Metallica reigns on this week’s Billboard Top 200 albums chart with its sixth #1 album, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, while Christmas albums start to make their moves up the list.Bruno Mars follows the hard rock band with 24K Magic and A Tribe Called Quest continues its success with We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service. Meanwhile, Drake’s VIEWS hits its lowest chart position yet.
Bruno Mars Scores Highest Sales Week Yet
Bruno Mars sold 230,666 equivalent album units in his first week of 24K Magic to land at #2 on the chart. This is the pop star’s highest-selling week ever through his three-album career. 2012’s Unorthodox Jukebox debuted at the same spot with 192,000 units and it climbed to the top spot the next year.
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A Tribe Called Quest Still Charting High
A Tribe Called Quest’s swan song, We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service, lands at #5 in its second week on the chart with 59,478 units of sales, a 56 percent drop from last week when it debuted at the top spot. This week, the project was streamed more than 15 million times.
Drake’s “VIEWS” Clings To Top 10
Drake’s VIEWS sees its lowest chart position yet as it lands at #10 with 34,362, an eight percent increase from last week when it was the #5 album in the country. VIEWS was streamed nearly 36 million times this sales cycle, but only picked up 6,806 album sales.
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Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 11/24/2016
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.
#2 Bruno Mars — 24K Magic — 230,666 (194,386) [33,404,457]
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#5 A Tribe Called Quest — We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service —59,478 (48,303) [15,016,693]
#8 Rae Sremmurd — SremmLife 2 — 38,228 (3,301) [30,486,588]
#10 Drake – VIEWS – 34,362 (6,806) [35,961,940]
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#15 Various Artists – Suicide Squad: The Album – 28,694 (12,766) [13,138,887]
#27 Rihanna – ANTI – 19,361 (3,255) [17,590,390]
#29 Travis Scott – Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight– 18,361 (2,752) [21,128,191]
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#35 21 Savage and Metro Boomin — Savage Mode — 15,876 (712) [20,796,676]
#38 Kanye West — The Life of Pablo — 14,522 (0) [20,031,502]
#40 Solange — A Seat at the Table — 14,261 (8,916) [7,240,680]
