This week on Billboard’s 200 albums chart, The Weeknd maintains his throne while Bruno Mars, Drake and J. Cole fall in line behind. Further down the chart, Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo appears at #39 with a 961 percent increase after mysteriously falling off the list last week. The project sold 11,142 equivalent album units and was streamed 16,072,022 with no album sales.
The Weeknd Keeps His Crown
Starboy is still in outer space as The Weeknd’s album is at the top spot for the second week in a row. This sales cycle, the project pushed 62,696 equivalent album units with 13,624 album sales and more than 57 million streams.
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J. Cole Stays Steady
J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only remains at #5 in its fifth week on the chart with 30,302 equivalent album units and nearly 30 million streams. This is the project’s second week at the position after debuting at #1 in December.
Post Malone Sneaks Back Into Top 10
Post Malone’s Stoney lands at #9 this week with 23,242 equivalent album units and 28 million streams. The project is also in its fifth week as it debuted at #6 back when J. Cole had the third-highest debut of 2016. Stoney had dropped to #25 before coming back up.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 01/12/2017
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 — 62,696 (13,624) [57,331,211]
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#4 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 36,358 (17,984) [16,485,268]
#5 J. Cole — 4 Your Eyez Only — 30,302 (9,480) [29,114,253]
#7 Drake – VIEWS — 27,576 (3,768) [31,318,616]
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#9 Post Malone — Stoney— 23,242 (2,513) [28,195,526]
#11 Rihanna — Anti— 21,255 (3,298) [18,405,402]
#15 Various Artists — Suicide Squad: The Album —19,285 (7,097) [10,608,256]
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#16 Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife 2 —19,091 (1,337) [17,819,636]
#19 Travis Scott — Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight — 17,011 (1,847) [20,089,283]
#24 21 Savage & Metro Boomin — Savage Mode—15,401 (772) [19,463,596]
