Hot off his surprise performance at Wireless Fest, Drake’s Scorpion has made its first appearance on the Billboard 200, right at the top of the charts. Meanwhile, Cardi B climbs back up the chart, while Teyana Taylor takes a tumble.
Scorpion Takes Top Spot
Drake’s Scorpion has put him in a whole new category, as the first artist to reach a billion streams in one week. With a total of 732,171 equivalent album units moved (159,771 in pure album sales and a record-breaking streaming count of 745,923,606), the 25-track album was untouchable.
Scorpion has the honor of having the biggest debut of 2018, so far. And, with this latest #1, Drake is now tied with other pop stars for the sixth-most #1 albums in U.S. history. Kenny Chesney, Madonna, U2, Eminem, and Kanye West — who just collected his eighth chart-topping album — are similarly adorned.
Check out DX’s review of Scorpion here.
Teyana Taylor Takes A Tumble
Debuting at #2 on the Top R&B Albums chart didn’t do too much for Teyana Taylor’s K.T.S.E. The project tumbled down to #57 on the Billboard 200 after making its debut at #17. With 10,903 equivalent album units moved (1,829 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 11,297,723), the album dropped 53% from its first-week numbers.
This is just the latest in a series of falterings for K.T.S.E. — Taylor recently announced that she wouldn’t be releasing a “completed” version of the album that contained the missing content.
Cardi B Inching Back Up
Cardi isn’t letting her recent countersuit against her ex-manager get her down. The mother-to-be is still holding steady on the charts, with her Invasion of Privacy creeping back up to #6 (up from #8 last week). The increase is due in part to “I Like It” hitting #1 on the Hot 100. The now-platinum album moved 47,063 equivalent units (3,072 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 52,083,035) in its 13th week on the chart.
Top 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 07/05/2018
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.
- Drake — Scorpion — #1 — 732,171 (159,771) [745,923,606]
- Post Malone — Beerbongs & Bentleys — #3 — 72,399 (6,312) [84,154,329]
- XXXTENTACION — ? — #5 — 61,530 (3,226) [82,912,493]
- Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy — #6 — 47,063 (3,072) [52,083,035]
- Juice WRLD — Goodbye & Good Riddance — #7 — 39,448 (1,635) [57,276,826]
- The Carters — EVERYTHING IS LOVE – #8 — 36,670 (7,509) [35,892,499]
- XXXTENTACION — 17 – #13 — 27,522 (940) [41,514,945]
- Lil Baby — Harder Than Ever — #12 — 28,177 (428) [15,713,035]
- Post Malone — Stoney — #18 — 22,482 (1,545) [28,849,360]
- Kanye West — ye — 21,541 (1,795) [25,957,722]
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hahah scorpion the definition of hot garbage i say it again these numbers mean nothing 160000 units equivalent sold hahaha get out of here with them streams this album is terrible 25 joints u can probably play 5 of em , 160000 sold drop off in second week, stop gassing garbage
Dude. You girl likes another 5 songs, your boy likes another 5, your nanny like another 5, your wifey your wifey your wifey . Drake running rap – you got old
Is he really bragging about his fake streams? Dude spotify loss subscribers because they put your music in all of their playlist and the same thing happened with Apple. This guy is ridiculous and watch the dramatic 80% drop in just a weeks time. Not hating at all, I listened to the album a couple times to check for the quality and I heard about 4 great songs.
Outsold ya fav before streaming, outselling him now.
I thought I was the only one, that album was trash. In general, I guess it was average but for Drake’s standards it’s trash. He tried to get too ambitious with a double album but he should’ve knocked it off. Probably like 4 songs (maybe) on the 1st side and like 1, maybe 2 songs on the side B, the rest of that shit is a nah bruh. I hate albums where I gotta be the dj and man the skip button or be the executive producer and make my own Playlist.
If it wasnt for streaming, none of these artist what have been even gold! SMH!
Streaming started 2016, Drake been breaking records since 09.
SORRY I CANT HEAR YALL – KEISHA – DO YOU LOVE ME – ARE WE RIDING – CAUSE IM DOWN FOR YA ALWAYSSSS
“House on both coasts but I live on the charts”
“Drake and Michael Jackson are the first male solo artists in Hot 100 history to accumulate 30 top 10 hits”.
“Drake places a record 27 songs on this week’s Hot 100, including all 25 tracks from Scorpion”
“Drake is the first artist in Hot 100 history to debut four songs in the top 10 simultaneously”.
So much for Drake’s career being destroyed by Pusha T.
“Drake claims 7 of Hot100 ‘s top 10, breaking the Beatles’ record, as “Nice For What” returns to No. 1 for eighth week”
“I HATE WHEN DRAKE RAPS
DRAKE SINGS TOO MUCH
DRAKE IS A POP ARTIST
DRAKE DOESN’T EVEN WRITE HIS OWN SONGS
DRAKE TOOK AN L
DRAKE DIDN’T START FROM THE BOTTOM
DRAKE IS FINISHED
I LIKE DRAKE’S OLDER STUFF
DRAKE MAKES MUSIC FOR GIRLS
DRAKE THINGS HE’S JAMAICAN
DRAKE IS AN ACTOR
DRAKE CHANGED
ANYBODY ELSE > DRAKE …
YEAH YEAH WE KNOW”
Lol he realizes he is fake bitch and continues to support him
Ended haters.
All these records Jesus he really is the king of rap
Literally Drake is just inventing records lol this is crazy
Whew this n*gga gone snatch all the Grammys
Ended white supremacy
Music still trash
Fuck outta here…always lying about “records” being set by this clown…
So he the “IT” pop rapper. I don’t get people’s panties being in a bunch over this shit. Anybody with a sense of rap history and current times knows he’s not the best. Record sales mean jack shit in that regard. Nobody was crowning MC Hammer cause he sold 30 million. Drake’s good. That’s it
I find it really funny the RIAA had to change the rules of record sales. This dude literally sold the same amount 50 did in his first week for BISD and gets praised for it? Then 1 billion streams off services that count one song listened to as an album sale??? The fall off is real
159,771 isn’t that high.
Bow down bitches. Bow down bitches. You drake haters sound like petty school girls
Someone tell pusha t to switch careers cus his numbers are an abosolute joke compared to the 6 god. Pusha t fans are the broke losers that hate on drake on this site.
Push gave me more of a feeling with 7 songs than Drake did with that bloated ass album so there goes that. Get off Drake dick and actually listen to the music.
Drake just dissed Kanye and Pusha in an English rap style and no news on this site… Ya’ll slow!
It was all the way trash bro- Not even news worthy…and he takes almost 6 weeks to respond? Bruh- Enough of this clown.
Drake and Kendrick are the new goats. Sorry old heads, your era was great but it’s over. You can still see your fav old mc at the essence festival though
Hip hop as a genre is too young for this “era” shit, get that shit outta here. Hip hop is big enough for everyone to co-exist. “Older” rappers are still putting out heat for those of us that like that shit, and the “younger” rappers are doing what they do to appeal to their target audience.
You moron, Drake is not fit to sniff Kendrick’s underwear. Don’t ever put K-Dot and Wheelchair Jimmy in the same category ever. That’s like saying and flea and a lion rule the jungle lol
Opinions over statistics. Of course.
and yes…. is confirmed…… it still trash
whorepion
mind control
your a idooit if you don’t follow
I don’t get it so Drake only sold 157k
and considering the double count strategy for double albums its actually around 77k
Drake is a little girl making songs for the pre teen girls. No matter how many streams you accumulate from the girlies, you will always still be a little bitch Drake.
Drake pls copy a leaf out of Cole’s book and always put out your album together with physical copies, not weeks or months later.
meh, numbers don’t change the fact that this double dumpster juice album was one of the most overhyped, worst reviewed, disappointments of the year.
When one of the worst songs in history ‘I’m Upset’ is in the Billboard top ten, that tells you something is seriously wrong with ‘numbers’, especially with stan click farms out there. I’ll rate music on quality not numbers, and Scorpion was more straight out trash from Drake.
You are trash bro. Go eat shit
I guess the truth really does hurt. Danny no need to get triggered, just go lay down, put on gods plan and finger your man pussy.
Drake got some songs thats dope, but in general the album is ok!!! But people forget that its your NAME that sells….. If you have such a huge fan base and you are crossover. You gonna sell regardless how bad your album is… your fans is gonna support you. Drake is always gonna have huge numbers….. because of the fan base he have. Especially women…..
so does this mean it only did half of those numbers since its a “double” LP? (80k in actual real sales, 356k including streams)?
Damn Cardi is on her 13th consecutive week in the Billboard 200 top 10 since her debut. She eating her cake too.