The Weeknd remains at the top of the Billboard Top 200 chart for the third week in a row. Future and Travi$ Scott are just short of the top 10 on the list. Jay Rock’s 90059 makes its chart debut and TIP charts with his five-song EP.
The Weeknd Still Reigns
The Canadian singer’s sophomore LP, Beauty Behind the Madness, saw 98,810 units of total activity, a 32 percent drop from last week, but enough to keep it on the top of the chart. Two songs from the album appear in the top 10 of the single sales. The project had more than 39 million streams this week.
Jay Rock Debuts at # 16
The Watts, California rapper’s 90059 debuts at #16 on the chart with 18,713 total units of activity. His 2011 LP Follow Me Home peaked at the # 83 spot on the chart. Now all four members of Black Hippy have a project to reach the top 20 with ScHoolboy Q reaching #1 with Oxymoron, Ab-Soul peaking at #11 with These Days… and Kendrick Lamar reaching #1 this year with To Pimp a Butterfly.
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TIP Charts With Independent EP
The rapper formerly known as T.I. reached the #22 spot on the chart with Da’ Nic EP. TIP is entering a new chapter in his music career as he changed his name and has announced his departure from Columbia Records.
Top 10 Billboard Top 200 Rap & R&B Albums For The Week Ending 9/17/2015
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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#1 The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness – 98,810 (48,151) [39,314,644]
#11 Future – Dirty Sprite 2 – 23,829 (8,354) [16,999,525]
#13 Travi$ Scott – Rodeo– 21,720 (11,118) [11,621,498]
#16 Jay Rock – 90059– 18,713 (15,442) [2,719,934]
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#17 Drake – If Youre Reading This Its Too Late– 18,681 (5,425) [15,021,788]
#22 TIP – Da’ Nic– 14,258 (12,783) [328,793]
#23 Dr. Dre – Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre – 13,976 (11,465) [2,636,568]
#26 J. Cole – 2014 Forest Hills Drive – 12,949 (4,602) [9,594,173]
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#30 Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money– 11,045 (1,779) [9,212,213]
#33 N.W.A – Straight Outta Compton – 10,501 (6,369) [3,080,353]
