Drake holds the throne yet again as More Life debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Rick Ross follows closely behind, sitting at #3 with the release of Rather You Than Me with Ed Sheeran’s Divide breaking up the party at the second slot.
Drake’s More Life Gives Him More Billboard Glory
Drake’s More Life is his seventh project to land at the top of Billboard 200. The playlist pushed more than half a million units its first week, automatically certifying it Gold. It was streamed more than 384 million times as it broke several Spotify and Apple Music records. This follows the success of VIEWS, which sold more than 1 million units its first week, but was also available for purchase (More Life is streaming-only with physicals due out March 31).
Rick Ross Makes Waves With Rather You Than Me
Rick Ross would rather someone else have failing album sales than himself and he doesn’t have too much to worry about with his latest LP landing at #3. Rather You Than Me pushed 105,650 total units with 70,000 album sales and 45 million streams in its first week. While Rozay has five #1 albums under his belt, 2015’s Black Market landed at #6 upon its release with 64,000 units.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 03/23/2017
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 Drake — More Life — 505,131 (225,202) [384,847,029]
#3 Rick Ross — Rather You Than Me — 105,650 (70,017) [45,481,393]
#6 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 50,614 (21,393) [25,496,852]
#8 Future — Future — 40,499 (4,758) [47,270,283]
#9 The Weeknd — Starboy — 38,609 (8,393) [33,949,982]
#10 Migos — Culture — 37,042 (2,424) [45,387,267]
#12 Future — HNDRXX — 48,974 (8,128) [56,274,505]
#14 Big Sean — I Decided. — 26,748 (4,256) [28,888,064]
#15 Post Malone — Stoney — 25,890 (2,210) [31,640,042]
#16 Khalid — American Teen — 25,088 (3,229) [28,887,991]
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When Drake can go diamond in sales with a universal classic like Outkast, Biggie, Eminem or Pac, then He can be in the convo as top whatever. Right now he’s just nelly/mc hammer=a popular dude selling disposable records
Diamond lol. Nobody’s going diamond anymore so that’s a false metric.
Maybe NOT Diamond Hip-Hop, but Adele! Is certified Diamond! Just saying!
“Rick Ross follows closely behind,” … not really LOL
Am I the only one that sees “Future” album higher than “hindrixx” but sales are lower…?
how do you breath with officer ross tube steak so far down your throat?
How come Drake’s playlist which was released for only streaming has numbers in bold parenthesis signifying physical cope sales? And….
Future higher in the charts with lower sales than HNDRXX?
DO HiphopDX expect us to trust this sales chart with these boldly visible anomalies?
common, u guys “gats” pull this trash off this site and correct it.
1,500 song streams from an album are treated as equivalent to one physical album sale.
Just one word for Rick Ross. Bawse!