After a handful of delays, 2 Chainz’s follow-up studio album to 2016’s ColleGrove was officially released on June 16. Titled Pretty Girls Like Trap Music, the album boasts 16 new track with guest spots from the usual suspects — Gucci Mane, Quavo, Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, Swae Lee, Drake, Migos, Ty Dolla $ign, Trey Songz and Pharrell. For the week ending June 22, Pretty Girls Like Trap Music was streamed 69,524,780 times, landing in the #2 spot and bumping Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. down a spot to #3.
Despite the controversy with CoverGirl, Young Thug’s Beautiful Thugger Girls debuted at #8 while Big Boi’s Boomiverse couldn’t crack the Top 10 and limped into the #28 spot. SZA’s CTRL took a dip by 49 percent and ended up in the #11 spot in its second week. That performance is still better than what Katy Perry’s Witness did in its second week, which took an 85 percent dive.
Not surprisingly, 2Pac’s Greatest Hits album jumped 101 percent and his 1996 masterpiece All Eyez On Me made a 131 percent climb thanks to the recently released biopic, All Eyez On Me.
2 Chainz Knocks Kendrick Lamar Out Of #2 Spot
After holding steady in the #2 slot for three consecutive weeks, Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. was finally knocked down a notch by 2 Chainz’s Pretty Girls Like Trap Music. With 69,524,780 album streams, 56,506 pure album sales and 106,461 total album equivalent units, the Atlanta trap star’s fourth official studio album debuted at #2. It beats his last album, ColleGrove, which debuted at #4 and sold 34,000 copies in its first week.
Young Thug Cracks Top 10
The title of Young Thug’s Beautiful Thugger Girls album caught a little heat from cosmetics giant CoverGirl last week for using a play on its slogan: “Easy, Breezy, Beautiful CoverGirl.” But Thugger’s album still managed to crack the Top 10, and wind up in the #8 slot with 36,537 total equivalent units sold and 42,040,930 album streams. Interestingly enough, Thug’s 2016 mixtape, Jeffery, also debuted at #8, and clocked in with 18,000 copies sold in its first week.
Big Boi Fails To Make A Boom
While the expectations for Big Boi’s solo album Boomiverse were likely high, it not only failed to crack the Top 10, but it also didn’t make the Top 20. The Outkast legend’s follow-up studio album to 2012’s Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors landed with a thud at #28, but it did chart higher than Vicious Lies, which hit the chart at #34. Boomiverse sold 19,178 total album equivalent units, 13,392 pure albums and was streamed 6,265,361 times.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 6/22/2017
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.
- 2 Chainz — Pretty Girls Like Trap Music — #2 — 106,461 (56,506) [69,524,780]
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN. — #3 —70,097 (20,733) [62,839,328]
- Drake — More Life — #6 — 42,435 (6,287) [49,416,070]
- Young Thug — Beautiful Thugger Girls — #8 — 36,537 (7,028) [42,040,930]
- Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — #10 — 30,411 (12,028) [18,368,188]
- SZA — CTRL — #11 — 30,399 (7,398 ) [33,117,256]
- Post Malone — Stoney — #12 — 29,863 (1,755) [34, 977,58]
- Migos — Culture — #16 — 24,280 (1,855) [29,541,152]
- Khalid — American Teen — #18 — 23,140 (2,705) [27,322,856]
- Future — Future — #22 — 20,556 (649) [25,788,910]
Dudez better thank God for free streaming, otherwise nigguz sales numbers looking suspect, save for K.dot. Streaming helping out a lot of people right now.
Big Boi sold more physical albums than Young Thug with no promotion but you guys say something negative about Big Boi and give Young Thug big ups for another flopped album… WTF is going on???
I used to care about numbers but then I looked at like all my favs already did they numbers and it can’t be touch even if they’re no longer doing big numbers. Bone Thugs first 4-5 albums average was like triple plat, Outkast did big numbers in the 90s and 2000’s
Outkast and Bone thugs each have one album that has sold more than young thug, yatchy, migos, 21 savage, Lil uzi, has sold in their entire career or will ever sell combined. Big Boi/outkast status is untouchable same with Bone thugs. Big Boi album is extremely good imo I love it, that new Bone Thugs New Waves is a great album too.
It’s so tucked up ad you right theseclowns make more money from just appearances than the rappers from 80s to the 2000s rap wasn’t acceptedlike it is now
You woke. Anytime Young Thug or Future drops HHDX talks about how much they are improving and on the path to greatness. Well, it’s easy to improve when you started as garbage. But when real emcees drop all they talk about are the negatives in the project. This staff is nothing but dick riders and it shows, and they’ll delete your comment if you call them out on it
Same thing happened when Young Thug put out his last album and De La puts theirs out the same week. De La’s album sold more actual copies than Thug’s did. But people will still look at the overall total sales and say Thug did better even though a majority of it is streams. SMH
Y’all know these dudes. Have ppl set up accounts on music apps and play their on repeat 24/7. That’s how you get and keep you’re numbers up…
lol yo rap today funny as hell bro wit these fake ass digital sales n sh!t..ig the internet is saving alot of these artist b/c if this was the early 2000s future, 2 chainz, migos and young thug albums would all be considered flops especially with them all being on major labels aswell..
thats why i salute rappers like em, jay, kendrick, jcole, drake who can still sell high numbers in todays hiphop
Big Boi album wayyyy better than 2chainz this new hiphop world trippin. Ya disrespectful!!
Big Boi album is way better previous albums, this one I can listen to more than once. 2 Chainz album is good too as well and I’m not a fan of his. Next month I’ll be buying a few album.