Halfway through April, Kanye West probably has the most talked about albums of the year. It saw a significant drop on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart this week after making history in its first week reporting numbers. Rihanna, Kevin Gates, Bryson Tiller, G-Eazy and The Weeknd remain in the Top 15 as the world awaits Views From the 6.
Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo Remains In Top 5
Kanye West made history last week when The Life of Pablo topped the charts off streams. This was the album’s first time charting because the rapper withheld the project’s numbers while it was reportedly streamed on TIDAL more than 25o million times. This week, West lands at #4 after selling 47,246 album equivalent units, a 50 percent drop. He remains dominant in the streaming game, with The Life of Pablo seeing nearly 69 million clicks across all streaming services.
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Future Charts Three Projects
Future is still making his money as he charts three projects within the Top 30. His joint project with Drake, What a Time to Be Alive, lands at #21, EVOL charts at #25 and he follows himself in Hip Hop album sales with Dirty Sprite 2 reaching the #30 spot, beating Big Sean and Jhene Aiko’s Twenty88, which fell 74 percent this week to the #33 spot.
Skizzy Mars Makes Debut
Harlem, New York’s Skizzy Mars makes his debut on the chart with Alone Together, which lands at #50. The project sold 10,316 album equivalent units and was streamed nearly three million times. Mars enlisted Pell, Rome Fortune and others for the LP.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 04/14/2016
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.
#4 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo – 47,246 (1,384) [68,793,345]
#5 Rihanna – ANTI – 43,790 (12,247) [32,618,858]
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#11 Kevin Gates – ISLAH – 24,699 (7,136) [17,638,609]
#12 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 22,836 (4,718) [22,907,614]
#13 G-Eazy – When It’s Dark Out – 21,428 (3,818) [18,206,109]
#14 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 20,137 (5,828) [15,732,855]
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#21 Drake and Future – What a Time to Be Alive– 16,581 (1,766) [16,529,036]
#22 Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 16,010 (3,068) [13,892,876]
#25 Future – EVOL – 15,264 (1,542) [16,361,381]
#30 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 13,467 (18,631) [14,346,959]
