Solange slays this week’s album sales with A Seat at the Table debuting at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200. Drake slips to the third spot on the chart this week and Dave East makes his chart debut with his Kairi Chanel project.
Solange Earns Seat At The Winners Table
Solange’s A Seat at the Table earns the ethereal singer a #1 album. The LP sold 72,000 equivalent album units and was streamed more than 35 million times across all platforms. This comes after her sister, Beyonce, had a #1 album earlier this year with LEMONADE. The Knowles sisters are the third set of siblings to each have a top-charting album, following Michael and Janet Jackson and Master P and Silkk The Shocker, according to Billboard.
Drake Continues His Success
Drake’s VIEWS lands at #3 in its 23rd week on the chart. In the Top 10, only Twenty One Pilot’s Blurryface has had a longer run on the list. VIEWS sold nearly 47,000 units and was streamed 51 million times this sales cycle.
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Dave East Makes Strong Debut With “Kairi Chanel”
With the announcement that he signed with Def Jam serving as an extra boost in promotion for Kairi Chanel, Dave East lands at the #37 with his debut commercial project. He says this is the precursor to his first official album, which will be executive produced by his mentor Nas. Kairi Chanel sold a little more than 13,000 album units and was streamed 5.8 million times.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 10/06/2016
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 Solange — A Seat at the Table — 72,268 (45,844) [35,682,222]
#3 Drake – VIEWS – 46,893 (6,813) [51,897,993]
#4 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 38,021 (12,375) [20,546,147]
#10 Travis Scott – Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight– 23,700 (2,039) [29,943,459]
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#12 Rihanna – ANTI – 21,228 (4,070) [21,166,051]
#18 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo – 18,932 (1) [25,675,772]
#22 Beyonce — LEMONADE — 16,850 (11,703) [1,287,448]
#28 Frank Ocean – Blonde – 15,485 (3,322) [18,245,577]
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#32 DJ Khaled — Major Key — 15,037 (3,304) [12,869,902]
#34 Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book — 13,955 (0) [20,933,773]
