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.
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.
#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]
#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]
#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]
#21 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo – 16,562 (0) [23,768,309]
fuck these new numbers. difficult to understand.
Not really. If you look at the sales you’ll see Beyonce sold more but is streamed way less than say a dj khaled who had 17 to Beyonce’s1mill streams —– but khaled only sold 4300 copies to beys 20,000
So think of it this way : some artists are wOrth spending money on while others are worth hearing it in the moment they’re hot and not to be revisited
yo go to billboard and check the list dx titled it wrong and got it wrong
Good # for Isaiah, keep supporting
6 God still killin this game rest these so called rappers can’t make quality music period !
Birds in the trap sing McNugget, f*ck it/
Real n*ggas don’t hold pistols, they tuck it/
Flow so swazy, I’m oh so crazy
Mash potato flow, I’m the new Biggie, no Gravy/
Section 8 forever, birds flock together/
She sells seashells by the sea shore? Whatever/
That’s the code word when you wanna move bricks/
Cops coming so you gotta move quick/
How they know that we selling mad work?/
Surrounded by haters, so they just mad (jerks!)/
Living at my grandma’s yet I’m only 38/
My dude got the Rossburg, I’m holding the .38/
We live in her basement, and still making raps/
He’s the producer, but his skill kinda wack/
Maybe we should get jobs, stack loot, and stop rapping/
Because frankly, this just isnt happening/
I’d rather raise a family, stand out on my own 2/
But f*ck a job, The Man just wants to own you/
So I’m gonna get it on my own and hustle these bars/
Live @ home till I’m 45, get higher than Mars/
“Hip Hop” “”Album”” “””Sales”””.
HAHAHA WTF is dx talking about . Listen this is no hate on Drake by any means but i notice what dx has here that chart does not exist.
It’s not a rap & r & B chart first off . I also notice how they left tory lanez off very bias from dx ( not surprising anymore) they don’t even title it proper . This is what is from the billboard site itself and you type in the dx has posted and it brings you to this……. http://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-albums/2016-09-10 . so look at that and tell me they are doing it right ummmmmm nope. if you are gonna report something do it proper and give real numbers the link i have from billboard doesn’t even have scotts new album which is great btw. look at the list on the link it goes frank tory drake. i wont be surprised if dx takes this down. I use to come to dx for everything … now i am shocked if they are not bias now adays. so you know this is not Drake hating click to the next week of september 17 and well so far lanez has dropped to 7 and drake to 4. Personally both have great tracks . also no sight of travis yet so i have no clue where dx gets their list from . Since i went striaght to the source dx pls pls pls go back to the old days when you were accurate and not bias …
hahahaha dx you seriously took my comment down eh. cause i proved this article was beyond wrong… for all those check billboard site scott not even on it yet .dx even titled it wrong . the name of the list that is