On the most recent Billboard Top 200 albums chart, nobody could give Lady Gaga a run as her new album, Joanne, takes the top spot with 200,000 equivalent album units. Drake dips even lower in his sales for VIEWS but D.R.A.M. and Joe Budden land on the list in the first week of Big Baby D.R.A.M. and Rage & the Machine.
Drake’s Lowest VIEWS Yet
Drake’s VIEWS lands at #5 this week, his lowest mark since debuting the project in April. The LP pushed 38,000 equivalent album units and was streamed more than 43 million times. Two of his new songs debuted in the Top 5 of the genre’s digital singles chart.
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D.R.A.M. Makes Splash With “Big Baby D.R.A.M.”
D.R.A.M.’s debut album, Big Baby D.R.A.M.lands at #19 in its first week. The album sold nearly 18,000 units, boosted by the popularity of “Broccoli.” Big Baby D.R.A.M. was streamed 16.7 million times.
Joe Budden Makes Statement With “Rage & The Machine”
Joe Budden unleashed his Rage & the Machine album to give us some real rap amid all of the music circulating. The project charts at #40 with 11,341 and was streamed 2 million times. Last year’s All Love Lost peaked at #29, but the New York vet has yet to surpass the success of his debut self-titled album, which landed at #8 in 2003.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 10/27/2016
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.
#5 Drake – VIEWS – 38,349 (5,219) [43,599,964]
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#7 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 30,715 (9,655) [17,333,520]
#16 Travis Scott – Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight– 19,986 (1,804) [24,895,293]
#18 Rihanna – ANTI – 18,085 (2,939) [18,589,339]
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#19 D.R.A.M. — Big Baby D.R.A.M. — 17,914 (2,550) [16,740,355]
#25 Kanye West – The Life of Pablo – 15,102 (0) [20,379,626]
#27 Solange — A Seat at the Table — 14,012 (4,949) [12,421,148]
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#28 Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife 2 — 13,981 (1,470) [14,717,579]
#29 Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book— 13,918 (0) [20,878,028]
#32 21 Savage and Metro Boomin — Savage Mode — 12,613 (591) [16,702,198]
