Hot off his surprise performance at Wireless Fest, Drake’s Scorpion has made its first appearance on the Billboard 200, right at the top of the charts. Meanwhile, Cardi B climbs back up the chart, while Teyana Taylor takes a tumble.
Scorpion Takes Top Spot
Drake’s Scorpion has put him in a whole new category, as the first artist to reach a billion streams in one week. With a total of 732,171 equivalent album units moved (159,771 in pure album sales and a record-breaking streaming count of 745,923,606), the 25-track album was untouchable.
Scorpion has the honor of having the biggest debut of 2018, so far. And, with this latest #1, Drake is now tied with other pop stars for the sixth-most #1 albums in U.S. history. Kenny Chesney, Madonna, U2, Eminem, and Kanye West — who just collected his eighth chart-topping album — are similarly adorned.
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Check out DX’s review of Scorpionhere.
Teyana Taylor Takes A Tumble
Debuting at #2 on the Top R&B Albums chart didn’t do too much for Teyana Taylor’s K.T.S.E. The project tumbled down to #57 on the Billboard 200 after making its debut at #17. With 10,903 equivalent album units moved (1,829 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 11,297,723), the album dropped 53% from its first-week numbers.
This is just the latest in a series of falterings for K.T.S.E. — Taylor recently announced that she wouldn’t be releasing a “completed” version of the album that contained the missing content.
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Cardi B Inching Back Up
Cardi isn’t letting her recent countersuit against her ex-manager get her down. The mother-to-be is still holding steady on the charts, with her Invasion of Privacy creeping back up to #6 (up from #8 last week). The increase is due in part to “I Like It” hitting #1 on the Hot 100. The now-platinum album moved 47,063 equivalent units (3,072 in pure album sales and a streaming count of 52,083,035) in its 13th week on the chart.
Top 10 Billboard 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 07/05/2018
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.
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- Drake — Scorpion — #1 — 732,171 (159,771) [745,923,606]
- Post Malone — Beerbongs & Bentleys — #3 — 72,399 (6,312) [84,154,329]
- XXXTENTACION — ? — #5 — 61,530 (3,226) [82,912,493]
- Cardi B — Invasion of Privacy — #6 — 47,063 (3,072) [52,083,035]
- Juice WRLD — Goodbye & Good Riddance — #7 — 39,448 (1,635) [57,276,826]
- The Carters — EVERYTHING IS LOVE – #8 — 36,670 (7,509) [35,892,499]
- XXXTENTACION — 17 – #13 — 27,522 (940) [41,514,945]
- Lil Baby — Harder Than Ever — #12 — 28,177 (428) [15,713,035]
- Post Malone — Stoney — #18 — 22,482 (1,545) [28,849,360]
- Kanye West — ye — 21,541 (1,795) [25,957,722]
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