The soundtrack to Universal’s Furious 7 has finally moved to the top of the Billboard 200 chart, keeping the new album by band All Time Low from the No. 1 slot.
Furious 7 moved 111,000 units during the week ending on April 12, according to Nielsen Music numbers for Billboard. It is just the fourth soundtrack to top the chart in the past year. The only others to do so are Frozen, Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 and Empire.
The album was really helped out by Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again.” Thanks to Billboard’s wonky new system for the album chart, individual track downloads are considered part of album sales. The 464,000 downloads of that single track equate to 58,000 track equivalent albums, which makes up over half of Furious 7’s total for the week.
Last week, the soundtrack was kept from the top by Wale’s The Album About Nothing. This week, Wale fell out of the Top 10, with The Album coming in at No. 11.
If Billboard was using just album sales for Billboard 200, All Time Low’s Future Hearts would have topped Furious 7. The album moved 80,000 units, with 75,000 of that actual album sales.
There were no other debuts in the Top 10.
Here’s the full top 10: (*new release)
1. Furious 7 (111,000 units)
2. All Time Low, Future Hearts* (80,000)
3. Fifty Shades of Grey (47,000)
4. Maroon 5, V (44,000)
5. Taylor Swift, 1989 (44,000)
6. Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour (43,000)
7. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly (42,000)
8. Drake, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late (40,000)
9. Ed Sheeran, X (39,000)
10. Meghan Trainor, Title (34,000)
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