{"id":2445938,"date":"2019-07-02T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=855009"},"modified":"2019-07-02T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T21:30:01","slug":"rs-charts-the-raconteurs-take-number-one-on-rolling-stone-top-200-albums-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/rs-charts-the-raconteurs-take-number-one-on-rolling-stone-top-200-albums-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"RS Charts: The Raconteurs Take Number One on Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Raconteurs<\/a>\u2019<\/span> Help Us Stranger<\/span><\/em> landed at Number One<\/span> on<\/span> Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em>\u2018s inaugural Top 200 Albums chart<\/a>, earning 85,000 album-equivalent units during the week of June 21st through June 27th. <\/span><\/p>\n

The band\u2019s success was driven by old-fashioned physical album sales, which accounted for more than 95% of the group\u2019s first-week total. The Raconteurs bundled copies of<\/span> Help Us Stranger<\/span><\/em> with tickets to their upcoming tour. In addition, their album amassed 4.2 million streams during its debut week, according to the analytics company Alpha Data, formerly known as BuzzAngle Music. <\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span> Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em> 200 Albums chart tracks the most popular albums of the week in the United States. Albums are ranked by Album Units, a number that combines digital and physical album sales, digital song sales, and audio streams using a custom weighting system. The chart does not include passive listening such as terrestrial radio or digital radio. The<\/span> Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em> 200 Albums chart is updated daily, and each week Rolling Stone<\/em> finalizes and publishes an official version of the chart, covering the seven-day period ending with the previous Thursday. <\/span><\/p>\n

Second on the Rolling Stone<\/em> 200 chart is the wunderkind Lil Nas X<\/a>, whose debut EP<\/span> 7<\/span><\/em> earned 75,000 album units<\/span> during the week of June 21st through June 27th. In direct contrast to the Raconteurs, who relied heavily on physical sales, Lil Nas X was boosted largely by streaming: The songs on<\/span> 7<\/span><\/em> were collectively streamed more than 128 million times. <\/span><\/p>\n

The only other new release to debut in the Top Ten is Gucci Mane<\/a>\u2019s<\/span> Delusions of Grandeur<\/span><\/em>. The rapper\u2019s latest full-length was also driven mostly by streaming, amassing over 38 million streams. The title\u2019s most popular track, \u201cIce,\u201d also debuted on<\/span> Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em>\u2018s Top 100 Songs chart. <\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the Top Ten is populated by holdovers: Billie Eilish\u2019s<\/span> When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?<\/span><\/em>, the Jonas Brothers\u2019<\/span> Happiness Begins<\/span><\/em>, Khalid\u2019s<\/span> Free Spirit<\/span><\/em>, DaBaby\u2019s<\/span> Baby on Baby<\/span><\/em>, Polo G\u2019s<\/span> Die a Legend<\/span><\/em>, Ariana Grande\u2019s<\/span> Thank U, Next<\/span><\/em>, and Luke Combs\u2019<\/span> This One\u2019s for You Too<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Outside of the Top Ten, Willie Nelson\u2019s<\/span> Ride Me Back Home<\/span><\/em> landed at Number 25, with physical sales accounting for nearly all of the country veteran\u2019s first-week total. Prince\u2019s posthumous<\/span> Originals<\/span><\/em> collection clocked in at Number 37, also thanks to a healthy number of physical sales. <\/span><\/p>\n

For more on Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s chart initiative, read our welcome post.<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Raconteurs\u2019 Help Us Stranger landed at Number One on Rolling Stone\u2018s inaugural Top 200 Albums chart, earning 85,000 album-equivalent units during the week of June 21st through June 27th.  The band\u2019s success was driven by old-fashioned physical album sales, which accounted for more than 95% of the group\u2019s first-week total. The Raconteurs bundled copies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 21:08:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}