'Empire' Edges Madonna for Billboard 200 Top Spot, but Did New Metrics Steal a Landma
 

This week's Billboard 200 was topped by the Empire Soundtrack: Season 1, but it touches off an interesting battle between it and Madonna's Rebel Heart, which finished **. 2. The current Billboard metrics place Empire at **. 1 with 130,000 "equivalent" albums sold?a count that includes total single downloads and album streams as well. Madge's album only sold 121,000 "equivalent" albums but u**fficial tracking of pure album sales?or what the Billboard 200 used to be based on?suggest that Rebel Heart actually sold more albums than Empire did as a whole.

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