Travis Scott scores his first #1 album on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart with Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight. Drake, Rihanna, Beyonce and Frank Ocean join the Houston singer in the Top 10 of the list. Isaiah Rashad debuts in the Top 20 with The Sun’s Tirade. Young Thug and De La Soul see significant dropoff in the second week sales of their projects. No, My Name is Jeffery slips from 8 to 31 — a 65 percent decrease — with and the Anonymous Nobody falling from 12 to 102, a 74 percent drop.
Travis Scott’s Birds In The Trap Sing A Lot Of McKnight
Travis Scott’s Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight lands at #1 out of the gate. The LP sold nearly 88,000 equivalent album units its first week as an Apple Music exclusive. It is the fifth Apple Music exclusive to reach the top spot this year, according to Billboard, joining the company of Drake’s VIEWS, DJ Khaled’s Major Key, Future’s EVOL and Frank Ocean’s Blonde. Birds was streamed 50.2 million times. Scott’s first album, Rodeo, landed at #3 upon its release last year with 85,000 units of total activity.
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Isaiah Rashad Shines Brightly With “The Sun’s Tirade”
Isaiah Rashad continues TDE’s success with The Sun’s Tirade opening at #17. The album sold 19,000 equivalent album units and was streamed 11.6 million times across all major platforms. This is a significant improvement from Cilvia Demo, which debuted at #40 in 2014 with 8,500 units (those sales figures did not include streams at the time). TDE also saw chart success this year with Kendrick Lamar’s untitled unmastered. debuting at #1 in March and ScHoolboy Q’s Blank Face LP landing at #2 upon its July release.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 09/08/2016
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 Travis Scott – Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight – 87,972 (52,577) [50,170,304]
#3 Drake – VIEWS – 60,458 (9,483) [63,655,288]
#4 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 55,377 (22,174) [26,416,378]
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#8 Rihanna – ANTI – 30,144 (6,107) [27,242,192]
#9 Beyonce — LEMONADE — 29,991 (20,981) [1,910,144]
#10 Frank Ocean – Blonde – 28,586 (15,621) [19,448,035]
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#16 DJ Khaled – Major Key– 19,800 (4,300) [17,498,856]
#17 Isaiah Rashad – The Sun’s Tirade – 19,481 (11,166) [11,602,440]
#20 Bryson Tiller – Trapsoul – 16,659 (4,782) [16,127,233]
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#21 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo – 16,562 (0) [23,768,309]
