The 59th Annual Grammys were one to remember for Hip Hop fans as Chance The Rapper made history and Beyoncé wowed with her performance, which gave both significant sales spikes. Meanwhile, Big Sean and Migos drop down in their sales. Oh, and Lupe Fiasco’s DROGAS Light makes its debut at #28. All of this follows the debut of the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack, which takes the top spot this week on Billboard’s 200 albums chart.
Beyoncé Soars With “LEMONADE”
Beyoncé had a significant leap in album sales last week, going from #49 to #33. The singer sees her LEMONADE project landing at #9 this sales cycle with a 190 percent increase. The project sold 38,066 equivalent album units and was nominated for Album of the Year. While Queen Bey didn’t take home that trophy, she did take home two others. The hype had fans purchasing 29,371 albums and streaming the project 1.4 million times.
Chance The Rapper Continues To Make History With “Coloring Book”
Chance The Rapper saw an 87 percent spike in the sales for Coloring Book, the project that won Best Rap Album at the Grammys, as it lands at #22 on this week’s chart. Of course, this is without a single traditional album sale. But it was streamed 33 million times to make 22,100 equivalent album units.
Migos & Big Sean Slip Slightly
Big Sean’s I Decided. lands in the #3 spot this week after debuting at the top spot last sales cycle. The 61,679 equivalent album units the project pushed led to a 59 percent drop from last week. Migos’ Culture charts at #4 in its third week with 58,897 album units, a 14 percent decrease. Both projects were streamed more than 60 million times each.
Lupe Fiasco’s “DROGAS Light” Makes Debut
Lupe Fiasco’s DROGAS Light hits the #28 spot its first week on the chart. As the Chicago rapper’s first independent project, it pushed 18,868 equivalent album units with 6.8 million streams. His last LP, 2015’s Tetsuo & Youth, reached the #14 spot while his highest-charting album is 2011’s Lasers, which topped the chart.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 02/16/2017
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 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 65,554 (36,213) [20,827,936]
#3 Big Sean — I Decided. — 61,679 (12,076) [66,355,360]
#4 Migos — Culture — 58,897 (5,551) [69,308,418]
#5 The Weeknd — Starboy — 53,987 (13,738) [44,458,252]
#9 Beyoncé — LEMONADE — 38,066 (29,371) [1,405,550]
#11 Post Malone — Stoney — 28,877 (2,826) [34,236,511]
#15 Drake – VIEWS — 26,770 (5,275) [28,716,814]
#21 Rihanna — Anti — 22,205 (4,098) [18,702,159]
#22 Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book — 22,100 (0) [33,150,345]
#28 Lupe Fiasco — DROGAS Light — 18,868 (12,966) [6,838,356]
lmao, after all that complaining and tweets about retiring and anti-semetic views, his turd of an album flops. hahaha! that’s what his ass gets.
i didnt even know that album came out, LOL. i might check it out tho
i just said it’s a turd of an album, which means don’t check it out, dumbass!
LuGay FiAsshole, huh? You probably chuckled like a 3rd grader after you came up with that one..
Like OMG really?!?!? A bunch of black cry babies bitch about never getting grammys now suddenly therea a “spike” oh my god who woulda thought?!?!? God damn i swear people get fucking dumber and dumber
Can’t get the taste of black dick out of my mouth.
Wow the equivelant of “i know you are but what am i” using someones username your insults are right on par with me when i was 5 years old your inbred uneducated 1st grade drop out come back in around 25 years when your grown up enough to throw insults like a big boy now go back to suckin on daddys dick i heard its the only milk you drink