For the last Billboard 200 albums chart of 2016, Yo Gotti’s White Friday (CM9) and Run The Jewels’ RTJ3 make their debuts on the list. J. Cole maintains his position and Drake sneaks back into the Top 10 with VIEWS.
Yo Gotti Charts In Top 20 With “White Friday (CM9)”
Yo Gotti returns with White Friday (CM9) reaching the #16 spot on the chart. It sold 33,945 equivalent album units and was streamed 13.4 million times. This follows the success of the Memphis rapper’s highest-charting album, The Art of Hustle, which peaked at #4 in March of 2016.
Run The Jewels’ “RTJ3” Makes Its Debut
Run The Jewels lands at #35 with its RTJ3 project, which was a special Christmas present for fans last year. The album pushed 23,362 equivalent album units and was streamed 8.6 million times. This beats RTJ2‘s sales when it peaked at the #50 spot and spent four weeks on the chart in 2014.
Drake’s “VIEWS” Sneaks Back Into Top 10
In its 35th week on Billboard’s 200 albums chart, Drake’s VIEWS finds its way back into the Top 10, landing at #8 with a 46 percent leap in sales. It pushed 49,239 equivalent album units and was streamed 31.6 million times in the seven-day cycle.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 12/29/2016
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.
#2 The Weeknd — Starboy — 93,716 (33,033) [62,987,170]
#3 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 80,510 (54,845) [17,936,698]
#4 J. Cole — 4 Your Eyez Only — 75,109 (42,984) [40,263,154]
#8 Drake – VIEWS — 49,239 (18,672) [30,919,268]
#10 Various Artists — Suicide Squad: The Album — 41,802 (20,302) [10,827,899]
#16 Yo Gotti — White Friday (CM9) — 33,945 (22,731) [13,402,942]
#19 Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife 2 — 32,111 (3,654) [18,300,360]
#25 Post Malone — Stoney — 29,7200 (5,826) [29,853,052]
#28 Rihanna — Anti — 26,378 (6,002) [17,197,397]
#30 Various Artists — The Hamilton Mixtape — 25,651 (21,923) [3,982,981]
Yo Gotti outselling RTJ is everything that’s wrong with today’s music, and the audience.
Yo Gotti entire album went in though, it consists of that street quality music. I applaud him for having yet another successful album
The reason Yo Gotti is selling more is because he has King HOV on his side. People fuck with Roc Nation more than Ass Appeal. RTJ needs to leave that label because they’re actually decent, and I don’t wanna buy their shit, giving broke ass Nas my hard earned money.
Does Yo Gotti give away his album for free every time and then release it early and not care if anyone pays? Because that’s RTJ’s business model. They have given away every album as a free download complete with artwork, then if someone wants to buy they can. I know for a fact over 100,000 people chose to pay for their last FREE album and several thousand of those sales were limited edition packages and vinyl deals that sell for several times the cost of the CD. Don’t feel bad for their sales. They are starting a sold out world tour next week and will gross millions of dollars from giving away albums for free.