This week’s album sales are released on Tuesday instead of the usual Monday because of the Christmas holiday. Chris Brown and Pusha T’s projects each make their first appearance on the Billboard Top 200 chart. The Weekend’s Beauty Behind The Madness remains in the Top 10.
Chris Brown Receives Chart Royalty
Chris Brown’s Royalty album debuts at #3. The project sold 184,454 album equivalent units and was streamed more than 17 million times. Royalty, which is named after Brown’s daughter, includes the singles, “Liquor” and “Back to Sleep.” The Virginia singer has had two #1 albums in his career, 2011’s F.A.M.E. and 2012’s Fortune.
Pusha T Reigns With “King Push” Prelude
Pusha T debuts at #20 with King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude. The project sold 45,297 album equivalent units and was streamed more than six million times. This album precedes King Push. Pusha T’s debut album, My Name Is My Name, reached the #4 position upon its release in 2013.
The Weeknd Continues Sales Madness
The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind The Madness remains in the Top 10, landing at #9 on this week’s chart. The album has spent 17 weeks on the chart and grew 14 percent this week after spending a week at the #10 spot. The project is bolstered by three singles in the Top 15 on the Digital Genre R&B/Hip-Hop chart.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 12/24/2015
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.
#3 Chris Brown – Royalty – 184,454 (161,582) [17,306,568]
#9 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness – 71,980 (40,367) [23,523,921]
#20 Pusha T – King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude – 45,297 (39,266) [6,244,309]
#21 Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 41,618 (14,023) [18,164,260]
#27 Monica – Code Red – 35,656 (33,718) [1,471,015]
#28 G-Eazy – When It’s Dark Out – 35,201 (18,253) [16,568,000]
#33 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 33,215 (14,189) [20,607,081]
#38 R. Kelly – Buffet – 26,673 (25,198) [1,266,273]
Top 10 or Top 8? lol
I dont like the sales news since it doesnt show the total amount of units sold through the time as they did before
i agree its only because albums are not really selling streaming is where its at right now … sadly thats costing artist and seeing numbers like ross only selling 30k plus the first week is crazy but the streaming numbers is crazy high
Pusha flop!
Wheres Ross?
I agree they need to start putting the totals back on here with that said G Eazy is moving some units his album is fire!!
Very simple you make good quality music people it will sell the consumer will actually spend money instead of stream ! Ross flop pusha flop GEazy got dam still selling having listened to the new Whiteboi but I might give it a go…. The Weeknd is pure fire he makes classic music !
Stream Revenue: Artist make around $ .005 (half a penny) for every stream. If you stream an artist album; and that album has 10 songs; then that artist makes $ .05 (.005 x 10) (a nickel)…… Album Purchase Revenue: For arguments sake, let’s say after everyone takes their cut (Record label, distributor, managers, lawyers, producer, song writer, etc….), artist make 10% from an album sale. If album sales for $10, that is $1………….. You look at that and say $.05 for an album stream vs $1 for an album sale. But that album sale is a $1 one time income for life, vs album stream which is $.05 income every time that album is streamed. So if that fan streams your album 20 times during their LIFE, then that is equal to the one time album sale; albeit spread out over a much longer duration………..
ROSS DID 65K . LAST ALBUM ON DEF JAM AND YOU THINK THEY SPENDING MONEY ON PROMO HELL NO . ROSS A FREE AGENT THO
G Easy ain’t selling like drake , wayne , Kendrick , jay ect . You don’t hear him in clubs , events and the streets period . He’s sold a few records in the suburbs . That doesn’t make him hiphop . Foh DX staff wit these BS comments . # BlackCulture