After releasing The Life of Pablo to all major streaming services, Kanye West finally appears on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart. Twenty88, made up of Big Sean and Jhene Aiko, debut on the chart with their joint project. Drake and Future’s What a Time to Be Alive sees a jump in sales.
Kanye West Makes History With “The Life of Pablo”
Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo makes its debut on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart and hits the #1 spot with 94,315 album equivalent units. The project garnered 99.4 million streams across all major platforms in its first week reporting numbers to Nielson. This is the first album ever to reach the top spot based on stream count. According to TIDAL, the project was streamed more than 250 million times in the first 10 days when it was released exclusively to the platform in February. In the newest report, the project sold 28,003 albums as it was available for purchase through West’s personal website and TIDAL. These numbers also included albums purchased in ticket packages for West’s “Yeezy Season 3” event. The Life of Pablo is West’s seventh chart-topping album, including Watch the Throne with Jay Z and all of his solo LPs except for Graduation.
Big Sean & Jhene Aiko Debut “Twenty88” In Top 10
Big Sean and Jhene Aiko’s collaborative album, Twenty88, hits the #5 spot on the chart in its first week. The project sold 48,970 album equivalent units and was streamed more than eight million times. This is the Detroit rapper’s fourth album to hit the Top 5. His last output, Dark Sky Paradise, debuted at #1 upon its release last February. Jhene Aiko’s last highest charting position was #3 with 2014’s Souled Out.
Drake and Future See Jump In Sales
When Apple Music released a commercial featuring Taylor Swift rapping to “Jumpman” last week, the single reportedly saw a 431 percent increase in sales. This jump is reflected in What a Time to Be Alive‘s album sales as Drake and Future’s joint project saw a 30 percent rise on this week’s chart. It lands at #17 with 18,612 album equivalent units and more than 16 million streams.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 04/07/2016
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 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo – 94,315 (28,003) [99,468,145]
#5 Twenty88 (Big Sean and Jhene Aiko) – Twenty88 – 48,970 (40,237) [8,167,073]
#6 Rihanna – ANTI – 48,040 (14,712) [33,578,345]
#11 Kevin Gates – Islah – 26,321 (8,419) [17,499,332]
#12 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 24,270 (5,689) [23,065,331]
#13 G-Eazy – When It’s Dark Out – 23,446 (4,141) [18,337,507]
#14 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 21,781 (6,516) [16,185,604]
#17 Drake and Future – What a Time to Be Alive – 18,612 (2,025) [16,567,978]
#21 Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 17,415 (3,357) [14,157,752]
#27 Future – EVOL – 16,283 (2,214) [16,362,892]
Yeezy sold less than 30k. Thats a flop in my books. Fuck your streams.
imagine if kanye and tidal didnt fuck up his album release rollout months ago. hed of done some rly good numbers
Desiigner runs rap right now with his top 5 hit, PANDA!!! Dope song that became popular because of hip hop greatest invention, vine.
Desiigner running rap? HAHAHAHAHAHA!! He’s a flavor-of-the-month rapper who bit his whole style off of Future (who’s also trash), who you’ll never hear from again after this song loses popularity. Panda is certified garbage. Vine is the worst thing to ever happen to hip-hop since its videos are unfunny and they only make trash popular. But of course a sheep like you like this processed shit because you’re responsible for hip-hop’s downfall.
fuck yo streams. that shit dont count nigga
Streams… it’s funny to me because we never counted CD sales with how many times people pressed rewind with “illmatic” for example…
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you know they have underground music for stream too all you gota do is look …every album on that list is garbage especially kayne …i couldnt even listen to the life of paplo neither could my friends …..WE CAN CHANGE HIPHOP DONT JUST LISTN TO WHATS POPULAR …straight up if you dont like (lone catalysts – renaissace) then you dont like true hiphop and if you dont then change genres
louis logic – rock remix ft celph titled lexicon ryu and j zone
relection etrenal – uptown xo ft docigapom and benji
old but a classic Purple Kush ft sunspot jonz – living legends
mick jenkins – jazz
never fallin – living legends
preservation – del the funky homosapien
yoo even classified makes better records than kayne
Lil B – Based Robot Remix
Young Thug – Quarterback
Snootie Wild – Stackin and Flippin
Michael McDonald – I keep forgettin
Stagga Lee – Roll wit MVP
Desiigner running rap? HAHAHAHAHAHA!! He’s a flavor-of-the-month rapper who bit his whole style off of Future (who’s also trash), who you’ll never hear from again after this song loses popularity. Panda is certified garbage. Vine is the worst thing to ever happen to hip-hop since its videos are unfunny and they only make trash popular. But of course a sheep like you like this processed shit because you’re responsible for hip-hop’s downfall.
Designer and future are both similar but distinct enough unlike kendrick who rips on drake’s whole style. Plus people said that fetty wap would be a one hit wonder and has since have 3 more hits. Vine’s videos are great and inspirational. Desiigner’s a terrific rapper and kanye west, truly a visionary, has signed him.
You know how I know you don’t have any broads in Atlanta? Oh and Desiigners been ghostwriting for future for years idiot….why do you think future always said “Desiigner” in his adlibs dummy? Stupid
No, there’s nothing distinct about Desiigner, he just took Future’s entire style from the Autotuned mumbling over dreary trap beats to rapping about drugs and money. Also, Kendrick sounds nothing like Drake, they have two different styles, you can’t even make any connections. Fetty Wap is another flash-in-the-pan artist since he has no hits right now and people forgot about him. Vine videos are horrible; name me one Vine video that’s inspirational. You can’t.. Desiigner sucks ass period.
What the hell are you saying? In the first half of your comment, you’re calling Desiigner wack, then the second half, you’re praising him. Are you a retarded Gemini or some shit?
There’s nothing terrific about repeating the word panda hundreds of times. You can barely understand what he’s saying most of the time.
I copied and pasted the first statement from another user to show how he’s wrong.
The wrong one here is you, though, Danny boy.
It’s not just about that. It’s about an intimate study as to what goes on at atlanta.
It’s not just about that. It’s about an intimate study as to what goes on at atlanta
Intimate study? It’s just another shitty brag rap song that we’ve heard millions of times before.
pay attention to the panda lyrics next time. It’s all about what goes on at atlanta. Also, Dessigner distinct enough while kendrick is some drake wannabe. Drake gave him exposure and wouldn’t have been shit without it. Fetty wap will be big in his next single and vince’s a terrific invention.
They aren’t brag rap songs. They are studies about the life of a man living in a city.
It’s you who needs to pay attention to lyrics because nothing about the song talks about “what goes on in Atlanta,” it’s about cars, drugs, women, and money AKA 95 of mainstream hip-hop now. Desiigner is not distinctive at all, he’s a Future wannabee. Again, Kendrick sounds NOTHING like Drake. Drake isn’t making songs about black issues over jazz and funk beats. Plus, Drake never gave him any exposure, Kendrick blew up without him. Fetty Wap is not gonna have another hit single, he’s done. and who the fuck is Vince?
“They aren’t brag rap songs. They are studies about the life of a man living in a city.” No, they’re brag raps plain and simple. Kendrick has songs about a man’s life in the city. Panda is just another trendy club song that’ll be forgotten by the end of the year.
“It’s you who needs to pay attention to lyrics because nothing about the song talks about “what goes on in Atlanta,” it’s about cars, drugs, women, and money AKA 95 of mainstream hip-hop now. Desiigner is not distinctive at all, he’s a Future wannabee. Again, Kendrick sounds NOTHING like Drake. Drake isn’t making songs about black issues over jazz and funk beats. Plus, Drake never gave him any exposure, Kendrick blew up without him. Fetty Wap is not gonna have another hit single, he’s done. and who the fuck is Vince?” That’s what life is like at atlanta for many. Desiigner also is distinctive while sharing a clear influence from future. Drake was responsible for kendrick’s success. Period. I meant to say Vine.
“No, they’re brag raps plain and simple. Kendrick has songs about a man’s life in the city. Panda is just another trendy club song that’ll be forgotten by the end of the year.” Those aren’t brag raps at all. They don’t really exist that much.
I can guarantee you that’s not what life in Atlanta is like. Not everyone has luxury cars that costs more than their houses, not everyone sells dope and shoots people, not everyone goes to strip clubs every night, and most importantly, not everyone has a lot of money. You have a distorted view of the world where you think it’s like a rap music video. Newsflash, it’s all for show, it’s not real. Again, Desiigner is NOT distinctive, he sounds EXACTLY like Future, he makes the same songs as Future, and he talks about the same shit as Future. Desiigner is a Future wannabee, period. Drake had nothing to do with Kendrick’s success at all. And Vine is the absolute worst. You’re a sick kid who needs help.
“Those aren’t brag raps at all. They don’t really exist that much.” Yes, they are brag raps and they actually do exist. Have you been living under a rock or are you just dumb. Panda is just Desiigner bragging about what he claims he got, that’s a brag rap. Your knowledge of hip-hop is at zero.
I forgot to add that its how life is at atlanta FOR RICH PEOPLE. And it tells the tale how life is at atlanta in desiigner’s view. What’s wrong with him speaking how many cars he’s had? That’s how hiphop began by bragging. He’s influenced from future but distinct enough from him. How is vine even bad?
Yet the majority of people who listens to this music aren’t rich (and also, Desiigner isn’t rich), so that kind of defeats your point. Panda has no story, it’s just Desiigner bragging about having lots of money, drugs, and bitches just like every run-of-the-mill talentless rapper who came and went. He’s not doing anything unique or creative, he’s just copying off everything from Future because he has no identity of his own. Hip-hop did not begin like this. And Vine is filled with terrible unfunny videos and has contributed to shortening people’s attention spans.
Plus, I can guarantee you that not every rich person in Atlanta got rich off of drugs. You’re basically stereotyping an entire city based off of rap songs.
WTF are u talking about? Of course he is rich. He’s got a lot of cool stuff.
All cities got money through drugs.
That “cool stuff” he has is rented, though, for show and he’s not that rich. Sure, he’ll make some money off of this single, but his label will get a large chunk of that and if he doesn’t save the money he does get, he’ll be penniless.
“All cities got money through drugs.” No, they don’t. This is the real world, not Scarface.
If he were renting a car, it wouldnt be as fancy as he got.
You’d be surprised by the amount of fancy cars that rappers rent.
This is reality. Also, he rich
how do the arrangements even work?
No, reality is different from the made-up world you’re stuck in where all rich people are drug dealers.
No, reality is different from the made-up world you’re stuck in where all rich people are drug dealers. Plus, he’s not rich.
The same way anyone rents anything.
lmfao Kanye can’t even pull 100 thousand lol lol lol!!!!!
this streaming stuff is killing
Didn’t Graduation sell a milli and top the charts in 2007???? Or was I dreaming?