All Time Low Celebrate Top US Chart Placings Despite Outcry They Were Cheated

The boys in Baltimore pop punk band All Time Low are cheering this week, having moved the most units in the US of their sixth full-length album, Future Hearts, in its first week of sales, despite a slew of fans and independent music industry voices believing they were cheated of the #1 position that should have been theirs on the Billboard 200 chart. 

Sadly, due to Billboard's recent changes to the way they calculate the Billboard 200 chart, the band have just fallen short of the coveted #1 slot — since last December, Billboard have added on-demand streaming and digital track sales to their chart algorithm, so even though the pop punk four-piece have sold far more albums than the chart-topping Furious 7 Original Soundtrack (sitting at 45,084 albums at last count), the successful streaming and digital sales that Wiz Khalifa's single, See You Again, has garnered has sailed the Furious 7 OST to the top. 

Comments about the Furious 7 OST album are aplenty — "It's so strange that an album can have one massive hit and every other song be a flop and it would still be considered a very successful "album"' (AbsolutePunk.net user: ComedownMachine) and "I said this on twitter, but I'll say it again here: At the very least, billboard shouldn't count soundtracks, albums that are designed to be consumed 1 track at a time, under streaming+sales" (AbsolutePunk.net user: njdevils327).

Despite the so-close-yet-so-far feeling regarding the Billboard 200, the All Time Low camp don't seem too gutted, with fans, record labels and radio stations alike sending their congratulations to the boys on Twitter for the myriad of other charts they've topped this week. Drummer Rian Dawson also noted that they had the top-selling vinyl of the week in the US, and Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 sent out a cheeky tweet, too. 

Having found their home in California-based independent label Hopeless Records, the 80,251 albums they've sold (at last count) sets them up at the top of the Billboard Top Album Sales chart, which ranks albums based on traditional album sales, as well as at the top of the Hits Daily Double Building Album Sales chart. 

They've also pulled #1 on UK's Offical Album charts and #4 on the ARIA Album charts, altogether a huge win for a relatively young band from America's burgeoning independent pop punk scene.