US Top 10 Albums
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 1-20-23 – 1-26-23
seven weeks at # 1
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 1-13-23 – 1-19-23
SZA starts aiming for the record books
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 1-6-23 – 1-12-23
a great year for the popstar
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 12-30-22 – 1-5-22
a month at the top of the charts
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 12-23-22 – 12-29-22
And so it was Christmas…
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 12-16-22 – 12-22-22
yes, I did snag one, thanks!
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 12-2-22 – 12-8-22
a great way to bring in the new year even if I didn’t snag a tix to her at MSG (yet)
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 12-2-22 – 12-8-22
And it is still very good…
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 11-25-22 – 12-1-22
here comes Santa Claus for the annual chart shake up
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 11-18-22 – 11-24-22
enough about Taylor. #2 – #8 is exceptional
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 11-11-22 – 11-17-22
we can all start calling her Taylor Sintara…
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 11-4-22 – 11-10-22
the knocker is Drake
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 10-28-22 – 11-3-22
when was the last time you listened to Midnights?
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 10-21-22 – 10-27-22
keeping the penthouse warm till Taylor shows up next week
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 10-14-22 – 10-20-22
keeping the penthouse warm till Taylor shows up next week
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 10-7-22 – 10-13-22
mostly post-S.K. sounds
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 9-30-22 – 10-6-22
The U.S. Hispanic population reached 62.1 million in 2020, an increase of 23% over the previous decade
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 9-23-22 – 9-29-22
a scary 87K EAUs
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 9-16-22 – 9-22-22
Total EAUs? 102K
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 9-9-22 – 9-15-22
his summer album outlasting summer…
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 9-2-22 – 9-8-22
somewhat on the anemic side
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 8-26-22 – 9-1-22
self-righteous nonsense
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 8-19-22 – 8-25-22
ten (non-consecutive) weeks at # 1
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 8-12-22 – 8-18-22
the numbers aren’t here
US Top Ten Albums Tracking 8-5-22 – 8-11-22
a snapshot of big hits and high tides, mostly high tides.
US Top 10 Albums Dated August 7th, 2021
on the wings of a Bieber
US Top 10 Albums Dated July 31st, 2021
the cut and paste Pop Smoke isn’t all that
US Top 10 Albums Dated July 24th, 2021
Olivia, Morgan. Dua, and that’s it for now
US Top 10 Albums Dated July 17th, 2021
Olivia back at # 1
US Top 10 Albums Dated July 10th, 2021
a strong selection of modern pop
US Top 10 Albums Dated July 3rd, 2021
She has dazzled 2021 since early January
US Top 10 Albums Dated June 26th, 2021
not as good as the last one
US Top 10 Albums Dated June 19th, 2021
not kiddie bop
US Top 10 Albums Dated June 12th, 2021
Taylor has learnt how to game the charts
US Top 10 Albums Dated June 5th, 2021
a consistent in sound and vision teenager trauma
US Top 10 Albums Dated May 29th, 2021
second best opening week of 21
US Top 10 Albums Dated May 22nd, 2021
an anemic 61K EAUs
US Top 10 Albums Dated May 15th, 2021
most weeks you need double that number to hit # 1
US Top 10 Albums Dated May 8th, 2021
good mixer of drill and trap
US Top 10 Albums Dated May 1st, 2021
Young Thug and label on top
US Top 10 Albums Dated April 17th, 2021
makes the entire Justice-Freedom 2021
US Top 10 Albums 7-4-15
James Taylor’s first number one album ever. How wonderful for him and sure, 96,000 copies sold isn’t exactly the smash Sweet Baby James was 45 years ago, still you play with the hand you’re dealt and this hand finds a terrific album at the top of the charts!
US Top 10 Albums 6-28-15
Just to gain some perspective on all this: 40% of the albums on this list have been on this list all year, and I mean that almost literally, maybe Meghan fell off for a week here and there but that is it. Everything else (where’s Willie?) kasts a week to three tops and disappears. Muse moved 79,000 units. That is anemic.
US Top 10 Albums 6-21-15
When is a hit album not a hit album? When it is by two of countries biggest stars and still only moves 30K units. To put it another way, including Grandkids and Great Grandkids, cousins, seconds cousin, and former bandmate’s next of kin, nobody else actually bought the damn thing. Talk about going to pot.
US Top 10 Albums 6-14-15
I know I am in the minority but I prefer A$AP Rocky’s new one to Kendrick’s new one, not lyrically and not rapping, but sound and song it is a masterful piece of work. Try “Acid”, “Excuse Me” and “Jukebox Joints” and then go in deep. Otherwise, I know a “C+” doesn’t seem impressive, but in the world of CCM it is the equivalent of an “A”
US Top 10 Albums 6-6-15
I bet Twenty-One Pilots are opening up the bottles oc champers, whatever the downsize of the music biz in 2015 might be, the upside is everybody gets to have a # 1 album. This is the seventh by a new act, this year. Meanwhile, in the smaller share US, the Billboards award catapulted Taylor, Meghan and Ed. Finally, Bradley Gilbert has a song with featured singers Justin Moore and Thomas Rhett. Or as we like it to call it, a breesome.
US Top 10 Albums: 5-30-15
Three albums in the top five are soundtracks and I bet more to come as the days roll by: ever since “Twilight” realized it could connect with the youngsters via indie bands, mainstream poppers have been circling the soundtrack compilation and now the eagle has landed. The result? While you might enjoy EDM pop moves on a single, or on a dance floor, one after another for 40 minutes? Not so much. Incubus? I’m a pass.
US Top 10 Albums 5-23-15
Say what you will, and I don’t much like the album myself, still as # 1’s go, Mumford And Sons 231,000 units sold is impressive in a field that has been averaging around the 75K range for a first week top of the charts. Yeah, I’m impressed but bemused. I have zero doubt, if it was their first album nobody would’ve noticed much.
US Top 10 Albums 5-16-15
I hope there never comes a time I my life, even if I am no longer writing about music, but merely a civilian buying tickets to Taylor Swift concerts like all you plebs (actually, I am a civilian buying Taylor tickets like all you plebs), when I can look at the names Zac Brown and Josh Groban at the top of the charts and not throw up in my mouth.
US Top 10 Albums 5-9-15
This is a little less volatile than usual, with only Alabama Shakes the shocker, and even AS only shifted 96K “equibalent units”. But this is a sort of quietly indiffrent week, backed by two soundtracks, and still, from 2015: Taylor, Sam, Ed and Meghan, plus Drake who will be holding up the new album now. Sam Hunt is unlistenable.