Ozzy Osbourne achieved his highest charting debut ever in 2007 with Black Rain, which opened at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 152,000 sold. This week, the Ozzman matches that number again, entering the Billboard 200 at No. 3 with Ordinary Man.
Ordinary Man is Ozzy Osbourne’s eighth Top 10 album. What does it take to be No. 3 this week? 77,000 equivalent album units, 65k of which were album sales.
BTS has this week’s No. 1 album. 422k equivalent albums, 347k of them sales.
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Rolling Stone Artists 500
Total Songs Streamed
February 21 - February 27, 2020
61. Queen (21.7M song streams)↑
63. Panic! At The Disco (21.5M)↑
83. twenty one pilots (18.2M)
84. 5 Seconds of Summer (17.9M)↑
113. Linkin Park (14.8M)↑
122. Red Hot Chili Peppers (14.5M) ↑
126. AC/DC (14.2M)↑
127. Metallica (14.2M)↓
132. Five Finger Death Punch (13.8M)↓
134. Green Day (13.6M)↓
150. Ozzy Osbourne (12.3M)↑
163. Fall Out Boy (11.9M)↓
180. Nirvana (11M)↑
192. Blink-182 (10.5M)↓
203. Shinedown (10M)↓
209. Slipknot (9.8M)↓
217. My Chemical Romance (9.4M)↓
219. Three Days Grace (9.4M)↓
226. Disturbed (9.2M)↓
235. Breaking Benjamin (8.9M)↓
242. Guns N’ Roses (8.6M) ↓
252. Weezer (8.4M)↓
257. Aerosmith (8.2M)↓
261. Tool (8.1M)↑
262. Sublime (8M)↑
263. Pearl Jam (8M)↑
282. Paramore (7.6M)↓
306. Skillet (7.2M)↓
337. Van Halen (6.7M)↓
353. The Strokes (6.4M)↓
357. Bon Jovi (6.4M)↑
362. Radiohead (6.3M)↑
372. U2 (6M)↓
381. Falling In Reverse (5.9M)↓
386. Nickelback (5.8M)↓
392. Def Leppard (5.6M)
398. Godsmack (5.6M)↑
405. Rage Against The Machine (5.5M)↓
421. Theory Of A Deadman (5.3M)↓
423. A Day To Remember (5.3M)↓
428. Alice In Chains (5.3M)↑
429. Mötley Crüe (5.3M)↑
432. Hollywood Undead (5.2M)↓
459. I Prevail (4.9M)↑
464. 3 Doors Down (4.8M)↓
466. Seether (4.8M)↓
470. Rush (4.7M)↓
473. Smashing Pumpkins (4.7M)↑
483. The Amity Affliction (4.6M)
486. Papa Roach (4.5M)↑
The Top 5 is comprised of Youngboy Never Broke Again, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Roddy Rich, Post Malone, and Drake. Click here to see the entire list.
Top 25 Rock & Metal Albums (UK)🇬🇧
Ozzy Osbourne, Ordinary Man
Biff Byford, School of Hard Knocks
Heat, H.E.A.T. II
Green Day, Father of All…
Collateral, Collateral
The Amity Affliction, Everyone Loves You…
Various Artists, Planet Rock
Nirvana, Nevermind
Demons & Wizards, III
The Hu, The Gereg
Pendragon, Love Over Fear
Polaris, The Death of Me
Those Damn Crows, Point of No Return
Blackwater Conspiracy, Two Tails…
Delain, Apocalypse & Chill
Hollywood Undead, New Empire - Vol. 1
My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade
Magnum, Serpent Kings
Slipknot, We Are Not Your Kind
Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction
Sepultura, Quadra
Green Day, American Idiot
Kvelertak, Splid
Rush, The Studio Albums 1989 - 2007
Avantasia, Moonglow
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