Although pop and country dominated the Billboard 200 for the week ending November 2, several R&B and Hip Hop releases debuted in the Top 10. Chris Brown’s Heartbreak On A Full Moon hit the chart at #3, while Offset, 21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s Without Warning project entered the chart at #4.
Yo Gotti’s I Still Am slid in at #6, right ahead of Big K.R.I.T.’s double album, 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time,which made its grand entrance at #7.
Ty Dolla $ign’s Beach House 3 almost cracked the Top 10, but fell slightly short at #11 by moving 29,421 total album equivalent units (6,236 pure album sales and a streaming count of 32,043,747).
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Elsewhere on the chart, Future and Young Thug’sSuper Slimey took a 49 percent dip to wind up in the #9 spot and Lil Uzi Vert’s Luv Is Rage 2 is holding steady at #10.
Heart Full
With 68,415 total album equivalent units (25,114 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 59,091,964), Chris Brown’s Heartbreak On A Full Moonnabbed the #3 slot — even with a short sales week since it dropped on a Tuesday rather than the traditional Friday.
Packed to the brim with 45 tracks, the album features a laundry list of notable artists, including R. Kelly, Usher, Gucci Mane, Future and Young Thug.
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The controversial R&B singer, who recently went on an Instagram tirade demanding respect, released his last album, Royalty, in 2015. That album also debuted at #3.
Boomin…
Offset, 21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s Without Warning collected 53,360 total album equivalent units (11,353 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 59,656,808), landing them in the #4 slot this week. The album follows a whirlwind for the Migos rapper who recently proposed to his girlfriend Cardi B in front of a massive Philly crowd.
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He and Cardi also just teamed up on the Migos track, “Motor Sport” featuring Nicki Minaj.
Dirty South Cleans Up
Memphis rapper Yo Gotti and his follow-up to 2013’s I Am — the aptly titled I Still Am — debuted in the Top 10 with 38,137 total album equivalent units (19,127 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 23,829,718). With monster features from Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, 21 Savage, Meek Mill, French Montana and YFN Lucci, he was able to mark its debut with a #6 placement.
Meanwhile, Mississippi’s Big K.R.I.T. also earned a Top 10 placement with his latest project, 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time, which he admits he went broke making. With 32,649 total album equivalent units sold (21,078 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 16,343,536), hopefully it was worth the sacrifice.
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This marks K.R.I.T.’s first studio album since 2014’s Cadillactica, which debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 11/02/2017
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.
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- Chris Brown — Heartbreak On A Full Moon — #3 — 68,415 (25,114) [59,091,964]
- Offset, 21 Savage & Metro Boomin — Without Warning — #4 — 53,360 (11,353) [59,656,808]
- Post Malone — Stoney — #5 — 41,137 (3,554) [51,655,424]
- Yo Gotti — I Still Am — #6 — 38,137 (19,127) [23,829,718]
- Big K.R.I.T. — 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time — #7 — 32,649 (21,078) [16,343,536]
- Future & Young Thug — Super Slimey — #9 — 31,365 (3,227) [41,002,371]
- Lil Uzi Vert — Luv Is Rage 2 — #10 — 30,266 (529) [42,964,121]
- Ty Dolla $ign — Beach House 3 — #11 — 29,421 (6,236) [32,043,747]
- Lil Pump — Lil Pump — #13 — 26, 641 (1,192) [35,608,571]
- Gucci Mane — Mr. Davis — #14 — 25,629 (3,628) [30,996,501]
