After spending weeks at #1, Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. took a slight blow when Logic’s album, Everybody, momentarily nabbed the coveted Billboard 200 spot earlier this month. According to Hits Daily Double, that could change and we might see DAMN. with the crown once again for the coming week. Alternative rock band Linkin Park is expected to debut at #2 with its One More Light project. Elsewhere on the list, Migos, Drake, Post Malone, Logic and Future are predicted to stay in the Top 20.
DAMN. Returns With A Vengeance
K. Dot’s fourth studio album has been well received by fans and critics alike, so it’s not surprising DAMN. could recapture its initial glory. When it debuted on April 14, its first week sales amounted to 610,000 equivalent album units, setting the bar incredibly high for everybody else. This week, the project is expected to hit between 95,000 and 105,000 SPS (Sales Plus Streaming) units.
Drake Is Hanging Tough
The Canadian superstar’s More Life album is expected to sit in the #4 slot this week, with a number of 51,000 to 65,000 SPS. It maintains its title as the most-streamed project in the country with more than 385 million plays, according to Billboard.
Migos Still In The Top 10
Quavo, Takeoff and Offset’s Platinum-certified CULTURE album has been high on the Billboard 200 chart since it debuted in January 2017. If all goes smoothly this week, it will have climbed three spots since landing at #13 the week before. It is expected to pull 28,000 to 32,000 SPS units.
Only thing Drake ever had over Kendrick was Sales. Now he don’t even have that. Ppl thank gawd we have a New King!
Drake dropped an R&B playlist with zero promotion yet still did very well. Kendoll’s third pop album (a genre with bigger sales than hiphop and R&B) got heavy promotion.
When Drake put out views (with heavy promotion and yet still R&B), it more than doubled kendoll’s sales.
Wrong. More Life is a pop album with a ton of promotion, more so than DAMN, which is a hip-hop album. Yet DAMN sold more. Pop does not describe any of Kendrick’s album, that’s Aubrey right there. Listen to DNA and Humble and tell me what’s pop about those tracks and then compare it to Passionfruit.
More Life is an R&B playlist released as an album with hardly any promotion and DAMN is a pop album filled with tons and tons of promotion.
Humble is pop rap with a catchy beat, just like every shitty pop song. Portland from more life is a trap masterpiece
I’ve heard some crazy shit in my life, but I’ve never heard anybody say Drake is hip hop and Kendrick is RnB. Talk about Drake stans clutching at straws! How sad! Like who you want to like, who gives a fuck, but don’t say dumb shit like that.
Definitely,,, So DAMN crazy Drans..,,Drake not anywhere near Kenny with the culture.
You got it backwards. More Life is a pop album that got promoted every week before its release. DAMN doesn’t even have that much promotion in comparison and it’s a hip-hop album, not pop. There was more rapping in DAMN than in More Life. And you got those last two sentences backwards because Humble is a rap masterpiece while Portland is a shitty pop song.
0 promotion? You live under a rock? Lmao from the end of 2016 to when it dropped it was speculated he would drop it every week.
He used a snippet of a promotion radio interview for the “playlist”….on the playlist….more chunes
where is snoop’s neva left ?
Ppl been sleeping on snoop last few projects.
Yah, literally sleeping.
King Kunta
I’m a die hard T.D.E fan, but record companies such as Interscope are buying records of their own artists to push the sales. I don’t know many people who enjoy this new Kendrick’s record. People are more into Drake, Future and Migos. So when I hear this kind of news like “DAMN is heading back #1” I’m kind of skeptical since the number of records sold is jeopardized.
And you don’t think Drake, Future and Migos do the same? Drake is ridiculously promoted by Apple Music which is why he has an imbalance in streams to sales. He is literally featured in every playlist, so people stream whether they like it or not. Kendrick’s album to me was slightly overrated but at least a real rapper who writes his own lyrics and has more than 1 flow (looking at you Rick Ross) is taking over the game again.
Labels don’t buy records like they use to since streaming has came into the main picture. This Kendrick thing is the real deal online and in the streets. It’s just his time.
People here saying More Life had no promotion are buggin. I love in Toronto and 680 news, Toronto’s number 1 news station, was telling people more life was dropping a week in advance everyday until the date.
drake fans always in they feelings about dumb shit… like when drake cried on radio when kendrick called him out on control. embarrassing fanbase.
Whats the Value of a Stream? I know you fuckboyz cant answer. Its an illusion. Lmfao. Equivalent sales. Bahahaha.