The week of March 17, Flatbush Zombies debut on Billboard’s Top 200 chart with its 3001: A Laced Odyssey album. Rihanna and Kendrick Lamar are also in the Top 10 on the list. Meanwhile, 2 Chainz’ Collegrove album with Lil Wayne drops to #29, a 71 percent decrease in sales after debuting at #4 last week.
Rihanna’s ANTI Reclaims Top Spot
Rihanna’s ANTI album is back at #1 on this week’s Top 200 chart after spending the past two weeks at #3. The singer pushed 54,370 total units this week, including more than 36 million streams. The single “Work,” which features Drake also sits at the top spot on the Digital Genre R&B/Hip Hop singles chart.
Kendrick Lamar Still Selling untitled unmastered.
In its second week on the chart, Kendrick Lamar’s untitled unmastered. sits at #5 with 38,402 total sales. This is a 78 percent dropoff after last week’s chart-topping performance. The Compton, California rapper’s other two major label releases, To Pimp a Butterfly and good kid m.A.A.d City, are also still charting, at #41 and #67 respectively.
Flatbush Zombies Make Noise Independently
Flatbush Zombies debut in the Top 10 with its independent 3001: A Laced Odyssey album. The project sold 28,291 total units and was streamed 5,758,286 times. The single “Bounce” charted at #32 on Billboard’s Twitter Top Tracks chart.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 03/17/2016
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 Rihanna – ANTI – 54,370 (17,035) [36,385,676]
#5 Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered. – 38,402 (26,830) [15,108,596]
#9 Kevin Gates – Islah – 30,418 (12,885) [16,897,976]
#10 Flatbush Zombies – 3001: A Laced Odyssey – 28,291 (23,692) [5,758,286]
#11 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 28,070 (8,152) [24,688,579]
#13 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 26,595 (9,068) [17,970,181]
#16 G-Eazy – When It’s Dark Out – 24,224 (4,888) [18,663,979]
#18 Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 19,044 (3,706) [15,415,946]
#20 Flo Rida – My House – 18,359 (1,790) [8,536,909]
#22 Future – EVOL – 17,036 (2,961) [17,410,451]
Who be buying Florida albums tho?!?!? surprised Zombies sold that much NY artists never get support even in their own city
No one buys albums anymore rihanna had the lowest number one album in history.
Join the discussion…..Rihanna trully reigns… She is trully d baddest Gal… Well done RiRi
Great to see quality Hiphop on the charts! Shout out to them Zombies Kdot an supporters of that real.. Create Awareness
Rihanna is a Hip Hop artist? Where is Taylor Swift and Adele? Please stop trying to make Pop Stars into Hip Hop artists.
Good 2 see Flatbush zombies gettin’ love on the charts, good to see quality music getting recognition