This week’s Hip Hop album sales features a slew of new releases. None beat out Drake’s VIEWS, which sits at #2 behind Shawn Mendes’ Illuminate. Ty Dolla $ign’s Campaign and Mick Jenkins’ The Healing Component make their debuts on the chart. Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition charts with less than a full week in sales.
Ty Dolla $ign’s “Campaign” Makes Debut
Ty Dolla $ign lands at #28 in the first week of his Campaign project. The LP, which features Future, Migos and Travis Scott, sold 14,795 equivalent album units and was streamed nearly 13 million times. This follows Free TC, which reached the #14 spot upon its release in November.
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Danny Brown Charts With Half A Week Sales Of “Atrocity Exhibition”
Danny Brown surprised the world with the drop of Atrocity Exhibition Tuesday (September 27). The LP reaches the #77 spot on the chart with 7,889 equivalent album units and nearly 3 million streams. His last full-length project, 2013’s Old, reached the #18 spot.
Mick Jenkins Brings The Love On “The Healing Component”
Mick Jenkins’ debut LP The Healing Component lands at #110 in its first week. The album saw 5,811 equivalent album units and was streamed nearly 3 million times. This follows the success of the Chicago rapper’s mixtape Wave[s], which just missed the Billboard 200, but charted at #9 on the rap chart and #18 on the independent chart.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 09/29/2016
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.
#2 Drake – VIEWS – 50,389 (7,528) [54,660,360]
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#3 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 41,943 (13,788) [22,581,864]
#6 Travis Scott – Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight– 26,978 (2,785) [33,680,588]
#9 Rihanna – ANTI – 22,840 (4,314) [22,590,363]
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#16 Beyonce — LEMONADE — 18,470 (12,773) [1,501,114]
#17 Frank Ocean – Blonde – 17,741 (3,669) [21,108,746]
#18 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo – 17,024 (0) [23,059,503]
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#19 Maxwell — blackSUMMERS‘ Night — 16,496 (16,129) [406,809]
#20 Usher – Hard II Love – 16,433 (9,914) [7,376,074]
#27 DJ Khaled — Major Key — 15,075 (3,055) [13,832,653]
