Adele retains the top spot on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart this week. The Weeknd and Fetty Wap have the only Rap and R&B albums in the Top 10. Erykah Badu’s But You Caint Use My Phone debuts within the Top 20 with the help of streaming. Jadakiss falls off in Top 5 Dead or Alive’s second week. The Notorious B.I.G.’s Greatest Hits shoots up the chart. Future’s Dirty Sprite 2 falls out of the Top 10 Rap & R&B albums for the first time since its release. It lands at #46 with 15,972 album units and 12.3 million streams.
Erykah Badu Rings Success
Erykah Badu’s But You Caint Use My Phone debuts at #14 on the chart. The mixtape, which was released through Motown, features Andre 3000 and comes after the singer remixed Drake’s “Hotline Bling.” But You Caint Use My Phone sold 35,000 album units and was streamed more than two million times. This is Badu’s first full-length project since the New Amerykah series, which released in 2007 and 2010.
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Jadakiss Drops In Second Week
Jadakiss saw a 74 percent drop in sales to land Top 5 Dead or Alive at #44 in its second week on the chart. The LOX rapper’s project debuted at #4. This week, it sold almost 17,000 units and was streamed 2.5 million times.
The Notorious B.I.G. Resurrects Sales
The Notorious B.I.G. makes a 54 percent leap in sales this week with his Greatest Hits album landing at the #48 position. This beats out projects from J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar and Travi$ Scott. Greatest Hits sold 15,654 album equivalent units, 13,310 albums and was streamed 2,234,409 times.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 12/03/2015
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
#6 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness– 59,603 (35,743) [21,725,170]
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#8 Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 46,665 (24,659) [19,115,215]
#14 Erykah Badu – But You Caint Use My Phone – 35,031 (31,340) [2,347,205]
#20 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 26,136 (11,856) [16,769,525]
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#23 Empire Cast – Empire: Original Soundtrack Season 2, Volume 1 – 23,921 (16,932) [2,906,729]
#24 Drake and Future – What a Time to Be Alive – 23,722 (4,252) [21,572,834]
#31 Logic – The Incredible True Story– 20,936 (14,437) [8,625,654]
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#34 Jeezy – Church In These Streets – 19,492 (16,683) [3,499,040]
#36 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late – 18,773 (9,706) [11,188,136]
#44 Jadakiss – Top 5 Dead or Alive – 16,976 (14,521) [2,581,078]
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