIMATIAS Urban Flora (EP) 4 GG ULTRA Albums with DC to Light, in 10 days, which was scary SOUNDTRACK Pitch Perfect 2 5 REPUBLIC/UME the top 10 also welcomes — I didn’t know how to feel ARMORED SAINT Win Hands Down 2 METAL BLADE an alt-rock supergroup and about that. I came home ED SHEERAN ¡ x 51 ATLANTIC/AG GLASS ANIMALS Zaba 49 a rising country act. and told my husband, and WOLF TONE/HARVEST At No. 4, FFS (above) — he’s like, “Well, Jay Z did A$AP ROCKY AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP 3 TOM HOLKENBORG AKA JUNKIE XL A$AP WORLDWIDE/POLO GROUNDS/RCA Mad Max: Fury Road (Soundtrack) 5 pairing Franz Ferdinand The Blueprint in a weekend.” WATERTOWER with Sparks — starts with So I’m like, “OK, I’m done!” MUMFORD & SONS Wilder Mind 6 GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE HALSEY Room 93 (EP) 16 ASTRALWERKS its self-titled album, selling Is it hard to unplug from TWENTY ONE PILOTS Blurryface 4 JEDI MIND TRICKS The Thief And The Fallen 3,000 copies in the week 0-000-000-0=-0000000000FUELED BY RAMEN/AG 000-000002 ENEMY SOIL 0.0.,000000z0 the outside world for a ending June 14, according ;;; ;; TAMIA Love Life 1 OLD DOMINION Old Dominion (EP) to Nielsen Music. Sparks a0a0=0 month? 2 0 PLUS 1/DEF JAM REESMACK/RCA NASHVILLE/SMN -0000a00-2-0 I’m not fully unplugged — I made its Billboard chart SAM HUNT 0 Montevallo 33 UNCLE LUCIUS Light 1 debut back in 1974 with still can’t live without my MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN BOO CLAP/THIRTY TIGERS best friend, my phone. I the Kimono My House WILLIE NELSON / MERLE HAGGARD Django And Jimmie 2 KURT ELLING Passion World 1 unplug in terms of music. LEGACY CONCORD JAZZ/CONCORD album, which bowed on the Sometimes I listen to Billboard 200 on Aug. 24 of J FERNANDEZ Many Levels Of Laughter 1 TREMONTI Cauterize 1 JOYFUL NOISE different types of music, or FRET12 that year. Franz Ferdinand’s talk radio if I don’t really TA-KU Songs To Make Up To (EP) 1 chart history is of a more JOSH GROBAN Stages 7 FUTURE CLASSIC/FOOL’S GOLD at least that are all genres albums across top-selling The week’s want to hear any rhythm. REPRISE/WARNER BROS. recent vintage, as its Country R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Top ard 200 or the top 10 of Top It’s becoming a lot more COIN COIN 1 self-titled debut launched MEGHAN TRAINOR 0 Title 22 STARTIME INT’L/COLUMBIA difficult. EPIC nearly 30 years later, on KAMASI WASHINGTON The Epic 4 Heatseekers Albums and Nielsen Music, Inc.s Global Media, LLC All rights reserved. VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 54 6 BRAINFEEDER You’ve been recording SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL/UME and the Billboard 200 on since the early ’90s. How LORNA SHORE Psalms 1 ALBUMS: CATALOG TOP WORKHORSE/DENSITY March 27, 2004. SOUNDTRACK 0 Fifty Shades Of Grey 18 is R&B different now? UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/REPUBLIC FFS just started a tour on R&B doesn’t get as much LANY i loved you. (EP) 1 Album Sales LANY SAM SMITH 2 In The Lonely Hour 52 June 16 and has dates lined support as other genres CAPITOL MISS FAME Beauty Marked 1 up through Sept. 12. No U.S. now. I do believe there’s SIDECAR BOOSIE BADAZZ Touch Down 2 Cause Hell 3 stops are currently on the a lot of great R&B out TRILL/ATLANTIC/AG schedule. there, great artists who ALABAMA SHAKES Sound & Color 8 Further down the chart, are continually working ATO country singer-songwriter - - and touring. But it00-00-027: doesn’t 2015 000 2'-'0000g00004A00TOP CATALOG ALBUMS™ --0 MAROON 5 V 41 Cam debuts at No. 9 get the platform that other 222/INTERSCOPE/IGA ARTIST CERTIFICATION WKS. ON ;;,0:;0;..2.2=:20 27 June 3ttm42RW18RAIPITitle with EP WelcometO$51430Z400,a31 to Cam genres do, and it’s a shame. CHART FALL OUT BOY American Beauty / American Psycho 21 IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL DCD2/ISLAND Country (2,000 sold, up The more we support it, the #1 THE ROLLING STONES 1 WK 3 Sticky Fingers 13 1,292 percent). The set more people will demand SOUNDTRACK ¡ Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 THE ROLLING STONES/CAPITOL/UME 46 in the top 100 of Billbo appeared never acts, defined as those who have developing that R&B get a better MARVEL/HOLLYWOOD surges in its 11th week on © 2015, Prometheu for complete rules and explanations. billboard.com/biz THE ROLLING STONES Sticky Fingers (Super Deluxe) 1 platform. —Elias Leight THE ROLLING STONES/CAPITOL/UME sale as Cam (real name: DRAKE If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late 18 YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/REPUBLIC Camaron Ochs) benefits SOUNDTRACK ¡ Pitch Perfect 42 UME from a June 10 visit to the BRANTLEY GILBERT 0 Just As I Am 42 VALORY/BMLG METALLICA 6 Master Of Puppets 476 syndicated radio program BLACKENED/WARNER BROS. The Bobby Bones Show. KENDRICK LAMAR To Pimp A Butterfly 13 TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA EAGLES t Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 403 The EP also debuts at No. ASYLUM/ELEKTRA/RHINO GALANTIS Pharmacy 1 31 on Top Country Albums, BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC/AG IMAGINE DRAGONS 2 Night Visions 32 top-selling albums by new or The week’s KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA while her single “Burning ERIC CHURCH ¡ The Outsiders 69 House” arrives at No. 43 on EMI NASHVILLE/UMGN FLEETWOOD MAC 8 Greatest Hits 527 WARNER BROS. Hot Country Songs. THE ROLLING STONES Sticky Fingers (Super Deluxe) 1 —Keith Caulfield ata as compiled by Nielsen Music. See Charts on Legend THE ROLLING STONES/CAPITOL/UME BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers 1167 by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. ranked are Albums. Titles then ineligible to appear on Heatseekers t albums are TUFF GONG/ISLAND/UME HEATSEEKERS ALBUMS: HEATSEEKERS BARENAKED LADIES Silverball 2 METALLICA 8 ...And Justice For All 511 RAISIN’/VANGUARD/WELK BLACKENED/WARNER BROS. LITTLE BIG TOWN Pain Killer 20 TWENTY ONE PILOTS Vessel 13 CAPITOL NASHVILLE/UMGN FUELED BY RAMEN/AG BILLY CURRINGTON Summer Forever 2 EMINEM a The Eminem Show 157 MERCURY NASHVILLE/UMGN WEB/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/UME SOUNDTRACK ¡ Pitch Perfect 105 NEWSBOYS Restart 5 UME SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG ED SHEERAN ¡ + 70 JASON ALDEAN ¡ Old Boots, New Dirt 36 ELEKTRA/AG BROKEN BOW/BBMG FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 2 Here’s To The Good Times 29 IMAGINE DRAGONS Smoke + Mirrors 17 REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG KIDINAKORNER/INTERSCOPE/IGA SOUNDTRACK 4 Frozen 3 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 0 Anything Goes 35 WALT DISNEY REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG KENDRICK LAMAR ¡ good kid, m.A.A.d city 51 YELAWOLF Love Story 8 TOP DAWG/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE/IGA SLUMERICAN/SHADY/INTERSCOPE/IGA LANA DEL REY ¡ Born To Die 39 POLYDOR/INTERSCOPE/IGA HOZIER 0 Hozier 36 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA BRUNO MARS 2 Doo-Wops & Hooligans 137 ELEKTRA/AG HILLSONG UNITED Empires 3 HILLSONG/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG TAYLOR SWIFT 4 Red 34 BIG MACHINE/BMLG JASON DERULO Everything Is 4 2 by sales data as compiled Nielsen Music. ranked all genres, top-selling albums across The week’s BELUGA HEIGHTS/WARNER BROS. BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND ¡ Ultimate Hits 43 HIDEOUT/CAPITOL/UME JAMIE XX In Colour 2 YOUNG TURKS SOUNDTRACK 0 Almost Famous 2 DREAMWORKS/UME TOP ALBUM SALES: TOP subsequen it and the act’s of those levels, any Latin Albums, Christian Albums or Gospel Albums. If a title reaches Albums, Top J. COLE 0 2014 Forest Hills Drive 27 by sales d ranked are of older albums. Titles re-issues 200 or are 100 on the Billboard fallen below No.