Young Thug has a solid debut on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart with No, My Name is Jeffery. De La Soul also debuts on the chart with and the Anonymous Nobody. This is the first time in 18 weeks that a Hip Hop album has not been in the Top 3 as Barbra Streisand earns her 11th #1 album and Flordia Georgia Line and Britney Spears debut projects at the #2 and #3 slots respectively.
Young Thug’s Name Is Winning
Young Thug scores his second project in the Top 10 with No, My Name is Jeffery landing at #8. The LP, which will probably be known more for the rapper wearing a dress on the cover than its album sales, pushed 37,342 total units. It was streamed nearly 27 million times. Thugger’s Slime Season 3 is his highest-charting album to date, landing at #7 upon its release.
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De La Soul Is Back
De La Soul’s and the Anonymous Nobody charts at #12 in its first week with 23,202 album equivalent units. The project was the trio’s first ever to be available for streaming and it was played 2 million times. This was De La’s first LP in 12 years since The Grind Date dropped in 2004. The group’s highest-charting album was 2000’s Art Official Intelligence, which landed at #9.
Drake’s VIEWS Not So High Up
Drake’s VIEWS lands at #4 this week, its lowest chart position since its April release. It still has 12 weeks at the #1 spot, but might have to wait longer to tally any more as Travis Scott’s Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight is already projected to take next week’s crown.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 09/01/2016
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 Drake – VIEWS – 71,526 (18,406) [65,644,180]
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#5 Frank Ocean – Blonde – 67,387 (44,104) [34,924,987]
#6 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 62,908 (27,160) [28,466,230]
#7 Beyonce — LEMONADE — 37,750 (25,796) [1,982,772]
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#8 Young Thug — No, My Name is Jeffery — 37,342 (17,748) [26,736,554]
#9 Rihanna – ANTI – 32,100 (6,537) [27,700,330]
#12 De La Soul — and the Anonymous Nobody — 23,202 (21,332) [2,072,439]
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#13 DJ Khaled – Major Key– 23,159 (5,280) [20,116,665]
#16 Tory Lanez – I Told You – 20,696 (7,207) [16,902,576]
