Megan Thee Stallion’s long awaited debut album Good News has made its Billboard 200 debut with over 100,500 total album-equivalent units earned. The project landed at No. 2 on this week’s chart, just behind K-Pop group BTS’s Be album.
The album gained most of its traction via streaming. According to Billboard, the album is the most streamed project of the week with 115.85 million on-demand streams. The 17-track album also pulled in roughly 16,000 in traditional album sales and over 2,000 track equivalent album units.
Meg’s No. 2 position is her best debut on the chart following her Suga EP and Fever mixtape, which both earned Top 10 debuts in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Fever debuted at No. 10 in 2019 powered by the Houston rapper’s single “Cash Shit” with DaBaby and Suga debuted at No. 7 earlier this year led by the original version of “Savage”.
The remix of “Savage” featuring Beyoncé went No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year and is included on Good News.
The promotion of Good News has been in overdrive in the past two weeks, whether it be Meg’s eye-opening bars on “Shots Fired” or the made for TikTok anthem “Body,” which spawned an entire dance challenge.
The 2021 Grammy Award Nominations Are Here
Meg’s latest Billboard achievement caps a banner week of “good news” for the Houston native. She officially became a Grammy-nominated artist on Wednesday, picking up nominations for Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.
Stream Good News in full below.
Flop
So her and tory lanez have the same highest peak on billboard, guess meg doesn’t have shit on tory in that way.
15k albums sold? This is what’s topping charts?it’s insane how these are nobodies compared to the greats from before that did 500k out the gates.
Damn. I’ve seen illiterate before, but not understanding simple numeration? LOL. It’s 105,000. The most streamed album of the week, and will debut at number 2, behind BTS. Gay ass Drake doesn’t debut higher than BTS by the way.
Everything is digital now people are streaming music as opposed to buying physical copies of albums and vinyls.
Who are these people commenting stupid stuff like this on hip hop. Are most of you slow or stuck in 2005? Its 2020 no ones buying albums anymore.. and as far as your comparison they did 500k cause back then u bought an album, maybe for a brother, a cousin, uncle idk and it all counted towards albums sales.. nowadays you need to stream it 1500 times before it counts as an album sale, and a lot of these apps exclude streams if its on repeat and a bunch of other requirements that need to be met for it to count.. how many people u know that will listen to an album 1,5k times in a week?
Marcus thee stallion flopped tho after all them awards
prove to us you got shot.
1.9 million in sales. can the government please crack down on piracy when it is supposed to be actually illegal.
Album definitely flopped with all that hype
Sure. Number 2 on the charts. That’s a flop. Behind BTS. LOL. Most streamed project of the week. LOL.
A flop is when something doesn’t bring in the return it was expected. With the year Meg had, there is absolutely no way 105k isn’t a flop to her or roc nation.
Certified trash..
She only do 2 verses a song? All I see is 2:30 second records smh. Pure trash
Good for her not sure if the numbers meet the expectations from her label or Roc Nation but it’s complicated to say whats successful in this streaming age. She got the most streams for the week so that should be successful right? *shrugs*
I’m sure they got a deluxe edition lined up that will release in a week or so which will beef up the numbers some more. The Deluxe edition has appeared to be the new cheat code for albums to get the streaming numbers up after release.
Community college drop out music
Roc Nation clearly bought some albums. The industry push for her is incredible. At this point Shes being forced on us