The Weeknd remains at the top of the Billboard Top 200 chart for the third week in a row. Future and Travi$ Scott are just short of the top 10 on the list. Jay Rock’s 90059 makes its chart debut and TIP charts with his five-song EP.
The Weeknd Still Reigns
The Canadian singer’s sophomore LP, Beauty Behind the Madness, saw 98,810 units of total activity, a 32 percent drop from last week, but enough to keep it on the top of the chart. Two songs from the album appear in the top 10 of the single sales. The project had more than 39 million streams this week.
Jay Rock Debuts at # 16
The Watts, California rapper’s 90059 debuts at #16 on the chart with 18,713 total units of activity. His 2011 LP Follow Me Home peaked at the # 83 spot on the chart. Now all four members of Black Hippy have a project to reach the top 20 with ScHoolboy Q reaching #1 with Oxymoron, Ab-Soul peaking at #11 with These Days… and Kendrick Lamar reaching #1 this year with To Pimp a Butterfly.
TIP Charts With Independent EP
The rapper formerly known as T.I. reached the #22 spot on the chart with Da’ Nic EP. TIP is entering a new chapter in his music career as he changed his name and has announced his departure from Columbia Records.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 9/17/2015
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.
#1 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 98,810 (48,151) [39,314,644]
#11 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 23,829 (8,354) [16,999,525]
#13 Travi$ Scott – Rodeo – 21,720 (11,118) [11,621,498]
#16 Jay Rock – 90059 – 18,713 (15,442) [2,719,934]
#17 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late – 18,681 (5,425) [15,021,788]
#22 TIP – Da’ Nic – 14,258 (12,783) [328,793]
#23 Dr. Dre – Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre – 13,976 (11,465) [2,636,568]
#26 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 12,949 (4,602) [9,594,173]
#30 Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money – 11,045 (1,779) [9,212,213]
#33 N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton – 10,501 (6,369) [3,080,353]
Drake winning big despite being backstabbed by wayne, weeknd, and tyga. Wayne and tyga are now irrelevant and weeknd is only popular because he switched his R&B to pop music (where idiots will buy it up) no matter what.
I love when people like you hop in the comment section uninformed. It gives me the opportunity to teach and to give insight. have you even heard The Weeknd’s album? Yes, I Can’t Feel My Face is a pop song, but guess what genius? He also released Often and The Hills, two singles that are classic Weeknd R&B songs that are also doing very well on the charts, so your perspective is BULLSHIT. And hip-hop fans are some of the only fans in music who consider “pop” the worse thing you can possibly be as an artist. News flash, genius, the greatest entertainer of all time was, wait for it… a POP artist (Michael Jackson) who also made R&B songs, so if The Weeknd is shooting for that kind of stardom (and the music is still good) who the hell are you to call people idiots because they like pop music? YOU MAKE NO SENSE AND I JUST PROVED WHY
No, he ain’t. And none of those artists backstabbed him. Wayne hasn’t been relevant since he released that shitty rock album, Tyga was never relevant, and The Weeknd did not switched his style, he’s still R&B.
Next week, haters will be even more mad when Drizzaveli Da 6 God and Future hit #1 with their album. And it will be going gold in the first week. I don’t wish death on no one, except these haters. They all can die a slow, painful death. But when Drizzaveli dies, he’ll be a motherfuckin’ legend, even though he already is one. #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
Your boy is a pop artist making pop bullshit. He’s not a legend, he’s the rap Justin Bieber.
So, bieber’s dope too.
How is Bieber dope? He makes shitty kiddie pop music for the Radio Disney crowd. Bieber sucks.
Most of today’s songs get played for radio disney. Doesn’t mean all of them are wack. Bieber’s latest song went no.1 proving to you how well his music is going with the R&B crowd. Pop radio stations play it but its R&B and they also play music from other genres like hiphop. Not just pop.
You lie again, Dan. Only pop shit gets played on Radio Disney. Bieber’s song went to number one only because of prepubescent girls and gays who don’t know a thing about music. His song isn’t going well with the R&B crowd because his song is not R&B (neither’s the rest of his music), it’s pop. It sounds no different to what Katy Perry or Taylor Swift makes. Only pop stations are playing that bullshit, no other stations are.
Heard it on local hiphop stations too.
That’s a lie and you know it. No hip-hop station plays that teenybopper Bieber shit. Only pop stations are playing that.
TIP THIS A MOVE MEN
Jay Rock album was thorough. West coast stay pushing good music.