The Weeknd stays dominant with his Starboy album once again topping the Billboard 200 chart. Post Malone, Drake and J. Cole round out the Top 10 and Run The Jewels slips down the charts after a monster sales cycle last week.
The Weeknd’s Star Continues To Shine
The Weeknd’s Starboy album lands its fifth week at the #1 spot with nearly 56,000 equivalent album units. This week, it pushed 12,013 album sales and was streamed 53 million times.
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Run The Jewels’ Run Slows Down
Run The Jewels’ RTJ3 experienced a 57 percent sales decrease and lands at #60 after skyrocketing to #13 last week with a 239 percent boost in sales. The project debuted at #35 earlier this month.
Hip Hop & R&B Dominate Top 10
Bruno Mars, Post Malone, Drake and J. Cole take up four of the remaining Top 10 slots following The Weeknd. The debut of John Mayer’s album jumped to the #2 position, but Bruno Mars lands at #4 with Post Malone getting a five percent boost to reach the #7 spot, up two slots from last week. Drake and J. Cole round out the list at #9 and #10 respectively.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 01/26/2017
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.
#1 The Weeknd — Starboy — 55,996 (12,013) [53,373,985]
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#4 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 30,415 (14,841) [14,901,960]
#7 Post Malone — Stoney— 25,994 (3,111) [28,897,866]
#9 Drake – VIEWS — 25,010 (3,231) [29,819,472]
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#10 J. Cole — 4 Your Eyez Only — 23,489 (6,429) [24,039,197]
#13 Rihanna — Anti— 20,147 (3,114) [18,407,982]
#18 Travis Scott — Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight —18,748 (1,945) [20,649,227]
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#19 Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife 2 —16,271 (1,056) [16,863,129]
#23 Various Artists — Suicide Squad: The Album — 14,901 (4,949) [9,877,654]
#26 21 Savage & Metro Boomin — Savage Mode—14,012 (463) [18,635,176]
