This week on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the Black Panther soundtrack slips to #2 following a 24% drop in sales. Elsewhere, Tekashi 6ix9ne’s debut project, DAY69, reaches #4 and Blac Youngsta’s 223 debuts at #42.
Black Panther Slips
Black Panther: The Album, curated by Kendrick Lamar and Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, fell to #2 after holding down the top spot during the previous two weeks. The project experienced a 24% decrease in week-on-week sales, moving 99,315 total album equivalent units during the seven days leading to March 1.
Tekashi 6ix9ne’s Strong Debut
The controversial Tekashi 6ix9ne’s debut project, DAY69, lands at #4 on the charts this week, moving 55,436 total album equivalent units –. 20,184 of which were pure album sales. The 11-track project features Tory Lanez, Young Thug and Offset, among others.
Blac Youngsta’s First LP Enters Top 50
Blac Youngsta’s debut album, 223, comes in at #42 during its first week on the charts. The LP moved 11,994 total album equivalent units for the week. The 14-track project, Youngsta’s first official album under the CMG imprint, features guest appearances from Travis Scott, Lil Yachty and French Montana, among others.
Top 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 03/01/2018
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.
- Various Artists – Black Panther: The Album – #2 – 99,315 (23,375)[102,015,952]
- Migos – Culture II– #3 – 59,297 (6,475) [74,012,020]
- Tekashi 6ix9ne – Day69 – #4 – 55,436 (20,184) [49,930,627]
- Post Malone — Stoney— #7 — 39,281 (3,690) [47,839,947]
- Kendrick Lamar — — #9 — 29,093 (7,032) [30,149,977]
- Bruno Mars — 24K Magic— #13 — 25,402 (8,289) [19,863,160]
- Nipsey Hussle — Victory Lap— #14 — 24,888 (8,598) [23,409,375]
- Khalid — American Teen— #15 — 22,485 (2,366) [27,546,442]
- Lil Uzi Vert — Luv Is Rage 2— #16 — 22,333 (566) [31,592,688]
- Lil Skies – Life of a Dark Rose – #18 – 19,452 (514) [27,489,245]
That cho mo came in at #4, classic example of whites driving hip hop sales.
Get your We Wuz Kangz bullshit outta here. Hip Hop has been global for decades now. There are more White people in your country than Black people by a large margin.
So hip hop doesn’t belong to black culture anymore because whites consume and produce it? That’s the literal definition of cultural appropriation.
Black people aren’t allowed to eat pizza, Nas will no longer be allowed to burn the roof of his mouth like in Illmatic because it is Italian culture and he is appropriating it by mentioning it in his songs and consuming it. This is why cultural appropriation and “culture vulture” are bogus terms. It can still belongto black ppl, but all races have a right to consume and create hip hop as well
Illmatic? You’re 20 years off that was on life is good….and this conversation is pointless the majority of his fans are Spanish but lets talk more about how only specific races should be allowed in certain things like its the 1950s….we’re going backwards fast
Black people cant use the internet because whites invented it.
Black Panther soundtrack is the best soundtrack I’ve heard in a while.
Nipsey Hussle talking all that smack about Tekashi 6ix9ne and still got dust in the charts lol Tekashi 6ix9ne – Day69 – #4 – 55,436 (20,184) [49,930,627] VS Nipsey Hussle — Victory Lap— #14 — 24,888 (8,598) [23,409,375]