Beyonce scores yet another #1 album with the release of LEMONADE. Elsewhere on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart, Prince has five albums and A$AP Ferg debuts his project in the Top 10. Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo drops out of the Top 10 for the first time. Michigan rapper NF debuts at #12 with Therapy Session.
When Beyonce Is Given Lemons, She Makes LEMONADE
Beyonce’s LEMONADE is the singer’s sixth #1 album. The project sold 652,665 album equivalent units, the most sales in a week of any album this year so far, according to Billboard. It was purchased nearly half a million times and was streamed 115,232,820 times through TIDAL.
Prince’s Legacy Lives On
A week after his death, five Prince albums land in the Top 10 of the chart. Very Best of Prince sits at #2, followed directly by Purple Rain and The Hits/The B-Sides. After Rihanna’s ANTI,Ultimate and 1999 land at #6 and #7 respectively. The five projects brought in 723,000 units of sales.
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A$AP Ferg Strives and Prospers On The Chart
A$AP Ferg’s sophomore LP, Always Strive and Prosper, debuts at #8. It sold 35,483 album equivalent units and was streamed more than 14 million times. His first output, 2013’s Trap Lord, debuted at #9 with 32,000 units sold.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 04/28/2016
Note: The first number below is this week’s “total album equivalent units” count, an intersection of album sales, single sales, and streams implemented by Billboard’s new rating system. A pure album sales figure is available in bold in parenthesis and information about each album’s streaming count is available in brackets.
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#1 Beyonce – LEMONADE – 652,665 (485,094) [115,232,820]
#2 Prince – Very Best of Prince – 391,354 (216,472) [3,585,283]
#3 Prince – Purple Rain – 150,246 (133,171) [499,713]
#4 Prince – The Hits/The B-Sides – 105,612 (56,399) [1,694,047]
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#5 Rihanna – ANTI – 50,369 (14,941) [35,825,167]
#6 Prince – Ultimate – 39,577 (37,400) [65,509]
#7 Prince – 1999 – 36,428 (32,732) [127,023]
#8 A$AP Ferg – Always Strive and Prosper – 35,483 (22,297) [14,438,977]
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#11 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo – 30,010 (57) [44,930,890]
#12 NF – Therapy Session – 29,184 (24,664) [3,718,870]
