While Drake maintains his top position on the Billboard 200 with Scorpion, Wiz Khalifa makes an impressive debut with Rolling Papers 2 for the week ending July 19. It marks the Taylor Gang mastermind’s ninth overall chart appearance and fifth in the Top 10.
Elsewhere on the chart, Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys moves to No. 3, while XXXTENTACION’s ? and Cardi B’s Invasion Of Privacy round out the Top 5.
It’s Lit
With the release of Rolling Papers 2, Wiz Khalifa has secured his third album to debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The original Rolling Papers hit No. 2 upon its 2011 release, while O.N.I.F.C. also entered the chart in the No. 2 spot in 2012.
The Rolling Papers sequel boasts 80,317 total album equivalent units (14,017 in pure albums and a streaming count of 84,265,073).
Wiz shared the Pre-Rolleds EP last June and followed up with Bong Rips and Laugh Now, Fly Later before 2017 was up. Rolling Papers 2 marks Wiz’s seventh studio album.
Still On Top
Drake’s Scorpion continues to dominate the chart this week, marking its third week at the top. The 6 God reeled in 260,149 total album equivalent units (29,368 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 290,357,972) to secure his No. 1 spot.
Over the weekend, Drake became the first artist ever to reach 10 billion streams on Apple Music, just one of many streaming records the Toronto superstar now holds.
Read the Scorpion review here.
Hangin’ Tough
Cardi B’s Invasion Of Privacy is still going strong 15 weeks after its Billboard 200 debut. With 43,505 total album equivalent units (2,262 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 49,150,970), the platinum-selling rapper’s debut lands at No. 5.
Cardi and husband Offset had their baby Kulture earlier this month. Despite the Migos phenom’s Georgia arrest on Friday (July 20), Cardi announced the family was reunited at home over the weekend.
Read the Invasion Of Privacy review here.
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Top 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 07/19/2018
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 — No. 1 —260,149 (29,368) [290,357,972]
- Wiz Khalifa — Rolling Papers 2 — No. 2 — 80,317 (14,017) [84,265,073]
- Post Malone — Beerbongs & Bentleys — No. 3 — 68,206 (5,810) [79,824,539]
- XXXTENTACION — ? — No. 4 —45,337 (2,950) [63,309,571]
- Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy — No. 5 — 43,505 (2,262) [49,150,970]
- Juice WRLD — Goodbye & Good Riddance — No. 6 — 41,410 (1,051) [60,929,250]
- Lil Baby — Harder Than Ever — No. 8 — 26,230 (329) [35,638,597]
- Future — Beastmode 2 — No. 11 — 25,164 (0) [32,846,530]
- JAY-Z & Beyoncé — EVERYTHING IS LOVE – No. 12 — 25,161 (5,165) [24,779,729]
- Post Malone — Stoney — No. 16 — 21,671 (1,396) [27,878,067]
Rap music is why blacks are so far behind in society. This music combined with the inferior African DNA is why the white race will forever dominate inferior blacks.
Fuck u pussy y’all not dominating shit but getting y’all ass beat
coke head anorexic wiz kalika stop buying your own albums to make sales u garbage now u gotta do tmz shit like date that bitch that look like the dog from little rascals
Drake still #1? Wow..where’s Pusha T at?
All da Drake haters hiding
Scorpion SZN
260k 3rd week?
Forreals man not seen this in a while
Safe to say Nobody dropping they album soon
Drizzy wida last laugh
Streaming is sooo phony. Made up numbers indeed
Don’t want to hate, Trying to though lol.
Shit is weird to me because he supposed to fall off by now
Meanwhile Drake’s “In My Feelings” Breaks All-Time Single Week U.S. Streaming Record.
We need more Drake articles!
Not hating on Drake and it’s cool to see him break records. Good for him but Why do we have to call an album that’s got a lot more signing than bars and punch lines a rap album?! Rap’s truly dead…
Singing*
Well said RAP, it’s not just rap that’s dead, it’s real rap fans too!