Alabama Shakes 'Sound and Color' News: Band’s Sophomore Album Rises to the Top of Billboard’s Top 200
According to Billboard, Alabama Shakes have ridden their new album, "Sound and Color," all the way to the top of the charts, having moved 91,000 albums during the week. This also includes selling 27,000 songs and streaming 3.6 million times.
That's very impressive stats for the group, whose sound can be classified as a bluesy-rock style. This gigantic leap in the charts comes after their set at the three-day southern California Coachella festival, which many other bands played at as well.
Its album was released a little over a week ago on April 21 by ATO Records, has reached No. 1 on the charts and is the best week of sales the band has ever had, according to data provided by Nielson Music.
In comparison, the band's first album in 2012, "Boys and Girls," peaked at No. 6, which was a year after it was released in March 2013. Its No. 1 single, "Hold On," which topped the charts in June 2012, also garnered a Grammy nomination in the category of Best Rock Performance. Overall, the album has sold 744,000 copies.
The first single of its new record has been stuck behind Mumford and Sons' "Believe" for the last six weeks, giving it a secure No. 2 spot on the charts.
The Billboard Top 200 uses data for TEA (Track Equivalent Albums) and SEA (Streaming Equivalent Albums) to rank each band. Although most of the data that shot it to No. 1 came from the TEA data, the SEA data still proved strong and even gave the band a total of 97,000 sold units at the end of the week. Not bad for a small independent band partnered with a small record label.
ATO Records has actually had one other chart-topping album with Radiohead's "In Rainbows," which topped the list in January 2008. "Sound and Color" is an independently-distributed album that has reached the same milestone Jason Aledan's "Old Boots, New Dirt" did in October 2014.
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