To kick off 2017, The Weeknd leads the pack on Billboard’s 200 albums chart. Along with the Moana soundtrack, projects from Bruno Mars, Drake and J. Cole help round out the Top 5 despite a drop in sales.
The Weeknd Regains Top Spot With Starboy Album
The Weeknd returns to his throne with Starboy jumping to the top spot in its sixth week on the chart with 69,408 equivalent album units. It debuted at #1 back in December and only lasted a week before J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only came barging in. Even though Starboy moved up the chart this sales cycle, it actually had a 26 percent decrease in sales.
Drake Surges Back Into Top 5
Drake’s VIEWS climbs further up the list as it lands at #4 this week with 40,754 equivalent album units. In its 36th week on the chart, it rose four places from last week after dropping to #19 two sales cycles ago. This week’s figures are a 17 percent drop from last week’s.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 01/05/2017
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 The Weeknd — Starboy — 69,408 (17,901) [59,311,257]
#3 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 45,485 (23,871) [17,354,011]
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#4 Drake – VIEWS — 40,754 (13,342) [33,292,419]
#5 J. Cole — 4 Your Eyez Only — 38,766 (15,477) [31,956,460]
#9 Various Artists — Suicide Squad: The Album — 26,733 (11,029) [11,160,289]
#14 Post Malone — Stoney— 23,864 (2,882) [27,910,525]
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#16 Rihanna — Anti— 22,939 (4,159) [18,649,792]
#17 Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife 2 — 22,163 (2,029) [18,114,381]
#19 Travis Scott — Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight — 19,778 (4,473) [19,498,683]
#24 21 Savage & Metro Boomin — Savage Mode— 16,202 (1,033) [19,183,019]
