On this week’s Billboard Top 200 albums chart, Alicia Keys and Common both debuted albums behind Bon Jovi’s This House is Not For Sale, which snags the top spot with 129,211 equivalent album units. Rae Sremmurd makes the biggest splash this week with its SremmLife 2 landing at #5.
Rae Sremmurd Splashes Into Top 10 With “SremmLife 2”
Rae Sremmurd surged 126 percent in album sales this week for SremmLife 2 to land at #5, the LP’s highest position after debuting at #7 in August. The project sold 39,241 units and lept 16 spots from the #21 position last week. This success is due to the viral sensation of the #MannequinChallenge, which has hordes of people posting freeze-frame tableau videos to the Gucci Mane-assisted “Black Beatles,” even Paul McCartney himself.
Alicia Keys Debuts At #2 With “HERE”
Alicia Keys makes a statement with her latest album, HERE debuting at #2. The project, which features “Blended Family” with A$AP Rocky, sold 49,632 units and was streamed 7.8 million times. She has had five chart-topping projects, including her last output, 2012’s Girl on Fire.
Common’s “Black America Again” Sneaks Into Top 30
Common’s 11th studio album, Black America Again, finds itself at #25 its first week. The politically-charged project sold 15,923 units and was streamed 3 million times. Common’s lone #1 album is 2007’s Finding Forever. His last LP, 2014’s Nobody’s Smiling, peaked at #6.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 11/10/2016
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
#2 Alicia Keys — HERE — 49,632 (42,269) [7,860,275]
#5 Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife 2 — 39,241 (2,992) [31,201,169]
#8 Drake – VIEWS – 32,469 (4,706) [36,864,035]
#12 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 24,657 (7,990) [14,062,478]
#13 Meek Mill — Dreamchasers 4 — 24,084 (4,701) [26,247,224]
#14 Jeezy — Trap or Die 3 — 22,333 (13,804) [10,450,297]
#18 Travis Scott – Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight – 19,290 (3,335) [21,747,532]
#22 Rihanna – ANTI – 17,013 (2,876) [16,666,554]
#24 A$AP Mob — Cozy Tapes Vol. 1 — 16,026 (3,032) [18,252,098]
#25 Common — Black America Again — 15,923 (13,191) [3,070,866]
DAMN ALICIA KEYS RUN IS OVER
what stands out is that majority of alicia keys fans went out and bought the album unlike most
This!
Dc4!! Guess Meek made it back.. he caught up to jeezys last week 2k album sales difference..!! #weknowthedifference
Jeezy and Common sold three times as many physical copies as the other artist besides Alicia Keys. Don’t be fooled with the trumped -up streaming numbers.
What do you mean don’t be fooled? 1500 streams equals 1 physical and if the artist get paid because people want to stream music all day, what’s to be fooled about hater? Years ago napster and other sites were killing artist so now artist are getting paid using that same platform. I listen to DC4 everyday on Tidal, I’m paying for the service so I have access to the music. Shut up chump