Frank Ocean made the anticipation pay off as his sophomore LP, Blonde, hits the top of Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart its first week. Tory Lanez makes a splash with his debut album, I Told You, landing in the Top 10. PARTYNEXTDOOR and Rae Sremmurd see significant drops in their second week of sales with P3 landing at #25 with 13,799 units (a 72 percent drop) and SremmLife 2 appearing at the #28 position with 13,150 total sales (a 54 percent falloff).
Frank Ocean Lands First #1 Album With “Blonde”
Frank Ocean’s fans gobbled up 275,616 album equivalent units of Blonde to give Ocean the top spot on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart after the singer didn’t release a full-length project in four years. Blonde, which was reportedly an independent release, was streamed more than 65 million times as an Apple Music exclusive. These numbers gives it the third-highest selling debut of the year, only behind Beyonce’s LEMONADE and Drake’s VIEWS. It is also the third independent LP to land at the #1 position, following Blink-182 and The Lumineers. In 2012, Channel Orange opened at #2 with 131,000 album sales its first week.
Tory Lanez Told You His Debut Album Would Be Successful
Tory Lanez’s I Told You debuts at #4 in its first week. The 28-track project sold 52,485 units and was streamed nearly 25 million times. After the success of his hit song “Say It,” the Toronto artist continues his commercial success with “Luv” climbing the Hot 100 chart.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 08/25/2016
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.
#1 Frank Ocean – Blonde – 275,616 (232,040) [65,364,954]
#2 Drake – VIEWS – 77,167 (22,022) [67,529,370]
#3 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 76,227 (36,897) [31,076,567]
#4 Tory Lanez – I Told You – 52,485 (31,519) [24,868,327]
#8 Rihanna – ANTI – 27,299 (4,880) [25,865,795]
#9 DJ Khaled – Major Key – 27,064 (6,965) [22,800,509]
#13 Beyonce – LEMONADE – 18,535 (12,545) [1,580,511]
#19 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 15,713 (3,522) [16,328,080]
#23 Kevin Gates – ISLAH – 14,985 (4,226) [12,832,164]
#24 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo – 14,134 (0) [20,239,528]
Fruitcake Frank and Gay Drake ruling the charts in the sissy era.
Someone’s in their feelings with unnecessary homophobic slurs.
cmon, Ye aint sell 1 album…?
yall dudes @ dx is funny “Frank Ocean’s fans gobbled up”
Props to Ocean not a fan but that is respect ! 6god still outselling everyone basically where this Tory sayin he way way way up stop it his music is wack barely cracked 50k
Maaaan funk that! Funk all this steaming equals sales BS. Either you fan enough to cop the album or not. All this fake fluffing of the album sales and streaming crap is for the birds.
you say that but if you was a artist ,you would want the streaming money coming in,records companies hate counting streaming sales that extra money in there pockets
You sound dumb. It doesn’t impact your life at all, so why is it such a bad thing? Streaming crippled the artist’s ability to actually be able to sell records. There’s a very small margin of ppl that still actually purchase music. That basically fucked up the entire industry. Lots of artists had/have stipulations in their contracts about how much they need to sell in order to get certain perks, obtain certain rights, etc. Basically impossible outside of like 10 artist to meet certain sell requirements nowadays. Take an artist like Chief Keef for example, his buzz & music was big enough in 2011/2012 for him to at least go gold but that shit came out and only did 50K first week. Ppl were definitely listening to his shit, they just streamed it instead of paying for it. Plus, this shit doesn’t really make a difference unless you have huge singles. It’s only 1 sell per 1500 streams. A million streams will basically get you 666. That is nothing. Stop bitching. You have to be a megastar like Drake, Rihanna, Adele, etc. for this shit to even make a huge difference.
Why dx spells “blonde” every time. When cover clearly says “Blond”
They refuse to spell it correctly
Tory Lanez is reliving the Kirko Bangz story. No disrespect, both artist are extremely talented. Neither of them seem like squares, and they both make relatable music for their era. Soundcloud.com/Dre-rich/LikeMe