If it weren’t for singer Lana Del Rey, Tyler The Creator would have a #1 album, but he’ll have to cozy up in the #2 slot for the week ending July 27. The Odd Future rapper’s Flower Boy LP sold 70,087 units and was streamed 42,951,771 times. Meek Mill’s Wins & Losses landed in the #3 slot with 86,214,061 streams and 37,309 units sold, while JAY-Z’s 4:44took a 48 percent dive and landed in the #7 slot. Elsewhere on the chart, NAV and Metro Boomin’s Perfect Timing made its entrance at #14, and French Montana’s Jungle Rules also falls 48 percent, settling in the #16 slot.
Flower Boy Blossoms
Tyler The Creator’s follow-up to 2015’s Cherry Bomb — Flower Boy — has hit the Billboard 200 chart at #2, marking the highest charting debut of his career. Cherry Bomb debuted at #4, selling over 51,000 copies in its first week, while Goblin debuted at #5 in 2011 and Wolf entered the chart at #4 in 2013. Flower Boy sold 100,641 total album equivalent units and 70,087 of those were pure album sales. The album was streamed 42,951,771 times.
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Meek Scores A Win … But Doesn’t Beat His Last Two LPs
Despite the Drake diss found on the clean version of “1942 Flows,”Meek Mill’s Wins & Losses wound up in the #3 slot with 98,594 total album equivalent units sold, 86,214,061 streams and 37,309 pure album sales. This marks the follow-up to 2015’s Dreams Worth More Than Money, which debuted at #1 and sold over 215,000 albums in its first week. The Philly rapper’s debut, 2012’s Dreams & Nightmares, debuted at #3.
Hov Takes A Dip
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JAY-Z’s 13th studio album, 4:44, went platinum in its first week thanks to an assist from Sprint, but Hov has just taken a 48 percent dip and touched down in the #7 slot. This is the album’s third week on the charts. It sat in the coveted #1 slot for two consecutive weeks. With 45,200 total album EUs, 29,099 pure album sales and 21,329,576, 4:44 at least managed to stay in the Top 10. JAY’s last album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, debuted at #1 in 2013, selling over 528,000 copies in its inaugural week.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 7/20/2017
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.
- Tyler The Creator — Flower Boy — #2 —100,641 (70,087) [42,951,771]
- Meek Mill — Wins & Losses — #3 — 98,594 (37,309 ) [86,214,061]
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN. — #4 — 49,015 (13,330) [46,507,077]
- JAY-Z — 4:44 — #7 — 45,200 (29,099) [21,329,576]
- DJ Khaled — Grateful — #8 — 36,902 (4,070) [38,242,341]
- 21 Savage — Issa Album — #11 — 33,207 (4,186) [40,528,107]
- NAV & Metro Boomin — Perfect Timing — #14 — 30,072 (5,442) [35,429,058]
- French Montana — Jungle Rules — #16 — 26,952 (4,745) [28,723,654]
- Khalid — American Teen — #19 — 25,837 (2,972) [29,499,583]
- Drake — More Life — #20 — 25,230 (883) [34,194,508]
