Weekly current mktshare

YOUR WEEKLY MARKETSHARE RECAP: Tight one this week in the frontline competition, with Columbia by a nose over Universal Nashville. Mike Dungan’s posse, riding a pair of Luke Bryan LPs and Eric Church, cumulatively registering a hair under 112k, couldn’t quite overcome Rob Stringer’s Big Red, with five Top 50 entries paced by Pharrell’s 44k and collectively totaling 98k—but also once again wagging its long tail. The primary waggers are Broken Bells and the surging HAIM (+36%), who collaborated on 9k+ units, while Daft Punk and The Neighborhood teamed up for another 8k+, and there’s more where those came from. Which serves to remind us that this is a quantitative measurement of a volume business. Fuck art. (3/19p)