Beyonce scores yet another #1 album with the release of LEMONADE. Elsewhere on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart, Prince has five albums and A$AP Ferg debuts his project in the Top 10. Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo drops out of the Top 10 for the first time. Michigan rapper NF debuts at #12 with Therapy Session.
When Beyonce Is Given Lemons, She Makes LEMONADE
Beyonce’s LEMONADE is the singer’s sixth #1 album. The project sold 652,665 album equivalent units, the most sales in a week of any album this year so far, according to Billboard. It was purchased nearly half a million times and was streamed 115,232,820 times through TIDAL.
Prince’s Legacy Lives On
A week after his death, five Prince albums land in the Top 10 of the chart. Very Best of Prince sits at #2, followed directly by Purple Rain and The Hits/The B-Sides. After Rihanna’s ANTI, Ultimate and 1999 land at #6 and #7 respectively. The five projects brought in 723,000 units of sales.
A$AP Ferg Strives and Prospers On The Chart
A$AP Ferg’s sophomore LP, Always Strive and Prosper, debuts at #8. It sold 35,483 album equivalent units and was streamed more than 14 million times. His first output, 2013’s Trap Lord, debuted at #9 with 32,000 units sold.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 04/28/2016
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
#1 Beyonce – LEMONADE – 652,665 (485,094) [115,232,820]
#2 Prince – Very Best of Prince – 391,354 (216,472) [3,585,283]
#3 Prince – Purple Rain – 150,246 (133,171) [499,713]
#4 Prince – The Hits/The B-Sides – 105,612 (56,399) [1,694,047]
#5 Rihanna – ANTI – 50,369 (14,941) [35,825,167]
#6 Prince – Ultimate – 39,577 (37,400) [65,509]
#7 Prince – 1999 – 36,428 (32,732) [127,023]
#8 A$AP Ferg – Always Strive and Prosper – 35,483 (22,297) [14,438,977]
#11 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo – 30,010 (57) [44,930,890]
#12 NF – Therapy Session – 29,184 (24,664) [3,718,870]
Where is royceda59???
He was on last weeks list!
Drake doing well over 1 million according to forecasts. Drake running rap. Feminem can’t come anywhere near close to drake right now. Chris Bitch continues to flop despite jacking on drake’s style (you don’t get fans by hitting women like rihanna)
HA!! Drake will never run anything in rap since he’s a pop star like Taylor Swift. He’ll never top Eminem’s sales at all. How is Chris Brown flopping? He never jacked Drake’s style ever (which is ironic since Drake always jacks other people’s styles)?
HA!! Drake will never run anything in rap since he’s a pop star like Taylor Swift. He’ll never top Eminem’s sales at all. How is Chris Brown flopping? He never jacked Drake’s style ever (which is ironic since Drake always jacks other people’s styles)?
what did Problem & DJ Quik’s Rosecrans EP sales total up to be first week
If Drake hits a mill in the next following weeks just call him the best and biggest to ever do it in OUR GENERATION (key words is OUR GENERATION). Regardless if you like him or hate him FACTS ARE FACTS. He came out in 2009 and now 7 years later almost hit the 10 mill albums sold and millions of singles sold (not sure could be more) mind you in a suffering music industry where going platinum is becoming an urban legend. Whats the point on hating on him moving forward. Drake said it himself he gets paid to reminisce about bitches he had over a beat and the female fans love it and go out and buy it. Drake/OVO. J.Cole and Kendrick respectively are in their own individual unique lanes all on cruise control (especially Drake) and never looking in the rearview cause ain’t nobody playing catch up in these lanes.
How about no?
DRAKE WINS AGAIN
Congrats to Beyonce!
Drake is talented but he sings too much, thus he cannot be the best rapper of this generation. Have to give it to Kdot or Jcole.
But Drake is not a rapper (nor a singer), the best definition is probably a hip-pop artist. It’s unnecessary to compare apples to oranges.
DX just show the overall sales smfh no one cares bout streams we wanna know who is really selling nice or just grinding away towards a plaque
How is Royce ahead of Rihanna on the Rap & RnB charts but nowhere on the Billboard 200? Strange. If he sold more than her he should be up there.
Sheeeesh Kanye 78 albums last week, 57 this week #settingthebar